Gothamite

“50s Classic” might be overselling it a bit.

Packers make it official - early 50s.

Packers leak? 1950s throwbacks, not the rumored 1935/36?

“Commanders” is a pretty stupid name. And if they’re not going to go with a Tuskegee Airmen reference, then I want nothing to do with “Redtails”. As a bird it’s hard to see as anything other than a halfway measure designed to keep “Red” to soothe the hurt feelings of fans. Guess I’ve got to root for “Wolves”. Maybe alliteration will win the day.

the most recent throwback was unveiled at the end of August. There’s still time.

Yep. In order for the Squares to notice that these alternate uniforms are actually alternate uniforms, teams have to go so far outside the box that they don't look like themselves anymore.

Damn Yankees is based on a book called The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant, which is funny to me because 1) it shows how winning a league pennant was itself seen as an accomplishment; and 2) the Yankees won so many of them in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s that the prospect of somebody else winning one was notable. The cover features a (very rough) rendition of the famous Yankee pinstripes.

or Spock.

not too absurd when you consider that Nike just doesn’t want to.

I think you’re on the right track here. Even that is a huge improvement.

Yeah, unfortunately you can’t just do a recolor. Many designs only work in the colors they were designed for. I just wish they had designed it with the team colors in mind.

I'll say this - the traditional striping of the Fauxback makes the modern sweaters look even worse. Love the logo, but they need to simplify the design around it.

And thanks to the pandemic, he never got his moment of glory. Real shame.

The hooped socks are amazing. Honestly, the whole thing is amazing except for the white Ajax panels.

Looks better on a person than it does lying flat, but would look better still without the Ajax side panels. (and yes, I know they're a reference to a 1990s Arsenal kit with white sides, but that looked like Ajax too)

Okay, now I'm confused. The AHL just tweeted this graphic: Does that mean they're going to be wearing multiple versions of it? EDIT: nope.

Yes, but let's not forget that fans tend to like almost every new logo. Even the Buffaslug was greeted with huge merchandise sales. It's how well they age, once the initial rush wears off, that matters.

It’s fine, I guess. But after the fridge and the skeleton, it’s a little obvious and more than a title underwhelming.

Milwaukee Admirals unveiling a new third jersey tonight. Rumor is the logo will be all-new as well. this is the old one - it’s actually a carryover from the previous set, was popular enough to survive a rebranding.

of course not. But I wouldn’t put it past Snyder to think he could find a way. Do I think it could ever have happened? Of course not. But I can’t entirely discount that he thought it might happen. That’s how little regard I have for him.

In Washington's case, it's hard to avoid the conclusion that they chose a bland placeholder name specifically out of spite for being forced to change. Maybe in hopes that the fanbase would rebel and they could use the backlash to keep their original name. That combination of pettiness and ineptitude would be perfectly appropriate for Snyder.

Blue Hens would at least be charming. “Golden Eagles” came off at the time as though they were deliberately trying to be as generic and innocuous as possible. I mean, fair play to Marquette for realizing that the iconography was problematic. But while the motivation was sound, the execution left a lot to be desired. I always presumed that “Hilltoppers” was unavailable because it had been adopted by (the long-since unrelated) Marquette University High School.

Again, there’s a world of difference between a team that already uses “Warriors” trying to rebrand it to a different meaning, and a new team adopting it now as an explicitly non-Native name. One is possible. The other laughable.

Why on earth should we think context does not matter? Teams that get ahead of a problematic identity, willingly changing it before they are forced to, they can sometimes salvage a name by rebranding and redefining it. But Washington, who have spent the last half-century doubling down, tripling down, litigating, and then only changing when forced to and under extreme duress, they’ve lost any benefit of the doubt. Plus there is a marked difference between a team taking its existing name and redefining it to remove the racist context and a team adopting a name new to them that has also historically carried that content. For those two reasons, ”Washington Warriors” would be seen for precisely what it would be, a wink-and-nod to Native identity by a team that didn’t really want to give up theirs.

can’t be an A+ with thay goofy number style. B+, maybe. Which is still far above anything else in their set.