Competition "What If" Wednesdays - Time Traveller Sneezes Edition: Week 26 - Melbourne relocate to Mars

[cannavo]

...AND WE'RE BACK!

Welcome to ...

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

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Our Timeline: Melbourne Demons stay in Victoria and there's no conclusive evidence of life on Mars
Altered Timeline: Melbourne Demons relocate to the planet Mars thanks to SpaceX
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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:

Relocations Rules

1. You are only bound by the location the said team is moving to (eg. South Melbourne’s move to Sydney where they changed their kits more reflect the location)
2. Take inspiration from the location and display that in the kits/logo in as big or as little as you like
3. Unchanged kits, names and logos will not be accepted

UPDATED Alternate timelines with categories
Bold - Completed with poll results
Italics - Newly added

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
• Port Melbourne granted VFL licensed but only if they merge with Fitzroy
• Williamstown merge with Footscray – 1989
• Norwood / Port Adelaide AFL merger (1991)
• South Melbourne - Footscray merger
• South Melbourne and North Melbourne merger

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
• Fitzroy relocate to Perth - 1981
• GWS relocate to Canberra
• Melbourne relocate to Mars
• Fitzroy relocate to South Africa - 1997

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
• Perth to the AFL (Merger of Perth, East Perth & West Perth)
• Glenelg to the AFL - 1997
• Geelong West to the VFL - 1976
• Swan Districts to the AFL - 1991

New Teams

• Port Adelaide crows join the AFL - 1991
• Papua New Guinea enter the AFL
• Limestone Coast join the SANFL
• Mount Gambier 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
  • Tiebreaker Poll
• Gold Coast hijack Brisbane Bears VFL entry - 1986
• Hobart to the AFL (Can't use Devils branding)
• Newcastle team to the AFL
• Southwest of WA to the AFL
• Tea Tree Gully & Modbury merge to make tenth SANFL team (2014)

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)
• Fremantle keep Red & Green, remove Purple & White
• Williamstown join the VFL in 1925 - design a late '90s/early '00s clash/away guernsey for them (1995-2005)

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 Invincible Whites'
• Collingwood remain as 'Britannia'
• Carlton remain as 'The Cockatoos'
• Hawthorn remain as 'The Mayblooms'
• BigFooty becomes the majority stakeholder, and primary sponsor of Gold Coast, requesting a new jumper set with the deal

New Category - Cross-Code Craze

• Newcastle Knights to the VFL - 1988
• Cronulla Sharks to the AFL - 1998
• South Sydney Rabbitohs to the AFL

 

[Sam Hall]

 

[wizardwaffle]

Is it Melbourne relocated to Mars the planet, or is it Mars the stadium in Ballarat?

 

[Sam Hall]

Is it Melbourne relocated to Mars the planet, or is it Mars the stadium in Ballarat?

I’m about to look like an idiot I can feel it…

 

[killer]

I was thinking Mars the planet
but go with whatever rocks

(Is that pic Santa Teresa?)

 

[cottoneyeYeo]

what the

 

[KBLT]

To say that the relocation of the Melbourne Football Club to another planet was unprecedented would be the understatement of the century, given the obvious limitations of playing footy in a non-breathable, lower gravity environment. When the club announced the move on the first of April, 2049, nobody took it seriously. But when the 2050 season came around, the Mars Football Club played its first home game at its brand new home ground, Valles Marineris Stadium.

 

[KBLT]

This is so dumb I love it

 

[troybe]

That 6 day break is going to be a tough commute

 

[The_torpedo]

my my marty mcfly what have you done this time

 

[cannavo]

BUMP

PS. Clearly it was meant to be the Mars chocolate factory......

 

[jcmelb]

 

[cannavo]

It's 3022, and Australian rules football has gone global, but it's only the beginning. Decades later, Elon Musk's descendants continued his legacy spanning over a millennium by completing SpaceX's mission to make life sustainable on other planets, more specifically Mars. Once the planet became habitable and had reliable transport between Earth and Mars, the most radical idea came to fruition when the AFL wanted the sport to go galactical! By this time, the sport had reached every state and territory of Australia competing in the national comp and internationally too. The Melbourne Demons, who by this time were struggling to stay afloat after a hotel bill surfaced from 2021 when Earth was stricken with Covid-19 and the eventual premiers were staying in Perth for the Grand Final. In the years that went by, laws were passed stating unpaid bills will be subject to inflation, this put the club in absolute financial strife. With options low, they took wind of AFL's plans to take the game beyond their own atmosphere. They proposed a deal with SpaceX to own the club and make them the centrepiece for the company for this audacious venture. It was the biggest footy event when the 'Mars Demons' were officially unveiled, they would be sporting SpaceX's EVA Suit with Mars orange replacing Melbourne's red, a navy to sky gradient, the classic Demons yoke with Mars terrain pattern with an extra chevron and orange accents. With so many advances in transportation, the intergalactic move would prove to be hassle-free as opposed to the ways of the 3rd millennium where travelling interstate during finals was a huge obstacle. This epic adventure would cause the AFL to rebrand as the AFGL adding 'Galactical' to their name and a logo change featuring the milky way and the solar system outlined in the back. The slogan was a tongue-in-cheek dig at association footballs slogan "The World Game" by crossing out "World" and putting in "Galaxy" in an attempt to claim the title as the most widespread and biggest sport. Season 3062 saw the rest of the competition needing SpaceX suits with their club colours made up for when they had an away game in Mars. Sleeveless versions were made on Earth given Mars has a far colder climate