Old School Fool

It wasn't that long ago man... \

The jersey was dumb but the court is even dumber. This is the most try hard city uniform I have ever seen. "We're so cool, I swear to god that we are so cool! Please like us! We're so cool!"

Fans: Let's put emphasis on the Playoffs and Finals again! Put the logos on the court! Adam Silver: Best I can do is just make you have a Purple and Yellow Lakers floor in November.

Normally I would be excited about unveilings and stuff but this In Season Tournament stuff is just really annoying me. I'm sure I will like some of the stuff but it's just so... I don't know, the NBA is evolving in a way that I don't even really recognize anymore from the uniforms, the ads, to various other things. The evolution of Basketball is turning into some weird circus sideshow.

I sure do love sockjacking. What a great word. Nothing suspicious about it at all.

Seahawks: Let's pick the Browns for a throwback game, it will look old school enough and fit the old AFC theme! This will be great! Browns: SOMEONE SAY HALLOWEEN??? BROWN PANTS BABY!!! If you're the Cleveland Browns then making smart decisions is very hard.

A nice surprise to see the Seahawks breaking the throwbacks out for a second game. Here's hoping the Eagles get a third throwback game in particularly on Christmas in my opinion.

Local NBA graphics update over here. Didn't bother posting the Space City Home Network because it's just the AT&T Sportsnet graphics, Spurts and Clippers air some games on local network TV but it uses the Bally Sports graphics. Here's the Suns on Arizona's Family Sports (Notice it's shaped like the Suns logo): Wizards on Monumental Sports Network: And here is the Jazz on KJZZ:

NBA on TNT changed the network logo to say TNT Sports for some reason. They've kept variations of this graphics package for way too long at this point and it's starting to annoy me.

People talk about how weird NBA uniforms are now but I'm remembering that this dates back to 2006 when they had teams playing in Europe for a few years they gave them special uniforms with the countries flag and colors. The photos below are just a few examples of how weird and stupid it got.

I really appreciate that NBC added to the throwback vibe. This should be mandatory for networks in all sports.

Eagles need to get rid of midnight green as soon as possible. The throwbacks are incredible.

Not an entirely accurate Vet Stadium design but still very cool to see nontheless.

I have a fear that the Raiders will wear their white throwbacks against the Lions. They always wear it in primetime but I don't know. I love the uniform but against the Lions it will look real bad. I'm expecting the throwback on Christmas against the Chiefs.

What the hell is this?!

Funny you mentioned that because a forgotten element of the Buccaneers 2014 rebrand was that the Helmet had cannonball wear marks as stripes for the helmet. Unfortunately, as with the Jaguars 2-tone helmet, the idea of a spray or gradient effect didn't look how it should have in game. They got rid of it within a season or two.

When I was a little kid, I thought the old Broncos D logo was some weird cartoon character swinging a bat. Yes, I'm serious. When someone can't make out what a logo is you know you screwed up and yet here I am a big fan of the Quebec Nordiques logo because it's so bizarrely stupid. The problem I had with the Broncos logo probably would have been alleviated if they, you know, didn't "modernize" the logo in 1992 and ruin all definition it use to have. See this? I know what this is. And now this? What were they thinking?

Was watching the Jazz play the New Zealand Breakers and I got a kick out of remembering that NBL teams wear the Hungry Jacks logo on their jerseys. For those who don't know, Hungry Jack's is a variant of Burger King in Australia and New Zealand. However when I looked closer they had the Burger King logo instead! Did they change it just for the games in America?! That's a cool touch, even if I hate ads on uniforms. Also yes, highlighter yellow vs. pink is something else. The Breakers uniforms were still better than the Jazz uniforms.

The 49ers didn't even play the Jaguars until 1999.

The Buccaneers throwbacks.

Oh that looks really good.

Why is the jumbotron using the 80's logo? Is it back as an alternate logo now?

This also reminds me how much I miss big logos on helmets. The stupid vents on modern day helmets has ruined most helmet decals and now very few teams can enlarge the logo, not only that, decals just look better with no vents and a proper sphere shape. It's so weird. I'm not saying I hate that we're trying to make safe helmets, I just hate how we can't seem to find some way to bring back the proper shape of a helmet.

You know, I seem to remember possibly the Lakers equipment manager or someone else with the team talking about this change for the Lakers and they said they heard fan complaints and were looking into it. They haven't done anything about it since despite the constant complaints from us Lakers fans so it's clear to me they either like the banana yellow or Jeanie Buss is colorblind or something.