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Speaking of the Bengals, the following year, 1997, in their first year of second-generation tiger-stripe uniforms (w/ the TV numbers on the shoulder and the 'full-body' Bengal tiger on the sleeves) met the black-accented New York Jets for the only time, as the Jets would change to their neo-Namath unis the next year. Sadly, I cannot seem to find any good pics.....

What a stellar looking game that must've been to watch live. I don't have any memory of that one.

The only times these Bengals uniforms met those Ravens uniforms.

This is actually the first and last time you ever see this.

Now it's Burgundy and Yellow Gold vs Scarlet Red and Pewter. Plus it took til 1994 for these two to actually face each other. Now I am used to the Saints vs Buccaneers because they play a lot even when they were not in the same division.

That actually looks really good. I miss those DC uniforms every week.

The NFL's divisional heavy schedules back then created a lot of odd scheduling quirks. Like the Buccaneers didn't play at Buffalo until 2009. The first 8 times they met were all in Tampa.

Madden 05 and 06 got the Bengals new at the time uniforms incorrect, the numbers in 05 were from the Broncos, and in 06 block numbers.

I also remember them putting the leaping tiger logo on the sleeve on one of the jerseys.

I kind of like the 1971 Dodgers' sotra-racing stripe look on their road uniforms:

The thinness of the stripes, and the stripes' connections to the collar and sleeve piping, allow this non-traditional uniform element to blend in with an otherwise classic look. The only issue I have with it is that it doesn't use a "Los Angeles" script on the front.

Wow. I had no idea the Dodgers ever wore these. In all my years of posting here I hadn't seen these come up. Wild.

I'm a little late to the party with my 3 v. 3 overtime take, but I don't watch preseason games and my team hasn't played in a regular season overtime yet. Last night I tuned in for the Ducks-Canucks OT and oh my goodness did I hate it. Reminded me of watching Arena Football. It reminded me of playing NHL Hitz. And at no point in the hundreds of hours I spent playing NHL Hitz in 2002/2003 did I ever think the NHL should adopt the arcade style 3 on 3 format in real life.

I don't suspect this will be a short lived experiment because this is Bettman's NHL. He fully commits to bad ideas and sticks with them forever. I'm just going to have to get used to it.

Not sure how unpopular this is, but i hate Color on Color matchups.

Thank you. Looks like a children's rec league game.

I need to update my list anyways so I'll go through this exercise again.

Columbus Blue Jackets - I was a 12 year old hockey playing, hockey fanatic living in Columbus, Ohio without a true favorite team when the Blue Jackets came along in 2000. It felt like a gift intended just for me specifically. I was in attendance for their first home game and even though they lost I've been hooked since October 7, 2000.

Cincinnati Reds - local team. Can't remember a time when I wasn't a Reds fan. Watched all 162 games in 2010. 1996-2009 sucked.

Cincinnati Bengals - local team and my father's employer when I was a small child. I grew up in the 90s and thought more than 3 wins was a good season. There is no reason I should've stuck with this team. I've never seen them win a playoff game. They are the dumbest team I like. I hate them. I can't wait until they win the Super Bowl so I can stop watching the NFL.

Ohio Bobcats - alma mater. 2015 Partying National Champs! Bled green since 06.

Ohio State football/hockey - parents alma mater, grew up in Columbus so there was no escaping Buckeye football. My dad used to take me to OSU hockey games all the time when I was a kid. I cried when they lost to Boston College in the 1998 Frozen Four.

Seattle Mariners - new as of moving here last year. I gravitated towards the M's because teal and navy kick ass, Safeco field kicks ass, Ken Griffey Jr, and because being in the AL I don't feel like I'm cheating on the Reds. But biggest of all perhaps was because they're the step child of Seattle sports right now and I'm attracted to losers! Summer 2014 everyone was so up their butts about the Seahawks that I instantly took up Mariners fanhood. Also at the time I was new to the city and didn't have many friends here so going to Mariners games while they were in the wildcard hunt was my get out of the house activity. It sucks that they suck because I feel like people here have forgotten how fun it is when the local ball club is good. More fun than when the football team is good IMO.

Seattle Sounders - I won a poster designing contest in July and got free tickets and field passes and my poster printed in a pretty sweet frame. They won the game, I bought a jersey, and have been casually following ever since.

Glendale is going to look like Montreal compared to Vegas.

"I can assure you I'm not tone deaf" - a very tone deaf person

yeah that photo might be the best example of the intent of this thread. A once great athlete selling out or hanging on too long for one reason or another and ends up paying for it by having to wear a dignity robbing costume.

