B-Rich

Hmmm... I'd consider that to be less 'factory pomo' influence and more of an adaptation of their 'train' logo, with the "PURDUE" being the cowcatcher in front. There have been a couple of iterations of that. The jersey appears based off the 2nd one below:

Definitely a lie or fanfiction. " I remember when the Dallas Mavericks were granted a franchise there were a few other cities in the running". No, there weren't. The expansion announced by Larry O'Brien in 1979 was Dallas and Minneapolis, but the Minny owner backed out, leaving just Dallas (this was 1979, after all, when 18 of the 22 NBA franchises lost money). "This was when the Kings were not getting a lot of support and the Hawks had departed St. Louis" Yeah, the Hawks departed St. Louis -- over a decade prior in 1968.

Oh, and there was this Saturday night after the game. My nephew Jacob just graduated from LSU, has been a student staff sports photographer for the last three years, and traveled with the team to Omaha: Apparently there was an NCAA photographer being a jerk to him. LSU baseball team took care of him and got Jacob up front to take the victory photo. To hell.with the NCAA...

... And that's how you come back after a 24-4 loss-- an 18-4 win in which you set the CWS record for most hits in a game. Congrats to my alma mater LSU and their Fighting Tigers-- 2023 College World Series Champions!

To paraphrase Snoop Dogg, "Yeah, it's incredible... ly BAD"

Well that was a great game, and the ending was ironic to say the least: https://twitter.com/Bcicles/status/1672070891440668673/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1672070891440668673&currentTweetUser=Bcicles Yes that's the same smarmy pitcher that gave up the winning walk-off homer. Karma is a :censored:, ain't it? Congrats to the Tigers, and good luck in the championship against the Gators.

Just got back from Europe. When I was in Switzerland, I saw a guy wearing an old NHL Colorado Rockies sweatshirt. It was just me checking at myself in the mirror before going out hiking, but still.... I DID wear that sweatshirt while I was there... the above shot is not Switzerland, obviously... but this is:

WTF do flamingos-- the tropical shore birds-- have to do with dry, desert Las Vegas? Las Vegas has had an iconic casino named The Flamingo since the inception of large scale casino gambling. That name is attributed to its mobster owner, Bugsy Siegel, in honor of the flamingos near his Hialeah, FL racetrack (not the urban myth that it came from a nickname for his long-legged girlfriend, Virginia Hill). The name "Flamingos" would thus be a corporate connection, which is a big no- no in major league sports today. It would be on par as naming the team the "Las Vegas Caesars" or "Las Vegas Sands".

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Dan Issel. Saw him play against the Jazz in the Superdome the first season after the ABA-NBA merger, back when they wore these unis:

Was looking at some stuff on the internet, and came across this-- a photo of the late Terry Kath of the band Chicago, in concert wearing a WHA Chicago Cougars jersey... Come to find out, he did the hockey jersey thing on stage A LOT...

And before that, (old) Yankee Stadium: For many years, it was called the Whitney M. Young Classic, then became the New York Urban League/Whitney M. Young Classic. The first of these match-ups (the one in 1968, re: the program cover above) was the first "black college (as they referred to it back then) football game ever televised", and the earliest games drew over 60,000 (!) attendees... Whitney M. Young/ Urban League Classic

Suck it, yankee scum.

On Facebook, saw a notice from a friend and fellow Jeopardy! contestant about his nephew, who won Pitcher of the Week for the Sunshine State Conference. Had never heard of that conference, nor the school (Palm Beach Atlantic University). What I found really cool was the team name-- the Sailfish-- and their logo, unis and colors: Looking into it, I found a few other schools in the conference with cool names and logos that I was unaware of: Rollins College Tars: Nova Southeastern University Sharks: Eckerd College Tritons: And finally, the Barry University Buccaneers: (I like the pirate parrot mascot)

Exactly, a great point. It will essentially be a TIF ( tax increment financing) deal. Any taxes on the site above what is being collected now/pre-stadium will be used to retire the bonds. It's become very common in redevelopment projects across the USA.

Two new ones of New Orleans Jazz road games; one b/w and one in color: Piston Pete Maravich, asst. coach Bill Bertka, and coach Elgin Baylor at McNichols Arena before a game against the Denver Nuggets, Jan. 12, 1977. Bell bottoms, baby! Capital Center in Landover, MD; 1978 game against the Washington Bullets. Coach Elgin Baylor with the 'fro and Gail Goodrich with a perm. So late '70s...

