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Yeah I see that, honestly I think the shape of the older version was better. It loses a bit of its aggression with the new shape.

Definitely prefer the version on the left. Looks more like whiskers.

19 minutes ago, Cujo said:

Carolina Panthers #29 or #30

Jacksonville Jaguars #29 or #30

Not sure about the other expansions but the Panthers were accepted into the league first, so they would be 29 and JAX would be 30.

I agree, the third one is best.

That red helmet is absolutely gorgeous. Just another reminder that the Texans should be a red-first team.

Hahahahahahahahahhaha

This is stupid and is exactly how college football deserves to die. Greedy programs killing every sense of tradition in the name of TV money. I can at least take comfort in the fact that we still get a conference game against UCLA every year. My dad's a Maryland alum so having our schools be in the same conference is something neither of us ever expected haha.

Ah, perfect for the Rays! I love their fauxback set and this adaptation of it is great. Excellent work!

The Sacramento Kings switched to purple and black in 1994, and even when they brought back an updated classic logo they stuck with that color scheme.

Not sure if this counts but when the Titans of New York became the New York Jets they swapped out blue and gold for green and white.

3 hours ago, throwuascenario said:

 

The uniform is great except for the logo. It is way too detailed to work as a modern logo. These uniforms with their current, recolored logo on the helmet would be their best possible look.

 

I also would put the logo on the sleeves, but that seems to be an unpopular opinion here for some reason.

My ideal Pats would be an updated Pat Patriot as the primary logo, with a Tricorn hat as the helmet logo. It could be either Eagles-style or what they did the first go-round, with the hat over numbers.

Absolutely gorgeous. Exactly what the Marlins should do.

4 minutes ago, officeglenn said:

 

I feel like airport codes really became a thing to represent a city with the advent of Twitter. I think users defaulted to the airport codes as local hashtags because they are more distinguishable. I know here in Edmonton, our airport code (YEG) has really taken off as a local hashtag instead of EDM, which is also used by electronic dance music enthusiasts on Twitter.  Perhaps Milwaukeeans didn't want all the posts about their city getting lumped in with tweets about mothers-in-law. 

It's nice for a city when the accepted abbreviation and the airport code line up (ATL, PHX). In cases like Milwaukee or Charlotte, usually locals have to fight the teams/leagues to change to more popular airport code instead of the default "first three letters of city name". I've found that generally there's more success in that in minor leagues. The Knights and Checkers, both "Triple-A" minor league teams, use CLT as their abbreviation, as does Charlotte FC, but the Hornets refuse to change. I wonder who exactly the obstacle is: the team, who tried to make "CHA" a thing for a while, or the league, who doesn't want to use CLT because (and I say this with heavy sarcasm) it could kind of be read like a body part that most consider to be inappropriate. These three-letter abbreviations are always read letter by letter so the point is moot anyway.

Just speaking generally I prefer abbreviations that capture as much of the word as it can as opposed to simply the first three letters. MKE > MIL because it implies more of "Milwaukee" than MIL does. Same goes for WSH vs. WAS, CLT vs. CHA, PHX vs. PHO, etc. I've noticed this is more popular in Canada as well. Montreal, Calgary, and Winnipeg all use abbreviations that aren't the standard first three.

1 hour ago, synged said:

I was listening to a Twitter Space after the reveal, and there was  a guy speaking that had been privy to the whole process. He said that per league rules, teams can rebrand only after using their new set for 5 years.

At first I doubted this but it actually lines up. The Hawks' and Cavs' latest changes came exactly five years after the ones before them, and nothing was sooner than five years. Apparently the NBA has a five-year rule like the NFL. Who knew.

Very excited to see the first game with the Jazz in yellow and black and see the crowd in a sea of purple, red rocks, and navy blue. What a stupid rebrand. I give it two, three years tops before they rebrand around their excellent city jersey set for next season.

Great update for the Angels! Love the use of the City Connect striping and the change of the halo to gold is so obvious it's crazy the actual team hasn't done it. The only miss for me is the continued use of red lettering on the red alternate. White would look much better in my opinion.

