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    Jerk move or not, the NFL does have a very important interest in protecting their trademarks. It's the same thing as the Roughnecks' derrick logo, if the NFL wants to protect its trademark for certain logos (the most successful modern team and an incredibly popular throwback team) then they have to go after every logo that looks even somewhat similar. I hate the NFL's business practices as much as the next guy but they are in the right to do this, in fact, they pretty much have to do this so that the trademark stays.
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    Big fan of the two updates you've made! New Shamrocks logo is an upgrade and I really like how the silver fades into the white. Great work!
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    JAX - Love the new set! The new colors are nice, I get a bit of a Detroit Lions vibe from the white set because of those numbers. The flag pattern is a bit tough to see now with the new colors but that's a minor issue. NY - The logo is just too vertical to work well on a helmet. Not the biggest fan of the wide font you've used either, it doesn't seem to fit well. Perhaps a more art deco style would work? CIN - There wasn't anything wrong with the old logo but this one is great as well! I like the new C but I have to wonder if the whole roundel is too busy. Think Bears-style, just the C and shamrock would work wonders as a primary. ARZ - Love this set. Great pattern, excellent usage of the flag, the new colors pop nicely. No complaints! CHI - I think I'd rather see the flag striping on the sleeves instead of the patch, especially when everything else has the flag style. Everything else looks great! WPG - Big fan, no complaints! VAN - I love how the purple and black fade into each other, but the purple into white doesn't work nearly as well. Not sure how to resolve the issue but you may have to remove the feather yoke on the away. Overall great work yet again, only a few suggestions here. Keep it up!
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    Plenty of brand-new arenas are downtown. Just recently, the Warriors opened a brand-new arena in San Francisco, Atlanta's massive soccer and football stadium is very close to downtown (though not exactly), and teams generally recognize that the closer a stadium is to a population center, the better it will draw. Car culture has directly led to the absurd suburban sprawl that America faces, which enables the placement of stadiums so far away from urban centers.
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    If American cities weren't so aggressively anti-pedestrian this wouldn't be an issue. Stadia should be located in downtown locations, and if not, the teams should be on the hook for connecting them to public transportation. Car culture has made things so unnecessarily difficult to traverse without taking on the burden of owning a car. Teams having public transportation connected to their stadiums makes it easier for people to go and also reduces the pollution created by the massive amount of cars traveling to the arena. Public transportation is always a worthwhile investment.
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    The Rays have already begun exploring a split-season format where they spend half their time in Tampa Bay and the other half in Montreal. Thus, most people tie them to Montreal. The only issue is the team's lease runs through 2027, so they have 6 years to find a new stadium or a new city.
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    This may seem like I'm trying to kick the market while it's down, given that I stand to benefit from the Rays moving, but I truly do wish that Tampa Bay had worked out. I just think that the well has been thoroughly poisoned for baseball in Florida, through the Marlins' firesale clownery and Tampa Bay's concrete disaster. My ideal solution would be moving (or contracting!) the Marlins, moving the Rays organization to Miami, and possibly having them play several home series throughout the year in Tampa Bay. I'm one of those people that somewhat believes in "if you build it, they will come", but it's been 20 years, and people still won't come. Maybe a new stadium fixes those issues, maybe it won't. Do the Rays and their jerk owner have enough political pull to make a new stadium happen in Tampa? I personally doubt it. If the Rays had started with a better stadium or were in a better place after the '08 run then you could certainly say that they're worth keeping, but their abysmal lease at the Trop, brought on by political ridiculousness by both the MLB and St. Pete's officials have kind of ruined it for Tampa Bay.
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    Best case scenario, it replaces the "City" or "Statements" for this year and then go away. Of course, that wouldn't add a new revenue stream, so it won't happen.
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    I'm split on keeping the name - on the one hand, it's a legacy team and the name is literally applicable to any city, but on the other hand, a Montreal baseball not named the Expos is heresy. I also generally prefer city-specific branding, but the A's, like the Raiders, are waaaaay past the point of changing the name being a consideration (with the exception of Montreal).
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    Because before this season all Statement jerseys were switched to Jordan brand.
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    Very quick update: It seems like my issue has been fixed (or was never a problem and I misremembered something). Anyway, it's all good now!
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    Usually I go to the newest post, but if I'm trying to get to the first post of a thread, it feels like the title is the most obvious place for that. Besides, the circle next to unread threads did that anyway, so there were both options.
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    Not sure if this is something you can adjust, but I dislike how clicking on the title of a thread brings you to the newest post instead of the first one. I preferred when clicking the circle next to it would do that.
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    I don't think this is right haha
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    I like script helmets when the script is actually a script and when it curves with the helmet. A straight wordmark isn't as good. It'd be better if the helmet included an actual jet and not a football.
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    If the Jets got rid of black and made sure that their pants and socks contrasted they'd have a great set. As it stands, they're good, better than their previous set, but could be much better with a couple tweaks.
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    I would assume it's shared between Texas and Houston.
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    The LA's
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    The real Queen City, thank you Raleigh is much more organized right now, but they kind of have to be to combat Charlotte. The Raleigh metro isn't particularly conducive to a team, with three large, distinct populations spread out over about 113 square miles. Durham to Raleigh is about half an hour, and you can't rely on half of your population to drive half an hour or more see the team. Diehard fans sure, but you're going to be drawing mostly from the city proper. The Research Triangle, Raleigh's CSA, is about 700,000 people smaller than Charlotte's, and the TV market is also smaller, though not by much here. The corporate money is also much more prevalent here as well as we have 9 Fortune 500 companies with headquarters here while Raleigh has... 2, not to mention other companies with regional headquarters in the city. Both cities are held back by the fact that neither of them have a stadium. Raleigh loses to Charlotte in just about every metric - the only reasonable argument for the Triangle over the Queen City is that Raleigh only has the Hurricanes to compete with. But in the MLB Raleigh site you mentioned, while they reference the Hornets' attendance struggles, they fail to mention that the Hurricanes also don't draw well, in fact, they've draw worse than the Hornets recently. If the MLB announced real expansion or it was seriously under consideration for a franchise to move, I guarantee you somebody in Charlotte would step up, whether that's David Tepper or another one of the rich guys that make the area home.
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    If they do move (which they shouldn't), Portland should be their first choice (it won't be), followed by San Jose (whoops, shouldn't have given up that territory), then pretty much anything else, then Vegas. But of course, Vegas will jump the line and somehow end up with an original AL team then muck up the brand. Fun times!
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    Since you're doing cities with two teams, you could do CFL teams for the Canadian cities.That would give you (with MLS included): Toronto - Blue Jays, Raptors, Maple Leafs, Argonauts, Toronto FC Montreal - Canadiens, Alouettes, CF Montreal Ottawa - Senators, RedBlacks Winnipeg - Jets, Blue Bombers Calgary - Flames, Stampeders Edmonton - Oilers, EE Football Team Vancouver - Canucks, BC Lions, Whitecaps
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    I can promise you that is not an unpopular opinion.
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    Speaking of the new Hornets' statements, I really hope it's simply a purple version of our current set (preferably with Charlotte on it, although Hornets would also be acceptable). I'm tired of having jerseys from three different sets and as long as it uses both purple and teal effectively it would be a good-looking jersey.
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    I wouldn't consider it to be. For example, despite "Kraken" not ending in 's', the word itself is plural, as such, cannot be singular. Of course, the team hasn't specified if they are using the term as a singular or plural noun, but for now I assume it's plural.
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    Yeah, they've been using blue on social media for a while now. If it meant anything, they'd have officially changed by now.
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