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Can I nominate this for post of the day?No. Let me explain how Post of the Day works - You must be invited to the council of 12. Once then you have to propose a vote by writing a handwritten letter to each member of the Council of 12. The 37 member council meets in a secret location 4 days after the postage date on said letter (not Toronto, I'll tell ya that much). From there they each cast yay or nay votes on the proposed post by placing a photo of the new Blue Jays uniforms (yay) or a photo of the new Tampa Bay Buccaneers uniforms (nay) into a box. Chris Creamer himself reads the votes. If 69% (this is an internet message board) of the vote dictates that said post is worthy of PotD then all 19 keyholders must simultaneously turn their matching keys on a second box where a flashdrive holding the png file of the PotD belt is kept. Then it is up to one of the keyholding members to feel like going through the trouble of responding to said post with the image of the belt. Acheiving Council status is very difficult. One way to assure you'll never be on the council is to nominate lame posts for Post of the Day. Nevermind, this is PotD worthy! Quick question, why is a 37 member council known as the Council of 12? Was it originally just 12 guys, and 15 more were added later or something like that?stop trying to make sense of it, kid. Trying to understand the council is another way to never get on the council.

Can I nominate this for post of the day?No. Let me explain how Post of the Day works - You must be invited to the council of 12. Once then you have to propose a vote by writing a handwritten letter to each member of the Council of 12. The 37 member council meets in a secret location 4 days after the postage date on said letter (not Toronto, I'll tell ya that much). From there they each cast yay or nay votes on the proposed post by placing a photo of the new Blue Jays uniforms (yay) or a photo of the new Tampa Bay Buccaneers uniforms (nay) into a box. Chris Creamer himself reads the votes. If 69% (this is an internet message board) of the vote dictates that said post is worthy of PotD then all 19 keyholders must simultaneously turn their matching keys on a second box where a flashdrive holding the png file of the PotD belt is kept. Then it is up to one of the keyholding members to feel like going through the trouble of responding to said post with the image of the belt. Acheiving Council status is very difficult. One way to assure you'll never be on the council is to nominate lame posts for Post of the Day.

We've done this a thousand times on this board so I won't get into my origin story (I'm from Cincinnati/Columbus) But since moving to Seattle I've really taken a liking to the Mariners and Sounders. Safeco field is awesome and I love the Mariners' identity. Teal is one of my favorite colors and they're really moving back to it as of late. Also the energy around the Sounders is cool and while I'm not a huge soccer fan I've found myself watching their games on TV. I'm going to try to go to their playoff game on November 10th. I find Seahawks fans somewhat annoying and jumping on the bandwagon of the defending super bowl champions goes against everything I stand for. Plus I find it's more acceptable to have a second team in baseball than it is in football. If they ever get an NBA team that'll be my #1 NBA team and if they ever got an NHL team here that'll be my second favorite NHL team.

Right. People are pretty much the same everywhere and people like hockey. When done the right way people really like hockey. I don't think Florida is allergic to the sport. I just think the Panthers are really poorly run in a market that requires you to be well run if you wish to be even marginally successful. The Panthers though are fighting an uphill climb for several reasons: 1. They're fifth fiddle at best in what is arguably the worst sports market in the country. Miami doesn't go to college football games, they don't go to NFL games, they don't go to major league games, and they leave NBA finals games early. The only time they do turn out is when the team is deep in the playoffs, which lately the Panthers have not been. 2. They don't play in Miami. They play in a suburb where a bunch of old people live. It's the exact same problem as Glendale. 3. it's a chicken-egg thing, but they haven't won since 96. When you win people come out (unless you're Glendale) and unless you're Toronto or Montreal when you lose people stay away. NHL players don't want to play for a team that draws 8,000 a game and the team drawing 8,000 a game has a hard time winning to attract more fans when they're drawing 8,000 a game. Winning begets winning and losing begets losing. 4. Their TV numbers are abysmal. So they have to correct all of that before they even get to the same level as other teams so they can compete fairly. I don't think the market is worth saving, however. South Florida sucks and the people would rather do a thousand things before they go to a hockey game. Move the team somewhere people want them.

