Echo

A couple of Bills players have been tweeting out pictures of a red Bills helmet with eyeball emojis. Looks like it's part of a Labatt campaign, but there was a rumor last year that they would be bringing back red helmets as an alt this year.

I know the Bills red helmets were rumored to be coming this year, but I've never seen that confirmed at all, let alone any kind of a schedule. And if they do wear them, why would they do it on the road?

I think "great" might be a bit much, but they were good. Certainly better than what they're wearing now.

The surprise is they're going to be mono-orange with red to white gradient numbers and TAMPA in 6" high letters on the chest.

Soccer gets a pass from me because they don't stop the game every 5 minutes for commercial breaks like all the other sports do. If they jammed every stoppage in play with ads like the NHL or NFL do the huge kit sponsors and flashing ad boards would bother me just as much if not more. The kit sponsorships were a trade-off for the lack of in-game commercial breaks. The other sports didn't use jersey ads in place of in-game commercials, they piled them on top of the already existing ads.

He's a lumberjack and he's okay! He sleeps all night and he works all day He cuts down trees, he skips and jumps He likes to press wild flowers He puts on women's clothing And hangs around in bars...?

The play-by-play announcer on ESPN just called Vegas "the VGK" during play. Thanks, I hate it.

If you flip that bat over I'll bet it's Billy Ripken's bat he's carrying.

To take that even further, there aren't many (any?) defunct teams with the legacy of success of the Silver Seven/original Senators to draw on. If anyone should be drawing on their history for a current identity it's the Sens.

It's always bothered me when people refer to "Stanley Cups" as a multiple thing. Like, "Wayne Gretzky won four Stanley Cups in his career". No, he didn't. He won The Stanley Cup four times. Wayne Gretzky won four championships, but he only won one Cup. The Cup isn't like the Lombardi Trophy where they crap out a new one every year for every team that wins the Super Bowl. There's only one Stanley Cup, and each time Wayne won it he one the same one he'd won the time before. The same one that Mario Lemieux, and Bobby Orr, and Jean Béliveau won each time they won The Cup. The same one that whoever wins it this year will win. That legacy makes The Stanley Cup special in a way that the other championship trophies in the other big North American leagues will never be. (And I get that there have been a couple different versions of The Cup. I know the one in use now isn't the same one that's in the Vault at the Hockey Hall of Fame, but they all still represent the same legacy going back to the pre-NHL Challenge Cup days. )

C'mon. Those are totally different. One says ARIZONA, one says COMMANDERS. They're as different as night and...later that night. I mean, my god, the black one doesn't even have a forehead logo!

How do we even know what team this is if it doesn't have their city name on the front in 6" high letters?? What were they thinking?

If you look at the helmet under a microscope you'll notice the specks are actually tiny buckeye leaves.

Is there even going to be enough room for the ARIZONA across his chest? Or is his jersey just gonna say ZONA on the front?

They need to save the double-digit numbers for players who aren't stick figures, I guess.

If they weren't mono I'd probably like these. The ARIZONA is stupid, but other than that they're way better than their last set. The black set can burn in hell, but red over white or white over red would look okay.

Yeah, but now the astronauts on the International Space Station can see where they are too.

Hate that every set is mono. Hate the stupid ARIZONA wordmark. Why is it on the homes? If you're in ARIZONA watching ARIZONA play, don't you already know they're ARIZONA?? That's why MLB teams put their nickname on their home jerseys and their city name on their away jerseys.

Which means they'll end up wearing white over black every week like the idiot Jets.

The Threshers might actually work for Winnipeg. Manitoba is one of Canada's top wheat-producing provinces.

Sure, I mean, if you want to live in AJ McCarron's shadow...

Next thing will be to allow players on offense and defense to wear the same number like they do in college.

Does this line refer to The Sullivans or the Sabres?