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On 4/23/2024 at 12:35 PM, jp1409 said:

Nuggets current branding is awful... Their alt heavy playoffs runs with a home court that doesn't match are incredibly bush league.

Now imagine if they wear the '5280' uniforms in the championship clinching game?

I was disappointed they ditched burgundy accessories for white this year, I thought it looked great with their navy uniforms

Pelicans weirdly go in on all red during the playoffs at home. Too many red teams. They should embrace the Mardi Gras theme 

Love how the NBA playoffs are a complete free-for-all with no logic or order to the choice of uniforms game-to-game, and then you have Bucks-Pacers where both teams are wearing the exact same jersey for the first four games of the series. The lack of consistency is maddening.

1 hour ago, GFB said:

 

It doesn't need the Michigan Panthers-style inner-swoop... it needs a white outline like the logo has.

 

Nike designed the uniforms, wondering if they saw this and were like Hmmmmmmm.. lets put this stripe in the middle to distinguish it a LITTLE bit from... Us. 

I want more horns!

Theory: Texans put the primary logo on the sleeve for the home uniforms just in case they decide to make the bull horn helmet the primary in the future. The reception for that helmet has been overwhelmingly positive so far, lots of people saying it should be the primary.  You can only change uniforms every 5 years in the NFL but is there a similar rule for helmets? They could pivot to a navy helmet with red/white bull horns next season?

12 minutes ago, coborjobs2010 said:

Gah why did they make such a radical change to the numbers? They were fine. 

7 hours ago, Rhyno716 said:

Another Texans leak.

Well, that pretty much confirms they'll be going back to the old "steel blue". I never liked the Nike blue, it was the same shade as the patriots and didnt match the helmet

2 hours ago, HOOVER said:

Another rumored take on the Texans:
 

 

lol, these are concepts from this forum. 

Amazing how fast misinformation moves. 

Seattle Kraken vibes 

forgive my terrible photoshop skills but matte helmet + reducing the red trim does wonders IMO... it just looks so amateur in the leaked pic

57 minutes ago, MJWalker45 said:

the Axiom helmet has a new facemask available this season.

 

uhhh has anyone pointed out the massive gap between the decal "S" and the helmet?

11 minutes ago, Sec19Row53 said:

Devil's advocate - what do fans know about design? Do you end up throwing too much at the wall because of so much input?

They put all the fan input from focus groups in a brief and gave it to Nike/NFL for the actual design process.  Because they tried to appease everyone with at least one uniform, I could see some criticism arising from the lack of continuity across each uniform.  

There is not much to see, but the new Texans navy uniform is in the background of this video:

Confirmed red NOB with white numbers and red trim? Looks like the same numbers that got leaked on the white uniform

Is it controversial to be annoyed when teams wear non-primary uniform for a championship game?  Seems like UConn wearing throwbacks would just breed confusion in the future. Same thing with the nuggets last year and their city uniform. 

7 hours ago, Brave-Bird 08 said:

Sorry to quickly pivot, but seeing "global logo" made me think for a second about each team's "global" logo -- and man. 

 

Is the Houston Rockets technically official logo the worst in American pro sports? 

Gah... how was this approved. 

1. Wordmark style doesn't match the R logo (blocky vs curved). Houston R-Rockets, nice stutter.

2. What is happening behind the K?

3. The lines on the basketball... what are they doing 

4. The ribbon (?) around the basketball is oriented up, while the ring around the R is oriented down

5. The flat side of the ribbon points east-west... while the flat side of the R ring points north-south 

The Rockets have been a disaster starting in 2010 when adidas introduced the rev30 uniforms. Before then they had shiny fabric with a number that matched their wordmark. I imagine there was some sort of manufacturing issue and adidas offered them the pacers font as a fix... Even when they changed the wordmark and got new uniforms in 2019 they STILL didnt change the number. mind boggling

Anyone else think the Mavericks should be thinking rebrand (or at least refresh)? I feel like the logo looks stuck in 2005. Something like below with a new wordmark would do wonders. 

2 hours ago, fortunat1 said:

I agree with this. Why the Raptors haven't gone back to purple, red, and black is beyond me. Surely any new purple jerseys will be differentiated from the throwbacks, meaning that they won't really be stealing sales from their throwbacks.

 

I partially agree about the Rockets. While I'd say that their red and yellow look is good in a vacuum, it's not a great scheme given the existence of the Atlanta Hawks. I'd rather them go for a double red scheme, much like they experimented with on their earned jersey a few seasons ago. Something like a classic-ish set based off this year's city jerseys would look nice, swapping blue for burgundy of course. It'd be unique to them and should look pretty nice. I also wouldn't hate them going back to red and silver as long as it comes with refreshed logos and uniforms. The current R logo seems a bit dated and the uniforms they wore through the 00s-10s just weren't that good. They can do so much more with their name and brand. Red and silver could totally work if done right. As shown by their current city jersey, a traditional red and blue look isn't awful either, but it's not necessarily my first choice for a rebrand.

I was so upset that the Hawks beat the Rockets to the retro re-brand... it's a fair point, but they did share colors for about 30 years

The league has too much red & black and I really wish the Raptors or Rockets would consider a slightly different direction with primary colors. 

Portland and Chicago should be exempt since they have a longer history with those colors, but do we really need two red/white/black teams per conference? 

For me the fix is the Raptors to utilize more purple, and the Rockets to utilize more yellow or gray/charcoal

when you do a side by side , to me its a clear upgrade, even though its not that drastic. i expect the navy uniform to be a slight update like this one, and the other two to be more distinct.

The Texans have let it be known that they aren't changing their primary logo but I wonder if that includes colors. It's always been interesting to me that they didn't go with the official Texas flag colors, given the name and obvious logo connection to the flag. Depending on the lighting, I find the actual shade on the helmets and uniforms to kind of vary between these two blues. 

This is one of the best rebrands I can ever recall. That red jersey is FIRE. Love the wordmarks too. I can't believe they dropped the black and brought back the nautical theme. 

The only complaint I have is the ship looks a little too much like a Royal Caribbean cruiseliner and not a clipper ship. It took me a while to realize those are sails and not levels of a cruise ship. 

Lot of people bringing up other teams like the Twins. Across all pro sports in the USA, we have to realize there's going to be some overlap right? Its like 120 teams... 

Paul George mentioned on his most recent podcast that the Clippers are getting new uniforms next season. Specifically they were discussing how they don’t wear red uniforms anymore and he said “something in store next season. I can probably drop that. They fire too… it’s gonna be the favorite”

These are great! The H-Town uniform reminds me a little too much of the Titans, which I imagine the Texans do not want to mimic in anyway. They can do this by featuring more red, which the Titans uniforms lack. Alternatively, I think the uniform will look more like one of these hats they sent out:

I would prefer they go the white route, as a nod to the old Oilers:

The texans VP of marketing said a while back that there would be multiple helmets and 4 new uniforms: one traditional, one modern, one bull themed, and one with an h town blue nod. now that we know that will be a trim color only, my guesses:

new helmets: 1) white helmet with texans logo , 2) red helmet with bull horns (or vice versa red logo helmet and white with bull horns). out with navy helmets and embrace the bull theme. 

new uniforms: 1) more traditional navy, 2) more modern white, 3) red bull themed, 4) white with h town blue (oilers nod)

this aligns with hats they gave out to media at a sneak peek event last year: