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  1. Carolingian Steamroller
    I don't know what else to tell you. That's a clear image of a white helmet (Riddell Speedflex) with black stripes above that tiger.
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    @willforgetmylogin Dude, the Bengals own social media team is using pictures or mockups of a white helmet with black stripes on the verified Twitter account of the team. Either that's the style they're using or they've left the marketing department in the dark.
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    Someone should tell the Bengals social media team then:
  5. Carolingian Steamroller
    Someone already pointed out the inaccuracy of the Cincy leak. So apologies for double tapping that one. Furthermore, the hemming and hawing over which leaks are accurate or not accurate or who really has "a guy" is played out on these boards. This isn't a contest and all of this comes out eventually, it's not like a secret menu at a restaurant. Nobody dorky enough to be on these boards should care about clout or who has better or worse information.
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    You said Cincinnati was going with black with white stripes. Not white with black stripes.
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    I'm sure it was viewed as a good opportunity. A lot of teams do that when a new manufacturer or template comes in (e.g. Reebok Edge in the NHL) even though they can easily carry over their existing design. What I find dubious is the idea that the Nike template necessitated the changeover. (Perhaps I'm misreading the opinion? I've done that before.) The Cavs could have easily carried over their 2011-2016 design over to the Nike template but chose not to. There's nothing in the current template that would have prevented them from using that exact design, which leads me to suspect they made the change because of independent reasons.
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    No I disagree on this one. The pre-Nike Cavs design isn't that different from the Celtics and Nets which are pretty similar in their use of striping and minimalist aesthetic. I don't see anything in the current Nike template that inhibited that design. My suspicion is that the Cavs had long been planning a redesign based on the theory that their 2011-2016 set was viewed as the post-Decision hangover uniforms and were looking for a do-over after a few failed title runs once Lebron came back. Of course, the team didn't count on winning a title in the year immediately before the change was scheduled to happen.
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    If you look carefully at the high res photos of the actual uniforms the sublimated piping doesn't have quite the same proportions. The 2010's design had stripes that were 1-1-1-1-1 and this looks more like 1-1-3-1-1, sort of Northwestern-stripe-y. https://www.nba.com/cavaliers/jerseys Shorts seem tailored a little shorter than typical. I wonder if there's a template change coming down the road for the NBA and this is the Cavs getting ahead of it.
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    It's really interesting that the Jazz and Cavs both went with de-colored details from previous designs. That's a trend in itself.
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    Original Uni-Watch article on the issues around the Dodger "B" https://uni-watch.com/2011/05/07/hats-off-to-brooklyn-part-ii/
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    I remember Uni-Watch did a whole article on how you couldn't get the OG version of the Dodger "B" for years and years apart from when it would show up on the white/pinstriped cap sold by American Needle in the 90's. So it's a weird part of uniform lore that's just never quite gotten fixed.
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    It was 1956 I think. Right before the move to LA, making the Boston-style "B" the last cap logo for the Brooklyn Dodgers that was officially on record.
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    I kinda feel like the Cardinals should wear the navy blue cap with the cream alternate and just combine their two home alternates into one look. Somehow I feel like the Cardinals work best when they don't have too many unique on field looks.
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    That sort of bugged me when it came out but I've come around on the silver. Maybe, maybe I could see switching the position of the silver on the numbers to the outer rather than the inner outlining but that's not a deal breaker for me. I'm not sure what direction they're really going with the blue pants. Sometimes they're rolling with plain white socks, which looks good but they also have the navy socks with the red stripe, so not sure if there's a white equivalent. Overall, I think the post 2020 uniform looks quite good and returning to the Brady-era pattern of navy over silver at home and white over navy on the road definitely works for me.
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    Right, and therein lay the rub. In particular, the red rock design, though sharing fonts with the base design, was dramatically different in color tone and ornamentation from the base design. It did feel to me like at some point, they needed to pick a lane (see e.g. pre-2020 Brewers).
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    This is an interesting insight. You might be right though I would add that the Jazz suffered at the time for an embarrassment of riches. They had several themes in their brand that were all, on their own, really very nice: the basic set, red rock, 90's, classic 80's.
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    I don't think there's a good argument about a full Jazz rebrand since the new uniforms are broadly just a recolored version of the previous uniforms. They still have the angled stripes under the arm and on the shorts. The font is very similar (changing serifs but little else) and note logo is unchanged.
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    Nets do have a grey third uniform. (Called Concrete Grey on Lockervision).
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    Right, and also they're using grey/charcoal (not really silver) as the base color of an alternate jersey in GFGS fashion and not in any details/piping on the primary home and away uniforms tells you that it's not really the team secondary color like it is for the Spurs.
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    Midnight blue.
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    I suspected there was a Spurs reference there but wasn't 100% sure so just genuinely obtuse but I do not count the Spurs as black and white team because silver is very prominent. There are silver side panels on the black uniform, silver piping on the white uniform, and an entire silver (yes, I know its grey because of the fabric) uniform. I consider this to be fundamentally different from a strictly black and white team like the Nets. Indeed, the Nets are the only team in the Big Four of North American sports to wear strictly black and white like Juventus or Siena.
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    Vehemently disagree. The Nets are the only black/white team in the NBA and I feel like they did it right by focusing on the details. The herringbone pattern on the side stripes are great because its a detail that you can only really see up close but was matched by the original floor. The extra stripes on the collar, arm holes, and shorts break up the stripes. The font is well sized and spaced. They also given us gems like the charcoal retro BKLYN jerseys and the Notorious BIG alternates (one of my favorite things to come out of NBA uniforms in recent years).
  24. Carolingian Steamroller
    Here's a crazy thought, two years from now the Patriots will have worn the Flying Elvis (1993-2024) for longer than Pat Patriot (1961-1992).
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    Sometimes a convention of design can be broken so thoroughly and absurdly that it comes back around and becomes awesome. The Bledsoe era sleeve Elvis's are comically oversized but that's also what makes the cool.
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