Competition "What If" Wednesdays - Time Traveller Sneezes Edition: Week 19 - Port Adelaide retain their Magenta

[cannavo]

Welcome to ...

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Marty McFly has done himself a mischief and has altered the course of Aussie footy in ways you can't imagine!
Get ready to dive into alternate futures!​

What is “What If” Wednesdays?
"What if" Wednesdays was a competition comprised of real-life football team proposals, merger propositions, former teams and a few hypotheticals brought to life by the FJGD community (eg. If the Melbourne-Hawthorn merger went ahead, if University/Fitzroy/Bris Bears stuck around, if Gold Coasts nickname were the Lifesavers etc.) it became this boards longest running competition (8/9/14 – 29/5/19). It has been revived under a meme cultured spin-off! Time traveller sneezes memes are all about butterfly effects on various things caused by a time traveller altering the past by means of a simple sneeze.


What’s new this time around?
This time or these times around, we will be flung into various timelines where our universes former teams, mergers, relocation proposals never existed or had its outcome altered slightly or severely! The list below is comprised of alternate timelines and the butterfly effect caused by our cheeky time traveller. Your job is to envision this outcome! Each comp will run for 1 week and the poll will run for 3 days. The winner picks the next team from the list below or can use their one-time self-imposed idea where they put forward an idea not listed below.

There are some routes you can go by if you're stuck:

• The chosen team has entered their designated competition in the current year (unless specified) along with the current teams OR
• You may design kits at any point in time unless strictly specified OR
• Accompany your kits with a backstory on how the team came to be to help better envision the outcome
• Use Google to search the history and stories behind what is being altered

Bare minimum for an entry is:

• A home kit with the front of the jumper showing
  (Back, shorts, socks are optional)
• OPTIONAL Away kit (Home with white shorts is acceptable)
• OPTIONAL 3rd kit
  • Clash kit
  • Heritage kit
  • Other kit
• OPTIONAL Club Logo (Highly Encouraged!)

Let’s see what has happened this time

Our Timeline: In the 1900's, magenta became hard to obtain and maintain. So Port Adelaide switched to black and white
Altered Timeline: The 1900's saw a boom in magenta production and Port Adelaide decided to keep it​

Basic Rules (Read Carefully):

1. Kits and Logo must be in 1 picture (Makes polls easier to fit everything in)
2. The kits can consist of just a Jumper (Shorts and socks are encouraged to give a full identity effect)
3. Minimum 1 kit and there's no limit to how many kits you can include after that
   eg. Home and Away and/or Clash and/or Heritage and/or Others
   1. Designing a Home and away/clash kit is highly encouraged for that authentic feel and to develop that alternate universe experience
4. Attempt to stay close to the altered timeline
5. Directly copying current football team kits/logos are not allowed
6. Creating a logo is encouraged but you may take inspiration from and/or alter any existing sports logo to drive home your design.
7. Maximum 2 entries per person
8. Any questions at all, please ask!

Specific Category Rules:

Colour Corner Rule:

1. You must stick to the colours/alterations mentioned (eg. for Port Adelaide, you must include Magenta in any way you like, for Adelaide’s hurried kits a minimum of 3 of the 5 colours must be used)

Alternate timeline categories
Bold - Completed with poll results

Mergers

• Melbourne - St Kilda merger (1995)
• Tasmania - Fitzroy Merger
• Sydney - Fitzroy Merger
• Gold Coast Suns seek merger with Sharks to stay alive
• Fitzroy - Brisbane (Fitzroy Bears)
• Tasmania agree to merger with North Melbourne

Relocations

• Saints relocate to NZ
• Essendon relocate to NT to become Alice Springs
• Hawthorn relocate to Canberra
• Fitzroy relocate to Canberra
• Fitzroy relocate to Brisbane in the 80s (Prior to the Bears existing)
• South Melbourne relocate to Tasmania
• South Melbourne relocate to Canberra
• Fitzroy complete move to North Sydney - 1980
• Footscray relocate to Queensland - 1981

