VampyrRabbit

The NY Giants look awesome, though I would like to think they would have an orange squatchee for the home and road cap and an orange billed alternate cap in this universe, the SF Giants orange billed cap I have is one of my faves.

The dumpster fire in the desert does skew that somewhat in terms of NHL values vs MLS Values. The Arizona Coyotes, who with a value of 500 million, are worth 150 million less than the 31st most valuable franchise, the Buffalo Sabres, and for whom the Debt/Value is 62%, almost twice as much as the New York Islanders, 2nd in terms of Debt/Value. In terms of value, there are 21 MLS Franchises that are worth less than the Buffalo Sabres.

As long as you're not being a dick, like what you like. It's not really my cup of tea, but I understand why people like it and the idea behind the uniform, and it's a lot better than the Mono for Monos sake Oilers and Devils alternates, and the Canes almost mono now home uniform.

I doubt the Twins are going to move. Minn-StP is the #15 biggest media market in the US, all the markets above them have at least one MLB team or two, and moving to a market that has one team is going to require an absolutely massive relocation fee, probably the biggest in history.

Full collection of BP Caps from the Mothership. For the D-Backs, the mothership article mentions bronze, but the color was called metallic copper by the team.

It's okay, but it could have been a lot better, by putting the gradient on the back as well as the front and by having that design on the back panels instead of making them black, and with a better gradient. There isn't much contrast between the 2nd and 3rd shades of blue on the gradient in comparision with the contrast between the Carolina Blue and the 3rd shade or the 1st and the 2nd. The 3rd blue also looks out of place, it looks close to the same brightness as the 2nd blue but more cyan, like it was taken from a different white to Carolina Blue gradient. Using the Trucolor value for the Carolina Blue and using a gradient generator with six modes, I came up six gradients and it looks like the third shade of blue on the gradient was swapped for another shade for some reason for the new Charlotte Jersey. Looking at the jersey and the gradients, I have a hunch that the team swapped out the 4th shade of blue in the gradient for another shade of blue for some reason that was more cyan and also brighter. If true, then I have no idea why unless they were concerned they were using a shade too close to that used by the Tar Heels.

Translation - "We thought the pins made out of dots were a bitchin' design feature which is why they are on the shirt, but as a team from New England, the marketing department for the Revolution needed to make up some nonsense about how it's linked to the revolutionary history" - dude from design team.

The inaugral MLS shirts had a monotone version of the USL crest on the inside.

After the Rhinos were aborted in 1997, it looks like Virginia isn't getting an NHL team any time soon.

If that Sounders jersey is legit, then the team is going to be using a pea soup shade for another two seasons at least, and the shade of blue for the stripes is a different shade than the one on the anthem jacket. So it looks like the team came up with a new colour scheme with the rebrand, and apart from the badge, it's not going to be used on the pitch this year, and with the last three change uniforms not using green or blue and the team not getting a third kit this season, it could be 2026 untill we see the Sounders take the field in the new colours.

Thats a problem with most of the shirts that have used this template, but the new Charlotte FC home might be the design that suffers the most with it.

I would keep the purple to gold gradient, it should go well enough with the navy trim.

Just like the adidas and puma jerseys, the decision to use the same font for all the teams means that everything ends up with the same air of sameness. The best is probably Club America for the pattern on the sleeve, which helps that design to stand out from everything else. Not using different fonts and not utilizing the actual wordmarks that some teams have really lets the designs here down. All of the designs would be improved hugely with the use of different fonts for teams and if a team has a bespoke font/wordmark like Spurs or Real Madrid, using that instead of the same one for each team, which is just plain lazy.

Is there any other team that throws back to a former identity in a former city as much as the Canes do?

That was kind of the point, if you put Tempe, Anaheim and Newark and state that Omaha is bigger than all of them and don't take into account that they are part of much larger metro areas, then by the same logic you should have name dropped the places the Isles and the Golden Knights play too, though the former is a Hamlet and the latter is an Unincorporated Town instead of cities.

