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Gothamite

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  1. It was built jointly for the old American Association Brewers and to attract a major league franchise. Some thought it might be the Braves, since they owned the Brewers and with it the territory, but the Browns also tried to move in before Bill Veeck sold them and they were Baltimore bound. Packers were an afterthought at best. But then again, so was the NFL in the early 1950s.
  2. The Brewers had to make their baseball patch blue, but that’s because the details aren’t easily seen from a distance. No lettering, no other elements.
  3. Yes, but as Arizona and Florida have shown us, rapidly-growing areas aren’t always good places to put a team. The transplants bring their own existing loyalties, and it can take a generation for those to shift to the home team. If they ever do.
  4. That was always the plan. Roll it out to a couple teams first, and then expand and expand again league-wide in Year 3. https://uni-watch.com/2021/04/07/nikefication-of-mlb-begins-with-bosox-city-connect-uni/
  5. logo sucks, but I’m glad that the men’s league isn’t named as the default anymore.
  6. I think this topic speaks to the specific history of soccer here in America, because when I read the original question, as a global soccer fan my reaction was “yes, almost all of them.” Soccer stadiums everywhere but here are just like baseball stadiums are here - anything old is in the heart of a population center. In the States, we didn’t start building soccer stadiums until the 1990s. When, through a combination of fashion and lack of available land downtown, we were in the “build it way out there” phase.
  7. And the patterns themselves were not created for that promotion but already existed. but when placed on the left side of the chest, in a military context, it’s hard to argue that they aren’t trying to mimic a ribbon bar.
  8. That would somehow manage to be even stupider, since all a player has to do to earn it is have a slightly longer-than-average career. Far from being rare, there are plenty of fifth-year captains. And not to mention that the fifth “star” is just filling the C in gold as well. I swear, this system is so dumb. It’s already walking the line of military fetish, they might as well just push it over. Just like the rest of their stolen valor nonsense mimicking ribbon bars.
  9. i know what they meant. It’s still an incredibly stupid phrase to use. almost as stupid as a system that counts years as captain but then somehow stops at five.
  10. its hard to tell for sure but I think they’re the same. The way they’re pulling in different directions, and wrapping around his body, distorts them. I can only identify two 4a for sure, serif and sans-serif.
  11. agreed. The whole “need clash pants!” thing seems to be a solution in desperate need of a problem.
  12. I think “intended number font” is a bit strong. This number font is the stock font from the manufacturer. It’s highly unlikely that the Packers chose it any more than the chose the similar-but-distinct versions on the subsequent uniform orders. yes, I would like the Packers to use a different number font on their alternates (hell, I want the Packers to use a different number font for their regular uniforms), but I don’t think what they did really violates the spirit of the throwbacks.
  13. I seriously doubt they re-numbered any jerseys. The pattern was to keep uniforms as long as possible, buying a few new ones every year to replace those that could no longer be re-stitched together. Since they had different vendors from year to year, that meant different stock numbers. It is very unlikely any of those number fonts were a deliberate choice.
  14. So this is how the Packers are promoting the new alt in the Pro Shop, alongside a reproduction of the 1955 uniform. I’m guessing the Hall of Fame didn’t have a mannequin in the 1950 uniform this actually recreates.
  15. honestly, monochrome is the only real issue with these. The jersey is absolutely fine on its own.
  16. that is my presumption as well (at least for the GB logo), but I’m not confident in saying so because of the lack of good source material. The Packers have a long history of being very poor chroniclers of their own uniform history.
  17. this isn’t a 1953 uniform. It’s a 1950 uniform. Which was originally worn with leather helmets, no facemasks. But when the Packers did adopt facemasks, they wore gray for the first quarter-century. So any throwbacks from before 1980 really should use gray.
  18. I think these new Packers uniforms are a distinct downgrade from the two navy predecessors, both on aesthetic grounds and in terms of the era they represent. I know “ugly as possible” was the goal here, but they would have been so much better off looking to 1955, not 1950. Same jersey, but far better pants and helmets. And who knows? With the relative lack of restrictions on introducing new pants, they could do this before their five years are up.
  19. Safety. The concern was that if players had plastic head coverings, they would be tempted to use them as a battering ram. Doctors publicly urged the NFL to prohibit them, but after a couple seasons the NFL decided to allow polycarbonate helmets with new rules restricting spearing and other ways players could use their bodies. The irony is that the medical establishment was right all along, just for the wrong reasons. Plastic helmets aren’t a danger to opposing players nearly as much as they are to the wearer.
  20. I mean, these are essentially both. I hope they keep the white CR pants around, but only because I want the road jersey stripes tweaked to match.
  21. 1950 only, if memory serves. The last year of plain gold leather. Then the NFL rescinded it’s ban on plastic shells and the Packers adopted gold plastic helmets with a single green stripe.
  22. And the original inspiration. we used to hold this photo up as a joke. Guess I’ve seen everything now.
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