Echo

14 hours ago, mcj882000 said:

Speak for yourself, that jersey was great.

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

6 minutes ago, Brave-Bird 08 said:

 

Unless they're white, there's not going to be a surprise. He may just be talking about the fact the previous version was a fully mesh uniform, whereas this one is probably going to be on the new Nike template.

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.

1 hour ago, PlayGloria said:

It always feels like MLS/soccer gets a free pass on this discussion too. Not sure if it is because everyone is so used to them. But the ad is literally the largest thing on the jersey. 

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. 

7 hours ago, Ark said:

The Johnny Canuck logo sucks. He looks like he's frolicking through a patch of flowers

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...?

48 minutes ago, tigerslionspistonshabs said:

 

What's with the logo shrinking on the right side? 

The play-by-play announcer on ESPN just called Vegas "the VGK" during play. 

Thanks, I hate it.

2 hours ago, Chromatic said:

You can tell this guy is perfectly sane from the look in his eyes and the fact that he's wearing a hat with his own face on it. 

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

4 hours ago, Jer15 said:

To your point. If we're going to play "that game" there's a million examples of logos/uniforms/identities, ect for sports teams drawing on the history of that sport in that city. Why is it an issue for Ottawa? 

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. )

5 hours ago, DCarp1231 said:

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! 

Just now, ramsjetsthunder said:

Just gonna leave this here. We need to heal.

 

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?

2 minutes ago, DCarp1231 said:

The helmet part seems to be the truest part. A few days ago, I suggested an “eggshell-like” design with the specks while @BBTV suggested a slightly different design. @TruColor then acknowledged one of us was right. Seems like my guess held up.

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

3 minutes ago, MCM0313 said:

Yeah, Rondale Moore is a pretty small guy. Like, even if he weren’t an athlete and I knew him in person, I’d say he’s slightly below-average in height, with a slender frame. For an NFL guy he’s tiny. 

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?

7 minutes ago, BBTV said:

How the hell do two numbers fit on this jersey?  If he was 44 he'd have numbers wrapping around to his chest.

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. 

Just now, DG_ThenNowForever said:

Anyone else find it funny they have ARIZONA on the home uniform? I'd hope Cardinals fans would know where they are.

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.

3 minutes ago, jerrylawless3 said:

The only non-mono combo I can imagine looking good is red over white and maybe white over red.

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

1 hour ago, raysox said:

The Winnipeg Threshers would be less supported than the Winnipeg Jets.

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

1 hour ago, DCarp1231 said:

Tee Higgins switching from 85 to 5

 

 

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

5 minutes ago, Pigskin12 said:

The NFL is running out of “cool” things to allow. I thought single digit numbers was stupid. Pretty soon we’ll have dudes running around with fractions and decimals on their backs.

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

10 hours ago, C-Squared said:

The ship has recently made headlines for taking in water & we're hoping to literally keep it afloat!

Does this line refer to The Sullivans or the Sabres?

2 hours ago, Cujo said:

Imagine if the Lions just did this and left them alone for more than 5 years

Imagine if the Lions just did that and left them alone forever

56 minutes ago, MJWalker45 said:

The Earth will be a cold dead rock before that happens. 

Something to look forward to then.

12 hours ago, FiddySicks said:

 

EDIT: No wait, actually, four times (It’s an alt, but it’s still a road uniform). 

Technically the Bengals were the home team for SB56, so this wasn't an example of the home team choosing to wear white even though the game was in their home stadium.