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DaBella last year relocated its headquarters from Oregon to Austin, Texas. https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/2022/10/11/west-coast-relocates-austin-eastern-expansion.html

By the time Vegas runs out of water, the A's will have already relocated to Omaha. At this point, the A's are just a really slow-moving nomadic tribe.

I felt that way about him after last season. But so far this year, based on what I've seen and read from beat reporters, he's finally filling that role of the No. 2 superstar on this team, which he is. He and Gobert are not one-for-one duplicates. They're fundamentally different players, so suggesting we don't need one because we've got the other doesn't make a lot of sense.

For what it's worth, the team URL listed at the bottom of that news release doesn't work.

Those give off a real "Brand X" vibe.

It would have been a lot easier to just make the court one big green screen.

Once again, because it bears repeating, that this is THE ENTIRE POINT OF THIS MESSAGE BOARD. If people don't like the nonstop stream of new, modern, garish uniforms and aren't fans of the resulting brand dilution, then this is the place to vent over it. If you want to generalize that everybody who disagrees with you on this topic is old and out of touch, then feel free. But don't come to a message board about sports uniforms and suggest debating such things doesn't make sense.

Right around that same time, I was a reporter covering the footwear/apparel industry and spent part of a day with the president of Adidas' north american business. He had a full book of Brooklyn Nets concepts in his office that he let me peek through. I couldn't take pictures or take notes of it, but it was the first place I remember seeing sleeved jerseys as an idea. There were also concepts that used rust/orange and black as a color base. It was a pretty cool experience, even if I couldn't write about it at the time.

At what point do we get to stop saying this: What do you think this message board is about? It's entire reason for being is to debate things like basketball jerseys.

Those courts are a waste of paint.

This looks great. Personally, I'd like to see an additional secondary logo that repeats the primary only without the word "STARS." It would feel less repetitive on the shoulders of the white jersey.

If this was a read-the-tea-leaves post based upon 2024 season ticket sales for the XFL, it's worth noting that they have 2024 season ticket sites up for every team, including Las Vegas and Houston.

MLS, though, has proven to be the one professional league that has been a reluctant exception to this sort of pattern. The fact that Chicago and Montreal back-tracked on new logos in the past two years suggests to me that San Diego could do the same. I wouldn't be surprised if they do.

Just because you have one outlier doesn't mean it can't still be true.

The Creamsicles might be the only entry in a rare category of uniforms that are a thing of beauty but also don't belong on a football field. I'm never one for the macho notion that uniforms need to look tough, but I was reading a news story from 1996 in which Trent Dilfer said something to the effect of his linemen looking and feeling inferior in wearing those uniforms playing such a tough and aggressive game. From that perspective, I can kinda see it. It makes you wonder whether the uniforms didn't contribute to those years of being a laughingstock.

I thought they looked great. And the result was incredible.

But that's tantamount to saying those Gibbs-era helmets look better without stripes, which is absolutely not the case. The identity may have been abhorrent, but the helmets have always been gorgeous. I'm actually not bothered by the two-striped pants with a three-striped helmet. It would be worse if they both had three stripes and were mismatched, but I don't see it as an issue as it was at the time.

University of North Dakota going with throwback lids against rival North Dakota State this weekend.

A color like this needs to be paired with something more vibrant to avoid coming off as drab and muted. But even then it still might not work. Those 2000s Seahawks uniforms had lime green accents but they were still among some of the most lifeless uniforms in the NFL.

If you want to dig even further, the USFL website has live links to buy season tickets for the Stallions and Showboats, as well as for Canton but doesn't identify any teams associated with the site. The season ticket links for the other teams aren't active.

Seems to me like a missed opportunity that the Mets weren't named the Narcissistic Bungholes instead.

Florio is also the guy who reported that NFL owners were considering throwing an expansion franchise to St. Louis as a way to settle the city's litigation over the Rams move. He loves to throw crap out there to see what sticks.

I was watching a replay of a Cubs game from the '80s, with the pullover blue jerseys, and it occurred to me how strange it looks to have a logo on just the left side of a baseball jersey. I realize it's become a standard practice for baseball, but seeing it on that Cubs jersey just made it seem so random, especially because it was a pullover rather than the buttom-up style, which I'm sure why the logo-on-the-left thing became so common. Anyway, after seeing the Cubs jersey that way I now look at all baseball jerseys with only a logo on the left as sort of odd an unbalanced. That's why I prefer the Arizona's abbreviated D-Backs wordmark over this example.

These are really nice -- everything we'd want in a baseball uniform. Simple, with a distinct typeface. No clutter. Even the colors are right for Arizona. At least thematically, you can't argue that Sedona red and sand aren't an ideal palette for a team in Arizona. The issue is that it's just kind of drab overall, and I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that there's nothing surprising about those colors. The Astros spent a decade wearing nearly identical colors, so by the time the Diamondbacks switched the colors weren't anything we hadn't seen before in baseball. Personally, i didn't like the franchise's original uniforms. I thought the original shades of purple and turquoise felt too much like a '90s-era novelty than anything that could stand the test of time. But I'd also like to see how some version of those colors, perhaps darker shades, would look on the current uniform template.