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  1. Carolingian Steamroller
    I think one issue with the WFT and the "Warriors" is that, frankly, there are better options that don't take the team out of the Lightning Sand and into the teeth of the ROUS's. To keep using Marquette as @SFGiants58 has done, when the name Golden Eagles was chosen in the 90's, one problem was that it felt a little generic because there happens to be another D1 Jesuit University called the Golden Eagles: BOSTON COLLEGE. So the school wasn't just dropping their own nickname but seemingly picking up someone else's. I think one thing that happened in 2005 was that the school then went from fine but maybe not unique to awful. Especially since it looked like they were copying other schools again with the Syracuse Orange and the Stanford Cardinal having so recently changed their names. I wonder if any of the controversy would have happened if the school had selected Hilltoppers (or Golden Avalanche) in the 90's which were both unique names with connections to the school. Right now the WFT has a bunch of unique interesting options like Red Tails and Hogs (even Red Wolves is nice) that are better. They have plenty of good choices on the table so there's no reason to risk turning the nickname into an ongoing problem.
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    I was on campus in 2005 for the Marquette Gold fiasco. I voted Hilltoppers in the poll but I think it worked out ok. Golden Eagles was never a bad name and this was a really cool logo. https://www.sportslogos.net/logos/view/4701/Marquette_Golden_Eagles/1994/Primary_Logo I think the longest lasted negative effect of the attempted 2005 rebrand was the eagle logo went away and never came back. The point is Washington could do a lot worse than “Washington Football Team” with a W mark.
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    Love the Cardinals/Sox design! The connection to U of C is really interesting given that the Cardinals are the Cardinals because they wore faded U of C Maroons jerseys. It's also nice to have an all South Side set with U of C being located in the lovely Hyde Park neighborhood on South Lakeshore Drive. Looking at it now, I'd be tempted to use a wishbone "C" on the cap, even though its not accurate to that era just to cement the connection since the Cardinals used to use one and the Maroons continue to feature it.
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    I like this better given the blue brim is used. If the cap was all red and had a plain white P, I'd like the white outline better.
  5. Carolingian Steamroller
    How about blue outlining on the home pins too?
  6. Carolingian Steamroller
    I love those numbers for the A's!
  7. Carolingian Steamroller
    Gorgeous! Wonderful shade of blue!
  8. Carolingian Steamroller
    I really like the way that road alternate turned out! Using the single red soutache compliments the red outlining on the lettering without clashing harshly with the "A" on the cap. It's very subtle but undoubtedly effective. I love little features like that. Some small detail that really ties a uniform together like a nice rug.
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    Delightful! Crisp, clean, bold.
  10. Carolingian Steamroller
    These are terrific! Extremely minor edit: On the Bucks green jersey the piping separating the side panel from the rest of the jersey matches the collar piping while on the white jersey its different. I think either style would look good so long as its consistent.
  11. Carolingian Steamroller
    This is a good look. https://twitter.com/nyjets/status/1186483581809504258?s=20
  12. Carolingian Steamroller
    I'm increasingly of this opinion as well. It was a clean, efficient design. One bolt on one background across all uniform segments. The bolt type was shaped to fit the designated segment (helmet, shoulders, pants). It's increasingly missed.
  13. Carolingian Steamroller
    So wearing stirrups with 5-7" whites (or gold) with the pants cuffed at the knee. Essentially 1960's tailoring.
  14. Carolingian Steamroller
    Which trend?
  15. Carolingian Steamroller
    The New York Giants should wear their grey five stripe pants for every game, as they did from 2012-2015. It's a unique look, it makes up for wearing an otherwise plain blue home jersey and takes an all white road uniform out of league already saturated with them. Also this was a good look.
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    I still prefer the Senators name since Ottawa is the capital but it is definitely weirdly used in their scheme. They have a helmeted Roman officer on their primary crest but being an officer in the Roman Army didn't mean you were a Senator. To be a Senator was to be a member of a specific sub set of the Roman Aristocracy which gave the holder the right to a seat in the Senate House to debate legislation and select the magistrates. Senators were selected for top military and government positions like Consul and Praetor but being a Senator didn't make someone a soldier. A Centurion, however, was always a soldier, the officer in charge of a Century of roughly 80 legionaries. So a guy in a helmet was more likely to be a Centurion than a Senator. What I would really like would be for the Senators to come up with a logo similar to this one from the Twins: Ottawa is also a city divided by a River, but its further divided between Ontario and Quebec so it would be really cool to have that emphasized. Perhaps by using two guys in red-lined togas on hockey skates shaking hands.
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    Yes they should.
  18. Carolingian Steamroller
    You are absolutely correct. This set has quite a few good things going. The colors looks nice and the shoulder yoke and pants design actually work well in tandem. Moreover, the way the uniform has tended to be worn, pairing the pewter pants with a red design with red socks and the white pants with a pewter design with pewter socks meshes incredibly well. Like many of Nike's designs, its a simple case of over-embellishing an otherwise interesting core. Fix the numbers and shrink the helmet logo and they've got a modern classic.
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    Made a version of it myself.
  20. Carolingian Steamroller
    Actually the cap logo is also a throwback to the pennant in this photo. It's a throwback you wouldn't expect to be a throwback.
  21. Carolingian Steamroller
    I've said this elsewhere but I think the 1976 White Sox uniforms are one of the most genius designs ever to come out of that era. 1: It was a throwback uniform before throwback uniforms 2: It really did emphasis player performance before that became a buzzword. Players who wore it called it the most comfortable they'd ever worn. They even had mesh jerseys for hot days. 3: It solved the white socks color balance issue. 4: It used one piece hose decades before it became standard while still maintaining sock stripes. 5: It introduced the horizontal S-O-X logo and accompanying batterman which Sox fans seem to love. 6: The uniform itself, not the script and not the color scheme were the radical features.
  22. Carolingian Steamroller
    What does it look like?Well there is over 500 templates that I've made, and they look like the ones on the Soccer Section of the main website that I update. http://www.sportslogos.net/logos/list_by_team/1596/_Italy/ http://www.sportslogos.net/logos/list_by_team/1608/_Portugal/ http://www.sportslogos.net/logos/list_by_team/1591/_Germany/ Wow. amazing template work. Released for public use?
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