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The U.S. Army logo now sits on both sides of the 50 yard line starting Week 3. 

the Battlehawks tweeting about visiting a Buckees. The rest of the league should be finding ways to promote themselves that aren't simply practice videos.

14 hours ago, Digby said:

 

It is Marathon weekend, so there's a plausible reason to deviate from the plan at the moment. 

Didn't they do that last year, too?

17 minutes ago, Red Comet said:

And overall for Week 3:

 

Attendance really isn’t a huge deal IMO. TV ratings and the NFL potentially investing into this league are the real long-term areas of concern. Or, it’ll be another spring league come and gone and maybe people will stop for awhile. I hope that doesn’t happen because the quality of play is way up from what I’ve seen, but the track record is there.

The fact that except for two games this weekend, almost every game was still up for grabs in the fourth should get attention as well. Houston looks to be the league's punching bag and the team that everyone picked to finish last is hanging with the team picked to run the division. I also only counted one missed FG so far this year. 

4 hours ago, NYCdog said:

Another possible Mets leak. 
 

 

I like the jersey. If it were paired with white pants it'd be great. But they'll probably do something funky with them instead. 

Some people were freaking out about the women's model used for the USA track outfits. Here's more clarification from Katie Moon. 

1 hour ago, MCM0313 said:

I’m sure I will get tomatoes thrown at me for this, but…I don’t hate the Roughnecks’ use of navy-red gradients. 

The yoke is the most egregious part of their, and the Showboats, uniforms. The numbers are actually pretty decent in my opinion as well. It just stands out much more than it does on teams like the Brahmas.

Also, something I've noticed between the league store and Dick's Sporting Goods. The styles that don't appear on the league store for the Brahmas, are apparently available at Dick's. Is this the same for some of the other teams? Was this done to help push foot traffic to Dicks? 

These specifically are not available at the UFL store, but are available online at Dicks. 

They do have Defenders jerseys with the right sleeve stripes, but with oversized wordmarks. Granted that's the case for all of the teams. 

Uruguay has joined Nike.

https://www.footyheadlines.com/2024/04/uruguay-announces-nike-kit-deal.html

"The 2024 Copa America will be held in the United States, with the tournament kicking off on 20 June. Uruguay's first match is scheduled for 23 June against Panama at the Sun Life Stadium in Florida. There is also a friendly against Mexico scheduled for 5 June, which could mark the debut of the new Nike uniforms for the Celeste team".

12 hours ago, CaliforniaGlowin said:

The Desert Hawks look like they're from Buffalo. Needless red and blue at the highest level.

They were previously the West Texas Warbirds and kept their colors when they rebranded. Phenom Elite would have been the better option for the league than BSN.  All they had to do was not allow the insane pants designs that they gave them when they were in charge of the league. Someone said that at least one of the teams (Philadelphia) will not be wearing the clunky numbers that are shown on every single uniform. I hope that's the case for the rest of the league as well. 

All they had to do was keep this design. I also wonder how much more form fitting the gameday uniforms will be, because they didn't even attempt to make the jerseys form fitting when doing these shoots.

On 4/4/2024 at 9:04 PM, infrared41 said:

 

He's pitching a  because the Browns want to build a domed stadium by Hopkins Airport in Brook Park.  It's all of 15 minutes (if that) from downtown. People like beard dork and local sports radio hacks who need the topic are the only ones who give a single about this "move."

On 4/5/2024 at 12:55 AM, Sykotyk said:

He's a councilman for the city of Cleveland. Of course he's going to have issue with the team moving out to the area around the airport. Nobody else in Cuyahoga County or the state of Ohio would care if the browns were in the suburbs.

 

Hell, I think a stadium in Richfield would probably be more beneficial for all the fans driving to the games. The lakefront location only really benefits the Mentor and northeast Ohio shore fans. Everyone else would be better served by a stadium south of town along 480 or 271.

Ruiter is also constantly crapping on the Browns and Guardians, I don't know why he bothers covering Cleveland sports if it brings him so much pain. Moving off the lake to Brook Park isn't like packing the team up for Oklahoma City. Why that councilman is upset, outside of having to travel that little bit farther on game days, is beyond me. 

A foreign national shows up big time for a league seeking an identity. Welcome Brandon Vasquez!!!! Inter Miami, , actually Tata since he's in charge, has proven once again  that just doing the same thing over and over again that doesn't work is the style he's comfortable with. Not paying for defenders and shipping out Yedlin also bit them pretty hard last night.

Luis Suarez also went back to some of dark arts, twisting arms and such. When it gets to that point, you know the game is over. But it was only 1-0! As much talent they have, Miami needs to add a lot of youth, right now! Otherwise, they may not make the playoffs if they aren't in the top 4 or 5 spots before Copa and the Euros kick off. 

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/39916877/northwestern-play-most-home-football-games-next-2-seasons-lakefront

Northwestern will take a page from Hawaii and turn a practice field into their main stadium while Ryan Field gets rebuilt.  This will be for their low paying games of course, I can't see them hosting any of the big boys there unless absolutely necessary. 

