ironyisadeadscene wrote:
Sabres2Sabres wrote:
ironyisadeadscene wrote:
the de-slugging is cool as long as they dont change the 2007 banners. nothing sucks more then when a team changes the banners of pasts success to the current logos. you keep those banners as it.
Agreed. I also submitted a suggestion that they put the original banners from 96-97 and 98-99 back up, not the replacements they put up in 08 or whatever. They kept the appropriate logo on those banners...but replaced them. What the hell were they thinking replacing an original banner?
It's something that's bothered me since they did it.
last i knew, all the old pre-HSBC arena banners are replicas. all the old original blue and gold retired numbers and championship banners are all replicas. the original banners were lost after taken down after the last game in the aud, and last i knew, they hadnt been found.
Yes, I know that. Nothing you can do about that...but they did make them exact replicas, so those who didn't actually know they'd been lost wouldn't know the difference.
What I'm talking about is the banners won after HSBC was open - the Conference Champions in 99 in Division Champions in 97.
These were the original banners:
http://img856.imageshack.us/i/dsc00852.jpg/This image shows the banners they were replaced with sometime during the Golisano era:
http://img269.imageshack.us/i/img0041custom.jpg/yep! do you have any pre-change pictures of the banners? i wanna see how they changed them..