League transfers

• West Coast Eagles to the SANFL
• Brisbane Bears to the SANFL
• Fitzroy to the SANFL - 1981
• Footscray to the SANFL - 1981
• Adelaide Uni to the SANFL - 1991 (cannot use only black and white)
• Collingwood to the SANFL - 1997
• East Perth to the VFL - 1980
• Norwood to the AFL
• Launceston to the AFL
• Essendon to the WAFL

New Teams

• Port Adelaide crows join the AFL - 1991
• Papua New Guinea enter the AFL
• Mount Gambier join the SANFL
• Limestone Coast join the SANFL
• Sydney enter as a separate team (Bloods stay in Vic)
• Darwin join the AFL - 1991
• Public Service Football Club join the VFL
• Gold Coast fold, new North Queensland team take their place - 2030
• NZ enter 90's State of Origin
• Broome become the 2nd WA AFL team
• Gold Coast hijack Brisbane Bears VFL entry - 1986

Colour Corner

• West Coast Eagles VFL kits altered due to Williamstown sharing the same colours
• GWS keep their 'Team GWS' colours
• Port Adelaide retain their Magenta
• Adelaide's hurried concept
  (Adelaide board hastily attain clothes from local sport store and use the 5 colours to design their new AFL team)

Specials

• Hawthorn release Ochre jumper - 2000
• Skittle's sponsor Essendon and release special guernsey
• Heidelberg Warriors align with Collingwood for 1 season - 1996
• Melbourne remain as The Fuchsias
• Melbourne remain as The Invincible Whites
• Collingwood remain as Britannia

 

[Sam Hall]

 

[Pappagallo]

I can’t remember who made this but it’s a goddamn masterpiece.

 

[cannavo]

It's the start of the 1900's and Port Adelaide are facing a crisis with their jumpers. The Magenta pigment was in short supply and was difficult to maintain in this era, until news broke that a ship washed ashore near North Haven. Police examined the wreckage and found that the ship came from France and inside were stockpiles of chemical dyes. The majority of them came from the Rafard factory in Lyon, France where the magenta dye originated. Port Adelaide officials caught wind of this and made the trip up north to acquire the dye and their issue was sorted. Faced with the possibility of switching to a more manageable black and white, the magenta pigment saw a boom in production all over the world in the coming years, even inside the clubs HQ! So they decided to keep the magenta to this day and even carrying it over into their switch to the AFL

 

[KBLT]

The 1900s were a difficult time for many. Surprisingly however, an unexpected boom in the economy of the South Australian capital injected vital funding into the South Australian Football Association. The Port Adelaide Football Club, facing a shortage of magenta dye, had drawn up plans for a backup guernsey should they fail to obtain their desired colour. The much needed cash allowed the club to purchase a stockpile of the valuable resource. However, players liked the 'prison bar' design that had been created, pressuring the club to adopt a magenta version, becoming an instant classic. Ever since, barring a short period during the second world war, the Mariners, as they came to be known, have always worn magenta and blue prison bars. The gold made a return in the mid seventies with the advent of early colour TV. The sustained success of the Mariners made them the obvious choice for a first Adelaide based team in the VFL, officially joining in 1991 after a short dispute with Fitzroy over similar colours.

 

[errant bounce]

Have to say the two tone pink and then the pink, cream, and blue are some great combos.

I see a fair few Melbourne Vixens scarves around and those colours are crackers; really wish more teams went for more experimental combinations.

 

[1990crow]

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It's the start of the 1900's and Port Adelaide are facing a crisis with their jumpers. The Magenta pigment was in short supply and was difficult to maintain in this era, until news broke that a ship washed ashore near North Haven. Police examined the wreckage and found that the ship came from France and inside were stockpiles of chemical dyes. The majority of them came from the Rafard factory in Lyon, France where the magenta dye originated. Port Adelaide officials caught wind of this and made the trip up north to acquire the dye and their issue was sorted. Faced with the possibility of switching to a more manageable black and white, the magenta pigment saw a boom in production all over the world in the coming years, even inside the clubs HQ! So they decided to keep the magenta to this day and even carrying it over into their switch to the AFL

Huh. That's actually really good.

 

[Fizzler]

I can’t remember who made this but it’s a goddamn masterpiece.

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I see a masterpiece like this and I get the sense there’s no way anyone other than Stewart2Austin Reborn made it.