VampyrRabbit

The Monarchs tribute uniform looks great.

I like the Bears, the Twins rebrand was great and basing the Bears off that was the right path to take.

Love the Phanatics. I would be interested to see how going full 1980s with the pinstripes and adding racing stripes would work.

2 hours ago, IceCap said:

You missed the joke.

Of course Saskatoon isn't viable, but Atlanta's previous NHL teams left for Calgary and Winnipeg. So if we're doing Atlanta again then... well... what other Canadian Prairie towns are left?

Swift Current. Where Life Makes Sense, Where a NHL Team Makes Sense.

Thanks so much for doing this.

The logos look great, and the teal and purple look sharp.  I do prefer hem striping instead of it coming down from the sides, wonder howthe home and road would  look with hem stripes.

The reverse retro is fantastic, especially with those original logos.

The shades of blue and gold are pretty in your face for the lions, but they look good on the home and the home alt. The white, gray and gold isn't exactly easy on the eye with the road though.

Any chance of a Monarchs tribute Lions uniform?

5 hours ago, DTConcepts said:

The Athletic is reporting that some of the teams aren't wearing pride jerseys because of increasingly strict anti-LGBTQ laws in Russia.

https://www.prosportsdaily.com/articles/the-nhls-russiapride-jersey-problem-explained-why-wild-became-latest-to-scrap-plans-771916.html
 

Non paywalled version of the article. The reason given for not wearing the jerseys was out of concern for the Russian players.

20 hours ago, FiddySicks said:

Imagine leaving a market like the Bay Area to play third (probably soon to be fourth once the NBA expands) fiddle in a desert wasteland filled with transients and no water. Good :censored:in luck, you clowns. 

They probably would be fifth if Vegas got an MLS franchise. Hell, sixth if you take UFC into equation, which in Vegas is more or less equivalent to a major league team.

With the very likely possibility of the team racking up their second 100 loss season in a row,  why would any baseball fans in Vegas give a damn for the A's coming to their hometown? They've seen the same cheap as f*** owners sandbag since Manfred gave permission for them to explore relocation, and no guarantee that the owners aren't going to run the A's as cheaply in Vegas as they did in the East Bay.

 

3 hours ago, GDAWG said:

 

I think the A's are leaving Oakland. The top brass have been sandbagging for two seasons and are probably going to have a second 100 loss season in a row, they just needed a site in Vegas and now it looks like they have found one.

Calling it now - The announcement for the move to Vegas will happen in either May or June.

Wasn't one of the issues with the Thrashers that they had a rotten team when they started due to an awful draft? And the Coyotes are a  a s***e team that will very likely continue to be s***e for quite a while.

If the NHL are going to give Atlanta a third shot, wouldn't it make more sense to disband the Coyotes then give Atlanta an expansion slot and hold a draft rather than just straight up moving that dumpster fire to Atlanta?

 

https://news.sportslogos.net/2023/03/09/fa-of-ireland-launches-new-institutional-logo-national-team-crest/soccer/
 

New logos for the national team of Ireland. Now it's a roundel, and the lettering is simple sans serif with no Celtic influence. It's okay, I guess.

50 minutes ago, Dilbert said:

If the NHL wants to come back to Atlanta they will more than likely need to build a new arena.  State Farm Arena (former home of the Thrashers) was renovated and is now more basketball friendly. If its still possible for a sheet of ice it may end up like another Barclays Center situation. Gas South Arena, located in nearby Duluth, is home to the ECHL Atlanta Gladiators, however it only seats around 13,000

Duluth is 22 miles northeast of Atlanta, MARTA doesn't go there and it's a heavily car dependent suburb. It would be an awful venue for an NHL team.

3 hours ago, FiddySicks said:

Very well written post, but I’d like to highlight these two passages and sort of add to them. 
 

1.) The thing is, both the Rays and especially the A’s absolutely HAVE been given a fair opportunity to do just what you’re saying. I know a bit less about the Rays situation, but for the A’s, the issue has ALWAYS been the unreasonable desire for public funding.

The biggest issue for the Rays is the rotten lease they signed for the Trop, and it's one that St Pete refuses to let them out of so they are still in that Mausoleam.

Of course, The Rays top brass still want a s***load of public money for a new stadium, as shown with the whole TB/Montreal pipe dream.

Indy Eleven, named after the 11th Indiana Infantry Regiment.

3 hours ago, Sport said:

A ton of people live in the East Bay region. Either they all hate baseball or there's big obvious, human reasons for the A's poor attendance. If John Fisher moves the A's to Las Vegas, they might do okay for a little while, but he's still John Fisher. 

