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Get rid of the side panels and wordmark, and this would be fine for AZ. Slap either the bird or TV numbers (not both) on the sleeve and use the white helmet and they're good to go. For the red, they could either do solid, or maybe even black yokes would be OK.
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Tillman-era was a little too plain for me. I'm not going to go the lazy route and say "but they look like practice jerseys", but they need a little more pizazz, whether a logo on the sleeve (and ditch the TV numbers), some trim, or... something. If we get Tillman jerseys with solid-white pants (as is the current trend) then maybe "but they look like practice jerseys" might not be a lazy critique.
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The Equipment logo survived into the Nike era for practice stuff. Not sure when (or if) it was officially retired. -
2022 NFL regular season through Super Bowl LVII
BBTV replied to PittsburghSucks's topic in Sports In General
From a moral standpoint, no doubt - Watson is worse. But from a business standpoint, Ridley might be worse. Also, the rule Ridley broke had a defined punishment, whereas what Watson did is in a very gray area - especially since he (to my knowledge) wasn't charged with a crime. Don't get me wrong - I think Watson should have gotten more. But his and Ridley's situation is apples and oranges, and personal-conduct issues can't be compared against other infractions that are more black and white. -
2022 NFL regular season through Super Bowl LVII
BBTV replied to PittsburghSucks's topic in Sports In General
I don't see how Ridley's gambling suspension has anything to do with Watson's situation. -
Here's a bizarre one: Philies wearing their swirl-P uniforms in the last season of Connie Mack / Shibe Park. And the original version was flannel!
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Eagles is essentially 26 years old.
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Calvin Johnson was drafted, played, retired, waited 5 years and made the hall of fame all in the time this uniform has been around.
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Audacy laid off the entire local Milwaukee sports station, and is just airing national CBS programs now. It's been known that they were going to do another round of layoffs because they're risking being delisted by NYSE, but to cut an entire market's station seem extreme. I"m not sure if Milwaukee is a one station or two station town, but given that it was on AM, I'm guessing one. Sucks for them, especially with football season right around the corner. https://finance.yahoo.com/m/b091f5d8-d06b-3cba-9289-1186ae5d22b9/milwaukee-sports-radio.html https://www.crossingbroad.com/2022/08/audacy-layoffs-milwaukee-sports-station-gutted-entirely.html
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Huh? Doesn't every NFL team have a local radio partner that pays them tons of money to broadcast their games?
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It's so easy to think that everyone's on a level playing field when you're a fan of teams in the country's biggest market. Whether the owner is rich or not, the ROI in New York is far greater than the ROI in Pittsburgh, even if just in local ad revenue, radio/tv deals, corporate partners, etc. The NY team can afford to pay more regardless of the owner's personal wealth. I find it laughable for fans of the Yankees to blame any sports issues on the smaller-market teams. Walk a mile (or bike a thousand) in someone else's shoes bro. In principle, I'm against the draft or any system that restricts employee earning power and happiness (i.e. the ability to play in whatever city they want), but I also don't want a league with 5 teams in it. *I say this as a fan of major-market teams with high payrolls.
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I'm not sure how to get records of when teams were eliminated in any given year in order to see how much things would have changed, but one flaw in this argument is that when a division blows like the NFC East did in 2020, the Eagles, who were a max 5-win team had they not tanked, would have been one of the highest non-playoff-team drafters since they were among the last eliminated despite winning 4 (but should have been 5) games. So there's a flaw there, but a pretty rare one IMO. Also the dolphins situation wouldn't have happened since they wouldn't be playing for playoff positioning once they're knocked out.
