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Those were legitimately high-key some of the best uniforms in league history. I still remember rocking my Marshall Faulk navy jersey throughout my junior college years. (Of course back then replicas might have ran for about 30 or 40 dollars versus something closer to 80$ for a stitched "authentic"...man how times have changed.)

Wyo really has one of the best uniform sets in CFB. There's something to be said about applying a rather nontraditional colorway to a traditional template; it just "does" something. That plus their own (upgraded) custom number font--and the fact that THANKFULLY--and let's hope this holds--they've yet to delve into unnecessary gray or black alternates (or, if memory serves me correctly, really any alternates aside from their yellow jerseys, now that I think about it). I think the only other thing I'd like to see them try out with this current set is a pair of brown pants with the same braisher stripe as their brown jerseys. I don't think they've had brown pants of any kind since sometime around the mid-late '90s when Marcus Harris was tearing up receiving records. (Kind of a funny coincidence: the guy who ended up breaking Harris' all-time receiving records also wore brown...well, sometimes...while in college. Want a further mindfreak? That guy's college head coach currently coaches the CFB team that plays in Harris' hometown...)

Either it was too early in the morning or I was too tired from work last night, or both...but I made it through about six minutes of that film before I shut it off. Couldn't deal with the swoosh-aggrandizing blathering going on. Maybe I'll finish it another day.

Looking at both examples, I don't think the length of the pants is necessarily the problem. My bigger issue is why the silver strokes became so thin on the newer pants (and then why the stripe cuts off past the knee rather than being engineered shorter to fit wholly on the pants).

I'm sure this has been covered somewhere before, but can somebody tell me again exactly how the Panthers' pants stripes went from that...to this??

It'd be the first time since their last game of the 1998 season and only the second time ever...

But then they'd be the Houston AstroDunkstronauts, wouldn't they be?

Oh no, you gon' finish this essay now...I wanna see this!

As long as Seattle keeps those uniforms, it should be. (They should probably also make the little chicken feet green, too, like on the navy pants.)

Are they affiliates of the Winnipeg Jets? I see lots of similarities in sweater design there. Funny enough, I remember back when the Idaho Steelheads were still a new team. That was back when the ECHL (at that time still "officially" the East Coast Hockey League) began expanding/adding teams all the way out west and even then younger me was like, "how is that "east coast"? Then they added the Bakersfield Condors, Alaska Aces and other teams and I think right around then "ECHL" became just a name to go by akin to B1G (because we all know B1G has long had more than ten teams). Side note: I kinda miss the heyday of the ECHL. Exposed a whole lot of us down-south Gulf Coast folk to a game we'd only seen in two Disney movies beforehand, then we got a team dropped right in front of us and led to us breaking table and chair legs off, finding a nerf ball and two trash cans, making jerseys out of t-shirts and drawn-on permanent marker, and playing rollerblade hockey in the same streets we played football in. Fun times.

The actual biggest problem here is that the Lions have an all-gray alt to begin with...

And now for some actual dumb news that might actually end up being pretty smart...for the Snatit. (Yeah, show of hands from all who thought you'd see "smart" and "Snatit" in the same sentence today.) I've been seeing some chatter about it, but given the nature of sports journalism, I rarely take anything at first glimpse, but then the Snatit beat writers themselves picked up on this and now, well...there seems to be growing buzz about HC Mike Vrabel possibly being traded. (Here's an additional story about it.) The last HC I can recall being traded was Jon Gruden from Oakl--um, the Raiders to the Buccaneers. I ain't gon' front: if there's any feasibility to this at all, I'd advise Ran Carthon to gon' pull that trigger. Kraft wants his old TD-catching MLB back, shoot, have him. Take his dip wad & all his assistants with him. Carthon, get some capital back. Draft picks and cap space (which if projections are true then Tennessee may have the most by season's end...sounds like rebuild [off]season to me). Of course, all this would happen at season's end should it happen at all, but there's a growing (and increasingly vocal) contingent of fans starting to get on board with this idea...

Meanwhile, and there may have been one somewhere, I'm trying to remember the last time the Chiefs actually played, outside their division, an actual tough opponent on the road*. It seems the last three or four years all their high-profile actually [supposed-to-be] tough matches have been at Arrowhead. *They did play Jacksonville at Everbank earlier this season, but that was before the Jaguars remembered how to score points on offense and before they got blown out by CJ Stroud et. al.

Someone's been listening to 10. If they were, most likely we would have known about it by now, or if would have been on their uni tracker thingamabob. Or somebody would've told on them. That said, they have been teasing/selling some throwback-themed merchandise on their online shop, so maybe that's a start...?