Owen Nolan on a PTO with the Canucks in 2011

Also, Keith Tkachuk and Chris Chelios on the Thrashers

Chelios looked so silly in a Thrashers uniform. Like when a dad tries to dress like his teenage son to seem cool.

Man I loved when the NBA did the all-star game "baseball" style

Theyd never go back to it because it's another chance to sell another jersey, but I thought it looked cool.

That season this lunatic played for the Bengals

The only time this matchup ever happened. Preseason 2003. That's the Lions in the first season of the first version of their "throw black at it" uniforms and the last season for the Bengals in those uniforms.

I recognized it right away, but a hobby of mine is photoshopping players into different uniforms and concept uniforms so I know what to look for. When you're searching for good photos to shop you learn to look for little shortcuts and similarities between uniforms to make the work easier, which in turn makes it look more realistic.

The shoulder loops gave it away, but making stripes look realistic where there are none in the origin photo is one of the most challenging things to nail, I've found.

Golf should ditch its current dress code. Golf is on a steep decline, let us play in t-shirts, shorts, & sandals if we want.

No, depends on what kind of shorts, and no.

There's no rule for most courses that say you can't wear shorts, it's just that the pros choose not to wear them

The PGA has a dress code that mandates pants so the pros don't choose to wear pants.

Your average schlub can wear whatever they want when they play. Nobody's stopping anyone from wearing shorts on the course. I see it more frequently than I see pants in fact.

With colors and patterned pants coming back into fashion and new golf shoes that actually look like athletic footwear I'd say golf looks better now than it did 20 or 10 years ago.

I swear there is a similar thread to this from not that long ago. But I cannot recall the title.

http://boards.sportslogos.net/topic/104001-your-favorite-stats/#entry2459112

I should've given it an Admiralian thread title. Then it would've stuck around more.

Apparently, first time ever tonight in baseball that the home teams were perfect.

It's actually just the first time that the home teams have gone 15 for 15, which is slightly less amazing when you realize that baseball has only had 30 teams since 1998.

Still would have figured it wouldn't taken this long for that quirk to happen.

The Reds are currently as I type this playing in their current road uniforms (2007-present) against the Diamondbacks in throwback vests.

http://ktar.com/22/1850612/New-downtown-Phoenix-arena-could-bring-end-to-Coyotes-bumpy-road

The last few paragraphs are the sort of pipe dreams Phoenix was built on.

- Hey let's build an arena with a movable field and a retractable roof so an arena football team can play outdoor games on real grass.

- what about the existing arena?

- An arena is really just a big room with a bunch of chairs in it. Let's take those out and make it an urban mall with an urban park where people can hang out.

Phoenix is a silly place.

About the only benefit I can see from Tukwila is that it puts the team within reach of those who live/work in the Tacoma area.

In theory, but that hasn't been a rousing success everywhere else they've tried to split the distance between a market and it's satellite city. Richfield Coliseum comes to mind.

I'm a big proponent of centrally located sports venues. They allow the game to be the middle part of a full night out. Happy hour/dinner before the game, the game, and then after hours at the bars after the home team wins. If people from Tacoma want to see a Seattle Pilots hockey game they can drive up here.

Putting the arena in Tukwila is a good way to guarantee that you aren't making it as accessible as possible for the maximum number of people within the market.

Let's say I live in the space needle - Tukwila is a 25 minute drive without traffic, double that with public transportation. If I hop on the train after working downtown that's still ~20 minutes at best versus the quick and accessible jaunt the stadiums are from the downtown core. The eastsiders with money (your season ticket base) have relatively easy access to Sodo as well. Ballard, Fremont, the north are even farther away from Tukwila. I'm the biggest hockey fan in Seattle and I can't see myself being excited about hauling myself out to Tukwila for a game.

I'll be very upset if that bid ends up winning because it's not setting the market up for success and is the same mistake they've made in Glendale and Sunrise. Seattle is better off waiting to move the Coyotes to the Sodo arena.

and DG's right. Most Seattle residents would probably take the NBA over the NHL. I think they should tell the NBA to kick rocks, but I'm an NHL fan first and foremost.

I prefer the M to the TC for a few reasons.

One: they're the Minnesota Twins, not the Twin Cities Twins.

Two: the red C doesn't have an outline and gets lost on the blue background. The Indians road hats have the same problem

Three: The M matched the jersey script. I felt like it was a more cohesive uniform.

Four: for some reason I love the little underline under the M. It adds that extra punch and is further continuation of the jersey script.

It doesn't have to be one or the other. I thought their uniforms were at their best when the TC was the sleeve patch on the home shirts. It works better on a white background anyways.