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From The Athletic's annual player poll on rule changes.

30 minutes ago, Carolingian Steamroller said:

 

We kinda got this matchup in 2008:

 

Side note: I miss refs wearing white knickers.

Pretty much as good as a uniform matchup gets

Browns beat reporter in response to a suggestion of making the white facemasks permanent

Meh. I prefer either sticking with the sand or going back to purple and teal. I don't hate it but it but they can't seem to find an identity and this one feels like a forced mashup.

I especially dislike the road grays. The teal outline is barely visible.

Really interesting and in-depth episode about uniforms the NFL just put out. There's a few quotes that made me roll my eyes, but overall it made me appreciate how much goes into it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsJkeN-9RB0&ab_channel=NFLThrowback

14 hours ago, Cujo said:

Can't read a single word.

That actually makes it better

3 hours ago, Old School Fool said:

Tonight is the night where everyone realizes just how badly the NBA has jumped the shark. Seeing these courts in action right now on League Pass and I can honestly say this is one of the worst decisions I've ever seen made in any of the Big Four sports.

Not everyone. The 14 year olds on Twitter think it’s fire. The NBA’s target audience.

45 minutes ago, Digby said:

 

It helps that they're consistently contending now whereas they had 3 years of contention and 25 years of mostly sucking in the years prior to the Tatum era. It also helps that the Patriots suck now and the Red Sox have withdrawn themselves from relevance. I can't tell you how often I used to ask bartenders if they'd put the Celtics game on the TV in the 2010s and it was like asking them to turn on The Biography Channel. 

 

Man, Boston fans are so spoiled lol. From 2010-2016 the Celtics made the playoffs every year but once and made it to the conference finals twice. 

These courts are unbelievably stupid but it's just another step in Silver making the league as cheap and gimmicky as possible.

1 hour ago, the admiral said:

It does not go back to Jordan and the Bulls. Social media is too much a part of the NBA's current weirdness, as you said, and that wasn't there then. It wasn't there for the weird Jordan-LeBron interregnum and wasn't really even there for a lot of early LeBron, either. Up through the 2000s, the NBA was still broadly recognizable as a normal sports league. It's only fairly recently that it's become something else.

In my experience, it seems that over the past 5-7 years the NBA has stayed very popular on social media and national TV, but has become much less relevant in real life. And maybe it's just because I live in Ohio and LeBron isn't here anymore, but pre-covid if I walked up to a random group of guys who are into sports I would expect there to be some interest in the NBA. Not anymore. It's starting to feel more like a fringe sport like hockey. And I honestly believe that the whole AAU culture of the league (which the uniform/brand mess strongly attributes to) is the primary reason for that.

9 hours ago, BBTV said:

The browns with there whole “the contrast stitching represents the hard working people of Cleveland” jerkoff bullscat have entered the chat. 
 

Absolutely the correct answer. Worst uniform in NFL history.

51 minutes ago, McCall said:

Yeah that looks too green, giving off the 90s Bucks vibe. They used pantone 323, a darker teal.

Yeahhhh I tried matching it from an old pic from the 90s but I think the lighting was different and it didn't turn out quite right. My bad.

12 hours ago, MNtwins3 said:

From a design standpoint, the D-Backs probably look better now than they've ever looked. I would love for someone with photoshop skills to show what the current design with the OG colors would look like, because I think that could be a winner

Rough job but it's something

1 hour ago, spartacat_12 said:

 

I guarantee most people on social media wouldn't even notice the difference if there were a stripe on the pants. The "clean" look just means white pants & socks with a white jersey.

Oh you're 100% right. But what people notice when it's actually worn on the football field is less important now than how cool something looks on a graphic with a bunch of snow and ice.

9 hours ago, Old School Fool said:

 

Seriously. Is it that hard for the Lions to put blue stripes on the white pants? It makes no sense.

It's not about it being hard. No one is being lazy or overlooking it. It's an intentional choice and very popular right now. It sucks, but the vast majority of responses from fans on social media and from the players when it comes to "icy white" look are positive. People like the "clean" look. It's clearly a trend that will die, hopefully sooner rather than later. Most of us here prefer a more traditional look that stands the test of time and establishes a brand. But a lot of people unfortunately buy into the hype of whatever is cool right now. And in the age of social media, that's what wins.

I long for the day when teams realize that fans and players have absolutely no idea how to establish a long-term brand and giving too much weight to their opinion will only lead to gimmicky outdated styles that constantly need to be updated and therefore diluted.

22 hours ago, MrAstrodome said:

 

I disagree.  White-striped socks and white pants look terrible. 

Excuse me?

The sad thing is that the blank "TBD" template is an actual possibility for some of these teams.

On 7/13/2023 at 1:13 AM, tscuzzy said:

Portland, Chicago, Toronto, and Houston are all starting to look wayyyy too similar at a glance with their identical color red/black/white schemes. Because Portland and Chicago have a longer history with red and black, I think its on Toronto and Houston to switch things up. You could even throw Atlanta into this mix. 

I don't necessarily disagree, but it just doesn't seem that big of a deal considering where the league is at. Teams don't even wear their primary colors half the time. You could turn on a game and see the Bucks wearing light blue against the Pistons wearing green. So does first glance really matter anymore?

Some interesting answers from rookies when asked about any rule they would change. 4 of the 5 were about uniforms.

4 WAH games in a row with no city editions??? I'm giddy.