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Hahahaha...speaking of things I see on a daily basis...I'm just about positive Pilot's font (the "myrewards" font) was custom created--I may be wrong about that, though. I'm actually curious about that myself. As for the rest of that advert...Museo Slab [italic]. No freeware version exists that I know of.

I don't really know that I consider myself a trueblood fan of any teams these days...let's just say there's some I pay more attention to/maybe might just care a slight bit more about than others... FLORIDA STATE...actually, this is the one "team" of which I still remain and will be a devout trueblood. Blood ties...two of my cousins went through there; I myself bery nearly did. One found his way into minor-league baseball; the other just recently got inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Which leads me to... TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS...blood ties. That team's all-time leading tackler also happens to be my blood-cousin. The HoF'er I mentioned above? Same guy. But even before he was drafted young pre-adolescent me was drawn to all that super-loud orange, what with being a Florida native and all. These days I ain't near the trueblood I once was...since my cuzz got cut them Glazers been doing everything they can to p*ss me off-& I won't even bring those current abominations they call unif--ugh..... INDIANAPOLIS COLTS...this happened a/ due to Tony Dungy going there to coach after Tampa fired him, b/ Peyton Manning, and c/ me having lived 10 minutes down the road from Lucas Oil most of the past four years. The funny thing is up until i got exiled to Indiana the Jaguars were my team B (Florida thing again...plus up til about '03 or so they had the best brand identity/uniforms in thw league, my opinion)...but just like the Glazers are doing now, Gene Smith and Jack Del Rio ran me off with their inane stupidity; that '09 identity change was the last straw. (Yeah I went there...haha.) PITTSBURGH PIRATES...historically I've never been all that big a baseball fan, though that has changed in recent years--in almost direct correlation to my declining interest in the NFL it seems. I always did favor the Pirates' uniforms, though, especially since yellow is one of my two favorite colors (the other being orange), so once I moved up to Pittsburgh in '03 I pretty much became a bona fide fan, even got myself a personalized authentic jersey. (Now all this was back in '03, when that team was beyond garbage.) Ever since then I've always had a soft spot for them; still do. --------------------------------------- I've never really had a favorite NBA team, but if I did it'd probably be the Pacers. Even back when MJ was running things I found myself paying more attention to Reggie Miller's s!-talking self, alongside the Davis brothers, Rik Smits, Mark Jackson and co. Plus the Flo-Jos...probably my favorite NBA uniform ever. And of course, again, alnost four years living in Indianapolis also helped that along. That said, switching to soccer now, had I not been sent away from Maryland to the cornswath, I'd probably still be a Son of Ben. I was one during the Union's inaugural season--i was there when they opened PPL Park, there for the home opener, still have the jersey, scarves, various other team paraphernalia--but its hard maintaining fandom of a team halfway across the country especially with limited TV coverage...but crazily enough, TV coverage is exactly how I became a fan of Argentina. Back during my first deployment for some reason we got a lot of international games broadcast to us. Most of those involved Argentina and it just stuck. (That I was involved with this hot little Argentine chick while I was still living down outside Baltimore only solidified that. Sho' miss them days...) Far as pucks...I've always liked watching the sport, though admittedly I've had trouble picking up the game itself. Its getting better though. From all the time spent living in Indy along with a chance encounter with one McCarthy down in Nashville I considered jumping on the Beej bandwagon (i mean come one, they're nicknamed the BEEJ!)--but, now that I'm actually living down in Nashville and especially since the Ford Ice Center (the Predators' new Community Center/practice facility) is literally a two- or three-minute hike down the hill from my place, I can already sense a little Predator fandom growing within....

At a glance, it seems as if they just simply rounded the sharp edges in the serifs. (off-topic: i wish they would stop using that font altogether.)

Can't call Abilene Christian...but the Creighton one looks modified from Armada.

(throws punch)...(connects)...(gloats in defeat over unconscious body)

For those who've never been downtown Nashville before... This is Broadway a.k.a. "the Strip". This may help folk kinda see what they (may be) going for.

I immediately thought of Johnny Cash the moment I saw that. But yeah..way to keep the hee-haw stereotype alive, Sounds. (This as some of the civic leadership is actively trying to shed that from its overall image.) And anyone who's been downtown Nashville already knows what the whole Broadway and "neon" thing is about. All that said...the guitar pick is a nice nod to m b nickname (and the inspiration for such, obviously). And i do actually like the style of this, so far. Curious to see the rest.

