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I'm not sold on the faux leather, but the Packers look much better with gold shells. 

The AFC North looks incredible. Not sure which version of the Steelers I like better, but reversing the "Batman" unis changes the golden triangle to black, which kinda kills the symbolism.

You did exactly what I hoped you would do with the Packers..... except the helmet needs to be yellow. Apart from the Steelers brief flirtation, yellow helmets are what the Packers have always owned in the NFL.

10 hours ago, Sodboy13 said:

The Chicago team's home game will be in Rockford.

Par for the course, I suppose. The Green Bay LFL team actually played in Milwaukee.

That's my big beef with the city jerseys... the fact that they HAVE to change every year.  Every city has a limited amount of things worth celebrating. Even New York and LA. 

I could halfway accept if, say, my Bucks made every city jersey with a cream base, thus giving it some sort of consistency that actually alludes to the city. But as it is... I'm dreading when they finally scrape the bottom of the barrel and trot out a brown jersey because they want me to celebrate cryptosporidium. (For the uninitiated... google that at your own risk.)

5 hours ago, mjd77 said:

Nice to see the Brewers using the barley ball logo on theirs.

I wish they'd get rid of it. It adds nothing to their brand,

Looking good and following.

Pirates hat looks great. 

Can't say I'm a fan of placket piping for the cards. It'd work on your alt... especially if you made it mirror the sock stripes. But no need to detract from the iconic script that should be the "main event" of their uniforms. I have the same problem with the Braves, but at least it's part of their tradition.

I'm glad you stuck with navy for the Brewers road alts. That's pretty much the exact colors of the Milwaukee flag.

Only thing I can think of for how to improve the Pirates is another hat. 

Great job here! Glad you kept navy. Though I would recommend a powder blue road alt to go with the gold front hat though.

Also, I wonder how the current numbers would look on these. To me that's the strongest part of their rebrand. 

I attended a K-Twins game that I have no recollection of apart from still having the program. In hindsight, it seems odd that Kenosha would be a Twins affiliate when they were less than 50 miles from three other teams. 

But yeah, I was lucky to have had family all over Wisconsin back when so many of the teams played there. I saw the Madison Muskies and Appleton Foxes the most, with a couple trips to Beloit to check out Brewers prospects. Wausau is the only one I never got out to.

You're definitely trending in the right direction. Weird that 1994 was the year I went tp the most Midwest League games (my aunt & cousins lived near Goodland Field in Appleton) and yet I barely remember this team. 

25 minutes ago, AgentColon2 said:

It’s beginning to look like college ball with the loosening the number assignment rules as is. The helmet rule change will make this full blown NCAA.

I honestly don't mind that. Smaller numbers look better on faster, shiftier guys.

That said, I'd love to see DLs and LBs in 80-89 again. Big round numbers look better on big men.

New Jersey Swamp Dragons is more Brandiose to me. Milwaukee Hops sounds like a team that would have been in the ABA if the Bucks never existed. 

Otherwise, I like Bees unless you want the challenge of making a bear mascot work for a team in Wisconsin.

I'd still love to see what you could do with UCLA style stripes on the road jerseys, but this is really starting to pan out.

But I have to agree to "no" on black. The Vikings have 30+ years more history than the Ravens. Stepping on their toes wouldn't be a good look. Besides, BFBS isn't really a NFC North thing. Even the Lions got rid of it.

I guess Bees would fit Milwaukee's tendency for its teams nicknames to start with B, but I feel like calling them anything but the Hops would be a missed opportunity.

The only other places in Wisconsin I could see having a team are Racine or Kenosha, since there's not much of a basketball culture in other parts of the state. It also happens that the Racine Bells who you might know from A League Of Their Own had a beehive on their emblem. 

Yeah, the Blackbirds. That was the first thing I saw when I saw your logo. Although I agree with  you on the Sharks.

Selfishly, I hope Milwaukee will eventually be part of this. 