I was really hoping for a proper old gold helmet for the Saints to pair with their (admittedly fairly nice) Color Rush alts. This is gross. I am terrified to see what the Panthers come up with as I have zero faith in them. Media day seems to have been done with black pants and socks this year as opposed to the usual white pants and blue socks and I am very worried to see what monstrosities the team will get whenever Tepper does his ego-fueled overhaul.

21 minutes ago, VDizzle12 said:

 

I thought the black on the away jersey had to do more with the helmet? Could have sworn they wanted to wear the black helmet with the white uniforms at some point, which made the black a requirement. I'm assuming the NFL is just preventing a team that has no black in their uniforms from randomly adding a black helmet. Whereas the 49ers had all black alternates and have no black anywhere else on their main home/away, so they were okay. 

As fair as I'm aware, the NFL has a rule that states the team's alternate (unless it's a throwback and designated as such) can only be a color that's found on the home or road jersey. It's the same reason the Jets have the stupid black stroke on the numbers - it allows them to make the black alt. The Niners' black one is also different because it was a Color Rush jersey - I believe those were allowed to bend the rules.

The Rams couldn't introduce a black set, right? Because they don't have black on any of their primary home/road uniforms. When the Comrades introduced their new set they said that the black on the white jersey is what allowed them to create the god-awful black set.

18 minutes ago, willforgetmylogin said:

Carolina is getting a black helmet. I was told they'll be worn with the black jerseys and pants so I'm not sure if they are designating teal as their primaries or if they got an exception.

Not the point but really? Teal? Come on. It's blue.

Just now, Silent Wind of Doom said:

While I agree on Anaheim, I didn't think anyone besides Arnold stretched that to five.   Then again, I pronounce "crayon" as one syllable.

I go back and forth on it. Said out loud, it's more like four and half because of the "nia" sound that is technically two syllables but is often counted as one. Still a clunky geographic identifier and unfit for the Angels.

I prefer Anaheim over Los Angeles for three reasons:

1.  The three-syllable Anaheim is far less clunky than the two-word, four-syllable Los Angeles. California is even worse because it's five syllables.

2. I dislike it when teams in the same sport share a geographic name and thus have to incorporate their nicknames into their abbreviations.

3. They won a World Series as the Anaheim Angels.

The only reason they went back to Los Angeles is because of marketing. Their desperate attempt to be an LA team is what led to the ridiculous "Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim" when they could've (and should've) just stuck with Anaheim.

7 minutes ago, Brave-Bird 08 said:

I'm having a hard time understanding the new "rules" or lackthereof. 

 

If the new helmets for this season have to be pre-existing in the style guide (like the patriots white, falcons black, etc) how are the Eagles getting a black helmet to use for one season only & Washington gets an alternate for their alternate. 

The new helmet doesn't have to be in the style guide, but the jerseys the helmet is going with do. That's why popular throwbacks like the Creamsicles or Eagles kelly aren't happening this year.

16 minutes ago, B-Rich said:

 

Not sure how much effect that "protection zone" is going to have-- Seattle is less than 150 miles from Portland (Moda Center  is only 145 miles  from Climate Pledge Arena). 

 

Kansas City is also out there, with the relatively new T-Mobile Center and no other winter sport competition.

 

 

Presumably Seattle would have to get permission from the Blazers (or pay a territorial fee). I'd like to see KC (or any city that isn't Vegas, really) but there's no way the NBA turns down that market with the success of the Knights and Raiders.

Personally, I've wanted Vancouver to get a second chance for a while now. The Grizzlies were done dirty and the way Vancouver has grown makes me think it could fit nicely in the NBA. Ownership would be the hard part presumably.

Yes! I'm loving this. A nice and refined plate that is a big improvement on the one we've had for 40 years. Nice work!

Alex Bowman will be running the Ally Better Together colors at Sonoma this weekend featuring the progress flag.

I personally was hoping for a little more but I'm beyond excited to see the rainbow colors on any car. If we can get multiple weekends of red white and blue then we can have a few cars running rainbow colors in June.

41 minutes ago, guest23 said:

 

Let's hope not! Using Bone in lieu of plain old white jerseys was the best design innovation to happen to nfl uniforms in the super bowl era. 

I'm actually a big proponent of using off-white, but I want it to be cream, not the gross gray that bone is. My dream team to do this would be the Browns.