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My personal favorite season is 1990-91. - Last year before the North Stars went to a black uniform - First year of the final original Jets uniforms - Rangers introduce arched nameplates - Skate uniforms were toned down so that there's no yellow home jersey - None of the darker 90s rebrands have kicked in yet (the Kings are in silver/black, but that happened in 1988)

It's very possible that Fanatics isn't going to change anything about the on-ice uniforms next year. They already announced they're going to be producing the uniforms in the same factory that Adidas is currently using, so maybe the NHL is permitting teams to keep their alternates for the transition. Teams were allowed to keep their uniforms after the lockout when the NHL went from CCM/Koho to Reebok (in the couple of seasons they had the contract before the Edge template)

Mount Davis is such an eyesore, and it becomes even worse when you remember neither team at the Coliseum ever really used it. To this day, I don't understand the point of ever building it.

Amazing how good Bills/Chiefs looks when the Bills don't go :

lmao you're now 0-4 against Brock Purdy. He owns you. Also, we're the 1 seed!

Wasn't paying attention to who was on the field for that, by that point my attention had shifted to the trainwreck that was Vikings/Raiders. I was just joking, I think Big Dom is hilarious.

They don't have Big Dom on the sideline to intimidate the refs anymore

Niners can move into the 1 seed if the Cowboys win because they hold tiebreaker over both the Eagles and Cowboys

So jarring. We haven't had a real alternate jersey since 2017. I'll critique it at a later date, since it just looks plain weird to me right now. One note on tonight's matchup tho: The Kings' chrome helmets can right off.

When Josh Dobbs is so bad that Nick Mullens is a better option. Wouldn't wish that fate on anyone. And somehow it worked out lmao. The best part is that the last 3-0 game, Steelers/Dolphins 2007, was at least on some of the worst grass/mud ever in a downpour. This was indoors, there's no excuse for this offensive incompetence.

This looks even weirder than Kane as a Ranger imo.

You should tell that to the Texas Rangers as well -- they named themselves after the state of Texas despite arriving there a decade after the Astros.

(probably) the real reason: Dazzle fabric doesn't fit completely perfectly into Nike's pre-established set of colors and materials when they took over the NFL contract in 2012, and when they told teams like the Saints about this, the teams made zero fuss about it and so Nike didn't bother researching how to make a lighter dazzle fabric.

It really depends on the accent colors. The dark red and silver make the navy seem darker, while green and off-white give off a more vibrant feel. It probably also has to do with the fact that a lot of the years that the Canucks had those navy/red orca uniforms were considered "dark ages," while navy/green is a lot closer to the team's correct color scheme of royal/green.

Lmao. Thanks for reminding me of that 2016 team that limped into the playoffs and completely fell apart against the Cubs. The sign that the Even Year BS was over.

Yeah I didn't know that rule, so I'll complain less for now, but I'm not exactly confident in the direction of this baseball team.

I mean they did reach the World Series in 2002 (before horrendously choking) with the biggest "big-name bat" ever. That aside, they don't exactly have Bruce Bochy in the dugout anymore. I don't have much faith in us milking 107 wins out of a bunch of AAAA players again. Our upside is 80-something wins, wild card team. We could do that, get into the playoffs, and get hot, but the odds of that are probably pretty low.

Still think a salary floor is more important than a salary cap: Something that'll force all teams to at least field a competitive roster.

Don't disagree there, it's more about the Giants never being able to sign the big players available and the Dodgers getting everything. It's just sad.

The Pirates with an 84 win season lmao

Between this, Arson Judge, and Correa's physical, it's been a rough couple years of free agency for my Giants. I might have to take a year off from baseball this season.

Yeah I'd predict the NL West as: Dodgers 110+ wins Dbacks 80-90 wins Padres 70-80 wins Giants 70-80 wins Rockies <65 wins They're gonna run away with this sorry division. I still think Arizona will sneak into the playoffs and win a round or two, but this isn't even a contest in the regular season.

I don't think I can physically comprehend someone getting this amount of money to throw a ball and hit it with a bat. This is absolutely insane.

How was dazzle fabric on NFL uniforms possible in 2011 but not in 2023

Navy blue? Are they planning on bringing these back or something?