Would have been a great look for LIU-Brooklyn before they merged with CW Post.

3 hours ago, dont care said:

There is really no similarity between the 2 unless you are looking to make it an issue

They unvieled those jerseys just a couple of months after the Milwaukee PD was caught on video assaulting a Bucks player, Sterling Brown. It just seems odd to me that for as much as this sort of thing is focus grouped by modern sports franchises that either no one pointed that out or that they didn't just go in a different direction. Especially given how little blue actually figures into their overall look to begin with. 

3 hours ago, jn8 said:

Ah yes, the “I disagree with this viewpoint so it must mean those people are evil and beat their wives” defense. I love modern society.

I don't care to get too much further into it as this is way off topic at this point, but the 40 percent domestic abuse rate amongst law enforcement officers is real, and that's just the cases we know about. A lot of us who lived that experience never saw any kind of justice thanks to the sort of people who made the blue line their symbol. 

8 minutes ago, BBTV said:

Domestic violence is a pretty serious thing, and shouldn't be trivialized.  Nobody that's been the victim of abuse would find the reference funny.

I'm one of them and I wasn't being funny. I'm actually surprised that the Bucks didn't shelve them once NBA twitter pointed out the connotation. Especially given all they've done locally to fight bad/corrupt law enforcement

35 minutes ago, DCarp1231 said:

This entire thread just belongs in the Twilight Zone at this point

It'll be back on track the moment we have new news.

3 hours ago, Tracy MidGrady said:

I would like to know exactly what this means

It reminds me of those ridiculous thin blue line shirts worn by the type of people who think Larry The Cable Guy is cultural entertainment. 

On 1/13/2022 at 11:18 AM, pitt6pack said:

 

My guess would be an orange endzone, since the Bengals wordmark is black at home.

Black would be the other option, and I think that would be better.

Here's those two options:

 

 

 

I have a feeling as well. Both Packers and Bills get over the hump? That was my prediction February of last year (as seen above), so I'm sticking with it.

There was a big skuttlebutt on one of the Packers groups I was in is that the Bills apparently started calling RWS the Frozen Tundra?

That's disappointing. But not nearly as egregious as all the towns that tried to claim Titletown for themselves. The Bills probably have the most Packers-like fanbase in the AFC. I feel like Packers-Bills would lead to the funnest Super Bowl parties ever.

23 hours ago, tBBP said:

I really think it's time to retire the whole "they won a championship in them therefore they're automatic classics" line of rhetoric.

 

That is, unless of course, one wants to put these in that same category as the "untouchable classics"...

 

 

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FTR, I do though agree that Denver's current sets are indeed modern classics.

 

I had to wait until I was in my goddamn 40s for a Milwaukee team to finally win a championship (that we didn't have to share with Green Bay) and instead of the gorgeous regular unis or the antler alts, they did it in those stupid black jerseys with the blue line. 

I dunno. It just sticks in my craw that Giannis, the most wholesome and likable guy in the world, had to win his first ring looking like a guy who beats his wife. 

Also... to tie this into the subject. I hope they call a last minute audible and become the Redtails.

On 1/8/2022 at 12:13 PM, BBTV said:

 

The only thing that makes it stand out anymore is its backdrop with the warehouse in right field and "skyline" of Baltimore. 

 

That warehouse is as iconic to me as the green monster or the ivy at Wrigley. I'm sure it helped that it was the centerpiece for Cal Ripken's "countdown," and that the Sox and Cubs were terrible at the time. I guess you could argue that the closed concourses actually make it more "authentic" than all the other neo retro parks. 

Granted, I grew up going to County Stadium. Am I happy that Miller Park has open concourses? Of course. But I live in Chicago now, and New Comiskey, for all of its negatives, reminds me of the ballparks I visited in my youth. 

Oh man... you NAILED IT with that MECCA inspired UWM mark. They could rebrand around something like that. 

Marquette is pretty much what I expect a Marquette floor to look like.