--(shameless nostalgia tangent )-- Lots about the seventies well worth remembering-- if you were there: EDIT: Added one more from the end of the 70s, as this IS a sports logo and uniform board, figured this one fits in: And in doing so, 44 years after this picture was taken, this logo/uni nerd notices for the 1st time that HALF of the jerseys had BLUE collars, while the other half had WHITE collars. Talk about non-uniform uniforms, Now, back to the conversation...

Frickin' well-written, comprehensive, on-point, factually backed-up, and historically accurate post, my man.

Maybe you CAN see it as a nod to aviation, but it was there because that was the logo/symbol of the Magnolia Oil Company, and back when the Pegasus was installed in 1934, the building (built in 1922) was not the Magnolia Hotel, but the oil company headquarters and was known as the Magnolia Petroleum Building. In 1959, Magnolia merged with Mobil and the red Pegasus moved up to become the Mobil logo:

I agree with you on the all-black unis. The rest (still had a chance; blah blah blah) shouldn't have mattered because it was after the fact. Without the blatantly botched no-call, that game is OVER.

Bad officiating in a conference championship? What a surprise! I remind you of this: That obvious, admitted, botched no-call literally decided the game. 1:45 left. Would have been 1st and goal for the Saints, and L.A. had only one time out. Three straight knees (or safe time consuming plays), kick the chip shot field goal with a modicum of seconds left; game over. But the Rams had just moved back to L.A. and the league needed a splash for them, so...

SHHHH! Down here, we do not speak its name, lest it return in all its horrible monstrosity!

Ferd is right on with the differentiation between Mountain Dew from the rest-- it is not just a lemon-lime soda but a citrus soda containing orange flavor AND caffeine. Like most sodas, it was developed locally/regionally (in Tennessee) well before our time, and was bought by a major national bottler (Pepsi) in the 1960s. For those who may not know, the name fits in with the area as Mountain Dew (like White Lightning) is a slang term for moonshine, and even celebrated as such in song: Here is an OLD bottle design showing that moonshine connection: Another thing to consider is that each are produced by major bottlers as their representative lemon-lime soda: Coke has Sprite, Pepsi has Sierra Mist/Starry. and the O.G. lemon-lime soda, 7-Up, is owned by an ever-changing conglomerate that is now Keurig/Dr. Pepper. Taste wise- I have found this between the 3 lemon-lime sodas: 7-Up: Best; most pronounced lemon-lime flavor Sierra Mist: Second-best, less lemon-lime flavor. Sprite: Worst; overly sweet sugar water with just a hint of lemon-lime. Fresca was developed as (and remains) a citrus soda whose primary citrus flavor was not lemon-lime, but GRAPEFRUIT... LBJ was a big fan of Fresca back in the day. Fresca is a Coca-Cola product; its Pepsi equivalent is Citrus Blast, and the Keurig/Dr. Pepper equivalent is Squirt.

More likely, thirty years ago (1992) the league would've finished the game. That was pre-concussion safety era, medical protocols were very different/not as advanced back then (my own company's office has an emergency defibrillator in the hallway and everyone has undergone training to work it): And most notably there would have been not nearly the amount of information shared to the public during live game time. Hamlin would've been put on a stretcher/gurney, carted off the field to the concourse, thence loaded into an ambulance and taken to the hospital. I daresay his survivability 30 years ago would probably even be questionable.

As I have stated before, Tulane leaving the SEC in the 1960s was probably the dumbest, most regrettable move the university ever made. Most importantly, they missed out on all that SEC revenue sharing, With the rise in tourism and traveling fans, the university (and the city) have missed out on loads of fans/alums coming in every other year from Alabama, Auburn, Ole Miss, Texas A&M, etc. and spending those tourism dollars for a fun New Orleans weekend. Sports-wise, the in-state LSU-Tulane rivalry would still remain, much like Tennesssee-Vanderbilt, with a year ending football game. And speaking of Vandy, they would be Tulane's obvious permanent cross-division rival. Finally, us sports logo geeks would appreciate that the SEC would actually have a team with GREEN in their color scheme...