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In sports where the traditional look is tops that are the same color as bottoms, WAH looks best to me. There’s not many nba or nhl teams that have better dark looks than they do white ones imo. 

Search feature.  It's never been good, and it never will be.  You do a search, and it returns x pages of results.  If you don't get what you want on the fist page, and click another page, you get "you must wait # seconds before running another search."  FFS - why do the search results show you that there's multiple pages, if you can't actually view them in less than a week?  I'm not b-tching at the mods - I know it's just the forum software - but it's gear grinding, and dissuades anyone from using the search "feature".

It blows my mind that made it on to a major-league uniform.  Unbelievable.

Have there been any instances where the same owner drafted the father and the son, like the Eagles just did with Jeremiah Trotter and Jeremiah Trotter Jr.?  Hearing them talking on the phone, when they've known each other since the player was born, was pretty cool.

Also, Dallas sucks.

6 hours ago, chrispw12 said:

ironically, the guy who managed him that year, Davey Johnson had an improbable 43 home run season in 1973, the most he hit any other year was 18. Also in 1996 quite a few other guys had a one year home run surge that stood out, Barry Larkin, Kevin Elster, Geronimo Berroa, Benito Santiago(a few years pre Balco)

Barry Larkin was an outstanding player, but if he's a HOFer (which I believe he should be), then Jimmy Rollins should easily be in.

37 minutes ago, FiddySicks said:

Now I’m picturing a scenario where all the great QBs of the past wear caps instead of helmets. What hats would they wear? 
 

You would have to think that Mahomes wears a 59Fifty with a stick straight bill. Maybe a slight turn of the cap to the right, for style (not Pedro Stroop style turned, but just a little bit). 
 

Peyton Manning is for sure gonna wear one of those low profile caps with a very curved bill and a Velcro back. He might have a pair of Maui Jim’s on the bill for, like, the Pro Bowl or games in Miami. 
 

Tom Brady, well, Tom started wearing his cap backwards after the Falcons Super Bowl Win. It’s technically against NFL rules, but who’s gonna tell Tom Brady what to do? 
 

Josh Allen goes a little wild and wears a beanie/toque, but the league still has a pretty strict rule about hats needing bills, so he wears one of those hats with the wool earflaps you can pin up instead. 
 

Aaron Rodgers started wearing the same, sad, floppy straw hat he got during a stay a few years ago at Jimmy Buffet’s Margaritaville. It’s falling apart, and everyone keeps telling him that, but he just shuffs it off like he’s smarter than anyone else wearing hats made out of petrochemical materials sourced by the big banks. 
 

Daniel Jones has a hat, but it keeps falling off. 
 

Russell Wilson is for sure rocking a golf visor with the words Let’s Ride! Steelers Nation on it. 
 

Kyler Murray went missing a few weeks ago and the Cardinals were really worried about him. Turns out he was there the whole time, but his hat is WAY too big and everyone just mistook it for an old hat lying on the floor. 
 

Terry Bradshaw would’ve for sure worn one of those Gillian/Fishing style hats. 
 

Brett Favre also wears an old floppy hat, but he takes it off after every single play and holds it until like two seconds before the snap and it stresses out the coaches big time. He also stole that cap from the State of Mississippi’s public food bank. 
 

Joe Montana would wear a cowboy hat, and even as a 49er and also as a goofy white dude, still pulls it off so damn well. 
 

Troy Aikman wears an old deflated basketball. It’s all that will fit his huge melon head. 
 

Kurt Cousins always has a new hat, and it always seems WAY out of his price range, but he always inexplicably gets someone else to pay for it. 
 

Gardner Minshew wears one of those old fancy velvet top hats. Because wouldn’t seeing Minshew huck tuddies in a top hat just be so wonderful? Attached Monocle for red zone trips. 

Joe Burrow doesn’t wear a hat. His hair is far too cool. Also, technically against NFL regulations, but viewership triples when those golden locks are out flowing. 
 

Speaking of golden locks, Trevor Lawrence has been required by his employer to wear a hair net. It just causes too much of a health hazard otherwise. 
 

Got any more? 

 

I think reading this gave me CTE. I may need to donate my brain to the mods for examination after I finish publishing all my notes. 

