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It's apparently been a full year since I've posted any concepts here, and I'm getting withdrawals. one of my favorite sports games is Football Manager, and I almost exclusively play Park to Premier style playthroughs in which a team from the very bottom of the pyramid is picked, and you try to get promoted all the way up to the Premier League and continental tournaments. These playthroughs also have the added effect of exposing me to a lot of smaller teams and their terrible, terrible crests. Since the game is extremely moddable, I like to take it upon myself to update the crests for these teams. I've shown off a few of these in the past with my Oxford United and Wolves designs. There's not going to really be any rhyme or reason to the designs other than they're smaller teams who's designs I wanted to update. I also realize that these teams, despite being small, have storied histories and passionate fans, and I want to design a logo that recognizes and respects these histories. First up, the team I'm leading to glory, Banbury United! Banbury is a semi-pro team founded in 1931 have existed almost exclusively in leagues you've never heard of, but in 2022 they made the climb to the Vanarama National League North. Their logo depicts what appears to be a lego minifigure dressed up like a puritan. My update takes this general design and makes it look more human, giving the figure clear eyes, a nose, and a mouth as well as adding a mustache, because I'm from New England and every depiction of a puritan I've ever seen is John Carver, so you're stuck with it too. I did try to keep the general blocky style, but modernized the overall shape of the crest, with a new simplified banner and the hat extending beyond the bounds of the roundel. The jerseys feature a double pinstripe hoop pattern that I've used in my playthrough, and features Nike as the kit manufacturer and Sophos as the jersey sponsor, two brands wildly above the stature of Banbury in real life, but I have them in the EFL Championship in FM, so they make sense in that regard.

Excellent work as always. The modern primary is great, but I gotta say, I think I like the 1932 logo even better. It's so simple, but looks so classy. Great stuff.

Great to see you back in the concepts section, Fraser. Some pretty fantastic work here, pretty much everything is an upgrade. I especially like the Warriors, Raiders, Broncos, and Featherstone Rovers. The only logo I'm not entirely sold on is St. Helens. I like the idea of combining the chevron with the S-H lockup, but I find the letters end up getting muddled a bit, especially where the S, H and the chevron meet and create what looks like a little point jutting from the crossbar of the H. Ultimately though it's still considerably better than the actual crest.

You could put a team in literal heaven and Jeffrey Loria would've still put together a 65 win team every year.

Miami's in St. Louis Cardinals "Best Fans in Baseball" territory of being completely unlikable.

It was a preseason game, it didn't matter to anyone on the Mavericks outside of like 4 players who were trying to not get cut from the roster. I'm not saying that euroball isn't enjoyable, but it's disingenuous to use a preseason game to insinuate that a euroball team would ever even come remotely close to the NBA Finals.

Luka Doncic scored 9 points in 5 minutes and Kyrie Irving didn't play. The Mavericks would've won by 30 if both played a full game.

Doesn't look like there's been an official statement released, but I've seen this paragraph verbatim on multiple articles: "The updated guidance reaffirms that on-ice player uniforms and gear for games, warmups and official team practices cannot be altered to reflect theme nights, including Pride, Hockey Fights Cancer or military appreciation celebrations. Players can voluntarily participate in themed celebrations off the ice." So it seems like the league specifically said no gay tape. Though knowing the state of journalism it might have just been a bunch of sites just copying the same article.

It's not really random. For time elements they use the serif and for non-time elements they use sans serif.

He's had 27 turnovers in the last 19 games. He's reverted to all his old bad habits since Dabol left.

This is legitimately dumber than "the iconic jaws of husky stadium," though nothing will ever beat "contrasting stitching honors YOU, the hard-working, blue-collar CLEVELANDER (the brown is unchanged)."

Would've liked to see what the effect actually looks like rather than what happens when an intern lowers the exposure and slaps green + gaussian blur over the original image.

Looking at it this way, I'd actually go with #3 as well. The angled number didn't translate the same way in the picture with the purple jersey the way it does on the white jersey. Definitely would go with #3 for both seeing it in that context.

Yeah, 2 is easily the best. Not everything has to be geometrically perfect to look good. At least in my mind the wordmark doesn't need to be centered because it's a part of a larger graphic as a whole that fills in that space.

Nope. Patriots are wearing their throwbacks against the Dolphins week 2. So both games between them will feature one team in a throwback.

The Zubaz Revolution was thankfully crushed after its short lived rise in 2013

Sure, I'll let you know. Trade dress is a part of trademark law that signifies the source of a product through its visual appearance, that can include color schemes. The Texans wearing a color scheme specifically designed to make them look like the Oilers could create confusion in the NFL jersey sales market since the Titans still sell Oilers jerseys.

There's a 100% chance my hockey brain reads that C logo as a captain's patch every time I see it.

Nation*l Americ*n Has anyone checked for lead in the water in Eugene?

Pretty on brand for a Jacobs family organization if we're being honest.

I think it's 3 things working at once. First, as you've noted, adidas has made the jersey worse overall, socks, numbers, and general overall construction looks worse. Second, there's always been a not-insignificant portion of the Bruins fan base that just prefers the 80 to early 90s jerseys over the current ones. I'm not one of them personally, but those jerseys have always been pretty beloved, especially since they're associated with guys like Ray Bourque and our terrible GM. Third, the jersey's nearly 20 years old and an also not-insignificant portion of the general public likes change for the sake of change. I'm sure for some people it's just gotten stale.

This video is about as accurate as a Bruins big board on draft night.