There are places where you will hear the following: (Hey #__ )"Take. A. Seat!" in Colorado, "Get. In. The. Box!" in Minnesota, All of that is true, but if you want a truly unique experience, wait 'til you get to Buffalo.
The box chant with Chris "Swennie" Swenson announcing the penalty(ies) to follow is a familiar staple in Banditland and recently followed by Marilyn Manson's Beautiful People. Over the years, the costumes may have changed, but the PA announcer and four season ticket holders have not!
The playoffs are even more spectacular. Buffalo has won three of four meetings in the championship game for the North America Cup. While the Bandits lead the playoffs 4-3, they are up 3-2 at home, with the teams tied at one win in Philadelphia. Note that in 1995 the "host" Wings had to play the game in Buffalo not because of a scheduling conflict, but due to a league attendance rule which forfeited the game's venue if they had a smaller season attendance of the competing clubs. When the teams met in the Championship a season prior, they both sought a third ring - three straight and (in-a-row) against Philly. The championship game part of the rivalry was fizzled out by Rochester who played both teams once (Philly in 1995 and Buffalo in 1997) after that the Knighthawks budded a rivalry with the incoming Toronto Rock meeting in 1999, 2000, and 2003.
Philly would beat Toronto in 2001, Toronto won in 2002 over the Albany Attack (now Vancouver Stealth) and 2005 over the Arizona Sting, Buffalo lost in 2004 and 2006 to Calgary and Colorado respectively in addition to beating the Portland Lumberjax in 2008, and Rochester beat Arizona in 2007. Since then, the Stealth while in Washington (state) created a championship game rivalry with Toronto (2010 & 2011), following their loss as Albany in 2002. Rochester has beaten the Edmonton Rush then Washington, both by a goal. That puts a total of six for Philly and Toronto while the Knighthawks are now tied at four with the Bandits.
Now that I've sort of bored you , let's get to the innovative part - my creations! After that, check out this report card from the 2012 preseason and this dormant blog for other informarion.
This is the Buffalo uniform I'm doing. The Bandits were far from the first team to have an alternate uniform. However, they have had good ones. It was surprising that they came out with on at all when the firs debuted against the Rock at home on 14 FEB 2009 when they won 25-10 over their QEW rivals. That got replaced by the Anniversary jersey in 2011 for the one season. Neither have returned since. I'm not completely dissatisfied with their current set, but I sure miss the old stuff (you can find that in the closet above in the tabs)! I decided to go simple, while keeping the font and new championship stripes at the front of the collar. I made some alterations along the way too - I added a side-panel gradient to incorporate the purple-blue shade which I'd like to see just a little more of as we had with the new uniforms. The gradient is common in modern NLL attire. The colored nameplate was done to both make it look a little different and to break up the black on white font - not the best idea, but again . . . it's an alternate.
Philadelphia has had some pretty spiffy jerseys too. They've had a red (only as alternates) and a green before. And then there is the twitter handle jersey. As gimmicky as that was, I liked them for the color. Problem is without the Twitter handles, the jersey wouldn't make sense for that team or really any team other than maybe Rochester. This one serves as a combination of eras for this team rich with jersey history. The grey with black yoke was used in the c. 1989?-1996? I want to say. Except the red wasn't prevalent at that time. The 7 pinstripes in the number has been used in other uniform striping. The "Philadelphia" on the inside of the collar was never used but "Wings" was featured on both sides of the front collar towards the middle in the mid-2000s. Philly has panels that are in multi-color gradient and I did the same here, continuing to differentiate from the early '90s jersey. The multicolored stitching has been another modern feature on NLL jerseys these days . . . I've included those here as well. The numbers that the NHL's Nashville Predators use also have been used by the Wings for some time now. I replaced the indents of their logo used inside the outline for the stripes to do something different. It's been a few seasons now that the numbers have been colored in solid.
Back to the grind, tomorrow. We will indeed be posting at HCI shortly. Don't forget that your concepts are welcome for submission, just remember to keep the good nature of them. In the mean time, I'll be off to Banditland tomorrow!
-Ricky
The box chant with Chris "Swennie" Swenson announcing the penalty(ies) to follow is a familiar staple in Banditland and recently followed by Marilyn Manson's Beautiful People. Over the years, the costumes may have changed, but the PA announcer and four season ticket holders have not!
