jonny24

I too wouldn't be surprised if it's sublimated on the kits. I was thinking about hats/polos.

 

 

Don't like the Arrows rebrand at all really - exception being the wordmark.

 

1. Departure from the Blue, White, Gold colour scheme they've been building up, quite nicely IMO. Don't like Red+White+Blue when we're the only Canadian team in a US league, and there are alraedy 2 otehr RWB teams.

2. Ham-fisted "Canada's Team" approach every single logo in this country doesn't need a red maple leaf. The Arrows are not team Canada (thank God), and people know where Toronto is. Or if they don't they're too dumb to matter.

3. Inconsistency - the wordmark font and wings aren't in the crest at all. It looks like two separate rebrands that share colours.

4. The crest is too busy and too cartoony. It's going to look horrible when embroidered. The current TA monogram looks classy as hell.

5. Before, the use of "Arrow" was flexible. It could be the jet, it could be bow+arrow, it could be whatever. Arrows is really good name that just needed a bit of tie in to something so it wasn't just generic. The Avro Arrow didn't need to be the whole identify. 

On 5/28/2023 at 9:37 AM, MJWalker45 said:

Hamilton still wore plain black pants yesterday. I guess the new pants aren't all in yet?

I think I've read before that they might use old uniforms in training camp, so not necessarily a sign of things to come.

Is every team going to get a new jersey this year?

 

https://ticats.ca/article/tiger-cats-announce-alternate-made-in-the-hammer-brand

On 9/21/2021 at 7:04 PM, paulwoods13 said:

It's not about modesty, it's about uniformity. Sports uniforms work best when there is a consistent look for all players, IMO. And socks, while drawing a lot less attention than  pants, jerseys and helmets, are a very important part of the look of football. Or at least they were before so many teams inexplicably switched to wearing pyjama bottoms.    

 

I guess I just think that wearing the same jersey and pants is enough uniformity to do the job. Nobody is goin to wonder if you're on the other team just from your socks falling down.

 

 

I'd assume the barbed wire was to do with cattle ranching. 

 

And I can't say I care how high or low their shorts or socks are. This isn't Catholic school where we need to cover up for modesty.

16 hours ago, Jer15 said:

I want to like the new Cambridge blue pants…I just don’t. 
It just feels weird and I can’t explain why. 

 I think they're a little too dark. But I don't hate them.

On 8/17/2021 at 5:42 PM, IceCap said:

I would normally agree but the Argos have been using an A monogram since the 1960s. If not earlier. The team, dating back to the 1870s, identified as ARC (Argonaut Rowing Club) Football Club. So they have a long history of emphasizing the A over the T.  

 

Just to add to this. Another factor was that there were multiple football clubs in Toronto competing in various leagues up until the 50s/60s. So there weren't the Toronto club, they were a Toronto club.  But, they were the Argonaut club. So, "A" logos.

21 hours ago, DNAsports said:

I gotta be the only member of these boards to not like that logo at all. The shield is way better

 

I never got it besides its nostalgia factor.

 

But as a Ticats fan, I fully support the Argos adopting a corny-ass logo. 

 

So... well done!

Just found this, and love the overall series!

 

My thoughts on each team:

 

BS: The update was a good upgrade, I just don't know if I'd ever be a fan of those "swoopy" stripes. Looks a little 90's soccer to me. 

 

Edmonton: Solid uniforms, the white EE definitely improved the logo. My other thought before I got to the update was to have the stripes beside the E's be a thinner lineweight, but the white accomplishes the same thing. LOVE the overall combination of the EE with aligning stripes.

 

Calgary: Like the concept, I think the logo could stand to be a little more flattened and simplified. Doesn't need all the shadows. Overall solid.

 

Sask: Classic uniform, enough said. The Wheat/Football secondary is marvelous. The primary I wouldn't say is an upgrade, to me it looks slightly like an event logo. 

 

Bombers: Mostly a miss for me. I like their current royal blue over your more nay-ish choice, and the RCAF roundel is a bit close to Jets territory. It does have me wondering about using a Rugby League-style chevron to incorporate the military chevrons. Also I hate the Bombers, you'll see why...

