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2 hours ago, Old School Fool said:

They can't be serious with this hat. This is the worst MLB hat of all time without a doubt. I'm expecting them to use the regular D hat with this at some point, possibly even right away.

Not only is it one of the worst on field hats ever, it immediately follows one of the best hats ever (SkyRay) released by Nike. 
 

On 5/4/2024 at 8:16 AM, JohnnyCowboy5 said:

 

 

1 hour ago, DCarp1231 said:

• Keep the Titans name

• Use the Oilers throwbacks full time with proper away jersey

• Add third navy blue jersey with silver helmet and pants

 

Essentially this, but swap the Columbia/Luv Ya/whatever blue for navy on the silver

If there’s any logo the Titans should be using  on a helmet, it should be the current alternate logo T-Sword Ball & Stars logo. It has the state logo rendered as a shield and would fit better with the sword shoulder pattern on the jerseys. 
 

40 minutes ago, BBTV said:

 

According to several sources, the official color is this:

 

 

On Wikipedia (yeah, I know), it's this:

 

Source: Houston Chronicle 

https://www.chron.com/business/article/Taking-a-closer-look-at-Houston-s-official-flag-7389042.php

52 minutes ago, Dilbert said:

Oh there are places to go. Arlington Heights, San Antonio, St Louis. If the Bears and those cites get involved then its on.

There’s no way the NFL would allow the Bears to leave Chicago to become the San Antonio Osos. No way Jerry Jones allows that to happen in his own backyard either. 
 

It ain’t happening with St Louis as well. Chicago is just too large a market to be without, even after the NFL was missing in LA for 20 years. They’re not repeating that mistake again. 

29 minutes ago, Cujo said:

Right.

 

Amy Adams Strunk cease and desist letter incoming lol 

53 minutes ago, raz said:

How is this Houston's color before the Oilers? I'm not challenging, I'm just asking. 

The city flag. 

16 minutes ago, GDAWG said:

 

I wonder if Nashville has the funds for a new MLB stadium when they are already paying for a new stadium for the Titans.  

They did just fork over $1.2 billion in public money for new Nissan Stadium. It’s also an up and coming market with perhaps the best potential outlook of all relocation/expansion candidate markets. I think Nashville will be an MLB market inevitably. 

4 hours ago, JohnnyCowboy5 said:

This should absolutely be the Rays primary logo going forward. The current TB primary logo is weak and lacks any character or resonance at all. 
 

SkyRay is the perfect way to represent the Tampa Bay region and the Rays all in one phenomenal hat logo. 

55 minutes ago, GDAWG said:

So this is going to end up being the Bears at Arlington Heights.  Interesting.  I am liking the pushback the public (and even local and state officials) are against publicly funded stadiums, although Tennessee, Buffalo and Oklahoma City didn't get that memo.  I think the Jaguars have something this month about renovations to their stadium that needs public voting or government assistance.  

I don’t think Arlington Heights happens either. How does Virginia McCaskey finance this without public money? How long does she even have left at 100 years old? The estate tax upon her death may force a sale of the franchise. And that’s when things could get really interesting. 

I too like that we’re seeing more public pushback to financing billionaires money machines. In particular Kansas City spurning the Royals who tried to use the Chiefs championship dynasty to partner up and both get new facilities. Good on you KC for telling them to :censored: off. 

23 minutes ago, henburg said:

The great irony surrounding this Titans-Texans situation is that when the Texans incorporate the "H-Town Blue" into their color scheme, they end up looking a lot more like the Titans than the Oilers. It creates this weird ouroboros of team's feeling like their identity is being infringed on by somebody else. 

 

Amy Adams Strunk defending her family's IP from organizations brazenly trying to steal it is not equivalent to throwing a fit either. I don't think that the University of Houston literally just trying to appropriate a uniform that has nothing to do with them shouldn't be viewed as some great moment of justice either, but rather a bush league move for a mid level program trying to create impressions online.

 

It's like Warren said, create your own identity, and I honestly think that the new Texans uniforms do a pretty decent job of that outside of the H-Town Blue costumes. 

I don’t think the Texans HTown Blue uniform will look anything like the Titans now or in the past. The usage of red will stand out more then HTown Blue, in particular on the helmet. While there is a light blue H, the pitch blue helmet shell with metallic red flakes reminds me of the Jags old teal flaked helmet, which I really liked. The red glow of this dark blue helmet should look really interesting in proper lighting. 