For the individual match-up, the NLL has put a press release. This will be the 56th all-time regular season meeting. The Bandits have never had more league wins than Philadelphia. They've been within six for the past few seasons, but are now down to two wins at 174-120 (not including 20-14 in the playoffs) in 22 seasons compared to the Wings 176-158 (not including 16-11 in the playoffs) in 27 seasons. Buffalo leads 29-26 is the rivalry between the league's oldest two clubs, while both teams doing better at home 18-12 (30) for Buffalo and 14-11 (25) for Philly. Buffalo has even played two more games against Rochester who are three years younger than the Bandits. But in the early years (pre-Knighthawks) the Wings and Bandits were in opposite divisions of three teams and an eight game regular season. Before 1996, Philadelphia was the rival of every team in the league due to their physical aggression - everyone hated them.
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| The Bandits home uniform by: Projoy (official player jersey) |
The playoffs are even more spectacular. Buffalo has won three of four meetings in the championship game for the North America Cup. While the Bandits lead the playoffs 4-3, they are up 3-2 at home, with the teams tied at one win in Philadelphia. Note that in 1995 the "host" Wings had to play the game in Buffalo not because of a scheduling conflict, but due to a league attendance rule which forfeited the game's venue if they had a smaller season attendance of the competing clubs. When the teams met in the Championship a season prior, they both sought a third ring - three straight and (in-a-row) against Philly. The championship game part of the rivalry was fizzled out by Rochester who played both teams once (Philly in 1995 and Buffalo in 1997) after that the Knighthawks budded a rivalry with the incoming Toronto Rock meeting in 1999, 2000, and 2003.
Philly would beat Toronto in 2001, Toronto won in 2002 over the Albany Attack (now Vancouver Stealth) and 2005 over the Arizona Sting, Buffalo lost in 2004 and 2006 to Calgary and Colorado respectively in addition to beating the Portland Lumberjax in 2008, and Rochester beat Arizona in 2007. Since then, the Stealth while in Washington (state) created a championship game rivalry with Toronto (2010 & 2011), following their loss as Albany in 2002. Rochester has beaten the Edmonton Rush then Washington, both by a goal. That puts a total of six for Philly and Toronto while the Knighthawks are now tied at four with the Bandits.
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| The Wings road uniform by: Projoy (official player jersey) |
Now that I've sort of bored you , let's get to the innovative part - my creations! After that, check out this report card from the 2012 preseason and this dormant blog for other informarion.
This is the Buffalo uniform I'm doing. The Bandits were far from the first team to have an alternate uniform. However, they have had good ones. It was surprising that they came out with on at all when the firs debuted against the Rock at home on 14 FEB 2009 when they won 25-10 over their QEW rivals. That got replaced by the Anniversary jersey in 2011 for the one season. Neither have returned since. I'm not completely dissatisfied with their current set, but I sure miss the old stuff (you can find that in the closet above in the tabs)! I decided to go simple, while keeping the font and new championship stripes at the front of the collar. I made some alterations along the way too - I added a side-panel gradient to incorporate the purple-blue shade which I'd like to see just a little more of as we had with the new uniforms. The gradient is common in modern NLL attire. The colored nameplate was done to both make it look a little different and to break up the black on white font - not the best idea, but again . . . it's an alternate.
Philadelphia has had some pretty spiffy jerseys too. They've had a red (only as alternates) and a green before. And then there is the twitter handle jersey. As gimmicky as that was, I liked them for the color. Problem is without the Twitter handles, the jersey wouldn't make sense for that team or really any team other than maybe Rochester. This one serves as a combination of eras for this team rich with jersey history. The grey with black yoke was used in the c. 1989?-1996? I want to say. Except the red wasn't prevalent at that time. The 7 pinstripes in the number has been used in other uniform striping. The "Philadelphia" on the inside of the collar was never used but "Wings" was featured on both sides of the front collar towards the middle in the mid-2000s. Philly has panels that are in multi-color gradient and I did the same here, continuing to differentiate from the early '90s jersey. The multicolored stitching has been another modern feature on NLL jerseys these days . . . I've included those here as well. The numbers that the NHL's Nashville Predators use also have been used by the Wings for some time now. I replaced the indents of their logo used inside the outline for the stripes to do something different. It's been a few seasons now that the numbers have been colored in solid.
Back to the grind, tomorrow. We will indeed be posting at HCI shortly. Don't forget that your concepts are welcome for submission, just remember to keep the good nature of them. In the mean time, I'll be off to Banditland tomorrow!
-Ricky
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