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The innanet wins again... ROLL TEARS!!!!!

Anybody want a goal? Tune in to Lightning/Jackets...3-2 Lightning in the first period...

See--and this right here. This is a perfect example of a good uniform bucking "rules", in my eyes...going by the "rules", nothing about this uniform is supposed to work, but somehow, someway, it just does--I guess its the "whole looks better than the sum of its parts" thing. I can't explain it either, I stopped trying years ago, and this may be the only uniform I say this about, but this one just, well...works. That said, Ole Miss has had this mismatching thing (to include the "egg blue" helmet color) going on since at the early '60s and I guess just never bothered to correct it, so I suppose there's some "history" and "tradition" there...

As tired of it as I am, that Bills uniform could at least be saved, however little, by the appropriately striped white socks they [at least used to] have. Ain't no saving those other two (Jaguars & Saints). Those are two dry-erase board special cases right there...

I'll have to see it in action, but I don't know that that particular hue of blue works in that finish. Having said that: I think I'd like to see the Snatit try out something like that....

Or not let Ms. Dan Snyder run/ruin the asylum. The more I look at the Guardians identity, the more I get kind of a DC Comics vibe from their primary logo--which isn't a bad thing by any means. I DO like that they G logo stands apart from all the others in MLB (and from most of the rest of major pro sports primary logos) in style & structure. I wonder if they might've pressed a bit more into either the classical Greco-Roman art vibe some, but I'm cool with what they have now. As for WTF, well...that's exactly where I am with their identity: W...T...F??? Their primary W is actually very solid for what it is and what it needs to do. The rest of it, however? Aside from the burgundy and saffron/sunflower/cornbread/maize/call-it-whatever-you-want shade of yellow, the whole rest of it need to find its way out an antimatter container, ejected out the nearest airlock, and detonated with a photon torpedo.

Whaaatt...how'd that happen?? Well I'll take it! On to Week 5: Washington vs. Chicago Baltimore vs. NY Giants Jacksonville vs. Indianapolis New England vs. Cleveland Cincinnati vs. New Orleans Tampa Bay vs. Pittsburgh San Francisco vs. Atlanta NY Jets vs. Green Bay (upset special) Minnesota vs. Miami Carolina vs. LA Rams Arizona vs. Seattle Buffalo vs. Kansas City Dallas vs. Philadelphia (though I HOPE Philly smashes them) Denver vs. LA Chargers

This and the Magic City jerseys are what happens when the good idea cupboard runs bare...this is also the problem that occurs with obligating yourself to designing new jerseys/uniforms every year or every two years: creative flameout. Which is to say...the league/Nike brought this on themselves...

From what I understand "The Land" has been a local nickname/reference since at least the early '90s. B.O.N.E. (That us, BTNH) mentioned the phrase in one of their early records. It's not near as ubiquitous as "ATL" or "CHI-town", though. So it's not entirely out the ordinary, though I think the Cavaliers tried to "bring it back" during LeBron's last couple seasons in Cleveland...

Time out...were some of the hockey players in those throwback video clips wearing pants??? What were those?

^ And that there underscores my previous question: is there a good reason MLB teams can't just simply use smaller surname letters?

Indianapolis vs. Denver NY Giants vs. Green Bay Detroit vs. New England LA Chargers vs. Cleveland Houston vs. Jacksonville Atlanta vs. Tampa Bay Pittsburgh vs. Buffalo Miami vs. NY Jets Chicago vs. Minnesota Tennessee vs. Washington Seattle vs. New Orleans San Francisco vs. Carolina Philadelphia vs. Arizona Dallas vs. LA Rams Cincinnati vs. Baltimore Las Vegas vs. Kansas City

A better question would be why don't they use a smaller letter size? And I mean this for all MLB jerseys...I mean, at this point there's really no reason to keep NOBs that big except *reasons* (tradition, mostly). Perhaps this is something for MLB to look into... ...At any rate, this is giving Jared Saltalamacchia's NOB layout a run for its money.

