MCM0313

3 hours ago, BigEd76 said:

 

Here's another angle of Arizona's facemasks.  It's weird because they're light gray on the team selection screen but are dark gray or black during on-field action.  Definitely darker than what Jake Plummer and crew actually used as seen below.  Also for some reason, the Cardinals endzones are dark gray instead of red.

 

 

 

For Baltimore, I don't remember any plans back in the late 90s or early 2000s for them to wear purple pants, and if the developer was trying to be creative, at least give them the correct purple!

 

Speaking of black facemasks, I just noticed Tampa Bay doesn't have them on the field.....they have pewter instead, matching the helmet.  Also notice the Bucs and Vikings are each missing their sleeve patches.

 

How come Vikes vs. Bucs is color-v-color but Cards vs. Ravens isn't?

1 hour ago, BrianLion said:

 

Tugnutt played for like EIGHT different teams and wasnt with any one team for more than like 3-4 seasons. I'm not sure which uniform would be his "right" one? 

I always thought of him as a Penguin.

3 hours ago, BrianLion said:

Blue Jackets are like the NHL poster children for player's in the wrong uniform.  

 

Sergei Fedorov, Brian Boucher, Bryan Berard, Adrian Aucoin, Jeff Carter, Adam Foote, Marian Gaborik, Scott Hartnell, Scott Lachance, Lyle Odelein, Mike Peca, Luke Richardson, Geoff Sanderson, Anton Stralman, Raffi Torres, Scott Upshall, Antoine Vermette,  Jakub Voracek, Ray Whitney, etc. 

Don't forget OG Jacket Ron Tugnutt!

24 minutes ago, daniel75 said:

This is my favorite thread.

It's definitely close to the top of the list for me too. "Rare team matchups" is another fave of mine.

5 hours ago, MCM0313 said:

The Royals and Rays both need to own powder blue. The D-Backs need to own turquoise. All three are too conservative with these colors for my tastes.

Self-correction: Actually, if we're going to be historically accurate, the Royals need to own periwinkle.

2 hours ago, jmac11281 said:

I don't think this is unpopular at all. But someone really needs to own powder blue. The Royals, more or less, just dabble with it. 

The Royals and Rays both need to own powder blue. The D-Backs need to own turquoise. All three are too conservative with these colors for my tastes.

On 12/9/2016 at 8:46 PM, BigEd76 said:

Another one from Blitz '99:  Arizona with black facemasks vs Baltimore in mythical purple pants!

I think those are actually grey facemasks like they really wore, but look darker because of the angle or the lighting or something. At least that is what I see. Do you have any other screenshots?

Also, that's weird about the purple pants. Was Baltimore ever supposed to wear those IRL, or did an animator mess something up (or just choose to get creative)?

59 minutes ago, BringBackTheVet said:

 

The first time I heard it was when I went away to college in western PA.  Since then I've associated that pronunciation with the western PA hillbillies, along with "dahllar" for dollar, "arn" for "iron", "yinz" for the plural of you, and so on.  

I think it's kind of an Appalachian thing. My dad's Appalachian though and he's always said it correctly. My mom's from Iowa and that pronunciation annoys her just like it annoys me. Most of the kids who say it like that have deep roots in the area, I think.

45 minutes ago, wyopokes2 said:

Was watching the NFL Network today and saw something that I had totally forgot. He's been posted before in this thread for the Allen Wranglers and the Bengals and Bills, but hadn't seen Terrell Owens for the Seahawks.

 

 

When was this? I seem to have forgotten it.

3 hours ago, PepMan33Conde said:

LINK

Interesting! Can't tell whether this has pinstripes, but the numbers and text look different in both color and (I think) font from what they ended up wearing.

1 hour ago, jmac11281 said:

Yes. Only 5 weeks apart too. It was a weird schedule quirk. 

Huh...when did that stop? I remember when I'd play the old Football Pro computer games (think mid-90s), I'd occasionally get matched up twice in one season against a non-divisional opponent, and that always frustrated me because I felt like it was unrealistic. I think sometimes it'd be a non-conference opponent too though.

