00:00Do you love the new uniforms?
00:02Are you mad on the new uniforms?
00:04Where do you weigh in?
00:05Where do you come down on them?
00:06I think they just hit a home run with them.
00:08I think they look awesome.
00:10You're going back to the glory years era with the burgundy and gold and the white uniforms.
00:16And then the black set with the new logo, the alternate logo, with the spear going through it.
00:21I feel it's a really good look.
00:24And the matte black, I have to clarify.
00:27And Klaus and his team that came over from Ashburn, they brought a couple helmets here.
00:33And you saw we had a bunch of helmets that all the shows here were playing with and looking at
00:37and putting out on social media.
00:39That if you looked at some of the images online, it looked like it was like a gray, right?
00:45But it's black.
00:46It's a matte black.
00:47Yes.
00:48And it's good.
00:50It's really good.
00:51I think they describe it as like a semi-matte.
00:52It's not fully matte where it's almost like a dull, dulled out look.
00:57It's kind of between glossy and matte.
01:00It's got a nice look to it.
01:01Yeah.
01:01I think they nailed it, especially with that black.
01:03How are the poll results so far?
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01:1639% love it.
01:1835% like it.
01:19So that's a big percentage.
01:2118% were at meh, and 8% hate it.
01:24Those that seem to complain, here's an example from Jim.
01:28Anything but commanders or some variation.
01:31Yeah.
01:31Chris, can't get past the spear through the taco holder.
01:34Just do the spear we talked about earlier.
01:39I think the average age of the 8% is probably 67.
01:43And I think if they could have gotten away with dropping the W and just having a spear,
01:48they would have done it.
01:49But it sounds like there are issues with Florida State and trademarks and patents.
01:53So they couldn't.
01:55Right.
01:55This is the next best thing.
01:57Another one.
01:58Love would have been the Arrow Helmet, no W.
02:01See, people are anti the name and the initial logo.
02:06There's always going to be people out there.
02:07The primary logo.
02:07Yeah, you know that.
02:08But you can vote at Junk's Radio or vote on our Instagram page, Sports Junkies Radio.
02:13That's a pretty good result, though.
02:14I mean, for 75% to like it.
02:16As I said before, if you get four out of five, which is basically what I saw, if you combine
02:20our Instagram and also Facebook comments, most people seem to like it.
02:27And those that are balking, it's because they don't either like the W or just anything
02:33named Commanders.
02:34EB, by the way, good luck getting your fitted Commanders spear hat.
02:38The only size is available.
02:40Six and seven eights.
02:41That might fit JP's head.
02:42Seven and seven and eight.
02:44All the rest sold out.
02:45Yeah.
02:46So seven and a quarter up all the way up to eight sold out.
02:49I need the seven and three eights.
02:51Yeah.
02:51I'm sure we'll get them back in stock eventually.
02:53But right now, obviously, a run on the bigger sizes.
02:57All right.
02:58Come on, folks.
02:58Need to hear from you.
02:59I know that you've been pondering this, but we haven't been able to touch base with you.
03:04We want to hear from you.
03:05800-636-1067.
03:07Let's go to Peter in Atlanta, actually.
03:11Peter, what's up?
03:13The Falcons have changed their design a little bit through the years.
03:17I saw the pictures.
03:18I don't care.
03:18I don't care.
03:19I'm not a Falcons fan.
03:20I'm a Washington Redskins fan since the day I was born.
03:24I was born in Washington, D.C.
03:25I just live here.
03:26What are your thoughts?
03:28I think that if, and of course, if you're a sensible fan, in my opinion, a sensible fan
03:34is you know that there are certain parameters that they had to operate within.
03:40There's a limit to what they could do and where they could go.
03:44If you're operating, you're thinking in that mindset, they nailed it 100% by leaps and bounds.
03:51It's awesome.
03:52It looks like, we all want.
03:54Obviously, yes, it's not the Redskins.
03:56You're not going to get that back.
