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  1. On 3/25/2024 at 8:29 AM, BBTV said:

    Is there a new template this year other than the silly "V" one that most teams used last year?  I'm noticing that some 2024-specific replicas, even the $$350 style, are on a template that doesn't have that "feature".

     

    (this is not the top-model one, as Fanatics took that one down overnight, but the cut was more/less the same - definitely not the "vapor hyper super ultra mega fuse" or whatever dumb-ass name they call their dumb-ass crap.)

     

     

    mens-nike-saquon-barkley-midnight-green-

     

    EDIT: something else I just thought of - since Jason Kelce and Fletcher Cox are technically still on the roster since their retirements aren't technically effective yet, if you order their jersey, do you get the one with the new wordmark that they'll have never worn and never will, or one that's last-year's stock?  Ones with the old wordmark aren't on sale, which is what I would have expected, but that just be because Fanatics doesn't even realize that anything changed.

    It’s just the same retail template they have been using since Elite51, Nike has been extremely cheap with replicas

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  2. Race at COTA was won by William Byron for his second victory of the season. No cautions at all this race other than stage breaks (which I’m disappointed they brought them back for road courses). Pretty boring race over all with William Byron basically dominating other than a few challenges by Gibbs, reddick and chastain after cautions. Had no complaints though with no shenanigans towards the end to try and make drama. The road ringers didn’t perform today with SVG being fairly average before speeding on pit road, and kobayashi should never sit in a nascar race are again.

  3. NASCAR tried with Bristol dirt on Easter Sunday and it hasn’t gone over well. Rating tanked being on the holiday. I don’t know where they are racing this year on Easter but I don’t think they are promoting it as such but more they are racing and it happens to be on Easter because they couldn’t get around the 2 week Olympic break.

  4. 4 hours ago, CATLogo1 said:

    So is it March 23 or April 23 that the Houston Texans are scheduled to unveil their new uniform designs to the public?

    April, I don’t know why this deserved a laughing reaction though…

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  5. 3 hours ago, LMU said:

    I know that the Padres have a tenuous TV rights situation right now but you'd think they'd actually afford to supply their players with gloves that don't explode on *checks schedule* OPENING DAY.

    Don’t the players buy their own gloves?

    2 hours ago, GDAWG said:

    Shohei went 2-5 with an RBI and a Stolen Base

    Please don’t make this a thing where you post what his stats are each day regardless of how average they are.

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  6. 28 minutes ago, oldschoolvikings said:

     

     

    Three inches?

     

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    I exaggerated a little but regardless it’s no closer than any other stripe on a jersey and has been the standard for roughly 30 years. Y’all are trying to see something that simply isn’t there.

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  7. 25 minutes ago, oldschoolvikings said:

     

     
    I think a few of us have made this point before and IMO it’s valid.  The Vikings curved stripe creates a small open space that sort of “cups” the swoosh.  You either see it or you don’t but I don’t think it’s a crazy stretch.  
     

    And if you don’t think the Seahawks sleeve is specifically designed to showcase the Nike logo, I don’t know what to tell you. 

     

    7 minutes ago, gosioux76 said:

     

    That Seahawks example is a perfect illustration of a design element that serves no other purpose than to allow the Swoosh to stand out more than it would otherwise. 

     

    It's worse, in my opinion, to have the logo be front-and-center on the chest, like it is with most college programs. But it's hard to deny that Nike has used the opportunity to create designs on the shortened sleeve caps that allow the Swoosh stand out even more. That's why you see it applied in contrasting team colors rather than sticking to an otherwise innocuous white logo. 

     

    In a perfect world, the manufacturer's mark should be visible, but not an attraction unto itself. It's like a photo credit in a publication. But in these cases, it isn't so much an additional team logo, as @BBTV suggest, as it is a forced design element. The intent is clear -- to make the Nike logo a part of the design rather than a functional addendum to it. 

    did I say anything about the Seahawks? Clearly that was used to display the Nike logo. I don’t see it with the other examples, where there is no design element 3 inches in any direction of the logos. 

