2024 NFL Changes

[FlySaint]

Brown helmet, white jersey, orange pants?

[FSUViking]

12 hours ago, rfraser85 said:

 

I could live with Saturday games replacing Thursday games,

 

They'll never infringe on college football like that.

[Sec19Row53]

8 minutes ago, BBTV said:

 

I think this is an unpopular opinion, but I could be mistaken..  I'm sure people complained when it went from 14 to 16, just like some (including me) pushed back on 16 to 17 and 17 to 18.

 

Going from 16 to 18 is the same as MLB going from 162 to 182, or NBA going from 84 to 95.  That's not insignificant.

 

I want every game to be relatively critical (which the extra playoff team has also affected) and for players to have a chance to be not be broken down by the grind.  If you're a WC team, then you're potentially playing 22 games in 24 weeks.  That's a lot of football.  Too much, in my humble opinion.

 

I get that it might be unpopular here, but I'd bet it will be popular where it counts - in the NFL's wallets. In being popular there, it's a pretty good indication that fans are supporting it, if only because advertising dollars and (more importantly) rights fees will continue through the roof. Mark Cuban won't be correct with his 'pigs get fat - hogs get slaughtered' line.

I understand where numerically 16 --> 18 is akin to 162 --> 182, but it's only one game per week, not three plus additional weeks to a season. This also isn't a net increase in game time, but I do agree that it's more playing time for the starters. If anyone can't point to real data that shows an increase in injury rate with a 17th game -- please do so.

[burgundy]

I liked the 16 game schedule just for how neat and orderly it made scheduling, post 2002 realignment.

[DCarp1231]

Surely if the schedule gets expanded to 18 games, the roster size would also get expanded.

[Sec19Row53]

10 minutes ago, DCarp1231 said:

Surely if the schedule gets expanded to 18 games, the roster size would also get expanded.

It didn't when it went from 16 to 17. I don't think it did from 14 to 16, either.

[FiddySicks]

1 hour ago, Sec19Row53 said:

I get that it might be unpopular here, but I'd bet it will be popular where it counts - in the NFL's wallets. In being popular there, it's a pretty good indication that fans are supporting it, if only because advertising dollars and (more importantly) rights fees will continue through the roof. Mark Cuban won't be correct with his 'pigs get fat - hogs get slaughtered' line.

I understand where numerically 16 --> 18 is akin to 162 --> 182, but it's only one game per week, not three plus additional weeks to a season. This also isn't a net increase in game time, but I do agree that it's more playing time for the starters. If anyone can't point to real data that shows an increase in injury rate with a 17th game -- please do so.

I picture you in a monocle and a top hat sitting in an office above a busy factory sipping tea while saying this. 

[rfraser85]

I think the Colts should consider adding blue pants with the white jerseys, at least if they insist on wearing white socks. I personally don't like white helmets and jerseys with non-white pants, but at least it would offer some contrast.

[udubfan19]

9 hours ago, Chromatic said:

Why does it have 5280? Does that number have any significance to the city of Denver?

 

On a completely unrelated note, does anyone know Denver's official altitude? I know its probably never been discussed before, but I sure wish cities would spam their official distance from sea level at every possible opportunity so we never forget how thin the air is there. 

Seattle with a 16

[schlim]

6 minutes ago, udubfan19 said:

Seattle with a 16

I thought Seattle was 12.

[Old School Fool]

Look any expansion of the Playoffs just makes it easier for the Raiders to sneak into the Wild Card and get my hopes up, so I'm all for it!

[udubfan19]

9 hours ago, schlim said:

I thought Seattle was 12.

could be, but I thought the stadiums were at 16

[PurpleHayes]

University of Houston plans to buck NFL, use Columbia Blue

From PFT

 

The University of Houston has taken a page from the late Bud Adams’s playbook. Specifically, the school has given a double-barreled-middle-finger to the NFL and the Tennessee Titans.

