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I don't think any team cares about the Red Wings being in the East except for the Red Wings.

It's the wrong kind of football for a polo shirt look to be a good thing.

Absolutely...been a problem throughout the thread. Hockey is not as popular as the three major sports. Soccer players...forget it. Hockey's plenty popular here though.Still, I think the point should be taken. I follow hockey. I know who Pavel Datsyuk is. I know he wears 13 for the Red Wings. I still have no idea it's him if I see him in 54 or whatever without someone telling me.

So then what the hell was the point of the Red Wings moving to the Eastern Conference?They move to the East to cut down on travel costs, but then they move back to a conference where road games slated in California begin at 9:30-10:30pm Detroit local time. The hell? I don't know if anyone's actually done the math, but it seems to me like divisional alignment is less important now that you play every team at least twice per season.

I like the original orca uniforms/color scheme for the Canucks. I don't even care that the logo represents the ownership group. I even liked the gradient alt at the time (I'd have to see it on the ice to know how I feel about it now). The only era of uniforms I would put ahead of the red/blue/black orca are the current ones.

"Staffing and employment services firm Jobing.com inked a naming rights deal with the Coyotes back in 2007. The deal was worth previously estimated as worth $3 million per year over 10 years but a Coyotes official today said the Jobing deal was worth $1 million annually."

I don't think logos should flip orientation to face forward on football helmets. The raven head or the flying Elvis would look just fine, even if they were "pointing" towards the back of the player's head.

See, this is why I'm not a successful businessman... I have shame. If I was generating 0.4% of the room nights, but was receiving 16% of the bed tax money, I would just shut up and hope that no one realized how ridiculous it was. I *certainly* wouldn't try to scam my way into double the amount of money. But that's just me.

"The Winnipeg Coyotes of Phoenix. The franchise will remain in Arizona, but we'll just play our home games in Winnipeg, Mr. Doan."

I agree. The stance I took in that Tony Stewart thread is the one I intend to take everywhere. If you can make a point without painting an entire group of people with a broad brush then you should probably avoid using the brush. I totally agree with that, but (IMO) the banning of the video is a little silly. When Google is running ads and getting hundreds of thousands of clicks on videos of it on Youtube, then it should be fair game here. At least in spoiler tags if necessary. It's not going to get Google's ads pulled from the site if Google is hosting it itself. It just aids in discussion if we know we're all looking at the same thing.

Maybe in its own sub-forum way down at the bottom so people won't stumble across it, like if somebody bumped it up in The Lounge every few days to complain about their stupid BS? I would say pin it at the top here, but there are already 75 pinned threads here.

Maybe this isn't the best place for this, but it's at least better than clogging up the existing thread. Should we have a "Moderation Court" thread, somewhere where everyone can dump their complaints about over- or under-moderation with examples and people can weigh in? We kind of had that a little tiny bit in the thread that led to the new mods coming on, but this thread would have a dedicated purpose. People are going to complain about modding, better to at least do it someplace where it won't derail the main conversation.

The car fits this definition. What group is the car a member of? Looks like just a single car to me. "UNI-form". I don't know the literal etymology (sp) of the word, but it sounds like "one form". It would apply when multiple people wear the same "one form" outfit to distinguish themselves from others, or like if you're talking about pinstripes and how they're uniformly spaced (in this case it's an adjective). Either way, it implies more than one object is needed for the word to apply. Otherwise, it's just a guy wearing something. Or a stripe. So when there's some Caribbean country with only one guy competing in the Winter Olympics, he's not wearing a uniform? The NASCAR uniform's purpose is to distinguish the driver from the other drivers. The car is a piece of equipment the drivers use, like a football helmet or hockey stick.

If most people really stop noticing ads on jerseys, they'll get bigger or shinier or get flashing lights or something, because...you know... they're advertisements.

Me too...after they were pointed out I still had trouble picking it out. I get not liking that feature (and I am not a huge fan either) but to call that feature worse than Jacksonville...not me.I think it's something you won't notice for most of the game, but then you'll see an angle where they look horrible.I went to training camp last Sunday and the stripes are only easy to spot when viewed from above, or if a guy is holding his helmet by the mask. I suspect that most of the times you'll see them are when a guy lowers his head to either make a tackle or initiate contact with a defender.

When I did my road trip through New England, I put a Bills frame on my license plate to let the people know I wasn't from the part of New York that they hated.They don't hate Buffalo too?I thought people in the rural parts of Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine that we hit up would have a general dislike for the "big city folks". Sports-wise, the Sabres and Bills have been bad enough for long enough that I don't think many people can hate them. Someone actually called me on my Sabres hat; that's what I told him.

When I did my road trip through New England, I put a Bills frame on my license plate to let the people know I wasn't from the part of New York that they hated.

Me too...after they were pointed out I still had trouble picking it out. I get not liking that feature (and I am not a huge fan either) but to call that feature worse than Jacksonville...not me.I think it's something you won't notice for most of the game, but then you'll see an angle where they look horrible.

40 years ago? I don't think you meant to tack on that extra zero. Titletown: home of 13 NFL championships...2 of which have come since 1968.Looks pretty damn good from where I'm sitting.

^^^ I actually really liked the bear head thirds as they were. Maybe they're not for an O6 team, but in a vacuum I still like them.

No other NHL city has an out clause, but I'm gonna guess that none of the other 29 NHL cities are as involved with their teams' financial dealings as Glendale is with the Coyotes. You're doing it right, Glendale... it's everyone else that's crazy.

The NFL should have alt helmets. It would let teams try out different looks without doing the full-blown rebrand. Maybe if the Jags could have brought their helmet out as an alt one year, we might have only had to deal with it for two games instead of five years. Alts let teams get some of their crazy ideas out without long-term damage.

That looks terrible! They weren't great jerseys to begin with but who thought removing the hem stripes and using that awful Flyers template was a good idea. Thank god they came to their senses and brought back the scheme they never should have ditched in the first place. Surprised they decided to use blue white and green at the last minute since they wore their throwbacks in 2007 playoffs. If they changed the following season, their plans were probably already finalized by the time the playoffs started. "Last minute" is probably like the summer/fall of 2006.

It's like Alex Rodriguez's bicep met Barry Bonds' head...if they were 'roided-up Blue Jays. Unpopular opinion indeed!I happen to like Cooper-alls and the White Sox shorts experiment... I like the head, but it looks like the head and arm are being chopped off by the T. There's no way a normal neck can fit there. And if the arm is that massive, there should bff more body sticking out from behind the T. It doesn't look like a while bird that just happens to be covered up partially by the letter; it looks like they designed it to just needed pieces of a blue Jay.

I think I occasionally have the same problem as you do, but a refresh of the page will fix it for me.