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by any chance, can you please try to do this one, your doing an awesome job by the way!
First time I saw this logo was when I ran across codes to unlock hidden teams in Madden 96. They had at the time this lions logo, packers running back in Wisconsin logo, both NY vintage logos that would come back full time updated, browns elf logo and a few others. I think that's what started my interest in retro logos, just to see logos that teams used to have that I've never seen before.
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The Republic | azcentral.com
Fri Dec 13, 2013 9:53 PM
Buried under mountains of sports-related debt and facing the eventual end of a temporary sales-tax hike, Glendales financial future is bleak unless it makes some changes and soon.
In a five-year financial forecast released Friday, the citys new finance director paints a sobering picture for the City Council of a city turned upside down by debt, projecting an $8.6 million deficit for the coming fiscal year that nearly triples once the sales tax expires three years later.
At $31.5 million next year, the citys debt payments will be 17 percent of its $181 million general-fund operating budget, most of it wrapped up in sports and entertainment venues that arent paying for themselves, despite promises that had been made to residents.
The heavy debt led bond-rating agencies to downgrade the city in recent years.
A 10 percent to 12 percent burden is considered high. Glendales burden would hit 30 percent if other contractual obligations were factored in.
Tom Duensing, the citys finance director, said the citys $17 million fund balance will forestall a deficit for the current fiscal year, but that surplus will be exhausted in the fiscal year that begins July 1.
Duensing said the problems are manageable, but the council will have to decide how to raise revenue or reduce spending. Hell present the forecast at Tuesdays council workshop.
Municipal debt and city contracts limit how the city can pare back.
Options could include reducing or eliminating city services, selling off city land or other properties, extending the temporary sales tax or freezing employee pay for a sixth consecutive year.
But Duensing said its important for the council and the public to understand the scope of the financial problem before launching into possible solutions.
Our intent is to say, hit the brakes, he said. We need to be very strategic about this.
Glendale has earned national headlines for its financial woes, which began with ill-timed investments in hockey and baseball venues. Already deep in debt, the council agreed to pay $50 million to the National Hockey League to keep the Phoenix Coyotes in town and in July signed a $225 million deal to have the teams owners manage Jobing.com Arena.
Duensings forecast shows that the Coyotes deal will cost the city an estimated $8.1 million next year, after revenue associated with the deal.
Councilman Ian Hugh, who voted against the July agreement, said the Coyotes deal pushed the already-struggling city over the edge. There is no easy fix, he said.
I dont have the cure, Hugh said. But I can tell you what caused the disease.
In addition to the hockey debt, Glendale will pay $17.5 million next year in debt service for the Camelback Ranch Glendale spring-training ballpark, which is located in Phoenix. The city borrowed $200 million to build the ballpark, but commercial development at the sprawling property west of the Loop 101 and the hoped-for tax revenue never materialized.
Expected ballpark revenue next year is just over $130,000.
The one bright spot on the citys ledgers is the Westgate Entertainment District, including Tanger Outlets and the Renaissance Glendale Hotel & Spa, which is expected to bring $6.1 million in tax and rental revenue.
Mayor Jerry Weiers said hes eager to begin the budget process, even though difficult decisions lie ahead. Weiers, who took office in January, also opposed the latest hockey agreement.
Im very excited about Tuesday, because its going to force people to look at things in a new light, Weiers said. It gives us the opportunity to do things that shouldve been done a long time ago.
Glendales finances were rocked further last summer when a city-commissioned audit showed that several administrators had transferred more than $6 million from city accounts to hide the unexpected costs of an early-retirement program. Those in charge of the citys finances were forced to resign or were fired in August, and the state Attorney Generals Office is looking into whether laws were broken.
City officials were awaiting Duensings presentation as the first unvarnished look at financial picture under a new administration.
Other assumptions in the five-year forecast include:
Increased local sales tax, property tax and state-shared revenue.
A one-time $1.7 million cost to host Super Bowl XLIX, to be held at University of Phoenix Stadium.
A 2.5 percent across-the-board employee pay raise.
A contingency fund of 5 percent of total revenue, or between $8 million and $9 million, which is below the city policy of 10 percent.
Meeting all debt-service, contractual and capital-repair obligations.
Glendale reminds me of one of those missions on Sim City where the goal is to save the city. Glendale should have it's own Save the City mission for future SC releases.
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Just checking to see if you had time to work on the Harry Husker logo on page 17? Thanks.
Not yet, will get to it soon. Trying to knock out some with less detail.
Surprised no one has requested this one yet.
I've been trying to get my hands on a high quality version of that logo forever now. It's one of my favorite Eagles logos as I have a nostalgic attachment to the Cunningham era logo/uni set
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What's his right uniform? Or are we now just posting pictures of players?
To me his right uniform is the Ottawa Senators. I always associated him with the Senators and in their 96/97 uniforms.
I remember him in this:
i tend to associate him more with this look
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What's his right uniform? Or are we now just posting pictures of players?
To me his right uniform is the Ottawa Senators. I always associated him with the Senators and in their 96/97 uniforms.
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If the Winter Classic was a TV show, the Coyotes holding the Winter Classic at UoP stadium would be the point of the tv show jumping the shark.
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DId a google search of this thread and didn't see Jerry Rice as a Seahawk, but maybe it has. Did see Emmit Smith as a Cardinal; well, here they are together.
