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Is there a light jersey or more alternates that we can see?

10 hours ago, raysox said:

Bay Area FC 11/40
I wanted to use the name Giants with a redwood theme, which is used in the AFL and MLB, but for a  San Francisco team it was a non starter. I went with a basic name that is seen in the AFL occasionally. I used A's colors because it's phenomenal, and works well with the logo. There's a theme of 9 in this concept, which references the number of counties surrounding the Bay Area, and allowed me to be vague with the choice in home city.

You could modify Giants to Goliaths or even Footy Giants.

Or Genies if you wanna pay homage to SF native Robin Williams?

Great job so far!

Whatever you decide to call San Diego's team, I'll cheer for them!

Great work on the Turtles!

I definitely want to see the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim next.

Maybe we could also see teams like these?

San Jose Street Sharks?

Edmonton Wolverines and Calgary Sabretooths?

New Orleans Gambits?

Tampa Bay Quicksilvers?

Minnesota or Milwaukee Mercenaries? (For a Deadpool team)

Is this thread still active? I'd like to see it continue.

The Motor City Muscle alternate is the best of this update.

Bump.

Regarding the Chargers' departure to Los Angeles, my feelings are mixed.

On the one hand, I miss having a hometown team. On the other, I've moved on and adopted the Rams to fill my NFL void.

I was in first grade when the Rams moved from LA to St. Louis. I never understood why those guys would move to a smaller market with fewer tourist attractions.

Even as a San Diegan, it didn't feel right for Los Angeles to be without an NFL team for so many years because of the league's inescapable stranglehold on American culture. But the thing that really bothered me during my childhood was that the Rams and Raiders leaving LA opened up the City of Angels for Dean Spanos to use as a weapon to bully the taxpayers in my town.

Year after year, as Deano allowed AJ Smith to tear the team down only to see former Bolts like Drew Brees thrive elsewhere, coupled wih Eli Manning refusing to suit up for the Bolts at the 2004 draft, my fandom started to sag. In the years when the Chargers would post double-digit losing seasons, I secretly hopped on the bandwagon for better clubs, like the Greatest Show on Turf Rams, the 2000 Ravens and the 2002 Bucs.

When Vince McMahon first announced he was starting the original XFL, I was initially excited because that was a few months before the Chargers went 1-15 in 2000. I wanted that first XFL to succeed. At the time of XFL 1.0's lone season, I was thirteen. By that stage, the XFL became a coping mechanism for the combined futility of both the Padres and Chargers up to that point. 

Another strike against my Charger fandom was my own father. His toddler-like temper tantrums about how much he hated the Raiders became more obnoxious and infantile during Jon Gruden's first tenure as the Raiders' coach. The extreme way he generalized Raider fans as this or that started to rub off on me, which made sportsmanship difficult sometimes when I was younger on those rare occasions when the Raiders beat the Bolts.

And on one occassion, my paternal grandparents threw a huge fit when one of my younger cousins brought home a Pop Warner jersey given to her by a classmate just because it had a logo that was similar to that of the Raiders.

Again, I wanted the XFL to succeed, and wanted NFL Europe to stick around longer, the CFL to have more TV coverage in the States and Arena Football to gain more mainstream respect, because Dad's insufferable animosity toward the Raiders sometimes made the NFL tough to engage with.

Now, with those pesky Chargers out of the way, I'm much more at ease around kind, decent, genuine, humble people whose favorite football team happens to be the Raiders. I also feel more comfortable around fans of all the other teams in the league.

The way my dad moaned and complained about the Commanders refusing the change their then-current slur name was also source of embarrassment. That was before I was old enough to understand why the old name was rightly condemned as offensive. I had a classmate in high school who was a Commander fan, but I never told my dad because I didn't want to deal with him accusing said classmate of condoning the racial slur nickname.

My point, is that as a San Diego resident, I'm glad the Chargers left and I look forward to the UFL expanding here.

Came back to this thread to make another tweak.

C&C Welcome.

If today's Baltimore Orioles came to be as the result of the St. Louis Browns moving to Baltimore, how come the Orioles don't count the Browns or the 1901 Milwaukee Brewers as part of their history?

@SFGiants58

How many more years do you think the Giants need to play before they will officially have been a San Francisco team longer than a New York team?

