ManillaToad

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

Please don't ever move the Stallions and Showboats they're some of the heart and soul of the USFL

All good changes. Now they need to get to work on Tuesday Night Football

4 hours ago, WideRight said:

Just a quick question to see what folks think.  Not promising anything will happen, but it just could.

 

Which current team in the Alt History of the USFL do you think is a prime relocation candidate between 2008-2018?

 

For those who don't follow the league on my Alt History site, here are the current 26 teams, with Portland and 1 other coming in for 2008:

 

NE: Baltimore Blitz, Boston Cannons, New Jersey Generals, Philadelphia Stars, Washington Federals. 

 

SE: Atlanta Fire, Jacksonville Bulls, Orlando Renegades, Tampa Bay Bandits (and a new team in either NC or VA)

 

SOU:  Birmingham Stallions, Memphis Showboats, Nashville Knights, New Orleans Breakers

 

CEN: Chicago Machine, Michigan Panthers, Ohio Glory, Pittsburgh Maulers, St. Louis Skyhawks

 

SW:  Arizona Wranglers, Denver Gold, Houston Gamblers, Texas Outlaws

 

PAC:  Las Vegas Thunder, LA Express, Oakland Invaders, Portland Stags, Seattle Dragons

 

 

Las Vegas and Texas. Mid-2000s seems too early for Vegas to support a pro sports team, and Texas is just a bad franchise that rarely does anything of note and will be third-fiddle in the state if/once Dallas gets a team (or maybe Texas moves to Dallas )

Does San Jose count as sunbelt

15 hours ago, who do you think said:

NJD, TBR, SAS, GSW

I dislike all of these except GSW. Looks better than GS imo

2 minutes ago, TrueYankee26 said:

 

Lmao

Every big four team that holds the record for most regular season wins failed to win the championship that year

1906 Cubs (116-36) lost the WS to the White Sox who had the worst BA in the league

2001 Mariners (116-46) lost ALCS

2007 Patriots (16-0) lol

2015-16 Warriors (73-9) blew 3-1 lead in the finals

2022-23 Bruins (65-12-5) blew a 3-1 lead in the first round

Every time the Bruins choke I imagine how much sweeter it would be if they hadn't beaten the Canucks in 2011. Regardless, their misery is funny and I'm glad they found a choke they can never live down

7 hours ago, Walk-Off said:

 

One should not forget the "deathly fear" of milk that Levis seems to possess.

 

Seriously, though, as unfair and as unfortunate as it might be for Levis, the cluster of quirky behaviors and attitudes that he has been revealed to have are putting him at risk of being labeled a "crazy person" (to put it kindly) among decision makers throughout the NFL ... to the point that he might be taken with a shockingly late pick in the draft ... or even not be drafted by any NFL team at all.

Nobody in the front offices avoided drafting Levis because some mush-brained chicago beat writer put out one of the stupidest tweets ever made by a "journalist"

Torn between voting for Charlotte because it's by far the best looking, or Virginia because I like the idea of USFL teams in untapped markets

8 hours ago, DCarp1231 said:

Texans on their edgelord

 

 

This is the meathead version of Live Laugh Love

5 hours ago, Old School Fool said:

The issue with rebranding though is that it's planned in advance so the Rockets ended up winning right after the look was greenlit. Whoops.

Same thing happened to the Rams in 2000

Gonna give my honest opinion: the proposed eagle isn't very good. It's a generic triangle-shape, and like others said it has similarities to the Skyhawks logo. The current one has a lot of character, and I think it'd be crazy for a team that went 17-0 to totally change their logo just a couple years later. It reminds me of the Dolphins changing their logo to be more sleek and "modern", and losing all of its soul in the process.

Ohio's current logo is one of the best in your league. It has that 1980s rival major league feel to it, which is the aesthetic I associate with the USFL. Would hate to see it go.

Lmao

37 minutes ago, who do you think said:

even though no other pairing of Dallas-Houston teams in any of the other major sports gives a rat's ass about each other aside from being in the same division, but whatever.

Rangers fans absolutely hate the Astros, though to be fair I think Houston fans are more slightly annoyed than anything

44 minutes ago, MJWalker45 said:

For a program that is supposedly no longer necessary, why are teams still making Color Rash their third design?

More merch to sell

49 minutes ago, simtek34 said:

 

The guy in black doing his best "don't mess with me" face to show how much more badass you are when you wear black monochrome is too perfect

25 minutes ago, simtek34 said:

 

They were so close! Just gotta never wear monochrome and shrink/remove the ARIZONA work mark and it's a good set. W/R/W/R, W/W/W/R, and W/W/R/W could all be good looks potentially. But they're prob just gonna stick to monochrome 24/7.

Lol I love that they brought out 9 guys and didn't bother to show off different combinations

9 minutes ago, OnWis97 said:

Recent teams that have kept names:

• Nets (but does that count?)
• Raiders
• Chargers

 

But what's the last team to move to a far away city with no connection and keep the name aside from the Radier?. The Oilers changed after a few years. The Hornets, but they ultimately changed. The Stars (if you count that).

Could it be argued that aside from the Raiders (who I maintain are a bit of a different case) the last team to 100% keep the name on a relocation of more than a two-hour drive is the Colts?

Rams

32 minutes ago, TenaciousG said:

Good, not great:

Rams

Lol no

2 hours ago, Sodboy13 said:

On the bright side, the end zone walls have advertising