Columbus Crew survived a pretty Concacafy evening thanks to Tigres refusing to stick goals in the back of the net in the first half. After spending 10 minutes to decide if a Tigres player was offside, VAR refused to have the center ref look at an obvious penalty by Tigres that would have given Columbus a chance to tie the match 1-1. Fortunately they would eventually do so before winning 4-3 on penalties, with Patrick Schulte making two saves and almost making a third.

Club America took their time cutting New England Revolution to pieces, winning 9-2 on aggregate. 

Columbus gets the winner of Monterrey vs Inter Miami, and Club America will most likely face Pachuca, who has a 5 goal lead over Club Herediano of Costa Rica. 

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnitedFootballLeague/s/tgsekTNYdI

So Destroying apparently has multiple fractures in his neck. He said he needs to learn proper tackling form for next time.

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/nfl-players-union-approve-8-143015834.html

New helmets have been authorized for wear. 

5 minutes ago, aawagner011 said:

Our long national nightmare of hideous recycled plastic MLS jerseys have been relegated from game use to strictly prematch use! A great cause but they always looked terrible.

I'm betting they end up getting used in game, since the Crew have Ohio Health as their pregame/practice shirt sponsor.  I'd be happy if they aren't though.  If they treat these like the Love United shirts I'll be fine with that, but with different colors it makes me think they'll be game wear.  

MLS One Planet jerseys. Three different jersey color sets this year! They're also using the 2024 adidas template.  MLS lists them as pre-match shirts instead of game jerseys though. 

De La Haye injured himself making a tackle. Vasher hasn't done anything yet this year. I don't even think he's been on the field.

2 hours ago, Sec19Row53 said:

#1 - Hey, do you wanna go see the Pantbers play this weekend?

 

#2 - I would, but their end zones don't match their uniform colors. 

 

Said no one ever.

I'm saying they look like they don't plan on staying there because of how the field is laid out. At least DC has a reason why they don't have all of the same markings as the rest of the league. Fans that are already hesitant to get involved with the league will look at that as a sign Detroit isn't taking the league seriously.

28 minutes ago, DCarp1231 said:

Michigan’s mistake is playing in an NFL stadium where lack of attendance is noticeable. They’d be better off play in Ann Arbor, East Lansing or any smaller Michigan university.

 

It only works for St Louis because the local population craves football to be there.

The big issue I see for Michigan is that the Lions Honolulu blue end zones can't be painted over with anything other than white paint apparently. That gives the impression of a temporary venue, similar to what Rice actually is for the Roughnecks. That alone could turn off locals that aren't coming in to watch the Panthers play. 

1 hour ago, Ted Cunningham said:

Yeah, when I first saw a picture of what they were wearing, I wasn't looking forward to it. But the two teams against each other didn't look awful. Burgundy vs. red and white with gold mixed in on both sides; it wasn't a bad looking game. Not ideal, but I would take that over the San Antonio/Memphis matchup from yesterday.

 

I also thought, for as red-heavy as it was, Houston/DC wasn't terrible either. Houston's helmet is garbage, but I liked the other three contrasting elements: white jerseys, blue pants, and red socks. And DC is just a pair of white pants away from having the best (OK, maybe second or third best) uniforms in the league.

 

Lots of caveats there. And everything I said was "this is not bad" vs. "this is good". Ha. But my point is, this league is at least colorful and the matchups are pretty easy to watch (both aesthetically and it terms of quality of the games, come to it).

Houston needs to just wear either a white or a blue helmet and call it a day. The all red for the Panthers works when playing the Stallions as well, I just don't like that look. I think if they had a blue jersey for Michigan as well, this would help add some color to the league as well. 

14 minutes ago, Cruhawk7975 said:

I wouldn’t be surprised if the Lions basically told Bates to stay in Detroit after the season’s end. 

They may end his season early if he keeps hitting bangers from 60+.

Michigan going all red today

Special numbers for the SheBelieves Cup, but only on the jerseys. I would hope they center the regular numbers as well. 

28 minutes ago, DCarp1231 said:

A player on Memphis had to get his cleats spray painted. Presumably because they weren’t completely white or included a team color.

 

It must have worked because he forced then recovered a fumble.

3 hours ago, raz said:

In the sunlight, SA looks yellow, but at home last week, they looked all shades of yellow, including athletic gold! 

I'd say they are closer to athletic gold, but the shoulder loops on the home jerseys are a darker yellow than that of the logo sets. Granted, this is a replica instead of an authentic so the colors may be off. Playing in the Alamodome, they should go with the lighter gold that's on the logos anyways. 

I also think, today would have been a good day for Memphis to go all white and San Antonio go all grey. I can see how confusing this game was to quite a few people, myself included from time to time. It's not normal to force teams to change colors, but I think it may be necessary next year just to help balance out the preponderance of red and navy blue/black teams in the league. I can already think of a new look for the Brahmas.

 Just add a teal helmet instead of gold and kee the current uniform designs!