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I even love the gradient and segmentation in the numbers! My only issue with the Rams set is the bone and a little too bright yellow. But honestly it only bothers me in a few photos, so most of the time, the yellow works. It’s not quite the travesty that people make it out to be.

I feel like a huge part of the issue is the accessibility online. If it was legal, but say, only at casinos, then you'd have to physically go to one to place a bet, and that would make it harder for people to get lost in a gambling addiction. Especially since many casinos here in the US are pretty far out from major urban centers. (minus Vegas, but that's still an actual trip most people make, and not an everyday thing) But the fact that it's too easy to download an app, or access a website to gamble, makes it so much harder to avoid, especially if already have that addiction. I'm not opposed to sports betting, and leagues seem to be managing it well, even cracking down hard to avoid fraud on their end, but having it too easily accessible is a bad thing and going to cause a lot more issues here very soon. You wanna drive to a casino and place bets on all sorts of crazy things, that's on you. You can always physically leave and stay away if needed. But it's a totally different thing when an app on your phone, constantly reminding you that "there's money to be made". How do you get away from that when things start to become unhealthy?

I don’t know about that. Two hockey teams that I really hate are the Pioneers, and are only really know for Hockey. The University of Denver, and Hill-Murray High in Minnesota. I don’t know if I love Pioneers for Utah, but it definitely could work

So it’s a Denver Airport tribute then?

This is an absolutely fantastic set! Having two sets of pants for the black jersey is also great. The Chi logo as the road set is also a stroke of genius! I would definitely buy a road jersey and I can’t stand the Sox

I wholeheartedly agree. Both the previous set and the 80’s-now-current set have similar feels. They’re “modern” looks to get rid of the Namath style jerseys that are both honestly kind of boring. The white and green contrasting sleeves are unique, and feel like the Jets. These two sets could just be for any green and white team. I don’t disagree that the 80’s set looks nice, but I thought the last one did too. So to replace it with a set really similar to it is kinda odd. I feel like most fans are gonna notice that it no longer has black outlines, and that it doesn’t say New York anymore. The Jets have an iconic look with the Namath set and contrasting sleeves. I’m not sure why they’ve wanted to get away from those at all. And these 80’s throwbacks are so similar to the previous set that I don’t know why people were clamoring for them so much. They’re kinda cut from the same cloth, just in different decades…

So it’s a non-bootleg bootleg? Did the Flyers then reach out to a different company to have them create their jerseys for the team store? Honestly this could be a great solution to the jersey market, if teams could find their own third party, and hopefully a local one, to make a cheaper, (but probably nicer quality ) replica version. I mean I guess you won’t have all of the bells and whistles, but that jersey seems to be nicer than a Fanatics replica. It looks like an actual tackle twill logo.

Loving the series so far!! One question though, are you going to be doing helmet logos? I love that some teams have a secondary or wordmark logo there, and we’re seeing less and less of those in pro hockey in favor of ads. I don’t think that will happen soon in College hockey, so it would be near to see what you could put on the lids.

Minnesota looks fantastic!! Although I don’t think the white breezers works. The light blue you use on the numbers would probably work well for the breezers.

And even if they do happen to have a strong allegiance to a team from their original hometown, winning can really shift that. The Lightning probably have gone through some stretches of having many “outta town” fans being transplants, but after 3 Cups and about a decade of success, I don’t think they’re really worried about the Rangers or Bruins drawing more fans for those games. And certainly not other places like Minnesota, Michigan, or Ohio. But contrast that to a place like Phoenix, where the team and management always stinks, and it leads to the tiny 5,000 seater being about 99% road fans. For Atlanta, if they do want to make things work, as long as they market well, and use those transplants to fill seats, it won’t matter that the crowd is mostly road fans for a while. But they’ll have to start winning, and look more like a Nashville, Dallas, or Tampa than a Phoenix, otherwise this franchise could be the Nordiques 2.0

Yeah that’s a huge flaw with the current Avs road jersey. The silver on burgundy striping is really awful on its own, without the fact that blue is now much more predominant in the set. Honestly the burgundy and blue touching is whatever for me. Maybe it’s just a difference of opinion, but I guess I don’t see the 90’s set as so much better than the current set. Maybe a little better? But the home set works well with the blue breezers and gloves. And the Avs could have gone with so many different options to keep the burgundy and blue separate, over adding black to the set. Pretty much every jersey the Avs have worn have had major flaws when it comes to using their colors and distributing them in a pleasant way.

