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Wouldn't be a World Series in Philadelphia without loads of rain.

Those orange Bears helmets should be against the law.

Looks like it. All-in on the Super Bowl really meant all-in. At least it worked? From my perspective if this group of Bengals never wins one I'll think about how they lost probably the most winnable Super Bowl of the last two decades. Is Trevor Lawrence officially butt, or is he just on the Jaguars? He looked actually bad yesterday, but that Broncos defense is nothing to sneeze at.

I can't really explain why white hockey pants never work, but they never work. They always look silly. Maybe it's because they look like a big diaper?

The Panthers have fallen into what I call Template Hell where the uniform has been shaped and poked and tweaked to fit into a template it wasn't designed for and that's why the pants stripe is now cut off at the bottom of the pants hem and doesn't come to a tapered point like the Good Dude intended. They're also their own worst enemy for combination fatigue. I don't think the white pants are necessary ever, but if you must wear them then please only wear them with the white jerseys. Knock it off with the white pants with the the black and blue jerseys. It makes the silver helmet look out of place and is an inferior look to the silver pants. Their best look is the black jersey with the silver pants and they almost never wear it anymore.

Angry at the Cincinnati Reds playing out another meaningless September and thinking about how we probably can't implement promotion and relegation in MLB or MLS at this point - I think there needs to be more of a deterrent to finishing in last place than there currently is to keep teams trying and playing their hardest throughout the season. High draft picks actually incentivize losing and lotteries don't seem to prevent tanking in any meaningful way. Solution: Forced Embarrassment. In MLS they have the title of Wooden Spoon, but nobody actually gets a wooden spoon. What I'm saying is, they should. League rule should be that if you finish in last place they send you a giant wooden spoon with the year on it and you have to prominently display it in your stadium like a scarlet letter for everyone to see. If you don't you forfeit your #1 overall draft pick. Not sure what MLB could do - maybe send the Washington Nationals a big red ass that says "2022 Last Place" and they have to keep that in their stadium next to the 2019 World Series flag forever.

Look at the size of those TV numbers. They're smaller than the Captain's C. I don't know how anyone can look at that and think those humorously tiny numbers are A. a necessity for player identification and B. look better than just leaving it empty.

Don't do that. Obviously. That's why I was careful to say "Shrinking sleeve space necessitated the numbers move to the shoulders, but the better solution would've been not to use TV numbers at all because they're unnecessary clutter as the Pats, Chargers, and Bengals have shown." You keep the famous sleeve stripes and lose the unnecessary numbers. Problem solved for everyone and everything.

It wasn't as subtle as black helmets, which would've also worked with both home and road looks and wouldn't have looked like glitter exploded in the factory. You can't use the word OBJECTIVELY when stating an opinion. You can't use the word OBJECTIVELY when stating an opinion. They both changed, though. Good examples to prove my point. Both the Bears and Packers looked better and more like the classic Bears and Packers when the shoulders were empty. You can add the Chiefs in there too. The Raiders are probably the best example of not filling uniform space just to fill uniform space and looking better for it. Shrinking sleeve space necessitated the numbers move to the shoulders, but the better solution would've been not to use TV numbers at all because they're unnecessary clutter as the Pats, Chargers, and Bengals have shown. That's a subjective opinion you're allowed to have and one I'm not going to address. You know what they are, though. Mine too. They would look even better without cramming that TV number there. That's not my style. My style is thoughtful intentionality, which is why I think tacky dumb :censored: like teal-flaked helmets is tacky dumb :censored: because I have good taste. You don't know anything about me.

I was ten years old when they debuted those uniforms and every kid thought they were the coolest thing we'd ever seen. Every dad thought they were an abomination. I remember my dad saying it was tragic that they won the Super Bowl in them rather than the orange crush jerseys. I thought they wouldn't have won the super bowl if they hadn't changed and I still kind of believe that. Terrell Davis got better because the uniforms made him look cooler, which is, of course, ridiculous, but that's what I thought at that age.

I know I'll be tuning into the game tonight to get a glimpse of this circus for myself. I've had it circled for weeks.

That's not the same logic at all. It was an extraneous flair that didn't help the brand look better, didn't do anything the standard black helmet didn't do better, and wasn't justified for any design purpose other than "teal flake could be fun?????". Unique doesn't mean good and it was incredibly overbearing, tacky, and made the logo look worse because it wasn't set against a solid black background. It looked like a bass fishing boat. Actually, maybe it was perfect for Jacksonville, Florida. Never thought I'd see someone defend those late Reebok Jaguars uniforms, the textbook example of thoughtlessly modern and forgettable design. Just an absolute dud of a football uniform. "wasting space"? How is a clean, open shoulder pad wasting space? Many of football's best uniforms don't feel the need to cram a design element into every open area. That's, like, the definition of restraint in design. Because it's unnecessary visual clutter that doesn't communicate the message that the 3 stripes on the shoulders doesn't communicate in fewer strokes. As long as color is present and the concept is communicated, less is always more. It had the "tiger" dialed up to 100, which is what I said. The original concept in 2004 was "what if we looked like actual tigers?" which is how we got the contrasting color sleeves, the white side stripe, and the orange yokes on the white jerseys. They looked at the 2003 uniforms and said "these aren't striking enough" and that's how we got the stupidest looking uniform in team history and made me look at them for 17 years. Okay so they fixed all of that on the current uniforms. They're the right amount of striking. I'm sorry you don't like good football uniforms.

