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14 minutes ago, GDAWG said:

 

The fact that he doesn't deny the rumors is telling.  What he should have said is "I am fully committed to keeping the NHL and the Coyotes in Arizona" but instead he dances around saying that he isn't allowed to make any public comments at this point.  

So you're saying you want him to lie.  Ok.

26 minutes ago, rfraser85 said:

 

I'd add a couple other points to the championships. Halas and Hunt were instrumental to the NFL and the AFL, respectively. Also, they were both founders of their teams.

Halas is the beneficiary of some revised history as I understand it.  However, they both are worthy of the honor bestowed by their respective teams.

13 minutes ago, DCarp1231 said:

Honestly, the Cardinals new uniforms do have a nice classic and timeless feel to them. It has everything anyone would want out of a football uniform. Every component by itself is very well done. Whether or not they decide to mix and match and not go monochrome for 17 games a season is on them.

I'll grant you classic if it were a college or high school uniform, because the aesthetic of nickname or location on the front of a football uniform is not a classic NFL aesthetic.

Totally agree on your monochrome statement.

9 minutes ago, Sykotyk said:

Pretty sure the state law only restricted them to the state and not a particular jurisdiction. 

 

So potentially a move to Toledo would be allowed. An out of state move like the Crew tried under Precourt would result in a local buyer who wants to keep them in the state the option to buy them first. Though the law was never truly tested as MLS really didn't want to be the bad guy in it when the Haslams popped up with the big money to build a gleaming new stadium for the team Precourt just claimed couldn't survive in Columbus. 

 

And in the end the law helped everyone. Columbus got their wealthy owner and shiny new stadium. Two championships. One of the best rivalries in American soccer. Precourt moved to Austin and got what he wanted with an irrelevant expansion team. Win win win. As Michael Scott would say. 

Thanks - I was under the impression that the law limited them to the City of Cleveland. I'm not sure if I read that, or assumed it.

5 hours ago, Sykotyk said:

Because the team wouldn't be in the city he's a councilman of.... They'd hate that any business is moving to another jurisdiction

It would also be against the Art Modell law that they passed, which was stated earlier (I thought) but has been glossed over because someone wanted to call him a goober or something.

Odd that people are seemingly mad that a city would enforce a law designed to prevent a sports team from moving because they aren't moving far (but still out of the limits set by the law).

4 minutes ago, MCM0313 said:

It makes me a bit nervous that I can’t see the pant stripes. But if they’re based on the Legacy White, then they pretty much have to have pant stripes…right?

It's somebody's concept. It can be whatever it wants to be.

IRL, I would hope you're right.

3 minutes ago, HOOVER said:

 

"Each alternate helmet color must be tied to a specific optional uniform and cannot be mixed/matched with primary uniforms or mixed/matched with another optional uniform."

This 3rd-helmet rule may actually be a net-positive.

Until it's not tied to a specific optional uniform. 

Yes, it could prevent some crappy looking combinations. Do you know what else does that? Wearing your best look. Always.

ETA - Here come the eyerolls and yawns, but it's the hill I choose to die on 

43 minutes ago, Discrim said:

If you didn't so much as touch a basketball on Tuesday, you attempted and made as many free throws as the Celtics

And only two fewer than the Bucks, their opponent in that game!

15 minutes ago, VDizzle12 said:

 

People have been warning about every team in the NFL becoming Oregon since Nike took over. 

 

After all this time it still hasn't happened. 

 

As long as teams are still limited to 3 alternate uses per season, I don't see the big deal. 

Why do you think it will stop at 3?

7 minutes ago, oldschoolvikings said:

Wait… after only one year the NFL has already watered down their alternate helmet rules.   
 

 

Shocking.  Who could’ve predicted it.  

You. You predicted it.

16 minutes ago, BottomlessPitt said:

As long as it's not ThunderBears

 

ThunderrrBearz!

With the exclamation mark in the name.

I'm kidding.

10 minutes ago, dont care said:

Those aren’t monochrome, and you’d be kidding yourself if you didn’t say they’d look even better with different pants

Yes they are, and they'd probably look better with different pants (although I'm not sold on the Colts).