I thought my eyeballs were messing with me a moment ago, but apparently they're not... ... What is up with Clyde Edwards-Helaire's facemask/helmet? And how long has he had...whatever this is?

Why must this look so good?? I do wonder what this would look like with royal blue shells...but either way, this is sharp. Now, with that said...I really don't know that I can rate one set over the other now (speaking of the Giants' current set). I guess I can appreciate what each set brings to the table: the current sets call back to the days of YA Tittle & Co., and as such are super simple but also have the fun quirk of the aways being so red-dominant. (I WILL say that the only set of pants they need for those are the blue-red-blue-braishered gray pants--I wish they had kept those rather than the ones they did.) The above set benefits from mixing in a little more red...and it's amazing how much of a difference that braisher-striped collar and cuff trim can make. At this point I wouldn't be mad if the G-Men eventually flipped back to this as primary; HOWEVER, by doing so, these now-alternates might lose their luster, and that's the meal-ticket of all great alternates that many teams fail to understand and thus dilute. (Looking at you, Denver.)

LARRY ALLEnahhh bruh...

So y'all remember how a couple pages back I was saying about all these backup quarterbacks and how hardly anyone knows who they are or where they come from? Well now Bailey Zappe (who?) has entered the chat for the Patriots. So apparently this guy set an all-time passing record during his last year at Western Kentucky and was drafted in the fourth round this past offseason. Time will tell what happens with this kid...but so far, he's looking pretty decent as the Patriots are currently up on the Packers at Green Bay...

Oh wow... shades of 2007 going on here Has CGD ever been to Lawrence before? I suppose it's nice for them to get out to some new places every here and now...

Don't look now, but Kansas--yeah, THAT Kansas--is 5-0....

On a whole other note: Baylor has entered the chat on "Most Garish Uniforms". Head-to-toe yellow...view at your own risk.

Alright, Ole Miss...time to go ahead and make the switch on over from navy. They've done this light blue thing quite often over the years and Lane Kiffin certainly seems to favor it judging from the branded apparel he likes to wear. Plus it just plain looks better on the field under the sunlight (to me anyway). That said...this probably wasn't the game to do white helmets/pants, being that UK also is in all-white. (Does Kentucky still have the blue shells?) Then again that may be on Kentucky since they're the visitor...?

That really is one of the sharpest sets in all of football. Man did the Bengals nail it 90% of the way with this update...the only part I don't care for are the Nemo pants. (Or the unnecessarily angled cuts in some of the numbers--but that's somewhat of a smaller offense to my typographically critical eyes.) But that to the side, they really don't have a bad combination...so long as they keep to contrasting socks. That said, I don't think they've done white top/white pant/orange socks yet; I'm curious how that would look to bookend the orange helmet. But yes, overall I'd rank Cincinnati's identity among the top tier of NFL looks...probably right up there with the Chargers in terms of certifiable uniqueness and distinctiveness (?).

I take it you weren't around here to w1tness the legend of Tank personally... ...I'll shorten it for you: that guy used to be an active poster here. (Shoot he might still creep around here for all we know--and there's a reason we call him "Tnak".)

For as long as they keep these sets, that needs to be their default away look--either that, or with the columbia blue pants, although for consistency's sake the above looks better. (And yes I've resigned myself to the fact that the Snatit have effectively marginalized their columbia blue out of their present identity save for their alternate jersey, so to me they're navy, white, gray, gray, and then light blue now.) As for Jacksonville...can they PLEASE not do teal socks with teal pants? That combo NEEDS black socks to break it up and to bookend their black helmet. BUTTT...we all know they'll do the leggings look anyway, so...

Wanna press that popularity even further? Down in the HBCU world, Texas Southern, Grambling State, Jackson State, AND Tennessee State are all--you guessed it--Tigers. (As are Morehouse, Tuskegee--albeit with the color identifier "Golden"--and my hometown high-school alma mater, because I'm sure y'all care about that. )