Gothamite

It hasn't been in the past. https://brand.wisc.edu/print/logos/ This is the "institutional logo", used in different versions by the University as a whole. It is separate from the sports branding, which uses Bucky Badger and the motion-sickness W. Those are only ever used by athletics, not the university itself. I'm not aware that UW has ever "crossed the streams" like this before, using the institutional logo in a sports context. Wonder if this means the school will be using the black-W version in other applications; otherwise, why not just reverse the black and red on the helmet logo?

Look, we all know that nothing can get better until January. But until then, we can all agree on one thing: this is so much better than the motion-sickness W.

Ooo! I’ve got one too! noun destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war. And yet, despite those dry words, when you capitalize it everybody knows you’re taking about one specific Holocaust. The Civil War they're referencing was literally a fight against white supremacy. Not exactly the kind of thing we should be making light of by associating with a college football game.

Yes, that tilt at the top is real. And yes, it’s really poorly done.

I mean, this is bad. It would be pretty good, except for the bizarre tilt to the top of the letters. Looks stupid when the C is by itself, and worse when the CLT are together.

Both true. Not every stadium can provide the bones to support a continuing series of renovations. But Angel Stadium absolutely can.

There’s absolutely no reason that the stadium can’t continue to be renovated. Dodger Stadium is still one of the jewels of baseball.

You’re absolutely right. The uniform feels so cohesive in its final form that it really surprises me to learn that they got there by taking several small half-steps. Really impressive. Those numbers, though - hate the oversized serif on that “1”.

Here's another look at the prototypes: And here's what they actually wore. I never knew that the logos and numbers were chainstitched.

Maroon and turquoise are a great color combination. That's a good call.

Those aren't pythons, they're cobras. And yes, I think @SFGiants58 is correct. To the extent there was actually a justification for the snakes other than "Looks kewl! And this is the 90s!"

Those are fascinating. I love the idea of using Mrs. O'Leary's cow, even though bovine iconography is pretty well covered in their neighbor to the north. Just to keep these Fire concepts in context, this was Nike's original plan for the club:

Guess mine is the unpopular opinion, because I think this is a downgrade across the board. The new blade reads less like a skate, and downplaying the diagonal makes the Q look more like an O.

Good.

The Athletic has an article about the Giants' aborted move to Toronto, accompanied by this graphic: That cap looks very 1953 Tokyo Giants.

But that's not the same design. I don't think the city of Reno has a trademark on "the word Reno on a cap", but they might have a trademark on this specific wordmark:

Maybe the city has a trademark on that design.

Even the mighty Yankees decided they’d be better off lowering capacity. Most games feel more crowded, which to them was worth not being able to sell those extra seats for big games.

Owners want to find ways to support other owners. This isn’t a great surprise, even if it remains a profoundly stupid plan.

Me, too. Good color combination, and historically very resonant.

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You're absolutely correct. Major League Soccer did this for a while, but only out of desperation, and as soon as the league was stable (meaning the strategy had worked), the owners sold off the extra teams to new ownership. This is the real problem. Many minor leagues don't properly vet new owners, largely because they themselves can't afford to. If they kept out the hustlers and con men, they wouldn't have enough owners at all. Keeping with our soccer theme, we saw this with the second incarnation of the NASL. They took in people who just didn't have the money to run a team, and then expressed shock and surprise when they failed to keep up. You want to talk competitive integrity? It starts with the league making sure that the owners can afford to pay the bills and then ensuring that they do.

Single-entity is not at all the same thing as one person owning more than one team. Single-entity is a creative corporate structure that in practice is virtually identical to franchise structures like MLB, the NFL, or NBA. There’s a greater difference between condo and co-op apartments than there is between single-entity and the franchise model. Yet nobody doubts that co-op “shareholders” actually own their apartments in all but the most technical sense.

Oh, yeah. Insults will totally camouflage the fact that you’re losing the argument on its merits. Tell you what, you don’t psychoanalyze your fellow posters, and we’ll agree not to notice that your lauded socialist concern for working people gets tossed aside when you happen to like their corporate master. Deal? This is an issue of workplace safety, first and foremost. It’s sad that the Streets didn’t take their responsibility seriously, and it’s beyond pathetic that the league didn’t force them to. The only ones blameless in this situation are the workers who decided they didn’t actually have to put up with an unsafe environment and used the little power they have to do something about it. But if you want to ignore the workplace safety and focus on the integrity of competition, here’s a competitive hypothetical for you - given the precedent that the NAL has now set, what’s to prevent another team from going down 46-0 in the first half of a game, and deliberately creating unsafe conditions to rattle the other team or push them not to finish it? After all, the Streets got a slap on the wrist while Carolina got a win taken away from them. That’s a trade that a desperate team might willingly make. What does that established precedent do for the competitive integrity of the league?

Again, I’m absolutely shocked that any of this is in dispute. Are the rights of workers so disposable when they get in the way of our entertainment? The league behaved shamefully. They should not have forced Carolina to work in an unsafe environment. If the league had any integrity at all, they would have postponed the game. And if a forfeit was necessary, it shouldn’t have rewarded the team who failed to create a safe working environment. The situation was entirely the Streets’ fault in the first place; their failure was the original sin from which everything else sprung. Bad enough that Carolina was punished at all, and absolutely deplorable that the league decided to punish them more.