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I'm glad they leaned into the turquoise look, and I like almost this entire set with the exception of the off-white home jersey. The black piping gives the whole thing a generic teamwear feel, and it's the one set in which the turquoise feels forced. The contrast of bright turquoise outlining the logo next to off-white is unpleasant. 

1 hour ago, MJWalker45 said:

The Timbers Reddit has been very vocal about how of all the "local" businesses they could pick, most Timbers fans are not happy with this choice. 

I get it, and I don't blame them. But at the same time, it's not like the club has its pick of any brand it or its fans want. I have to imagine that the value proposition of associating with the Timbers, considering all of the issues the franchise has endured in the past few years, isn't as desirable as it once was. I can't imagine beloved local brands were just lining up for this opportunity. 

In this case, they attracted a much smaller brand -- one that's barely recognizable even in Portland -- that wants to raise its profile on a broader scale. They probably paid a lot less than what Alaska Airlines did, too. 

On 11/15/2023 at 11:32 AM, upperV03 said:

I’m mostly just glad it’s a local company, and the logo looks fine enough. It’s still a significant downgrade from Alaska Airlines IMO, and there were several other options that I would’ve preferred, but it’s fine. We’ve seen much worse across the league.

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

1 hour ago, FiddySicks said:

Good riddance. Enjoy playing in a city that will have no water in a decade. 

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. 

2 hours ago, who do you think said:

 

Because he's soft, overrated, and not needed with Gobert. He's not the reason they're 8-2.

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. 

3 minutes ago, GDAWG said:

The Minnesota Myth will be owned by.....the wife of Commissioner Lee Hutton:

 

 

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

6 minutes ago, CaliforniaGlowin said:

Jersey designs have been released.  Some colors make no sense given the leaked team names.

https://uni-watch.com/2023/11/14/pwhl-unveils-jerseys-for-inaugural-2024-season/

Those give off a real "Brand X" vibe. 

On 11/4/2023 at 3:53 PM, M4One said:

The full colour courts plus the giant trophy make it look like it's CGI.  That's the best way I can describe it.  It looks like the players were taken from another picture and superimposed onto the court.

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

15 minutes ago, andregunts said:

 

 75% of the comments in here are people complaining about the jerseys. Its this contant stream of negativity about these trivial things. The main issue seems to stem from people who want to go back to 1970 when they grandpops use to take them to the old arena and have cracker jacks for $.50 cents and you watched Celtics at home in white and the San Antonio Chaparrals in their away black. Guys we are in 2023, things will change, we dont have a standard home and away an maybe one alternate. The designs are bold and funkier, yes you will still have your traditional home and away, but thats BORING TO WATCH EVERY NIGHT. 

 

I for one, may not be in love with every jersey, but I appreciate things that are different and bold, times changes people. Get used to it.  If you dont like the NBA and their crazy jersey designs, go back to watching the 1982 NBA Finals on VHS. 

 

Im seeing these new in tournament court designs and I LOVE IT, Im afraid some of these people are gonna have a heart attack lol. 

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. 

55 minutes ago, andregunts said:

What are you guys crying about this time? At the end of the day its literally its just basketball jerseys lol. 

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. 

19 hours ago, Captain Invader said:

Columbus also did a quick backtrack with the name (Columbus SC), and took the triangle out of the logo and replaced it with the 96.

 

Also, Portland when they unveiled their MLS logo, the fans / Timbers Army revolted, and they came out with a slightly revised logo.

On 10/24/2023 at 5:04 PM, WideRight said:

Next up on the Adidas releases, Philadelphia, and, yes, we are seeing more 2022 USFL style creeping into the 2011 alt history USFL to be sure. 

 

 

Some rainbow style stripes on the jerseys, a doppler effect striping on the pants, but still very much the Stars being the Stars.  By the way, the helmets are still a metallic gold.  Hard to capture that in the imaging I am doing.  It looks far more yellow than I would really like.  

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. 

On 10/24/2023 at 10:07 PM, GDAWG said:

 

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. 

1 hour ago, Sykotyk said:

You mean... they have time to stubbornly insist that it's a great logo and identity and hope to wear their fanbase down into acceptance before 2025.

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. 

9 minutes ago, Sec19Row53 said:

No.

 

If that were the case, they wouldn't have made the Conference Championship game with one heckuva defense in 1979

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

8 hours ago, FiddySicks said:

Yes they did! But anyone clamoring for them to go back to these full time is nuts. They may look real cute now, but just try to imagine these on the back end of four consecutive ten loss seasons (something this franchise is very capable of at any point) where they wear nothing but the creamsicle throwbacks. It quickly goes from a fun little thing to a pirate with a dagger in its mouth winking at you in baby puke orange and a slightly darker shade of orange. For years. People really can’t quite grasp just how much that look was HATED by the time they changed it. Those old orange unis had such a putrid stench of failure caked into them by 1996. They had to go. 
 

These are fun strictly because they so rarely make an appearance. They’re a fun little treat on special occasions. Once a year is enough, and like I’ve said before, I’d like to see it even more infrequently than that, even. Once every five years, give or take, and only for really special occasions. 

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. 

3 hours ago, MNtwins3 said:

Too bad they paired them with head to toe black

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

2 hours ago, Carolingian Steamroller said:

 

Oddly enough, the Football Team aesthetic solved a small problem with the original Gibbs look in that they removed the helmet stripes which that set inherited from the 70's which, though lovely, didn't match the bicolor striping.

#BringBacktheFootballTeam

 

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. 

13 hours ago, the admiral said:

I know I tried to brainstorm some Titans stuff a while back in this thread: what about Aegean blue as a color?

 

 

It doesn't seem like anyone can definitively agree on what "Aegean blue" is, but it seems to be a mid-saturation blue-grey. Pretty close to the old Seahawks Blue of the 2000s, but far enough from Luv Ya Blue and plain old navy blue.

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.  

2 hours ago, Red Comet said:

Those narcissistic bungholes called the 50s the “Golden Age of Baseball” solely based on having 3 teams in New York being at the top of their game. They don’t ask the follow-up question of why 2 of them left, though. Anyone with a functioning brain that isn’t absorbed into an Empire State of Mind would know that the Golden Age of Baseball was from 1969-1993.

 

Also New York is a dump. Went there three times between 2012-2017 and it just got worse with each visit. 

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

On 10/2/2023 at 11:17 AM, GDAWG said:

 

Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk has suggested that if the NFL doesn't let them in once they change ownership rules (which they might have to do), that the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund create a rival league.  

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.