Also odd about this matchup, and correct me if I'm wrong, is that the Rams are using regular block numbers, when they ended up using a different typeface a year later. Furthermore, the Seahawks are the home team here, playing outdoors at Husky Stadium. Here's a link to the Getty page with a few more Seahawks/Rams photos. I'm not sure what i miss most...those old Seahawks sets, that particular iteration of the Rams' sets (and at any rate the gold pants in general)...or the days before exclusive apparel/uniform contracts and the subsequent proprietary templating/fabric epidemic. (Coincidentally, both those sets were produced by Puma that year. Funny little coincidence.)

Re: Fiesta Bowl, look through the Bookman Swash family...you may find your match or something close in there. As for the NOB Windsor above, I'm almost positive that's a proprietary Russell font (meaning not available for purchase). Off the top of my head I can't think of anything similar.

Almost...but not quite. It's not exactly the old Brewers font I'm looking for, but rather, whatever if any typeface that Brewers font was based on . Something like the lettering down bottom of that old Pittsburgh poster is more of what I'm going for, if one exists out there somewhere. Thank you, though.

I've been stumped on this one for quite a while, now. Back in the mid-late 90s, the Milwaukee Brewers used a Germanic type font for their branding (the Motre Bame set): I've been searching for a while now for an actual typeface of this same style...does anyone have any kind of clue if one actually exists? For what it's worth, a similar type of lettering also appears at the bottom of this poster: Something more similar to that lettering is what I'm actually trying to (re)create; I just need something to use as a point of comparison. Any and all help/suggestions greatly appreciated...thanks in advance.

Does anyone else get the feeling that the script logo was designed by someone totally different that the person that designed the other marks? I can see that. For one, check the highlighting...on the other two scripts there's also an extra thin white outline, and those highlights are thicker. (In addition to being set in what looks like Berthold City...PDW do these, anybody know?) On that script, the highlights are much thinner and flow better within the letterforms--which themselves are more refined. So yeah, I wouldn't be surprised at all if two different people/groups/elements did different parts of this. (Speaking of...that actual Neptune character could use a LOT of refinement...that's way too much detail for such a tiny space.)

Well considering my Seminoles ganked their now-iconic spear helmet design from the Washington DC football team in the first place...

"Tuscan" will get you close on the chest script. The numbers look custom...like the characteristics of Tuscan were edited into another stock font.

Didn't seem so unique when the Warriors, Wizards, Hawks, Diamondbacks, and Mariners were wearing variations of it. Not quite... The Ravens, Dbacks and Mariners all use custom variations of Matrix; the Warriors and Wizards were variations on (what Im pretty positive is) Friz Quadrata a.k.a. the "Cincinnati Bearcats" font; the Hawks used (what looks like) Benguiat Bold. And you know what--let's go ahead and throw the Atlanta Thrashers into this (with group A)...

Indy already has the Indians minor league team (AAA affiliate of the MLB Pirates, for what that's worth), and they're usually one of the better teams in their league. They play in a very nice stadium too, with a view open to downtown. So in that vein, I don't see MLB ever coming up in here. That, added to Cincinnati being 100 miles east/southeast, Chicago about 160 miles north/northwest, St Louis 250 miles straight west--and transplants from all those places, and more, living up in here who I don't think would give up their preexisting allegiances to their hometown teams. Then there'd be the issue of building a park for an MLB team, which is a discussion that ain't even worth having around here (if you live here, you know why).

Sure there is...its called Victory Field. Sike. If any kind of move gets tossed around, I think most of us would prefer to see some new incarnation of the Montreal Expos. Failing that, sheeit--I don't know. Tokyo, maybe?

Is that with, or without traffic? And/or with, or without, all that daggone construction that's going on around there? (Or was, last time I went through there a few months ago.)Either way, I kinda get what people are saying about Miller's location. Having passed by it a few times myself via I-43/894/whatevertheyrecallingitnow, it does kinda seem detached from the rest of the city by being out there all on it's lonesome...almost like the Palace at Auburn Hills that way (though not nearly the same distance.) But then...also having been in and around downtown Mikwaukee (the first time by accident--and don't even ask me how that happened, I don't wanna talk about it), short of cannonballing some of the existing buildings/infrastructure, I also don't see where else they'd have been able to build a park downtown.

