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Totally depends on age I guess. I grew up with Kelly, Bruce Smith, Thurman Thomas, James Lofton, Don Beebe, et al wearing red helmets and Champion font. Other than OJ, I don't know if I could name a player who wore the standing buffalo (though I think also wore the charging one.) When I see today's Bills, I still thin of them as wearing "new uniforms", even though they're more than a decade old. But I thin with the Bills, they're a rare team that has two "right" looks, and only one undisputedly "wrong" look:

I wonder if the Phillies sleeve numbers will move to the other side for some players. That would be more nonuniform than moving a patch, since (while completely unnecessary), they're numbers, not decoration. My guess is that they lose the numbers altogether. I never cared for them, but they were unique and kinda their thing that they've owned for 31 seasons now.

I'll do you one better on Biggio - wrong uniform from that era!

If they kept just the wordmark (drop the horse), and went with a simple outline and not the black shadowy mess, it's actually not bad (if the jersey was in the right colors.) The Pistons have had some fun wordmarks in their day, and this one could be tweaked just a bit to be mature enough for a pro jersey. Hell, they could even keep the flames.

I had no idea Photobucket still existed. That's where I used to upload everything I posted to this forum before something changed.

The transparent reviews won't stop the problem of inconsistencies in what's let go and what's called, since the plays that are let go wouldn't be reviewable. It also won't stop calling uncalled acts if they're noticed while reviewing something seemingly unrelated. It's like when a pitcher throws ball 4 in the bottom of the 9th on a pitch that's been called a strike since the 1st inning. It's technically a ball, and replay would confirm that, but the umpire had established the rules of the day. But it's a good start.

Is he the first guy to compete in a dunk contest without actually having played for the team he's representing? I just looked up his stats, and he hasn't even played in an NBA game this year (and only two in his life... one for each of two teams!)

Literally nobody has any idea who that even is.

Not NHL, but this cracks me up:

Related to the jersey ads, I found it interesting that teams are using 3rd parties to locate and negotiate with advertisers. I had just assumed that teams would have people in house making and fielding calls from potential partners, not hire a large "international digital-focused sports agency" that will use a "data-driven approach" to find an advertiser. https://www.sportcal.com/sponsorship/mlbs-phillies-enlist-two-circles-to-secure-jersey-sponsor/

It was announced that's how they're all going to be.

Well... at least it's the smallest ad patch we've seen so far.

The arbitration process is pretty stupid. It's not like even if players win, they get anything close to what they'd get on the open market. I'm really not sure why a player would ever want to be in that room. Also there should be a way for it to not be all or nothing (player's ask or team's offer) - the arbitrator should be able to say that it's somewhere in the middle - or even way above either. But quibbling over $700K is pretty petty by the Brewers. The good will lost is more than $700K - even if they were correct. Speaking about quibbling over $700K (or, not quibbling over $700K), the Phillies managing partner just said this yesterday: “How much money did the ‘27 Yankees make? Or the ‘29 A’s? Or the ‘75-76 Big Red Machine?” Middleton said. “Does anybody know? Does anybody care? Nobody knows or cares whether any of them made any money or not. And nobody cares about whether I make money or not. If my legacy is that I didn’t lose any money owning a baseball team on an annual operating basis, that’s a pretty sad legacy. It’s about putting trophies in the cases. “If your ambition is to be good, you don’t make those decisions [to sign Turner]. If your ambition is to be great, you make those decisions. It’s about desire, really. I just want to win.” He then went on to say he no longer cares about any luxury tax, and it's now thought that they may be prepared to sign or trade for someone to replace Castellanos, even if it means that a $20M/year guy is sitting on the bench doing nothing (which is about all that Castellanos is good for.) They could also make a run at Machado, since they're set up to potentially have an opening at 3B.

I'm struggling to think of anyone who's career earnings per minute played is higher than Chase Daniel. I believe he's made something like $40M and started 5 games, completed around 180 lifetime passes. So something like $225K per pass.

The goalposts are clearly different for black coaches. Doug Pederson didn't call plays for the Chiefs, but got a job as Eagles HC and did pretty well. Bienemy wins a SB as OC of the Chiefs, but the knock is that he "doesn't call plays". Hmmm.. So from that standpoint, it might be a bad move - but it's his absolute last chance to check that box that so many white coaches don't need to check. There's other examples of lesser coaches, but when guys like Jonathan Gannon can get jobs after one decent season as a DC, but black assistants don't have either "enough experience in other organizations" or "didn't call plays" or "insert excuse here... despite having Asst. Head Coach title", it's more clear than it's ever been that the issue still exists. DeMeco Ryans is an example of a black "hot coordinator" that got a job, but how many of those are there? Yet there's countless of unqualified white guys that trip over themselves into these roles then fizzle out before their contract was up (to be clear - there's certainly some very qualified white coaches that get jobs too, so not saying that all white new-hires are underserving.) Eagles are promoting a black QB coach to OC (yet still have to interview an external minority candidate even though they're promoting a minority from within) and said he'll call plays - but how many other black assistants got coordinator jobs this cycle? (I really don't know).