And speaking of upsets...Clemson just upset Notre Dame and somehow 2-6 Arkansas just took down Florida in the swamp!

I certainly hope that with whatever they do/have done with their brand refresh that they unify the forms of the glyphs themselves. Either match the numbers to the letters (that's what I'd prefer—and I actually took a stab at that once) or the letters to the numbers.

Perhaps maybe Woody J should not have listened to the temptations to add an all-black uniform...then perhaps neither NYJ, their fans, or the rest of we viewers wouldn't even be discussing this. (For the record, I actually kinda like NYJ's look, as obviously templated as it is...minus the mix-and-match of the black pants.)

That old Puget Slate* color was also dang-near impossible to replicate, since (I believe) it was a custom swatch. The thing I never understood about that era is why they felt the need to employ two blues thatclose in hue. Didn't care about it then, but who up there made THAT call? Anyway, if we're ranking Seahawks sets now, give me the last royal/kelly/silver sets, then the Nikehawks, then the Puget Slate sets.

It ain't gonna happen—because exactly who would they give up?—but I wouldn't mind seeing him in Memphis. Lord knows the Grizz needs SOME kind of size in the low post, and right now they ain't got it... Granted, I'm no expert, but from what I saw of Tyrese Maxey in the games I did watch last season, dude is a breakout star in the making. I hope he does well up there.

They absolutely BETTER do something with all those stars on their squad this season or that entire organization is gonna come under some serious fire. Granted, Chase Young is in his contract year, which means he gon' be looking for that bread, and perhaps WTF knew they weren't gonna be able/didn't want to resign him, so why not get what they could get out of the deal? Makes good business sense. (Rumors were that Jacksonville wanted him to pair with Josh Allen, but I don't know who or what they'd have been willing to give up in return, so I'll give Turtleneck Trent Baalke credit for not blowing the wad on that one.) In other trade news, the Detroit Lions just got another pair of hands, courtesy of Cleveland. I haven't paid much mind to the Browns lately but from what I can remember DPJ was a pretty good receiver for them. At any rate that's one more weapon for Jared Goff to play with now...

Oh yes they can. Once you understand how IP legalese works, it'll make sense. In short: Trademarks indicate the origin or the source i.e. the Houston Oilers derrick logo was created by them (or someone they hired to create it by them). Copyrights protect original creative expressions. Both protections are forms of intellectual property (along with patents, for what that's worth). The key word in that is "original". Let's talk colors first. IF it is a unique enough tint or shade of a color, a company can apply for copyright protection. This is where we find UPS' specific hue of brown (called "Pullman Brown" or more commonly "UPS Brown") and T-Mobile's magenta color. (Sidebar, but a couple years back T-Mobile actually tried claiming trademarks on adjoining hues of magenta; I don't remember if that case ever went anywhere.) This is actually much of the reason some companies (and I've noticed this more with sports teams lately) will try to brand themselves with some unique color that they can, quite literally, own. If, say, the Seattle Seahawks wanted to trademark their Action Green (which for all I know they probably already have), they could apply and probably be approved. The key is identifying the specific hue, including the RGB, CMYK and hexcode formula. As for color combinations, uniform designs, wordmarks, fonts (if it applies), striping patterns/designs...that all falls under the "original creative expression" provision. First, it protects the research and development that goes/went into it; second, it protects the expression itself. Here's where we find the Houston Oilers colors and uniforms. Now they may not own the striping pattern itself, but that combination of colors, and the stripe itself applied to that uniform design, is a different story. All this really becomes a problem if another entity attempts to make money off a design that's not originally theirs. (I don't know if UH intended to sell those jerseys or not, though.) But to prevent things from even going that far, the NFL can (and did in this case) send a C&D over. Why? Let's say UH attempted to profit in some way off the "image and likeness" of the Oilers brand (which, let's be real, that's exactly what they tried to do, even if the exact shades of blue and proportions of stripes weren't the same between UH's alts and the Oiler's throwbacks—it's clear what they were trying to emulate). That's where the trouble comes in. And speaking if possible differences in fabric color, there is some variance to this, too (hence why T-Mobile tried claiming adjacent tints/shades/hues of magenta in protecting their trademark and thus their brand). Just a funny related memory to all of this: those of us old enough to have seen it happen may remember when Al Davis went on a binge trying to sue the Buccaneers (and anyone else within earshot, lol) over their use of pewter and black after the '97 rebrand, claiming those colors were too identical to the Raiders' "iconic" silver and black. Had Tampa stuck to simply pewter and black (and let's all be glad they didn't), Davis might have had a case. But since no one on planet Earth is gonna mistake the Buccaneers for the Raiders, dude had no shot at winning any damages. (Tangentially related, but this may also partly factor into Shahid Khan's decision to ultimately keep the teal in thr Jaguars' color scheme...at one point early on in his ownership tenure he flirted with 86ing teal and making the team strictly black and gold, in which case the Saints may have had a decent case on their hands.)

