cajunaggie08 Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 Illinois offers alumni plates for all the state universities along with the Bears, Cubs, Bulls and Blackhawks. I have to fight the urge to key the cars with Blackhawk plates...Also Notre Dame, which I don't get. Might as well add Michigan State, Iowa....From what I am told, Notre Dame is the most popular college team in Illinois. South Bend isn't too far from Chicago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BShaw20 Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 Florida has practically every team and school. Even Arena Football! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BBTV Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 So I guess I'm the only one who wishes NA plates were more like European plates and just plain with a state / province designation and then a number. Maybe offer them in various colors so they don't clash with the nice car you just bought. I don't see the need for license plates to make a statement, and honestly the way some of these are made, it makes it tricky to report them in the case of an incident.I hate that my plate has a godsdamn website address on it, and is blue / white / and yellow while my car is a smoke gray. If I was king or one of the gods, if you wanted to choose to have a tacky / gaudy plate on your car to advertise something, then fine. Why not - I'll charge you triple and put the money somewhere (which I realize is how a lot of these special plates work anyway.) But the standard state plates should IMO just be super plain and not stick out on a car. They only serve to show a license number and issuing state. They don't need to be colors that clash with your car, have website advertisements, have goofy images, etc. "The views expressed here are mine and do not reflect the official opinion of my employer or the organization through which the Internet was accessed." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnWis97 Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 I love the University of Iowa, Iowa State, and Northern Iowa plates Disclaimer: If this comment is about an NBA uniform from 2017-2018 or later, do not constitute a lack of acknowledgement of the corporate logo to mean anything other than "the corporate logo is terrible and makes the uniform significantly worse." BADGERS TWINS VIKINGS TIMBERWOLVES WILD POTD (Shared) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoxSteeler Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 Kentucky's uk plate. They don't offer out of state colleges but pretty much everything in state is available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerslionspistonshabs Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 Ontario- where my car is registered has a few. Unfortunately I'm not a fan of any of the teams. (I'm from Windsor, ON directly across the river/border from downtown Detroit, and work/ live in Michigan) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CubsFanBudMan Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 Illinois offers alumni plates for all the state universities along with the Bears, Cubs, Bulls and Blackhawks. I have to fight the urge to key the cars with Blackhawk plates...Also Notre Dame, which I don't get. Might as well add Michigan State, Iowa.... From what I am told, Notre Dame is the most popular college team in Illinois. South Bend isn't too far from Chicago.Who tells you that, Notre Dame fans? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Doctor Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 Ontario- where my car is registered has a few. Unfortunately I'm not a fan of any of the teams. (I'm from Windsor, ON directly across the river/border from downtown Detroit, and work/ live in Michigan) Well there is also ones for the Toronto Blue Jays, Toronto Argonauts and Hamilton Tiger-Cats. I of course have the Hamilton one, with the old logo... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiddySicks Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 So I guess I'm the only one who wishes NA plates were more like European plates and just plain with a state / province designation and then a number. Maybe offer them in various colors so they don't clash with the nice car you just bought. I don't see the need for license plates to make a statement, and honestly the way some of these are made, it makes it tricky to report them in the case of an incident.I hate that my plate has a godsdamn website address on it, and is blue / white / and yellow while my car is a smoke gray. If I was king or one of the gods, if you wanted to choose to have a tacky / gaudy plate on your car to advertise something, then fine. Why not - I'll charge you triple and put the money somewhere (which I realize is how a lot of these special plates work anyway.) But the standard state plates should IMO just be super plain and not stick out on a car. They only serve to show a license number and issuing state. They don't need to be colors that clash with your car, have website advertisements, have goofy images, etc.You don't have to become president or a God for that to happen. All you have to do is move to California. In Arizona I think it's like a one time added fee of $25 to get a special plate. But in California, any special plate is at LEAST $50 more a year to register. And if you wanna personalize that plate, it's about an extra $100 on top of that a year.I've wanted a customized Lake Tahoe plate for years, but I can't justify the extra $150 a year for it (Even if some of that goes to the Protect Lake Tahoe fund). On 11/19/2012 at 7:23 PM, oldschoolvikings said: She’s still half convinced “Chris Creamer” is a porn site.