Dozap17

Clear Sky Wings and Silver Wings were my top two choices, I opted for the latter but I'd be cool with the former as well given the real-life Battlehawks have used both versions

I see on the main site there's going to be a new St. Louis Skyhawks helmet, will there be a vote on that?

I expected the Guardians to use "THE LAND" instead of "CLE" for their City Connects, glad to see this version

Nice work on the revised version; have to get used to the two-tone colors on them but good work on those nonetheless

On 4/3/2024 at 6:11 PM, BullockDesigns said:

I recently posted a series called "MLS 2030". Which takes place in 2030, where the NFL unexpectedly folds, and some owners and organizations decide to shift to soccer, as the sport has risen to extreme popularity in the US. The MLS also merges with the USL, and adopts promotion and relegation. The USL Championship is right below the MLS, made up of 4 divisions, Northeast, Southeast, Central, and West. The team that finishes first place in each division gets promoted up the the MLS, and the team that finishes last, relegated to USL League One.

 

Any feedback, suggestions, or comments are greatly appreciated. Thanks 

Hartford Athletic

Cleveland Browns SC? I'm intrigued as to how that'll turn out...

On 4/5/2024 at 10:41 PM, neo_prankster said:

 

 

How's this?

C&C Welcome.

I could definitely see this as a 2024 Houston Oilers logo had they never moved to Tennessee, nice mix of Luv Ya Blue and IRL Texans colors

Option 4 Right

I'm in total agreement on the Houston helmets, the blue side with the H logo should be for the whole helmet. Still wish Memphis had the 80s colors though...

On 3/3/2024 at 1:24 PM, WideRight said:

One more that I would refer to as part of the "minor tweaks" group of teams. 

 

Cleveland went a bit nuts for a while there, but have come back to recognizing that they are a legacy team, one that should retain an old school look and not try to be newfangled.   This tweak just fixes a couple of issues I have had with the Browns over time. 

 

 

So what is different?

 

1. The biggest change is that I wanted to go back to a more muted orange tone, basing it on the Brian Sipe era.  It is a subtle difference, but in my mind just feels more like a team from the 50's than a team trying to be hip in the 2020's. 

 

2. I have never liked the pant stripes to be orange outside of brown.  For me keeping brown on the outside is just a better color balance. 

 

3. I think the B in football logo is the most manageable option for them.  You really don't want to see the Brownie on a uniform, do you?   So, I kept that logo as a chest patch  in place of the team name just so it did not mess with the sleeves. 

 

4. I went full old-school with the alt, looking back at some old AAFC and very early NFL photos of Otto Graham.  So, white over white over white, with numbers on the helmet and a simplified sleeve stripe to just give a "this team is old as dirt" feel.   I did use the orange-black-orange on the alt just to again evoke a bygone era and to make them distinct from the standard white pants or jersey. 

 

 

Big fan of this version, especially the use of the Sipe-era orange

18 hours ago, WideRight said:

One more for today.  The New England Patriots. 

As anyone can tell from my account name and avatar, I am a Bills fan, avidly since the age of 12.  So, I have not had much positive to say about the Patriots in a long time.  I liked the Patsies when they wore red, had Pat the Patriot on the helmet and won 3 games a year.  That is the natural order of things.  I am still convinced that Tom Brady, along with several of our post-1999 elections, and 9/11, and MTV never playing music, and Generation Z college kids wearing pajamas and fuzzy animal slippers to class, and a few other oddities, are all signs that the world ended at the Millennium and we are all actually living in pretty shoddily made matrix.  I mean, come on!!! Tuck rule my ass!!  

 

Anyway, I wanted to return the Patriots to their red-emphasis glory and their on-field irrelevance, so the design pulls in a lot of elements from the Steve Grogan era, along with a few nods to the early Belicheat (sorry force of habit) years.   Notes below. 

 

 

1. First off, Pat the Patriot is back.  It is a great logo.  Yes, a bit cartoony, but it is both a Patriot and a football player, what more could you ask for? And it sits on a white shell, which just works. 

2. One of my favorite Patriot looks ever was the pant set that they used only the 1st year of the Flying Elvis.  I love how the blue transitions to the red just as in the logo.  It works so well on the pants.  So, that style is back, now on white pants or inverted with red pants.  

3. I put the same basic stripe pattern on the helmet, and I think it works OK there, at least it is a bit different from just a straight up throwback look. 

4. I pulled in some more modern elements with the numbering, the first use of silver in the new look.  and I decided that while the shoulder stripe worked fine on the red jersey, it did not really pop for the white jersey, so I went with the shoulder stripe-colored sleeve combo, which I often like quite a bit. 

5. You will see I also reverted to the older "Patriotic" font for the wordmark.  It is very busy, but it is also very NE Patriots in my mind. 

6. The alt look brings back more of the recent elements of Patriot design, the silver helmet, blue jersey, etc.  I did not go fully Brady era, keeping the older pants and using a blue facemask instead of red.  I consider this their nod to blue as a dominant color but with a team that normally stresses red.  

 

So, before you critique this look, just know that my first version just had a repeating "cheaters" over and over as the stripe, and a poop emoji as the logo.  So, considering that, this is an act of kindness on my part for the Patriots.  

Definitely superior to their current uniforms

Agreed, would have liked to see a full Miami Nighthawks design had they been selected

I figured a Minnesota/Prince mashup was inevitable, works very well in a Vikings context

I like what you did with the Cavs/Guardians mashup; as a fan of both teams I appreciate the different take on the Guardians unis with Cavs colors mixed in

Very impressed with how this whole concept turned out

Memphis Blues

Philadelphia

Detroit Wildcats

The Dallas storyline will definitely be an intriguing one to follow...

Being from Browns country, I'd rather see Trent Richardson be a USFL flameout to be honest here...

Philadelphia

Birmingham Vulcans

Birmingham and Columbus

A great array of designs so far, looking forward to the expansion to 16

New Jersey Jays

Columbus