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  1. Ridleylash
    It probably has something to do with Nashville's longstanding nickname of "Athens of the South"; Athens = Greece = Greek mythology = Titans. Plus...well, it's a pretty powerful-sounding name for a team compared to something like "Tennessee Pioneers", which was the original name.
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    Here's a shot from the upper deck of Chase Field (and not even seats behind home plate);
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    The MLB is not going to contract a team that just went to the World Series, what? And if their attendance was so terrible that they should be contracted, then we should also be calling for the Orioles, Guardians, Nationals, White Sox, Tigers, Pirates, Rays, Royals, Marlins and A's to all be contracted as well, since the D-Backs drew more then all of them last year. Besides, haven't people been bitching about how expensive it is to go to sports games for years now, especially recently since we're in an economy that's still recovering from a pandemic?
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    I mean, I don't really know if putting two teams in a city that has struggled to support even a single franchise at various points in history was necessarily the correct choice in itself, but Dean Spanos isn't exactly known for his bright ideas when it comes to running the Chargers. The Rams will at least have staying power thanks to their championship, as we all know LA loves winners, but the Chargers seem pretty much predestined to go the way of the Angels in being the bum also-ran franchise; and even then, the Angels didn't spend the vast majority of their existence in a completely different city.
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    I'd disagree with the assertion that the Canes' branding is inconsistent, personally. Theirjerseys aren't, sure, but jersey design inconsistency to some extent is kinda common in the NHL (Vancouver does it, Calgary does it, the Rangers do it, Chicago does it, Detroit does it, Montréal does it, etc). All three uniforms they currently use as their main set have overlapping brand elements to tie them all together, like the logos, color scheme, NOB font, pants, etc. Brand inconsistency, to me, is when nothing about what a team looks like really matches with itself over their history, creating a situation where fans of that team all prefer vastly different looks as the "true" look of the franchise (see: LA, Vancouver, Anaheim and to a lesser degree Tampa, Calgary and Dallas) and arenas turn into less of a unified front and more of a sea of different colors, which we don't really see in Carolina; it's all red, white or black with the occasional Whalers jersey here or there.
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    I feel like if it were not that good, they wouldn't have kept it around for the last 25 years and would've moved in another new direction; the Canucks have never been afraid to change their brand if they think it isn't working, after all.
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    Honestly, this whole thing is a clear example of the team massively overthinking what should have been a piss-easy assignment. Nobody complained when the Canucks were wearing these as alternates because we all knew what they were trying to be, which was a throwback; But with the new version, they've decided to go to this really weird uncanny valley between throwback and new design... ...and so they instead end up creating the equivalent of a Walmart knockoff of their own alternate jersey that is too new to work as a throwback but too similar to the one it replaced to feel truly distinct. If they really wanted to do a different version of the Skate this time...why not just do the white Skate throwback? I feel like more Canucks fans would've gladly eaten up an Adidas version of the white Skate than a bootleg version of a jersey they already bought.
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    It really wasn't all that uncommon in the IHL overall to have dark helmets paired with white jerseys;
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    Swap out the logos and either fill in or remove the phantom yoke and that's a pretty damn nice jersey redesign idea.
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    That's hardly a logo, though, that's a jersey design; the logo for those jerseys was the Flying Skate on the arms, not the V on the chest like the Vegas jersey. Letters being used on the front of jerseys was extremely common in the PCHA and hockey in general in that era, as was single-color striping, so I'd imagine Vegas designed their jersey to align with that style, color scheme and all, since Seattle was already headed in that direction. Like, it's not that far removed from, say, this Rosebuds jersey;
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    Ooh, that's very nice. Kind of bizarre the method with which it leaked, but still.
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    I've seen plenty of places spell it with the H, too. Just seems to be a preference thing throughout New England (though personally, "chowdah" makes more sense since the word has an "r" at the end of it, like with "dollar" becoming "dollah").
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    Turns out Toronto's just the first to make use of a new decision by the NHL;
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    Honestly, I don't actually mind it that much. The rest of their road equipment is blue already, so it's not like it clashes with the rest of the uniform in a negative way, it's just that we're all so used to white road helmets being a league-wide thing that anything else looks weird. To be fair, the Bolts should have a lot more black in their look anyways to make them actually have a unique look instead of just being a blue Detroit recolor.
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    The Calgary Wranglers have unveiled their third jersey, and it's exactly what we all expected it to be and as beautiful as hoped; Crazy how it's so much better-looking than the NHL team's third just by actually filling in the cuffs and hem.
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    The Diamondbacks have unveiled their new uniforms, which include the return of the D-snake and the return of the team name instead of "D-backs";
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    What a :censored:ing joke lmao. People can dunk on the Coyotes, but at least they have a set home. The A's are just going to be a traveling circus ripped right out of the 50's, which is even more pathetic. The Los Angeles Buccaneers of baseball, everybody.
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    Man, imagine the egg on Fisher's face if this suit actually goes through lmao
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    The Ducks brought back a franchise legend tonight;
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    I can see it working on an alternate, admittedly. As the main brand mark, though, likely not.
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    Plenty of teams do it, like the Mavs, Bulls, Hawks, Raptors, Knicks, Nets, Sixers...it's not an uncommon practice.
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    It's officially a five-alarm fire in Edmonton as the Oilers fail to mount a comeback, losing to the Sharks in regulation and putting them in a tie for 32nd in the league in points...despite out-shooting them 41-18. To even make the playoffs, they'll have to play at a 105-point pace the rest of the year...which, given their performance so far, seems unlikely. I think we can begin to call their playoff chances close to dead in the water at this point. Honestly, if you're Draisaitl and McDavid, how much longer can you take this team wasting your prime years like this?
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    I mean, I don't mind it as much on the Canes jersey either since the entire arm below the stripe is also black, so the red middle actually works in that case to help break up an otherwise black-heavy section of the jersey. The Boston one, I find a little more irksome because of the inconsistency between the hem and arm. The arms are more black-heavy, but the hem is more gold-heavy so it just looks kinda weird to me. Not horrible, but I'd definitely prefer if it had one consistent style.
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    I mean, just slip it into the striping like the originals had it instead of just having nothing in the middle. Just having the two outer colors and nothing in the middle just makes the stripe look unfinished; there's a reason teams with two-color striping like this tend to follow the formula of having the outermost stripes be one color, then having the jersey base color, and finally having the largest stripe be a second color.
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    If I had to guess, rising prices have forced a lot of people to give up Jets tickets to afford stuff like food and bills. Plus the team constantly being stuck in mid for the last few years isn't helping, either; fans will show up to a team that's winning and putting in strong efforts every night, and the Jets have hovered around .500 all year so far. I mean, plus the owner did kind of hang that sword of Damocles over their heads in the offseason... In other news, Edmonton's oil-soaked tire fire continues to burn;
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