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First up, I want to fix the drafts of the four major sports. Currently, NFL is simply the reverse order of final record, which gives incentive for teams to tank at the end. NBA has the lottery where you really need to be in that bottom four to have a shot at the top, so tanking is practically required. Baseball is straight record, and most years is such a crap shoot it doesn't really matter. I'm not sure how NHL works, but I know the Penguins tanked twice, and IIRC, Edmonton tanked (or was legit horrible) for MacDavid. So here's my solution to this problem: Do the draft order by the order in which teams are eliminated from the playoffs. Nobody is going to tank from day 1 (except the Process-era Sixers), so they're going to legit play until they're about out of it. In the event Detroit is eliminated by week 9, it will be on merit, and they get the top pick and still have incentive to play hard the rest of the way. Toward the end of the season when teams are teetering on the brink, they're going to want to make the playoffs so there's little - if any - risk of the tanking. The first 10-15 picks will be locked in by week 12 or so, which means the end of the season should be legit competitive, and the teams with the top picks got them while playing hard. What do you think?
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I'm very confused about that site. Are they licensees of the pro sports leagues and the players associations? Wouldn't that be necessary to not be a bootleg store? There's nothing that indicates they are. The fact that their 1995 NFL jerseys don't have the shield is an indicator that they're bootleg, and are stealing trademarked team logos. Their CCM hockey jerseys - are they just making jerseys and putting a bootleg CCM logo on them? The desciptions make it sound like the modern ones ('90s and up) are legit CCM jerseys with the crests already applied, but how can that be? Also, sizes on some things are S, M, L, when typically authentic jerseys were numbered (46, 48, 52, etc.) Their Phillies jerseys are horrendous, with era-mismatched wordmarks and crests, incorrect NOBs, Frankenstein jerseys, etc. But a lot of other things I saw looked really good and, on the surface, legit.
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I absolutely despised the name, logos, and design, but liked the colors. I grew up with the RWB Bullets (mostly the solid-color jerseys, not the striped ones) but this team isn't the Bullets, and it doesn't make sense for them to wear Bullets uniforms. I'd rather them change the name altogether and start from scratch, but since that's not going to happen, reverting to slate/black/gold is a nice start. Sometimes it works when you change your name/logos and keep the same colors. Guess it depends on how much equity you have in them. By the end, the Bullets were an irrelevant team. Even when they were really good in the late '70s, they were overshadowed by more other teams in the East. I can't speak for Bullets fans so I might be totally off base, but while I'm sure the name change wasn't popular, all other things being equal, I doubt the color change was a huge deal.
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Doesn't seem like a bad deal to have the premiere game of the week and the highlight show leading into it. Who gets the third Thanksgiving game now? And the Saturday games?
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Didn't make that connection, but it makes sense given the 2-year rule. But they wouldn't leak it and risk losing sales of soon-to-be-obsolete jerseys. Or would they....
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It's got the current number font. If it's a throwback, they missed a pretty big detail (considering it's the only detail on those jerseys.)
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Interesting it says they "could choose" to wear white or blue. Does that mean that orange is like a neutral color? Or I wonder if that's just the wrong way to word it, and they asked permission to wear blue and were granted because nobody cares about the preseason games. I'd think that if you could "choose" to wear your colors in Denver, other teams already would have - for example, I'm sure the Eagles would have worn their midnight green last year. Would've been plenty of contrast.
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Can't both be awful, even if for different reasons? A kick in the nuts is painful, but so is a punch in the nose.
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I read the tweet before reading what you wrote, and I actually said "wow, that's oddly specific."
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I really love that style, which is why I love most of the late '60s - early '80s hockey logos. The "A" is awesome too.
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The Commanders suffer from the same thing as the Rams / Falcons et al. Rather than implementing changes and experimenting over time, they went all-in with the kitchen sink right away. I'm sure there were ways they could have done one of these gimmicks (the black, or the gradient, or the huge wordmark) and then as they add the others, it'd be less of a shock (or they could remove whatever one they started with if it got negative reviews.) I get that the 5-year rule makes it really hard to do this, since it could take 20 years before you get to where you're going, but I also don't know how strict the "5-year rule" is anymore, and I think that it's really the 2-year-lead-time rule that's the main limiting factor.
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It was probably allowed because the retail jerseys wouldn't have needed to be changed - just the game-day ones. If the change would have required producing new stock for retailers then it would likely have been blocked.
