UConn James

Major downgrade. The old ones had a classic look. These are just a complete mishmash of design. And they incorporate the worst Nike trends that they’re pushing on every team. Large wordmarks, red helmet with dark blue logo producing chromostereopsis to the human eye (while the jersey has a white outline with the dark blue), no consistency, perforated numbers, incomplete or no pant stripes. The H Color Rush design is absolute trash. Terrible. F the Nike design group and the teams who accept this 💩 — although I imagine there’s a ton of pressure from Nike and the league to just go with what Nike throws at them. They are destroying everything classic. They’ve done it with baseball too.

The more they have to explain the design choices like the little mountain ticks that now compose the center helmet stripe and the sleeve slashes that represent mountains and the 5280 for Mile High yadda yadda yadda. I don’t want a friggin story with a design. I just want it to look good and this does not. The late-90s ones were dated but they’re better than these things. Ultra-modern design that makes them look like an arena league team; Nike likes to push the envelope in this regard and it disgusts me. Now they’re pushing the perforated numbers on everyone and it looks terrible. God help us if our Bills do a redesign. Tradition & classic design will never go out of style, whereas this crap will be in the bargain bins in 8 years, tops. OTOH, the sky blue early Elway era throwback that was revealed is so sweet, tho. Chef’s kiss. Wish that had been the primaries. Wish we had done a red helmet Kelly era set now that alternate color helmets are allowed. I don’t know what we’re waiting for.

I’d love to be an equipment guy.

https://youtu.be/-9lPVGyvST4?si=dBPy-tf-lWAXT0B- Sorry I don’t know how to embed the video. Aerial drone footage from the Bills YT page. So cool to see work progressing with more pace now that better weather is upon us.

After the Challenger disaster, NASA implemented a policy of coming forward with any concerns, no such thing as a dumb question or too small of a detail (because something like a faulty O-ring was the cause of the explosion), safety of the program is paramount. How quick the human race is to forget. We learn nothing.

For…. all the people who collect… all of the different colors of helmets? This is much more just an on-field ‘look’ thing than about money-making. Otherwise for different jerseys, it simply gives fans more options.

Please let New Orleans bring out the Old Gold to match their awesome throwbacks. Why they went with a black alternate helmet last year is just beyond me. Like pairing a $5,000 bottle of wine with a peanut butter & jelly sandwich on wonderbread. Haven’t heard anything about us adding a red helmet Kelly-era throwback. Maybe they’re waiting until the new stadium? But why?

Well… my alma mater UConn team wins with some regularity and two in a row now, so yeah much more enjoyable for me in the same way that having an ice cream sundae is better than getting kicked in the nuts, repeatedly.

🎵 UConn Husky, symbol of might to the foe 🎵

I’m assuming that something happened in pre-game or the previous game that carried over to the puck-drop? Coordinated thing when everyone starts fighting *right away.*

But then we won’t get to have games blacked out by helium Mylar balloons let go by children!

Ughghh

Perhaps this rumor note for the iOS 18 release (usually in mid-Sept.) can calm the snarling dogs?

I also wonder how it will affect McDermott’s penchant to keep 3-4 guys solely for special teams tackling. iirc Matakavitch and Neal were released. Maybe he had word this was gonna happen since he’s now on the competition committee?

Sooo the focus of this thread really shifted from the original dirt, concrete, and steel that’s in the thread title to PSLs and ticket prices. Might it be best to create a separate thread for these and other Bills PSL & ticket & the stadium experience store concerns? Bc I keep clicking on this to see any construction updates only to find another page full of the rending of garments and gnashing of teeth about how it’s going to be too expensive for average Buffalo fans and everything is going to change. I just wanna see life size Tonka-type and cement trucks, cranes, and steel here. Please.

So does Jeep have to make all of their parts able to be put into a Ford? It’s fairly asinine that they have to be subject to sharing / interfacing their proprietary technology with competing companies. Should EasyBake ovens have to be pair-able with the kitchen playsets that every little girl gets? Does BMW get sued for jumping up and down in their commercials how much better they think their drivers are than others? When in reality BMW drivers likewise shame less expensive car owners, yet they are the ones who are known pricks who speed and weave through traffic? As Augie writes above it’s just a phone. It’s like… “this is what our product does. It is not all things to all people. Research what you want and then decide to buy… or not.” After much kvetching by the EU courts, they have changed to USB-C charging ports starting with the 15 series on phones.

We’ll see what McGovern is made of at C, but for me the Jerry Ostroski experiment is still pretty fresh in mind. He was moved into the spot and would just get absolutely bull-rushed into the backfield. He looked the part, sure, but it was just terrible results. Better draft a guy who has *actual* starting experience at the spot more recently than / & beyond the level of high school.

Shortening standard time to ~4 months under GWB was a half measure. Make DST permanent! Afternoon sun in the winter rather than at 6am. Keeping standard time and/or continuing to change the clocks increases energy use / consumption.

The boys have been playing pretty well since I ordered my primegreen (royal / home) jersey from the team site. It arrived yesterday and looks so sweet. I will say the last time I got an authentic Bills jersey via bills store, they broke the curse and made the playoffs the next season. Happy to have a quality jersey from adidas before the league changes to Fanatics next year; we’re seeing how the Fanatics changes and cheap production value is going with MLB jerseys. With this, I think I’m all set for my jersey closet, most of them with my favorite number 15 and my last name on the back. Super win today, boys! Resilience! Probably too little too late, but….

Hulk mode was activated unexpectedly?

Looks like someone doesn’t believe in the football gods. Predictions like this anger them.

It wasn’t [only] Tom Brady that made BB “great.” The real downfall of his evil empire was when Ernie Adams retired. Just my 2 pennies.

Sabres announced some major KeyBank Arena upgrades. A new roof & over-ice video board.

I’d like to see how he does with a new DL coach. Eric Washington was given a lot of prime resources and we saw little return until Ed came on this year.