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4 hours ago, DCarp1231 said:

Does Fanatics make the UFL jerseys? Good lord that paneling is awful

Under Armour has had this issue for a while. It's easier to see on white uniforms. That's why we already knew that if a USFL team came in with side panels they would be removed. 

5 minutes ago, officeglenn said:

Here's some relatively good sponsorship news for a change: The PWHL is piloting a program in which Molson's logo will appear on jerseys, on the back above the numbers. This means nameplates move below the numbers, where they're unobstructed by players' long hair.

 

 

Toronto and Montréal will be wearing these jerseys in their game tonight. And it may go league-wide soon enough.

And Uni Watch gave their opinion about the Molson ad speak.

https://uni-watch.com/2024/03/05/brewery-pretends-that-douchey-pwhl-uni-ad-is-empowering/

7 hours ago, Berlin Wall said:

Acorns? Didn`t they had this on their shirts like 15 years ago?

Yes, it's one of the charities they still support. 

4 hours ago, walkerws said:

I fell like they are trolling us with the Roughnecks reveals! 

no change 

Aston Villa forced to switch out their normal gameday kit sponsors due to Dutch regulations.

6 minutes ago, Digby said:

 

Nike has done a similar thing where they debut a new template and highlight that template as obnoxiously as possible. Limited bespoke design, brash colorways that may or may not be appropriate. Then that template grows a little old and everyone settles down, and that seems to allow design that seems more successful on a team-by-team basis. 

 

This Adidas batch is not just a shift away from MLS but from what they were doing for like, the Women's World Cup last year. Seems to have subsequently been a pretty significant design philosophy change at HQ. Hopefully they get sufficiently roasted for it.

If the MLS third kits are on these templates, I don't think they'll want to sell the shorts, because they'll probably mess them up. 

France (Le Cog Sportif)

United States (Multiple Suppliers)

Golf (J Lindeberg)

Australia has released some of their uniforms. Asics is the kit provider this year.

Rugby 7's:

Women's Soccer (white jersey goes with an all white kit)

Australia's Olympics uniforms. All Australian Olympics teams wear Asics this year. The white shirt goes with an all white uniform. 

23 hours ago, TrueYankee26 said:

Uefa Euro 2024 draw happened today

 

 

Group B is probably the closest to a group of death, but I don't really think we'll see one here. Albania can be tricky, and Italy isn't nearly as strong as they used to be. Croatia is just Croatia, so they should get enough points to make the knockouts and from there they can be great or abysmal depending on the opponents. 

1 hour ago, dont care said:

The game shouldn’t have been played. For public safety it should have been moved anywhere else. It’s not even like it’s unprecedented.

Moving the game up earlier should have been considered as well, I know they want games to have their own slot and they want teams to have home field,  but they need to consider the impact on fans as well as players. I also wonder how those fans didn't at some point decide they needed to get out of that situation if it got to the point of needing amputations. Seeing that one person's injuries are believed to have come from removing his gloves to put up a tent, that's just crazy. Moving the game to Minnesota or Las Vegas would have sucked for locals, but they wouldn't be dealing with injuries like this.

I really hope he's correct on this.

1 hour ago, DCarp1231 said:

I really hope Houston is changing their helmet. 
 

They’ve been wearing plain white ones since the start of camps

I wouldn't put much into this since teams like Arlington and San Antonio have had different colors of helmets in practice. 

2 hours ago, GFB said:

 

 

That Under Armour shade of plum makes me very sad

 

I hope it's just lighting, but I'm pretty sure it isn't. I'm also not a fan of those maroon/plum pants.

Unfortunately, the Showboats have the same design as Houston had last year. I'd be highly surprised to see a change for Houston, which means we have two teams in the same division pretty much wearing the same uniform. The only difference is a white or yellow yoke on the home jerseys. 

