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5 hours ago, DJT said:

Conrad did say to not get our hopes up about this rebrand though. So take this with a grain of salt. 

I'm honestly just expected the current City Jersey being promoted to the Icon and then a similar white and black set made for the Association and Statement jerseys.

On 4/30/2024 at 3:42 PM, Foxxtrot44 said:

I will accept the Yeti name on the condition that the aesthetics lean into the ski/winter sports styles of the late 80's and early 90's.
That means the Yeti will need to be in a cool pair of polarized sunglasses

and that the color scheme will be

 

Ryan Smith gets his highlighter color. Fans get a local culture connection. Kids get a silly name. Hockey purists get to choke on their tongues at the utter steeziness of it all. Win-Win-Win-Win.
 

I am not a crackpot.

I honestly don't hate this. And, I think for a winter sport team they should lean into the local winter/ski culture. 

14 hours ago, tBBP said:

 

Are you talking about these?

 

 

 

 

Yeah, trash-bagginess aside, I remember liking those when they first came out, simply because (for Denver) it was so new. That navy alternate was especially sharp. And of all the major-pro sports teams that chose to rebrand to some form of navy-and-light blue in the 2000s, Denver might have pulled it off the best. Sidenote: I think they were also the first to do the two-blue plus yellow...only to be followed the very next season by the dang Memphis Grizzlies (who actually used three different shades of blue back then, plus yellow, and now plus gray) and then the Tampa Bay Rays in '08. Of course the Jazz also rebranded to double-blue somewhere in the '00s, too. But I think the Nuggets really jumped thay trend off, even though the Tennessee Titans Snatit were the first pro team to do navy and light blue in the recent era. (I say that because the Pittsburgh Penguins also did the two-blue thing in like the '70s or something like that, I think briefly.)

 

Anyway, my point to all of that is that it was a good distinctive look for the time, but looking at it now, it didn't hold too well. What they have now is a cleaner set...even though it could use some tweaks to look a little less jumbled. I will say of the current brand that I greatly appreciate how their current team font is a faithful (and far better) update on the Aachen Bold they'd been using since like 1993 or something up through somewhere around like 2016 or something like that.

 

Maybe one day I'll write up a full synopsis on all this...but for now let's all appreciate the current nuggetjacking now taking place.

Not to mention, I believe the Nuggets were also the first NBA club to start the trend of simply recoloring the logo instead of designing a new one? Or was it the Pistons? If I remember correctly this was because the NBA began charging something like $500,000 for logo changes?  Of course, of the significant changes the Jazz (twice), Hawks, Wizards, Bobcats, Bucks, Raptors, etc.  followed suit. 

That said, the 2003 change for the Nuggets was much better than the original logo from 1993. 

On 4/25/2024 at 10:31 AM, WBeltz said:

The NFL also has a more restrictive rule set (for the most part) when it comes to alternate uniforms. So there is that. While the NBA can wear the alternates so many times, it does seem like teams just like to pick those ones to play with over their more streamlined uniforms.

Yeah, the laxing of the helmet design rules has me a LITTLE worried about the NFL. Rules are meant to be broken. 

4 hours ago, CreamSoda said:

I’m fine with Yetis.  Just don’t make it a super cartoony logo.  
 

 

Agreed. If this is the name that wins, they should take a page out of the Kraken playbook and not make the Yeti the focal point. Hide him like the Kraken do and make him mysterious.

3 hours ago, Digby said:

Honestly I really dig the beehive/mountain combo design motifs that DetroitHockey has been using in coverage, and it's a sharp color scheme too. But I suppose a bees theme are too Blue Jackets (and opens the door to something corny like the Utah Buzz), the mountains and colors are too Avalanche, and the mountains are doubly beaten to the punch by Real Salt Lake's new jersey.

 

(Honestly didn't even realize Utah changed their flag until all of this -- new one is pretty good!) 

 

 

It's better than the previous flag, but pretty despised locally.  

3 hours ago, tscuzzy said:

Love how the NBA playoffs are a complete free-for-all with no logic or order to the choice of uniforms game-to-game, and then you have Bucks-Pacers where both teams are wearing the exact same jersey for the first four games of the series. The lack of consistency is maddening.

I don't mind the Pacers/Bucks color vs. color match-ups, but yeah ... there needs to be some general playoff rules in the NBA.

• No City or Throwback Editions during the playoffs.
• No Association (or white) Edition worn by the road team.
• Color vs. Color is cool during the first couple of rounds. 
• Conference and NBA Finals should be strictly White at Home and Color on Road. 

I'm a little surprised that they didn't give the Jets 2.0 the Jets 1.0 history. Maybe they would in 5 years if the Coyotes don't come back?

Yeah, I have many questions here as well.

1 hour ago, The_Admiral said:

Lake Michigan has fish, Great Salt Lake doesn't

Not that it helps the case for the name, but seagulls eat trash. Here in Utah you're more likely to see seagulls at the dump rather than the GSL. 

1 hour ago, CreamSoda said:

Leaks were real;

 

 

Oh man, I am excited! ARENA FOOTBALL IS BACK BABY!

