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39 minutes ago, Sport said:

Not of a fan of the Flyers recent update. The swoopy taper of the original jersey and 2010 rebirth had some intentionality to it. Expanding the shoulder and sleeve stripe to take up more space just looks like someone tried to approximate that 70's look and got stuck with a bad template that isn't quite there. I would've preferred a full readopting of the 80's/90's jerseys to this half step. 

I respectfully disagree... I really like this update. The arm numbers are the only thing that throws me off with this set. I actually think they work well, but I'm not used to them. Other than that, I feel like the return of the darker orange is fantastic and the jersey itself is clean.

47 minutes ago, HOOVER said:

Agree, have been saying this since the beginning. 
 

I liked the Black set when unveiled, but when I saw the game action last week, remembered why it doesn’t work in real life: the number colors.  
 

Red numbers with a White or Silver outline on Black jerseys are hard to read.  The last high school team I coached had these, so I know from experience.   (We fixed this on new uniforms by going to a double outline that added Black between the Red & White and it made a huge difference.)

 

Not only are they harder to read, but the Cardinals numbers just seem smaller on the front, similar to the Lions.  I hate it.

 

I think they should’ve matched their numbers to their stripes on this set:  Silver fill, Red outline.  It would’ve contrasted beautifully with the Red NOBs.

 

 

Can anyone Photoshop the pic below, swapping the Red & Silver on the numbers?

 

Great idea with the numbers. I would love to see that too.

6 minutes ago, TruColor said:

And I agree with all of this as well, although I think I would like the Red jersey to be a mirror-in-style of the White jerseys (posted before, but here it is again):

 

 

(Oh - Unpopular Opinion here: I actually LIKE the Black alts. A couple of games a year, sure.)

Yes that is perfection. 

31 minutes ago, Ted Cunningham said:

Agreed. When I caught highlights of that game vs. SF, my first reaction was "Oh, wait, who is that? That's a really good looking game." Then when I realized it was Arizona, that kind of confirmed what I had figured: the away uniform, especially, is a massive improvement over what they had been wearing. I think the white sock phase is just a phase that we'll have to deal with temporarily. Red socks would look better with this look, so it can certainly improve. But even with the white socks, this looks like nice.

Agree with both of you. Honestly, this is really the only set of pants they need. Just swap out the jersey for home/away and they would look fantastic. I don't even mind the white socks on the road. 

Home:

White helmet, red jersey, white pants, red socks

Away:

White helmet, white jersey, white pants, white socks

Black set: get rid of it

That's all they need. The pieces are all there with this set. It just needs to be matched up.

1 hour ago, the admiral said:

I swear I remember something about how the Chiefs' white/white/white combo was Lamar Hunt's favorite and that they wore it for the first time in a long time as a tribute to him after he died. That's kind of neat. Maybe they should reserve it for games against the Raiders or something. They have to include the striped socks, though.

 

The Broncos made a huge mistake and the Eagles look even more terrible than usual lately.

I feel like the Broncos set isn't far off from being decent though. Invert orange and blue on either the pants or the jersey, and it would help the set a ton. It's the blob of orange that is killing it. I think the helmet is fantastic to be honest. It's just getting killed by the color rush uni. 

2 hours ago, spartacat_12 said:

 

The Rams were in LA for 48 years before moving to St. Louis. They wore some version of blue & yellow for 39 of those seasons, and wore blue & white for 8. Not sure why people want them to play Colts dress up based on a very brief period of the franchise's history.

My opinion has nothing to do with their LA history and everything to do with the fact that I thought that helmet was really nice. But I definitely get your point.

For the record, they aren't even playing LA Rams dress up right now either 

4 hours ago, Cujo said:

 

 

 

With this being the worst:

I think I've stated this before, and I know almost no one will agree. But that Rams helmet should have been the basis of their new set in LA. Maybe a shade lighter on the navy color, but I think that helmet is awesome. You are 100% correct on the uniform as a whole though. It's brutal. 

