Favourite team: Seattle Lumberjacks
Least favourite team: don't really have one
Favourite look: Colorado Cougars (they could use a better logo, but I like how the purple and silver go together)
Least favourite look: Washington Pirates (mostly due to the fact that the striping patterns on the helmet/pants and the jerseys are different)
Memorable players: Eugene Addams (QB - Philadelphia/Minneapolis), Quentin Brookes (RB - New York/Pittsburgh*), Scott Hogg (QB - Washington/Chicago), Burt O'Conner (QB - Minneapolis/Philadelphia)

How many NFA teams have retired numbers, and which numbers have each of those teams retired? (All I know about NFA retired numbers is that #32 and at least two other numbers are retired in New York, and that #16 is retired in Philadelphia.) Also, how big are each of the 20 NFA stadiums?

Stickman wrote:

Really interesting statistics there Pepper, definitely a few surprises, thanks for uploading that!   Yeah, I'd be totally down for an all time win loss record list!

Here it is then!

Washington Pirates: 128-91-7
Chicago Zephyrs: 118-62-6
Philadelphia Hornets: 118-101-7
Boston Gaels: 116-104-5
New York Cannons: 113-100-13
Detroit Bombers: 106-78-7
Los Angeles Tigers: 98-101-11
Minneapolis Blue Ox: 86-58-2
Pittsburgh Ironman: 84-98-8
Cleveland Rangers: 62-81-3
Baltimore Bulldogs: 34-39-1
San Francisco Whales: 33-65-0
Seattle Lumberjacks: 31-65-2
Milwaukee Barbarians: 20-29-1

They're sorted by most amount of wins.

TOUCHDOWN QB EAGLES wrote:

Hell, I missed months of this. Anything good I miss?

 Not much has changed for Philly the last couple of seasons. Since their Champions Bowl appearance they've returned to the postseason every year, still led by QB Oscar Washington. They haven't made any huge acquisitions though to push them over the top, which has resulted in two early exits in the postseason. They've fallen behind in a competitive Northeast division and lost a couple important pieces of the o-line to the expansion draft last offseason. They're going to be big buyers this offseason though, and with a revamped free agency system taking hold this summer, hopefully they'll find someone to keep them in the scene for a Champions Bowl.

dvdbubba27 wrote:

Favourite team: Seattle Lumberjacks
Least favourite team: don't really have one
Favourite look: Colorado Cougars (they could use a better logo, but I like how the purple and silver go together)
Least favourite look: Washington Pirates (mostly due to the fact that the striping patterns on the helmet/pants and the jerseys are different)
Memorable players: Eugene Addams (QB - Philadelphia/Minneapolis), Quentin Brookes (RB - New York/Pittsburgh*), Scott Hogg (QB - Washington/Chicago), Burt O'Conner (QB - Minneapolis/Philadelphia)

How many NFA teams have retired numbers, and which numbers have each of those teams retired? (All I know about NFA retired numbers is that #32 and at least two other numbers are retired in New York, and that #16 is retired in Philadelphia.) Also, how big are each of the 20 NFA stadiums?

I'm glad to see the Jacks have a fan! Although it can't be the best of times, the front office has handled the team horribly, hopefully it's only up from here.
Colorado will update their logo soon I'd think. Their current is the last of its kind, and the illustration style will fall out of fashion by the next few years, so I could see a new logo being unveiled relatively soon.
I'm glad to hear you have some favorite characters, I want to try and focus more on some so more of them become memorable. As for the ones you picked, they're probably some of the most dominant offense players in league history, Addams, Hogg, and Brookes, Hogg already being remembered as one of, if not the greatest of all time. The exception is O'Connor, who I think I talked about before, but he wasn't as notable. He had a couple breakout years but he's most remembered for the Addams trade.
The current players that have their numbers retired are: Eugene Addams' 16 for the Hornets, Terrance Gaines' 8 for the Pirates, Wayne Pearson's 10 for the Tigers, Houston Henderson's 16 for the Bombers, Alfred "Alfie" Raschall's 20 for the Zephyrs, Elijah Kingston's 12 for the Gaels, and George Roosevelt's 30, Quentin Brookes' 32, and the number 0 to honor the lives lost in WWII for the Cannons.
The 2 Cannons ones that nobody knows are both pre-NFA retirements. Roosevelt was the first football player, and one of the first professional athletes to have a number retired. He played from 1919-1931 and won 4 of New York's 7 AFA titles from 20-23. He started out with the Cannons, walking onto the team after coming home from WW1. He played there from 1919-1924. He then spent a year with a team called the Detroit Cougars, the next year with the Dayton Braves, and then finished his career with Milwaukee, winning 2 more AFA titles in 28 and 29.
The retired zero is in honor of the fallen soldiers from all American wars but most importantly WWII. The oldest son of then owner George Jones was killed in WWII, and so not long before the founding of the NFA, he retired 0 to honor all fallen soldiers.
The name Cannons actually derives from the army, George Jones himself was a soldier during the Spanish American war and served for a few years after. When his father died he came home and resigned. After becoming interested in the sport he bought the then named New York Football Team, who traveled to play teams around the North Atlantic area and renamed them the Cannons. He would due of illness in 1946, right before the founding of the NFA, and his younger 2 sons Robert Jones and George Jones Jr. would take over ownership and help form the league.