4th largest media market in the country vs. the 8th. Something tells me Fox isn't really worried about ratings for this one.

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It created a lot of terrible imitations that weren't strict about matching the side panel with the pants. The Broncos always seemed to take care to ever avoid doing this and it's sad that they're breaking their 25 year perfect streak.

To be fair to the Bengals that was because they wanted the first time in the white helmets to be a primetime home game and the league scheduled the Dolphins for that. Their other primetime home game this year is against the Bills, also a white helmeted team. At least the Dolphins went all-aqua to balance it out. Youths won't remember this, but that uniform rocked the sports world. That was a very real turning point.

Hey I never accused you of using Nike talk. You asked why the Bengals number font is more fitting of the team name than the chunkiest, dumbest looking font possible and I told you. Says the guy who keeps sharing concepts with the tackiest, most over-drawn cartoon fonts possible. Those aren't minor changes. The uniform looks the appropriate amount of "brash" while also not looking too silly. Anything extra to "make it complete" would just be unnecessary visual noise and clutter. And we know that because the 2004 uniforms were the same as the current uniforms just with a lot of unnecessary bulls*** thrown on top of it. Those uniform cranked the tiger dial up to 100 and it looked stupid as :censored: for 17 years. Yeah and it would look dumb and tacky. That's because I have taste. I don't like forcing a design element just to force a design element. That's not surprising. The teal flaked helmets were the example of Doing Something Just Because You Can until they went and made the helmets half gold and half black, which made the teal flaked helmets look tasteful in comparison. I've been at this a long time and it takes a lot to impress me and one of these looks is better than what the team is currently wearing (The Rams. Maybe the Panthers, but that number font needs to be dialed back by like 65%) which even includes Washington. I'm glad your dude has familiarized himself with how to use a photoshop template, but there's nothing in there I haven't seen done better 100 times in the concepts forum.

Really? EVERYONE said that? That's a. not true and b. those who did are no taste philistines. From what I saw on twitter everyone loves them. I can make up stuff too. The thin, swooping lines are more evocative of a stalking, quick jungle cat than a fat square would be. Maybe if they were the Cincinnati Cinderblocks your preferred font would work. Yeah those other ones were all worse than what they actually wear. All of them do the Bengals worse than their actual uniforms. Laughable. Humorously bad. Even Russell Athletic's college football designers would be think that's a little too much. Somehow makes the "TROOPS!" look they wore in 2017 somehow worse and that was one of the worst uniforms in the history of the NFL.

They're basically the old set with all the bad :censored: removed. According to my calculations they're better by 671 CCSLC points, which is a huge amount. I crunched the numbers and that's just science, which you can't argue with. I will disagree. It dials the stripes to 11, overwhelms the senses, doesn't provide a single visual focalpoint, overloads the color, and makes the players look like they're wearing cheesy superhero costumes. It's all the problems of the 2004-2020 uniforms, which were awful for all 17 seasons, made even sillier. Plus that chunky font is neither aesthetically pleasing nor fitting for a team named after feline predators.

Empty isn't bad. Empty is this thing called restraint and knowing when to fill and when not to fill is the difference between good taste and bad taste. Poppycock. They have a tiger striped helmet, tiger striped jerseys, and tiger striped pants. Anything more than that and they begin to look silly, as we saw with their 2004-2020 uniforms. Respectfully, that looks like total cat :censored: and would easily be the worst uniform they've ever worn.

It's hilarious to me how similar these two guys look to one another. I've seen sets of actual biological brothers who don't look this much alike.

Not a misstep. A great decision to not needlessly clutter a uniform and let the design element be the sole focus. TV numbers have always been kind of unnecessary as it is and most football jerseys look better without them. Yeah totally. I can't turn on a football game without seeing every team decked out in tiger stripes. It's just so ubiquitous.

NO! Better yet, not only are they not worth referencing, they're one of the worst franchises in professional sports history and it's a dumb stretch of a reference. There's lifelong Cleveland residents in their 50's who don't know Cleveland had an NHL team. They were an attendance disaster, they were an on-ice disaster, they were a front office disaster who required a loan from the NHL to finish the 76-77 season. They hold the ignominious title of being the last franchise in the NHL, NBA, NFL, or MLB to fold and they only made it two seasons. Cleveland, while yes also in Ohio, while yes the home of our AHL team, is two whole ass hours away and is not the same city. It's not even all that similar. "But they used Ohio in their logo" I DON'T CARE.

A franchise they have no ties to from a city they don't play in? Maybe in 10 years when we've reached NBA levels of scraping the bottom of the barrel for ideas then we can try that.

Haven't confirmed it with anyone with the team. Just keep seeing it repeated in online circles. They do really seem to like the cannon, though, don't they? Every time they wear it they make it an organizational point to change over everything that isn't nailed down into the cannon stuff. I'm talking social media avatars, coaches practice sweats, video graphics, etc. Not sure of another team that takes that much care to fully change over the entire brand every game they wear an alternate. Neither sticking with the C flag logo or going cannon full-time would surprise me. But my ear to the ground it feels like a greater than 50% of the fans would welcome the change. Yeah it was weird that the 2007 EDGE change was clearly based on the OG third jersey, but they made that weird decision on the socks that matched nothing else and then wore that for ten years.