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whitedawg22

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  1. The progenitor of all the "wishbone C" logos was the University of Chicago Maroons, who were wearing it as far back as 1898:
  2. Another piece in the Spurs-Raptors trade... I don't have a picture of Danny Green in a Raptors jersey, but we can agree that this is the wrong uniform for him:
  3. Maybe the inclusion of red in his eyes is supposed to indicate that that TOMcat is HIgh. Edit: I see I was beaten to this joke. Credit to NicDB.
  4. I usually dislike double- or triple-outlining, but I think it works well with the Saints' logo. It used to have a single outline, and it looked rather plain. I much prefer the Drew Brees version to the Bobby Hebert version:
  5. I like how the middle spike and band are independent pieces in the ULL logo, but the beveling is driving me nuts. It's like an Escher piece.
  6. This is even more true now that Michigan has switched to Jordan brand - they changed the helmet bumper and chinstrap colors to blue:
  7. A twofer - O.J. Simpson and Jim Plunkett as 49ers: They never actually played a regular-season game together. O.J. was traded to the 49ers in March 1978, and the 49ers released Plunkett in the 1978 preseason.
  8. I don't know if people really care about that (although admittedly I'm not a big baseball fan). When the team started, it was an A's affiliate, and it seemed to be relatively popular right away.
  9. I can't speak to other cities, but Grand Rapids was voted Beer City USA in a number of national polls from 2012-2017. Nothing scientific, but it at least gives the claim a color of legitimacy. Founders is one of the biggest microbreweries, and there are a number of other GR breweries that are significant on a regional level. With regard to Milwaukee, I'd argue that it was the most significant brewing city at one point back in the pre-craft era, but is now far behind with regard to influential breweries - there's Lakefront, and that's about it. Also, the Whitecaps are in a "suburb" in name only - Comstock Park is certainly part of the Grand Rapids urban area. I work in downtown GR and can see the stadium from my office on a clear day.
  10. The nickname isn't just an invention for this jersey - it's something that Grand Rapids markets around. https://www.experiencegr.com/things-to-do/beer-city/
  11. I like classic hockey uniforms, so I don't mind, but one could argue that Dallas, Edmonton, Minnesota, Buffalo, Carolina, Florida, Winnipeg, Vancouver, and the NY Islanders currently have O6-style jerseys as their primaries. All of those teams have simple striping (shoulders and waist only), primary and secondary colors only, and no more than two colors other than white. I'm not sure how you'd define "Original Six Dress-Up," but those elements are probably part of it.
  12. The uniform looks nice overall, but it's a little incongruous to have the ultra-modern "SOX" logo on the cap and the ultra-retro "CHICAGO" font on the jerseys.
  13. The problem with these jerseys is that the white drop shadows are the highest-contrast element on the jersey, and are the first item to catch your eye. So the dominant design element of the jersey is a weirdly-shaped white block, rather than the team name or the player number. These would have been more visually appealing if the white and black on the number were inverted.
  14. Well, he won DPOY and the Super Bowl for the 49ers, who were one of the most widely-covered franchises in the 90s. So he got about as much exposure out of that one year as possible.
  15. I thought about including this one, but Norton actually played 7 seasons in SF versus 6 in Dallas, so I'm not sure it's the "wrong" uniform.
  16. A few mercenaries from the 1994 San Francisco 49ers Super Bowl team: Gary Plummer (played most of his career with the Chargers) Rickey Jackson (played 13 of his 15 years with the Saints) Deion Sanders (played only one year as a 49er) Charles Mann (played 11 of 12 years with Washington) Richard Dent (played 12 years with the Bears and only one with the 49ers) Toi Cook (played 7 years with the Saints, only two with 49ers) Bart Oates (played 9 years with Giants, only two with 49ers)
  17. I couldn't disagree more. Not only did the darker helmets not match the purple of the uniforms, but they sometimes looked almost reddish in direct sunlight. The new helmets fixed both of those problems, and the metallic color added a little visual pop to the uniform as well.
  18. Nice! This one took me a moment to think of the difference.
  19. It's all right conceptually, but looks kind of dingy during an actual game. It always makes me think something is wrong with my TV's color balance.
  20. Yes, and their 80s-90s logo incorporated a jet as well. Lots of teams have logos that depict their nickname. But when someone says that Jets is "a name that should have some very interesting design possibilities," that seems to refer to the uniform, rather than just the helmet logo. Also, that logo is garbage.
  21. I don't understand why the Jets need black. Green and white provide plenty of contrast on their own, and look so much cleaner. The Detroit Lions got rid of black, and it improved their uniform by leaps and bounds.
  22. With few exceptions, teams' uniforms generally don't have anything to do with their nickname. The 80s/90s JETS wordmark is arguably superior to the current oval logo, but other than that, I don't really want to see a uniform that incorporates jets into the design somehow.
  23. It looks like our friend is happy to be finally passing an intestinal blockage shaped like "ers".
  24. The baseball jerseys look good, but the "The Land" set is completely terrible. The gray is too light and the border around the numbers/wordmark is too thin. Plus, there's nothing about it that meshes with any other aspect of the Cavs' identity.
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