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  1. I just saw another punter wearing a higher number (than 19). It seems the NFL is quietly allowing this to compensate for the new numbering rules making the lower numbers more sought after.  It also reminded of one of my earliest memories of sports uniform nerdery and thinking how cool it was that Pat McInally and Bob Parsons wore numbers that receivers usually wore.

    Speaking of nerdery... McInally is the still the only player in NFL history to score a perfect 50 wonderlic.

     

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  2. 6 hours ago, neo_prankster said:

     

    Indianapolis Comets maybe?

     

    Or maybe it could be the Cleveland Indians minus Chief Wahoo? Or Cleveland Industrials if the name got changed sooner than in real life?

     

    I haven't quite gotten to the 80s and 90s yet, but my plan was for the Indians to still be the Indians. In this universe, the Cleveland organization quietly phased out Wahoo in the 80s the way the Braves did with their native mascot logo. As such, they never became the source of controversy that they did in our world. In the 90s, the Indians have a rebrand inspired by legit Native American folk art to something along the lines of what we see with the MiLB clubs in Indianapolis and Spokane.

     

    However, I am eventually gonna have to address the fact that Indianapolis wanted a MLB team in the 80s. I can't say I've considered how convenient it might be if a team moved to Indy and already had an "I" on their cap!

  3. On 11/27/2023 at 5:21 PM, neo_prankster said:

    I look forward to seeing this series build and grow.

     

    By the way, what city do the Twenty-Ones play in?

     

    I'm not sure if this will become a formal series like some of those you've seen in the Concepts section. But I'll definitely share some updates as I make them since I am not completely sold on all the timelines.
     

    The 21s are the Seattle Centurys aka Seattle Century 21s. They evolved out of the ashes of the Seattle Rainiers of the Pacific Coast League. After the Coast League was declared a major league, they used the 1962 World's Fair in Seattle (aka the Century 21 Expo) as a platform to promote their brand of baseball.  The Centurys play in an Astrodome-like stadium called the Emerald Dome on the expo grounds where the Washington State Pavilion (the old Key Arena where the Sonics used to play) sits in our universe. (Strangely enough, the two original ballparks that exist in this universe are on the site of a NBA arena in our universe.)

     

    Identity-wise the Centurys are sort of a mash-up of the Astros and Expos.  They're named after a world's fair that their city hosted like the Expos, and like the Astros they play in a state-of-the-art dome in a city built by aerospace technology, and wear "space age" uniforms.  But I'm still mulling a few ideas in my head of what they actually look like.. I want them to look unlike anything you saw teams doing in the mid-1960s, yet still plausible for that era.

     

    On 11/27/2023 at 5:26 PM, maxwasson said:

     

    Wonder what team is playing in KC with a dark navy and red color scheme? 

     

    There's a clue in the initial post... The Browns moving to Milwaukee means the Braves had to find another city. 😉

     

    23 hours ago, coco1997 said:


    That’s definitely a Kansas City Monarchs logo.

     

    It's actually a Kansas City A's logo... or at least that's where I got it from. But a lot of the monograms adopted by new teams in this era were lifted directly from a minor league team in that area. Both the Monarchs and KC Blues of the American Association used a similar monogram at various points before the A's arrived.

  4. Greetings logo nerds… I present the visual outline of a writing project I’m working on, and was in large part inspired by some of the series on this forum.

     

    This image is from an alternate 1972 where Major League Baseball has evolved into four circuits of six clubs and limited interleague play. It is the result of the past 20 years of baseball history which has been affected by three events that didn’t occur in our timeline:

    -Bill Veeck is successful in moving the St. Louis Browns to Milwaukee County Stadium. Thereby returning the original Brewers franchise from the 19th century to its original home and setting off a completely different pattern of franchise relocation.

     

    -The Dodgers are granted their proposed domed stadium on the corner of Atlantic and Flatbush in Brooklyn (the site of the current Barclays Center), and never moved to the West Coast.

     

    -The lack of NL or AL ball on the coast opens the door for the Pacific Coast League to become the third major league going into the 1960s. A conflict that, much like pro football with the NFL and AFL, takes about a decade to resolve.

    I’m not sure if this will be a series since my own design skills are limited. But my inbox is open if anyone would be interested in some collaborating.

     

    This is also by no means a finished project… I’m still not completely sold on the timelines I have going for some of the teams which would affect this particular lineup. My goal is to be different enough from our universe to keep things interesting, but still grounded enough in reality to keep the reader’s suspension of disbelief. Where possible, I even have storylines and side plots that show how MLB’s franchise moves have affected other sports (such as when a highly-anticipated 1988 Monday Night Football game between division rivals the Baltimore Colts and Brooklyn Titans was hastily moved to Shea Stadium in the Meadowlands to accommodate a Dodgers playoff game at the BrooklynDome).

    Anyway, let the speculation begin…..

     

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  5. On 11/1/2023 at 9:31 AM, coco1997 said:


    Great question. I thought about it, but considering uniforms from that period basically all looked the same, I decided to use 1900 as the starting point for most of those original teams, since that marked the beginning of the Modern Era. Having said that, I can tell you I'm planning to use the original Old English "C" logo for the Reds. 