Reason #1 why the Utah Fury is a TERRIBLE decision 

40 minutes ago, mjarvie said:

If you're not going to go with Eagles or Grizzlies, then I say go with Gulls. I know a lot of people would question that but it is the state bird. Or go with the state animal, Elk. Any of those four are simple and solid. 

I am in this same boat. I am not a fan of the Utah Elk, but the Utah Gulls works on both levels of being the state bird and being the name of a past MiLB team. Just don't know how easy it would be to wrestle from San Diego?

11 minutes ago, Mingjai said:

Back when I used to drive between Utah (school) and Idaho (home), I’m pretty sure each time I was driving by a polygamist farm somewhere between Plymouth and the Idaho border. I recognized some of the farm structures from a news story on polygamists. 

Yeah, that's a different sect of polygamists unrelated to the FLDS. The Kingston Clan is definitely as messed up as the Jeffs/FLDS group. 

34 minutes ago, habsfan1 said:

Rocky Mountain Xtreme

 

 

Part of the mountain range is in Utah, so the name could work.

I won't lie ... I had the same thought.

Plus, Salt Lake City MORE so in the mountains than Denver is. Denver is basically Kansas.

Fascinating. Might as well put some long sleeves on these jerseys and call it a day for next season ...

18 hours ago, VancouverFan69 said:

Besides coming up with a big league professional name instead of a singular Tier II name, I do hope the team uses "Salt Lake City" instead of the state identity. The team can be referenced to as SLC in short. Leave Utah for the Jazz and a future NFL team

The nickname is going to be "Utah" after the state legislature approved a funding bill for a new arena. One of the stipulations (same as a funding bill for a baseball stadium) is that tenants use "Utah" in their nickname.

Source

I do prefer Salt Lake over Utah. 

1 hour ago, The_Admiral said:

 

I have no excitement for this. I have major reservations about a market of 2.5 million with heavily directional sprawl where the only other team in the market runs concurrently and is almost as established as the Church of England, where hockey does not have a long history of success, where the arena has the same NBA-first sightlines that doomed Phoenix in the first place. The only advantage Salt Lake City has over Quebec City is staying on Mountain Time.

 

But the Coyotes have been on life support for 15 years, the league has cockteased four or five different cities now only to keep doubling down on stupid, and every owner since the days of league control has run out of money, not paid taxes, or both. Enough already. I'm old and tired. Just let this end.

I agree with the concerns, however, I think it helps having both the Jazz and NHL team owned by the same person. 

10 hours ago, Gary said:

 

SLIDES INTO ALEX'S DMs ...

On 4/2/2024 at 2:25 PM, DJT said:

i'd imagine it will be pretty minimal.

Can they get any more minimal?

I love the bright yellow. I just hate the design elements of ... well ... nothingness. 

If the design is based off this year's City Jersey ... meh.

17 hours ago, The_Admiral said:

 

I feel the same way about the Iowa Wolves having a superior rendering of the Timberwolves logo. It's truer to the original logo that people love for some reason.

 

Mixed feelings on several levels with the D-league San Diego Clippers, though. The first is that it would have looked better in the original light blue and orange if you're going to go back to that name. The other is, should they have gone back to that name? There's something that doesn't sit right with me about suggesting a departed major-league team's old IP for a minor-league replacement. I felt the same way about the Connecticut Whale as farm team for the Rags. It's kind of a dunk on them that they'll never be invited back to the big table, but they can live on as a feeder for a city you used to not like.

Yeah, I am a little conflicted with the name as well. I think it works out okay for a few reasons ...

• It's been 40 years since the team left San Diego.
• Donald Sterling doesn't own the Clippers anymore.
• There's not much of a demand for a NBA team in San Diego.
• Nostalgia points will sell some tickets.

Granted, I don't feel like this would work in Kansas City, Seattle and Vancouver. But, maybe Cincinnati? Baltimore? 

2 hours ago, projectjohn said:

The Pistons are using horizonal NOB today for the 20th anniversary celebration of their 2004 championship, proving it is possible on the Nike template. I wish they'd go back to it full-time.

 

 

20 years? Oy. I feel old. That feels like yesterday.

On 3/13/2024 at 5:51 PM, BottomlessPitt said:

Looks like we have two competing groups for NHL expansion to Atlanta (Both in Alpharetta) . Vernon Krause with his South Forsyth (The Gathering) plan and former NHLer Anson Carter and his North Point Mall property site plan. They're about 5 miles from each other. 

Build both arenas. Once Atlanta 3.0 moves to Quebec just award Atlanta 4.0 to the other group ... soooo Saskatoon can get in on the NHL fun.

On 3/8/2024 at 3:00 PM, Digby said:

 

Vermont is number one on this list, which is a searingly obvious tell that the methodology is too flawed to take seriously.

 

Real numbers say SLC's public transit usage is pretty anemic. Not really out of the ordinary for American cities but I'm not seeing this as a special selling point necessarily.

Being a resident I'd say it is pretty anemic compared to bigger cities. It's getting better ... if that means anything.