I take the bus past Key Arena on my way home every day and it's strange. There's like no parking and if you didn't know it was there you would miss it. The hockey setup is worse even than the Barclay's center. It would absolutely have to be a temporary facility while they build the new arena in SODO, but that's still preferable to their situation in Glendale. I live a mile away so I'd probably walk to games all the time. Come on, Coyotes, let's get moving to the northwest!

I know this is the unpopular opinions thread, but sometimes opinions are wrong. Those straight nameplates lack any of the elegance or dignity of the arched nameplates. They also use a really clunky font.

Um, yes, there were striping inconsistencies. The helmet, sleeves, and collar/pants all clearly use different striping patterns.I do agree with your point about the road uniforms being too red-heavy. However, when that set was first introduced, they had the perfect solution: The Jim Kelly uniforms at first had blue-red-blue pants stripes. After a while they corrected this and put the helmet stripe on the white pants, but because it's a white base you couldn't see the white stripes. It was very consistent. The sleeves used double stripes, but by the end of that uniform only the kickers were still wearing the double stripes. Every other player had a single red-white-red stripe of similar thickness to the pants. Couldn't be more consistent if you tried. Also those uniforms kicked ass. I wish they still wore them.

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Even the best fans in sports history aren't immune to attendance problems when the team goes sideways.

ball-in-glove! You're right, but that's an exception. The BiG is so good it transcends crappy trends. I'm mostly talking about cheesy high school logos where it was like the body of a tiger spelled out by the word TIGERS.

The woman that works next to me went to Washington State so I've been looking at the logo a lot lately. Another point against it is that on one side the Cougar is forced to face the back of the helmet. I've never liked logos that were the shape of the thing was created by the letters of the name. It was big in the 70's and I've never seen it done well. Plus the W makes the cougar look like it's wearing a goofy hat.

I think the problem is that the socks are the same color as the pants, which has never looked good on any team in any color at any time. I don't think slate blue socks would look good, but they'd have been better than navy blue.

That actually happened a few times.

I didn't think it was that absurd a look and it got more ridicule than it deserved. I just don't know why they felt the need to create special navy blue pants just for that alternate. Would've looked better with their regular slate blue pants to match the helmet.

WOW. I never thought those actually existed. When I bought NFL Fever for the original xbox the Rams wore those pants in the game and it bothered me to no end because they never actually wore them in real life. I always just thought the game developers either botched it or they got an early draft of the new uniforms and the Rams changed their mind last minute. But I guess they actually did see the light of day. Huh. I hated them in game but they're pretty tame by today's horrible standards.

The NHL will be better off as 32 teams. Did anyone object to the Browns/Texans expansion? (The Browns one seemed obvious since they were jacked) Well the NFL is somewhat diluted in terms of talent. There's 32 teams and like 12 of them have a good quarterback. How often do we see games like that 9-6 Lions-Rams game from a few years ago? Every week it feels like there's a game between two awful teams and it's terrible sloppy football. The NHL has a few struggling markets already. Adding two more would not be wise. Let's try to get 30 healthy locations before we go jumping into two new ones.* *as a new Seattle resident I would love for an NHL team to move here though.

Now THAT is definitely an unpopular opinion.If the Sonics do come back it wouldn't surprise me to see them incorporate some bright green and blue.

The first time I ever saw the stink in rink logo was on a throwback jersey in a hockey equipment store. I was 12 or 13 and I real life laughed out loud upon seeing it. I had to ask my dad what team the jersey was for. I had a "WHATTT!?!?!" moment because I only knew the flying skate (didn't notice it was a skate for probably five years) and orca Canucks. I couldn't believe a professional sports team used that as their logo. I still can't. I guess it's okay as a shoulder patch but as a primary logo it's a joke.

