MilSox

I hated the Patriots as a kid because I thought Pat was the ugliest, goofiest logo I'd ever seen on a football helmet. When I hear people talk about what a great logo Pat was, I start to question their taste. The uniforms aren't bad in a vacuum. Great color balance on a template that's hard to screw up. I don't always love striping consistency but it really works here. Though the fact that they're red really is a problem. The only way I'd kinda want this look back is if they swapped the red and blue.

I have to make a similar request to expound on these. Especially the Lions. That's damn near perfect color balance for a football uniform IMO.

I don't necessarily disagree, but would you care to expound?

I'm starting to realize pretty much every team that Brandiose rebrands gets a name that sounds like it was translated from an unlicensed Japanese video game from the 8-bit era... Baseball Stars and the like. Now I kind of actually wanna see their take on the American Dreams and the Lovely Ladies.

If you put the logos in a vacuum, then yeah, most of Brandiose's stuff probably beats this. But for my two cents, a great brand with so-so logos always beats great logos attached to a terrible brand.

The logo's not the greatest, but you don't exactly have to look hard to find something worse. Brandiose has put out plenty of it.

I like this better than everything Brandiose has peddled lately. See kids, it is possible to have a unique and "quirky" brand that isn't nauseatingly contrived.

It would make much more sense for Milwaukee to drop down to D2 and find a way to add football there. Not that I expect that to happen either. Bold, visionary moves have been the exact opposite of how they've done things since the Bruce Pearl days.

The Milwaukee Admirals have unveiled a Brewers-inspired alt. Surprisingly, I do not hate these. I hate to use the word "synergy," but it's hard to deny all the levels this seems to work on. The team is owned by a Brewers minority owner, they're a Nashville Predators affiliate, and the colors are perfect for a naval themed club. Plus, the current Brewers branding comes across so much better on a hockey sweater than a baseball uniform.

That's an oar. Booyah is traditionally cooked in a huge pot and stirred with an oar. The local G-League team is named after something that people in the area hunt every November.

For the uninitiated, booyah is a type Belgian chicken stew. Green Bay has a strong, but often overlooked Belgiain heritage. But given how controversial the team's move to Ashwaubenon was locally, this was a very peculiar direction for them to go in. I suggested the name Fox River Foxes. I thought it only made sense for them to name the team regionally and pay homage to its baseball history. The logos are an upgrade, but I've had it with Brandiose's goofy, gimmicky names.

This is an unpopular opinion?

A recoloring of the logos would make sense. They wore colors very similar to the Rangers throughout the 80s and 90s. Let's hope this "remaster" doesn't meant much more than that.

Let me make it clear that I don't actually want three LA area teams. I'm just realistic about what sports business has become, especially in regards to the LA market. Where the Clippers are profitable just by being a Staples Center tenant even though they're a pop culture punchline, and the Chargers forced their way in regardless of any demand or accommodations for them.

That never stopped the NBA or NFL from loading more teams into the LA market than should reasonably be there.

I totally see them trying to get a new stadium in LA. Which makes things that much more interesting for the A's and Rays prospects, should either of them attempt to move. Any chance either of them end up in Anaheim?

Another fact... the NL East is the only of the current six divisions that has never hosted either team. Both have been members of the AL West, and NL Central. The Brewers were in the AL East and AL Central. The Astros have been in the NL West.

You're not alone. I couldn't bring myself to care about the Admirals when they had that stupid cartoon skeleton. After the last rebrand though, I'm a fan again.

The black seemed tacked on with the rest of the uniform. At least they eventually got it right with the red shells. Wouldn't mind this coming back. With so much red and white in the Big Ten now, it only make sense for when they play Nebraska or when one of the other red teams (Indiana, Rutgers, Maryland) decided to wear white shells.

"Mondo" and "Topless." Doesn't have to be exact, just something close enough to them.

There is, I'm not denying that. But how does that actually connect to the Milkmen identity apart from being a baseball team and vaguely referencing the era when the Braves played here? If they were going for Braves nostalgia, it wouldn't have been hard to call the team the Milwaukee Hammers. Which also would have been a much stronger connection to the actual Milwaukee of the 1950s.

Given how quick the Braves were to leave town not even a decade after winning those pennants, I'd say any nostalgia for them is bittersweet overall. Besides, it's not like Milwaukee is Memphis, which actually produced its share of 50s icons (Elvis, BB King) and still has tangible relics from heyday of that era (Beale Street, Sun Records). The 50s nostalgia for Milwaukee is the equivalent of those tacky malt shops that popped up in every suburban shopping mall in the 80s. I could see a name like Custard Kings or Creams (Cream Citys?) working if they absolutely had to choose something dairy themed. But Milkmen is a reach, plain and simple. They botched the branding on this one.

Ironically, "Goodlanders" still would have been a better name for this club.

Even this is a stretch. The idea that the 1950s had some sort of lasting impression on Milwaukee is pure Hollywood fiction for the most part. The Braves left, the breweries Milwaukee was known for at the time are no more for the most part, and people are still shocked to learn our mayor at the height of the red scare was a socialist. Ironically, this is a team that plays in Franklin, which incorporated in the 1950s because it didn't want to be part of Milwaukee.

They're going with the slogan "Baseball that's udderly different." I think there's a market for a lower level of pro baseball in Metro MKE. But I can't say this brand makes me, a lifelong city of Milwaukee resident, want to support this team.