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  1. Say what you will about the Canes and their incessant fiddling with their identity, but dark helmets on the road are awesome. I would love to see the league allow teams to do that full time.
  2. These are fantastic, I love it all- A great example of a subtle, yet needed refresh.
  3. Just an FYI, I wouldn't read too much into teams not having any ads at this point in time. A lot of these deals won't be finalized until right before the regular season begins, exactly like what happened with helmet ads for many teams in the past two seasons.
  4. The action green with blue pants would actually be an awesome, well-balanced look, but the monochrome is obviously just too much. Definitely wouldn't mind seeing the bottom stripe on the Seahawk be changed to green as well.
  5. I'm sorry, but that's a really dumb angle to criticize a logo from. Logos aren't meant to be detailed field illustrations and measuring the worth of a mark by how accurately it captures every biological subtlety of what it is meant to represent is not ever going to be productive. She might as well note that owls aren't actually purple and silver either.
  6. The Avs are just a mess generally and have one of the worst logos in all of major sports. The shift to blue over black has been a step in the right direction, but it's still super unbalanced in part due to how they use it with the uniform, but mainly because the blue is too dark and the black and silver feel unnecessary and create inconsistencies. If they could eliminate at least one of those accents, brighten the blue, and go back to the drawing board for a logo that isn't so hopelessly 90's, they could have a cool look. I just think that those steps would be a lot more effective then continuing to try and tinker with what feels like a hopelessly dated look.
  7. New Orleans has no idea how they should look. Their slow chipping away of all the traditional striping paired with the continued insistence on monochrome looks is so wrong for them. A black Saints helmet with proper striping could look really cool, it's a shame this is what they're going with.
  8. I'd rather Green Bay change then Georgia tbh, the logo suits them better
  9. They could have at least called it the Crypto Center or something, that feels much more natural than what they chose.
  10. I think that every Sharks logo has been cartoon-y, just in different styles. The current does feel very anime-inspired and the old one feels like it's from an old comic strip. The new one is undeniably much more dynamic and has better proportions overall, but I would definitely like an update that reduces the bad aspects of it.
  11. Yeah, I'm not sure that I understand what's supposed to be weird about the Rams' number font aside from maybe the shiny outline texture. It's one of the most legible typefaces in the league and is only slightly stylized. I think that was one of the things that they got right with the update.
  12. Kind of annoying that everybody knew this was coming, and yet they waited until the deadline passed for uniforms to be planned next season. Oh well, still a long overdue change that will lead to some beloved looks returning along with some chances for more cohesive and interesting alternates. Consider me intrigued for what will come from this.
  13. These uniforms are about as close to perfect as you can get now, instantly a contender for top uniform set in the NFL.
  14. Totally agree, it's so intense and vibrant. I love their color scheme in general, I really just wish that the rest of the brand could catch up with it.
  15. I just don't see grey as a neutral color at all, regardless of the unique, old-fashioned traditions within baseball. I mean, this board coined terms like GFGS for a reason, right? Otherwise, I think that uniforms like these might wouldn't get so much hate. Aside from that, you can't look at modern helmets like the Jags or expressive helmets like Bengals and tell me that a grey mask looks good for them. Any "one size fits all" mentality toward aesthetics is a bad idea.
  16. Hahaha I know that you've posted this a bit a few times before, but I think that seeing helmets like the Jaguars with a grey facemask will always force the same primal reaction of disgust out of me. I mean, the grey facemask love is still mind-boggling to me. Outside of 5 or so teams that utilize grey/silver in the color scheme, it's always inferior to a color mask. The Bills just improved their uniforms tremendously with this change.
  17. It's kind of a bummer seeing (at least what feels like) a vast majority of minor league baseball teams adopting these ironic identities, because it really detracts from the other ones that actually work a lot better.
  18. These uniforms are good for their emphasis on gold and use of the cool full-body sleeve logo, but they're also super dated and would need some updates to work for me today. The pants striping in particular is super uninspired all around and ugly on the black pants. The monochrome black look is also much worse in general because teal is completely lost in favor of white, which ironically mirrors the problems with the current set.
  19. I still can't believe that LeBron James' greatest championship was won while wearing those stupid sleeved jerseys. Such a shame to immortalize these instead of literally any of their other looks.
  20. It all just depends on what you enjoy within sports aesthetics I guess. If standardization and tradition is your thing, then sticking to one set combo for home and away would be ideal and I get that. For me, I enjoy seeing new and different things over the course of a season. It allows for a team to expand its identity in interesting ways that keeps it all fresh. That said, I'm not asking for every team to wear 20 combos, but limiting ourselves to 1 helmet, 2 jerseys, and 1-2 pairs of pants is just unnecessarily strict and arbitrary for a whole lot of teams. I see it much more similarly to how Baseball works now rather than College Football, where teams wear different color caps throughout the season that all compliment the identity in different ways.
  21. I could get on board with a "two-helmet rule" that would essentially force teams to pick between using the second option as a throwback or an alternate team color of some kind. That way, most teams would simply be allowed to bring back their throwback looks that we miss, and teams lacking that history (Panthers, Ravens, Texans) could still mix it up and participate. That's a win-win that limits the NFL from going full Oregon, but still gives teams a little more freedom and variety.
  22. I think that Gradients CAN work for the right team, but a yellow to white gradient isn't the best idea due to obvious reasons. For example, I actually think that the Bengals uniforms could look really with some orange-white gradients mixed in under the stripes to further emulate their mascot visually- There have been concepts on this board and elsewhere that have mocked this up before and I think it looks great. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any saved or on Google, but if anybody else could track them down for me then please do.
  23. Multiple helmets should be allowed, and hypotheticals like the Rams abusing the rule to create black helmets shouldn't really scare any of us. After all, most of y'all already despise their look anyways. Seriously though, multiple helmets would allow for some of our favorite throwbacks to actually make a return, as well as smoothing some alternate looks that don't flow smoothly as they exist now, like the White Tiger Bengals or the Chargers in Navy. The benefits of it going away far outweigh any concerns I have of potentially gimmicky stuff.
  24. It's really a shame that Arizona St took what was once a cool and coherent identity and just completely driven it into the dirt over the past several years. Pretty much the entire appeal is the combo of maroon and gold, so why take away your main color? It makes the cool pitchfork logo pretty impossible to see.
  25. These are a great tribute as pretty much all of these military academy one-offs are, but shouldn't the silver and red be flipped on the helmet? When reversed, the angle would even sort of mimic the red tails of the planes.
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