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CS85 Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 I have to fight the urge to key the cars with Blackhawk plates... Quote "You are nothing more than a small cancer on this message board. You are not entertaining, you are a complete joke." twitter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squall Hammer Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 If my wife and I ever move to Arizona (could certainly happen someday), I hope the state will still be offering these:I always thought it was dumb that Arizona went with a BFBS license plate for the Cardinals, but I do have to admit, it really makes the logo stand out. Arizona also has Diamondbacks and Suns license plates. They don't have Coyotes plates, to the best of my knowledge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiddySicks Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 Oh they have Coyotes plates. They look like this. On 11/19/2012 at 7:23 PM, oldschoolvikings said: She’s still half convinced “Chris Creamer” is a porn site.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sc49erfan15 Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 Oh they have Coyotes plates. They look like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerslionspistonshabs Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 Ontario- where my car is registered has a few. Unfortunately I'm not a fan of any of the teams. (I'm from Windsor, ON directly across the river/border from downtown Detroit, and work/ live in Michigan) Well there is also ones for the Toronto Blue Jays, Toronto Argonauts and Hamilton Tiger-Cats. I of course have the Hamilton one, with the old logo...Yes I just posted a few examples. The Ti-Cats are my CFL team, but I'm not fan enough to have a license plate. I remember standing in line at the DMV a few years back and they had a poster on the wall where they were advertising all the graphics you could get. Almost all of the logos were outdated. This was maybe 2007 and they were still using the 1997-2002 Blue Jays logo; and the Argos logo with the Argonaut wielding his shield.It was so faded that you could tell it had been there for years but I just remember finding it funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CubsFanBudMan Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 Oh they have Coyotes plates. They look like this.In all honesty, every Panthers home game I went to back in the day was full of these plates. Well, not full... but the percentage in the lot was unusually and noticeably high. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BBTV Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 I don't understand why NA adopted the "square" plate style, while Europe and most of Asia (and Africa I think) adopted the (IMO much better) rectangle shape.The stupid NA custom of having tacky license plate frames (usually dealers who just ripped you off but still put their advertisement on your car and you're too dumb or don't care enough to take it off) obscure the state wording at the top or bottom, so half the time if you see an out-of-state plate of a color you're not used to, you don't even know how to report it to the cops if there's a need to.North American scum indeed. "The views expressed here are mine and do not reflect the official opinion of my employer or the organization through which the Internet was accessed." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wonderbread Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 Tell us how you really feel, this is the second time you have said the same thing, i personally hate the way other countries do it because there is no variety and it normally goes all the way across the front of your car which looks bad to me compared to NA where it's just a little plate in the rear and sometimes front, also its fun looking at unusual plates to see where they are from Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhlyBoy Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 ^exactly. It's a fun way to customize your car a little. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnWis97 Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 Tell us how you really feel, this is the second time you have said the same thing, i personally hate the way other countries do it because there is no variety and it normally goes all the way across the front of your car which looks bad to me compared to NA where it's just a little plate in the rear and sometimes front, also its fun looking at unusual plates to see where they are fromI like North American plates better, but I HATE license plate frames. About the first thing I did when I brought my current car home was remove the frame advertising the dealer and obscuring the state. I honestly think they should be illegal if they hide anything on the plate, which many do. Disclaimer: If this comment is about an NBA uniform from 2017-2018 or later, do not constitute a lack of acknowledgement of the corporate logo to mean anything other than "the corporate logo is terrible and makes the uniform significantly worse." BADGERS TWINS VIKINGS TIMBERWOLVES WILD POTD (Shared) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueSky Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 @ BBTV, I had no idea you aspired to be a license plate tyrant. It really bugs you, huh? The only thing that kind of bothers me is, ironically, something I don't disagree with - In God We Trust. In Georgia you can now get that instead of the county name at the bottom of the plate. I just don't feel it's something I need to crow about on my license plate. If others want to, fine, but I have to admit I'm amused by the people who ask the tag office for the In God We Trust decal (they'll give you one) then leave the county decal on the plate and stick the other one somewhere else on the plate or the back of the car.Based on your posts, you'll surely love (ha!) Georgia's new plate that came out last year. I was very grateful that they retained the old plain plate as an option because sorry, I don't want something this fru-fru (sp?) on my vehicle.Back on topic, we have a range of sports plates in Georgia. The Falcons & Braves of course along with many in- and out-of-state colleges and universities. Even rivals like LSU and Florida. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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