GrayJ12

I love the retro/old school revolution that has been happening in college football lately. Some of my favorite examples:

https://news.sportslogos.net/2024/02/18/indiana-hoosiers-miami-hurricanes-unveil-fear-of-god-alternate-basketball-uniforms/basketball/

This makes me fear for the future of uniform design.

That powder blue Cubs jersey is a thing of beauty. They really need to commit to the 80s alt logo more on their uniforms.

This awful uniform match had no reason to exist.

The red looks really good on that 48 car.

5 minutes ago, zubazpirate said:

I wonder if in cases like that it may be a situation of a club team that gets turned into a varsity program? I know that, for instance, the University of Regina's sports teams are called the Cougars but the football team is called the Rams because it was a pre-existing standalone junior football program that was absorbed into the university's athletics program.

For the Red Rocks, it came from a media guide a year they won the NCAA championship. The name has stuck for the past 30+ years.

The one that immediately comes to mind for me are the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors and Rainbow Wahine, but I don't know if that fits the definition that you're looking for.

I do know specifically for Utah's women's gymnastics, they are called the Red Rocks instead of the Utes.
 

The royal gold with the A's branding surprisingly fits very well. Keep it up!

I would say NASCAR deserves to be in this conversation as well. NASCAR agreed to a new TV broadcasting deal a few months back with new deals for Amazon and The CW. Pitbull and Michael Jordan investing in teams in the sport is also a hopeful sign. They are starting to attract top-tier international drivers as well. Yes, stock car racing isn't as big as it once was and ratings are still going down, but it still has a sizable base of support. I do think this Netflix series will make progress as well.

Why don't you make the jersey the mid 90's one Shaq wore instead of the modern day one? I hate when teams do this.

1 hour ago, Bomba Tomba said:

I don't like it but I don't hate it either?

 

Yahoo/Dewalt could be a good mashup tho, kinda Lakers vibes

I think we need more mashup schemes in NASCAR. There have been some truly awful ones (cough cough JTG) but I feel there is a good market for them with sponsors.

7 hours ago, Germanshepherd said:

Nickelodeon’s scorebug was unironically better 

Slime the winning Super Bowl coach!

Would it have not been a problem to use the CBS proprietary font for the team abbreviations and not Arial? I actually enjoy the other elements of this new scoreboard, but using one of the most basic fonts in existence really cheapens it and brings it down overall.

3 hours ago, seasaltvanilla said:

 

I'd argue Gritty is Chaotic Neutral and the Phanatic is Chaotic Good.

I feel like Gritty is on the line between Chaotic Neutral and Chaotic Evil, but that's just me.

Matt Hasselbeck was with the Seahawks during their last AFC year (2001) before their rebranding came the jerseys we most associate with him.

Feels like the perfect mix of old-school and modern. Wonderful.

18 hours ago, The_Admiral said:

 

If Philadelphia were to have a symbol, what do you think it should be?

7 hours ago, flyersfan said:

there’s just way too much black on all the cars on the grid. It’s almost as if there were regulations that said only 30% of a car can be a color other than black, and this is what we got.

 

Red Bull just won all but 1 race in a season, and their car was at least wrapped (very dark, but it was wrapped). Can’t tell me there’s THAT much of a significance in terms of weight/aero that it’s better to not make your car stand out among the grid.

Have we reached the era of BFBS in motorsports?

I find it intriguing how lax the FIA has been in loosening up the livery rules in recent years. Personally, I consider myself a traditionalist and think there should be one scheme all year long (maybe a special one here and there), but especially with the Red Bull US schemes last year, it's starting to feel more and more gimmicky.

23 hours ago, DCarp1231 said:

I feel like these schemes really compliment the new Camry bodies well.

5 hours ago, Pabig93 said:

I don't like that circle in the middle. By now there is too much information on the scorebugs. They should make them simple again like the original FoxBox.

It just looks like it is just ripping off the Amazon Prime and NBC football graphics with the circle in the middle. It looks good, but it's just repetitive.

 

Also, re: The CW graphics:

On 12/4/2023 at 3:50 PM, VandyDelphia Mike said:

 

ACC basketball on the CW has a unique graphic package. A departure from their football coverage that just cribbed from ESPN CFB.

It's too simplistic. It looks like something a high schooler put together.

23 hours ago, Pabig93 said:

The Sauber looks really bad. Probably one of the worst paint schemes in F1 history.

However I really like the Williams. As pointed out by @See Red above the Duracell sponsor on the Airbox is really clever and always amazes me.

That "outer space green" stands out worse than the 2014 Caterham, and that's saying something.

6 minutes ago, Scottie2118 said:

Wow for the first time since Super Bowl 50 the NFC end zone will be on the left side of the field. 

Why did they not switch the sides for LIV (since it was hosted in an AFC stadium)?

7 minutes ago, Jer15 said:

I do like the way they incorporate the Duracell sponsorship.

Me too. It ties the whole scheme together.

There's been some discussion with the ongoing "blandness" of Super Bowl fields in recent years, and even know it was around for two years, I think the "banner" version of the endzones from XL and XLI are underrated.


I think adding this back would add more flair to the end zone designs of Super Bowl fields and be a first step to bringing us closer to more visually appealing fields.

The San Diego Rockets and the St. Louis Hawks only played together during the 1967-68 season before the Hawks relocated to Atlanta.