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10 minutes ago, TBGKon said:

I don't think its been confirmed, but why would they jam all teams two bye weeks into the current 9 week period (currently weeks 5-14, week 8 had no bye weeks in 2023)?  I could see them making the bye week period a little longer, maybe even having two "sections" so bye weeks aren't too close and each team has one in the first part and one in the second part.  Maybe even a rule stating the two bye weeks could be no less than "x" weeks apart.

 

I'm no lawyer, but I would have to think that the broadcast contracts have clauses built in about adding more games to the schedule as a cause for renegotiation or specific stipulations.  The league added an extra game 2 years ago without major hiccups.  

What was the average space between byes the last time the NFL had them?

https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/39646626/mls-all-star-game-set-host-best-liga-mx-third

MLS vs Liga MX once again for the All Star Game. I looks like the European teams aren't arriving until just a few days before this game, so it makes sense they didn't want to play this one. The most annoying part is that EPL teams will be playing at Ohio Stadium on a temporary grass field instead of playing in an actual soccer stadium. Unfortunately I'll just miss out on seeing it in person as I'll be in the state earlier in July.  I'm pretty sure we can expect next year's game to be at Hard Rock Stadium, right? 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4D7CBJulhz/?igsh=NW1vbnBlZ3JzdzE5

New AFL schedule coming out tomorrow.

Crystal Palace Women's team will wear the third kit for a home game due to kit clashes. 

I'd expect Seattle will have green socks, or could use last year's socks in a pinch. Austin could also wear their home socks.

change to Renegades helmets. 

Disregard. Both videos are from today

14 minutes ago, upperV03 said:

It’s possible, but I would be pretty surprised. Due to the deal with DaBella being signed late last year, I believe the club received blank shirts before the season and were applying the DaBella logo in house. If that is indeed the case, I would assume the EQ staff still has enough blank shirts to use going forward instead of having to apply a box like that over the top^. The Timbers’ CEO has already confirmed that the shirts will be blank tomorrow, so at the very least they won’t have to take the Chelsea route. 

I hope that's the case. Otherwise they might have to order a bunch of replicas from the UK adidas store, until the others get in. At least they're right next to adidas USA's headquarters. 

12 minutes ago, YelichGraphics said:

It'll change again next year as well. At least the performance gear which I don't really know if it matches the interview gear or not.

I was talking more the supplier than the designs.  But I would expect the overall designs to continually change. 

8 minutes ago, YelichGraphics said:

I want to say this changes year by year

It's been changing at least over the past four years. It was Under Armour, then New Era, and now No Bull. Under Armour had it for a long while after Nike took over the gameday uniform contracts. 

I wonder if we'd possibly see something like this on the weekend for Portland? As was pointed out by the mothership, Chelsea simply kept wearing what they had last year when Three cancelled their partnership, but mainly because they couldn't print new shirts per UK rules concerning the club.

13 minutes ago, MrOrange said:

Vancouver Whitecaps 2023-2024 "Bloodline" primary jersey without sponsor - from Sportcheck.ca

 

 

 

Is there some rule I'm missing out on? I can understand the Galaxy jersey missing a sponsor in Europe because it's a MLM, but what's with the others? 

4 minutes ago, LaGrandeOrange said:

 

What a frustrating career- never should have left Juventus.

I feel like the same thing could have been said about leaving United the first time. The second time he came through he was constantly getting hurt and dealing with royal bell ends like Graeme Souness didn't help. That guy still tries sticking the knives into him and he's been away from England for three seasons now. 

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/68433101

Ronaldo banned one game for making hand gestures at fans who chanted "Messi" after he beat then 3-2 on the weekend.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/68436828

Paul Pogba four year ban upheld. Not sure if CAS can knock it down a bit, but even if it's 2 years it could all but end his career. He's 29 and 4 years out of organized soccer won't help him. 

On 2/26/2024 at 10:30 AM, hereandthere said:

If anyone is intereste, the European Adidas store is selling the new Timbers kit in a sponsorless version 

I'm guessing these should be appearing on US sites soon now. 

Season ticket members should start seeing access to their tickets now. Here's the body of the email as well. I think we already knew the XFL site was to become the UFL mobile site. The email also includes a season ticket member code for 20% off, but same as last year you can't use it at the stadium. 

20 hours ago, MDGP said:

It makes me think the "he picked the color to match Notre Dame" is just another thing made up by someone years later. Reminds me of how when I was at Penn State, there was this persistent myth that they switched from Black and Pink to Blue and White because the colors faded in the sun (I want to say that's the same myth surrounding the Arizona Cardinals' name origins too)

 

Kent State had the same myth about changing to the Golden Flashes from Silver Foxes because the purple and orange uniforms somehow got washed out to blue and gold because the red dye used was pretty cheap. The name change happened separate of this because when the president that picked it was run off the campus, they needed a new name and that's when they chose Golden Flashes. I think the uniform choice was then retrofitted to make the story sound a little more prescient than, "We already had gold uniforms so we just went with that". 

No Bull has replaced New Era as the clothing provider for the NFL Combine this year. They are also the primary sponsor this year.

Something I'm surprised they didn't copy from MLS was putting the league patch above the Ally logo. They're the only league I know that doesn't have the league patch on their uniforms. 

Looking at the NWSL and Red Stars site, and it seems like the badge on this year's kit is not the primary badge? I figured it was a team rebrand, but it doesn't appear that way looking at the team's and league's web site.

42 minutes ago, walkerws said:

After seeing the Renegades practice with a mix of painted and pre-paint lids, I am scared we may still get stuck with those idiotic flag helmets. 

Unless they decided to flip Texas Tech's helmet stripe colors, I'd expect this to be the case. 

2 hours ago, tBBP said:

CITY change kits in action on the pitch last night:

That dose of color is really needed. That said, it not illegal to wear contrasting shorts, MLS sides. This one could really use the CITYRED shorts (and the primary kits could use navy shorts). 

 

All in all, I still really like these.

Columbus and Atlanta got the memo. I feel like this will be the primary look for the Crew going forward, especially having that large splash of black on the front of the jerseys. I would say, Atlanta should have red undershirts or long sleeve versions available as well. I don't know of any MLS team that has long sleeves available for players or fans. 

2 hours ago, walkerws said:

They just wore tĥe Texas flag helmets last year if memory serves me right. 

Yes. The previous season was silver helmets.

3 hours ago, HOOVER said:

I think, since Dwayne has his Project Rock catchphrases plastered on the shorts instead of team names or the logo being the focus, that UA will be the official uniform & apparel provider.

And it's on the back of the jerseys still.

18 minutes ago, DCarp1231 said:

I sure hope Houston is getting a new helmet

I was hoping they'd go with a navy shell. That's why I think we're going to see last year's helmets again, because they'll probably just Hydrodip them. 

San Antonio FC away kit 

Houston currently practicing with plain white lids. Not sure if it's a full helmet change or simply not handing out the permanent helmets until closer to the season.

Stallions, with a different number font on their white and gold jerseys. Standard league font on red jerseys.