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  1. I consider my prediction post to be at least half correct until the Panthers inevitably announce all-black full time. (You thought this was a wishlist??)
  2. I come with no knife, as I did remember him saying at times that he was skeptical about the differences in the helmet and rumored color scheme. That just made it even harder for me to believe that it could possibly be real. It’s understandable that he wouldn’t have assumed not only that his words would have so much power but also that his readers would have so little reading comprehension as to take his word at gospel. Nobody acknowledged TruColor when he expressed skepticism in the rumors, just continued to speculate on how they would be really implemented because they were so obviously real. I even caught @oldschoolvikings implying it was real because TruColor said it was (last chance to say ‘sike,’ big dog). It just feels like a lapse in form for the boards on the whole. Again, not saying that anything TruColor has done is wrong. Just pointing out a rather seismic cause and effect.
  3. With all due respect, this all utterly perplexes me. Youre a connected guy who has provided invaluable information, whether archival or new and noteworthy, to these boards across decades. Youre so deep in that, of course, you already saw the actual helmet that was to be unveiled: white with silver speckle, a silver face mask and the airbrushed normal Cardinal logo from the alt helmets in the normal Cardinal logo color scheme. All of which is very plausible based on what they’ve done before and recently. That’s just the TruColor power at work. Then, along comes Some Guy From Reddit, or, in this case, u/ISniffButts50. No credentials, no established credibility, hardly so much as an internet footprint whatsoever; just a guy who likes smelling rears and made a post telling Cardinals fans to wait to buy jerseys. He then goes on to describe then render the most schizo idea possible for the Cardinals to try to revive their tired brand: change their 100 year old color scheme that theyre literally named after to maroon, orange, and silver. Basically a rejected Virginia Tech pro combat alt from 2009. Probably the dumbest idea of all time. It was enough for you to go investigate, and somehow in this interaction, he relayed to you enough specific information for you to feel confident coming back here and saying “Yeah this might happen.” Even though youve already seen the real helmet which completely contradicted the entirety of what u/ISniffButts50 was telling you, yet those hex codes and “regional” color names that he gave were enough to make you consider that they could possibly put that helmet with a red and yellow cardinal on it with uniforms that look like that. That was all we knew before that he gave you, hex codes that anyone can look up to specific colors and color names that anyone with a little sly creativity could come up with. The gradient pants is news to us, which drives the idea even further into stupid hole. Which is just the thing: the whole idea was just so incomprehensibly stupid that I refused to believe for a second that an NFL team would destroy their brand on such a caliber. Nike has done some weird things, but there are some things that if you’ve been paying attention, you know they won’t mess with till the end of time. The Cardinals are a red and white team and they proved that final last night by committing to that for at least another five goes round the sun. It was absolutely surreal to just watch 100+ pages of pure discussion fly by assuming that the Cardinals were really going to do that, just because of your credibility when you took the plunge and semi-verified them. What’s truly crazy is that I’ve only posted here for ten years, and already I’ve seen a million incidents, like @IceCap said, of Some Guy On Reddit turning out to be full of complete horse:censored:. It just feels like it should’ve been a no brainer to dismiss him swiftly and completely for no other reason than that his credential was Reddit. I’ve felt that this entire time, yet felt like I was going insane reading page after page of maroon and orange fantasies when it was so obviously false. Just exhausting to even think about engaging with from what ultimately turned out to be the sane standpoint. Its like nobody’s been paying attention to how NFL teams actually carry their brands; all they can do is say “Nike bad” as though that justifies that they could actually do something as bad as what u/ISniffButts50 proposed. Guess what: they haven’t to date and they probably never will. I really don’t want to grill you for something like this since the difference in our legacies here speaks for itself. I just wanted to provide some context to this being probably the most bizarre two weeks I’ve experienced on here, and as a cautionary tale about the responsibility that comes with credibility. There is a lot that could have been avoided here by simply never ever believing “leaks” from Reddit.
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  5. Im more than glad to see silver stick around. A uniform doesn’t have to be considered dated just because it doesnt look like it was designed either in the 1960s or 2030. The Bucs, Ravens, and Panthers carry on as vanguards of peak 90s design and Im all for it. It does make you wonder, though, how they plan to use silver going forward. They’ve really diminished its fabric usage, though insist on keeping it around for at least another five years despite seemingly giving themselves the chance to get rid of it. Wait. Oh god. They’re making all-black the primary, helmets and all. Nothing stated so far deconfirms it, and it’s the only thing left that could be exciting enough to hype up an unveil for at this point. Black-white-black-black for the aways. The ‘they should wear all-black to look just like panthers’ crowd ought to be stoked…
  6. Right. How quickly we forget our history…
  7. How could these possibly be missed in favor of the throwbacks that they are cheap replicas of?
  8. This is the highest quality post in this thread since people started fantasizing about a crappy Va Tech alt becoming a 100-year old NFL team's primary home.
  9. Is the helmet still confirmed to be some manner of white??
  10. Just what every fan wants: to suddenly be told that all the shirts in their closet are now useless.
  11. Shoutout to @DCarp1231 for being the first one to point out the Cards' dubiously uncanny header image from last training camp which featured a player wearing an ill-fitted #23 jersey with most of the current details obscured. I usually don't support this degree of social media detective bull, though this one just felt too good to not be smoke.
  12. Hell, I would have even snatched up one of the generic ones by now to wear to games if they weren’t going in the hundreds on eBay. They’ve almost got a fauxback feel to them. And not all of them were generic either. Whoever made this one went to all of the effort to design a jersey that was basically lateral to the one revealed in terms of football jerseys with 90s basketball overdesign sensibilities. Such an insane piece. Would hate it on the field, but would offer up a kidney to anyone I saw walking around with one.
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