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Meanwhile, I personally believe the Texans should explore—and should have been explored—an entirely different colorway absent of any trave of red or blue altogether. But of course navy and red was the easy and "safe" route to take with a nickname like Texans (just pulled the colors off the state flag). Several teams have rebranded to completely different colorways over the years; I don't see why this should be different. (Of course, if the rumor mill is true, then *technically* the Texans will be doing the same thing by adding some hue of light blue). It kinda sucks too because the Texans currently have one of the best team logos and name/NOB fonts in the league. I really believe that we're about to see all that tossed aside for something more "flavor of the moment" than enduring, which, colors aside, is the aesthetic the Texans currently have. And of course there's the merchandising revenue they can pull in (do doubt aided by the swoosh) by doing that, so...

Speaking of Tomlin, 1) somehow he's been head-coaching longer than my daughter has been alive, and 2) I saw something somewhere that dude has managed to win exactly four playoff games out of the past 11, for an 8-9 overall playoff record. Four playoff wins...in his last eleven. FOUR. OUT OF THE PAST ELEVEN. Just sayin'.

Those Dolphins numbers will never not bother me. Like, seriously, a group of people sat in a room somewhere and decided that rounding off one corner of a Machine Block number was enough to "customize" a number set. (And then curiously decided not to do it to the 0.)

Okay, I seriously just had to go look and see if that name was real... ...Turns out, it is. Sheesh...

Maybe we'll see more stolen bases as a result of the 0.000314% lighter material

It wouldn't, at least not without a teal helmet. (Which, to be entirely real, I wouldn't mind seeing an alternate teal helmet option pop up for next season...)

Wasn't there some guy a couple years back whose name was even longer than that? (Not Saltalamacchia....it was someone else whose NOB dang near made a 3/4 around his jersey numbers. I think he played for the Rangers at one point...??

Well shoot, the NBA has already incorporated elements from soccer/football to generate interest; why not add another one from another sport? It ain't like David Stern is Commish anymore...*

It may also be because [it looks like] that jersey is unbuttoned, thus making the NOB/number appear smaller. But even taking that into consideration, those NOB glyphs do look a little thinner than the average...

To be fair, it does snow in Arizona up closer to Flagstaff and along the 40. But down in The Valley? Different story.

Yeah, just last season, with Ja. (Who by the way is now 10 games away from returning to the court...)

You know, Jacksonville has finally started to build some semblance of an on-field identity after well over a decade of whatdaeff, so it's pretty reasonable to say that they're finally hitting their stride again. But doggone if these ain't about some of the most plain-jane practice-suit uniforms ever. The crazy thing is that they're really not that far off from something solid. (And no, I'm not talking about the simple addition of number strokes, though even that would help.) Whatever the case, their next change will be their fifth since inception (ain't even been a whole 30 years yet, folks), so I really hope they get it right when (if???) they get to that point. Until then, what they wore on the road last week and one of either teal/white/black or (my preference) black/teal/black should be their primary combos. That's about the only way these practice sets become even slightly salvageable.

Remember Super Bowl 2012 in Indianapolis? That was an unseasonably warm weekend...but had that game been played a good two or three days beforehand we'd have been saying something similar about Indy. Let's just say the city got fortunate the cold, snow and jack frost let up before that big game. (Not mentioned: how the city tore up permanent infrastructure to build the downtown Super Bowl village. Said rebuilt infrastructure still exists today in what has become quite the remarkable rebuild and resurgence of downtown Naptown.) I'm all here for it. If I hit the jackpot before that happens, I'm 50-yard line as close to the front row as I can get. (Seriously, [the] Buffalo [region] might be one of my favorite locales in the country, even with all the ridiculous amounts of snow.)

Snatit gonna Snatit... (I just realized it's been a good while since I last ragged on the Snatit. Maybe next week I'll pick back up on that...)

I still await the day when the Heisman is awarded to a defensive player...or a lineman...instead of some offensive back every dang year...jus' sayin'...

They've done it a few times since, as well. And here I go beating the drum again, but this, for as long as they play in these practice suits, is the only road combo they need. That includes the socks. I personally would prefer black tops/teal pants as the home combo just because the single-layer white numbers on teal still don't look right to me (side note: this is season six of these sets, so...), but at any rate...yeah, this. And oh yeah, the other team in that photo should stick with that combo for as long as they keep playing in those costumes, as well...

We'll see if those back-to-back losses lead the Rooneys actually make the move they should have made five or six offseasons ago: cutting ties with Tomlin et. al and completely renewing the tree up there in Pittsburgh...

I'll say this for the In-Season Tournament: seeing how it operates in real time and reading what some of y'all are saying about its intention is helping me understand how stuff like the Champions League, Gold Cup, and other stuff that goes on during the soccer seasons work. So I can appreciate it from that perspective.

Okay, so...first, I wanna see that guy's permitted route. I know that thing couldn't have traveled from more than probably aboout 10 or 20 miles outside of town, if that. I'm sure it was shipped to Vegas in pieces and assembled somewhere locally. Secondly, those don't look like normal run-of-the-mill four-inch nylon straps; they look closer to eight inches. I wonder what that trophy base weighs; if I had to guess, I'd give it somewhere between 12,000 and 20000 lbs? (Much depends on what its made of underneath all that overlay.) Thirdly....dude got to travel in a VNL 860??? Those are about the most comfortable trucks on the road! I might be slightly jealous. And fourth: I see they're still repaving the boulevards out there. They had about half of them tore up the last time I was out there...

Shoot...they may as well build out in Yuma if they're gonna do all that...

Granted, I've never had a reason to pay attention to TV charts, but it has been interesting watching these maps in this thread the past couple weeks, just to see how much of the map gets swathed in either red or blue. That said, two things: 1.) I honestly cannot ever remember a time since their inception that the Jacksonville daggone Jaguars have been top billing in a given week. And against the Browns, at that?? What are they expecting, another Bottlegate to break out or something??? What the whole what the what???? 2.) Excepting the two LA and the two NJ NY teams, that Indy vs Cincinnati game might be the shortest road trip between teams in the league. In fact I'm pretty well confident it is since there's barely about 100 miles between Indy and Cincy. (Well, 112 if you count from downtown to downtown, but still...)

Wellp, now you can make that two north Florida football teams—both my teams, coincidentally—knocked out the playoffs due to the #1 quarterback sustaining an injury...

Time out...what??? This is the first time I've ever seen someone describe the StL Rams' number font that way. It's barely a few angled bars away from being dang near the exact same number font the Cleveland Brows and [sailboat series aside] Minnesota Vikings currently use? Well if you squint really closely and zoom in on the slee—you know what, forget it. This matchup should be 100% illegal.

This too is fair. I mean shoot, relish in the victory now. And actually, I can tolerate the obnoxious Eagle Syndicate, don't mind them at all. It's the Cowboy Syndicate I can't stand. Never could. Even worse than the Steelerheads....because they keep the media in their hip pocket right alongside them.