I get it. They are moving to LA, so they need to be bright and sunny. Whatever. The full horn will always be the correct horn for the Rams franchise, no matter the color scheme. But I really wanted an updated version of these below:

It's hard for me to even look at that mess that you posted Cujo. My team was leaving town, looked like a mess, but had to keep the jersey of a golden era of STL Rams football while having one foot out the door. I was holding my Marshall Faulk jersey over a bonfire the day the announced they were leaving until my wife stopped me  

11 minutes ago, TruColor said:

^Allegedly.

I'll be honest TruColor (and I think I said this at the time), the leaked info you provided made the build up of that uniform reveal really fun. It didn't matter that it ended up being false. That was a fun couple of months. 

1 hour ago, Pigskin12 said:

 

No chance at least one of these teams doesn't screw this up, but this is my game of the week if it somehow happens. Eagles are likely stick with their hideous white pants look though.

Raiders/Packers 100%

Also Chiefs/Vikings depending on MIN's combo

On 9/30/2023 at 4:38 PM, NOLAPelicans23 said:

Outside of the coloring on the tiger logo, I really like this road look for Mizzou. Especially against the Black-dominant scheme of Vanderbilt.

I agree. The helmet logo badly needs some white, but the set is really good.

I'm actually okay with them trending towards yellow as their main color. so much so that I would love some yellow pants with the black jersey. Yellow helmet - black jersey - yellow pants at home. This set on the road. 

3 hours ago, Pigskin12 said:

While I don't love the Texans identity (or lack thereof) this looks really good. Three things crossed my mind when I saw this:

1) This is so much better than a navy blob. This might actually be their best set.

2) As much as I think they need a brand refresh, I'm scared about what they will reveal. In reality, just side stepping to this full time with red as the primary color would be fine in my book. But instead, we are going to get a mess dropped on us. These are really clean but still has some interesting design elements. 

3) AZ Cards, take notice of how good red jersey, white pants, red socks looks. Now do that exact thing. 

26 minutes ago, henburg said:

 

At the end of the day they will not go back to R*******, it's a slur by definition and Josh Harris said as much recently-

 

"Obviously, I grew up in D.C. and I was there during the glory years, so I understand why fans love the former name," Harris said. 

"But look, there was a portion of our fanbase that felt disrespected by the former name," Harris continued. "Sports are supposed to bring people together and not be a distraction. I don't want distractions ... I thought it was important that we end the conversation." 

 

Like you point out, one Native American group saying otherwise is just that, one group amongst a diverse group of people with opinions to the contrary. I don't think it's really worth discussing anymore. 

Well, I think it's worthy of a discussion to be honest. In my view, it seems like the name in particular was the issue. If the Chiefs, Blackhawks, Seminoles, etc are all okay because their name isn;t a slur but their NA imagery is fine, then why change the entire branding? Why not change to a tribe name? And keep the helmet logo that was created by a Native American. 

Furthermore, I think that the concern that this group of Native Americans is bringing up is legitimate. They have stripped the branding of all NA imagery for a brand that leans on military imagery. The same military that at one point corralled them into reservations and took their land. 

There was a real opportunity in my eyes to do something really great to honor these cultures. Instead, they completely erased it. 

On 6/10/2023 at 11:58 PM, SSmith48 said:

Would have loved them to go the old NASL route and pick up the Sockers names, but that's already taken by a local MASL team. Leaning into a Mexican-inspired club name/imagery would be a nice touch, although a "Club San Diego" is a bit generic. Maybe an Atletico/Club Atletico name? Or lean into the SoCal roots and go with San Diego Sol? 

 

Whatever name they go with, there's enough cultural heritage in SD to get a brand that's visually impactful and connects locally, as long as they don't over-corporatize it. I'm a proponent for a bright and bold color scheme with some Mexican visual elements included, given the city's proximity to the border and heavy Latino presence.

As long as it isn't the lazy route every other team seems to take when trying to tie into Mexican heritage: San Diego Los FC or something stupid like that. 99% of every team that tries to tie branding into their Mexican fanbase does something awful like that. 

