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2 minutes ago, McCall said:

Quick rough job here (there's not way to type that without hearing "Phrasing! Boom!" in your head). Wouldn't it have made more sense to have the sleeves like this and consistent through each uniform? Snow-capped mountain against a "sunset", so-to-speak?

"Why don't you just make 10 louder, and make 10 be the top number, and make THAT a little louder?"

The helmet stripes, the 5280 nose bumpers, the triangles in the numbers thinning out as they "ascend" ...  these are excellent examples of violations of the Know When To Stop principle.

3 minutes ago, The_Admiral said:

I'm glad that the triangles are also Tactical Armpits.

Tactical Armpits will be the name of my band.  When I am in a band.

45 minutes ago, Sodboy13 said:

"This bold reinvention of a classic logo reflects the consistent organizational direction over the last half-century, and our commitment to it in the future."

"Reflects" is right!

That Stalliions helmet logo has been tweaked.  The mane runs further to back of the helmet than it used to.  Was that mentioned anywhere here before?

3 hours ago, TBGKon said:

I feel like it's already been trending this way unofficially.  I've seen a handful of games on Fox that were all AFC and vice versa with all NFC on CBS.

Here's a pretty good explanation of the 2006-2022 "flexing" system:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Football_League_on_television#Flexible_scheduling

1 minute ago, HOOVER said:

No way this is just a Panthers-style color update.  This almost sounds like they swapped Cardinals into the Panthers press release.  Source?

 

No way they’d go through all this trouble to keep the Reebok template.

Bingo!  From the Panthers' website:

Saying the Yankees have occupied Yankee Stadium for 100 years is like saying Elizabeth Taylor was married for 33 years.

10 minutes ago, TruColor said:

You’d never guess what the Orange will be called…I had to look it up in the dictionary to figure out what it is

"Mar-A-Lago Blush"

September 8, 1985, Week 1 of the NFL regular season -- Bud Grant returned to coach the Vikings after Les Steckel went one-season-and-done with a 3-13 record in 1984.  The Vikings hosted the defending Super Bowl champion 49ers for the season opener.   I was at that game with my dad and brothers.  We all expected the Vikes to get creamed by a clearly superior 49ers team, but there was still excitement at the Metrodome thanks to the return of the legendary coach.  The game was low-scoring in the first half, with the Vikings getting shut out, but Minnesota forced 6 turnovers, scored 7 points in the third to tie it and another 21 in the fourth to pull off the upset.  After a year of seeing the Vikings getting rolled over in game after game, it was thrilling to see them come to life and dominate a great team, even if only for a few minutes.   I've still never had more fun at a game.

RIP Coach Grant.

Happy to see Houston's pants looking a lot more "just" gray than the gunmetal blue-gray they appeared to be in the promotional pics.

If Greg Olsen gets that #1 Fox analyst spot, I hope he's able to break the habit of ending so many statements with "Right?"  Last season, it became one of those "once you hear it you can't unhear it" distractions for me.

16 minutes ago, leopard88 said:

the Stars and Stallions were basically twins.  

Which is why I give a thumbs up to this iteration of the Stars going with yellow rather than gold.  It's garish, but I appreciate the attempt at variety.

Breakers showing off the most dramatic re-interpretation of the 80s helmet graphics so far.

Are Tampa Bay's pants identical to Houston's away pants?

From the "You Had One Job" Department:   espn.com this morning has their "On This Date" item on the sidebar about the 1952 NFL Dallas Texans' one and only win over the Bears, and accompanying it is a picture of the Dallas Texans of the AFL playing against the Buffalo Bills on September 30, 1962.  

For a good series of topical pics, consider the Vikings' sad history of recycled star quarterbacks in the last 25 years or so:

Archie Manning:

Jim McMahon:

Warren Moon:

Randall Cunningham:

Jeff George:

And then there was that last guy, He Who Shall Not Be Posted.