EVERYTHING about it works? That is an unpopular opinion as I look at it and see nothing that works. - Overly aggressive mascot with anthropomorphic features - a maple leaf TATTOO! - inconsistent outlines. Everything on the bird is outlined with thick black strokes, and there's the T with nothing. - the T is awkward and an unattractive shape - this is a problem with that whole era of Blue Jays uniforms, but the thin blue lines inside the red T makes the colors vibrate and it doesn't look good - the head looks like it's being guillotined by the T. OR the bat looks like it's shooting through his neck - and it's so detailed that it's unintelligible from a distance, which makes it a terrible cap logo. If I didn't know better I'd think this was a picture of some low level minor league team. That was also the era of colored sleeves Blue Jays uniforms Honestly, the Graphite Jays/Black Jays were better than this era of Blue Jays baseball. It might work for let's say, the Tulsa Blue Jays minor league team, but at the major league level it was an embarrassment.

OK, yes, this is the very definition of an unpopular opinion. I have a question about this logo, maybe someone can help me. What is that thing that forms the crossbar of the "A" supposed to be? At first I thought it was trying to be a halo, but that makes no sense... it's physically attached to the wing. So WTF is it? I never looked at it that closely, but I think it's a stylized flying baseball. I always just assumed it was a halo. Makes its use on the helmets and sleeves in Angels in the Endzone even worse

The 1998 Diamondbacks identity was all over the place. On the road they wore black hats with teal bills and teal numbers, but their batting helmets were black with a purple bill. At home they wore the purple hats with the A logo most of the time, but the batting helmets were purple with the D snake logo. It's like they didn't know what they wanted their colors or their official primary logo to be. Actually I think they still don't know what logo they want to use.

Well, at least you admitted that's an unpopular opinion.Something you never got around to doing with your pullover love. You think they're going to work how socks should be worn into a CBA? Seriously? I played baseball up through high school, and started playing softball in the summers a few years back. I hate stirrups, and I hate high socks. I wear baseball pants baggy, down to my ankles. Not so much for aesthetic purposes, but because that's what I think is most comfortable to play in. Same here. If I wear my pants to my shoes then I can push my socks down and they don't irritate my leg hair. There was a game in high school where the whole team wanted to wear their pants up as a sign of solidarity. I went 0 for 4 and made an error in the field. I was not happy with our pants decision.

Back in the day it was because the die in colored socks would bleed into a players skin and was toxic so they wore white socks and stirrups to help that. Now there really is no need for them and I hated reading uni watch because of Paul lucus' boner for themI guess that's why the white socks are called sanitary socks.yes but after doing some research it turns out i was alittle bit wrong it was only thought that the die was a health risk, in actuality there was no health risk and they could have worn full colored socks if they had known.I'm aware of the history and reason behind the stirrup, but it evolved past it's usefulness and reached the height of ridiculousness in the 80's. It's a relic to a bygone era and they don't need to come back. "BUT STRIPES!!!!" You can put stripes on regular socks.

I've said this before, but I think stirrups in baseball look stupid. They're a bygone relic from another time and I don't want them to come back. They looked especially bad in the 80's style with the thin stripe of color. I'm usually a traditionalist when it comes to sports aesthetics and I wore stirrups every year as a little leaguer, but I'm also about functionality and practicality. What is the point of that pencil thin piece of fabric and how does anyone think it looks better than a fullcolor sock?

It just so happens that I have been to the Jackie Robinson game the last two years and it is really bothersome from the stands. First of all, visually it looks weird. Second of all, I can't identify every player on the Philadelphia Phillies or Pittsburgh Pirates simply based on how they look. Hell, it's early in the season so I'm still learning a few of the new guys on my own team. There's a better way to handle the Jackie Robinson tribute, but I don't think we're putting the toothpaste back in the tube at this point.