Omaha also has a population bigger than Elmont, New York and Paradise, Nevada. Just going by the population of a city, and not taking into account the area the city covers and the actual metro population can be incredibly misleading. That is certainly the case for Omaha in comparision to current NHL markets. Going by area, Omaha is the third biggest in terms of those mentioned cities Tampa - 175.83 sq mi Raleigh - 149.60 sq mi Omaha - 146.28 sq mi St Louis - 66.17 sq m Pittsburgh - 58.35 sq mi Saint Paul - 56.10 sq mi Miami - 56.07 sq mi Buffalo - 52.48 sq mi Anaheim - 50.88 sq mi Tempe - 40.15 sq mi Newark - 25.88 sq mi And those cities by population density Newark - 12,903.8/sq mi Miami - 12,284.47/sq mi Anaheim - 6,899.22/sq mi Buffalo - 6,893.41/sq mi Saint Paul - 5,994.02/sq mi Pittsburgh - 5,471.26/sq mi St Louis - 4,886.23/sq mi Tempe - 4,521.34/sq mi Omaha - 3,658.41/sq mi Tampa - 3,376.4/sq mi Raleigh - 3,148.33/sq mi So Omaha is third from top in terms of city area and third from bottom in terms of density. It also has/is in a smaller metro area population wise than any of those other cities. And while it's population did grow a lot during the 90's, 00's and 10's, judging by estimates for 2022 it looks to have slowed a lot. Metro population and TV market are a much better indication than by the population of the main city of a metro area, and by those numbers, Omaha is way down the list and the arguement that it could support an NHL Franchise because it's the 40th largest city in terms of population and ahead of *8 cities that do have a NHL team (the Panthers don't play in the city of Miami and the residents of Tempe said no to the Coyotes) is a pretty weak one. *Edit - The Coyotes do play in Tempe for the time being, so that should be nine cities.

And to what should be the surprise of no one, the US gets almost everything past the round of 32. What exactly was wrong with "Jerryworld" or "The Death Star"?

They called both shades of purple used ( 4b3048 for 1993-1994 through 1998-1999 and 512a44 for 1999-2000 through 2005-2006) just purple. The reason for the change to a slightly different shade was probably colour matching, as the team changed to black pants and bucket for 1996-1999 and then changed back to purple for both in 1999-2000, which suggests the Ducks had an issue with getting the shades to match with the old purple, then resolving it for the 1999 - 2000 season. Both purple shades were more red than blue, unlike most big 4 teams who used shades that were more blue than red. There were a number of variations of the Barberpole in terms of crest, jersey striping, sock striping and pants striping between 1937 and 1955, so it shouldn't be too hard to find a version the team hasn't worn as a throwback. They could also wear a version of the white jersey from 1940-1955 or their first jersey from 1926-1927, as they haven't worn them for a Winter Classic and those were used as the home uniforms back in the day (1951-1955 they used the white jersey as their home).

When choosing that shade of pink for the logo (which I am going to tweak when I have the chance), It was only intended to be used as part of the Marlin on the main uniforms, just a nice little tie to the masterpiece that is the Miami Art Deco district along with blue. I like the home, road and alternate (though not a fan of the pullover alt), though I would prefer them with just black and teal, with the pink just on the Marlin. Make the stripe cream and move it higher on the shirt and match the sleeve stripe with it, and put the BREW CREW script on the stripe.

The shades of blue and the gold used are great too, in the photos at least they've got them just right so the powder shade of blue doesn't clash with the gold and it looks a lot nicer than the sky blue and gold Philly change shirts.

That makes those wordmarks both, but they also look like someone made an error in photoshop that left both logos with filled counters.

That script still has the same problems as the Clippers one with the white outline filling most of the counters.

The league isn't considering Halifax due to it's isolation and the economy of Nova Scotia, which is 7th in terms of GDP for the Canadian Provinces and Territories. The Scotiabank Centre also only seats 10,000 people. As cool as it would be to see the Highlanders take on the Ducks in a defictionalized team battle, it's not going to happen.

The bastard offspring of the NCAA and TNT logos.

Thanks, this is actually my first Basketball concept, but it won't be the last. I probably will use the compass from the wordmarks and logos and use it as a waistband logo, and maybe give the script a thicker outline. I loved the Factory Pomo font used on the 1993 rebrand and I was always going to use some form of it in the concept, and stoked that it went with the traditional Clippers script. I'll cook up the uniforms over the weekend.