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FINALLY! I've been wanting them to incorporate red into the aways for a long time now. I'm happy just being a purple/gold team with the homes, but red is a big part of the team's USL history and should be around in some form.

2016's plenty recent, it was just... oh. oh no. oh god.

Really wish this had orange door numbers instead of blue. Feel like it would've tied the whole thing together. Still looks nice though

Big Machine 5 maybe? Only ran 2 races last year with Jade Buford but if Suarez comes with funding I can see them bringing it back.

I think FSU would get thrashed by Alabama and Georgia, and will likely be thrashed by whichever of Michigan or Washington they play. BUT What are we even doing here if we leave out an undefeated P5 champion? If we're valuing the results of imaginary games over real ones, why bother having a season at all? Just pick the "best 4" in July and get it over with. Alabama, Georgia, Ohio State, Michigan. There you go. Who needs to play games? I'm a Florida fan. I want FSU to miss out because it'd be hilarious if they did. But Vegas odds do not and should not decide the field, what you did over the course of the season decides it. We have three undefeated champions, and the two 12-1 champions played each other. This should be an incredibly easy decision that's only complicated because the one on the outside looking in is Alabama.

It’s unfortunate, I don’t think there’s any way FSU’s better than Alabama, but you can’t leave out an undefeated P5 champion. They earned it, but the playoff game will be very ugly.

Honestly, I think that history of success is part of the reason the city largely passed on the Guardians last year. Orlando loved the Renegades, then the league folded. Orlando loved the Thunder, then the league folded. Orlando loved the Rage, then the league folded. Orlando loved the Apollos, then the league folded. So why should we care about the Guardians? The league probably won't exist in a few years anyway. At least, that was the thinking. In a way it was a self-fulfilling prophecy now that the Guardians got passed up for the merger, but I doubt many will care too much.

I am, and I've heard people say it for a while whenever that combo gets brought up. I don't know who coined it first, and the only results on Google are the CCSLC and Reddit, but I know I've heard it multiple times in real life so yeah. I think it's our worst of the 3 home combos, but it still looks pretty good so I'm open to it as a once-per-season thing. Same thing with orange pants on the road. My personal "ideal" schedule would be - Biggest home game of the season plus Tennessee: O/B/B - Kentucky or some other blue dominant team: O/O/W - Homecoming: 1966 throwback W/B/W - One cupcake: O/B/O - All other games (should be 2 assuming a 7 game home slate): O/B/W

The longstanding superstition among Gator fans regarding orange/blue/orange is "look like Illinois, play like Illinois." IIRC the only win in that combo is 2016 North Texas. Granted, Florida plays like Illinois regardless of the combo now, but still.

I'm biased, but I'd like to nominate Florida-LSU as one of the week's best: Excellent color matchup between two classic uniforms under the lights. IMO the best possible look for this matchup. ...and with that said, let us never speak of this game ever again.

The thing is, a lot of the positives for Miami in free agency (weather, taxes, etc) also theoretically apply to Orlando and I don't think a single player has ever tried to force a trade here. I'm not arguing Orlando is more desirable, obviously we're not, but the gap isn't so wide that any Miami team will naturally become a top 3 FA destination while any Orlando team naturally becomes a bottom 5-10 one. It's the reputation of each organization that does that, and the Heat have only missed the playoffs 4 times since 2003. Players would see that and want a part of it no matter where the team is located.

That reason is the Oilers are gone and the Texans aren't. Flip the order - Texans are the original team that left, Oilers replaced them - and those teams would be paying tribute to the Texans.

Count me as one who would miss the Texans. I wasn't around for the Oilers (not even the Tennessee Oilers) so I have no attachment to them aside from "nice throwback" and the current Texans look is one of my favorites in the league. Textbook definition of a modern classic IMO. The logo is great, the uniforms are great, the colors are basic but work well, etc. I'm so disappointed that they're changing things up next year, they should look exactly like they do now (with the exception of bringing back red socks when they wear navy pants) for eternity.

The courts that work the best are the ones that are two-tone monochrome. Grizzlies, Mavericks, Jazz, Timberwolves, Hawks, Cavaliers, Nets, and Raptors. Cavs are by far the best because that one could probably pass for a normal court

Remember when the Bucks had to can their cream alternates because they'd blend in with the court and mess up the CGI sponsors? I guess that problem got fixed, because otherwise there's about to be a lot of players disappearing into the green (or black, or purple, or blue, etc) screen.

On the bright side, they've mirrored the 2022 increase in the size of the Florida wordmark (before, after) so it looks much more cohesive now, even with the different fill colors. My personal preference would be both endzones fully painted like the second example, but I'd also be fine with either making the Florida wordmark white or the Georgia one red.

For anyone keeping track, that's the 6th [City] FC (or something like it) in the last 8 expansion teams, and 10th overall: 1. FC Dallas (2004) 2. Toronto FC (2007) 3. New York City FC (2015) 4. Los Angeles FC (2018) 5. FC Cincinnati (2019) 6. Nashville SC (2020) 7. Austin FC (2021) 8. CF Montreal (2021) 9. Charlotte FC (2022) 10. San Diego FC (2025) Creativity is dead. Can't wait for Las Vegas FC and Phoenix FC in 2026

Seems like it was dropped after preseason, since this picture's from week 1 of 2014:

New home for Florida, away/alternates still TBA: The orange collar is terrible. Ruins an otherwise decent look with how badly it sticks out

I've always been curious - why was it so hard to make royal blue helmets back then? As far as I can tell the first time someone wore them was the 2000 Giants. I'm sure it took as long as it did because of tradition and they probably could've been made earlier, but still. That's ridiculous that it took that long for a royal team to match their helmet to the rest of their uniform.

Penn State wearing throwbacks for homecoming vs UMass

I would've preferred white helmets/pants in this case since black is an Oregon State color and red wouldn't contrast well with orange, but it'll still look fine enough.

It's official: SVG's coming back and will run a partial schedule in all 3 series next year. I think that's the right call - he's obviously good enough to be a threat at every road course, but it wouldn't be smart to throw him straight into full-time Cup with no experience running ovals. I expect he'll be FT Cup in 2025 if everything goes to plan.

With the classic stripes and the modern numbers, Miami has never looked better than they do right now. I'd be fine with a 2001 throwback every once in a while - that team was one of the greatest of all time and should be honored as such - but for the most part all that weird piping and side panels should stay in the 2000s where it belongs.

...oh no. Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh no.