On 2/10/2017 at 1:02 PM, cubsfan2015 said:

Lions vs. Bills 2010

"Yuck" vs. "meh."

16 hours ago, bwburke94 said:

The Seahawks and Patriots actually played twice that season, thanks to the fifth-place schedule.

Wait...really?

On 2/10/2017 at 11:30 AM, DC in Da House w/o a Doubt said:

 

Just curious, does anyone else pronounce crayon as "crown"? I do. I've gotten a lot of s for it.  I've been bullied into just quietly muttering it whenever the rare occasion happens where crayons are brought up.

 

I guess it's kinda low brow, but it's just always what I've called them.  Hah, low brow makes me think of: "oh yeah???" and  "come here a minute".

 

Hey, happy Friday guys.

I'm from southern Ohio, and I'd say the "crayon-crown" divide is about down the middle here. I've always said "crayons" but I grew up with friends who said "crowns" and it annoyed me. Still hear kids say "crowns", and occasionally adults too. Being a teacher, sometimes I'll correct both. 

42 minutes ago, ScubaSteve said:

 

Ridiculously photogenic bear

He's so much better looking than me that I can't help feeling buh-lue. 

Okay, I'll show myself out.

2 hours ago, VikWings said:

 

The hate is more for the Dolphins Resort & Spa/Cruise Line/Travel Agency/Toothpaste logo and the minimal use of orange than it is the simplicity of the design.

Also the fact that the update left the team's logo without a face for the first time in their history.

On 2/8/2017 at 2:01 PM, Bmac said:

I've seen those Blues concepts before but I just now realized the harmonica playing figure is a human in one mockup and a cat in the other.

Wow, you're right! I had just thought they were identical aside from color.

2 hours ago, johnnysama said:

In addition to the "Flying-V" jerseys from 1978-85 for the Vancouver Canucks, I like their replacements, worn from 1985-89:

I think the red alternate of this set was pretty sharp.

On 2/5/2017 at 9:43 PM, Ferdinand Cesarano said:

 

On account of the fact that "Houndogs" is not a word, I am glad that this team did not materialise.

If you're from Columbus, Ohio (or went to school there), "Houndogs" may still not be a word, but "Hounddog's" most certainly is...delicious pizza.

6 minutes ago, habsfan1 said:

This just popped on Instagram today and I've never ever seen any of these before...

 

(press play)

 

 

For some reason I find myself liking the one with purple trim, but the logo of the double-blue one.

On 2/4/2017 at 3:34 AM, SabresRule7361 said:

The original New Orleans Hornets road uniforms were a thousand times better than the pinstriped version

 

I like the idiosyncratic originals (although the lack of pinstripes on the shorts bothers me), but this set really worked well for a New Orleans-based team. Just adding yellow to the teal-and-purple (and changing the shades a bit) kept the franchise's continuity going while simultaneously representing its new city.

5 hours ago, mcj882000 said:

My all-time favourite New York Rangers jersey:

Not even just the "NEW YORK" logo either, the gapped stripes - that actually match the white jersey, too - look so good on that jersey to me.

It is pretty symmetrical. I don't follow hockey all that closely - when did they wear these?

1 hour ago, JerseyJosh said:

Another one of my unpopular opinions - I only like the Pats set because it reminds me of the past Nets set. It's basically the football version of these:

 

Wow. I'd never thought of it before but it does look similar.

9 hours ago, ADW77 said:

I'll take the opportunity to post these again so others can see them.

 

 

Bombers had nice proposed unis but a weak logo, Houndogs had weak logo and mediocre unis, Stallions had good unis and mediocre logo (which definitely looks like what the Broncos adopted in '97, so maybe it would've looked better and more original in '95 than today). The Panthers have the strongest look of these five proposals, and I'd say the Jags and Stallions would be tied for second. The two that were ultimately chosen definitely make sense from a visual perspective.

13 hours ago, ImmortalChef said:

The Baltimore Bombers were a proposed NFL expansion team passed up for the Jags and Panthers

This, to me, is much weaker than the logos that the Jags and Panthers eventually adopted.