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6 minutes ago, JohnnyCowboy5 said:

Does anyone or you know what size the ticket would be for the Heritage Classic 

The normal ticket size for a sporting event (similar to the one below) I've been to was 2 inches by 5.5 inches.

5 hours ago, coco1997 said:

Can anyone remember a time when a team won the World Series and then immediately introduced new uniforms the following season?

Not in MLB, but the St Louis Rams went from royal and athletic gold to navy and vegas gold after Super Bowl XXXIV.

15 minutes ago, JohnnyCowboy5 said:

I'm not sure where to find it. Can someone help me find what the Heritage Classic Ticket looks like. I use the phone to scan my ticket. I plan to make them in Photoshop to print out and put on a cardboard or something. I wanna see there was an actual design before making it. Unless I have to do my own design

Good luck finding anything, I would assume it was strictly digital only as that's been the trend in the industry.

Safe to assume Rice will get the cease and desist too?  Theirs does include navy and silver, but we all know what they were doing.

13 hours ago, the admiral said:

Did someone miss a deadline to flex Bears-Chargers out of Sunday night? There were three late games more compelling on paper than this.

It's Chicago and LA.  Two of the three largest markets in the US.  Even if it's a questionable matchup, it still brings eyes.

RE: Merging of NFL Threads

In the opinion of the moderator team, it's easier to manage as two separate threads. That way the predictions don't get conflated with actual news. Of course, duplicate conversations will occur, but we'd get that in merged circumstances as well. You always have a choice to view the section of your preference.

On 10/28/2023 at 8:16 PM, Digby said:

I still think about the ads for “St. Petersburg-Clearwater” that their tourism board used to constantly push during the Boston televised sports events of decades ago. Though that maybe primed me to forever thing of it as a dorky tourist town and not a proper city with an MLB team. 

It's still an organization, but it's focused on the Pinellas County (beachside) area.  Tampa proper has it's own board.

Living in the area for over 25 years, there's definitely a bit of a rivalry between the sides of the bay, and branding any team to one city vs the other would alienate the other one big time.  Tampa Bay is a proper locale identifier since the Rowdies and Buccaneers began using it almost 50 years ago.

2 hours ago, tigerslionspistonshabs said:

Does the striping pattern have any significance?

If you're referring to the Rangers, since the collar logo as subway tile it might have something to do with the subway.

12 hours ago, Dilbert said:

At a St Petersburg council meeting, the Rays gave a presentation on the new stadium development project. Apparently part of the agreement is the Rays play one game, wearing "St Petersburg Rays" jerseys (pending MLB approval).  To me this just screams the whole "Anaheim" schtick, that city forced the Angels to do, where the city didnt want to be little brother to Los Angeles so the team compromised with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim bs. St Pete doesnt want to play little brother to Tampa. I mean, theres a reason why its called Tampa Bay and not St Petersburg Bay. Not to mention the 4+1 rule for jerseys now. Would the St Petersburg jersey be considered a special jersey like the Boston Patriots Day jersey or the Jays Canada Day jersey?

 

 

 

Make it the City Connect and call it a day.  The Rays still have to release their City Connect, so its possible.

I think I know my issue with the current black Carolina Hurricanes jersey.  The logo is now accurate with two flags, but its too vertical.  It needs some horizontal balance, like the triangle that was there before.

As a fan of one of the little guys (ie. midsize/small market), it's nice to see new blood in the World Series.  I don't care about rating for TV broadcasts, I'm a sports fan.  

4 minutes ago, throwmesomepics said:

Also has anyone noticed that teams don’t fill in their end zones all the way anymore? There’s always a visible patch of green between the colored paint and the white paint and it’s annoying to see. I get why teams like the Rams and Chargers, and the Giants and Jets do it because they share the field and swap back and forth between the end zone paint. But even the MetLife teams didn’t do it until this season. And the rams and chargers had full endzone paint in 2020. Even in the London games this year they didn’t fill in the endzone paint.

