B-Rich

On 7/5/2023 at 11:58 AM, Lights Out said:

Purdue made it work.

 

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:

On 7/4/2023 at 10:18 AM, PowderedWater said:

 

was looking into nba teams that never were for a possible design project. on a reddit thread of failed nba expansion attempts, i found this. can’t find further info. i am aware of the high probability that this is a lie or basically fanfiction, but in the off chance that there’s some truth behind it, i can’t think of any better place to go than here.

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!

12 minutes ago, upperV03 said:

The Blazers just unveiled their new G-League team’s  name and branding and it is incredible:

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:

 

1 hour ago, kimball said:

... the Las Vegas Flamingos would be a name I could support. The visual identity could be uniquely Vegas.

 

With that said, Vegas should put a spin on the A's identity, either with a flamingo mascot or different color scheme. Something just a little different.

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". 

On 6/11/2023 at 4:40 AM, who do you think said:

RE New Orleans the league already bent over backwards for them once, they probably will again. They'll fight for Memphis and OKC too. The league likes places where they're the only major league game in town.

????

On 5/23/2023 at 6:51 AM, Sport said:

Who's your all-time favorite Denver Nugget? Mine's Nick Van Exel. 

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...

On 4/24/2023 at 9:29 PM, 4_tattoos said:

There's been HBCU classic games played in NJ (Giants Stadiums then Metlife) for decades. They're just playing in a smaller stadium now.

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

On 4/28/2023 at 6:30 PM, the admiral said:

I have contempt for the New South as an entire concept and way of life before we even bring hockey into it. It's built on subsidized infrastructure and hostility to organized labor. If Tennessee had to play by the same rules as northern states, Nashville would still be a one-note backwater.

On 4/30/2023 at 2:19 PM, JerseyJimmy said:

you put it better than I possibly could have without getting banhammered. I really don't think we should be awarding these people with sports franchises just because of how housebroken their local/state governments are.

 

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)

7 hours ago, gosioux76 said:

 

I don't disagree, but I also think it's helpful to point out here that the A's aren't seeking a straight cash handout from Nevada. The deal is for the state to sell $500M in government bonds, which the team would repaid over time from taxes and other revenue tied to the stadium project.

 

So essentially, it's the government using its bonding power to issue the team a loan. 

 

It's risky, considering this is the government putting its credit on the line, but it's far less politically complicated than a direct investment of taxpayer funds

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...

On 3/8/2023 at 3:03 PM, gosioux76 said:

To be fair, the Seventies weren't really worth remembering anyway. 

--(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...

6 hours ago, Walk-Off said:

 

From 1960 through 1999 -- before the Giants began to play at a ballpark that they have been apparently able to "sell out" for "eternity" -- Candlestick Park was the Giants' home field... 

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

9 hours ago, Brian in Boston said:

albeit, one based off of the Pegasus sign atop downtown's Magnolia Hotel. That winged horse has not only been a landmark in the city's skyline for going on 89 years, but it can be seen as a nod to the significant role that aviation has played in the development of North Texas.

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:

1 hour ago, Jamesizzo said:

Not to mention the fact the Aints still had a chance to win it in OT and Brees thew a pic to a guy falling down. And their all-black uniforms are a sin.

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...

4 hours ago, raysox said:

National South
Atlanta Braves

Charlotte Knights

Tampa Bay Rays

New Orleans Baby Cakes

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

On 10/9/2022 at 8:54 AM, BBTV said:

Can someone explain the difference between 7-up, Sprite, Sierra Mist, and Mountain Dew?  Aren't they all just lemon-lime sodas with maybe a slightly different weight towards lemon or lime?

On 10/9/2022 at 9:17 AM, Ferdinand Cesarano said:

7Up and Sprite have no caffeine, while Mountain Dew has a lot of caffeine.

Sierra Mist had no caffeine. I presume that Starry will be the same.

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. 

On 10/27/2022 at 8:17 PM, Halian said:

I'm gonna miss Sierra Mist; it was my favorite lemon-lime soda, next to Fresca.

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. 

13 hours ago, Cujo said:

 

Thirty years ago, this is exactly what the league would've ruled.

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. 

2 hours ago, TrueYankee26 said:

If Tulane gets invited to a Power 5 in the future, this may be the game that got it started, like UCF's 2017 "national championship" lol

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...