03:57They're not going to do that.
03:58But it sure looks like it, doesn't it?
04:01Yes.
04:01It's a nice little, it's a nice, you could, and even still, it's on the one, like I said,
04:06the one nitpick I was going to make, which I know some other people said too, is that,
04:09well, why couldn't they do the spear helmet for the regular primary uniforms?
04:14I think to a graduate, that could happen.
04:16They did that last year.
04:17They did the throwback uniforms as an alternate, and now there are permanent uniforms.
04:21What's to say that that spear helmet can't be with the primary uniforms a year or two down the line?
04:25Right.
04:26Yeah.
04:26Well, I think Klaus also mentioned it.
04:28He did.
04:28We have audio of that.
04:30Thanks for the call, Peter.
04:31About being on a journey, right?
04:32Yeah, here's Mark Klaus talking about, was the spear considered on both helmets?
04:37Yeah, so, you know, one of the things that we feel, you know, and believe is very important
04:44is that we are on a journey, right?
04:47And we're going to be thoughtful and purposeful in how we think about bringing these things
04:53to fans and listening to them.
04:55Um, we just felt like it was a great platform on this re-imagination of our alternative black
05:02uniform, love Hailraiser, think it brings the energy that DQ is bringing to the football
05:08side.
05:08Actually, a lot of what we do, um, we do kind of shoulder to shoulder with football, make
05:14sure that it matches and feels like it fits what they're doing.
05:17And we just thought it was a great kind of that burst of energy for the alternate uniform.
05:21We're going to continue to think about how do we, you know, bring more elements of our
05:27heritage forward and we'll keep working on that.
05:30But for right now, we're excited about it being on the alternate and giving us that kind
05:34of special, uh, push when we need it.
05:37Follow the money.
05:38They're going to look at sales too.
05:40Sure.
05:40Of course.
05:41So if that helmet sells a lot more, they'll probably turn to it.
05:45It completely tells, his answer there tells me we're open to anything.
05:48We're open to considering anything.
05:50Yeah, they're on a journey.
05:51Reflexible.
05:51Minus name change.
05:53That aside from that.
05:55Right.
05:55But they're willing to tweak the uniform and the helmets.
05:59Well, I mean, we've seen that clearly.
06:01And that's what teams do.
06:02Right.
06:02Teams do.
06:03All teams do it.
06:03They generate sales.
06:05It was nothing else.
06:06It was funny yesterday watching NBC for, uh, the news, Doug camera, our boy was doing
06:11the weather talking about how freaking hot it is.
06:13Right.
06:13And then all of a sudden JP Finley comes in and just breaks in and with the helmet right in
06:18front of him as he's doing the weather.
06:20It was obviously planned, but, um, and then, and then they started, they brought the jerseys
06:25out and they, and they were wearing the jerseys.
06:28Talk about the helmets.
06:29I mean, no, it was like, it was the big deal.
06:31No offense to Doug camera at all.
06:32Love him.
06:33Yeah.
06:33But uniform reveals and sports bigger than the weather.
06:38I mean, way higher on the, but that's about the only thing because weather usually leads
06:43off all the time.
06:43Weather usually leads off the news.
06:46I understand.
06:46Think about that.
06:48But any sort of uniform, uniform tweak, reveal, way more important than whether it's going
06:53to be 90 degrees in DC today.
06:55Yeah.
06:55Well, it was a big deal yesterday.
06:56That's why JP Finley brought in the helmet.
06:59I'm surprised he didn't put it on.
07:00Let's go to, let's go to Walter in a hand over Maryland cakes.
07:04Walter, what's up, buddy?
07:05Y'all with the junkies.
07:07Hey guys.
07:08Thanks for having me.
07:09Um, thank you, Walter.
07:11Yeah, no problem.
07:12Yep.
07:13Uh, yesterday listening to you guys, you're like, man, is this jerseys going to be good?
07:17Are they not?
07:18Are they going to hit?
07:18What?
