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  1. Gothamite
    You are absolutely correct. when the Sounders came into the league, they shared ownership with the Seahawks.
  2. Gothamite
    The difference is that MLS was so desperate for a New York team that they were willing to put the club in a stadium situation nobody liked. And also, don’t forget that MLS had previously spent several years trying to build a NYC stadium on their own. They knew how hard it was, they knew what they were getting into, and the upside was still important enough to them that they went right ahead with it.
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    MLS does not have a SSS requirement. It has a “control your stadium” requirement, to ensure that its teams aren’t tenants in somebody else’s park, without access to the revenue streams that a primary tenant controls even when someone else is using the stadium. So when MLS teams share ownership with the primary tenant of a stadium (like in Seattle or New York City), MLS can write the contract guaranteeing the soccer club a measure of most-favored status in the stadium, they’re plenty happy to put its club in a non-SSS.
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    I’m guessing that they thought a full-on version would be too derivative.
  5. Gothamite
    That doesn't surprise me in the least. Football teams are just about the worst caretakers of their own history. I've lost count of the times the Packers have goofed up their own historical uniforms.
  6. Gothamite
    Yes, the design is great. If only it was half as accurate. Where did it come from?
  7. Gothamite
    Not very. Some good, some wrong. Some missing.
  8. Gothamite
    Last time, the Packers unveiled their throwback alternates in August.
  9. Gothamite
    Not until they get rid of the white jersey elements designed to go with that uniform.
  10. Gothamite
    That Championship font is indeed terrible. Especially since it ruins a pretty good run of fonts. They had two good ones in a row:
  11. Gothamite
    I’m with you on the constant changes to the non-league numbers, but I love a league-wide numbers font. In a world where teams move between leagues, being able to use the Premier League font becomes itself a badge of honor. I love it... so long as we’re talking about a good font like the current one and not something like the cartoony early 2000s.
  12. Gothamite
    Ew. Yeah, that's not a good look.
  13. Gothamite
    This should absolutely be their helmet logo.
  14. Gothamite
    No. That was never going to happen. The Giants tried to downplay New York by taking "NY" off their helmets (as the Cosmos did to their badge when they also moved to the Meadowlands), but neither of those teams was ever going to actually cut ties. That would have been suicidal.
  15. Gothamite
    This is... not good
  16. Gothamite
    We’re talking about one of the best teams in baseball, though. First place from Opening Day to the very day they clinched a pennant. And still, could only draw flies.
  17. Gothamite
    And I don’t understand the insistence on pretending that’s the only possible factor. Ah, well. To each their own.
  18. Gothamite
    Before 2008 and 2009, I would absolutely have agreed with you.
  19. Gothamite
    The Expansion Committee should never have let MLB be bullied into placing a team in Tampa Bay.
  20. Gothamite
    The very large, very valid reason is that the Rays are the third most popular MLB team in their own market. Even when they're winning. That's not the stadium's fault. It's the expansion committee's.
  21. Gothamite
    I don’t think we’ll ever get a television breakdown by opponent. But that would be interesting. I was going off the polls from a couple years back that put the Rays as the third favorite team. Among baseball fans. In their own market. Which would explain the discrepancy between their decent television ratings and their pathetic attendance, which not even winning has been able to improve. “Stadium location” is often cited by the team’s apologists, but I’m offering an alternate explanation that would fit the facts.
  22. Gothamite
    The television ratings are helped by a disproportionate number of games against the Yankees and the Red Sox, the Tampa Bay area's two favorite teams.
  23. Gothamite
    Spurs’ new shirt is out: I like it. Yes, it’s simple. But in person there’s plenty of texture and paneling to make it not look like a T-shirt, and from distance it’s a bold, clean blast of their colors. The only downside is that the lack of panels, piping, and trim means that the sponsor logo stands out more. Really wonder why they let the sponsor go outside the team palette. Shame that Kane is modeling the best Spurs shirt he’ll never wear.
  24. Gothamite
    Couldn't agree more.
  25. Gothamite
    Given that football players barely wear sleeves anyway, most sleeve treatments are moot. Contrasting sleeves are one of the few things that can actually work.
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