Competition "What If" Wednesdays - Time Traveller Sneezes Edition: Week 12 - Brisbane merge with Fitzroy to become Fitzroy Bears

[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: Fitzroy Lions merged with Brisbane Bears to become the Brisbane Lions
Altered Timeline: Brisbane Bears merged with Fitzroy Lions to become the Fitzroy Bears​

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:

Mergers Rules:

1. There are no restrictions. You can take any elements from the clubs involved in the merger and create whatever you please
2. Teams involved in a merger that do not exist yet, you can identify them in any way you like (eg. Tasmania can be whatever you like them to be when merging)

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

 

[BigChippa52]

ill see how i go but should get something done this week

 

[cannavo]

It's 1996 and with years upon years of talks about possible mergers amongst various AFL clubs, the struggling Brisbane Bears seek a lifeline in the Fitzroy Lions whose team had an incredible resurgence, claiming the reserves premiership in recent years but dwindling crowds and crippling debt put their name amongst the clubs in need of some support. The Bears and Lions board got together and after some months of deliberation and considerations of all options, the two parties agreed to merge and have the Bears name move south into Victoria to become the Fitzroy Bears. This would unfortunately leave Queensland without a footy team, but years later, they would finally get another under a different name. Their inaugural jumper comprised of a mix between the Bears recent Vee and the first Fitzroy jumper with old chamois reinforcing with the red changing to the old maroon, as well as the standard blue yoke that sits on top. The bear head was an unused Brisbane Bears logo which finally saw some purpose as the centrepiece

 

[Nickimus Rex]

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It's 1996 and with years upon years of talks about possible mergers amongst various AFL clubs, the struggling Brisbane Bears seek a lifeline in the Fitzroy Lions whose team had an incredible resurgence, claiming the reserves premiership in recent years but dwindling crowds and crippling debt put their name amongst the clubs in need of some support. The Bears and Lions board got together and after some months of deliberation and considerations of all options, the two parties agreed to merge and have the Bears name move south into Victoria to become the Fitzroy Bears. This would unfortunately leave Queensland without a footy team, but years later, they would finally get another under a different name. Their inaugural jumper comprised of a mix between the Bears recent Vee and the first Fitzroy jumper with old chamois reinforcing with the red changing to the old maroon, as well as the standard blue yoke that sits on top. The bear head was an unused Brisbane Bears logo which finally saw some purpose as the centrepiece

"If you are a Fitzroy-er then sing a-long with me.
We are the Bears on the road to victory."

 

[Nickimus Rex]

Found this in the cupboard - pretty sure it's an old Fitzroy-Brisbane Bears Football Club one from the 90s




The Bear in question

 

[cannavo]

Found this in the cupboard - pretty sure it's an old Fitzroy-Brisbane Bears Football Club one from the 90s

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The Bear in question

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> Be me
> Searches eBay for this exact card
> gullible af

Wow, hook line and sinker, that looks too damn real, its almost as if you pocketed it before the Doc sent you back to here

 

[Nickimus Rex]

Wow, hook line and sinker, that looks too damn real, its almost as if you pocketed it before the Doc sent you back to here

lol sorry

 

[cannavo]

BUMP

One more day

 

[Sam Hall]

Its 1990 and and the Bears make a bid to take over the struggling Fitzroy at the request of the AFL. The AFL offer the Bears 6 million in cash to take over the struggling Lions and another 6 million to Fitzroy which will pay off their debts and remove them from administration. The Fitzroy board accept but due to being stuck on the Gold Coast and unable to build a successful fanbase in Brisbane the AFL decide to pull out of south-east Queensland and move the Bears to Victoria. The Bears would play their first season based in Melbourne in 1991 and this would allow Fremantle and Port Adelaide to join the AFL together in 1995. The Bears would go on to win three premierships in 2001, 2002 and 2003. Co-Captain and 2003 Brownlow Medalist Nathan Buckley won his second Norm Smith Medal after the 2003 Grand Final where the Bears beat Collingwood by 50 points. The Bears were unable to win a 4th Grand Final in a row as they would lose the 2004 Grand Final to St Kilda, who had beaten Port Adelaide the week earlier. St Kilda would end a 38 year drought.

 

[Nickimus Rex]

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Its 1990 and and the Bears make a bid to take over the struggling Fitzroy at the request of the AFL. The AFL offer the Bears 6 million in cash to take over the struggling Lions and another 6 million to Fitzroy which will pay off their debts and remove them from administration. The Fitzroy board accept but due to being stuck on the Gold Coast and unable to build a successful fanbase in Brisbane the AFL decide to pull out of south-east Queensland and move the Bears to Victoria. The Bears would play their first season based in Melbourne in 1991 and this would allow Fremantle and Port Adelaide to join the AFL together in 1995. The Bears would go on to win three premierships in 2001, 2002 and 2003. Co-Captain and 2003 Brownlow Medalist Nathan Buckley won his second Norm Smith Medal after the 2003 Grand Final where the Bears beat Collingwood by 50 points. The Bears were unable to win a 4th Grand Final in a row as they would lose the 2004 Grand Final to St Kilda, who had beaten Port Adelaide the week earlier. St Kilda would end a 38 year drought.

Whilst I appreciate that imitation is the highest form of flattery, your design is exactly my one lol.

FYI if anyone else wants the Bear in SVG for art projects or whatever, just hit me up and tag me

 

[Sam Hall]

Whilst I appreciate that imitation is the highest form of flattery, your design is exactly my one lol.

FYI if anyone else wants the Bear in SVG for art projects or whatever, just hit me up and tag me

s**t I thought it was an actual footy card lol. Is it not? That’s pretty awesome


I played with so many designs for this one and hated them all. I thought seeing as no one else used the Bear and copied the card I’d just go for it so I had something.

Bit of ignorance there on my part so I apologise. Happy to be a DQ for this one. I’m just happy I was able to make a long sleeve.

 

[Nickimus Rex]

s**t I thought it was an actual footy card lol. Is it not? That’s pretty awesome


I played with so many designs for this one and hated them all. I thought seeing as no one else used the Bear and copied the card I’d just go for it so I had something.

Bit of ignorance there on my part so I apologise. Happy to be a DQ for this one. I’m just happy I was able to make a long sleeve.

Hah all g mate, i saw you using the bear and was like "ooh nice" then i realised the design was the same haha

 

[Sam Hall]

My actual entry:

Its 1990 and and the Bears make a bid to take over the struggling Fitzroy at the request of the AFL. The AFL offer the Bears 6 million in cash to take over the struggling Lions and another 6 million to Fitzroy which will pay off their debts and remove them from administration. The Fitzroy board accept but due to being stuck on the Gold Coast and unable to build a successful fanbase in Brisbane the AFL decide to pull out of south-east Queensland and move the Bears to Victoria. The Bears would play their first season based in Melbourne in 1991 and this would allow Fremantle and Port Adelaide to join the AFL together in 1995. The Bears would go on to win three premierships in 2001, 2002 and 2003. Co-Captain and 2003 Brownlow Medalist Nathan Buckley won his second Norm Smith Medal after the 2003 Grand Final where the Bears beat Collingwood by 50 points. The Bears were unable to win a 4th Grand Final in a row as they would lose the 2004 Grand Final to St Kilda, who had beaten Port Adelaide the week earlier. St Kilda would end a 38 year drought.

Apologies to Nickimius Rex who's design I accidentally stole. Free feel to enjoy his concept in the form of my template.