RightGuard wrote:

Favorite team: Cleveland, St. Louis
Least favorite team: Chicago, Washington
Favorite look: same as favorite teams
Least favorite look: same as least favorite teams
Which colors are the more important for certain teams? Like to me, Minneapolis has navy, but the white is way more prominent compared to it. Milwaukee has more black, but gold is used as a secondary so as not to confuse it with Chicago or Baltimore. And Washington has those alternate color unis, which makes me wonder if red is more important than white. Sorry, I just like thinking about this. 

Minneapolis definitely favors white over navy. Their most recent update actually saw them drop the navy pants they had. Right now it's used mostly as a way to avoid the clashing of white and powder blue. Milwaukee is a bit similar, although they'll be making a slight change in the direction you mentioned. Washington doesn't have alternate color uniforms? Their first set of uniforms included a red and blue uniform, but the red was quickly dropped to comply with the league rulings that every team had to have a white uniform. Since then they've kept a white and blue jersey. Although to make up for not having a red one, they're white uniform has red features and no sign of blue while the away uniform does the opposite. It's not really that red or white has more authority or importance in the color scheme, it's more like all three are used equally. You're completely okay though! I'm glad people are interested in this sort of stuff, it's cool to see y'all like my stuff.

Rugrat wrote:

Part 2 (I know this is a little late but here we go)
Memorable Players:
Scott Hogg (QB Zephyrs)
Eugene Addams (QB Hornets, Blue Ox)
Houston Henderson (QB Bombers)
Keith Lincoln (QB Tigers)
Stevie Parks (RB Gaels)
Dougie Edmonds (QB Pirates, Blue Ox)

Requests
I would like to see some NFA stadium data.

Yeah I'm still working on getting everything organized, life's been a bit busy but I'm still getting it done, I'll have the stadium info up later in the offseason like I said earlier.

I'll go ahead and throw up the first division of uniforms. I'll also showcase what the anniversary patch looks like on the uniforms.


First the Northeastern division. The Hornets were the only one who made a big change in their uniforms, Boston on the other hand made a change to their logo, Washington tweaked their home uniform and added an alternate, and New York and Baltimore made small tweaks. 

Philadelphia’s up first, their logos stay unchanged, but their colors are just slightly darkened. Their new uniforms take a new spin on their current uniforms. Yellow is still worn at home and Black on the road but both are now paired with white pants. Each uniform’s striping is also simplified and white is removed from both of them. The helmet is the biggest change however, switching from yellow to black.Boston’s next. Their logo package had been around forever but their uniforms had just recently changed. To balance things out the team refreshed their logos. The new logo is a 4 leafed clover outlined in orange. A new secondary is the same clover with a B in the center. The uniforms stay the same but the helmet logo is updated to represent the changes state above.
Washington made a tweak to their home uniform. Formerly it featured only red accessories but now, as they add a red alternate, blue is added. Grey pants are also brought back in reference to the uniforms worn from 46-53. The new red alternate is a copy of their away uniform, which doesn’t change, but with red instead of blue.The Cannons only made the small tweak of bringing back yellow pants for the home uniform. They also updated the striping on them from 1 red stripe to 2.The Bulldogs only tweak was allowing black pants to be worn at home and white pants to be worn on the road.
Let me know how they look! I know I said the Pirates weren't going to change their uniforms, but I've had this tweak designed and waiting for a while so I decided to go ahead and change them now. The blue and red uniforms will have priority over the white uniform as well, which kinda brings back the era where they only had a red and blue uniform. Also, how's the new template? I know it's is a bit ahead of it's time, but it's only a representation of one of the variety of uniforms a player can have. Much like irl, some players have longer sleeves, some have 2 bar facemasks still, etc etc. 

So far so good with the new uniforms! Can't wait to see what you have in store for the rest of the league. This should be a fun season! Exciting to hear some teams will get new stadiums! Pittsburgh's in particular sounds interesting. This world's Astrodome I guess. Okay Rangers, lets bounce-back in '68 and show the world our title a few years ago was no fluke! 

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