Sorry if already posted
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seeing Emmit and Rice in anything other than Cowboy and 49er uniforms is weird to me.
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YOU FOREVER GLENDALEI've seen worse. They used to have a thing where you get 2 free tickets when you buy a $20 bottle of Absolute or Stoli or something from Fry's (a local grocery store).
maybe but that's $24.75 for a NHL ticket, a hot dog and Pepsi per person to see the current Stanley Cup champs play. I spent more than that to take my wife to see Phantom of the Opera for her birthday years ago.
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man these graphics take me back especially the stuff from the mid 90's. I thoroughly enjoy looking at these video bug and packages.
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In honour of the recent Hockey Hall of Fame class...
wow good find., Think he only played like 5 or 6 games with ATL and then packed it in for good that year.
In keeping with the theme, these still seems odd
This looks weird as well.
[shanapic]
He only wore these uniforms for 45 games during the lockout shortened 94-95 season.
For the longest I associated him with either the Blues or Whalers, probably more so the Whalers. When he went to the wings, him in a wings jersey looked odd. Now he looks odd in any other jersey but the wings.
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Patrick Sharp
i still associate him with the flyers. But the last time I payed any real attention to them, he still a member of the flyers.
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Have we explored Hawaii or American Samoa as possible destinations? How about Miracle, Alaska?
Well, I do hear the Santadome up at the North Pole might be ready in time for the draft.If we want to explore those options. I'm sure Santa Claus might be interested in the Phoenix Kai-otes.
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What exactly is wrong with Quebec City?
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Not so fast, my friends:
"Can confirm that RSE has agreed in principle to lease terms with City of Glendale on an arena lease. #coyotesstay"
Even though I posted this in the E3 thread, concerning KI3, this is so applicable here:
and because this bloody situation WON'T BLEEPING DIE:
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The thing that makes this one different is that the guy who's looking buy actually has money this time. Which makes me wonder why he even wants to buy the team considering that the last guy who actually had money and expressed interest in buying the team (Jerry Reinsdorf) drove away in his limo laughing hysterically when he finally got a look at the organization's books.
The only thing that makes sense is that Gosbee wants to own an NHL team, not necessarily one in Phoenix. Which could help explain his interest in a five year clause. Move them if he can't make them work in Glendale after half a decade (what's one more at this point?).
There is no way the city of Glendale could let this go on for another 5 years. I also fail to see this guy Gosbee losing money the next 5 years unless his plan is to relocate them. Otherwise it's here we go again in 5 years, which again I fail to see the CoG allowing. or am I missing something here?
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He played 185 games for the Blue Jackets, but only 50 in the 2007 to present uniforms.
Also,
The only right uniform is the Redwings uniform. Any other uniform looks wrong on him.
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Who is the rat? If it's me, then it's obviously because I copied off 2-pages ago.(Even though the reason it was there is because the guy with the Sharks logo had a realignment post.)
Someone that joined barely a week ago wouldn't (more like shouldn't) know about a longtime-running .jpeg response to a realignment-based post.
well in fairness, i joined in 2006 but i remember the references and various troll members like James Craven that predate that. I lurked this board for a good 3 or 4 years before actually signing up and posting.
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I smell a rat!!!!
Am I doing this right?
I smell a rat!!!!
Am I doing this right?
I smell a cap? kinda confused on this one.
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Kipper as a Shark
Grant Fuhr Flames
to me both the Sharks and Flames seem like right uniforms for him.
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http://www.investmen.../FREE/130339998
“I've been watching what's going on and [the Coyotes] are a very competitive franchise — they went to the conference final last year,” Mr. Pastor said in an interview. “But they can't catch a break, and if they don't soon, they'll probably leave the west and go to Winnipeg or Quebec.”This new Coyotes owner must have borrowed Matt Hulsizer's fax machine that sends messages from the future of the past.
or.....
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speaking of PT, monorails and shysters...
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yeah. roenick is a blackhawk or a picasoyote... not a flyer.
yeah. roenick is a blackhawk or a picasoyote... not a flyer.
Same for Chelios, Belfour, Amonte, and Keith Carney. Though that might have alot to do with first discovering said players on NHL 95
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He would have gotten away with it if not for those meddling kids. Jinkies. I hope someone proves that Mr. Fallar is also BigMac12.
considering how bizarre this situation has gotten, that would be totally fitting. I'm expecting this to be like the ending of Super Mario Bros.2 and we wake up and find out this was all a dream.
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Oh, and if you're scoring at home, pretty much everyone who facilitated this big mess has been removed.
Mayor Elaine Scruggs (she was for it before she was against it): chose not to run
Steve Frate (just another foot soldier as best I can tell): chose not to run
Phil Lieberman (was for it before against it, the guy who voted yes because of an eight=year=old boy in a Shane Doan sweater):retired
Joyce Clark (alleged that Mexicans conspired to move the Coyotes, sock puppet of strange man from another suburb): lost her seat
Ed Beasley (city manager who brokered all these bad deals): "retired"
Craig Tindall (city attorney): made to resign
Horatio Skeete (acting city manager): not retained
the Joyce Clark one sounds like something out of South Park.
YOU FOREVER GLENDALE
UPDATING VINTAGE LOGOS
in Concepts
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similar but not the same. the updated logo is more slender where the old one posted is shorter and fatter. The font is thinner and doesn't have the pacific blue outline on the "chargers" and has San Diego across the top in the older logo posted.
this could use an update.