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On the jerseys, I always thought the rounded "P" started with the "stitching" line in the middle and then it disappeared. Based on these pictures it looks like they kind of went back-and-forth. I wonder why. I know that the image of a baseball is not always allowed (not sure on the exact rule...must be based somewhat on how realistic it is) so I'd always figured they were forced to ditch that on the jersey (though it stayed on the hat). But based on that 1990ish gray jersey, it looks like it came back.

I do think r/w/b is a strange combo for the Wizards (partly offset by it being a good combo for DC). The Name Wizards doesn't work great with the DC imagery, so I agree with your sentiment. That said, I like the r/w/b and DC imagery better than I did any of the more appropriate colors/logos of the original Wizards incarnation. All of this would be great with a name like Capitals (taken), Nationals (taken), Senators (used in the past; twice), or Americans (used a few times). And I don't think there's enough history (and certainly not enough good history) to cling to "Wizards." But I fear them choosing "Washington Monuments" or something. I definitely would like a name change or a change back to something more like the original incarnation of the name.

Good ones. I am old enough to remember smoking in the stands at outdoor venues and it's amazing at this point to think that the person in the 18-inch-wide seat next to your 18-inch-wide seat could smoke. I am not sure when that stopped everywhere...probably late-1980s. In a way, it was worse at indoor venues. The smoky concorse is one of my memories of the Met Center, home of the North Stars, where I attended games from about age 8 to 17. It was awful. And then the Metrodome. PA announcer Bob Casey, before each game would say "Noooooo smoking at the Metrodome!" (Cheers). But the concourse had smoking and non-smoking areas. Invariably right on the "smoking" side of the yellow line would be three people blowing their smoke into the so-called "non-smoking" area.

This might be #1 for me. They would just cut to 60 Minutes or the mid-day local news break while games were still being played and would focus almost entirely on the “feature game” regardless of what was going on in it and the other games. Unpopular opinion, but I don’t miss baseball infields on football fields. I don’t miss the NFL’s sideline catch rule where the official tried to determine whether the receiver would have landed in bounds if not pushed by the defender. I don’t miss the pre-BCS national championship vote where bowl tie-ins hampered the best matchups. LA as the NFL’s stadium extortion threat.

Pretty much everything about late 1980s NHL. Most teams had their best looks then. White at home. Prime Wayne Gretzky. Me going to North Stars games. The North Stars. The Whalers. The Nordiques. Goalies wearing #1. ESPN/SportsCenter's peak (mid-1990s). NFL Prime Time. The NFL being popular but not overwhelmingly so (being #1 in the sports news 350 days/year). The blissful ignorance about the long-term impacts of football on quality of life. Big Ten basketball with no conference tournament.

Admittedly, I didn't think of it as a "throwback" (which I should have considering it's a third...). Of course, taking that, minus the white stripe, making a white version, and calling them both primaries would be perfection.

I never noticed, until just now, the black basketball seams in the flame.

I think it's the helmet that really draws me into the kelly green. I always thought the shell was so nice (and I also preferred that wing). They never quite nailed the jersey. They went from far too much sleeve striping (and too large of holes) to black trim. The Cunningham-era black trim was servicable, but it just looks so nice with gray trim. That throwback concept on the right is nearly* perfect. *I'm not a fan of the white stripe at the bottom of the sleeve. The early 1980s thick white stripe did not work and I would not emulate it. Otherwise, (Take my money now meme).

Every time you post an Eagles concept I'm reminded of how great kelly/gray is.

I generally agree. I love, love, love the yellow shell, traditional stripes, and green mask. I like the color combo but the jerseys leave something to be desired...for me it would be yellow outlines on the numbers (an unpopular opinion in itself, I know). The uniform overall is solid, but not top-five. The logo is definitely overrated and if they were not America's Team, would be an afterthought. Actually it's this board that moved me from simply thinking that to realizing that it's even worse because having a "G" for Green Bay is like having an "N" for New York or an "S" for San Francisco. (cue "it stands for 'Greatness'"). Not that they'd change it now. But the logo is maybe the worst part of their identity.

It’s still amazing to me that that an expansion team was able to move into that dump with a 30-year lease starting in 1998. That is only three years before contraction talk started and after completion of current ballparks in Cleveland, Baltimore, and Colorado, not to mention the now-defunct park in Arlington.and several high-revenue parks (Houston, Milwaukee, SF, Detroit) were under construction.

