Kevin W.
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The name isn't solely because of the previous team. If the original Senators had never existed, I guarantee that the Ottawa franchise's name would make some reference to the government and/or capital. When the Washington Football Team changes their name, I would bet good money that it'll be something along those lines as well.
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That was a completely different franchise that no longer exists. The Habs, Leafs and Yankees have all been around without interruption for more than 100 years.
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It really isn't. You can't compare the Yankees and Canadiens to a team that last played nearly 100 years ago.
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That's correct. It's known among Flyers fans and collectors as the "butter knife font." When the Flyers first introduced their current home uniform as an alternate in the 2008-09 season, they wore the period-accurate number font for its first two games before changing it to the current font. The Senators' barberpole jerseys have always been overrated. They aren't the original Senators. Their current look and a modernized version of the pre-Edge alternate would both be superior looks to the barber pole.
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I may be a traditionalist but I don't like Calgary returning to their retro jerseys full-time. They should've returned to the mid-2000s look instead. Winnipeg needs a new look but I don't think the retros are the way to go. No, they did have contrasting nameplates at times in the 1970s, but only on the orange jerseys. The black nameplate on the white jerseys has no historical precedent and was added to match the contrasting nameplate on the orange jerseys.
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NHL Anti-Thread: Bad Business Decision Aggregator
Kevin W. replied to The_Admiral's topic in Sports In General
That is the most OITGDNHL but not actually the NHL's fault story that I've ever read. -
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Of the major manufacturers, it's really only Adidas that does that.
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You can't say that and leave out the only team in the NBA that has never changed their primary logo since the franchise's inception.
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San Diego is taking steps to build a replacement for the Sports Arena and is already heading in that direction after removing the area it's in from a zone that has very strict building height limits. I doubt we'll be getting an NHL-caliber arena, but given the fan support the Gulls have had since the team moved to San Diego (they've averaged the highest attendance in the Western Conference) it would be awesome to have a modern arena. I love the Sports Arena and I've enjoyed it when I've gone to see the Gulls, but the building is more than 50 years old. I just hope that they can actually find a source of funding to build the arena since San Diego is rightfully opposed to taxpayer funding for facilities after that greedy :censored: Spanos burned us one too many times.
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That's putting it lightly.
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Obviously eleven months on, this hasn't aged well. Hopefully the change in coaching means that my speculation was right but my timing was off.
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The logo is bland, yes, but I'm glad to see that it's the Iron Bowl Presented by BBVA instead of being the BBVA Iron Bowl. There are certain games where the name of the game should always come first. The Rose Bowl is another one.
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Arizona is wearing white with red facemasks/navy/white against USC.
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I am beyond disappointed that I was 100% wrong about the change to the Desert Swarm throwbacks. Why would they use them so much for advertising purposes and then not use them on the field? Ugh...
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At this point, I’m pretty confident that Arizona will be wearing the Desert Swarm uniforms full-time this year. I have yet to see any significant media from the team that features the old uniforms, and they just posted the 2020 Yearbook. The front cover is Grant Gunnell in the throwbacks. I expect an official announcement between now and the first game. I would be very surprised if I’m wrong.
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Asymmetrical helmets always look bad. That includes the Steelers.
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Sweden And Sweden is also very traditional. I see this as a backlash against the stupid designs from the 2016 World Cup and the 2018 Olympics. Nike and Adidas both went too far with some of their national team designs (2018 was obviously worse than 2016 but my point still stands) so I'm leaning towards simple designs for the World Cup teams. Design tends to be cyclical, after all.
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Canada Canada's design is also very traditional but I couldn't help but include the maple leaf sleeve cuffs. They look good so why not include them?
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Alright, on to the World Cup! I've got three teams' designs set today, but I haven't decided on the font so they'll just be blank for now. This World Cup assumes full cooperation of the IIHF and the national hockey federations (which wouldn't happen in real life) so I can just use the real-life logos instead of the made-up-out-of-thin-air logos from the past World Cup. United States Obviously the US' design is very traditional. What more needs to be said?
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They'll be some of the few uniforms to see the field this fall since the SEC's boosters will fight tooth and nail to make sure that the teams play. I won't specify why they'll fight for it, of course.
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Figures that that happens when I finally get the chance to start such an important thread.
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The RoboPen looked amazing as a shoulder patch with the Skating Penguin as the primary. How so? I can guarantee that if the Nordiques had stayed in Quebec, those jerseys would've gone the way of the other 90s jerseys from teams that shifted away from traditional looks. The team would've eventually gone back to either the classic of some variation of the classic like so many others did.
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Alright, so now that I've finished 31/31 teams for both their primaries and alternates, here's what I'm planning right now. I have the designs solidified for the World Cup teams. The only issue is finding a font that works for them. I'm trying to find a good font that works for all of them since Nike seems to like doing one font for all of their teams in major competitions. I am going to translate Seattle's new jerseys over to my format. It's likely that I won't make serious changes. Some teams will start getting vintage jerseys, and it's possible that a couple of teams with throwbacks/fauxbacks that are currently listed as their alternates will get those relisted as their vintage jerseys while also getting new alternates.
