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  1. 19 minutes ago, DG_ThenNowForever said:

     

    Did you know the oldest NBA franchise is the Sacramento Kings?

     

    I don't care about the Cards doing whatever they're doing but this isn't a good comparison since the Kings haven't been using the same color scheme for nearly a century

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  2. 1 hour ago, HOOVER said:


    I don't buy this completely.   Perhaps all teams should unretire those retired player numbers instead of muddying up the game by deregulating number rules.

     

    The Chiefs alone have the following numbers retired, offiically or unofficially:

     

    No. Player Position Tenure
    3 Jan Stenerud K 1967–1979
    16 Len Dawson QB 1962–1975
    18 Emmitt Thomas CB 1966–1978
    28 Abner Haynes RB 1960–1964
    33 Stone Johnson 1 2 RB 1963
    36 Mack Lee Hill 2 RB 1964–1965
    58 Derrick Thomas 2 LB 1989–1999
    63 Willie Lanier LB 1967–1977
    78 Bobby Bell LB 1963–1974
    86 Buck Buchanan DT 1963–1975


    So yeah, I get it, when you're carrying 90 players in the offseason roster it can be tough, and that doesn't leave you any wiggle room when you already have 10 numbers off the board.   

     

    You've got to number 53 main roster players, up to 16 practice squad players, and your injured/reserve players for the season, but that's usually only 75-80.   

     

    It really shouldn't be a problem with the traditional numbering rules.
     

     

    They should unretire 33 and 36. It's good to honor players who died but there's ways to do it without retiring numbers

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  3. 10 hours ago, Dynasty said:

     

    It's actually amazing to me that they have that kind of history, given where they are at now. I mean they have 9 World Series titles, that's the third most in baseball. Plus I think they're up there in terms of most hall of famers as well. They have a lot of rich history and they could be in the same conversation with teams like the Red Sox and Cardinals. But now, I think they might be among the most forgettable teams within the younger generation of baseball fans (I don't know what their popularity out west is, so you can dispute this if there is something I'm missing). It's just a little mind-boggling.

     

    The A's have a rich history of peaking like a mfer then cratering hard for decades until someone comes along to pull them out of the dirt. Billy Beane was almost that guy but they never actually got anywhere.

    Also 5 of those were won in Philadelphia 90+ years ago (they still have the most championships of any sports team based in Philly lol)

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  4. 11 hours ago, monkeypower said:

     

    I'm just wondering if there's a larger issue at play with weather themed team names not being able to be translated well into good logos.

     

    The discussion surrounding the toilet bowl Hurricanes logo and the warning flag alternate logos (even that's an issue because for years they used the incorrect flag and now that they use the correct flag, it looks worse), many Thunder teams just using Thor or including lightning in their logo or OKC doing what they did.

     

    You go through the list of weather themed team names and I don't think there's many good logos/brands.

     

    It's definitely a problem. I've never seen a Hurricanes logo, real or conceptual, that looked any good

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  5. 5 hours ago, WideRight said:

    The poll is up everyone.  This is a the first of a series of polls related to the 2006 and 2008 USFL expansion:

     

    1. Pick Atlanta's helmet.

    2. Pick the St. Louis Logo/Helmet.

    3. Pick the identity from 3 possible names for 2008 Expansion Team #1

    4. Pick the city & identity from 3 options for 2008 Expansion Team #2

     

    Here are your three Atlanta choices.  You can vote at the USFL Lives Alt History Website (Ignore the URL saying Boston, Wix won't let me change the URL from the last poll I did.)

     

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