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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...

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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...

To some eyes that is navy. But I know what you meant. (I'll forego the old "I think it's navy" trope this time...)

Warning: long post/lots of replies incoming. I'll let you hear this from someone who grew up with the creamsicles during the Yuc years: me, right there in the west Florida panhandle. Tampa was actually pretty good for about four seasons...It doesn't get talked about, but the Bucs were right back in the NFC title conversation just three years after their first. (And if not for a questionable penalty call, they actually may have beaten the Cowboys in that '82 playoff game.) But man did the bottom fall out just the next season; the season after that was McKay's swan song, and from 1985 on through about 1993, all you saw down in Tampa was yuc, yuc, and more yuc. 1993 is when the tide started to change, though it really didn't manifest until '97, the year of the big rebrand. Let me tell you...at first sight, young 10th-grade me didn't know what I was looking at when those new uniforms showed up on the 10pm news sports segment. Gray helmets and pants? (Nike's done a great job of leading the charge on completely ruining the novelty of this, but back in '97 dark gray helmets/pants were unthought of—AND they paired them with black cleats, which at that point had been out of vogue throughout most of the league.) That said, the first time I saw them on the field, I was sold..and that was it. (I think I remember those jerseys shooting straight to the top of the best-selling list for that season, as well.) Suffice it to say, the energy completely shifted down there in ways that you really had to just be there and have grown up with them to understand. I legit wonder how the Giants haven't reverted to this as their primary away. I get the nostalgia of the Y.A. Tittle-era sets their current primaries emulate, but this look right here is it. (With the proper royal blue shell.) I think we're far-enough removed from 1998 that the GMen can reclaim these as their new primaries again. Well, dude did once say in a presser that he'd be the quarterback of a team when they won the Super Bowl. He wasn't wrong...just wasn't the team he originally said that about. (Hint: it's the team he somehow got voted into a Pro Bowl with...along with about half the dang squad.) But beyond that...yeah, no serious consideration. I agree with that. Dude should've stayed a color analyst; he was pretty good at that before he turned into Sean Salisbury 2.0. A few things: YES, vivid colors are back in, have been for a while now. And that creamsicle orange is just too great a color to be mothballed. That said, we really should consider what a road set for the creamsicles in current fabrics/at all, and that's about the point where I lose interest. If they do a creamsicle road throwback, red numbers and white pants with proper orange socks are a MUST. As for logo fine-tuning? Cardinals-esque, yes. Panthers-esque? HECK to the naw. That thing still looks like it's on a PCP/acid trip. The funny thing is I halfway agree with this...but I admit my nostalgia glasses are kinda tainting my perspective. For me, it's two things: the current roboticized logo (more on that below), and as you and others have noted, the too-darl pewter. (That color really needs dazzle fabric/metallic flake to really work like it should; the flat matte really doesn't do it.) I don't remember his name, either, but from what I recall the variation in color had something to do with the plastic molding process. I don't remember much more than that, however. We had Kurt Osaki to thank for that original rebrand, particularly the first version of the Jolly Roger logo. I've mentioned it several times on here, but dude had a certain Gothic comic-book illustration style about him, and it manifested in the '97 rebrand which, as you said, was BRILLIANT. (Fun fact: that same guy also gave us the Baltimore Ravens brand identity, and if you study the two closely enough side by side you'll see some of Osaki's style and touch laden throughout both.) As do I, and have hated it since it came out in 2013. It's like they (and by "they" I mean the swoosh folk) sucked all the soul out of it leaving this over-sanitized...thing left in it'd wake. I feel the same way about the current script mark, too...bring back the Totally Gothic for pete's sake!

Okay now hold up...we need to talk about those—Germany, is it?—uniforms for a hot second...

"Tell us you like white facemasks without telling us you like white facemasks..."

That's about the only way I can tolerate him. "Southern Steve" be hilarious.

"LET'S RIDE FUMBLE."

They're the Snatit for a reason*...remember that. On the one hand, the Columbia blue socks is a nice way to get some more, well, columbia blue on the field, but like I said earlier in the week, it only works if the whole team decks out the columbia blue accessories with it; otherwise you get, well...what we're getting.

Maybe if enough y'all raise a big enough stank about it and lobby/campaign/demand that orca concept become your primary crest, y'all can get the club brass to cave and raise that orca to its deserved place of prominence...

Are they ever gonna move that mannequin??? I'm sure by now somebody done told them it looks like their mannequin is being forked in the glutes...

Okay...how did this one miss the final cut?? A blend of orca, Space Needle and water? In THAT simplified a composition??? I need to see a full-color and black+white version of this one like stat...

"Snowcapped", they say... ...Speaking of saying, and this is the conspiracist talking now, but anyone else think Denver may be teasing a hidden-in-plain-sight soft reveal of their upcoming brand revamp??? Since I'm on this, I'm actually kind of torn on the Broncos' brand identity. On the one hand, I see no good way of updating their current horse head that won't jack it up. (Maybe the lightest of a refresh may be all it needs...refine a few curves, freshen a line here or there, that sort of thing.) I've seen concepts adding a horsehead D logo...I think that could work. As for the uniforms themselves...I can never decide if they're timeless or dated. A case can be made for either extreme. The problem with them at current though is that the uniform set was CLEARLY designed with navy as the primary dark color; the orange used-to-be-alts-and-now-primaries have just never looked right to me, and they still don't. One thing I will say though is that I truly believe they should keep their current NOB/number font. It still feels modern to me, and after nearly 30 years wearing it (!), it may as well be to them what the Bears' rounded numerals have been to them for something like 70 years (save for that short aberration somewhere in the 70s when for some reason they employed block for a short spell). All that said, I do think they should update the blue to something closer to what they used pre-'96. Not quite royal, not quite process, but somewhere in between the two. Navy has indeed run its course.

Hear me out... ...I get that Sedona is kinda Iike Arizona’s thing, but I've felt for a LONG time now that if they're gonna use turquoise as a team color (and they should, since it's distinctive and unique to them), then a/ yes, they probably should tone it down just a slight bit and b/ pair it with a base color closer to mulberry (or plum if you prefer that name), which kinds sits in between their current Sedona (which I personally feel is a bit too...I don't know, it just doesn't match well with their current turquoise) and their former purple. Observe... (Or somewhere on this scale...) And this... (There's actual formulas one can do to optimize the percentage of tint in red to the percentage of shade in green or in this case turquoise, but that's getting way too deep in the sand. )

Yes. So called due to the shape of the state, or so Nike called it back when those cosplays were first unveiled...which is how they ended up with backwards-looking 1s. (The fact that something that seemingly nonsensible passed every level of quality control and assurance between both Nike and Ms. Adams Strunk/her head brass before being finalized into the final look still baffles me to this day.) Send me the finalized petition at your earliest convenience...I'll sign it it bright, bold purple ink.

This is about to turn into the Nike/adidas FanboyDuel up in here, isn't it??

This is of course no fault of yours, but that graphic shows just how ill-conceived the cutesy notion of the "Tennessee notch" was and is and what happens when CFCS goes too far. Then again, backwards 1s just about as Snatit as Snatit can get...

Ooooookay... that's different. Of course that only works if the rest of the team dons columbia blue accessories, so we'll see how this goes.