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Ion' know, I kinda favored this crest and typography: Even stripping all the purple out of that amd making it straight black/silver/white would be a more distinctive way to go than the Chevrolet logo...but then, a/ nostalgia is a he—well, finish the sentence; and b/ I'm not one of [whatever exists of] Kings Nation, so ultimately my opinion matters nada, so... ...Anyway, so this is interesting, regarding next season's uniform pairings: That, along with some pictures, came from this here, for those who haven't read it yet.

You may wanna add the Rams to that, too--at least the bone parts of it, anyway--so really more like last three rebrands. And this is actually an interesting tangent, because I can think of two teams who had, as @MrAstrodome said, "a little asymmetrical" primary uniform pairings for years. The difference, though, is that I don't think the pre-'04 (?) Minnesota Vikings or pre-2010s UCLA Bruins intended to have nonmatching uniforms. Rather, I think those happened organically: UCLA is probably the better example of the two. The Cardinals themselves pulled off this very thing in the 1970s clear up through about '95 or so, which their current uniforms call back to. I hope, thought, that neither Nike or any of the other suppliers try to make this a thing (i.e. force it) just because of a few historical (and/or bone-colored) outliers...

Let me clarify. It wasn't so much the colors I referred to earlier as "flavor of the moment". It was/may be the art style/direction of the team logo, logotype (or script mark, whichever you prefer), and whatever number/NOB font they've cooked up or are still cooking up, along with some uniform design element or two.

I just learned something today. Wow...never saw that before. I love finding out things like this...thanks for posting this!

Oh yeah, it's definitely a thing. Has been since at least the late 1980s if not before then. Same thing with ATL in Atlanta; it's been a thing there for just about as long if not longer. I knew about the Sam Houston part; did not know about the historical connection to Scotland. Thanks for providing that! Well...they kinda did, by swapping out red for navy blue (and then making that their primary color). Even though luv-ya Blue was still their "signature", by all accounts they were more a navy/columbia team than columbia/______ by that point. And in 1999 that was a really big deal. (Off to the side, but in doing two-tone blue they also jumped off a trend of big-pro teams going navy/light blue all over the place, one of which still carries it to this day: their basketball brethren about 2.5 hours west.) The funny thing, though, is that even going back to the days of Adelphia Coliseum, they barely had any trace of light blue in or on the stadium. Aside from the interior of the Pro Shop (which at one point was dang-near all light blue on the inside), that hasn't changed much through the renaming from Adelphia to LP and Now Nissan Stadium (and soon to become whatever it'll be called next once the new playplace is built). In fact, about four years back they actually started adding more navy, even changing the signage to more navy and red, with nary a trace of light blue to be seen. Why? Who knows...I don't. Now with all that said, yeah, I still to this day wonder how differently things would have played out had they adopted the rumored Copperheads colorway and still kept the name Titans. (Interestingly enough, that scheme too resembled that of an old Memphis team, the HounDogs.) Somewhere on the internet exists a newspaper clipping of the rumored names for the now-Titans...Copperheads was one, but if I remember right, Pioneers was the leading choice before Titans got dropped on us. Of course they're the Snatit now, so all that's a moot point

I brought this up once before in the reel line mint section (is that still a thing?), and the league will never so it, because they'd lose too much TV and advertising revenue, BUT...I think that if they're really serious about player safety (which beyond lip service they're not) then if anything the league should chop it down to fifteen games per [regular] season, with two byes mixed in. Basically a 5/5/5 setup, a season of thirds. That'd give the players adequate time to rest during the season. If they want 18 games, three of those can be preaseason games. Then add on the postseason and you got your complete slate. But of course, and again, They'll never do this. No league will. More games = more revenue. And they ain't tryna lose that bread. Plus, how else are the owners gonna keep paying those increasingly exorbitant QB salaries???

Completely off to the side but...that early 2000s LA Kings branding is some of my favorite ever.

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...