![]() ![]() It’s a blurry picture, but here’s one set: linkĪnd here’s the other, albeit somewhat obscured by the scoreboard: link And, to be honest, I think it looks like a mess. The result: They have a bunch of banners with vastly different looks. They’ve gone with era-appropriate banners, and when they hang a banner, they stick with it. They’ve also won a few titles and have a fairly large set of retired numbers. The Admirals have been around for over 50 years and have had a number of different looks. Here in Milwaukee, we have the Admirals, a minor-league hockey team, and Wave, a longstanding arena soccer team, who play at the UWM Panther Arena, aka the old MECCA. So this is the rare one where I’m pretty sure I don’t agree with Paul and/or the original poster in that I think you have to look at it on a case-by-case basis and not have an across-the-board rule. I can imagine rare instances in which I team might need to deviate from these rules due to special circumstances (I wouldn’t expect or want the Guardians to maintain an old banner showing Chief Wahoo, for example, and I suppose moving to a new stadium or arena might sometimes require a different banner-display situation that could in turn require having new banners made), but they should at least try to at least stay true to the spirit of the rules. ![]() Or better yet, make two or three identical banners to begin with, so you can have some in reserve if needed and you’ll know they were produced to the same specs.) (If the banner gets old and ratty, just make a new one with the same design. Use the fonts, colors, and logos that the player wore during his time with the team.To me, it seems fairly simple and straightforward: It seems like we could use a set of rules governing the designs of retired number banners. I love this topic, and I know there are sooooo many additional examples out there, so feel free to post them in today’s comments. I imagine there are numerous additional examples throughout sports but figured I’d get the conversation started. Isn’t a retired number banner supposed to evoke a sense of “forever” or “eternity”? What’s the point if you’re going to keep changing the banner design? Granted, I’ll never have my number retired for anything, but if I did, and I went through the ceremony, it would feel a little odd if I looked up years later to find they’d changed it to another color just because the team went through a redesign sometime after my number-retirement ceremony. Personally, I think the whole idea of changing a banner after the fact doesn’t feel right. Numbers that should have been easy but they just blew it: Luongo, Patrick Ewing and Derek Harper.A team keeps updating its banners to keep pace with their logo/color/brand changes.A player from an earlier era gets a banner with the the team’s current font, which they never wore ( Pavel Bure).Most of these problems break down into three categories ![]()
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