07:19So finally they come out yesterday.
07:21Right.
07:22I get, I get the pictures.
07:23I watch them.
07:24I'm like, Ooh, these are nice.
07:26These are nice.
07:26So I started texting my daughter, right?
07:28My son, son's, uh, 12 daughters, 19.
07:31Yeah.
07:32Uh, and first thing I get back from my daughter, the black ones are tough.
07:36I was like, yes, they are.
07:37Yeah.
07:38Yes.
07:38They did.
07:39They did a great job.
07:40Obviously it can't be perfect.
07:41Right.
07:42Right.
07:42Hey, I'm with it, man.
07:44I'm a commander.
07:45Uh, switched over from the Redskins.
07:46I'm a commander and let's move forward.
07:48This guy is a rare bird.
07:52I like this.
07:52It's just like, it's not worth crying.
07:54You just got to get past bigger issues in life.
07:56It's probably going to be like the wizards.
07:58There's still some people that want them to be the bullets, but over time, they're just
08:03the wizards.
08:04I'm man enough to say, I like the name wizards now.
08:06I didn't like it 20 years ago.
08:08I actually like it.
08:09They're a wizard with the basketball.
08:10It's okay.
08:11I like it.
08:12I maxed out.
08:13It's okay.
08:14But will you actually like the commander's name ever?
08:17Cause you don't like it now.
08:19I don't know.
08:19Maybe.
08:19I don't know.
08:20I'll probably, I'll be dead.
08:21Over, you know, next 10 years, you'll probably say, yeah, I kind of like it.
08:24Uh, I don't know.
08:24It's okay.
08:25Well, especially if they're winning consistently.
08:26It's very generic.
08:27Well, that's the most important.
08:28That's the other thing.
08:29All right.
08:29You can throw the unis out there.
08:31All right.
08:31They look cool.
08:32If you win with the uniforms, I don't care if they're gorgeous or ugly.
08:36That changes everything.
08:37Well, and Klaus said that actually when we were in the hallway, he was like, and it's
08:41such a stark contrast.
08:43And then we can talk about this throughout the show, but you know, GP likes to point this
08:47out.
08:47I was listening.
08:48I was driving around.
08:49It's just laughable.
08:50And we said it at the time that Ron Rivera was involved in this on any level.
08:53Yeah.
08:54And Jason Wright, God bless him.
08:55Maybe he should be involved-ish, you know, but as an executive, but he was here for a
08:59half hour.
08:59Like we had these two sort of random people just setting the foundation for the next 40
09:05years or so.
09:06It's very annoying.
09:06Can you imagine Dan Quinn having a real important say in the design of all this?
09:11It's preposterous.
09:12But Klaus said the football people there.
09:15Quinn and those guys are like, yeah, yeah, it looks great.
09:16We just got to win football games.
09:18Yeah.
09:18You know what I mean?
09:19Like they have it.
09:20They understand where it ranks.
09:22It's the thread that runs through the whole organization.
09:25You got to win.
09:25Well, in terms of revenue, that drives the sales more than anything.
09:28Of course.
09:29You can have the coolest jersey in the world and have the best spear and everything and hit
09:35every note and be thematically correct, but if your team sucks, you're not selling a ton
09:40of jerseys.
09:41Go ask the Maryland Terrapins in the mid-2000s or whatever when they came to Maryland Pride
09:45uniforms and how hot those were.
09:47They didn't win, though.
09:49They didn't win.
09:49Right.
09:50And that's appropriate.
09:51The fans always tweaking their uniforms and their look just because there hasn't been
09:55consistent winning.
09:56Right.
09:57They're trying to bring fans in however they can.
09:59You get wins, everybody buys the jersey.
10:01Yep.
10:02It's pretty important.
10:02Everybody starts wearing the jersey.
10:04Yep.
10:04All right.
10:05Coming up next, John Kime, Commander's Reporter for ESPN.
10:08He will join us next here on The Fan.
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