Tampa Bay and Jacksonville kick off their respective preseasons with a game Friday night in Jacksonville. While there has been plenty of discussion of how rookies Mike Evans and Blake Bortles will do, or what effect new additions Lovie Smith and a pair of former Seahawks will have on their respective teams, there is not enough discussion of just how ugly of a game this is going to be. Seriously, look at these uniforms. They're horrible. But which is worse? Vote below.
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We've gone from 64 of the top fantasy football players heading into 2014 to two. And the two are perennial fantasy studs: Jamaal Charles and Adrian Peterson. Who will be crowned champion? Vote and wait to find out. We're on the cusp of the Final Four in our March Madness-style tournament. Vote now to decide who moves on.
It was a long process, but readers of the OIL have chosen a winner. Shane Maddox's and Anthony Wustenfeld's Oklahoma City Infantry ended up garnering 34% of the votes to beat Blake Campbell's Roughnecks (26%) in our "NFL in OKC" design contest. Congratulations to the men. And thank you to everyone who submitted designs, shared the page, and voted in the poll. A special thank you goes to Uni-Watch, who linked to the contest multiple times. Click the image to see the complete Infantry submission. Shane and Anthony can now choose something from our online store as a prize. Let me know what you'd like by emailing me and I'll make that happen. It's time for Fantasy Football March Madness. After the break, you can vote on each of the 32 first-round matchups. Click the bracket for the full size image. Get to voting and let's see who is the consensus number one player heading into the 2014 fantasy football season.
Craig Priestley is the latest to submit a design for our Oklahoma City uniform contest. He said he didn't have a team name for his submission, but that it was inspired by the Oklahoma City flag. Does anyone want to take a shot at naming this team in the comments? If you want to help create this hypothetical NFL team in Oklahoma City, send logo/uniform designs to OklahomIraqis@gmail.com. The deadline is March 15, and the winner may get something from our league store.
Thank you to Mr. Priestley and everyone else who has submitted designs so far. Wow. Shane Maddox and Anthony Wustenfeld responded in a big way to our call for design submissions for an Oklahoma City NFL team. As a reminder, the deadline for submissions in the contest is March 15, 2014. Shane owns T-Mac Sports, and he partnered with Anthony Wustenfield of Pro Line Designs to bring us the Oklahoma City Infantry. Here's what he had to say about his submission: "I had wanted to create a concept for quite some time now, and with my access to resources (being the owner of T Mac Sports), and the intrigue of an Oklahoma City football team, I figured the time was now. I enlisted the help of Anthony Wuestenfeld with Pro Line Designs. He ownes an Oklahoma based company, who more recently brought NFL attention to OKC via a photoshopped “OKC Seahawks” t-shirt. Between my resources and design ability, and Anthony’s knowledge of Oklahoma, we were the perfect team. Wow. I am impressed. The OIL started in Baghdad as all the managers were members of the Oklahoma Army National Guard's 1st Bn 158th Field Artillery regiment. We were field artillery though, not infantry. Still, we are proud of the 45th Infantry Division. The 45th Field Artillery Brigade began as the field artillery element of the 45th Infantry. We also proudly wear the T-Bird on our shoulder. So, kudos to this team of designers for incorporating the 45th. Now, to the uniforms. In honor of March Madness, the DBFA and the OIL are once again conducting an NCAA-style 64-player tournament to answer one question: Who is the most valuable player going into the 2014 season? Forget the debates. Forget the split-screen arguing. You won't see anyone yelling at each other here (unlike a certain four-letter sports network). We live in a democracy, and that's how we'll settle this argument. MGL Commissioner and Visitors Section co-host Josh Hastings ranked his top 64 fantasy football players heading into 2014. OIL Commissioner Justin C. Cliburn turned that list into a 64-man bracket using BracketMaker.com. You may log into BracketMaker with your Facebook account or create an account on the site. Hastings's list is based on standard scoring, even though the OIL uses PPR. And players are listed as belonging to the team they play for right now. Things will change. But this is March, and we're starved for football. You can access that bracket here, and make your picks. The winner will receive something from the DBFA store. The player who comes out on top will receive a letter of congratulations from the OIL along with memorabilia from the DBFA store. The deadline to submit your bracket picks is Saturday, March 15, and the voting for individual matchups begins Sunday, March 16. Polls will be posted here for each round, and you, the reader, will vote on who should advance. So, without further adieu, here is your 2014 bracket: March Madness Fantasy FootballWe like to think that those who work for major design companies like Nike are just more talented than us. They know more than we do. They are more artistic. But Nike's latest NFL redesign shows how random it all is. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers unveiled their new uniform design Monday morning, and the collective response was less than thrilled. The redesign was the first since 1997, when the Bucs completed the single greatest redesign in sports history. We at the OIL have been sponsoring a uniform design contest for the hypothetical Oklahoma City Roughnecks NFL team. And what we've received from random Internet users with access to graphic design programs is superior to what took Nike two years to develop for Tampa Bay. Take a look at what our readers designed and then look at the new Buccaneers uniforms and tell me franchises couldn't save time and money by crowdsourcing their redesigns and bypassing Nike's expensive design department. For reference, here is the evolution of Tampa's uniforms: |
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