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10 hours ago, DustDevil61 said:

With the Utah team name voting slowing down after a week (at most), you would think that each round of voting could be trimmed back to a week (at most) without losing a step, with a couple days to start up the next round. Even leaving a full week between each round (including Rounds 1 and 2), trimming 20 names to 8 names at Round 2 and going from there would yield a winner in mid-July, if my math is correct.  That means a team name would be in place well before training camp while keeping the fanbase engaged.

 

Basically, I'm not exactly sure what this foot-dragging on an official identity "well into the first season" thing is supposed to accomplish outside of manufacturing logistics (thanks Fanatics) or favoring certain names over others. Frankly, I find it (and the current radio silence from the team) baffling; you only get one chance to make a first impression, no matter the market.

It kind of reads on the team's website that we won't get the next round until later in the summer? If that's the case, a part of me wonder if the team will present some logos and color options for a Top 8 or 4 names?

3 hours ago, tBBP said:

 

Totally off to the side, but I'm curious as to how many people know the real story as to how Utah got it's "Beehive State" nickname in the first place...

 

(Hint: it had nothing to do with actual bees--at least not directly...)

The answer always points back to the Mormons.

3 hours ago, Digby said:

Conference Finals LockerVision's up...

 

Minnesota is wearing white throwbacks at home, white current-era jerseys on the road. Mavericks wearing navy for all of them except G2, where the black City jersey gets out again.

 

Indiana is sticking with the yellow jerseys both at home and on the road. Boston is wearing white at home for G1, black at home G2, green for the away games. (Yellow vs green always is one of my favorite matchups so at least there's that.)

 

We're circling weirdly close to soccer-style "primary" vs "clash" jerseys here.

 

I'm more than okay with the Pacers sticking with the gold jersey.

1 hour ago, MCM0313 said:

Please don’t normalize the Cavs’ black-with-huge-logo abominations. They won a title in them but they’re not “normal”. They’re hideous. Cavs in wine uniforms would be normal. 

But, the question is ... what made them hideous? Was it the design or the sleeves?

The design itself (besides being BFBS) isn't THAT bad. The sleeves killed it.

5 hours ago, Germanshepherd said:

I wasn’t a big fan of the Timberwolves OG throwbacks until this playoff run. I still prefer the KG trees set, but it’s a damn solid set.
 

The green and blue are balanced so well, it’s basic without being boring. 

I'm in different on which look I like better, but it's just nice to see the Wolves WIN in these jerseys, because they are solid. It blows my mind with the fact that if the T'Wolves win out and win the championship they'll have won more games in these playoffs than the whole 1991-92 season.  

19 hours ago, JerseyJimmy said:

it doesn't truly become an unlikable dynasty until the aesthetics are boring.

 

 

I still wish they would have gone with the Las Vegas Stars to go in line with the (Utah) Starzz, (San Antonio) Silver Stars and Stars names along with the former MiLB team Las Vegas Stars. 

10 hours ago, pepis21 said:

Why not Toronto Huskies? Also you can reuse Ted Stepien ideas and called them Towers or Tornados.

I like the idea. But, naming a women's team after a dog mascot just sets them up for some unflattering nicknames.

17 hours ago, tscuzzy said:

Ban city uniforms in the playoffs that have a completely different color scheme than what a team usually wears.  What's the point of building an identity just to put on a "We believe warriors" costume for a huge game 5?

I agree. However, I am okay with the City Jerseys that are in team colors with no stupid HEAT CULTURE-like text. Additionally, I hate road teams wearing white on the road more so in the playoffs. I'm fine color vs. color, but I wish teams would keep things a little bit more traditional.

4 hours ago, WBeltz said:

OKC's City gives off big "Warriors 2009" vibes to me. Maybe it's the colors that are similar. 

 

 

The Thunder really need to lean more into orange. But, generally speaking, as generic as their logo and jerseys may be ... the team colors are solid.

48 minutes ago, ~Bear said:

I also wish the team would go with “Salt Lake” rather than “Utah.” I understand that Utah probably has a wider appeal for the target audience, but Salt Lake just sounds better imo. 

I prefer Salt Lake as well, but the funding bill for the arena upgrades, etc. require any team to use the "Utah" moniker. 

Color me shocked if Yeti doesn't win.

On 3/5/2023 at 8:05 PM, Tomkesler said:

Met an old man in my neighborhood earlier today and he was wearing a Seahawks jacket. It must have been 40 years old. 
 

anyone ever seen this Seahawks logo before? I’ve lived in the PNW my whole life and never seen it. 
 

kinda looks like Sam the Eagle.

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.