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Simply put: both the owner and [seemingly] the players love it. There's some good ideas in there; they're just cloaked underneath the not-good ones. You mean 36th time today. It'll be 37 tomorrow....just watch. -------------------------- Also, regarding the Patriots... I can't believe I'm about to type this, but I...I think...I'd actually prefer the white socks with this look???!??? I don't know, this is just one of those unexplainable situations where the whole just seems better than the sum of its (non-matching) parts. Of course, I'm still cool with the navy socks, but the white socks just kinda add...something to this. Maybe it's the Randall Cunningham/Cris Carter/Jerome Brown/Reggie White Philadelphia Eagles effect going on, but I actually really like that look.

Three things: 1.) 8-0! Still not entirely cool w/ some of the slippage, but doggone it, FSU remains unbeaten. I'll take it. 2.) ROCK CHALK! If you haven't seen it yet, Oklahoma Chokelahoma'd today in Lawrence. I saw somewhere that Kansas hadn't beaten the Sooners since President Clinton's second term in office??? Yeesh. Obtw, that win also made KU bowl-eligible, so...there you go. 3) My hometown West Florida Argonauts lost by 4 points to Valdosta State earlier today, 24-28. Doesn't really look like much until I tell you that UWF put up over 400 yards of offense while holding Valdosta State to 275 passing yards...and -3 rushing yards.

One of my favorite colorways ever. (Well that and UCLA's regular one, as well.)

I'm catching some serious throwback HBO vibes from this one...

But they did make it to Champaign...once.

Looks like my Seminoles are doing the ️ thing again.... I used to really relish in the fact that Florida State never really got into all this kind of stuff (save for the Unconquered alts, which even Bobby Bowden conceded was just because Nike wanted Florida State to have an all-black uniform) but I get it, alt combos have been a thing for a hot minute now so whateva. That said, I'd probably tolerate the white helmets more if they swapped put the white for gold on that spear decal...

#BleedBlue *Wears all orange...

And you can look at the fact that Derrick Henry is still going (and would be doing more if Tim Kelly wasn't behaving like the second coming of Todd Downing who didn't have half a clue how to coordinate an NFL offense), get some more pieces around him (i still believe they should have kept D'onta Foreman) amd a better O-line in front of him. Now Ryan Tannehill was serviceable...but not $104M serviceable. That was just harebrained. Add that to a team with some of the most predictable offense this side of Tony Dungy's Buccaneers and well...yeah. But the major problem down there—actually, one of their major problems—is that their offense just ain't been all that good since Matt LaFleur left. Arthur Smith figured it out for half a season and then he left. (Yeah, let that sit in your head: somehow that organization has gotten TWO offensive coordinators promoted into head coach positions.) The other major problem, and one that absolutely no talking head anywhere brings up but is glaringly obvious to anyone who's paid attention pretty much since Marcus Mariota was first drafted: their scouting department BLOWS. Even the Klingons on Q'onos could have seen Henry being a star stud...once he learned to get out of his own way. (Recall his first Teo or three seasons behind Demarco Murray he was still learning to assert himself, and it took an Eddie George "pep talk" to snap him into shape.) With all that said, I will say their defensive line had some studs, and they did hit on the now-traded Byard. Beyond that, though? Not a single piece of nann. Now history is repeating itself with Malik Willis and Will Levi's, and I predict both of them will be gone inside four years. So then what? Wash, rinse, repeat...all while beating the drum of a new $2B playhouse and event venue. At some point that franchise needs to really instrospect and figure out who they really are and what it really wants to be. Until then, it's just wash-rinse-repeat down there.

Meanwhile, while all that trolling is going on here, concurrent trolling is going on in Nashville, where the Snatit are just Snatiting in about the Snatitest way possible....while morphing into a Philadelphia Pheeder team in the process. What am I talking about? They done traded their star safety Kevin Byard to the Eagles. Now true, dude's coming up on a contract year. But what that organization continues to show is misplaced priorities (paying Tannehill $104M while dragging arse on Derrick Henry's deal), cheapness to pay top skill/talent to stay (ask AJ Brown and now Byard how they feel about that), and right now a completely rudderless direction. I think they blow it all up after this season, if not during it. (And all this while they're in the midst of a private/publicly-funded 2 BILLION dollar stadium project.) If Vrabel & Co. ain't gone after this season, I don't know what else to tell anybody....

I was gonna ask where this came from... ...And that probably answered it. Not the best idea to broadstroke entire regions based off a marginalized segment of it. Is that PotD belt still hanging around here somewhere? If it is, somebody give it to this guy. *

Yes, that CITY. As I said, I was on board since before they even unveiled their identity and was fortunate enough to get ten toes down on the ground while they were building up all that, the stadium, the former pro shop and the current one across the street. So yeah, they're mine now.

This thread needs 100% more pictures...come on, folks! I mean, they ain't horrible...they're just not necessary. (It also wasn't nighttime...but then do the Colts have any primetime home games—or any primetime games at all—this season?) KEEP THE DANG GRAY SILVER PANTS, NEW ENGLAND. I'll go further and suggest mothballing the navy pants altogether and just sticking with these home and away. I need to see the rest, but this is an early contender for uniform/environmental matchup of the week. Just a beautiful blend of colors and sun—and some kind of proper color blocking. (In that guise I don't mind the Lions' white socks.)

