2015 AFL Pick 'Em: Round 14

Here is how the recap process works. Arrows will indicate the winning team and incorrect guesses will be marked with an "X". Jerseys guessed incorrectly will be left as is, winning jumpers will be placed alongside the losing jumper in parentheses.

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Jerseys: 174-42 (.806)

Wins:     76-32 (.704)

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-Ricky

Newfoundland (Rhymes with Understand)

Well, the Labs are in full swing. Almost. This is the time to show you what the footy team is all about.

The clash kit is probably my favorite and based of the alternate used for the soccer counterpart. Notice the prominence of the provincial flag which also derived from the soccer component. It's a little overboard, but I figured nobody else had a maple leaf used by the other Canadian teams outside the requirement of the flag.

-Ricky

Trained Labradors

From the age of six, I had created a league of soccer teams based on the (then brand new) Lego soccer series - which turned into a thing of its own after I sort of grew out of Legos. The team, my team, the Newfoundland Labradors (formerly the Newfoundland and Labrador All-Stars whose nickname comes from the Backyard Sports computer game series), have been "trained" if you will to transition from just soccer to now play Australian rules football. This is a maneuver to become a last minute replacement in a uniform design league to be based in the US and Canada. Buffalo was listed, but someone (from Australia) had used them as a base out of Niagara Falls. St. John's was my second selection for a bid. Both countries have actual leagues - the USAFL and the local league in the Toronto greater metropolitan area. But the Labs were also an easy to assemble look because I had several drawings. Below is the finished product of the footy version.

 Let's start with the leak that I plan on planting to the forum for the league, "just for recreations sake" if you will.

You may have recognized this. It is the same one from the Skopje foxes fake leak reveal from a couple years ago. I saved the image in case such a scenario came up again. The opportunity had presented itself. Notice that the home uniform is heavily inspired by the old NFL flags you might see at the stadia around the league (of which, I happen to own a Buffalo Bills one). The alternate is the most bizarre you will ever see. I thought about adding a Zubaz pattern to the side panels but it would be too over the top and it is not as elegant to go with the plaid and argyle. As for the actual results, those will come next week.

-Ricky

Clip Art II

Last week the Los Angeles Clippers of the NBA (National Basketball Association) unveiled a new logo for the upcoming NBA season.  I have mixed feelings pertaining to this logo, mainly because I typically look at teams re-branding themselves is a easy way to make money.  But regarding the logo itself it's a very nice new sharper look.  With the addition of the color black where the team's name is spelled out in all black caps "Clippers" which is also in the basketball shown above containing the letters LA and C obviously for Los Angeles Clippers.  There are also four lines two on-top and the others on the bottom with the very top and very bottom being red and the middle two being blue and the name Clippers being between the lines.

I think it has a very simple design one that most people can attempt at drawing themselves and most likely some what succeed in doing.  It is not overly flashy as some logo's today have become which I like very much.  In other words it doesn't say too much but it says what it needs to and that is it.  There are many other logos out there that fail to do that.  One example is the Buffaslug, the logo the Buffalo Sabres dawned when the returned to the Blue and Gold color scheme,  All it had was a Buffalo's head but no swords.

All in all I do like it from a logo design standpoint, but I don't like it because it asks people to spend money on new merchandise which we all know will happen.  

2015 AFL Pick 'Em: Round 13

Here is how the recap process works. Arrows will indicate the winning team and incorrect guesses will be marked with an "X". Jerseys guessed incorrectly will be left as is, winning jumpers will be placed alongside the losing jumper in parentheses.

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Jerseys: 164-40 (.804)

Wins:     71-31 (.670)

 

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-Ricky