Why does it have to be arbitrarily shoehorned into the numbers and gear then? The striping on a hockey jersey should carry the weight of the colors. If your striping doesn’t have the colors that you included into the numbers, there’s something off about the design.

This doesn’t make any sense. Black and white are not neutral colors or neutral shades. Unless planned, they can really stick out. White breezers and gloves have a tendency to do that. But black would too if paired with a team that doesn’t have that in their color scheme. The Habs aren’t out there rocking black breezers, because they’ve never had black in their color scheme. And you absolutely have to include them into the color scheme, because it does add to the visual weight and/or effect of the look. You would probably say something like “Team A has ____ on their dark jerseys, but not their white jerseys.” So white is literally included in the color hierarchy of a white jersey. I also don’t know how you can say that 90’s look is perfectly balanced. You’ll have to explain that more, because what I see, (and obviously this could all just be a difference in opinion) is a set that has a lot of burgundy and white up top, and then really random black gear in the middle, and then socks that emphasize more blue than anywhere else in the set. (I know there is both blue and black across the set, but at a distance, such as watching the game from the stands, all I can see of black is the gear, and of blue is the socks.) It feels a little bottom heavy, and that two colors that are featured below the waist aren’t really present on the jersey. The Avs probably used black gear, because burgundy or steel blue breezers and gloves were probably too hard to come by in the 90’s. So they chose black, and then shoehorned it into the rest of the sweaters, forever making their color scheme ridiculous complicated.

Honestly, if you’re up for it, you should do a 32 team league, and come up with identities for the cities that didn’t make these 16. Probably could go without the voting just to simply, but I’d love to see what you had in mind for the other places. Especially the Twin Cities

What a ridiculous game in Minnesota today. The Wild hosted the Canucks today, and Vancouver was up 4-1, then 5-3 at the end of the second. The Wild scored 5 goals in a matter of minutes to take the lead 8-5. But the drama didn’t stop there as the Canucks made it a 8-7 game before the Wild iced it with two empty netters for a final of 10-7. But 3 hat tricks in the game, one from JT Miller and then the Wild had two from both Joel Eriksson Ek and Kirill Kaprizov. I heard it broke an NHL record for the most goals/least amount of combined shots at 17 goals in a game with 51 registered shots on net. Just insanity from the Wild today. Of course they head to Winnipeg tomorrow, which is another tough test for them. I have no idea what to make of this team. The dropped a bad one to the Sabres, just to follow it up with this. I’d love to see them continue to push for the playoffs, but it’ll feel pointless for another first round exit. They need to either make a run like the Panthers last year, or lose out for a good pick.

Twin Cities lol

Thank you!! It’s a simple design for the flag, so it was pretty easy to move to a sweater! And I believe that they usually get in touch with people through social media, but they do also have an email you could send to them. I think they usually see a project that they like, and then they reach out. I posted this design on Twitter/X, tagging an account that’s been following the Minnesota Flag change. They shared it around and someone else commented that Olive and York should make these, so they DM’d me and wanted to get started which was awesome!

Today is the last day for purchase if anyone wants to buy one!! You’ll have until 12 AM eastern, 11 PM central to buy one!

Rush

Winds. And maybe just call them the Chicago Wind

Chicago

Welp that’s valid. Sarcasm is hard on the internet ahahaha

What do you mean by this? The Twins literally play in one of the nicest and affluent neighborhoods in Minneapolis, at the corner of North Loop. I have no idea what you mean by urban hellscape. I mean sure, there are not great parts of Minneapolis, but geez

Looks great!! I would probably go with the current arched Minnesota, to match the name and numbers better, vs the throwback arch. But overall a great set!

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