RyanMcD29

2 hours ago, FSUViking said:

 

RedZone isn't active yet.......is it?

They do a test run every preseason with a four hour block during one of the nights

NFL RedZone fiiiinnalllyy got new graphics to match the NFL Network's redesign from last year. No more circa 2008 scorebugs and the like

In the broken record category, NBC's still not converting to the SNF graphics full time as the EPL starts with the usual graphics.

Did NBC spend all that time and energy on a package to only be used on NFL telecasts or are they just taking their sweet time to implement it to everything else? Not that it's a bad thing as both look great and are better than their big 4 counterparts, just odd how they've done this rollout given in the past they do them all at the same time

Not to beat the dead horse, but NBC's graphics are still sticking around for NASCAR, so the Super Bowl graphics are still going to be on the shelf until NFL season at this juncture.

Given Staten Island, shocked Heroes didn't win

(sorry, don't have the energy to draw a 5 minute hastily made logo of a hero as in food hero dressed in an NYPD and/or FDNY uniform swinging a baseball hat)

So the Syracuse Chiefs will be the... Syracuse Devices tomorrow night. Yes, with a logo of a shoe size measurer with eyes and a mouth and feet.

http://www.localsyr.com/news/local-news/syracuse-chiefs-making-name-and-logo-change/1208505530?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter_NewsChannel9

I like ESPN's new baseball scorebug but it needs to have the bases where a runner isn't on it as white or something. Got confusing thinking the bases were loaded the first time I turned it on

Reading this week's Down Goes Brown grab bag and JESUS CHRIST IT'S LIKE THEY WANT THE LOZO TERRIBLE THINKPIECES TO BE EVERYWHERE

The other thing that irks me with Lozo is that you more or less can't find a hockey podcast outside The Bobcast, 31 Thoughts, or Steve Dangle that doesn't have him co-hosting somehow. "Oh cool, Down Goes Brown's finally got a podca... OH COME ON WHY'S LOZO IN THIS ONE TOO"

On February 7, 2018 at 12:04 PM, RyanMcD29 said:

Speaking of Fox, curious to see what they're going to do for the NASCAR scorebug with the new package

WEEEEELLLLLLLPPPPPPPPP

given it's qualifying runs this practice, this better just be the qualifying scorebug because otherwise this is them repeating their initial 2014 mistake all over again

I could see NBC either waiting til after the Olympics for the full rollout or, as you guys have been saying, waiting for the Stanley Cup Playoffs for hockey and going from there on a sport by sport basis like Fox tends to do

Speaking of Fox, curious to see what they're going to do for the NASCAR scorebug with the new package

so first little bit that they showed before the NFL Films special doesn't seem to overloaded on italics and it looks really sharp. We'll see more of it as the day progresses to make a bigger judgment, but so far so good

1 hour ago, buzzcut said:

If the following scoreboard is any indication, NBC may have gone there, but for the gradients in the score:

That's way better than anyone else has gone in recent redesigns and keeps the primary/secondary color thing NBC had going that I loved. I approve

The Syracuse Chiefs are going to rebrand as the Syracuse Mets when they take over in 2019

I dunno, think they should keep the Chiefs and just have Binghamton go back to the Mets but

I agree with that sentiment. When they first announced the move to Barclays I was very much in the camp of "Better Brooklyn than Kansas City" and it helped provide a temporary stop while something got figured out here in Nassau. It served its purpose and in the end all worked out.

Of course, if they didn't botch up the Coliseum renovation this could've been figured out a lot sooner. But I ain't complaining one bit about this as it secures the Islanders here on the Island.

Yes, I know Brooklyn's on geographical Long Island  

26 minutes ago, the admiral said:

Yeah, two weeks where he wrote like thirty songs that went "USED TO SELL CRACK IN THE SUBWAY, NOW I OWN THE NETS AT BARCLAYS" and we all nodded our heads and said "yes, this is a musician who articulates the human condition." At least he wasn't ranting that Jews control the real estate yet. And, I mean, the Nets, it's the "awwwww, the Denver Broncos?" Simpsons gag but not played for laughs.

My god every song off of Blueprint 3 and Watch the Throne managed to throw in a Nets reference. And don't get me started on playing as the Nets in NBA 2K13.

In the meantime, although as an Islander fan I always wait til things are officially official, let's go with this

Looks like we might get some clarity on the Islanders' arena (or NYCFC's stadium) situation this week

I hated ESPN's college basketball graphics the first night of the season, but it's growing a bit on me as it seems like they've done a lot of effort for each school in creating unique sequences and stuff, so there is that. Still wish ESPN could just pick one graphic package and apply it to all sports rather than having 5 different ones but alas.

Also one thing to lookout for in the coming weeks may or may not be NBC. Usually on a Super Bowl year they break out the new graphics for the Winter Classic and Wild Card weekend rather than waiting for the Super Bowl itself. The last time they updated they also did a soft launch of their new scorebug on NBCSN a week or so around Christmas. So something to keep an eye on for the next few weeks there. Personally I'd rather them stick to what they have given I love how much they work the primary and secondary colors into everything, but that's generally not how sports TV works these days with the Super Bowl graphics changeup.

Speaking of the mid-90's NBC graphics, do I remember correctly that the 49ers had some weird curvy divide between the gold and the red for their block?

2 hours ago, the admiral said:

"The Golden Knights Get Creative" is halfway to an Always Sunny title card gag

Bill Foley comes out of nowhere in your kitchen going "WHAT'S YOUR FAVOURITE IDEA? Mine is being creative!"

Some real screwed up stuff happens after the sword gets pulled out and then he agrees to never be creative again

The FoxBox looks good on baseball (well, minus the K-Zone), not good on hockey

Reading that Dave Lozo was fired by an outlet made me realize "how many :censored:ing websites is Dave Lozo freelancing for anyway, in addition to being on every single non-Bobcast hockey podcast?"

So it looks like at long last NFL Network has updated their graphics package after having pretty much the same one from 2009

...why yes it's simple and blocky with black as a base color how did you guess?

EDIT: Screengrab for reference

Not sure if there's going to be much changes to the graphics besides the rebrand to NBC Sports, as the CSN's have been using NBC graphics for a few years anyway.

Would be nice for SNY to update over to the NBC set, though. Also would be interesting to see if NBC does their Super Bowl year graphics revamp earlier with that in mind or if they wait til the Winter Classic like they usually do

Not really anything we didn't know, but Bettman confirms the Isles are going to put in a bid for the Belmont site

1 hour ago, Around the Horn said:

The Sabres are on MSG? I can kinda understand the Devils and Islanders but the Sabres?!

Upstate NY also has MSG and uses its own feed for the Sabres and some other local programming