12 minutes ago, CaliforniaGlowin said:

The city of Houston had that color blue before the oilers existed.

The oilers used it.

The oilers LEFT and took it with them.

The Texans are using the color for their city.

I don't know why people don't understand this.

 

Exactly. As I’ve posted before below, I have no issue with the Titans embracing the Oilers history. But it’s clear Amy Adams Strunk was attempting lord over the use of a color that was tied to Houston long before her father founded the Oilers. 
 

I have never seen a case where one franchise was allowed to dictate how another franchise could use a specific color that had history in that market far beyond sports as to what happened with the Texans HTown Blue Alternate uniform. That is the issue I have with this topic. It was totally about that one specific color no matter how anyone tries to spin it. 

19 hours ago, NYCdog said:

I have no issue with the Titans embracing the Oilers history. But Amy Adams Strunk’s attempts to lord over the use of a color is where I draw the line, especially when that color has history in that city beyond sports 

1 hour ago, BBTV said:

Did the Rays stadium deal ever actually pass?  A quick Google search only shows that it was "supposed to be voted on soon" back in late March, but didn't show anything conclusive.

Not yet, but it will be on the St Pete City Council agenda this month. 
 

https://www.tampabay.com/news/st-petersburg/2024/04/09/st-petersburg-city-council-sets-rays-stadium-discussion-may/?outputType=amp

On 5/2/2024 at 12:27 AM, GDAWG said:

 

Since I’ve been ranting about rich prick sports owners screwing over fans, I applaud Pritzker standing for the people of Illinois and calling this deal a non-starter. I fully expect the Bears & White Sox (and that cheapskate Jerry Reinsdorf) to partner up and try to push this through, a la the recent Chiefs & Royals failed stadium vote in April. I hope they get shut down too. 
 

Also, I fully expect Reinsdorf to pull another relocation threat like he did in the 90’s with Tampa. that dude. 

6 hours ago, DCarp1231 said:

Didn’t Art Modell “relinquish” the Browns history when the franchise moved to Baltimore?

Yes, Modell relinquished the rights to the Browns as part of the Baltimore relocation agreement. And that’s the biggest difference between the Browns and Oilers relocation. Bud Adams refused to relinquish the Oilers rights since the family business is Adams Resources & Energy. He was an oilman, hence the name Oilers.
 

Take a guess where the family business Adams Resources & Energy is still headquartered? Hint: It’s not Nashville.

Im sick and tired of rich pricks screwing over fans. 

6 hours ago, tBBP said:

Just so everyone is clear on this:

 

It isn't the use of the color itself that led the NFL to send that cease-and-desist letter to the University of Houston. They could have used light blue as a trim and been completely okay. It was the use of uniforms [in that color] that looked dang near exactly like the Houston Oilers...intellectual property that is owned by the Tennessee Titans franchise. THAT'S what got the cease-and-desist sent.

 

Please don't conflate the two. Let's get those two details ironed out here.

 

And I don't know how many people saw it, but the Texans actually got permission from both the Titans and the NFL to use that light blue color for their alts, so there's that, too.

 

I think there's a lot of little details a lot of people are mixing up and making errant posts about here.

 

If the color Columbia Blue wasn’t the issue, what can’t the Texans use it? Why do the Texans have to come up with a work around and even be dictated on that colors usage on their own uniforms? I think everyone on this board knows the answer and it starts with Amy Adams Strunk. 
 

You and Titans organization can spin this however you want. It still doesn’t turn chicken :censored: into chicken salad. Run that nonsense elsewhere cause anyone with a logical mind shouldn’t buy any of that bull:censored:. 

On 4/29/2024 at 6:07 PM, DCarp1231 said:

Teal hats have been spotted

Looks like I’ll be buying my first Rays hat. This may be the the best City Connect hat in the entire series, even if it’s not an on field product. 

On 5/2/2024 at 1:29 PM, coco1997 said:

Tigers City Connect socks leak:

 

Detroit Tigers City Connect Socks Appear Online (uni-watch.com)

 

 

Looks like it'll be a very dark navy and royal blue with "Motor City" across the front. 

Could that royal blue actually be Honolulu Blue for the neighboring Lions next door? Even if that’s the case, we still need red for the Wings and Pistons. 