On 3/3/2024 at 8:40 PM, B-Rich said:

 

Seriously, anyone comparing this to Pistol Pete Maravich's record and saying "it's the ALL TIME scoring record" is fooling themselves:

She scored more points than Maravich. The record is hers. If the three point line existed, it may still be his, but what counts was the rules used at the time the records are made or broken. Do we take away Emmitt Smith's rushing record because he had more space to run through because Dallas had Michael Irvin and others to allow him that much space top move? Do we give it to Barry Sanders because he probably ran backwards just as many yards as he ran forwards on some plays? There are other women that didn't get their stats acknowledged by the NCAA because they were separate from the NCAA until 1982. Penny Moore is far ahead of even Pete Maravich, but she is not acknowledged by the NCAA. 

13 minutes ago, Digby said:

 

I've imagined it would end up being something like, MLS 1 gets to be in Leagues Cup and MLS 2 doesn't. Maybe they get to be the bone thrown to the US Open Cup, at least the American teams. But that would get logistically dicey given the MLS geographic element that other soccer leagues mostly don't have, and even if it doesn't carry the stink of true "relegation", I just don't see any group of owners consenting to a system where they won't have a guaranteed date on the Messi World Tour/its sequels, or miss out on the big funds of Mexican fans that Leagues Cup is designed to provide. Feels like those big spectacle business models are designed to wean MLS off the expansion fees and toward something that, idk, "sustainable" doesn't feel like the right word here but you know.

Since the biggest complaints appear to be that MLS teams are losing players to Copa America, the Euros and the Olympics, if US Soccer has any balls, they need to make sure this doesn't happen. FIFA may need to throw their weight into the conversation as well. Liga MX killed the Mexican version of the Open Cup several years ago with the same excuses MLS uses today. 

17 hours ago, aawagner011 said:

Possible changes on the way for Mississippi

 

https://www.si.com/college/olemiss/football/ole-miss-athletic-director-keith-carter-hinting-new-rebels-football-uniforms-lane-kiffin
 

This scares me because Ole Miss has top tier uniforms, and their only problems is they have too many pieces in the wardrobe and should simplify things a bit.

If they added a red stripe inside of the blue stripes, I think that's a good move. I understand tradition, but wearing plain white pants hasn't improved their look. Just don't go back to the sleeve stripes they used for a few years. 

3 minutes ago, GDAWG said:

As expected, nothing significant, only a few tweaks.  

The only one I expected a possible refitting would be Memphis, and I think they probably won't change at all based on what we're seeing with Birmingham and Michigan. Does UA have a cut that is straight across like the Showboats uniforms were last year? The closest I can think of that matches that is the template with the UA logo at the neck. If they went with that and color the inserts and the yoke the same color, I think it could look pretty good. 

https://imgur.com/a/HUyhoQV

On 3/4/2024 at 9:00 PM, Dilbert said:

Did we really need a Leagues Cup preview? I guess its better than MLS whoring out Messi by giving us a Inter Miami vs MLS All Stars matchup. I mean we all know he's gonna be on the all star roster anyway.

I'd expect Suarez to make the roster as well, and possibly even Busquets, thought the latter has proven to be stuck in the mud when dealing with some of the younger outside middies. 

Looks like they're not changing much.

2 hours ago, dont care said:

You knew Russ was washed just from his last 2 seasons in Seattle. Everyone who regularly followed the NFL knew his body had given out on him and he couldn’t just run around the field for 45 seconds until a guy got open.

The way Denver treated him this year, I'm sure he's happy to be out of there. He still has the ability to win games and they apparently didn't want that this year. I hope it blows up in their face. He's not a likeable person, but neither is the Bronco brain trust.

11 hours ago, GDAWG said:

Messi is the guy the MLS promotes for a few years, he retires and the MLS waits a few years more to see if Neymar and/or Mbappe wants to make the jump.  So as soon as either expresses interest in playing in America, the MLS will tell both LA teams, both New York teams and Miami to make their bids, while the rest of the MLS use their DP slots on third and fourth tier players from South America and Europe.  

 

FYI, I think we'll see Neymar in MLS before Mbappe and there's a chance we see a few months of Messi and Neymar in the MLS at the same time in late 2025.  Right now I am of the opinion that Mbappe is two leagues away from going to the MLS.  

Mbappe also hasn't hit 30 yet. I think he'd have to be 35 or older before he makes the move. Neymar could be here as soon as 2025 or 2026 since he was brought in to help the Saudis get the World Cup, which they have in the bag at the moment.