Thank you for the note (Title? Whatever it's called) on your former name. That should be required for one month on any name change.

In the old days I should have changed my name to Politic. Between this and FiddleStick, it feels like a whole new world.

The Cincinnati Bengals were my second-favorite team throughout my childhood and into young adulthood because of their uniforms. In fact, as a kid, most of my "second tier" teams were based on uniforms. Now that I don't really have second-favorite teams, I am still not above cheering for the team with the better uniform. I don't want the Orioles to win a World Series because it will strengthen the hold the Cartoon Bird has on the identity. I went to Miami two years ago to see my alma mater, Wisconsin, play Miami in the Orange Bowl. I felt absolutely cheated that 1) it was my first ever bowl game and the end zones were not painted in team colors (just a white-line criss cross pattern) and 2) that Miami wore black uniforms and helmets...because I love their regular color scheme. We got down to Miami (where I'd never been), enjoyed the weather, went to my first bowl game, and got the "W." And I allowed these things to put a dent in it...mainly while I was at the game, but still.

I read Orioles part and had my curser over the "like" button. The first standing bird, is by far my favorite hat of theirs...the almost perfectly round head was a bit of a miss but but I like how it was simple and just used black, orange, and white By the end it was trying to hard to look like a photograph. The cartoon bird seems minor-league to me. However... Your opinion on the Angels is unpopular thanks to the Winged-A/periwinkle days. My opinion on the Angels, that this is the BEST they've ever looked is also unpopular because it's too red. I love it. It sets them apart from other red/blue teams and I think the "A" has a certain "boldness" that the original pointy A didn't have. And, regardless of anyone's ranking, I have another unpopular opinion. Gray halo over gold halo...by a lot. 1/2 a like...

I can kinda get behind this one. Actually, I can almost totally agree with you. I definitely agree with you on the A's. I think the darker green plays well with the yellow. I think kelly green works better if there isn't another vivid color along with it. And I am with you on the Eagles; they were definitely better in kelly green because the silver/gray (and later, black) didn't clash like the A's yellow. I can go either way on the Jets but I do acknowledge that there's almost a lacking darkness in the 1980s uniforms. Then again, the North Stars were great with vivid green and yellow...so I can't even be consistent.

I had no idea that Star was in the R until just now.

Eagles throwback is so, so nice. Of course, it should not be a throwback. It should be their primary - take the all-white stripe off and go with just the w/g/w shoulders and perfection is achieved.

Maybe I have the unpopular opinion. I've hated everything about the Ravens look since day 1. Unpopular opinion: When named after an animal, a team doesn't have to use the colors of that animal.* The Detroit Tigers are fine with blue and orange. It would have been OK for the Ravens to come up with a color scheme that didn't try to emulate the colors of the Raven. It's thanks to this very board that I even knew ravens were tinted with purple. But they could have gone with Red and blue, green and yellow, black and red for all I care. Those all have better contrast than black and purple. The two stripes down the middle the helmet? Can't really see them. Unpopular opinion (?) black and purple is a bad combo. *I'd even call it a double-edged sword for the Bengals. They nailed it in 1982, but the current look with the white side panels is trying too hard to emulate tigers. The Ravens is a great name for a team from Baltimore. But visually, I've never been on board.

I often see Yankee jerseys with NOB. I think fans just like NOBs and they're a better seller.

I wish more goalies wore number 1. This used to be somewhat popular, but it seems like a rarity, now, at least in the NHL.

I don't know whether they'd still have them or not...I did not like the design, but the color-balance on that white jersey was better than they usually did when they had that color scheme. And I agree, the black one was awful...the two color schemes did not even look like the same team. While I don't like the college design, a green one with yellow secondary and black tertiary could have been as nice as the white version. What they went with what not good at all.

I wonder if the the sticker shock on replicas is small enough that people are more likely to just buy them at the mall or the stadium. The sticker shock on authentics might send people looking for "bargains." More likely, I suppose, is the counterfeiters are going to charge roughly the same either way, so they may as well market for the bigger draw.

I liked that Seahawks color scheme, too. I am sure this is unpopular, but I think it's the best helmet they've ever had and the dark jersey was the best jersey they ever had. For some reason, though, they never really made it work with the pants. The monochrome was bad. The white/white was bad. Mixing and matching did not work out all that much better. That said, I wish they still had it. The color scheme was great.

I think the T-Wolves do, as well. But it doesn't bother me because as I think it makes sense to say "Canada's" team without saying "Canada" at all.