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• Carolina Chaos: Overall the branding is improved from the previous years. Kind of digging the scorpion tail C.
• Denver Outlaws: Solid. No complaints. Will miss the Chrome logo though.
• Utah Archers: I like the arrowhead on it's own and the state as the negative space in the A's of the word marks. Not wild about the rest of the branding.
• California Redwoods: I like everything about this rebrand. Especially it appears they've gotten away from that highlighter shade of yellow to a more "athletic gold" shade.
• Philly Waterdogs: Still the worst name in the league. At least the new dog looks better. Not impressed overall.
• Maryland Whipsnakes: Let me start off by saying I will miss the Whips original colors. With that said, Maryland is my home state so going with the state's color is a very easy pill to swallow (sidenote, also the colors of my high school alma mater). I really like the M secondary logo. They could have done a lot more to differentiate the tertiary roundel from the Orioles roundel, or even not included it as part of the package.
• New York Atlas: The new bull logo looks worse than the original. Serious downgrade there. I like the NY logo though
• Boston Cannons: Solid, no complaints.

2 hours ago, Ferdinand Cesarano said:

Almost as bad is overlooking the Bayhawks.

I'm a homer when it comes to sports. I supported the Bayhawks in MLL because they were the team closest to home, but that name sucked. A ripoff of the Seattle Seahawks branding.

With the Whipsnakes being the PLL's first champion, there was no way they would allow that club to change it's name. Plus with it's heavy link to the University of Maryland there was pretty much only 3 places they'd realistically place them. Annapolis, Baltimore or DC. Whipsnakes to Maryland was inevitable.

I thought the PLL would've put 3 teams in the northeast (Boston, New York and somewhere between Philly and DC). Four northeast teams was a surprise. It appears they have most of the major northeast hotbeds of LAX covered.

I figured if any southeast location were to come into the league it would be Charlotte. It's very northeast-ish. I assumed the Carolina Chaos covers that. (Are the scorpions in the Carolinas? lol)

Redwoods to California was a no brainer.

Surprised to see both Denver and Salt Lake City get a team. Figured one would be part of the initial 8 cities then the other would come years later in expansion.

I guess no teams in the middle part of the country was a surprise. Figured Texas and Minnesota impressed the league enough the last couple of tours to get one of the eight spots.

I'll give my thoughts on the new logos in the appropriate thread for that. 

So there is a new D2 bowl game. Johnson C. Smith and Fort Valley State will play in the first Florida Beach Bowl.

https://hbcusports.com/2023/11/13/johnson-c-smith-fort-valley-state-to-headline-inaugural-florida-beach-bowl

Posted on PLL socials earlier today,

Watched most of the USL Championship Final. It's good to see a team with the same colors as my high school alma mater win. Congrats to Phoenix Rising!

In D2 I have my fingers crossed for Virginia Union, Shepherd and Benedict.

In D3 I'll be supporting Johns Hopkins and Christopher Newport.

Believe it or not there is college football outside the FBS. A place to give these teams some recognition.

Here is the NCAA Division 3 bracket.

https://www.ncaa.com/brackets/football/d3/2023

And here is Division 2's bracket.

https://www.ncaa.com/brackets/football/d2/2023

I'd be okay with the all grays becoming a permanent road alternate for Ohio State. Would look a lot better if they other team wasn't wearing white jerseys. In addition to that, like someone else mentioned adding a second black outline to the numbers could be a nice touch. So the numbers would have the same color pattern as the stripes.

1 hour ago, monkeypower said:

Are they still doing the roadshow even with having cities? Because if so, I don't know how much cities matter. Would they be able to build up local fanbases?

From what I understand next season will be sort of a hybrid of a traditional city based model and tour based model. Hope that means the schedule predominantly consist of true home/away games. They still need some neutral site games IMO for the sake of exposing other parts of the country to the league. Said it before and said it again, this sports still needs to grow beyond the northeast.

Posted on the league's facebook page today

10 hours ago, Sodboy13 said:

Ah jeez, this isn't gonna go well.

Whichever league has deeper pockets behind it will likely be the one left standing.

Is this a separate entity from the upcoming League One Volleyball (LOVB)?

EDIT: I should've read the previous posts first

10 hours ago, Sodboy13 said:

I was wondering where Madison, WI was in this, so I looked it up. Turns out they're in a different league, League One Volleyball, which is set to begin play in November 2024 and will have franchises in markets including... uh, Atlanta and Omaha. Ah jeez, this isn't gonna go well.

6 hours ago, shstpt1 said:

 

 

 

1. Take the kelly green throwbacks.
2. Put the modern wing decals on the helmets.
3. Put the eagle head logo on the sleeves.
4. Make a corresponding white jersey.
5. Make a kelly green pants options (because it's 2023 gosh darnit!)
6. Make a set of kelly green socks.
7. Boom finished!

Given the fact that Paul Rabil went to DeMatha Catholic High School in Maryland, I'm surprised he didn't green light one of the deer  logos for the Redwoods. DeMatha's team name is the Stags.

More PLL original 6 concepts. Released.

Apparently the Whipsnakes almost ended up being named the Novas instead.

PLL released some concepts of their league logo the other day.

Sixes Lacrosse to be in 2028 Olympics

https://www.usalacrosse.com/news-media-blog/its-official-lacrosse-headed-2028-summer-olympics

9 hours ago, MJWalker45 said:

If the Warriors were in San Francisco instead of Oakland that may have been the case.  I think the new arena wanting more income helps get the team there as well. I also think the only reason Cleveland was even involved in the original 8 was that Columbus had a team in the ABL. 

Realistically couldn't they have just put a team in San Jose? Wouldn't that be considered better than Oakland? I know there was an ABL team in San Jose, but didn't the two leagues run during different times of year? (ABL in fall vs WNBA in summer). I doubt the ABL had enough clout to get exclusive rights to the Bay Area market, the city of  San Jose or the arena in San Jose.

Honestly I find it odd the WNBA hasn't gone to the Bay Area until now. Would have thought The Bay would have been a more attractive location for the league than Sacramento for one of the original 8 teams.

16 hours ago, JH42XCC said:

Why don't we call it the NAFL (North American Football League)?

That was actually the name of a semipro league a couple of my high school teammates (and a coach) played in during the early 2000's. Not sure if it is still operating.