oldschoolvikings

Let me see if I got this right... So this greasy jackass comes crawling out of a cave, still wearing the diaper to catch his olive oil enema, and starts making demands of a team he doesn't even play for yet, and hasn't even confirmed that he will. And the Jets... get this... start to give in to his demands before he's even agreed to play for them! This disaster is going to be glorious!!

Dammit. This is hitting me Harder than I would've expected. RIP, coach.

Did you mean uncontested? Actually, for Sam Howell (whoever that is) contested probably makes more sense. Isn't this the team that went back and forth between Hienicke and Wentz all year? Where did this Howell character come from? Was he on the team all year? And if so, and he had the least bit of a noticeable pulse, why wasn't he playing the whole time?

Of all the weird crap tacked on the this idea, the TV number on one sleeve only always struck me as the weirdest.

If you weren't alive in the 90's and are wondering what it was like, find an Arsenio Hall clip on Youtube, blast some Alanis Morisette on your DVD and stare at this uniform.

That looks... familiar.

Just as a quick mental impression, the Lions don't necessarily feel like a team that changes their uniforms all the time, but in reality, they absolutely are. In fact, unless I'm forgetting some other team, they are tied with Jacksonville (who definitely does feel like a team that changes uniforms constantly) with the most in the NFL in this century. Both have four official uniform changes, and unless you count alts, color rushes, and throwbacks, no one else has more than 3. And after 2024, the Lions will have 5. That FIVE in 25 years, in a league that doesn't let you change more than once every 5 years... the math already doesn't seem possible. I actually feel like their current uniform is entirely salvageable. I'd get rid of the lettering on both sleeves, drop all occurrences of the dark gray and the white practice pants, and get a non-italicized number font, and I'd be all set. The last one sure beats the hell out of the two with the tacked-on black trim. I'm not sure how logical it is, but I always think of teams whose uniforms are constantly changing as poorly run, across all sports.

The fact that the Lions describe their last uniform update to be subtle and say this next one will be more significant is a very very very very bad omen. Be afraid.

Here's a couple that always raised my eyebrows (neither are my high school)... Cincinnati Princeton's recolored Minnesota Vikings' logo. They do this weird multicolored hair thing. Is the hair red? Or blond? Both? (The school colors are officially Red, Gray, and Black. The yellow is just there on the logo.) Do they think the back of his head is somehow part of the helmet instead of hair? Dunno. I would go with an all gray helmet and all red hair, personally. And then there's this... Grosse Pointe North High School. Steal the Minnesota Vikings' logo, and replace the horn with wing. Why not? I wonder where they stole the wing from?

It's probably just because the USFL did such an overall nice job and it's hard not to do a comparison, but these XFL uniforms mostly suck.

I didn’t say “God knows who plays QB for the commies” because I thought they were going to try to bring in someone new… I said it because I couldn’t remember which nobody Washington had decided on. Sam Howell? We’ll, okay then. So do I think it’ll help him get a head coaching job to go from Patrick Mahoney to… who was that again? Sam Howl? Umm… no.

He's going from Patrick Mahomes to God knows who plays QB for the Commies. There's no way this isn't a bad move.

HA!! https://fansided.com/2023/02/16/jalen-hurts-eagles-bring-new-nfl-rule-change/?a_aid=45978&fbclid=IwAR3ADRkgkuCHwVvW9UUNFERQ8-mIPC2AoALiXzbFk68dTpB8ZIcqO9BSm-4

They don't need an alternate helmet to go with the blank throwbacks. I'd bet a decent amount of money it's going to be a white alt helmet for their ugly all-white jersey/pants/socks combo.

People always say the refs were “letting it go all game” because they saw the TV replay of the time it wasn’t called. You know, the refs don’t get to see those multiple replays of non calls, nor get to hear the announcer break it down. It always makes it look like the ref made a conscious decision not to call the penalty instead of what’s significantly more likely. That they just missed the call, like you know… a human being. And at the end of the game, he saw it. What was he supposed to do, not call the penalty he saw based the the idea he might have missed something similar back in the second quarter? This is getting stupid. Hey, why not just triple the amount of referees on the field and stop the game after every play to check the replay? That’ll get you your consistency.

I didn’t say only one team was allowed to do it, I said it makes every single 4th and less than a yard play an automatic first down. And that it sucks.

When the NFL rules committee gets together this offseason, the first thing on he agenda has to be to do something about this nonsense... Lining up 900 lbs. of humanity behind the QB and pushing his butt forward is not how the game was meant to be played. If this remains legal, they might as well just save some time and automatically award the first down every time a team gets within a yard on third down.

What does this have to do with the Boston sports scene?

You are hilarious. No. I think I saw a different show.

I've been posting my NFL concepts for a few months, but I've been doing them just one at a time. I've gotten some nice feedback (thanks) but a single concepts they do seem to disappear rather quickly. I've decided to gather them altogether, along with a few new ones (like the following Cowboy concept), which seems to be the preferred way most of us do this. As always, let me know what you think. Starting with the NFC East, http://i419.photobucket.com/albums/pp274/wingdog2000/cow1_zps2e2f6c22.png http://i419.photobucket.com/albums/pp274/wingdog2000/redskn2_zpsc1e3bf33.png

But is it really hate or discrediting to simply say, as good as he is, he’s still second place to MJ? Doesn’t feel like hate to me. Here’s how I always think of it…. If my life literally depended on the outcome of a single basketball game, and I mean literally, and I could choose any player in his prime as my one pick, I’d say Jordan before the question was finished. Watching MJ play you always felt he’d cut your throat in a second to win a game. I never got that feeling from Lebron.