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The "sand"-colored Padres uniforms were simultaneously great, and a nice subtle tribute to their old yellow uniforms, even if that wasn't the intent.
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i dig it, there should be more uses of gray that aren't black in uniforms then again the last time i said i liked off-white colors, the "dishwater" Rams unis came out...
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fbjim replied to billman29's topic in Sports Logo General Discussion
I've heard this is to look better on vertically-oriented smartphone short videos. Kind of funny how things have come full circle that way, yeah. -
I love the highly underused "big two block letters" look. Reminds me of the old KC Monarchs look that Jackie Robinson once wore in the Negro Leagues.
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fbjim replied to billman29's topic in Sports Logo General Discussion
For some reason college basketball (and basketball generally) has been bucking a trend toward smaller graphics and going more and more gigantic. I don't get it, I actually like the NBA on NBC-era "quick flash of the score when someone makes a basket" thing, but even this is much better than what we have now. -
The "tilted" LA Lakers wordmark from the classic era never, ever looked good, and I have no clue what they were going for by sloping the wordmark that way.
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fbjim replied to billman29's topic in Sports Logo General Discussion
New UCI graphics for the World Championships. Graphics for "official" sporting orgs like the Olympics or various world championships tend to have that sort of neutral, "official" look to them, I think this tows the line nicely between that look and a more up-to-date look than the UCI races have had in recent years. That said the rainbow stripes motif seems a bit overused. Using it in the speedometer? -
Gradient is difficult to use, but can be used well, and "it has gradient so = bad" is one of the laziest uniform critique cliches out there.
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some cycling ones, why not Laurent Fignon in Gatorade colors- Anything other than Renault or Super-U looks wrong, really, but even Castorama looked alright. As cool as the Gatorade kit was, it's very much not his look. Peter Sagan in the 2015 Tinkoff colors, prior to him winning the World Championships - Seeing Sagan in a kit other than the rainbow jersey or TDF green jersey is weird enough, but his early years in the bright green Cannondale jerseys were fairly iconic. This, however, was just a weird, ugly kit, and a piss-poor way to display his Slovakian championship. Thankfully he spent three solid years in the rainbow WC stripes after that, but jeez. Tom Boonen, USPS Even by weird "Oh, I forgot he rode for them" rookie team kit standards, this is weird. Alejandro Valverde, Illes Balears Right team, wrong sponsor. Movistar have rarely changed sponsors, having Reynolds for the 80s, Banesto for the 90s, Caisse d'Epargne for the late 00s, and Movistar for the '10s, but there was an odd period starting about 2000 where they went a bit nuts before settling on the boring, but fairly iconic Caisse d'Epargne kit. This was probably the weirdest of them all. Stephen Roche, Tonton Tapis To be honest, not sure this one belongs here, despite how hilariously bad the Tonton Tapis jersey is, Roche is probably the rider I identify most with it. But it's still such a hilarious, weird kit for a rider which generally wore iconic jerseys, like Peugeot and Carrera Jeans. Laurent Jalabert, Toshiba Taste went out the window in a fantastic way in the early 90s in all sports, and cycling was probably the worst (best?) affected. Anyway, when people think of Jaja, they think of him riding for ONCE, and not this hilarious monstrosity. Big fan of how the stripes accentuate Jaja's crotch, though. Greg Lemond, ADR-Agrigel Potentially a controversial one, because Greg wore this one in his most famous moment- winning the 1989 TDF by 8 seconds over Fignon by eight seconds. But for a rider who's worn some of the most iconic kits in cycling history- Renault-Elf, La Vie Claire, Z-Vetements, the rainbow WC stripes, even his brief spell in PDM- this one just doesn't cut it. Incidentally, that old Giro helmet logo needs to come back.
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fbjim replied to billman29's topic in Sports Logo General Discussion
god that TOUCHDOWN text is like the peak of obnoxiousness. like seriously, what happened to highlighting the scoring team's part of the scorebug, or even better, just updating the score without massive text and logos flying everywhere? -
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fbjim replied to billman29's topic in Sports Logo General Discussion
Fox seemingly can't decide if they like boxes or tickers better. -
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fbjim replied to billman29's topic in Sports Logo General Discussion
Oh, and the Rugby World Cup is almost done, and NBCSN appeared to be using the world feed graphics for those. I rather like these. I do think it's funny that it's another example (alongside FOX's flat graphics fetish, which seems pulled right from the Windows Metro/8 look) of sports graphics cribbing from tech- this "flat layered/textured" look is straight out of the Google "Material Design" playbook. -
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fbjim replied to billman29's topic in Sports Logo General Discussion
For whatever reason, I really like ESPN's current thing of giving each sport its own look. Being consistent has its virtues but I like a bit of taloring to the aesthetics and looks for each individual league. The MNF graphics are bad but MNF graphics are always when ESPN gets weird anyway, so I can't get mad about those. Also, in cycling news, RIP to the Tour of California, AKA the only time I've ever heard commentators repeatedly complain about the on-screen graphics (they used the NBCSN graphics for the world feed, and the Eurosport commentators would constantly complain about stuff like the use of miles, rather than kilometers, and the information overload from the bottom bar endlessly cycling through standings/quotes/news rather than having a "normal" km/time gap display. (it did get better with the current NBCSN graphics they use for the Tour de France, but their insistence on using a bar rather than doing what literally every other cycling broadcaster did was always funny) -
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fbjim replied to billman29's topic in Sports Logo General Discussion
the mid-00s ESPN package was "flat with no outlines" and is probably still my favorite ESPN set, and football set ever really, the main problem I have with the FOX/CBS sets is their continued insistence on a bottom bar rather than a classic-style bug, but the fashion for that one seems to cycle in and out every few years (especially for FOX). -
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fbjim replied to billman29's topic in Sports Logo General Discussion
ESPN always goes wacky for their MNF graphics, even if they don't work, so I'm at least interested in seeing how they look.