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THE THIRD HERD!!! I ain't splurging on sports gear anymore, but I will DEFINITELY support those who choose to cop this. From my time at Benn--um, Moore, working with the 3d Herd I gained some deep connections. And at any rate, GO ARMY—BEAT NAVY!

And the graphic has "LIBERTY BELL JERSEY" screened across the front. I'm all kinds of lost on this one...

That's the spirit.

Not for nothing, but fun fact: the Bananas were actually in Vegas the weekend I was there this past May. (Of course I went and saw the Knights play instead.)

There's a couple of people in Nashville who found that out the hard way last season. (Smart people saw it coming after the 2021 post-season, during which the Snatit were about the paper-tigerest No.1 overall-seed team to ever paper tiger.)

When these first came out, that was one of my two major gripes about the set. That gripe went away after about two weeks, and now I feel it's the strongest aspect of this set (when not in NEMO mode)., as it just, to me at least, looks cleaner that way. Initially, I bemoaned the loss of the orange stripe against which the tiger stripes were set, but now I don't even pay it any mind. What I DO pay mind to is those CFCS Chicago Bear knockoff numbers with the unnecessary "custom" cuts and angles, as seen by the terminal of that 9 up above. And actually, if you really wanna see one of my main issues with Nike's approach to "custom" over the past decade or so, look at this: What other reason was there to angle that lower terminal like that other than "just because"? I absolutely cannot stand that kind of custom chop-job. And it ain't just the Bengals...Nike's had a habit of doing this. Check out the Peyton-Manning-forehead numbers of the Miami Dolphins...pay especially close attention to the upper left corners: What other reason was there to round off just the one corner except "just because"? (Curiously, the 0s in that set are rounded on all four corners.) The interesting thing is that those are the former Machine Block numbers minus the dropshadow (a good thing btw) but with the CFCS hackjob (not a good thing).

I feel like we're in a weird spot with this uniform. On the one hand, this still looks about as modern today (at least to me) as it did on day 1 in '96 (which is about all the aggrandizement Nike needs to further their own ambitions, no? lol). The navy pops off that orange SO well. I've always questioned, though, why they made the side panels navy on the white uniforms??? Orange against white has decent enough contrast (see Volunteers, Tennessee for definitive proof). On the other hand, this set has also been around for dang near 30 years now; in fact, it's older than a good number of the posters reading this . That combined with the, (what, tempation? Urge? Peer pressure?) to modernize in some way means I'll be very surprised if these make it past 2025. I wouldn't be mad about it if they did. But given Nike's track record of designing for the moment (which is how we get otherwise dang-near-similar uniform designs like the New York Jets and Atlanta Falcons, which came out dang near together right after a new template design), added to their self-stated goal/ambition of "moving design forward" (which I'm not totally opposed to but at the same time it's led to some, um, "stuff" out there, like the Rams), I'm also half-afraid of what they may come up with next for the Broncos. Whatever the case, I think they should at bare minimum keep the number/NOB font. I would rate those two in the order shown. And speaking of which, have the Bengals yet worn their current white-over-whites with orange socks? If not, I don't know how they haven't yet...

Oh it's definitely been discussed here before...namely by me. And no, the Broncos shouldn't have made their current orange jerseys their primary. That set was so obviously designed for navy to be the primary, but as I understand it the fans pushed for the orange shirts to be the primary dark tops, so here we are.

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.)