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Washington: how do you draw a generic “commander”? NOLA: the could have drawn a priest or monk or something Giants: relative to the card size, they couldn’t make a “giant” big KC: there’s no way they would put a Native American on the card after the Washington name chaos and the general public’s opinion.

Don’t know about the bevel, but the shorter w with the helmet stripe looks nice. (you got the stripe color mixed up)

Something just looks wrong with the empty sleeve cap. It was designed for something to be placed there, whether it be a number or logo

NO BLACK! I like black for the 49ers, but if O had to remove black from the logo, or add it to the jerseys, i would pick the former. Black doesn’t belong on the jerseys.

Those jerseys (unpopular opinion) are my favorite iteration of Lions jerseys, but Detroit shouldn’t be wearing black anyways. They look like a copycat of Carolina, especially the black jersey.

This is a really rough edit (done on an iphone at work, and is not reflective of my photoshop skills) but i think it conveys what it would look like if they moved the stripe down, removed the logo, and stretched the numbers

That makes me think: does Adam Silver sit down with the officials and discuss what their ideal Finals matchup will be?

Something about that just looks off. Maybe the stripes would need to be moved up more.

Will Nike (or the NFL) allow that? If they do, cool. I just think is Nike sees nothing wrong with the numbers now, why would they bend the rules for them?

While I like the simplicity, you picked the wrong shade of both blue and silver. The navy and flat silver looks bland and generic. The blue-ish silver (paired with a dark royal blue) are legendary Cowboys colors.

The difference between the retail jerseys and doing what you suggested is the fact that the actual collar size wouldn’t get smaller, just the part that’s blue. The numbers still wouldn’t have room to breathe because the template is still the same, whether or not the collar is more black.

it can’t be that bad, can it? it could only be another blue or white, or a new red jersey.

Precisely. There’s no need for a repeating logo when you have the same logo 6 inches above it on the helmet. For “tradition” ‘s sake, just move the stripes and numbers down.

I love how the refs tried to practically give Brooklyn the game in the end---and they still lost. From the ticky-tack foul that sent Tatum to the bench (they couldn't challenge because of an earlier call) to Blake Griffin getting a call every time someone touched him, to Brown losing the ball and getting a foul because KD ran through him, this was a clear and biased referee-ing game. Charles Barkley even said after the game that "that was the worst officiating I've ever seen".

The Warriors aren’t a regular superteam. They got their guys through drafting and developing leftovers from other teams (Poole, GP2, Wiggins). Jordan Poole’s transformation into Steph’s doppelgänger was unforeseen and incredible. Gary Payton II is a chip off the old block, and Andrew Wiggins became the player he was destined to be. Let’s not lump GS with the ray of the super teams who just threw max players together.

I’m sure ‘76 Seattle’s stripes can fit.

How about the stripes from the original duds?

That team was bad because Belichick refused to go sign outside free agents the year before, thinking that Brady could just elevate them once again. Granted, they had just won the (lowest scoring) Super Bowl (ever) a year prior, but that was no excuse to not bring everyone back and/or try to upgrade. When Brady left the year after, it really exposed how lackluster the Pats talent group really was. The salary cap didn't play as big of a role as you're painting it.

This...might be a problem. If the Bucs, Rams, and Browns (especially the Browns) aren't more handicapped than an elbow-less man in a wheelchair within the next 5-10 years, then the salary cap will become useless (if it isn't already), free agency will be more of a bidding war then before, and we'll see most GMs with half a brain (sorry, Bears & Lions) and owner's funding competing in an arms race to stack up talent to make superteams, much like what we've seen in the NBA over the past decade. If the NFL wants to keep it's "Any Given Sunday" parity, then it needs to do something...fast.

I feel like there should be real-life evidence of this, but I can't think of a team in recent history that has.

We just had a day last week where we celebrated a player (albeit a different sport) who overcame adversity 100x worse than what Kyrie dealt with, in a time period where said player knew he was not wanted and knew he was going to be harassed, and yet still played with excellence and respect.

While his role may not be as definitely #2 as Pippen was, if you ask most people who was the #1 star in that 2016 team, it was (Finals MVP) LeBron. Rarely is there a team that wins a championship without a clear #1 & #2. Only maybe the 17-18 Warriors, but that’s about it (they are an exception because they had two previous #1’s).

You could argue this both ways, and they’d both be right. But I’ll let the facts do the talking. Without Kyrie, LeBron doesn’t win a ring in Cleveland, no matter what type of insane numbers he puts up (see 2015, 2018). But without LeBron, Kyrie doesn’t get a ring ever (see every year since that Kyrie has been healthy). Oddly enough, Kyrie needed LeBron more for his legacy than vice versa. LeBron could have rode it out in Miami or go anywhere else to seek a chip. LeBron (and Ty Lue, credit to him for keeping those egos in check) were the types of leaders that would keep Irving in line. He can’t be the star of the show (Boston) and his co-partner can’t be someone with similar leadership issues and character flaws (Brooklyn).

They did it for the annual “White Hot Playoffs” look. if you take a look at the crowd, most fans are clad in white. Even the mascot. Take a look at their website: https://www.nba.com/heat/news/the-story-behind-white-hot