16 minutes ago, DCarp1231 said:

The Texans-Titans-Oilers debate will always be a circle argument. 
 

I don’t know why, though. It’s pretty clear cut which team owns the history and identity of the Oilers. I’m in favor of Tennessee wearing the throwbacks full time at this point, but still go by Titans.

Im in agreement there. I have no issue with the Titans embracing the Oilers history. But Amy Adams Strunk’s attempts to lord over the use of a color is where I draw the line, especially when that color has history in that city beyond sports 

4 minutes ago, DCarp1231 said:

Damn that’s crazy. Anyway, the Oilers aren’t Houston’s to have.

 

The Texans literally threw a temper tantrum just be able to use a blue that isn’t even the correct shade.

They used the color that is predominantly used in the city’s flag. Even the Dynamo and Rockets have used that color at various times in their past too. IMO, it’s Amy Adam’s Strunk who’s throwing the fit. And it’s it nice to see the University of  Houston tell Amy Adam’s Strunk to :censored: off with that cease and desist letter.

On 5/1/2024 at 12:24 PM, Old School Fool said:

Houston's sudden love for the Oilers is just stupid.  As far as I know the city didn't want the Oilers to stay, then they got the Texans and things were fine, I never heard a thing from anybody until the throwback was announced. I didn't even hear anything in 2009 when the Titans wore AFL Oilers throwbacks. It's all so sudden and just reeks of desperation.

 

Guess what dude? You aren't the Oilers. You never were the Oilers and you're never going to be the Oilers. Please stop it.

If that’s the extent of your knowledge you know nothing about this topic and need to sit this one out fool. That city did love the Oilers, they just didn’t like being extorted by Bud Adams and I can’t blame them. Adams  threatened relocations to Jacksonville (Dome was renovated) and 10 years later, again threatened relocation to Nashville if he didn’t get a new stadium. The apple didn’t fall far from the tree with his daughter, Amy Adams Strunk either. She got $1.2 billion in public money for new Nissan Stadium after a previously agreed up renovation for the existing stadium. The Adams family are extortionists, plain and simple. Houston was just smart enough to turn down a bad deal, just as Kansas City did a few weeks ago, turning down the back to back Super Bowl Champion Chiefs & Royals stadium vote. More cities need to fight for their best interests. 
 

I find it funny people chastise John Fisher for his handling of the A’s relocation but then forget these past examples and want to instead wrongfully crucify another city.
 

BULL HORN HELMET? Why isn’t that the primary?
 

Also there are definitely red metallic flecks in the H Town Blue helmet 

1 minute ago, Echo said:

If they're gonna go with that helmet bumper they might as well go all the way and install an actual altimeter in there so we know how high they are for road games as well.

Or just spell out M O U N T A I N S on the bumper to even further hammer home the point. 

3 minutes ago, DCarp1231 said:

Alright Houston. Chop chop. Rip the bandaid off already.

That H Town Blue will be interesting to see how it looks in person. With AB’s leaks, I don’t get mismatching colors/logos so far…

But I’ve noticed a bunch of recent concepts from Pro Line Mockups and others  illustrating a red helmet with bull horns. Coupled with an all red uniform set, this could be heat. 
 

An all icy-Vikings set makes sense for a Minnesota franchise if it wasn’t for multiple other teams beating them to the punch already. It’s played out now and they’re just late to the trend. And why silver? It’s not like they have any silverware in their trophy case to attribute that color too. But I do like the icicle touch on the numerals 

50 minutes ago, DCarp1231 said:

 

Get the white over orange some blue socks and we got something cookin’

The jerseys are fine & safe. 6/10

The white helmet paired with the navy jerseys and pants is a terrible looking combo. 
 

The helmet strip is looks incomplete not coming full way to the front of the helmet. I’m not sure if that would’ve helped. 
 

It just feels like a missed opportunity to not modernize the retro D-Horse logo with something that matched up a bit better with Cyber Horse. 
 

This also confirms the legitimacy of the AB/CTESPN leaks we’ve been seeing, although I’d say the retail graphics don’t do the uniforms any favors. The uniforms look better thankfully. Can’t wait to see the actual Giants throwbacks AB leaked in reality, as well as that helmet, 

1 hour ago, Brian E said:

looks like we have a mets city connect cap leak:

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/C5tDIQzRlFB/?igsh=MWFram96eTMxbmlpbg==

Another possible Mets leak.