Regarding the Guardian caps, is there any advantage / disadvantage to making your head extra huge? Like a DL taking up more space when trying to fill holes? Or a RB grazing a defenders shoulders due to the cap and losing balance or being otherwise affected?

1 hour ago, lahaye7 said:

this Guardians cap is way more efficient at protecting the head against football related concussions. 

As the CCSLC CTE expert, I wholeheartedly agree.  They don't even need to make them super big to fit around the helmets, they could wear the caps and nothing else.  If anything, it'd prevent leading with the head and force good technique, which would inherently reduce concussions.

21 hours ago, Digby said:

That's sad about Embiid's condition, but also, he was at Draymond levels of dirty play last night and absolutely got top-ten superstar treatment in not getting tossed.

I didn't see it personally, but local radio hosts also said that normally he may have been tossed there, but that maybe he got a little leniency after the league admitted in the L2M that the refs should have granted them a time-out in a spot that directly lead to NY hitting a go-ahead shot towards the end, and missed multiple fouls that would have given them points.  Like a "we looked bad and it impacted a result, so let's make sure there's nothing that anyone can point to in this game."  Not intentional, like they got screwed or anything, just bad / missed calls in unfortunate spots.

Just speculation, I didn't see it.

This morning, when accessing the site, I was redirected to:

https://boards.sportslogos.net/admin/install/

with just a blank screen.  Closing all Chrome windows, going into 3rd-party settings and deleting stored data from CCSLC appears to have fixed it.  Just posting the solution in case anyone else is running into same issue this morning (and finding another way to access the site, like through an incognito window or other browser.)

22 minutes ago, DCarp1231 said:

How scummy is he though? He seems to present himself as a cornball at most.

Not scummy in the same way that Snyder was, just scummy in the way he views teams as nothing but financial assets and means to ends, doesn't give a damn about the communities in which he operates in (despite making statements in all of them that paint himself as a hometown boy), and while he's mostly hands off as far as personnel goes (which is a good thing), he makes very questionable choices on who to give the keys to.  He's pretty much hated here, and that was even before the arena thing.

31 minutes ago, DCarp1231 said:

I love not being a fan of a team with the worst owner in the league. Tepper doesn’t seem to be Snyder level bad, but he’s certainly still scum.

Josh Harris won't win any "best owner" contests any time soon.  Just wait.

Can Guardian Caps be painted or have decals applied to match the team's normal helmet?

I was reading the FAQs on their site and they're currently only making them in 7 colors, and there was nothing about whether they can be painted or have decals applied (though that would be tough, given the shape.)

8 minutes ago, NOLAPelicans23 said:

f the goal for every team is to develop the Forever Look that makes you known instantly, you tweak and change it until it's achieved.

That's 100% not every team's goal.  I firmly believe that many teams - mostly the ones that don't get much attention - just want to capitalize on trends and change every few years to keep the merch train going.  

2 minutes ago, GDAWG said:

So do you guys agree with what Mike Florio says about defensive head coaches in that if the OC that they hire becomes a head coach, that team is most likely to hire a new OC who may have a new system that stunts a young QB's growth?  He also says that having an offensive head coach is better for a young QB because they will have the same system in place even if the OC leaves for somewhere else, so because of that he thinks that Nix and McCarthy will do really well.  

I saw first hand what happens when a great QB/OC tandem is broken up.  Ironically, the Ass Birds' HC is an offensive guy, he just sucks at offense.  They tried to promote from within to maintain some continuity, and it blew up in their stupid faces.

I think unless you have an all-timer like Brady or Mahomes or Manning, continuity is extremely important, and I'd think twice before hiring some DC that's just going to have a revolving door of OCs (unless I could get a good OC who simply doesn't have HC aspirations.)

BUTTTTTTTTT, what I don't get is how a defensive coach seemingly knows nothing about offense (and vice versa.). It's all football.  A DC plans against offenses, so it's not like they don't know how to scheme an offense to beat a defense.  And vice versa.

I think if any HC, whether a former defensive guy or offensive guy, can't manage the other side of the ball, then they suck and maybe need to spend 30 hours a day in the office trying to figure it out.

1 hour ago, infrared41 said:

 

Mitchell is really good. He was talked about as a first round pick all last season. The Eagles could have done a lot worse. I think you got a really good player with this pick.