There you go right there, Browns...what's so hard about this? With proper matching road socks, even!!! (Needs the gray masks, though.) They could designate this as their primary look tomorrow, and automatically infuse new life into their identity without even adding or subtracting anything (except those white pants). Make this happen, Mr. Haslam. I'll even keep buying fuel from y'all.

I think the fine folk of Atlanta GA might have something to say about that assessment...

Ehhhh....I remember it being just a tad bit more complicated than that, from what I understood at the time (my ramp-rat days). Back in '92, a couple folks from the then-newly-defunct Southern and Eastern Airways banded together to form ValuJet (with just two planes, mind you). A couple years later, another group of former Eastern Airlines associates banded together to form the first iteration of AirTran Airways, which was previously known as Conquest Sun--AirTran Corporation bought it up and renamed it (I wanna say around '94, but I don't feel like digging up my Airline Football League Concept Series notes to vet any of this stuff right now--plus I can't find them right now anyways ), and moved its HQ down to Orlando. Here's where the complicated part comes in: ValuJet's holding company, ValuJet Inc, actually ended up acquiring AirTran's holding company, then known as Airways Corporation, then renamed its own airline, shortly after all that Everglades mess, to AirTran Airlines, so for a short while two airlines, AirTran Airlines and AirTran Airways, were flying around with dang-near the same name. Eventually ValuJet Inc. and Airways Corporation merged under the same certificate, I think this was '97, and the new entity rebranded itself as one singular AirTran Airways. (And after that 592 disaster, I can see why they wanted to distance themselves from that as far as humanly possible.) Airline history...gotta love it sometimes, eh? Oh dear...dastard GM, in failing to market it right (like you said) chose to kill it off, for shame. I remember, like you said, good ol' Olds DID have a super-strong following and brand loyalty (including me), so why GM chose to axe Olds and not Buick belies my comprehension--but I think that's more sympomatic of GM not knowing what the hell it was doing back in those days, with any of its brands, let alone Olds. As for that updated logo up above, if I remember right it was actually inspired from the logo they created for their then-intended-to-be-all-new-flagship Aurora, one of two cars GM built on its then-new G-platform, which I believe was originally supposed to underpin a new Cadillac supercar, only to end up underpinning the Aurora and it's frame-rail twin, the 2-door eigth-generation Buick Riviera. (I used to own one of those Auroras--this was mine--and loved every cubic centimeter of it--in fact if not for the fact that 4.0L Northstar-derived twin-turbo 250HP motor required 93 octance, I'd have probably traded my 4Runner back in for another one a while ago...you'd be surprised how many of those I've seen for sale all around Indiana.) At the time Olds desperately needed the Aurora, because I remember at that point in the '90s about the only Olds people cared about was the Cutlass (this thing, which in and itself was seventy different kinds of awesome--they're also hard as hell to find these days)--but again, that was really GM's fault both for getting away from what made Olds, well, Olds, and for the rampid "badge-engineering" they became notoriously famous for about the time that Aurora came out (you can only build the same car so many different ways...no amount of differing name tags is going to help that--mid-late '90s Buick Century and LeSabre, anyone?), not to mention blurring the lines between its own brands, particularly Buick and Oldsmobile. I think Olds/GM fell so in love with that car that every other Olds that came after it took cues from that car, and for that matter, so did the badge-twins of those cars, (in particular the Pontiac Grand Am, from the Alero, and Grand Prix/Intrigue twins). But yeah, to your point, GM/Olds effed up badly during the '90s...again, for shame.

This appears to be the same font the Philadelphia Union use (which is really what I'm looking for)...and three different times in the past two weeks I've seen "PLEASE PLACE ORDER HERE" signs hanging above the counter at Subway typed out in the same font. Anyone in the world know what this is? I've been searching for a while now. Many thanks in advance to whoever knows! So...any takers on this one here??

Looks to me like Home Run, by Doyald Young.

I need some fontologist assistance, please....specifically, the word "SCOTS": This appears to be the same font the Philadelphia Union use (which is really what I'm looking for)...and three different times in the past two weeks I've seen "PLEASE PLACE ORDER HERE" signs hanging above the counter at Subway typed out in the same font. Anyone in the world know what this is? I've been searching for a while now. Many thanks in advance to whoever knows!