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Well, I know we have one week of regular season and the whole playoffs left, but... .... Barring an unforseen injury, congratulations to the 2024 Super Bowl Champion Baltimore Ravens. Seriously, unless they meet the Browns some kind of way in the postseason, I funny see how any other team is taking the Ravens down. This squad is the TRUTH.

Still think the AAF had the best branding. Kinda wish they would have been able to acquire their IP...even if for no better reason than to keep the "Alliance" nickname alive.

Wellp, this could get interesting... Lawsuit alleges Kraken violated Metropolitans trademark with Winter Classic jerseys Not exactly a security guard vs Baltimore Ravens type scenario—this is more like, according to the story, an Entrepreur Who Holds IP on Defunct Hometown Team And Sells Merch Using That IP vs Brand New Top-level Team In Same Town Who Made Friendly With Then [Allegedly] Lowballed Said IP Holder on Merchandiging Rights type scenario. This might actually be worse, if any of these allegations are proven true through due process. But I ain't the lawyer up in here, just the herald delivering the news as it ran across my in-phone feed earlier today...

You know, on its own, it's not a terrible look. The problem though is that they match a silver helmet to it. So, unless they commit heresy and revert to a white helmet with a star that replaces the white inner stroke with silver, the white pants will continue to look out of place in that guise.

Mathematically possible? Sure. It should even be realistically possible. But as we've seen with this team, that's anything but a gimme, even against the lowly Panthers this week and at the Snatit the following week. And of course, even if Jacksonville wins this week, the Snatit could go full-Snatit and beat Jacksonville the following week, which would then trigger a whole chain of tiebreaker scenarios which would then either see the Jags in as a wild-card or knock them out the tournament. Of course, the Jags can avoid that entire maze of whatdaeffness by simply taking care of business these last two games. (And not for nothing, but JAX is currently on a three-game win streak vs the Snatit after dropping the previous five, so there's that.)

If we're talking modern times, I seem to recall Miami having alternate green jerseys in the latter part of the '90s alongside their orange primaries. EDIT: yep, they did. Jarrett Payton circa 1997: Fake afteredit: now that I think about it, Northwestern may have also had alternate jerseys during that timeframe, as well. It would have been around the time of Darnell Autry and Damien Anderson if they did, but I don't feel like looking right now...

I still advocate for a [rich, dark, brassy] gold and white set with black trim—that includes helmet, alternate or otherwise—in their next branding life...

Ion' know about the Oilers, but the other three...yeah, very solid case.

I think (?!) the point is that Nike produced thus can produce "gold" fabric that doesn't look like extra-hot washed khaki. Now it's incumbent upon the Saints to adapt the Vanderbilt shades and call it a day. (All the other black and "gold" Nike college teams should follow suit...)

I feel like the media/press has given exactly 0 attention to all the offseason/preseason hoopla surrounding Lamar Jackson, from betting on himself by fighting for his own guaranteed deal, all the criticism he garnered for doing all that, threatening to hold out, bulking up and adding more muscle—and now look at him/the team. AND he's still healthy. If this dude and the Ravens somehow win even the AFC let alone the Super Bowl this season, it'll be one of the biggest FU/sorta-redemption stories of all time. And I'll be here for all of it. (I'll also take a Detroit/Cleveland Super Bowl, as well, but we'll see how the next few weeks goes.)

Ion' know, I kinda favored this crest and typography: Even stripping all the purple out of that amd making it straight black/silver/white would be a more distinctive way to go than the Chevrolet logo...but then, a/ nostalgia is a he—well, finish the sentence; and b/ I'm not one of [whatever exists of] Kings Nation, so ultimately my opinion matters nada, so... ...Anyway, so this is interesting, regarding next season's uniform pairings: That, along with some pictures, came from this here, for those who haven't read it yet.

You may wanna add the Rams to that, too--at least the bone parts of it, anyway--so really more like last three rebrands. And this is actually an interesting tangent, because I can think of two teams who had, as @MrAstrodome said, "a little asymmetrical" primary uniform pairings for years. The difference, though, is that I don't think the pre-'04 (?) Minnesota Vikings or pre-2010s UCLA Bruins intended to have nonmatching uniforms. Rather, I think those happened organically: UCLA is probably the better example of the two. The Cardinals themselves pulled off this very thing in the 1970s clear up through about '95 or so, which their current uniforms call back to. I hope, thought, that neither Nike or any of the other suppliers try to make this a thing (i.e. force it) just because of a few historical (and/or bone-colored) outliers...

