For schools/teams who don’t fall into this category (small D-I schools, D-II & DIII, high-schools, junior teams) I say it’s certainly okay. Even if a high-school is traveling just in-state to play, their school/city won’t be a household name and having the town/school name on it is a good idea.

I was inspired by this posting to do some design work of my own. Check out the Blue Jay “fauxbacks” I came up with.

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Very Cool white’s

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Cowgirls photo gallery: http://www.okstate.c...

The Jazz are wearing tribute patches for their longtime owner, Larry Miller, who died just the other day.

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Here’s a better view of the patch:

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Too bad. “Phoenix Firebirds” was one of the truly great natural nicknames (like “Milwaukee Brewers” and “Detroit Pistons”, even though they did inherit that one from Fort Wayne). And a helluva lot better than the gimmicky and overly long Arizona “Diamond”Backs (get it, baseball diamond?)with the equally dopey, truncated “D-Backs”.

—Ricko

I have never forgiven Colorado or Florida for not being the Denver Rockies and Miami Marlins.

At the time, The National League (the only place where they play real baseball without the abomination of a designated hitter) was all city teams – the way baseball is meant to be.

That other league was full of idiot teams like Minnesota, Texas, California, etc.

What a joke.

Screw the Rockies and Marlins!!!!

In all fairness to Minnesota, Colorado and Arizona (you forgot them), as well as a few others in other sports…Tennessee, Utah and Carolina come to mind…it’s fairly evident they are the only MLB teams their states are ever going to have.

Now, when it comes to the Marlins, Rangers and the former California Angels (and others such as the Florida Panthers), I totally agree with you. Incredible for an organization to be so arrogant as to claim an entire state that has multiple major markets. It took seriously brass balls for the Rangers to do it, seeing as the Astros pre-dated them in Texas by a dozen years or so. I imagine they justified it by saying the entire thing is their nickname, like “Buffalo Bills” (Speaking of that school of nicknames, I keep waiting for a team in Washington to call itself the “Irvings”. Don’t think it’ll ever happen, though; too literary).

—Ricko

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