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Does that $50M include the Vegas expansion check? Or was that one of the years where they "only" lost $30M?

I feel like I remember hearing that the team never turned a profit, even in the America West days... I think hope has fled. It's been over 20 years!

I don't like the idea or the jersey, but I do like to see a team lean this hard into one of their in-game promotions.

Jaguar ?

It's a lot of detail with eight hands there; I'd rather have a MB patch on the hats and shoulders than having to spell out the whole team name. IMO it's also a little strange because it's not actually the language. Obviously, the hand drawings are used to teach ASL, but ASL speakers would read normal English letters just fine. It's a different situation than the Spokane Indians or various other-languaged crests.

Listening to a TV broadcast could definitely be awkward ("Watch this!"), but I think you can make a product that's suitable for both. It's not as if the TV guys won't also know that they're on the radio now. Rick Jeanneret holds a special place in my heart; I've said multiple times that he IS what hockey sounds like to me, but I just don't feel like he's one-of-a-kind in his ability to walk the line between TV and radio. But again, Rick Jeanneret is my measuring stick.

This is probably an unpopular opinion (and maybe colored by the fact that I'm in one of the simulcast markets), but I don't see why you need a separate radio PBP. I'm actually shocked that 28 out of 31 teams still have a separate radio broadcast in 2018.

I don't know if this company has one, but the ad company for another message board I use has a site where anyone can go to report one of these ads. It would be easier if we could crowdsource reporting these, rather than it being another task but for the mods. Thankfully, I've only seen one redirect ad with this new company; it felt almost like a 50% chance with the old guys.

Insert joke about various bad people being named Time's Man of the Year. People will certainly remember Bettman long after he retires.

Not sure there was a better way to go to achieve this end, but the pullover and the illustration remind me of kids’ summer pajamas.

Who's the bottom one?

My favorite was Brendan Shanahan not remembering the names of any of the players who told him they feared for their lives when CTE first came to light. If that's true, then he should probably also be a plaintiff in the CTE lawsuit.

He’s very big, and very hairy.

Hidden Valley makes a blue cheese dressing, so I’ll give @CS85 the benefit of the doubt on this one. He’s not a ranch monster.

On the plus side for ESPN, I've noticed that they finally shed go.com from their URL. Now, you can actually go to http://www.espn.com

It was done in-house, so that may be why it doesn’t feel quite like other teams’ stuff. I like the little bits of green. I like the cap logo. Not a fan of the bleu cheese script and numbers (assuming that was what they were going for); I don’t really think of it as a condiment to write with. Overall, though, I think it works. I never thought I would buy one of these food hats, but I could see myself in one of these.

His 229 games with the Indians certainly don’t measure up to his 1,763 games with the Orioles, that’s still 4x as long as his 50 game career with the Dodgers.

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Things that look like this remind me of these:

I think they've gotten better, but it was really, really bad at one point. They reached unintentional Irish rainbow status.

@Ferdinand Cesarano you posit there should be a maximum of ten posts in this thread (which covers the entirety of sports history), and one of them should be Boog freaking Powell?

I don't know whose idea it was in the first place, but the school went full-force behind it. They even said that coaches would get their contracted bonuses for winning the title.

Number fonts rarely bother me. It has to get really goofy, like the Bucs' new font. A lot of people have been complaining about the Dolphins' font, but only the 7 looks a little off to me. I probably wouldn't even notice that if I weren't studying the numbers specifically.

The handwritten-esque font and the bar over the top make it look like Hindi writing. It's just a random teachers' union, though.

Just as a historical curiosity, I would like to see the Browns change their name and maybe colors. It would be really interesting to see an identity that was fought for so damn hard, and then what had to happen in between that made said identity "worthless" in only about 20 years. Not that I want it to happen; I just think it would be funny.