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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.

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.

Like this, but with their full pattern. Maintans the general aesthetic while giving their pattern more space to breath and not being awkwardly cut off. They have somewhat of a historical precedent, kinda.

I hope one of the covered up stars is the Show Me state, because I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Missourah.

For the Packers, the only thing I'd change is to lose the TV number and run the stripes vertically from collar to cuff. Same goes for almost any team that has a notable striping pattern but who's stripes are relegated to just a small portion of the sleeve cap. The Packers font is perfect - especially the 5s, which is what we wore in high school. While I feel that the Steelers look better with the Futura font, I don't think the Packers should change a thing in that regard. Vertical sleeve stripes and striped socks (though that horse died a long time ago) is all I'd consider changing. Adding blue as an accent color to the current unis is one of those suggestions that would make me alert the mods that a user is posting under the influence and should be drug tested immediately. How would blue fit in with their identity as an accent?

Ass Birds just extended AJ Brown for $86M guaranteed (3/$96 total). Right after giving D'Vonta Smith a huge contract, after giving two OLs two of the biggest OL deals ever, in the same offseason they gave Saquon Barkley too much money, gave some jabroni from the Jets a huge unearned deal, and a year after Jalen Hurts' franchise QB deal kicked in. Any team that can't keep its core together due to "cap reasons" is either terrible at cap management or has an owner that can't/won't write checks for huge up-front money. The team may have sucked ass last year, but continue to be a model in cap management (now if only they could hit on actual draft choices. They're great at paying people, but so-so at picking them.)

OK moving on, for some levity, here's Bryce Harper hitting Bryson Stott in the nads.

I’m not sure there’s a person on these boards that takes even the slightest reference to his teams as personally as you do. My gods, anyone even quips about the bengals or shows a picture that was about a rule and not a Red, and the guns come out.

TF is with this? He was out by a full foot. The knee didn't even come into play.

Is it "old as dirt"? Is it "modernized"? I look at Soldier Field like the last Yankee Stadium. I've always thought it was a brand-new stadium (1976 in Yankee Stadium's case), with only parts of the facade remaining.

Yeah, lots of people didn't know what gambling was. LOL. Ever hear of numbers running? Maybe not in podunk towns (but even then), everybody that wanted to had a guy. And if you think anyone outside of the back woodisiest of back woods places didn't either know what gambling was or how to do it, that's just... something. The narcotics point is much more complicated and I'm not sure we can have that discussion with mods shutting this part of the discussion down. Again, we're way off topic now so I'm preemptively moving on before we're rightly told to by the mods. Feel free to have the last word.

Replace Bears with Browns and Michigan with Erie.

So the Coyotes are basically the Malta of the NHL.

Depends on what you consider the Panthers. Their pants stripe is fine. It technically touches the bottom. Other gimmicky stripes do suck. There's plenty of ways for a team to go contemporary without coming up with harry high-school trash like the Titans. I'm not necessarily a traditionalist, but there's a certain "framework" within which NFL designs should live. It's fine to push the boundaries of said framework, but breaking them reduces the league to nothing but a higher-level amateur league that doesn't give af about branding, identities, tradition, or connection with anything but the youngest generation of its fans. Even some of the Texans gimmicky stuff falls within the framework, albeit near the boundary. but some is outside of it, which doesn't necessarily mean it's bad, but it's bad for an NFL uniform. Not every team needs to look like the Steelers or Raiders or Chiefs. It would suck if every team did. But at the highest level, you can wear a slim-cut suit with a fancy lapel, fancy shoes, cool socks, and maybe a flashy tie to the board meeting, but at the end of the day it's still a professional suit (that pushes the boundaries of what's acceptable for that situation, but still falls within it.). Not everyone needs to look like the old-stodgy white CEO in his Brooks Brothers suit. Still suits: Different than the traditional, but still within the established framework (at the edges of it, but on the safe side). They can still sit at the same table with... Chiefs, Steelers, Raiders, et al: These can coexist in the same NFL board room. On the other hand... GTFO with this nonsense. Go to the AFL or... hell.

Falcons with red numbers > Falcons with black numbers

That's so weird. So he keeps a franchise certificate, but can't use it to actually run a franchise (or if he wanted to, the league wouldn't give him players, the union would prohibit anyone from signing with him, and the league wouldn't add them to the schedule.) But... he technically remains an owner - so what, does he attend owners' meetings? Does the lineage die in 5 years? Questions. I have questions.

They could put the horn on their helmet and make that their look, rather than it be part of many looks. They don’t need to double down by also having bull horns on the jerseys… which are actually backwards from the ones in the helmet - that looks ridiculous. Nothing wrong with trying new things - but commit to it. For better or for worse, make it your brand. Don’t have a different look for every day of the week because you’re afraid of commitment. They no longer have a brand.

Maybe it was one of the game-worn ones that they auction off in the stadium and he bought it so he could wear it again.

I imagine he kept a few of last years, and other guys probably did too. I don’t think that’s too uncommon for guys who know they’ll be back, and may have caught wind of the changes and not liked it. Aaron Nola wore pre-NewEra logo era Low Profile 59Fiftys for a season or two after the hats were replaced. I just assume he had a bunch saved for some reason (not that the changes to the caps were anything at all like the changes to the unis)

I have a 39thirty that looks identical the low-pros that some of the players were wearing, with the exception of the wordmark on the back instead of batterman.

probably more geared towards fan jerseys since the previous ones, despite having the wordmark, didn’t have any other branding marks. I’m not a fan, but I kinda get it. I loved those as an alt. They looked excellent in night games.

Who hated it? Some have mentioned that it's not exciting, but I don't know that I've read anyone say they hate it.

I like that idea. Especially with the type of paint job they use, since it’d be dark anyway most of the time, but lighter some of it.