If I'm a baseball fan in Nevada, why in the blue hells should I be excited for the relocation of the A's to Vegas? Fisher is treating the city of Oakland like s*** and putting on a sandbagging the likes have never been seen before.

How is that supposed to drum up fan interest in a potential new city?

17 hours ago, johne9109 said:

Orbit straight up looks like a sesame street character

If something looks like it was created by Jim Henson, it deserves to be a baseball sleeve patch.

1 hour ago, johne9109 said:

I was thinking the same, but I think using Orbit (the mascot) instead of a generic alien head looks too childish

It's childish, but no more childish than the Pittsburgh Parrot patch, the Baltimore Orioles cap logo or Hugo the Hornet. Orbit would fit on the sleeve nicely.

56 minutes ago, AnPheitseog said:

 I know the construction of the Jays jersey posted at the time was single layer, with the white being a gap but visually it's a two colour script and wouldn't apply. The script now, on the 2012-Current jerseys, is also white twill on top of blue twill becoming a physical and visual two(or three in the case of the road) layer and colour script.

I always saw the Blue Jays script as a split one using one colour, at least for the home.

18 minutes ago, MJWalker45 said:

https://www.footyheadlines.com/2023/01/la-liga-23-24-kit-font.html

New number fonts coming up for the EPL and La Liga for 2023-2024

https://www.footyheadlines.com/2023/03/exclusive-premier-league-to-release-new-kit-font-but-probably-no-new-logo-for-2023-2024-season.html

About time for the Prem. Hopefully there will be a lot more colourways.

On 3/4/2023 at 4:03 PM, adsarebad said:

Only teams that have a single color like the yankees and dodgers are excused, they have to do. Minnesota, not so much.

You can have two colors and make it work.

The script in just the dark blue at home just works  for Toronto.

The Astros sunrise jerseys had blue only script.
 

And the Twins aren't even the first blue and red team to have one color script. Single color scripts can work for teams with more than one colour.

2 hours ago, Marcos Flamengo said:

And what about a Quebec City expansion team, Mr. Commissioner?

Bettman's response  -

2 hours ago, Dilbert said:

He seems to be more interested in a third chance in Atlanta before going to Quebec.

And a fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh chance in the Valley of the Sun before that.

5 hours ago, who do you think said:

Disrupt the balance of what? The Giants sell out the park for eternity while the A's have been buried and forgotten for over two decades, so clearly Northern California is not a strong two-team region. The Dodgers, Angels, and Padres are apparently all relevant and competitive enough in their environment to buy up all of free agency between them every year. The A's in Vegas won't be siphoning any of those fans off. I see no problem.

 

If only that dumbass 98 expansion never happened. The A's could have just bounced to Arizona by now and be doing their piddling hospitality house operation in the airplane hangar, and the Rays wouldn't exist in the first place. 

The Rays would probably still exist without that expansion. The lawsuit brought up by Vince Naimoli after the MLB owners blocked him from taking control of and moving the Giants to the tomb in St. Pete would have just resulted in a team being moved to the Trop, most likely either the Expos after Jeff Loria sold the team to MLB, or the Marlins after the fire sale after winning the World Series in 1997.

45 minutes ago, coco1997 said:

 

How's this?

That is exactly it, the font looks great on the home and the road alt. I prefer the bevelled font for the home and road alt, but have to say the Walgreens script for the road and the home alt.

1 hour ago, spartacat_12 said:

 

I mean if the city wants any sort of development on the site they're going to have to remediate it one way or another. But it sounds like the NIMBYs are fine with it just staying as a landfill.

I think it's more that they don't want tax incentives handed out to billionaires, which is totally understandable and quite reasonable, and the concerns that the arena could turn into a money pit and put the city on the hook for millions. When the organisation you are dealing with is the Coyotes, those are pretty valid concerns.



 

3 minutes ago, coco1997 said:

Not sure I totally understand your request. Do you want my original design with the eagle crest and tiny "Eagles" script but in this typeface? 

That is exactly what I want.

On 2/26/2023 at 6:23 AM, GDAWG said:

 

Seeing as how the arena is privately funded, it should pass but who knows.  

The arena is going to privately funded according to the Yotes top brass, but they are looking for city sales tax generated on the site to partly pay for the $200 million needed for site remediation, as well as a property tax abatement once construction is finished.

If I was a resident of Tempe, I would take everything the Coyotes say with a massive pinch of salt.



 

I would agree that the robopenguin needs a black outline, otherwise the uniform is great. The striping on the Isles looks excellent, not sold on the logos which could do with being in full colour, the lighthouse and the classic logo lose quite a bit in monochrome.

The Denver concept, I think you nailed it first time.