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Confession... I ordered a Commanders t-shirt. It's decent enough to join my collection 

Lifelong fan here. I realized a name change was inevitable years ago and accepted the fact that it will change at some point in the near future. There are better names than Commanders, and worse names than Commanders.

Now to the uniforms....

The burgundy jerseys are okay on their own and any updates to the uniforms years from now should be built around that. Solid B

As far as the rest. Why? Gawdammit why?  FAIL (though I already know those black jerseys are going to sell well locally)

Snyder couldn't be cool for once and go with Hogs? (groans) Fine.... Hail to the Commanders!!

Now get good dammit!

On 1/29/2022 at 1:53 PM, upperV03 said:

Updated Galaxy mockup, now with the quasars on the collar:

Would it be overkill if the shorts' leg openings (or whatever you call the equivalent to sleeve cuffs)  had the quasar pattern too? I personally think it would be a nice added touch.

Not ashamed to admit my 36 year old ass had to google search what a quasar is. I always thought that was a star on Galaxy's logo. My schools never taught anything beyond our solar system in regard to outer space 

2 hours ago, Lights Out said:

I prefer the two-tone design for the swords. It reminds me of this classic look in college football:

First time I've ever heard anybody refer to Troy's uniforms as being a classic lol

13 hours ago, BryanSmalls said:

Also, I must have missed this, but did Inter Miami settle their lawsuit with Inter Milan or is that still ongoing?

Like @VampyrRabbitDesign said I believe it's still on going. The NA soccer thread in the sports thread would have blown up over that.

In case they end up losing the lawsuit and have to change their name, I wonder if they'd be allowed to call themselves Global Miami instead? Global is literally a synonym for international, and the word global is the same in both English and Spanish. Or would swapping in the word Global still be some sort of infringement?

31 minutes ago, Cujo said:

 

There's gotta be a lube company out there with that name..

Really hope this qualifies for a post of the day. It's got my vote lol

Now that I think about it, I'm surprised Jack Kent Cooke never owned/bought any rights to "The Hogs" name. I remember seeing people wearing Hogs shirts when I was young. Seems like that money could've gone to the team instead of random local vendors. By the time Dan Snyder came in all the original Hogs were out of the league, but some fans still wore pig snouts and other hog related stuff to games (saw a guy on tv during the WFT/NYG game earlier wearing a hardhat with a snout attached to it). Probably wouldn't have made since for Snyder to have bought the rights to that name earlier in his ownership. Simply having that name trademarked for merchandise sakes, could have probably made the last 2 years gone by easier.

19 minutes ago, dont care said:

What rebranding has also included a name change. 

Oilers to Titans & Browns to Ravens

No theory here, but it is odd they chose to unveil the new name and logos before the Super Bowl. Every other team that rebranded or unveiled new uniforms waited until after the SB to do so. Why be the oddball?

10 hours ago, Bill0813 said:

I don't know about 100%, but there are some saying Washington is pulling off a clever misdirection.   Others are saying, they aren't clever at all; it's the Commanders

This organization (under Snyder) has never shown the competence to pull off an elaborate misdirection. Yet it has shown the incompetence to allow a major secret to be leaked on camera many times. Soooo, yeah.

At this point whatever happens, happens 

3 minutes ago, dont care said:

I doubt they will have jerseys ready for the reveal, stuff with the logo and name I could see happening though

That's what I meant. T-shirt, hats, jackets, etc. Figured the uniforms would be revealed closer to the NFL Draft.

Am I the only one that sees a problem with Redhawks even being an option? Are we just completely ignoring the existence of the Seattle Seahawks? This isn't NCAA with hundreds of members, where having multiple teams called the name (prefix)hawks is acceptable. This is a 32 team league. There should be absolutely no repeat names! Full name, prefix, suffix, whatever. There should not be a second team in the NFL with "hawks" in their name, PERIOD. 

How did that even make it this far into the process? Redhawks should have been nixed 2 seconds after that name was suggested. Being a fan of this team my whole life I know the Snyder administration makes bad decisions, but gawdam this one was should have never even been entertained. Yet here we are!