My take on the QB sneak rule is that it's a safety issue... for the quarterback. When you're controlling your own momentum, if something bends wrong or you get injured, you can stop and give up. But if people are pushing you, they have no idea that something's not bending right and they can make it a lot worse. I don't really think that any player should be able to be directly-aided by a teammate. It's a little unfair that 5 guys can be tackling 1 and I'm saying that he shouldn't be helped, so maybe it's not an ideal rule, but that's how I feel. But "not aesthetically pleasing"? LOL - I think it looks cute that these big meaty guys are pushing another big meaty guy by his butt cheeks. Doesn't get much more aesthetically pleasing than that!

How is refusing to spend hundreds of millions (if not more) of public money "incompetent"? I haven't read every article, so am I missing something significant?

Somehow I didn't know anything bad about Karl Malone. Just read about impregnating a 13 year old, then settling a suit so that he would not have to publicly acknowledge twins that he had with some other girl (actually the twins came first, the statutory rape came second) . At least both he and that girl were both 17, but when he fathered a 13 year-old's child, he was 20. That's not simply a "matter that has settled". I don't think it's virtue signaling to call that despicable. Lots of players get praised or get the benefit of the doubt after doing despicable acts, but IDK... being a 20-year-old college student and getting a 13-year-old pregnant demonstrates not only multiple occurrences of bad judgement, but is flat-out sick. Man - I loved Stockton and Malone, but knowing what I know now about both of them, I'm really glad they're not immortalized in NBA championship lore.

First few years of the midnight green featured changes nearly each season. Other than the white jersey losing its stripes and gaining the eagle logo, most changes were unnoticed to the average person (basically just cuff and collar trim.) Green pants originally had a solid black stripe with eagle logo on the hip, then they dropped the eagle once they added it to the white jersey. The major update occurred in 2003 to coincide with the opening of the Linc. Charcoal outlines, black outline/shadow on the numbers, new wordmark under collar, and asymmetrical pants stripes on both pants. Major upgrades all around, IMO. Other than template changes, there hasn't been a single change to the uniform since '03. Not going to acknowledge "braishers". That's not a real thing. It's just something that one member went out of his way to make a thing - but it's not.

Technically, New York was the first capital once the constitution was ratified.

The only one that's surprising is Lions. We know about Eagles, and the Colts and Browns have logical throwback elmets to pair with existing uniforms. I guess the Broncos is a bit surprising since they currently don't have a throwback jersey to go with a pale blue helmet, so maybe they're doing the "icy" thing (god please no). In fact... oh know... that's probably what Detroit is doing

AEW wrestling has the rights now. Not sure if exclusive (I don't watch FOX College Basketball.) https://wrestlingheadlines.com/backstage-news-on-aew-securing-the-roundball-rock-theme-song/

I think it's now owned (or at licensed) by a wrestling company for some reason.

I am also against legislating where people stand on a baseball field, but at the same time, I want to see more action and I don't want big-meaty home-run hitters have to adjust their swing so they can hit weak grounders down the 3b line to beat the shift, or bunt like Bryce does periodically. I don't see any parallels to banning the shift to banning the blitz. A better comparison would be changing the rules on where receivers can be in order to be eligible or rules on motion - which the league has done as the game has evolved. Baseball is the only game that hasn't evolved as times change, as athletes change, and as fans change. There's some charm in that, and I don't blame anyone who loves baseball for that very reason. I used to be one of those people, but as I get older, I find that I have less patience to waste what time is remaining in my life watching Ryan Howard bat .200 because he lined out 50 times to a shortstop playing in short right field. EDIT; banning the shift is also closer to the NBA changing the size of the lane because Wilt Chamberlain was too good, or the NHL restricting where goalies can play the puck from, or the NHL banning the neutral-zone trap. Again, MLB is the only sport that hasn't changed with the times. If you like that, that's totally cool.

Such as....? It actually has nothing to do with "pace of play". Think about it - how does it quicken the "pace"? It has to do with two things: 1) player health and safety. There's no need for a game to go 15 innings and a team to burn all its relievers, only to have to come back the next night and pitch guys that probably need rest because they were used in a meaningless 16-inning game. 2) length of game. There's absolutely no need for a regular season game to end after 10:30 (they should probably end at 10:00). You want for parents to let their kids stay up to watch whole games, which is kinda hard when games go as long as they do. And you also want to take your kid to a game without ruining his next day of school because he was up too late (let alone your next day at work.) Personally, I find that it adds drama and makes every pitch count. Also adds a lot of strategy, which is needed since some has been lost due to the DH.