5 hours ago, BottomlessPitt said:

Eagles v Packers Week 1 in Brazil

On Peacock, except in Philadelphia and Green Bay/Milwaukee.

4 hours ago, MJWalker45 said:

The big issue I see for Michigan is that the Lions Honolulu blue end zones can't be painted over with anything other than white paint apparently. That gives the impression of a temporary venue, similar to what Rice actually is for the Roughnecks. That alone could turn off locals that aren't coming in to watch the Panthers play. 

#1 - Hey, do you wanna go see the Pantbers play this weekend?

#2 - I would, but their end zones don't match their uniform colors. 

Said no one ever.

3 minutes ago, DCarp1231 said:

Michigan’s mistake is playing in an NFL stadium where lack of attendance is noticeable. They’d be better off play in Ann Arbor, East Lansing or any smaller Michigan university.

 

It only works for St Louis because the local population craves football to be there.

Which holds over 100,000?  WTF?

30 minutes ago, Sodboy13 said:

Add the Brewers to the list. Their City Connect jerseys have yet to arrive.

2 minutes ago, bbush24 said:

Turner?

Henchman for the Riddler?

1 hour ago, tBBP said:

 

Alright, so...

 

1) Arizona

2.) Maryland

3.) New Mexico

4.) Ohio (only because it's the only swallowtail...)

 

Everything else after that is up for debate, but none of them are cracking the top 4.

 

This is my word...and as such is beyond contestation.*

 

*in my Prince Edward of Wales voice*

This is the direction I expected the 'What's the best college football helmet' thread to go.

10 minutes ago, FrutigerAero said:

They haven't made the 2025 MLB schedule yet.  I'm guessing they can work around that?  They can schedule A's games when the RiverCats aren't in town

You've got that backwards. The Triple-A team will need to schedule around the MLB team. Since Triple-A doesn't play on Mondays, just (routinely) Tuesday to Sunday, it will require a re-formatting of the schedule.

34 minutes ago, Sodboy13 said:

From Evan Drellich and Ken Rosenthal's article in The Athletic:

 

The A’s announced Thursday that they are moving to a minor-league stadium in Sacramento for 2025-27, with an option to stay for an additional year. Sutter Health Park, the home of the Triple-A Sacramento River Cats, will become a major league stadium for at least three seasons. The A’s will be sharing the park, which has a capacity of 14,000, with the River Cats who will continue to play in the stadium when the A’s are away.

Won't Triple-A have to re-do their schedules to make this work? I thought they had all shifted to the Tue-Sun schedule with Monday off as a travel day.

50 minutes ago, infrared41 said:

 

According to Google, ATL is the busiest airport in the world.

 

Other than for one week every summer, when the busiest airport in the world is located in Oshkosh, WI.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sponsor-story/eaa/2023/06/23/the-worlds-busiest-airport-each-july-its-oshkosh-wisconsin/70341839007/

Just now, Brave-Bird 08 said:

This rumor has gained so much steam I think the general public will be shocked if it isn't something along these lines, but I hope that to be the case. 

 

This entire uniform concept just reeks of mid-major college football program 

 

That's an insult to mid-major college programs 

9 hours ago, GDAWG said:

So what exactly is going on with the Chiefs off the field?  They were ranked last in many categories by the NFLPA Report card and now stadium renovations are voted down.  At least the on the field stuff is first class

Here's the NFLPA survey on the Chiefs:

https://nflpa.com/kansas-city-chiefs-report-card-2024

14 minutes ago, Chawls said:

Maybe this is more appropriate for the Unpopular Opinions through, but I don’t mind this specific combo from the Seahawks, because it tones downs the use of that very vibrant green.

Tones it down ... by using a bunch of it?

2 minutes ago, Red Comet said:

Tbf, it was also April Fool’s Day yesterday and my big joke was pretending to be a Raiders fan.

 

On a more serious note, I wish my actual team could go one offseason without a star or a coach or relative of either being a criminal degenerate.

Thus why I assumed you lost a bet