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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. Would have been a great look for LIU-Brooklyn before they merged with CW Post.
  9. 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. 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.
  10. 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
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. The Vikings could use their modern numbers for as long as they wanted if they dropped the weird serifs. This is a good update. Though I think you should try putting shoulder stripes on the road whites.
  17. UIC looks great. Any chance you'll do Milwaukee? Their arena is the old MECCA and I feel like they don't do themselves any favors by not playing that up with a spin on the famous MECCA floor.
  18. To me, the incredible thing about Camden Yards is how it still stands out even though pretty much every ballpark built since has copied it in one form or another.
  19. So I just learned that the group that owns the Springfield franchise is actually called Capital City Baseball, LLC...
  20. As much as I had my reservations about the Packers throwbacks, I loved watching this game. You could say it looks like a D3 college game, but you'd need two classic NFL teams to pull it off at the pro level.
  21. Ooof... I guess that shows how much attention I've been paying to the NHL.
  22. The Admirals have been the Preds top farm club ever since the Preds became a thing. Probably also helps that within that time, the Nashville Sounds have mostly been a Brewers affiliate. I also think a lot of fans who are old enough to remember Bill Wirtz's stunt can't stomach the idea of rooting for the Blackhawks. Then there's the younger hockey fans who don't remember the politics of the early 90s NHL and grew up seeing the Hawks winning Stanley Cups rather than being terrible. That's when I started to notice their sweaters popping up in Milwaukee. Me? I was a North Stars fan, because I started watching the NHL the last year they made the Stanley Cup finals (also when I learned the Admirals weren't a NHL team... it was like finding out Santa wasn't real. But I digress). But then they moved and I wasn't gonna root for a Dallas team. So the Nordiques became my team. Then they moved. I haven't been able to choose a hockey team ever since. But who knows? Maybe living long enough in Chicago will make me a Hawks fan.
  23. Wasn't there a rule from the original six days that teams had territorial rights to everything within 200 miles of their home arena? Milwaukee is only 90 from Chicago, and I was told that's why Bill Wirtz tried to extort extra money from the potential Milwaukee owners. To the point about the Wild... they're on tv in Milwaukee because FS Wisconsin was spun off from FS North which is based out of Minnesota. But I can promise that of anyone in Milwaukee gives a flying f--k about the Wild, they probably came from Minnesota. The NHL fanbase in Milwaukee is currently split between the Blackhawks and Predators with a smattering of Red Wings fans from Upper Michigan/Northern Wisconsin. But if ever there was a time for the NHL to come to Milwaukee, it was the 90s. Back when the Admirals regularly outdrew the Bucks, and it probably would have culminated in the Bucks leaving town. Now? No way would the World Champion Bucks allow some NHL team to trapse in on their turf.
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