 

Teams like Houston and Denver should have no excuse though.

just fill it in all the way

 

anyone know if there’s a new rule about endzone paint

I wondered about that too.  Cowboys is still all blue.  I know it's odd, but maybe its something to do with needing white on green for calls by the referees?

4 hours ago, MJWalker45 said:

Geography doesn't matter if Seattle gets more people in the seats at Lumen than Pittsburgh can get in Acrisure or even Highmark or Duquesne. We have to stop treating air travel like we're still in the 1950's. With cheaper airlines, and proper planning for discount seats and hotels fans can make the trip directly from most airports now. 

I don’t think the league would worry about fan travel when having teams in outlying locations, but more for the logistics of team travel.  Charter flights are expensive, especially for the longer ones.

1 hour ago, MJWalker45 said:

Seattle and DC not making the cut would be pretty crap. 

I understand that Seattle had the fanbase, but geographically Seattle is an outlier.

23 hours ago, Michael Bolton said:

Bucs in all white a little later in the season than is the norm.

I was honestly looking at the Bucs remaining home schedole on Gridiron Uniform Database and out of the rest of the home games we have Tennessee, Carolina, Jacksonville, and New Orleans.

- Carolina has already announced the blue jersey for the game in Tampa, so thats another white at home.

- The pewter alts are likely to still be worn once.  I suspect it might be against Jacksonville or Tennessee as the pewter alts haven't been used in divisional games yet.

- Just my feelings, but seeing the Bucs and Jags go red v teal on Christmas Eve would be interesting, but unlikely.

- Bucs might go red against New Orleans so the Saints bring out their white Color Rush

14 hours ago, MNtwins3 said:

Is this Pitt's first alternate helmet since they switched to the brighter colors full time?

13 hours ago, hormone said:

I think they had a gray city type uniform that represented steel

Pitt wore this uniform twice in 2020.  Once against Louisville and later against Notre Dame.

South Florida is bringing out arguably their best look on the road at UConn this week.

4 minutes ago, PrimalCookie said:

Seems like it was dropped after preseason, since this picture's from week 1 of 2014:

Yes it was, there was a shift after the preseason and camp.  

8 hours ago, Ridleylash said:

The Tampa Bay @ Buffalo game last night was pretty sparse too.  The announced attendance was 12598.

On 10/14/2023 at 12:23 PM, Cujo said:

#6 Diamondbacks

#5 Rangers

#4 Phillies

 

The Astros have a clear path to the 2023 Piece of Metal.

The Astros and Rangers could easily have been flipped, since that division wasnt decided until the final day.

On 10/15/2023 at 6:49 PM, DCarp1231 said:

Keep the Roughnecks in Houston, move the Gamblers to Las Vegas, trash the Vipers

There's nowhere to play in Vegas.  Cashman sucked, Allegiant is a nonstarter, and Sam Boyd cannot host football due to UNLV's deal with the Raiders at Allegiant.

South Florida is bringing out the retro logo for homecoming this week! I’d prefer green pants too, but the helmet is perfect.

3 hours ago, GriffinM6 said:

This is what Atlanta does. The Dream used to play at FKA Philips Arena, and then at Georgia Tech's McCamish Pavilion, and now they play at the Gateway Center Arena where the College Park Skyhawks also play. It's only a 3,500-seat venue for basketball, so I imagine they get a decent crowd for home games. 

I think Washington shares with the G League team as well.

8 minutes ago, ruttep said:

 

Good. We could always use more vibrant colors in the NHL. Black, tan, and orange is such a boring color scheme.

Orange isnt vibrant?

1 hour ago, Sec19Row53 said:

At some point, you have to beat the other good teams. Re-seeding is just another thing to grouse about, IMO.

I would much rather see the potential matchup between the two best teams be held until the conference/league finals, to earn a chance for the finals.