 

Hamilton: My team!! Overall not bad. It might a trick of the borders but it looks like the logo on black is at a different angle than the one on yellow? Decent, tough looking tiger head though. The wordmark looks pretty close to the old 90s/2000s-ish one. I can't say it's an upgrade over the current block wordmarks based on the old serif "H". I don't mid tiger stripes but would keep it to one element - thinking pant stripe.

 

Toronto: Well done! Something new, classy, fits their overall branding perfectly. I would believe that was real if I saw it on social media. 

 

Ottawa: Love the plaid, love the wordmarks. Something about the axe-head-R doesn't quite work for me, although I do like the concept. I think their lumberjack's name is Joe.

 

Montreal: A very good update of their previous set. Arguably what a lot of people would have preferred when the new bi-colour set came out.

 

Schooners - Nice logo! interesting colours that work. Not sure I dig the number font but that's all I can really come up with.

 

Quebec: I lie the colours and Identity. I think you could take you logo and take it two ways. A primary with more of the focus on the canoe and paddler, and a secondary with the Q/Compass. 

 

London: Purple makes sense, both from a league colour scheme perspective and from appealing to a Western U fanbase. The logo does feel a bit too "college" compared to the rest of the league to me.

 

Portland: Knocked it out of the park. I could also see the secondary C logo but with the fish head working pretty well.

 

Boise: Solid, i like the earthy tones. Moose antler helmet logo is incredible fun.

 

St. Louis: Not sure how you could fix the logo but I don't think it's there yet as far as recognizing the shape. Interesting identity on it's own although I'm not the biggest fan on non-noun names.

 

Hartford: Very cool, nice job tying in the Whalers aesthetic. I think the Acorn/Football has a lot of potential as a larger logo on it's own.

 

Orlando: Very good uniform I'm getting some sunny/frosty Third Reich vibes from the bird logo though?

 

Columbus: Just not "digging" it.... I know you said up front you were going for minor league cartoony and.... yep. Just don't like that for the CFL. 

 

 

Overall very fun to look through, and the Schooners in particular made me rethink what I expect from them if they ever do start (looking really unlikely due to Covid, and the gov't seemingly unwilling to help the league at all now, definitely won't be funding a stadium any time soon)

 

On 10/6/2019 at 2:24 AM, ZapRowsdower8 said:

I'm sure I have posted this before a couple of hundred posts ago, but the current Brewers look (before they changed the pants) is the best they've ever had. The wheat hat is soooooo much better then BiG could ever hope to be. 

 

I wouldn't mind a return to royal and yellow though. This logo could still work in those colors!

 

This just occurred to me, not sure if it's been discussed elsewhere...

 

They're the Brewers, so it's barley, not wheat. 

 

 

Hmmm.......  Gives me immediate Montreal vibes.

 

 

 

 

27 minutes ago, Volt said:

 

I'm beginning to wonder if the XFL's plan was to manufacturer these in Mexico or offshore as a non-branded uniform, and then try to bid out a partnership, leaving a spot on the upper left chest open for that mark to be easily added.  Would explain the leaks we've seen with no brand logo, and that empty space, as well as the recent rumor that they were trying to finalize a deal with a uniform brand.

Make a uniform, slap someone's logo on it, kind of like the CFL this year.

 

I think it was more that NE took over buying from Adidas's factory while they spent a year designing. I don't think the CFL is going around sourcing jersey factories and designing them themselves.

1 hour ago, Volt said:

 

These also do not match up with the New Era CFL uniforms, though I can't remember if the CFL was wearing Adidas/Reebok uniforms with New Era badging in 2019.  

 

No change in the CFL this year with the move from Adidas to NE. Same factory, different logo embroidered on.

On 2/20/2019 at 4:30 PM, clonewars2008 said:

Not sure how popular this opinion is but the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 2012-15 away uniform was one of the best in the CFL as it being gold and not white added some character and colour to CFL games. Case in point the labour day game in 2007:


vs the game in 2014:


I think the 2014 one is the best even though right now the 2016-present looks good with the royal blue now being prominent:
 

The gold based is just next level and looks good vs all teams as it's not just a generic white jersey but one with character. 

I agree with you,  the Bombers have looked real good for a while (away). Royal blue is much better than the navy, though. Love the current home ones.

 

I think Hamilton is another team that could pull off going back to gold for away jerseys.