VampyrRabbit
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So this is a thread with designs for the National Hockey League, just like it says on the tin. All of the designs here use the NHL Puck logo from the 1990's (I dig that logo), and all teams will get a home, road and alternate. Vancouver Canucks Seattle Kraken Toronto Maple Leafs (Road V2) Washington Capitals (V2) New York Islanders Buffalo Sabres Colorado Avalanche (V2) New Jersey Devils
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The patch also looks like it was designed in 5 minutes by taking the MLS shield, adding some text in a bog standard font then putting a stroke around the two. It looks lazy as :censored:.
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That crown looks an awful lot like the Sacramento Kings, though the team did play in KC before moving to the Californian capital. I think there are too many uniforms, considering the amount of games played 3 should be the most and like the Baseball Royals, the use of black feels very BFBS and you could stand to lose that uniform and the all gold. -
It still doesn't feel like an anniversary kit nor a modern interpretation of those kits, it's not really accurate to call the stripes on the new jersey pinstripes when they are at least 4 times the thickness of those on the 1983 kit, and the solid green back becomes a big issue when you use stripes of that thickness and consisting of two colours. The rule of one colour backs is a rule that shouldn't exist, and MLS should either create a new name and number font that works with striped backs and those with tonal patterns, or let teams use a custom font that does the same. As the current MLS Font doesn't work with striped backs, it not fit for purpose. There are still too many shades of green and blue, and adidas should have done a far better job with colour matching.
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I would be, the team lasted for a single season and were absolutely rank rotten, and the stale cherry on top was that they were the only team to play in an arena with racially segregrated seating.
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It should be easy to understand how and why there are people who don't like the kit, it's not like they haven't stated the reasons for that. The colour mismatch between the logos and the shirt, the use of too many shades of green and blue, the main sponsor, the shade of green used, that it's supposed to be a 50th anniversary kit yet doesn't really hark back to the NASL kits the team wore, the solid green back, the "retro for retro sake" design that doesn't recall the NASL kits and the striping layout and colours are all reasons given to why people don't like the kit.
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The fans can easily turn it into the FC Cincinnati "AEW Canvas Kit" by doing what one Cincy resident does every Wednesday by bleeding all over it.
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NHL Anti-Thread: Bad Business Decision Aggregator
VampyrRabbit replied to The_Admiral's topic in Sports In General
I got Cleveland Barons vibes from the location of the planned arena because only an idiot would put a venue that far outside the city, they would struggle to draw flies to a :censored: convention in that location. -
The team were known as the Kansas City Wiz for their first season before the electronics store The Wiz threatened legal action. The team changed the name to Kansas City Wizards for the 1997 season. It was probably for the best that the team changed their name to something other than Wizards given that the team were near the bottom in both attendance and merch sales, and that Wizard is a rank in a certain organisation. I do like the Kelmscott font for the Wordmark, but not for the player name as it's pretty hard to make out, though the 1 is pretty clear (though 1 is almost always worn by a goalkeeper and almost never by an outfield player). I also feel like there should be more colours on the shirt if you're going back to the Wizards name.
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It's 25 years since the Thrashers started play, so it's only right that Atlanta pay tribute to such a monumentous occasion by wearing a sky blue jersey with a bird on the front.
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When every other team has brought out a jersey with a dark base colour with gold trim over the past decade, it stops being special and feels more like a boilerplate example of a anniversary jersey.
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San Jose Earthquakes new away As a 50 year anniversary kit celebrating the teams history, it does a better job of that than the Vancouver change and Seattle Home, with the NASL colours and the period logos. And while it has the huge back panels, they don't look nearly as out of place as most other shirts using the template due to San Jose being able to use side panels. And with the red side panels and the black hem/side trim, there is also a nod to the 81-82 kit.
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NHL Anti-Thread: Bad Business Decision Aggregator
VampyrRabbit replied to The_Admiral's topic in Sports In General
Getting huge Cleveland Barons vibes with the location of that proposed new arena. -
The three stripes on the shirt and shorts have a very thin dark blue outline, while those on the hose look to be just gold. Also on the mothership the writeup describes the pinstripes as gray, but they are actually dark blue. And with the crest now using just the one shade of gold, the GALAXY script has lost it's underline, which the team should have accounted for and moved the lettering to the midline of the scroll.
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It's not bad, just that the Whitecaps are a team who have had the chestband on most of their jerseys and it seems a miss that their 50th anniversary shirt doesn't have one, and that the team aren't using a version of the 79-84 logo, though that never appeared on the jerseys back then. It's also using gold as an accent colour for a dark anniversary jersey, and that feels so overplayed at this point.
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Could be the latter, but it's probably the former for this time next year when they unveil their new change with a photoshoot in front of that wall covered in Bubblegum.
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It looks fine with the lighter burgundy and I prefer that shade for the socks and shorts, though it would probably look better with white shorts.
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The back of the shirt is the lighter shade of burgundy, which is why the shorts are that colour.
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L'Étoile du Nord - The Star of the North.
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Its hard to make a half and half MLS jersey work due to the one colour back. Props to Dallas for originality but they were up against it from the get go when they decided to go halfsies and they haven't made it work now.
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The updated USL badge is nice, as is the base color and the collar, but it's spoiled by those absolutely horrible huge back panels and the cuffs not matching the collar. Finally red for the home is back, along with the chestband. Long overdue return to a look the Fire should never have left. LAFC look great from the front, but the back just has to be one color because the official MLS name and number font dont have outlines and weren't designed with them in mind.
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Yet despite that attempt and that it's supposed to be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Sounders, it doesn't recall any of the kits the team wore during the NASL days. The Sounders did wear stripes in the NASL, but that was for one season and the original team folded at the end of it, and the stripes on it could barely have been any thinner. And for some reason, it looks like the MLS logos that will be slapped on the jersey will be using another shade of blue teamed up with the pea soup shade of green, and yet another shade of blue for the Orca logo on the back.
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It's not that surprising when you take into account the money pit in the Valley of the Sun. The Coyotes are 150 million behind the second last team (Sabres) in terms of value, and if the team was sold to owners who relocated the team to a new market that got behind the team, there would be 21 MLS teams with a lower value than the Buffalo Sabres.
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The colors on the crest not matching those on the kit and the solid green back of the jersey still drag the kit down IMO.