One thing I noticed about the white Cleveland set was that some of the guys were wearing the striped socks with the stripes waaay low by their ankles. It threw off the entire set. 

Agree with others on the pants stripe. 

7 minutes ago, AFirestormToPurify said:

Amazing. Those colors just feel right for that team. It's been 17(!) years, enough with the black and orange. Feels like it should have been a 2-3 year failed experiment but unfortunately they won a Cup in those jerseys so that's probably why it stuck around for so long. But even then, the jerseys they've been wearing for the past several years aren't even the Cup winning ones (which were just baaaarely better, desaturated and painfully dull or ugly piping mess with garish orange panels? Pick you poison), and they've had no success with the current set. What the hell are they waiting for? Does anybody actually like the black, orange and beige? Why is it taking them so long to go back to their original set? 

Spot on with this entire post. It's as if the more people clamor for the original set, the more dead set they are against bringing it back. They just keep dancing around it but wont fully commit. 

Back to the mask, it's fantastic. And the pads are incredible. 

On 9/16/2023 at 2:04 PM, NOLAPelicans23 said:

Mizzou updated the striping on the gold helmet this year to match the uniform (New Below, Old Above). I wonder if the gold pants will follow suit?

 

The entire game all I kept thinking was that they needed yellow pants. As a Zou fan, they can wear whatever they want if they win games like that though 

"We proudly announce our new uniform  partner Northwestern Mutual. And in sticking with the theme of no longer having a soul, we would like to ask for public tax dollars to build a new stadium or we will threaten to leave.  Welcome aboard Northwestern Mutual!"

11 hours ago, Carolingian Steamroller said:

I post this all the time but the key flaw of the Bears' orange jersey is the white numbers. White numbers on an orange jersey is exactly what the Broncos, Bengals, Bucs, and even the Browns for a while (wow the team names all start with B). 

When the Bears originally wore orange jerseys in the 1930's and then again in a throwback game in 2004, the numbers were navy blue outlined in white. That is how they should look:



And if you're curious what they would look like with the iconic rounded numerals, something like this:

 

 

 

Now that you say this, you are spot on. Also, i hate the shoulder stripes on the current orange jersey. They get so muddled up with the white-blue-white pattern. The ones you posted above are definitely better with the simplified shoulder stripes. 

1 hour ago, Pigskin12 said:

Chicago does in fact appear to be wearing orange in Tampa. I like this, since we've seen Bears navy vs. Bucs white numerous times.

 

I despise this orange helmet. Mostly because I hate it paired with the orange jersey.  Nothing about it feels like the bears. 

You know, maybe just maybe, the bone could be salvageable. White needs to be completely gone. All it does is make the bone look dingy. Then, if you add a blue-yellow-blue pants stripe and keep it paired with blue socks, it might not be that bad. I honestly think its the way the secondary colors are used that make it look horrendous. The color isn't bad, its really almost every other aspect of the uniform that just terribly designed. It brings attention to the color in the worst possible way.

Plus, naming it bone and releasing a new logo that sort of resembles genitalia didn't really do it any favors 

"How do we fix this logo now that people are calling us out on it?"

"Straighten the wordmark, curl the hornets ass up a little, and call it a day."

1 hour ago, Sec19Row53 said:

The Vikings have already shown that will work 

That was literally my first thought when I read about the horned helmet. How are they going to do this without looking like the vikes? Even if they flip the horns towards the front, that still just seems too close to the Vikings for me. 

CBJ needs a complete overhaul. There is just nothing about their identity that resonates with me. 

The best way to establish a strong identity is to have 4 uniforms that are completely unrelated to each other. Everyone knows that. 

8 minutes ago, spartacat_12 said:

A leak confirmed what had already been suspected, Minnesota is bringing back their most recent Reverse Retro as a full time alternate. It looks like the only difference is the State of Hockey patch being added to the shoulder, and the regular NHL shield being used in the collar.

 

I wonder what the odds are that they eventually move to some version of these as their full time set? I'm not saying they should, but this is how it starts many times.