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I like St. Louis in blue/white/blue tonight. Hope to see NY and DC switch up their pants some this season.

Would the XFL have been better off naming the LA team after a specific type of big cat?

Think I'm on board the "Seattle Dragons Should Have Gone With Green Home Uniforms" train now. Their helmets look out of place with those navy blue uniforms. I don't think even going white/blue/white would help much.

On ‎2‎/‎13‎/‎2020 at 8:52 PM, DNAsports said:

Have we really gone this far without realizing Defenders and Guardians are pretty much the same thing? Not saying I hate the names. I love them, but for a community like us I figured it would’ve been pointed out a hell of a lot sooner.

Yeah, I didn't really notice that until a couple of days ago. The XFL should have probably just gone ahead and named NY the Gargoyles. Although some people might have complained about the league having 2 teams named after mythical creatures *shrug*

With that said, I think most people would be okay with it if the Guardians were simply renamed the Gargoyles down the line.

Tampa REALLY needs to make the snake head their primary logo/helmet decal. There's nothing cool or visually appealing about the V logo to me.

9 minutes ago, CaliforniaGlowin said:

LA also got screwed with that team name.  My local ELEMENTARY school has that name.  The KIDS football team on the Simpsons has that name. 

My elementary school's team name was Dragons. Should Seattle be mocked for using our name?

IIRC the UFL had StubHub sponsor logos on the helmet bumpers.

10 hours ago, Jer15 said:

I was one of those guys. 

I was so scared the cleats used in football would destroy the grass.

 

Admittedly, outside of some complaints during MLS Cup in 2016 (which was played within days of the Grey Cup), I haven't really heard any lingering stories about players complaining about the field quality.

BMO has some of the best equipment in the world to manage the condition of the field and it has been a non-issue.

I'm not sure if Audi Field has the same capabilities but I can't imagine that a brand new stadium (and one that the club has trying to get built for so long) would not be properly prepared. 

The pitch at Audi Field was noticeably worse after the Premier Lacrosse League came to DC. Granted, a heavy rainstorm hit the area at the same time. The grass had to be replaced before the season ended.

23 hours ago, GDAWG said:

 

Those DC United fans will be complaining about that.

A lot DCU fans raised hell about the XFL team when it was announced that they'd be playing at Audi Field. Hell, when the Premier Lacrosse League's tour came to DC last year, they raised hell about the damage those games did to the grass.

There's a big portion of the fanbase that doesn't want anything besides soccer being played at Audi Field. On the other side, club's ownership really likes money. At one point before Audi Field opened DCU's website flat out said other sports would be played at the stadium, so it really shouldn't be a surprise when it happens.

On ‎7‎/‎29‎/‎2018 at 10:25 PM, 4_tattoos said:

Homer alert. Deal with it!

 

• NFL: Washington Redskins
• NBA: Washington Wizards
• MLB: Washington Nationals
• NHL: Washington Capitals
• MLS: D.C. United
• Overseas Soccer: Western Sydney Wonderers (A-League). Copa90 videos about this club won me over.  As well as 1 FC Union Berlin in Bundesliga.
• P5 NCAA Football: University of Maryland and members of the pre conference realignment ACC and Big East. Except for Miami and West Virginia.
• Mid Major NCAA Football: Marshall, Temple & Cincinnati
• NCAA FCS Football: All members of the MEAC, Towson, Georgetown & Penn
• NCAA D1 Basketball: Maryland, Georgetown & George Washington
• NCAA Division 2 Sports: All members of the CIAA, Shepherd University, University of the District of Columbia & Frostburg State University
• NCAA Division 3 Sports: Salisbury University, Catholic University, Gallaudet University and Johns Hopkins University
• Junior College: Prince George's Community College
• Minor League Baseball: Bowie Baysox, Southern Maryland Blue Crabs & the Nationals' entire farm system
• WNBA: Washington Mystics
• Major League Lacrosse: Chesapeake Bayhawks

*bump for additions and some edits to previous categories*

• Premier Lacrosse League: Whipsnakes Lacrosse Club (in the PLL's first season their roster was predominantly Maryland alums)
• NBA G League: Capital City Go-Go

^^^^

wow

5 hours ago, BrandMooreArt said:

to get real nerdy about though, UAB is a Chinese dragon, the XFL team a European dragon

Really? I'm the kind of the opposite. Seattle's dragon looks more far east Asian to me.

8 hours ago, hugevolsfan said:

...and, yep, those are pretty similar. But Seattle has a fin!

It also has a horn versus what appears to be an ear on UAB's dragon.

8 hours ago, hugevolsfan said:

I really do not think they are that similar other than profile is basically the same. I think an argument could be made this would be a good update for UAB though.

