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Danny the Sheeb

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    It is the dawn of a new error
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    Court 3, the Don Owens Sports Complex
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    Sports/graphic design/music. Currently obsessed with many different artists.
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    MLB: Diamondbacks/Royals, NFL: Cardinals/Packers/Chiefs, NBA: Thunder, NHL: Flyers, NCAA: Kansas State, Arizona State, Arkansas, Wichita State, Providence

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  1. Thanks for the feedback. Going point-by-point: - I grabbed the shade of claret from the Wikipedia upload of the Villa crest, but it does look kind of off. Might try a better version. - Fair enough. I felt like confining the gold to the crest alone was too minimal, but Villa don't really use yellow/gold on the home kits normally, so I see where you're coming from. - I tried to get some blue on the crest, but it really didn't jive with the gold (which is also why it's separated with claret on the home sleeves). If it weren't for the 150th, the crest would be colored pretty similarly to the modern shield logo. With regards to the roundel crest, I might try a version with that. I was just really sold on the shield version once I mocked it up. - Good point. The one regret I had with the crest was that I couldn't fit "Prepared" on it. (I grew up with the late-aughts crest, so I'm nostalgic). The back would be a good place for it.
  2. Despite being born and raised in Arkansas, I've been a fan of Aston Villa (thanks to my dad) since I was a kid. With 2024 marking 150 years since the club's founding, I mocked up a set of kits that take inspiration from several different eras of Villa history. (Yes, I know Adidas will make the kits next year, but I don't like using manufacturer-branded templates, so I'm using my own slightly awkward template instead.) HOME KIT - No betting sponsors (or sleeve sponsors, although I care far less about that) in this household, so I used the Aston Villa Foundation instead. - I went back to the shield shape, but with the current lion. I also moved the star representing the 1982 European Cup championship outside the shield, since I wanted it to be larger and more obnoxious. It'll stand out much more from a distance this way. In my research, I also realized Villa have never (as far as I can tell) used a crest with "Aston Villa Football Club" on it, so I decided to incorporate the full name. - The subtle halved design is a callback to the first Villa jerseys to use the famous claret and blue colors, worn from 1888 through the early 1890's. I wanted to keep the classic claret-with-blue-sleeves design, though, so I used two shades of claret for the body. - The broad collar references the jerseys worn from the mid-1890's all the way through into the 1950's, during which time Villa had arguably one of the best clubs in the world. - While the modern Villa home kit comes with blue socks, claret ones were common from the 1890's into the 1920's, so they're first choice here. CHANGE KIT - The basic design is obviously a reference to the European Cup-winning kit, but I also tried to incorporate a bit of the 1957 FA Cup-winning design (mostly just in the thicker pinstripes), which is the last time to date Villa have gotten their hands on the FA Cup. - The European Cup set came with white shorts, but since those belong with the home kit, they're included up there. THIRD KIT - The horizontal stripes reflect the first ever Villa kit, but with some creative liberties taken.
  3. Okay, Imgur appears to have helped resolve the problem. Flickr wasn't giving me a "copy image address" option when right-clicking. Thanks for the help.
  4. By "use the direct image URL", do you mean copying the hyperlink from the browser, or are you talking about something else? Because just grabbing the link from the browser hasn't been working.
  5. I can't embed images from Flickr, Google Drive, or Tumblr to the forums. The "insert image from URL" button refuses to accept them. Grabbing and linking random images from the web works just fine, though.
  6. Really glad to see the end of the Marlins black-on-black look, but part of me wants to see the wordmark in blue. Kind of like these old BP's from the early aughts.
  7. I think I can describe this set in two words: Kitchen sink. Fortunately not as much kitchen sink as the mid-2010s set, though.
  8. I was a year and a half away from being born in 2001. I've waited my entire life for this moment. NATIONAL LEAGUE CHAMPS!
  9. Stop. Please. No more black, pink and teal. I'm so sick of this color scheme. It wasn't cool when the Heat did it, either.
  10. https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlb-makes-extra-innings-ghost-runner-rule-permanent-for-regular-season-games-per-report/ Let me tell you a little story to explain how much I f***ing HATE this rule. So a couple years ago, I was playing high school ball. My team (which was actually just a random assortment of kids put together by the local Boys & Girls Club) was playing a game against a much better opponent. By some miracle, we managed to force the game into extra innings. The ghost runner rule had been a thing at this age level for at least a year or two by this point. As the visiting team, we batted first and couldn't score a run. In the bottom half of the frame, our pitcher immediately winged one past the catcher to move the runner to third. Then, only a couple of pitches later, he committed a balk. The other team scored WITHOUT A SINGLE BATTER REACHING BASE. That's not baseball. That's garbage. I despise this rule and will never, ever, EVER see any justification of any sort for it. You want to make games end sooner? Work on pace of play instead of worrying about the small percentage of games that actually go into extras. You don't like the idea of unlimited extras with no ghost runner? Just incorporate ties. With the obvious exception of uniform ads, no single decision has made me more angry at MLB since the absolute joke of a COVID """season""" (but that's a rant for another time and place). I love the sport of baseball, but boy is it hard to be a fan of Major League Baseball right now. - Danny
  11. Hate is a strong word. But as a proud Diamondbacks fan, there is no word strong enough for my sheer hatred of this news.
  12. Aptly named. We can all unite over how terrible these are.
  13. Can we please shoot this trend in the head? It's not 2015 anymore. On a conciliatory note, I've always thought Marching Willie would be a decent helmet logo. (I'm actually wearing a Marching Willie shirt at this moment.)
  14. As a lifelong Cardinals fan, I have nothing to say other than that I am ashamed.
  15. I might be a bit of an outlier in this, but I think these are the worst yet. Nothing about them works for me.
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