     

    MILWAUKEE BREWERS (est. 1970)

     

    HOME:

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    ROAD:

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    HOME ALT:

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    Notes:

     

    - This set is based on Milwaukee’s 1971 look, rather than their Pilots hand-me-downs from 1970. This is primarily because I intend to use the captain’s sleeve stripes for Seattle later on in the series.
    - We get the return of the baby blue roads, something I’m still shocked the Crew didn’t revive for their otherwise excellent 2020 redesign. 
    - The road and alternate feature a new block arched “MILWAUKEE” wordmark to match the “BREWERS” one.

     

    C&C appreciated! For the next team, we go a lot further back in time--to a period when they were called something else entirely. 

     

    This is essentially how I expect the Brewers to look. I judge all Brewers uniforms by how closely they follow this basic template.

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  6. 3 hours ago, BShaw20 said:

    It’s gross, it’s like Minnesota lol

     

    Minnesota's city ed also looks like a Milwaukee city ed from a couple years ago.

    If you told me they just decided to circle jerk each other for perpetuity because it's easier than coming up with a new idea for this stupid series every single year, I'd probably believe it.

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  7. Another great job.  I hope you can extend this series to non-football conferences. It seems as though the Big East and A-10 are full of Catholic schools that could form their own regionally appropriate Midwest and Eastern conferences.

     

    Eastern: Duquense, Fordham, Georgetown, Providence, Seton Hall, St. Bonaventure, St. John's, Villanova... maybe throw in UMass or BU to get the Boston market and/ or the other Phily schools.
     

    Midwest: Butler, Creighton, Dayton, DePaul, Detroit, Loyola, Marquette, Notre Dame, Saint Louis, Xavier
     

     

  8. On 9/27/2023 at 1:36 PM, Gary said:

     

    I thought I was getting pranked when my homeboy in Chicago called to tell me.

     

    It really sucks to lose Jrue Holiday. He was only around for three years, but that's all he needed to cement himself in Bucks lore and he was one of the most beloved players in franchise history to boot. The Bucks had to make this trade, but that doesn't make it any easier.

    On the other hand.... HOLY S#!T WE GOT DAME!!!!!!!!!

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  9. I've always wanted to see the Tomahawk C on the front of the Blackhawks jersey. But I don't think you have to reinvent the wheel with the striping... changing it brings this into "too much change" territory.  I also don't think it's necessary to get away from the gold C.

     

    But if you're gonna get rid of the chief, put the Chicago flag on the shoulders. Either the standard one, or the one with black stripes.

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  10. For my multiverse, I toyed with the name Minneapolis Saints before settling on Twin Cities Giants because I could incorporate Paul Bunyan into the team's identity. The logic being that teams were still typically named after cities in that era and Bloomington is on the Minneapolis side of the river. But Saints was the name of St. Paul's AA team and would still mark the big league club as being for both cities.

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  11. 23 hours ago, ChiharuShiba said:

     

    reebok made those. disappointing that GS keeps going back to the same retro when they have more than enough rarely used and/or untouched designs; hell it took them eons to return to the run tmc era unis. i'd like to see these get another run:

     

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    Call it nostalgia glasses since the Warriors still had the same basic look when I started watching ball, but they kept this basic look from 1971 all the way until 1988 and the start of the Run TMC era. They deserve a lot more love.

  12. On 9/12/2023 at 11:38 PM, Germanshepherd said:

    It makes me sad that we never see basketball numbers above 50.

     

    You have so much room to work with and you only choose a slim layer of it! I wanna see 73's 86's 59's 97's etc. all on the court. I think that'd look cool.

     

    50-55 are still traditional basketball numbers. You don't see higher numbers more often because 6, 7, 8, and 9 weren't allowed on jerseys because referees only have 5 fingers to signal numbers with. So, 0-5, 10,15, 20-25, etc. were okay, but numbers like 26 or 37 were not. Once you got past 55 there were no more eligible numbers.

     

    I don't necessarily dislike the higher numbers, because basketball players tend to be taller and slender, a number like 11 looks better on most of them than 88.

  13. On 8/13/2023 at 12:38 AM, TenaciousG said:

    Also anyone who votes Milwaukee United needs to be put tarred and feathered. 

     

    That one didn't even make it into the finals. But some of the ones that did? Yeesh.

     

    Here they are according to the official team website:

    -Milwaukee Tall Boys

    -Milwaukee Barons

    -Milwaukee Brigade

    -Goodland

    -Lake Effect

    -Fresh Coast

    -Milwaukee Iron

    -Cream City

    -1846 Milwaukee

    -Milwaukee Industrial

     

    I'm solidly behind Milwaukee Iron. But the Bucks can't wear cream anymore and those Cream City jerseys were quite popular, so I'd be okay with that too.

  14. Not sure who I'd choose for Milwaukee. Steve Miller, Violent Femmes, Die Kreuzen, and Coo Coo Cal, Al Jarreau, and Eric Benet are all from Milwaukee. Les Paul, Garbage and Killdozer too if you include all of Wisconsin. But I don't feel like Milwaukee is a place you'd associate with a particular style of music.

     

    I vote for a Summerfest themed jersey for the Bucks.

  15. 19 hours ago, the admiral said:

    * Bucks and Raptors are World Champions, so much for deference to their international rosters

     

    The Bucks are "NBA World Champions" because they made it a point to make the 2021 banner look like the 1971 banner which was imported from the MECCA into the Bradley Center, then into the Forum.

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