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Villanova initially rebuffed them for football, and the league has since refused to extend another offer. However, 'Nova still has a great deal of power in the conference and has blocked Temple at every opportunity, both in a football-only and all-sports capacity. Despite their claims to the contrary, it's almost similar to how they essentially broke up the Philadelphia Big 5 back in the day, which has lead to decades of resentment and hatred from fans of the other Philadelphia Big 5 (St. Joes, Temple, LaSalle, and Penn (and, even to an extent Drexel)) schools.

Sorry if this question has been asked, but it's bothered me since the last major update.

Regarding signatures. I want to put this image as my signature, but as you can see I have had to make it much smaller. I get a board message saying that the image I want to use is bigger than 860 x 140, when it clearly isn't. Any cure for this? It's not a big deal, just has bothered me as to why this happening.

It is bigger. It's 151px tall.

While "American" can mean "North American", I doubt that the Nordiques, Canucks, and Jets would endorse that conference name.

It's not just you. I totally understand the need to restrict huge quote strings, especially when there's lots of images, but it's pretty annoying when it's just short text blocks and each is relevant to the point you're making.

Exactly. I have a hard time believing that an "authentic" is really worth the $300 price tag if it isn't even on the field. You can't tell me that a real player's jersey costs more. If so it would cost an astounding amount to dress a football team.

Not $300, but gamers definitely cost more than authentics to produce. One big reason is that there's more overall material used, ever seen the length of football jerseys? I have a 42 (M) that runs almost to my knees. The differences in striping or how the numeral/nameplate is affixed is also of a higher quality in gamers. This doesn't even get into the new designs of Pro Combat or TechFit where the on-field jerseys have 'advanced' material. I know most of that is marketing BS, but not all.

But if I ever dropped $300 on a jersey I'd want the on field product. I don't see the reason to pay more than $100 for an "authentic". If replicas are $75 and use the same materials/cut then they are seriously jacking up the price of the tackle twill items, which is ridiculous.

Agreed that "authentic" doesn't mean "on-field", but you'd look pretty ridiculous walking around in an "on-field" jersey, especially in the modern cuts. It'd be all bunched up at the shoulders to accommodate shoulder pads, and have cap sleeves like a "girly-tee".

EDIT: what's with the new restriction on number of quote blocks you can have? I had to delete a perfectly relevant block of text in order to post this.

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If this isn't telling, then I don't know what is A 37% decrease with a contending team?

Also surprising (to me anyway) is the household numbers. I know Phila is a bigger market than Boston but I wouldn't have expected that dramatic of a difference.

At least this isn't happening in Oakland...

yet...

On-topic, though, I'm torn over whether or not the rays should move. On the one hand, they aren't doing well business-wise down there, but who are we to decide that a city should lose its team?

You just don't understand how things work, do you?

When viewed like that, with the jersey and pants aligned perfectly, that uniform looks pretty decent IMO. Sure the facemask still looks out of place, and I don't care for the black collar outline (just make the whole thing black or red or white, and the pants strip doesn't need to taper into piping the way that it does, but it's not nearly as bad as people make it out to be.

A&M could go down tomorrow?

I can tell you one thing. The Big XII is gonna talk with all the teams, and they're going to say "Whatever the cost, T A&M cannot win the conference." That would just be the ultimate insult to injury.

Montreal screw job?

Michigan. Just like IMO Reggie Bush still looks odd in anything other than a USC uniform. I don't think that the "right" uniform for someone necessarily has to be a pro one (though I guess USC is a pro one.)

Sid Fernandez

the fielder there needs to wake up.

Nearly every pitch Sid threw ended up deep into the outfield or seats, so the infielders had little to pay attention to.

Fernando Valenzuela

Sid Fernandez

New York sports teams should look like sports teams, not clownshoes technicolor fever dreams. There's a place for those sorts of uniforms; that place is Salt Lake City or Jacksonville or Phoenix or whatever. The old/new Isles sweaters had New York's colors and a no-nonsense striping pattern. They won four Cups in a row with these. They play in the suburbs of the biggest city in the country. Why shouldn't they look like professionals?

Definitely. Sports teams in major cities should base themselves on the city, and not the mascot (possible exception made for the Eagles, because they've had those helmet wings for so long.) Leave the gimmicks for the SLCs of the world. If you want a goofy looking plush mascot for the kids that's fine, but keep it off the uniforms. The current Islanders crest works very well for them IMO. There have been a few concepts here that use the same basic crest but make the NY bigger and have some other mods that also look great.