I'd say Seattle's logo was definitely inspired by UAB's. At the end of the day there's only so many things you can do with a dragon logo that haven't already been done. It's hard to top what Mortal Kombat and UAB have done for the category.

My thoughts.

Houston: Not a fan of their branding. There's not much more you can do with an oil derrick logo that hasn't already been done. Don't like the forced H. With a name like Roughnecks, you'd think the emphasis would be an oil worker instead of the derrick.

Dallas: Not wild about the name Renegades. The logo reminds me of the a ninja character from a 16 bit graphics era video game.

LA: I actually like "generic names" in sports like wildcats, hawks and bulldogs. With that said their primary logo should have been a cat. The "LA" logo is alright.

Seattle: I actually like their logo despite it's similarities to UAB's. Perhaps I'm the only that sees the two logos as two different types of creatures. When I see UAB's dragon, I think of something I might stalk me in a medieval forest, or maybe even a dungeon. Seattle's looks like something that you encounter at sea.

New York: I see a lion, not a gargoyle. It's a good logo. I see this being the logo from XFL 2.0 that ends up being highjacked by high school, youth and semi-pro teams the way the Hitmen's H logo has been from the first run.

Tampa: Like the name. Understand why the main logo is just a letter instead of a snake. With two teams in this league named after serpentine creatures, it may have been done to avoid any confusion (may also be the case why LA has no cat logo, with NY's logo resembling a lion). Interested in seeing this teams uniforms the most given the logo colors.

DC: Not wild about the name. If DC doesn't have the best defense in this league, that name will come back to bite them. The logo makes me think Indy punk band more than it does football or military.

St Louis: Not feeling the name. The logo gives off a slight religious vibe to me. Something about a sword with wings says crusades to me.

1 hour ago, Wings said:

Should UCONN football go back to FCS?

I don't think they can after having that 40K seat stadium built solely for their ascent to Division 1A/FBS football.

5 hours ago, neo_prankster said:

Los Angeles Avengers

- Since the XFL is gonna be broadcast on Disney-owned networks, might as well get Marvel on board...right?

Arena League already did the superhero themed team in LA thing

On ‎4‎/‎28‎/‎2019 at 10:20 PM, Ferdinand Cesarano said:

These are good ideas. But I propose a radical reform to make arena football even more interesting: the elimination of first downs. Just have a single reset line at midfield; a team has four downs to get to that line, and then four more downs to get to the endzone. This way there would be a serious doubt about whether a team could score on any given possession. 

As someone that hates high scoring offensive shootouts in regular football where the defenses are non-factors, my biggest gripe against arena/indoor football is how easy it is to score and the basketball like final scores you see regularly. I would love to see your idea become a reality.

2 minutes ago, Beer Barrel Man said:

 

Vinnie Mac lost it long ago. 

Officially when he greenlit The Gobbledygooker

1 hour ago, BringBackTheVet said:

Wow.  I never knew "schools" like that existed. 

Other than community colleges?

I guess it's okay for a one time thing. However I've always had an issue with an Orioles affiliate having Sox in it's team name. Even the Bay part of the team's name has always been difficult for me to accept. Bowie, Maryland is landlocked. It does not border the Chesapeake Bay. In fact there's an entire county (Anne Arundel County) between Bowie (in Prince George's County) and the bay. I do think Baysharks would be a cool name for a team actually located closer to a bay than Bowie is though.

BMW and Volkswagen's logos look like they could belong to a European soccer club.

Mercedes' logo sorta looks like a logo for a military academy's athletic teams

Homer alert. Deal with it!

• NFL: Washington Redskins
• NBA: Washington Wizards
• MLB: Washington Nationals
• NHL: Washington Capitals
• MLS: D.C. United
• Overseas Soccer: Western Sydney Wonderers (A-League). Copa90 videos about this club won me over
• P5 NCAA Football: University of Maryland and members of the pre conference realignment ACC and Big East. Except for Miami and West Virginia.
• Mid Major NCAA Football: Marshall, Temple & Cincinnati
• NCAA FCS Football: All members of the MEAC, Towson, Georgetown & Penn
• NCAA D1 Basketball: Maryland and Georgetown
• NCAA Division 2 Sports: All members of the CIAA, Shepherd University, University of the District of Columbia & Frostburg State University
• NCAA Division 3 Sports: Salisbury University, Catholic University, Gallaudet University and Johns Hopkins University
• Junior College: Prince George's Community College
• Minor League Baseball: Bowie Baysox, Southern Maryland Blue Crabs & the Nationals' entire farm system
• WNBA: Washington Mystics
• Major League Lacrosse: Chesapeake Bayhawks

I'd argue that the shade of blue the Carolina Panthers wear is neon-ish

I'd be okay with sponsor logos in the NFL ONLY if it were limited to helmet bumpers. They did that in the short lived UFL and it was visually tolerable.