 

After abandoning an alternate Columbia Blue color scheme at the direction of the league last year, the University of Houston has reversed course.

 

“We’re doing it,” athletic director Chris Pezman told Joseph Duarte of the Houston Chronicle. “We’ve reviewed everything and come to the conclusion that we are going to proceed.”

 

Houston has informed the league of its position. As of Tuesday, the NFL had not responded.

 

“We’re giving them two or three weeks to respond,” Pezman said. “We’re waiting on a response to see if we get one.”

 

Pezman explained the about-face on standing down.

 

“We literally have a story we can show the city uses it,” Pezman said. “This isn’t a reach. This is a layup. We’ve got a very defensible position.”

 

It’s hard to imagine anyone having intellectual property rights to a color. And it surely helps the University of Houston that the Texans recently introduced an alternate uniform that uses the color.

 

Even if a plausible argument can be made, Big Shield will look like the big, bad wolf if it sues the University of Houston.

 

(I'd tell the NFL to go ahead and sue, I'd love to see this wind up in court with Goofball Goodell trying to make a claim on the Titans' columbia blue...)

[WBeltz]

9 minutes ago, PurpleHayes said:

University of Houston plans to buck NFL, use Columbia Blue

From PFT

 

The University of Houston has taken a page from the late Bud Adams’s playbook. Specifically, the school has given a double-barreled-middle-finger to the NFL and the Tennessee Titans.

 

After abandoning an alternate Columbia Blue color scheme at the direction of the league last year, the University of Houston has reversed course.

 

“We’re doing it,” athletic director Chris Pezman told Joseph Duarte of the Houston Chronicle. “We’ve reviewed everything and come to the conclusion that we are going to proceed.”

 

Houston has informed the league of its position. As of Tuesday, the NFL had not responded.

 

“We’re giving them two or three weeks to respond,” Pezman said. “We’re waiting on a response to see if we get one.”

 

Pezman explained the about-face on standing down.

 

“We literally have a story we can show the city uses it,” Pezman said. “This isn’t a reach. This is a layup. We’ve got a very defensible position.”

 

It’s hard to imagine anyone having intellectual property rights to a color. And it surely helps the University of Houston that the Texans recently introduced an alternate uniform that uses the color.

 

Even if a plausible argument can be made, Big Shield will look like the big, bad wolf if it sues the University of Houston.

 

(I'd tell the NFL to go ahead and sue, I'd love to see this wind up in court with Goofball Goodell trying to make a claim on the Titans' columbia blue...)

My thing is if UH is like "duh the color has been here since before the Titans, then the Texans should've told the Titans to suck it and go all in on the shade.

[ruttep]

44 minutes ago, PurpleHayes said:

University of Houston plans to buck NFL, use Columbia Blue

From PFT

 

The University of Houston has taken a page from the late Bud Adams’s playbook. Specifically, the school has given a double-barreled-middle-finger to the NFL and the Tennessee Titans.

 

After abandoning an alternate Columbia Blue color scheme at the direction of the league last year, the University of Houston has reversed course.

 

“We’re doing it,” athletic director Chris Pezman told Joseph Duarte of the Houston Chronicle. “We’ve reviewed everything and come to the conclusion that we are going to proceed.”

 

Houston has informed the league of its position. As of Tuesday, the NFL had not responded.

 

“We’re giving them two or three weeks to respond,” Pezman said. “We’re waiting on a response to see if we get one.”

 

Pezman explained the about-face on standing down.

 

“We literally have a story we can show the city uses it,” Pezman said. “This isn’t a reach. This is a layup. We’ve got a very defensible position.”

 

It’s hard to imagine anyone having intellectual property rights to a color. And it surely helps the University of Houston that the Texans recently introduced an alternate uniform that uses the color.

 

Even if a plausible argument can be made, Big Shield will look like the big, bad wolf if it sues the University of Houston.