Ha, this is comical. Like, this is one of the LAST teams that should be complaining about "refball", when this same team has been one of the greatest beneficiaries of "refball" over the years. Maybe it's time to face reality: maybe y'all just ain't that good?? Maybe it's time Tomlin and his team took a long look in the mirror (and in Tomlin's case, right at his OC alongside the mirror). Maybe its time Rooney et. al to break tradition and consider cleaning house after the season (like what probably should have happened a season or two ago)? But yeah, tears coming out of Pittsburgh is about the last thing anyone is gonna pay attention to. They got the Snatit rolling up in there in two days, with plenty of lead time to study Will Levis' game film. If Levis and Co. has anywhere near the same type of game in Pittsburgh as they just did against the Falcons—and bear in mind the Snatit haven't won against the Steelers since 2013—then that'll even more telling.

You know what...I wouldn't mind seeing that myself, even if only to increase the amount of [action] green in a uniform that barely uses it as is. (That goes for the logo, too.) The throwbacks may be better than the currents...but they are NOT better than the 80s-early '90s set. (More to follow...) Well, in the relative scheme of things, they are an expansion team. Or was, back in 1966, along with the Falcons. (the Saints came on board the following year.) Fun fact: they were the first AFL/AFC team to utilize orange. (Before anyone tries it, and it may be hard to remember now, but the Browns were an NFL team until the merger.) At any rate they were one of if not the first pro sports team to use teal/aqua. (I gotta double check their historical overlap with the California Seals.) That period in time is about the sweet spot for what I guess at that time would have been considered "contemporary modern", given their non-traditional colorway applied into a traditional design. All of which is to say yes, there is a way to blend traditional, contemporary, and modern...and I think they got close in the late '90s. (The addition of navy might have been a step too far, though.) I've said it before about the Dolphins' current number set and I'll say it again: those Peyton Manning forehead numbers ain't it. They're also just about one of the worst examples of hacksaw-custom block to have come out of the last decade or so. (Seriously, go look at them, specially the upper-left-hand corners, and you'll see why they collectively look like Peyton Manning's forehead.) Simple: they ARE. Really the only difference is the offset outlines on the top sets...but that one little detail fits nicely with the stripe pattern. I'll take either of those (preferably the top set with numbers more akin to what the Browns wear now) over their currents.

That is also the price teams pay for hiring all these offensive wunderkidz who don't know how to.get out of their geniusly inventive ways and let convention be what it is (as you said, run it, punt it, get the ball back). But what a way to turn momentum at such a pivotal moment in a game, though.

That's a big-time hurtpiece for them right there. If that's confirmed, then that's about the suckiest way to end a career with a team. I always did like Kirk Cousins, even going back to his days with Washington. I'll be around to collect my royalties. Two things are gonna come out of this—both of which probably should happen—and another that may happen by season's end. 1) fans are gonna beat down the virtual door to keep Levis in there. Rookie or not, this team is in tear-down mode, so they may as well use the rest of the season to see what the kid's got. I wouldn't disagree with it, either. 2) As soon as Tannehill gets better, Vrabel et. al will stubbornly stick him back under center. Why? Because of course they will. As for the thing that should happen after the season (and at this rate I'm 90% convinced it will): well Tannehill's done after this season regardless since his contract is expiring. Vrabel et. al might should be shown the door right along with him...and it wouldn't shock me if Ran Carthon is already in talks to assess what trade value he can get from Malik Willis. If not now, that time is definitely coming. Oh and...when Pittsburgh loses, America wins. Kenny Pickett did not look good out there today; same can be said for the team as a whole despite the three takeaways. I found it funny when live feeds picked up the "Fire Canada" chants. It ain't gonna happen, BUT...speaking of regimes that should be shown the door, um, what about Tomlin? But Pittsburgh doesn't fire HCs so...eh well. Anyway, over to the good guys: Jacksonville played a heckuva game and looked solid out there, but then again they always play Pittsburgh tough. That road win in ugly weather will do them a lot of good going into their bye.