By Spencer Bowen You may notice a theme of recent Antland uniform coverage – a bunch of football teams refining their previous, recent, and somewhat-disastrous designs in favor of cleaner and marginally more traditional looks. The Rams, whose last consistent moment of uniform respectability was the throwbacks they wore in history’s most boring Super Bowl,…
New Falcons Unis: A Reasoned Discussion
By Spencer Bowen Well, this kind of feels like offering to cater a friend’s dinner party and then Venmoing them $150. Definitely good, not unhelpful, but let’s be honest – a huge let down. The Falcons have been lost in the uniform wasteland for most of my life, last approaching aesthetic respectability when Mike Vick…
New Titans Uniforms: A Reasoned Discussion
By Spencer Bowen Things are good, normal, smooth, and steady in the world, so it must be time to write about National Football League uniforms for an audience that numbers in the dozens – dozens! – to demonstrate to you all that the subtleties of Nike uniform design have more staying power in my head…
New Lions Uniforms: A Reasoned Discussion
By Spencer Bowen Following a game where the Lions really should’ve beaten the Niners my beloved Forty Niners showed *grit* and *heart* to battle back and defeat Detroit, the Motor City Lions decided that a refreshed uniform set was the missing piece to get them past the NFC Championship Game and into the Super Bowl….
New Broncos Uniforms: A Reasoned Discussion
By Spencer Bowen Many, many weeks after Denver released its new uniforms, the intrepid Antland news team polished our journalism bona fides by digging into the first full Broncos redesign since before John Elway retired. Did you know he never beat Cal when he was at Stanford? I digress. Let’s dive in using the “Good,…
New Texans Uniforms: A Reasoned Discussion
By Spencer Bowen Greetings, dear reader. Who are you? Actually, don’t answer that. Given the total amount of traffic this post is likely to receive (Tens? Dozens?), I will be able to use simple arithmetic to deduce exactly who you are. Who am I? Well, the last time I wrote one of these bad boys,…
AllTrails “Reputation Score”
By Tyler Chuck If you’ve ever gone outside for a hike, you’ve probably used AllTrails, the comprehensive repository of over 100,000 hand-curated trail maps plus reviews and photos crowdsourced from millions of hikers. AllTrails is an amazing platform and resource. It helps you find amazing places to get outside for a hike, gives accurate mileage…
Dua Lipa, Unstoppable
By Spencer Bowen Looking up Dua Lipa’s age is a disorienting personal journey. As the number “24” matter-of-factly gazes back at you from her Wikipedia page, you’re momentarily incapacitated. Yes, the number is low. But we’ve been graced with young mainstream musical talent before. Let us never forget that Usher released his debut album at…
Rosemary’s Recommendation: Quarantine Edition
By Rosemary Schandelmier As the shelter in place measures span on, the return of sports in the immediate future is bleak. Many of us have found new ways to cope with this unprecedented lack of sports in our lives by watching old games or reliving cherished sports memories. There is no one right way to…
2020 Warriors Offseason Preview
By Tyler Chuck The suspension of the NBA season and subsequent suspension of all sports has left the sports world in shock. While fans and teams alike desire to return, there are serious risks associated with returning. We truly don’t know what to expect. For NBA teams like the Lakers, Clippers, and Bucks that have…
New Rams Uniforms: A Reasoned Discussion
By Spencer Bowen The final wave of the NFL’s onslaught of new uniform unveilings crested and fell with an unsatisfying and pitiful splash. The Rams decided to serve up some juicy morsels of badness, a real doozy of missed opportunities and squandered potential. Our other uniform reviews: Bucs Browns Chargers Colts Falcons Patriots The…
The Most Epic Sporting Events this Millennium
By Tyler Chuck While we go through this withdrawal of live sports, I’ve reflected back on some of my very favorite sporting events of my cognizant lifetime. I thought about what makes an event epic and realized that there are so many factors. Lots of them have to not only what happened in the game…
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