So how soon should we expect some employee of Dick's Sporting Goods to upload a picture of new Washington gear inside of a box in the backroom?

After having a day to think about it, my fingers are officially crossed for Red Hogs. All of the finalist names are bad for different reasons. Pig/hog imagery has been the only part of the team's identity that's not Native American related. I'd go as far as saying pigs/hogs to Washington fans are equal to the dog imagery of the Browns. It's not the team's name, but still part of the team's identity.

Plus, I'm intrigued by logo possibilities. Just a few that have been floating around online for a while now.

3 minutes ago, Cujo said:

A decent mockup based off today's leaks

This set needs gold pants if the jersey numbers are going to be gold

1 hour ago, MCM0313 said:

Warthogs isn’t a common team name, has a great feel to it, and would open up numerous design possibilities - tusked helmets, off the top of my head. They could even get downhearted every time they farted! (But seriously, Disney can’t own a species; just don’t make the mascot look like Pumbaa and you’re good.)

This was a thing

Washington Warthogs - Wikipedia

Long time Football Team fan chiming in.

• So far, the only thing I've seen that I've liked is the burgundy jersey with gold numbers. Although I'd personally prefer the sleeve stripe colors to be gold/burgundy/gold instead of gold/white/gold. I'm fine with the numbers being outlined in white.
• The white jersey with black accents instead of gold makes me nervous. Snyder did consider changing the team's uniforms in the early 2000's featuring heavy amounts of black.
• I don't know what to believe as far as the remaining names go. RedWolves would have been cool, but it's the only name they've flat out confirmed is no longer an option. At this point my preferences would be RedHogs if it's still in the running.

Have my fingers crossed for Miami's primary kits being pink/pink/black, but have a feeling they'll end up going with all pink.

Exactly how big is NYCFC's fanbase?

On one hand I feel the club could justifiably have a stadium built within the same capacity range as the latest ones to come into the league.

On the other hand, I think a soccer specific stadium in New York City proper could realistically be made to hold 40K+ if certain events were contractually obligated to take place there every year (US national teams playing x number of friendlies, elimination round Gold Cup matches, friendlies featuring big overseas clubs, world cup qualifiers, etc)

The question is whether or not anyone could justify NYCFC being the primary tenant of a 40K+ stadium? I'm not sure. As of right now only Seattle & Atlanta has shown they could realistically pull those numbers on a regular basis. Although an argument could be made that Portland could too if their stadium was bigger. Not to mention Met Life Stadium probably has contracts for all those events I mentioned for the foreseeable future.

We'll see what happens.

I hope D.C. United does something similar to the 2016-17 kits. Doesn't need to have tonal stripes on the front, but the red Adidas stripes made this the best set they've ever had IMO.

SN: I like Charlotte's set, but was hoping they'd wear black socks with blue stripes.

Going to be honest after the AAF and 2nd XFL came in went in the last 2 years, I just can't get excited about any part of this. Between The Spring League, the new USFL and the 3rd XFL the whole spring pro football niche is becoming crowded. 

but FWIW I like that Michigan Panther logo the best of the bunch.

11 hours ago, Seadragon76 said:

I wouldn't be shocked if the Southland takes all the football playing schools from the Lone Star Conference.

I doubt all of those schools would have the funds needed to make the jump to FCS

7 hours ago, TBGKon said:

It's probably best to go independent at least for the short term in football (we all know there are probably more moves happening in a few years) and find a non football home for the rest of the sports

Does FBS allow Independent programs to have scheduling agreements with conferences? In Division 2 football UNC Pembroke had such an agreement with the South Atlantic Conference.

Don't know/understand the exact definition of it, but pretty much UNC Pembroke would play most of it's schedule against SAC teams, while not being a member of the conference.

Hmmm... Now that I've typed that out, it seems very similar (if not the exact same thing) to what Notre Dame does with the ACC. So would any of the remaining mid major conferences potentially do something like that with Liberty, New Mexico State or UConn? If for no other reason than to fill out some of the members out of conference schedule.