Let me clarify. It wasn't so much the colors I referred to earlier as "flavor of the moment". It was/may be the art style/direction of the team logo, logotype (or script mark, whichever you prefer), and whatever number/NOB font they've cooked up or are still cooking up, along with some uniform design element or two.

I just learned something today. Wow...never saw that before. I love finding out things like this...thanks for posting this!

Oh yeah, it's definitely a thing. Has been since at least the late 1980s if not before then. Same thing with ATL in Atlanta; it's been a thing there for just about as long if not longer. I knew about the Sam Houston part; did not know about the historical connection to Scotland. Thanks for providing that! Well...they kinda did, by swapping out red for navy blue (and then making that their primary color). Even though luv-ya Blue was still their "signature", by all accounts they were more a navy/columbia team than columbia/______ by that point. And in 1999 that was a really big deal. (Off to the side, but in doing two-tone blue they also jumped off a trend of big-pro teams going navy/light blue all over the place, one of which still carries it to this day: their basketball brethren about 2.5 hours west.) The funny thing, though, is that even going back to the days of Adelphia Coliseum, they barely had any trace of light blue in or on the stadium. Aside from the interior of the Pro Shop (which at one point was dang-near all light blue on the inside), that hasn't changed much through the renaming from Adelphia to LP and Now Nissan Stadium (and soon to become whatever it'll be called next once the new playplace is built). In fact, about four years back they actually started adding more navy, even changing the signage to more navy and red, with nary a trace of light blue to be seen. Why? Who knows...I don't. Now with all that said, yeah, I still to this day wonder how differently things would have played out had they adopted the rumored Copperheads colorway and still kept the name Titans. (Interestingly enough, that scheme too resembled that of an old Memphis team, the HounDogs.) Somewhere on the internet exists a newspaper clipping of the rumored names for the now-Titans...Copperheads was one, but if I remember right, Pioneers was the leading choice before Titans got dropped on us. Of course they're the Snatit now, so all that's a moot point

I brought this up once before in the reel line mint section (is that still a thing?), and the league will never so it, because they'd lose too much TV and advertising revenue, BUT...I think that if they're really serious about player safety (which beyond lip service they're not) then if anything the league should chop it down to fifteen games per [regular] season, with two byes mixed in. Basically a 5/5/5 setup, a season of thirds. That'd give the players adequate time to rest during the season. If they want 18 games, three of those can be preaseason games. Then add on the postseason and you got your complete slate. But of course, and again, They'll never do this. No league will. More games = more revenue. And they ain't tryna lose that bread. Plus, how else are the owners gonna keep paying those increasingly exorbitant QB salaries???

Completely off to the side but...that early 2000s LA Kings branding is some of my favorite ever.

Meanwhile, I personally believe the Texans should explore—and should have been explored—an entirely different colorway absent of any trave of red or blue altogether. But of course navy and red was the easy and "safe" route to take with a nickname like Texans (just pulled the colors off the state flag). Several teams have rebranded to completely different colorways over the years; I don't see why this should be different. (Of course, if the rumor mill is true, then *technically* the Texans will be doing the same thing by adding some hue of light blue). It kinda sucks too because the Texans currently have one of the best team logos and name/NOB fonts in the league. I really believe that we're about to see all that tossed aside for something more "flavor of the moment" than enduring, which, colors aside, is the aesthetic the Texans currently have. And of course there's the merchandising revenue they can pull in (do doubt aided by the swoosh) by doing that, so...

Speaking of Tomlin, 1) somehow he's been head-coaching longer than my daughter has been alive, and 2) I saw something somewhere that dude has managed to win exactly four playoff games out of the past 11, for an 8-9 overall playoff record. Four playoff wins...in his last eleven. FOUR. OUT OF THE PAST ELEVEN. Just sayin'.

Those Dolphins numbers will never not bother me. Like, seriously, a group of people sat in a room somewhere and decided that rounding off one corner of a Machine Block number was enough to "customize" a number set. (And then curiously decided not to do it to the 0.)

Okay, I seriously just had to go look and see if that name was real... ...Turns out, it is. Sheesh...

Maybe we'll see more stolen bases as a result of the 0.000314% lighter material

It wouldn't, at least not without a teal helmet. (Which, to be entirely real, I wouldn't mind seeing an alternate teal helmet option pop up for next season...)

Wasn't there some guy a couple years back whose name was even longer than that? (Not Saltalamacchia....it was someone else whose NOB dang near made a 3/4 around his jersey numbers. I think he played for the Rangers at one point...??