ManillaToad

I hope Seattle wears their throwbacks against AFC West teams in the future

3 hours ago, Sykotyk said:

Was thinking how this year the Vegas Golden Knights and Florida Panthers both don't use their city's name for their location. One uses a nickname and another uses the state. And thought, well, how often does that happen. And when did it happen last.

 

Well, easy to forget that Tampa Bay is not the city name, because it happened just last year. With Colorado and Tampa Bay.

 

But here's the history

 

2023 - Vegas v. Florida

2022 - Colorado v. Tampa Bay

2001 - Colorado v. New Jersey

1996 - Colorado v. Florida

 

What is interesting, is that this is the first time not to include Colorado. And Carolina, Minnesota, and Arizona have yet to be part of a two-team non-city finals. Carolina has made it to the finals, just only faced Detroit and Edmonton.

Interesting little stat. The only Super Bowl that fits this is New England vs Carolina, unless you want to count NE vs NY. It's never happened in the World Series

11 minutes ago, habsfan1 said:

Not saying ads need to go completely. Teams need income.

Uniform advertisements are not and will never be a necessity for a big four league

2 hours ago, WSU151 said:

“I want to bash corporations at every turn and pretend like I want to boycott the league”. 

Yes

5 hours ago, WSU151 said:

 

For a few people that’s true. Just hope you’re not one of them. 

 

There’s literally nothing dumber than “What if we just had a bunch of people not watch hockey so we get what we want”. It’s pure delusion/alternate reality stuff.  . 

 

The ads are here to stay. I don’t like it. But nobody outside of some niche group - insert “there are dozens of us!!! Dozens!!!” meme - is going to boycott playoff hockey because of the ads. The constant circling back to “duhhhh ads are bad, I hate ads, we should boycott seriously but not really, and also, I hate ads” that occurs every six weeks or so is so tired. If you all want to beat dead horses so bad, set up a “Dead (Or Partially Alive) Horses We Love To Beat” thread. Constant groaning about ads - when this board clearly has no influence as to what leagues are doing - just sucks the fun and utility out of these yearly changes threads. 

 

#reality

There's literally nothing dumber than "You can't talk about uniform aesthetics on a board created for it!!" If you don't like ad talk there's plenty of other sites where you can defend corporate greed with likeminded people

5 hours ago, DCarp1231 said:

The Rams horns don’t appear to be decals anymore, but possibly painted on for this year-

Too bad they still appear to be bananas

3 hours ago, adsarebad said:

Jerseys ads are small.

Very few court ads.

nvm

On 5/26/2023 at 9:50 PM, oldschoolvikings said:

Except for the fact that you’re totally used to it, is  Citronauts whackier than Cornhuskers?

Yes since a cornhusker is an actual thing

I think the gold pants look fine when it's one player, but once you get a shot of the entire team wearing them it looks so ridiculous

2 hours ago, Jezus_Ghoti said:

The NFL also seems to have stopped enforcing any kind of rules around socks. That's why I think I'm ready to live in a post-sock world where players just show their legs like in college. 

 

Spare me from seeing all of this:

You would still see all this except some guys would just have no socks. You'd just be adding another variable

I'd be fine with either one winning. I'd probably vote for the one on the left though

1 hour ago, Bmac said:

Kansas City had several baseball teams named the Blues long before the St Louis hockey team came around. Nevertheless...

Yeah none of them were concurrent with the hockey team. The last was a minor league baseball team that moved to Denver a dozen years before St. Louis joined the NHL

9 hours ago, Sykotyk said:

HOWEVER, American Football teams tend to name themselves American names when in Europe. They're trying to be like what people know. That's why there's a Vienna Vikings and Tirol Raiders.

 

As for names, they come up on their own. Some reference the club, team, city, fans, etc.

 

Toronto FC - Reds

FC Cincinnati - Lions/Orange and Blue

Minnesota United - Loons

Atlanta United - Five Stripes

Sporting KC - Blue/Blues (The Cauldron/Blue Hell is their stadium nickname):

 

Nashville SC - Coyotes

FC Dallas - Hoops

Austin FC - Verde/El Verde/The Verde

Orlando City SC - Lions

NYCFC - Pigeons

LAFC - Black and Gold

St Louis CITY SC - (too early to tell)

 

 

A team from Kansas City calling themselves the Blues would be great for the rivalry with St. Louis if any of them cared about soccer

They just want the green to match the most prominent part of their uniform

I project that even if the players wore nascar uniforms and the team names had sponsors in them you'd still get looked at like you're crazy if you talked about how much you hate the advertising

When Florida is annexed by Canada

1 hour ago, HOOVER said:

 

 

As Stalekracker says, "That's money, dude."

And, I think this is eventually what we'll see as their most common combinations, once they get a few games of Icy White and Used Tampon out of their systems.

2 hours ago, Cujo said:

Why is Vegas such a wet blanket for hockey fans?

 

What they've done in their five years of existence is really amazing, will likely never be matched in any major 4 sport, and isn't praised enough.

They're envious that Vegas immediately put together a good team and front office instead of sucking ass for decades like a REAL franchise. Plus they're from Las Vegas and it's hot and sunny there which is bad for... some reason

10 hours ago, Ferdinand Cesarano said:

 

 

 

 

Man football aesthetics really fell apart over the years didn't they

11 hours ago, CS85 said:

If two expansion teams meet in the playoffs and nobody watches, did the series actually happen?

Dunno but Canadians will definitely whine about it on the internet

Embarrassing for the league

There's a lot of cool possibilities when it comes to how covid would affect the league. Maybe they temporarily go back to a 14-game schedule, maybe teams could be grouped in hubs, you could do division games only to minimize travel. Dunno how many options your simulation gives you, but you could always fill in the blanks with some creative writing.

5 hours ago, WideRight said:

so I may just have to cancel all of 2020

Please don't do that. In-universe it would make the USFL look terrible as the only major sports league to completely cancel their season, and in real life it would be a huge bummer to miss a full season of one of the best alt league sims I've ever followed