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Minnesota vs. Philadelphia Baltimore vs. Cincinnati Seattle vs. Detroit Indianapolis vs. Houston Chicago vs. Tampa Bay Kansas City vs. Jacksonville Green Bay vs. Atlanta Las Vegas vs. Buffalo LA Chargers vs. Tennessee San Francisco vs. LA Rams NY Giants vs. Arizona NY Jets vs. Dallas Washington vs. Denver Miami vs. New England New Orleans vs. Carolina Cleveland vs. Pittsburgh

I’m just rooting for AFC East chaos, especially if the Pats end up on top again.

Well, that shot from The General is now a live look at the Bills. I guess it helps that they built up the team beyond Aaron Rodgers?

Live look at the Jets: Zach Wilson is the Jets' fate. Fitting.

So, are the Niners that good or are the Steelers finally godawful? I’m good with the former and very pleased with the latter.

Philadelphia was probably the worst place for Ben Simmons to go. He probably was going to get the yips anyway, but Philly magnified it a little.

Detroit vs. Kansas City Cincinnati vs. Cleveland Houston vs. Baltimore Tampa Bay vs. Minnesota Carolina vs. Atlanta Arizona vs. Washington Jacksonville vs. Indianapolis San Francisco vs. Pittsburgh Tennessee vs. New Orleans Las Vegas vs. Denver Philadelphia vs. New England LA Rams vs. Seattle Miami vs. LA Chargers Green Bay vs. Chicago Dallas vs. NY Giants Buffalo vs. NY Jets

They were terrible - black felt awkwardly shoehorned into the set, especially once they added black breezers. It didn't even fix the issue of yellow touching white, like the Flames did when they added initially black. It also was a rethink of the team's identity, as opposed to the gradual shift of the North Stars. It wasn't a particularly good rethink, but it was understandable. The North Stars just slapped black onto a mediocre template. Replace the silver with yellow on the Dallas Stars, and you'd have something worthwhile.

They're in a similar boat to the Mariners - their identity is very much "of its time," but they got a lot right within the trends of the time. Some designs can be frozen in Y2K and that's ok, as long as the uniform and font front follows through. Really, the Wild got it right the first time. Very much of its time, but still classy - even the display font (grunge-ified Futura, IIRC) was tasteful enough.

The thing is, I get why people might find the Wild's main identity "tired" now. Dark green and red can read as a bit dreary-looking, especially when the home and road jersey don't take full advantage of the color scheme. The bright green and yellow look comparatively more inviting - "happy colors," if you will. North Stars nostalgia too plays a role, but much of the appeal is the aesthetic appeal of "happy colors." Adding black to the scheme would just mess it up into an over-detailed mess, as it did for the North Stars.

It's the inevitable "North Stars in all but name" rebrand that was destined to happen the minute the team entertained the idea. This happens almost every time a team has a popular throwback/throwback-adjacent alternate - it overtakes the often-staid "modern" design. Is the current hunter green/red/wheat all that stale?

Chubbyemu made a video on a similar topic. Spoilered for CT scan image.

No gosh-darn idea. They thought Jimmy G's wheels would fly off sooner rather than later (correctly so), so they decided to get a guy with franchise QB potential. However, said guy was too injury-prone to ever get anything close to a reasonable sample size and lost any chance of a return when a cheaper option emerged. I guess that's the reasoning. However, this is still a stupid team that hasn't signed Bosa. I fully expect this year to be a .500-ish campaign that ends in an NFC title loss.

Because I'm developing a thing for the Gresley A4, I have an idea. A brighter royal blue with pale gold and dark red accents (in equal balance) might be what you're looking for here. Maybe don't use the Gill Sans on the nameplate, because Gill Sans really doesn't work for any gridiron football team.

It's the Cowboys - they'll find a way to ruin him further than the Niners did. I don't really want to defend the Niners, but trading Lance makes sense. Injuries and being in a "win-now" mode made it pretty obvious that, despite the price they paid for him, he wasn't going to be their guy. Even if he didn't get injured, a team in "win-now" mode isn't going to take a guy with almost no sample size over QB's who have started more than five games. He was at a dead end on the Niners and the Cowboys are a good place to offload him. It's not like he's gonna be the missing piece for Dallas.

The Edge debacle would eventually lead to an outright throwback revolution in the '10s and '20s. The Oilers, Penguins, Flames, Sabres, and Flyers all adopted vintage designs, while the Stars and Lightning (and maybe the Panthers) went down the retro-inspired route. The only team that reintroduced a "modern" design after the Edge debacle were the Avs, who made the smart move to simplify the overall design and ditch black helmets/breezers/numbers. The Ducks could also count, but they just moved from a dreary design to pumpkin puke panels.

It looks fantastic as a colorway, but I don't think it'd look good with slate blue as the "base" instead of black or navy.

It's giving me these vibes: Slate blue is too close to a bright orange lighting-wise, and red + orange is hard to pull off in any circumstance. You'd probably be looking at a faded version of the above jersey in terms of the aesthetic.

Well, Harbaugh’s suspension was ridiculous, so it’s only fitting than Michigan respond with a ridiculous idea.

The 2023 Angels season: if "the poop cruise from hell" was a baseball team. Also, Stephen Strasburg is retiring after not having played since last year. Good for him, and let's hope he gets all of his contract money.

I prefer the Tiffany font and stripes they use now, but yeah white numbers look more “balanced” with the white helmet. Also, double outlines still suck.

Up until recently, the biggest failure by Scott Adams.

It's why "Who Pooped the Bed?" is among my favorite episodes of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. It's also the best episode of Sex in the City, if you look at it a certain way. But back to the Browns - their 50-yd/primary logo really should be a stylized representation of the helmet, two-bar mask and everything.

IDK, Esqueleto is pretty funny. But yeah, some comedies fall off hard when they decide to have a plot.

Ah yes, my mistake. Yeah, perhaps I was a little too hasty in bringing up Milwaukee's various demographic splits. Even though I was last in Milwaukee four years ago, it was kind of remarkable to see how much the People's Flag had penetrated spaces where there was no city flag before. Admittedly, I saw it most in the Lakefront/Third Ward/Brady Street/Fiserv Forum areas, but it wouldn't surprise me if it had penetrated into other districts after I moved. I may not be the most keen on it, but it does have some genuine resonance with people beyond a "merch symbol."