24 minutes ago, SFGiants58 said:

Boston Braves to Milwaukee. In the words of Joseph F. Dinneen Jr. of The Boston Globe:
 

*Joseph F. Dinneen, “Only Faithful Really Mourn Shift of Club,” The Boston Globe, March 19, 1953.

 

Going from being a distant second fiddle in Boston to top draws in Milwaukee was a massive upgrade. The St. Louis Browns moving to Baltimore also fits this tier.

Again, why did it take baseball so long to wake up and realize some cities (Philly, STL, Boston) weren't really able to support two teams each?

Where would the Grizzlies moving from Vancouver to Memphis rank among relocations throughout recent history?

I feel like Vancouver was never given a fair chance to warm up to the NBA.

Didn't Charlotte basically run the old Hornets out of town?

I still feel like Houston should've got the same deal Cleveland got when the Oilers left.

Speaking of Cleveland, was the city really blameless for Art Modell going behind their back to sign with Baltimore?

And is Baltimore blameless for the Colts leaving?

5 minutes ago, Lights Out said:

Any ranking that doesn't have the Chargers' relocation in first place is just wrong. The Spanos family went deep into debt, failed to meaningfully improve the franchise's valuation despite moving to a larger market, still don't have their own stadium, and have no fanbase anymore. To this day, people still instinctively call them the San Diego Chargers and have to correct themselves. Allowing this relocation to happen was a NHL-level blunder by the NFL, which automatically makes it worse than the actual NHL blunders since it happened in a much more relevant league.

So you're saying the Chargers are now the Coyotes of football?

9 hours ago, LMU said:

Probably throw the Clippers to LA as a toss-up since it was an irrelevant franchise moving to save Donald Sterling some gas money.

To be fair, Sterling never had much intention of staying here.

Switching gears, people here in San Diego completely forgot that Los Angeles was where the Chargers really started. So did LA really steal from SD or was this the righting of a historical wrong?

7 hours ago, Sec19Row53 said:

I haven't seen any, but I can't imagine a team is going to show anything either in the kick or the return.

5 hours ago, Sykotyk said:

Saw it the xfl and liked it. Better than getting rid of the kick entirely 

I personally didn't like when the Alliance got rid of kickoffs.

Again, any rule changes that help with player safety here and there at this point is a plus for me.

For those who've seen at least a few snippets of preseason games, how do you guys feel about the new kickoff rules?

On 7/29/2024 at 10:34 AM, Sec19Row53 said:

I'm stunned. He didn't knowingly use PEDs. That and Father Time are STILL undefeated.

So basically Autry is the kind of guy that's too afraid to admit age is catching up to him?

I think to make the distinction, a club in Portland, Maine should use "Maine" as its location name.

Mainly to avoid confusion.

On 7/24/2024 at 6:06 PM, DG_ThenNowForever said:

I read that a part of Amazon's deal is they'd immediately put the first three years costs in escrow.

 

I wonder if WBD had that kind of cash on hand; my guess is they don't and that was the breaking point.

Either way, I'm gonna miss Inside the NBA when TNT's tenure with the league comes to a close.

33 minutes ago, BBTV said:

I've mostly liked PTI, but I never understood Around the Horn.  What do the buzzes and points even mean?  It's like the guy just sorta randomly clicks the button and it doesn't actually mean a thing.

 

I still remember PTI's debut and where I was in life at that time, and it blows my mind that it's still on.

Around the Horn would've worked better as a game show related to sports history or something.

That said, I liked PTI better.

6 hours ago, ruttep said:

 

 

When teams can keep branding intact like that, these Guardian caps will grow on me, as long as they protect players like they're supposed to.

13 hours ago, Carolingian Steamroller said:

 

The Bears did that quite a bit in the 2000's. They went white over white for all of 2001, 2002, and 2003 (save one game). Then they went back to it for a bunch of games in 2006 (that Hester pick is from his legendary game against the Rams in St. Louis). Back to navy pants in 2007 but then went all white for the entirety of 2008.

They seemed poised to continue that trend in 2009... and then this happened:



They haven't worn that look since and indicators are that ownership won't permit it.

No offense to Bears fans, but I think the Bears look better on the road when they wear the navy pants with their white jerseys.

Meanwhile in the AFC, when Denver did this combo, this made me wish they went with an orange swoosh on the white jersey. Orange socks would've hepled too.

Is it this Olympiad or next that we'll see Flag Football?

I really do hope Flag Football is a success. Mainly because I think football needs to be able to change to remain viable.