     

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  8. 1 hour ago, BBTV said:

     

    That's literally my point.  The horn curves up, creating a perfect semi-framed space for the swoosh to live, making it essentially a logo.  If you change the swoosh to some other company's logo, it changes the look of the jersey in a way that's much bigger than way back in the day when sleeve advertisers switched between Russell, Puma, Wilson, et al, and their patches were just placed any old place.

     

    Basically a reverse of this
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    The swoosh is framed, and looks like it's a team logo.

     

    Worst offender:

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    Don’t know how putting a logo in a blank space is “framing” the logo when it isn’t being bordered by anything else but ok. They put it where every other manufacturer has put their logo as dictated by the NFL

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  9. 38 minutes ago, Sec19Row53 said:

    I don't think there's been a clear view that shows this. The 'game action' is an estimate of what they look like. I see red in the sleeve horn, and that would fit Nike's MO for how they handle the swoosh.

    You can see the Nike swoosh in the reflection.

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  10. 4 hours ago, Bomba Tomba said:

    Nah, different teams can use the same number, just not during the same race

     

    They will be in the entry lists as 50, 150, 250, and so on, even if the cars themselves only show a 50

    You’re wrong but believe what you want I guess.

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  11. 1 hour ago, BBTV said:

    The horn is basically a platform for the swoosh to live in, just like the Seahawks and Vikings have designs that highlight Nike’s advertisement. 
     

    It’s brilliant on Nike’s end, but lousy that it puts their brand on par or even above the team’s. 

    The swoosh is above the horn, not in it

  12. 4 hours ago, Silver_Star said:

    I just looked at it and I saw the stripes. Looks, hmmmmm. I wonder what the red pants stripes look like?

    They look like the rams pant stripe but red…

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  13. 4 hours ago, GrayJ12 said:

    I agree. It was such a fun race to watch. Seeing how the drivers adjusted and adapted to the changing conditions was great. Also, even though I have mixed opinions on Ty Gibbs, he did a great job, and he shows that he deserves a Cup seat.

    I was going through Twitter yesterday and so many people were comparing it to the '08 Indianapolis race. I'm just wondering how many of them actually watched that race and not a video about it on YouTube.

    The difference was the Indy race tires blew out, threw debris everywhere and caused cautions every 10 laps until nascar just started doing competition cautions every 8 laps. This race the tires  corded after 40 they ran on ice for 10 laps until they blew out and nascar let them make their way to pit road without throwing a caution because they didn’t have to. There was an issue with the tire and track combo but I’d rather see that than tires that don’t fall off and drivers run follow the leader all race. It’s a fine balance to get life out of the tire yet make them have the fall off needed during a run. A fuel run a Bristol should be about 150 laps, I’d like to see some drivers be able to get to that with other not conserving and falling off like a rock the last 20 laps but that’s a perfect world.

  14. Yea I would say it’s more a knock on the front office not giving him talent that’s needed vs. Tomlin over achieving giving them a reason not to. You know the Rooneys want to win and just haven’t put the guys in the front office to get that talent. What I find really interesting is how the narrative has shifted from Tomlin not being able to beat teams they should beat and playing down to talent, and underperforming when they had the triple B’s. They should have won atleast an AFC championship with those teams.

  15. Apparently it was the same tire as last fall, but the way they treated the track make it so the tires wouldn’t work into the track like it did with the pj1. Maybe just going back to the pj1 would help the tire issue, but I’d honestly want just a slightly harder tire to go maybe 80 laps before cording and sliding happening in between. 

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  16. 10 hours ago, Bomba Tomba said:

    More than likely they just allowed 23XI to use the number since they (TMT) aren't running the race anyway

     

    They could make that their thing like the Penske scallops, if it isn't already

     

    Subtle and doesn't change schemes much

    The numbers are leased from nascar each year. Clearly TMT didn’t renew their lease for the 50 meaning the team doesn’t plan on running this year, or they are going with a different number.

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