ManillaToad

2 hours ago, Cujo said:

 

Good to know who are the 69th and 101th best teams in the nation!

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

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

1 hour ago, DCarp1231 said:

Calvin Ridley is the first current player to opt for 0

 

Okay, this is epic

2 hours ago, McCall said:

Wow other than the helmets, shoulders, numbers, pants, and colors these uniforms are identical

I'd rather the Cardinals add more yellow to their uniforms than black

1 minute ago, AgentColon2 said:

I expected worse. But still LOL bad.

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JETS

Just allow color vs color

Looks great

Name and uniform change please Mr. Harris

"Aaron Rodgers sits in room" is one of the more desperate headlines journos have peddled while waiting for free agency to start

That's a pretty interesting way to do a shoulder yoke. The away jersey isn't half bad

I like that the rugby one uses a bald eagle. Almost all the other ones are just stripes on a shield

52 minutes ago, Cujo said:

What's up with that finger?

42 minutes ago, maz said:

the Pens were actually selling iron-on ad patches for fans who wanted to make their jersey more "authentic."

Bleak.

EAT TAIN

I don't get why Mexico City is the only place in Mexico people talk about when it  comes to the big four. 2 weeks from everywhere and the elevation is ridiculous. There's other cities with huge populations that are a lot closer to the border. Also all of them are in Mexico which is a big problem too

USA's uniforms are both boring and ugly

I was enjoying his posts, but I can't support posting anime memes

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)

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

On 2/24/2023 at 9:24 AM, DouglasQuaid said:

It's refreshing to see both teams wearing contrasting socks. Last night looked pretty decent.

Those shoulder stripes are awful. San Antonio has them too

I said their branding is more major league. You'll notice this is the logos subforum and not the sports in general section

What is it with spring football and intentionally going for a minor league aesthetic? The USFL played in one city last year and still felt more like a serious league, solely because of the branding and uniforms

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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