Time out...so MLS has 29 sides, with San Diego onboarding soon to make 30...and 18 of those squads make the playoffs??? Thats 2/3 of the league! Shouldn't that be the other way around...if anything the top 1/3 make it in? Then again I've never really paid much mind to the structure or format of MLS; I just watch the games and support a side (CITY, in case anyone cares, since I was there from the start of that whole thing). Has MLS always had that big of a playoff field?

I on the other hand feel/believe they should have kept the Brady Block* number/NOB font and just transported them over to this set. The current number/NOB set looks like Walmart knock-off versions of the former set in comparison...IMO, of course.

Thanks for posting that; I didn't see that at first. So, my deduction from that—and the way they probably should have phrased that for better clarity and accuracy—is that since chrome literally reflects all colors shone into it, they chose chrome to figuratively (and also quite literally) reflect all the colors in the community. Psychologically, it does make sense, so I'll give them points for thinking outside the box a little bit—even if the execution comes off a good bit corny. As to @PK22's point about the navy represe—um, reflecting the presence of the US Navy, that's also very valid and I don't know how that missed me the first time , as over-familiar with the Navy as I am. All that though gets back to my initial question: what's this club's principal colorway? Navy and chrome? I want to see how that translates on their kits—though if know MLS, their debut primary kit will be all navy with chrome accoutrements and probably some semblance of the "community colors" treatment either as collar/cuff trim, some kind of striping be it pinstripes or otherwise...or maybe, and this would actually be a cool-as-heck idea, they'll apply the CCs to the adidas stripes. (If they do, they better do it to the socks, too.) In that guise, I imagine their change kit will simply be a white or light gray/"chrome" color-swap of the primaries....

Okay, so...setting aside the web 2.0 gradients, I think there are some good functional concepts in here. Of course, I'm doing some reverse engineering in my head so I may be way off base on this, but it seems as if they wanted to go the modular route, or systematic branding route i.e. each piece of the final whole can be broken down and used on its own. From that perspective, I think it works. Now, with all that said...I done been to San Diego a time or two, and navy and chrome are the absolute LAST colors I think of then I think SD. I don't know how much of the "azul" has to do with the NFL team that used to play there and now plays about 100 miles up the 5 or if they chose that dark navy base to show off the other three or four colors. I don't entirely hate the concept of the yellow/red/sky blue gradient (part of me thinks they may have been trying to capture sunrise/sunset skies with that rather than "colors of the community", but whatever), but all this does raise the question in my mind of what the club's principal colorway is...or is about to turn into another Denver Alex English-era Denver Nuggets/Kansas City Wizards type of branding situation—which, I must admit, I wouldn't entirely hate. All that said: they'd have been better off just calling in Matthew Wolff...dude's been crushing the badge design game for a while now.

I think adidas' primeknit fabrics may hold a key to that. Thanks primarily—I think—to VGK, adidas has engineered a shimmery fabric that's every bit as light as their now-normal flat fabric. The only issue I can glean from it now is that the material can feel abrasive to the skin without some kind of backing. (Then again, hockey sweaters ain't directly touching skin, so that may not have been their primary consideration.) The point is that dazzle-ish fabric is possible because it exists right now albeit in another sport. I'm sure if Nike et. al committed the necessary time and resources to development, they could engineer a new kind of shimmer fabric for football uniforms, as well. I ain't gonna front: when those first came out, I actually thought they were fire. Of course that feeling fizzled out about as fast as it was lit up, but even with the piping side panels, and yoked away jerseys, it was still fairly traditional design...with actual legible numbers. Their current ones are far better (though the OJ/Kemp-era sets might be the best they've ever looked). But the Alarm Clocks set an all-time bar for awnawhellnaw in footba—shoot, sports design period.

I wondered how long it'd take Iowa to do this. As one whose favorite color growing up was yellow, I love 'em. (And Iowa's custom block number font has aged pretty well IMO...I think they're on their what, sixth or seventh season of those?)

It was a thing at one point... ...So soothe your minds over, because it could be worse...

The sunlight. The colors. The color blocking. The environmental design. We may not see a better uniform or environmental matchup for the rest of this season.

Now this...this I like. Actually I LOVE it. Which makes it a crying shame it'll only be around for a year. This would make a great Hardwood Classics edition uniform...if the NBA still did that. Unfortunately—and I will acknowledge this—they and Nike have hit a masterstroke of merchandising dollars with all these yearly alternates, so we won't get to see this look last. For shame...

This has been covered before, but that's been a thing there since at least the early '90s, maybe even before then...

With footnotes and at least twelve sources, six of which must be primary sources. Will check against Turnitin for word-for-word and paraphrased plagiarism...

www.doingthemost.com

Yeaahh when you have to resort to staggering jersey numbers you know you done ran out of ideas. Perhaps it's time to shelve the whole city thing for a season or few...