Same with the Jets. I'd support the simple oval NY for them long before any logo that's based around a jet. The Boston Bruins don't need cuddly bears on their sweaters, the Flyers don't need air planes or pilots or whatever, if we extend to Detroit, the Tigers are just fine with their Ds and don't need Tony the Tiger plastered everywhere, etc.

Roger Clemens - Astros

My god that script looks horrible against those pinstripes with all those outlines. They really need to ditch this whole faux wild-west railroad thing.

1. It says RBK and not Reebok

2. Look at how wavy or "bacony" the crest is.

The Big East would likely re-extend its invitation to Villanova in that case ('Nova dragged their feet, then finally had decided to accept but the Big East rescinded the invitation partially due to the delay) and possibly try to re-acquire Temple for football.

No they don't. Please stop posting. Forever.

Anyone do dis?

I was never an Akers fan, but I did start to really feel for him when I heard about his daughter's problems and the fact that he got hoodwinked out of all of his money. I recently saw one of the billboards that he bought along I-95 thanking the fans for their support over the past 12 years. Guess he's a good dude. Wish him well in SF.

Here's one:

Michael Jack wearing #37. Not sure the story behind this one, but one version has his jersey getting stolen and he's wearing bullpen coach Hal King's jersey. Another has him wearing a Ryne Sandberg jersey (he wore 37 and you can tell the NOB ends in G) but that would put the picture a year too early to be on an '83 card.

maybe you guys are too young to remember, but he spent more years playing in KC than he did in Boston or New York. Even as a Yankee fan, I don't think of Reggie Jackson as a Yankee, he's an Oakland Athletic in my eyes.

That is completely irrelevant. He rose to prominence on a national level with Boston, and became a household name while with Boston. It's debatable whether he was better with Boston or NY, but it's not debatable that he established himself with the Red Sox and that's the image that the "average" person has of him.

What he wants to happen and what actually happens are two totally different things.

Well I started to type out a post explaining how ridiculous it was to even suggest that Albuquerque could be a major-league city, and how the mere brain wave that would make someone pose that suggestion would seem to indicate a defect somewhere in his genetic bloodline that can't be cured and can only be treated with mandatory sterilization, but then I actually did a little bit of research for once.

Based solely on research (having never actually been there), I absolutely do not think that Albuquerque would be a successful big-league city, however, it's really not that far fetched and if we get to the point where some older "traditional" sports cities have to be phased out due to the economics of the game (there are several cities that only really have teams because they just "always have", even though their economic situation is way different now than it was 50 or 100 years ago), markets like Albuquerque actually make sense looking in to.

Living in a major east-coast city, I have a bias that a "big league" city needs a growing (or at least not shrinking) job market, a large, dense urban core, a second layer of blue-collar neighborhoods, a large affluent suburban population, and a well developed public transit system. It seems though that those days are past, and these "non-traditional" markets are really worth exploring. It would be one of (if not the) smallest markets, and would be completely suburban by many standards, but the job market (especially high-paying jobs) is there, the population is "good enough" (from an attendance standpoint - keep reading), and the infrastructure would allow for people to drive their cars to the game (which many of us would cringe at doing.) The big problems are the media presence (it's not really a big media market and not sure it would be able to attract "big league" media talent or provide adequate coverage), and it is especially not going to generate the local revenue from rights distribution and corporate sponsorship that is essential in an un-capped un-shared revenue system. Unless some media conglomerate puts a team (so basically unless they own their own network and distribution), there's just no way that a team there could compete - today. In time, this could be a very different story.

Again, nothing personal, but I have to wonder who the real "losers" are here.

The people that had their intellectual property stolen.

The people's who I.P. it is already got paid. The theft is taking the cash out of the corporation's pockets, not the artist.

Well in theory, how much a company is willing to pay for design services is proportional to how much they think they'll make from it. If they're not making as much due to counterfeiters, it's possible that their budget goes down next time (and someone else who is studying them as a case study to determine how much they themselves should budget would under value the work).

Also, if the designer gets "points" on the sales, then that's even a more direct loss (not sure how common that is in the industry though.)

The Eagles don't wear a captain's patch.

He will wear #24