 

 

1 hour ago, burgundy said:

 

He played against Notre Dame in 2021 and Ohio State in 2022. Against Notre Dame he had one of his best games of his college career. I was at the game, but I'm no scout so I can't say that I have any real insight. The Ohio State game on the other hand, he didn't look so great. But very few people look great against Marvin Harrison Jr. and Emeka Egbuka. I'd still say he's a very good CB, but I'm honestly surprised he was the first CB taken.

 

I'm hearing now that he had an opportunity to transfer to Alabama and make a lot in NIL money, but chose to stay loyal to Toledo and the coaches that gave him his opportunity.

On one hand, that's very noble.  Gotta respect loyalty.  But on the other hand, is there a little element of fear there?  Loyalty be damned, if you have the opportunity to make a lot of money - and that opportunity could vanish at any time with a single injury - you take it, unless you're either from a wealthy family or maybe you're a little scared of jumping into the bigger pond.

Or I'm over thinking it, and he's just a good kid and there's nothing more to it.

There's been speculation about Joel Embiid's face for a little while here, since he hasn't been blinking from only one of his eyes for a little while, and he's appeared visibly off (and wearing sunglasses all the time.)

Turns out, in addition to all his lower-body injuries, he's dealing with Bells Palsy, and half his face is paralyzed (in addition to associated migraines.) He has the worst luck.  The other year he catches a friendly-fire elbow that breaks his orbital in the playoffs (in addition to whatever knee injury he was dealing with), and now he comes back from a near season-long knee issue just to get a potentially-debilitating condition.

I know that you don't have to go to a big school and play big-time competition to make it in the NFL.  Jerry Rice went to Miss Valley State, TO went to Middle Tenn (I think), and there's countless others.  But it's still a risk, since in most cases they've never played against anyone who has NFL ability.

Eagles drafted a CB from Toledo.  This worries me, because I doubt he's ever covered an NFL-capable receiver that's been thrown to by an NFL-capable QB.  It seems like the riskiest position to take a first-round shot on.  But the "experts" were all doing a circle jerk over the guy leading into the draft, and most fans here are participating in said jerk.

Anyone actually seen this guy and know if he's got NFL "stuff"?  I think there's ways you can "tell" with almost any other position, but I'm just not sure about DB.

Quinyon Mitchell is the guy.  Looks like Toledo played Miss St., but mostly the other MAC teams.

Pro sports font sets should NEVER contain an open-topped 4.

Close your 4s, bros.

6 hours ago, infrared41 said:

How is it "lazy and cheap?"

I've said it before - "lazy" and "cheap" are terms people use to dismiss something without spending the time to elaborate further.

Ironically, the word "lazy" is usually the hallmark of a lazy post!

8 hours ago, GDAWG said:

 

Penix will be 28 when the Cousins contract expires.  Love is only 25 and has already been in the league for four years and will likely be in Green Bay for a decade and probably playing for the Jets when he's close to 40.  

It's BS for Penix because there's the risk that he won't have enough "tape" to warrant getting that life-changing extension if he's not on the field for years.  It was BS when it happened with Love too.

This is a business, and if I'm picked at 8 and know that I'm not going to play for a few seasons while everyone else is, and they're going to be increasing their value by doing so, I'm looking into ways to get out of it.

Or I'm seeing if Shane Stant is willing to take out another knee.

1 minute ago, SFGiants58 said:

tructural integrity of wet cardboard

That goes for his brain too.

Now that an unexpected QB is off the board and not a position player, I think Howie is smelling some blood in the water... get ready for a move up to around 12 - 14.

Whoa.  At least Atlanta realized that Cousins is a complete loser.  It's just a shame they realized that after committing a ton of guaranteed money to him.  

So is Penix just going to sit the bench a la Jordan Love and Aaron Rodgers?  I feel for the guy, having to just sit there and hold a clipboard while his contemporaries get to ball out.

16 minutes ago, DCarp1231 said:

I originally was going to say the Packers could benefit from UCLA stripes.

 

As for blue— number outlines, adjust the striping to allow blue and green to coexist on the away jersey, develop a third blue jersey.

Gonna need a urine sample.  I forget which of the XII has the lab kit to test it, but I'm sure that's easy to find out.  I see YzerFan has been back lately, so maybe he can do the test.