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  1. MilSox
    To your point... baseball is the sport that has always emphasized the city's name over the nickname. I also like the point of the Twins using TC. Unpopular opinion maybe, but the Rangers should be using a DFW hat. Still call yourselves the Texas Rangers since that fits the theme of your identity, but you don't represent all of Texas. Heck, even the California Angels used a A. Which ostensibly referred to their nickname, but just as easily stood for Anaheim. Remember, they originally used a CA.
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    The eternal debate of where "Up North" starts in Wisconsin should be settled by where does Farm & Fleet give way to Fleet Farm.
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    Oh man... Milwaukee looks great! Had the Brewers name not had so much cache in Milwaukee to necessitate changing the Pilots name I could totally see this existing. For those who might be confused why @coco1997 went with OD green instead of blue. It's because Billy Mitchell was in the Army Air Corps... one of the precursors to the modern USAF. Seattle looks good, but for them I'd much rather see kelly green as the primary color and brown as a trim color. Seattle is known as the Emerald City after all. I love your coffee pot though. Very Seattle.
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    I didn't see this comment before. But these are pretty much my exact thoughts. The blue is 100% unnecessary and I hate that they're still trying to make it a thing. At least some form of green/gold/cream/black has been there since the beginning (even if the OG uniforms were green and red, the actual logo was a variation on those colors). Put it on the floor if you must pay tribute to the Robert Indiana MECCA floor. At least then everyone knows why it's there. Otherwise, I've never seen an application of blue on a Bucks uniform that didn't look awkward. Even the "Cream City" jerseys which I found to be their least offensive use of blue would have looked much better without it.
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    I know the point has already been made, but I had to post this image from a night I'll never forget because it's the first time I ever saw my Bucks win a finals game. Which was especially significant, because I watched it from the local Wisconsin "embassy" in what is now my current neighborhood in Chicago when I was in town to set things up for my eventual move. (Sidenote: I... uhhh... may or may not have made threats of violence towards the douchebags who... of all the bars they could have gone to in Chicago... showed up in Suns jerseys to a spot with "CAMP RANDALL SOUTH" literally painted on the side. I don't remember doing it though. Which totally has nothing to do with how much I was drinking that night...........) Anyway. I know more people here probably associate me with the Brewers, and rightfully so. Because I find baseball uniforms the most interesting. But I've always been a Bucks fan first and foremost, and I 100% approve of these. Do I wish they would just bring back the green ones? Absolutely. But I understand what they're going for here, and these will probably replace their ugly old black alts that resemble those stupid "blue line" t-shirts a little too much for my tastes. The color balance isn't what I would have chosen. I would have gone with a green wordmark and numbers with a cream outline instead of what they did here, which makes the green pretty much disappear. They also forced the blue in, like on their regular home & road (icon & association... whatever) which I wish they would stop trying to make a thing. But overall, I like these and more than likely will own one soon. I give these a solid B in a vacuum. But graded on what I know they were going for, I give it a A-.
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    Yes! This is the one!
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    Pretty solid set. Though I would have gone with the early 90s wordmarks for the alts. The "cheers" wordmarks remind most of us of losing baseball and the Ryan Braun scandal. I'd also go with the 1982 powder blues. I know the block M is historically accurate, but the last time I owned one everyone thought it was a Michigan hat.
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    I miss the IHL. Hopefully my Milwaukee Admirals make an appearance in this thread. They had awesome sweaters in those days.
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    The dots in the i's of the Wisconsin wordmark are already wheels of cheese. I like the use of the current shields. Especially for something traffic related.
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    If Popeye's became the sponsor, I wouldn't mind if it became the Louisiana Kitchen Bowl. That works for me the way other corporate sponsorships like Great Western Forum, Great American Ballpark, or Miller Park did where they didn't necessarily sound corporate.
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    Oh man... you nailed it on Wisconsin. If you told me that had been the plates for the past 30 years I wouldn't even question it. Also, not sure if that's what inspired it, but your wordmark looks remarkably like the Something Special From Wisconsin logo. I especially love the buck staring at the skyline. #FearTheDeer
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    Is this really a 180 though? Sure they decided to brand around gold and cleaned up their crest a bit, but otherwise this looks like the same team.
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    Loving this for obvious reasons. My only nitpick is that I wish you used images of Braun and Yelich in the old "retro" uniforms from that era. It would look more consistent with the other players and fits your theme better IMO. I'd love to see this become a series with teams associated with a particular beer. Like Old Style for the Cubs, Budwieser for the Cardinals, Hamm's for the Twins, Rainier for the Mariners, etc.
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    I think this is the right uniform for THAT Niners team. No Joe Montana, Ronnie Lott, Roger Craig, or Charles Haley. This was a completely different squad than the ones that won all the Super Bowls in the 80s. Which is kind of amazing considering they were only 5 years removed from the last one.
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    I like the bricks on the numbers. But other than that, I still like your first tweak the best.
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    I would have kept the pinstripes and dropped the navy. But otherwise I love pretty much everything about what you've done here. The cream uni looks so much better with matching piping.
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    Hate to put this up here, but it belongs. Maybe not as egregious as some of the others already here, but they had their regular home and away as well as those gorgeous earned editions with the antlers. They didn't need to do this.
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    I'm actually agreeing with you. MIL also plays into some nicknames for the city ("The Mil," "Mil Town," etc.) and feels like the more "local" abbreviation to me.... if that makes any sense. There's just no denying that MKE has become the preferred abbreviation over the past couple decades. Even the Milwaukee Wave and The Hop (streetcar) use MKE.
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    C'mon now... obviously I'm not pointing fingers at ayone here personally. But are you really gonna deny that there's an entire sociolpolitical culture propped up in the WOW Counties based on resentment of the big city and the people who live there? I say if anything, the Milkmen and Dockhounds should take advantage of it and draw some people to the ballparks. There hasn't been a Milwauee-Waukesha "rivalry" in sports since Marquette was playing Carroll College, and that was before WWII. Granted, this also ties into what I've said before about the Milkmen's identity, which looks even more egregious now since they're the "city" team in this scenario.
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    My only nitpick is go all in with the gold and make that the front number. Otherwise, this is 100 percent what I wish they would have done.
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    I'll be honest .. as a local, I fought "MKE" for the longest time. The traditional abbreviation for Milwaukee was MILW (watch any old Bucks game from the 1970s ABC era). MIL was closer to that and felt more intuitive to me. MKE seemed to be preferred by transplants who wanted to be cool and trendy. But.... there's no denying that MKE has taken over as the preferred abbreviation over the past 20 years. I've also admitted that it means more to me that they were able to work the hidden 414 in. That resonates more with me as a local.... even if I live in that "other" city down the lakeshore now.
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    Guessing its the difference in quality between a professional render and a pic someone took woth their camera phone.
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    I live on the northside, but my grandpa was a southsider from Bridgeport. Obviously his time was way before hip hop, but no one can accuse the Sox of missing the plot here. They doubled down on everything about their identity that made them connect with the southside in the first place.
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    NOW you've got something that makes me think of the MAM!
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    Weird to think of Detroit being a two team city in any sport. Of course back then, St. Louis actually was. Apparently the Cardinals also considered moving to Milwaukee in the 1940s. Which would have been very ironic considering the St. Louis Browns were the OG Brewers.
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