ManillaToad

Williams has been in Washington's front office since 2014

4 hours ago, JayMac said:

Man, those color rush games were such a dumb idea.

It was, and yet it completely took over as a uniform trend and is ruining games to this day.

I always really liked the Bears-Colts pairing in XLI. Two classic uniforms grinding it out in the pouring rain gives me an old-school football feeling

Washington's first three appearances are all great matchups

VII - The only time in their five appearances that they wore red, my favorite uniform Washington has ever worn

XVII - The opposite of their previous matchup with Miami. When I was a kid I had in my mind that the 80s were defined by the Phins and the Skins. I don't know why, but I did

XVIII - The very next year gives us their best looking matchup. Speaks for itself

A logo for a jersey retirement?  Are the Blues wearing it on their jerseys for the game? I don't understand

Good riddance loser

"CHAMPS"

1 hour ago, Cujo said:

 

Going back to something I had a problem with twenty whole years ago -- Rice should never have worn Steve Largent's retired #80 to begin with. Felt disrespectful to wear the # of the only great Seahawk (up to that point) in the twilight of his career and try to make it his own.

 

In general, not a fan of un-retiring a number for any player, no matter how great the player is. This includes when Peyton Manning did it in Denver. So now, there's THIS at the stadium

 

Why don't they just make another one for 18?

Switching from a white to a navy helmet was the only good thing about Tennessee's uniform overhaul

18 minutes ago, IceCap said:

. The Browns, for all the bs involved in that revisionist history, never played a down as the Baltimore Browns

It isn't revisionist if it happened during the fact instead of after

27 minutes ago, tBBP said:

 

The Oilers brand, yes. The Tennessee Oilers brand, though? I don't know about that one--but since we ain't got nothing better to do right now than prolong the Clevejacking already in progress, let's look at this.

 

 

What we see here is the shoehorning of the Tennessee state flag turned 45-ish° with the navy blue fly extended around the bottom to house the rest of the team name ( but curiously without the white line separating the red from the blue as on the fly, for some reason) to the circle of stars of the three Grand Divisions isolated and elevated to further emphasize that these are now the Tennessee Oilers. I suppose from a brand strategy standpoint, all that made sense--but they could have gone without sticking the 98 in there. Of course, the '97 version had even more letters crammed into it....

 

 

It's almost as if they knew these would be temporary stopgaps prior to releasing a new identity.  (And I remind that we very nearly had the Tennessee Pioneers rather than the Titans we actually got.)

 

And while we're reminiscing on that three-year dead period in their history--the lame-duck year of '96 followed by their teo nomad seasons split between Memphis and Vanderbilt's campus, here's this...

 

 

 

 

And what ultimately became in '99...

 

 

 

(All this said, I will say that the '99 Tennessee Titans > whatever their current brand has become.)

I forgot 1999 was their first year as the Titans. Imagine this in the Super Bowl...

1 hour ago, Faxion said:

Add to the nice clean NEW jersey an 'Inaugural' patch as it is the 1st year of a new team name and it will look like a patchwork mess

 

 

Lol the Jags one

Washington has officially played their last game as the Football Team. I hope they can look back and reflect on these last two seasons, and feel bad about what they've done.

3 minutes ago, Cujo said:

 

Super Bowl 5

Super Bowl 41

When was the other one?

I'm talking about the Baltimore era. They won the 1958 & 1959 NFL Championships

10 minutes ago, Cujo said:

 

So Vinny Testaverde and the entire 1995 Browns roster/staff/front office/ownership were TRADED to the Baltimore Ravens expansion team in 1996. That makes all the sense in the world! Now using that faux logic, explain to me how the Tennessee Titans and Houston Oilers continue to be the same franchise with the same lineage

No trade was possible, because the team they played for was no longer in operation. The NFL, Ravens, and former Browns personnel all agreed to assign that personnel to the new Baltimore franchise. Situations like this happened all the time in the early 20th century in American sports. Just because it happened in our lifetimes doesn't mean it's different.

The Titans legally own the history, branding, and records of the Houston Oilers. The Ravens do not in any way say they were the Browns, and they own nothing in relation to Cleveland.

Just now, DG_ThenNowForever said:

At this point, the Colts having been in Baltimore feels like a historical oddity

Let's not get carried away here lol, They won three championships and were captained by an arguable top 5 all-time QB, as well as being participants in Super Bowl III (which is arguably the most important in history), and winning the first post-merger Super Bowl

36 minutes ago, Crabcake said:

Just want to throw out props for being one of the first times I’ve ever seen people outside of Baltimore acknowledge the fact that Baltimore had their team ripped away from them too. Everyone seems to conveniently forget that point. 
 

On another note, I haven’t been this glad to see a Ravens season end since the one where Flacco tore his ACL and we ended up with a top 10 pick (2015? I think?). There has been very little joy in watching this team the last month and a half. Lost 6 straight to close out the year and 5 of those were by 3 points or less. Ridiculously bad close game execution. No Lamar for the last month. It’ll be nice to watch NFL football without having to worry too much about who’s winning, although the Steelers getting in really throws a damper on that. They seem like a slam dunk one-and-done but if anyone can pull an undeserved, referee-assisted playoff win out of their you-know-where, it’s the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Well the city and state governments tried to eminent domain Irsay's private business from him so it's not as cut and dry as other relocations.

49 minutes ago, Cujo said:

 

Fixed.

 

Jim Brown, Bernie Kosar, Ray Lewis, Lamar Jackson all played for the exact same franchise.

Complete fanfiction. Every party involved agrees the Ravens were not the Browns.

wrong thread

2 hours ago, chakfu said:

 

Complete with a redtails concept where the pilot looks white

To me he looks grey, in both appearance and demeanor

56 minutes ago, Cujo said:

So we've basically confirmed Commanders. Now, which roudnel are we getting?

 

 

Opinion: The top one is far superior + the wordmark and "W" match the other leaks

I don't really think either is legit but I would bet on the top before the bottom. Bottom is very busy, has generic fonts, and uses a different W than what we've seen.

I'm just glad this Football Team crap will finally be over with in a month

"Football Club" shenanigans are cringe but if it's just the legal name, whatever. Commanders is great

The worst name in the big 4 is Orlando Magic. Very embarrassing.

I would take a garbage non-plural nickname like Armada over a lifetime of "We're playing the Team this week xD" jokes