Comments on: Purple Sprain

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 17:02:27 +0000

Ryan said:

First the Dodgers (if I recall correctly, they will be putting names on their home jersies next season), now the Cubs. What’s next? Names on Yankee pinstripes? Yuck.

Up until last season, the Dodgers ALWAYS had names on the back of their jerseys since 1971 or 1972.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 17:43:41 +0000

To me, The Vikings’ uniforms weren’t the ugliest ones on the field. The officials’ uniforms were even more painful to see than the purple disasters the Vikes were wearing. Please tell me the officials’ uniforms are a joke and they’ll be wearing regularly striped shirts come the regular season.

By: GrafZeppelin

GrafZeppelin — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 17:29:59 +0000

The helmet/jersey color-match comment was really directed at the Bills, who changed their jersey colors while keeping essentially the same helmet colors (helmet is red with royal blue bison decal, but jerseys are primarily navy blue and “silver-nikel-blue,” with very little red and essentially no royal blue.)

Colts and Raiders helmets match their jerseys quite nicely; Raiders in particular go one step further as helmets match the pants (silver with single black stripe).

Just about every team’s helmet colors match the uniform fairly well, except the Bills and maybe the Giants; that metallic blue paint has to go, although they used to have navy-blue helmets and royal-blue jerseys, but that didn’t clash nearly as badly as the Bills’ current combination.

By: Big Mac Hold The Pickle

Big Mac Hold The Pickle — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 16:07:24 +0000

I had to read all the posts to see if anyone responded to the Pedro shinguard thing. As far as I can tell, it’s just a sanitary sock. Some players choose to wear sanitary socks that only come to mid-calf. I consider it a bad idea because it often leaves an odd stripe around mid-calf. I play baseball at Cumberland University in Tennessee, and I always make sure my sanitary’s reach the thicker upper part of the game sock. Most players wear the sanitary sock for comfort, or to help with blisters. I wear them for the same reasons, but also have found that a thick sanitary sock helps keep those pesky leg hairs that poke out through the game sock confined. Damn I hate those things.

By: Hugh

Hugh — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 13:45:30 +0000

The Vikings announced that the purpl;e pants will only be worn with white jerseys.

No all grape.

By: JohnnyBoy

JohnnyBoy — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 13:03:33 +0000

I assume that they put the names on the back of home jerseys now so that the casual fan (read as: waste of a ticket) can distinguish that #7 on the cubs is now Ryan Theroit instead of Todd Walker in this merry-go-round, pay-me-or-trade-me system. Where as I believe if you don’t know who’s playing, you aren’t watching, it is still a business designed to make money. (and lots of it, in the Cubs’ case)

By: Natron

Natron — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 12:58:01 +0000

DG Lewis said:

Maybe the Vikings new uniforms are intended to confuse and disorient the opponents? You know, make the linebackers all loopy when looking at the OL so they can’t read and react to the play…

Just a quick reminder that the worst is yet to come for all the Vikings uni haters… PURPLE PANTS!!!

Start hoarding the bottled water and canned goods now!

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 12:47:51 +0000

Greg said:

The one thing that bugs me about a jersey like this or this is that the manufacturer can’t make the effort to put the name on a pinstriped nameplate and line it up or just put it straight on the jersey. It’s not like they’re gonna take the nameplate off and reuse the jersey. It’s reminiscent of (and yes, as bad as) this.

The ONLY jersey that looked cool with a serious nameplate mistake was the 1980 Olympic Hockey white jersey – the blue nameplate somehow worked for me – but if I ever saw it again, I would think the equipment manager was drunk.

By: CubsFanBudMan

CubsFanBudMan — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 12:42:14 +0000

First inning of last night’s Cubs-Astros game, Len and Bob discussed Henry Blanco’s new catching gear: gray facemask, gray and blue chest protector, etc. Talked “fashion” for a bit, then dropped it after Brenly said something about a daisy on his gear…

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 07:42:45 +0000

Matt said:

At times I am ashamed to live in Beaverton, Oregon.

Can we switch, then? I can’t wait to get out of LA and up to the beautiful wet green countryside of Oregon. Too damn sunny and hot here in Southern California (yes, it’s possible). Then you factor in 20 million people, too many cars, traffic, no NFL team, and so much sickening superficiality…