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[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

The Jags aren't the only FL NFL team that's decided to change their logo. Here's a link with the new Phins leaked logo below.

www.miamiherald.com/2013/03/27/3308215/armando-salguero-buzz-rises-over.html

Quite a few other teams are, too.

[I-10east]

The design for Minnesota's new fixed roof stadium look very impressive.

www.vikings.com/media-vault/videos/New-Stadium-Fly-Through/ad405006-7736-460f-82c4-58ea3ee243d3

[TheCat]

[Gators312]

So Minnesota has to share it with a college baseball team?

Also has financing been approved by the voters / legislature?

[I-10east]

^^^The Gophers baseball team play in Target Field, home of the Twins now, but they signed a two year deal with stadium. The stadium is billed as a multi-purpose stadium for special events, like the Super Bowl, NCAA basketball, hockey etc. Yeah, the stadium passed all of the red tape crap; it's set to be finished in 2016.

[copperfiend]

It will be built to allow for a future MLS team as well. Good stuff.

[thelakelander]

David Garrard says he's leaving Jets

http://espn.go.com/new-york/nfl/story/_/id/9279437/david-garrard-informs-new-york-jets-calling-it

[I-10east]

^^^He already announced his retirement.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/05/15/david-garrard-my-knee-isnt-holding-up/

[British Shoe Company]

http://www.csnbayarea.com/49ers/harbaugh-optimistic-crabtree-will-play-2013

I doubt he was play this year.

[I-10east]

^^^With that six month recovery prediction, he will more than likely miss the Jags game (Oct 27th) in London.

[duvaldude08]

^^^With that six month recovery prediction, he will more than likely miss the Jags game (Oct 27th) in London.

Thank God!! LMBO

[spuwho]

^^^The Gophers baseball team play in Target Field, home of the Twins now, but they signed a two year deal with stadium. The stadium is billed as a multi-purpose stadium for special events, like the Super Bowl, NCAA basketball, hockey etc. Yeah, the stadium passed all of the red tape crap; it's set to be finished in 2016.

All that glass.....wait until they get their first 12 inch snow (leaks), better yet, wait until they get a good below zero Canadian high hanging over town. It will be like sitting in your shower stall without the hot water. Those glass panes will fog over big time.

[British Shoe Company]

http://www.csnbayarea.com/blog/matt-maiocco/49ers-will-hire-eric-mangini-consultant

Mangini to the 49ers

[BridgeTroll]

Since you are unlikely to see finacial statements from any of the other NFL teams... here is the Green Bay Packers...



And some analysis...

http://www.jsonline.com/sports/packers/packers-bottom-line-shows-record-net-income-revenue-profit-b9955411z1-215722451.html

[KenFSU]

This makes me smile after all the "small town" smack talk coming from Charlotte over the years, most recently when ESPN used the Charlotte aerial during Monday Night Football rather than the one from Jacksonville.

Nike mixes up North and South Carolina on T-shirt:

The company wanted to promote the Carolina Panthers, but its shirt used a map of the wrong state for the team to the north.

North Carolina, South Carolina -- same difference, right?

Apparently the states are interchangeable to Nike (NKE +1.50%), which has proved not only to be one of the most effective sports-apparel marketers around but one of the most geographically challenged.

Nike fumbled with a T-shirt (pictured) celebrating the Carolina Panthers, the football team based in North Carolina. It paired the team's logo with a graphic of South Carolina, Charlotte Observer columnist Scott Fowler reports.

Since the error was pointed out, Nike has pulled the link to the $32 shirt and is investigating the error.

"It indicates that someone associated with Nike believed that the Panthers play in South Carolina. Or that North Carolina's silhouette looked like South Carolina. Or something," Fowler notes.

Nike last year made another gaffe that managed to hit both cultural and geographical hot buttons. The company released a pair of limited-edition shoes called Black and Tan, which in the U.S. refers to a drink made with both Guinness and a pale ale. In Ireland, the reference isn't nearly as enticing, instead referring to a British paramilitary group that attacked civilians during the Irish War of Independence.

Nike isn't alone in struggling with geography. A 2006 survey from National Geographic found that only half of young adults ages 18-24 could identify New York or Ohio on a map.

And then there's South Carolina's own geography whiz, the state's 2007 Miss Teen USA contestant, Lauren Upton. She became an Internet sensation after muddling a question about Americans' lack of geographical knowledge, babbling about lack of maps and adding that U.S. education "should help South Africa."

Still, Nike's mix-up apparently touched a nerve with some of the team's fans. One commenter on Fowler's blog complained, "We still have to endure the name "CAROLINA Panthers" instead of the "CHARLOTTE Panthers," (as) it should have been in the first place."

http://money.msn.com/now/post--nike-mixes-up-north-and-south-carolina-on-t-shirt