 

(I'd tell the NFL to go ahead and sue, I'd love to see this wind up in court with Goofball Goodell trying to make a claim on the Titans' columbia blue...)

 

This level of pettiness is absolutely warranted after the Titans rubbed the Oilers brand in Houston's face by wearing the throwbacks against the Texans

[Brave-Bird 08]

Maybe I am missing something, but I thought the issue was that Houston wore essentially an Oilers uniform and that it wasn't just the color that prompted the cease-and-desist. 

 

I mean it's still really dumb. Part of me wonders if the logic behind it was that if Houston sold those UH jerseys that say "Houston" on them, that it would bite into the sales that the NFL sees for the Titans throwbacks -- which I am sure more people in Texas are buying for nostalgic reasons than Titans fans are buying.

 

Still, a really, really, really dumb and pathetic complaint by the NFL. But it kind of makes sense...

[PurpleHayes]

7 minutes ago, Brave-Bird 08 said:

Maybe I am missing something, but I thought the issue was that Houston wore essentially an Oilers uniform and that it wasn't just the color that prompted the cease-and-desist. 

 

I mean it's still really dumb. Part of me wonders if the logic behind it was that if Houston sold those UH jerseys that say "Houston" on them, that it would bite into the sales that the NFL sees for the Titans throwbacks -- which I am sure more people in Texas are buying for nostalgic reasons than Titans fans are buying.

 

Still, a really, really, really dumb and pathetic complaint by the NFL. But it kind of makes sense...

 

Goodell might as well sue the sky for resembling 'Columbia Blue.' The NFL really shouldn't have gone down that road with their 'cease and desist letter' because UH has called their bluff. Goodell has to respond because clearly using a former team's color for a college is a major threat to the intellectual property of an NFL team...

 

Or maybe Goodell will send around a couple of goons to intimidate the AD of UH..."Nice football team you have here. You know, it'd be a shaaaaaaaaaame if something were to happen to it." (Pushes AD's runner-up trophy off the desk so it shatters on the floor.)

[raz]

As much as people hate it or think it's petty, if they don't defend the colors, then they lose them, and anyone can start selling merchandise without their approval. 

 

This isn't about UH. It's about their property. 

[MJWalker45]

10 minutes ago, raz said:

As much as people hate it or think it's petty, if they don't defend the colors, then they lose them, and anyone can start selling merchandise without their approval. 

 

This isn't about UH. It's about their property. 

 

1 hour ago, ruttep said:

 

This level of pettiness is absolutely warranted after the Titans rubbed the Oilers brand in Houston's face by wearing the throwbacks against the Texans

It's about a color that three NFL teams are currently sharing shades of. If this went to an actual court, the only question is, "How was the NFL injured by this"? Since the NFL and NCAA aren't on the same level, I'd suggest that they are not financially injured, nor are they at risk of someone watching the Houston Cougars playing the Baylor Bears and people thinking the Titans and Packers game got moved to a Saturday. 

[rfraser85]

12 minutes ago, Brave-Bird 08 said:

Maybe I am missing something, but I thought the issue was that Houston wore essentially an Oilers uniform and that it wasn't just the color that prompted the cease-and-desist. 

 

I mean it's still really dumb. Part of me wonders if the logic behind it was that if Houston sold those UH jerseys that say "Houston" on them, that it would bite into the sales that the NFL sees for the Titans throwbacks -- which I am sure more people in Texas are buying for nostalgic reasons than Titans fans are buying.

 

Still, a really, really, really dumb and pathetic complaint by the NFL. But it kind of makes sense...

 

 

LOOK: Houston unveils special uniforms honoring Oilers for first game as Big 12 member - CBSSports.com

 

If this is the uniform the Cougars were planning to use, I can see why the NFL threatened to sue. This does look like an Oilers uniform and could cut into sales of those uniforms. You can't necessarily copyright colors, but you can copyright designs.