Even for tennis, that looks terrible. The neon pink idea is an eyesore, and even if you took that away, you would have a black/white stairway design which would look horrible. Essentially, it is a bad design on top of a worse one
A nice gesture from Blake. I wore all that Agassi stuff ‘back in the day,’ (the denim compression shorts stood way out at the staid Hyde Park Country Club where I played a lot, plus they felt great.) Not as cool as the Borg Fila stuff of the late 70s, but still a nice signpost from the late era 80s tennis scene.
Say it with me once more for posterity:
“Image..is..everything.”
Of course, having the best return of service in tennis history also helps.
Yeah, those Zoom Vapor III’s aren’t exactly accurate! I think it’s funny paying tribute to Agassi with Nike stuff when he is now with adidas.
Also, the Michigan game, I noticed that Steve Breaston and other players have Nike face shield tab logos instead of the usual Oakley moniker. Interesting….
Went to see the Columbus Clippers play the Toledo Mud Hens (triple-A) last nite and was pleasantly surprised to see all the Mud Hen players wearing short pants with real stir-ups (as far as I could tell). Nothing earth shattering, but nice to see a team staying with tradition. Maybe with more of the minor league teams requiring players to wear stir-ups, this will carry to the majors and hopefully reverse the pajama legs trend.
I noticed the Grambling State Tigers borrowed the Colorado Avalanche font for their uniform numbers, joining Link Northwestern as NCAA teams borrowing numbering fonts designed for a pro team. Any other examples?
Officials in the Vandy- Michigan game have the New Era logo on their hats. Never noticed that before.
You know, now that I think of it, New Era is guilty of quite a bit of logo creep themselves. Every single hat they make, with the exception of the 3930 and 5950 hats the MLB players actually wear on the field, has a New Era logo on (I think) the left side. (This doesn’t count the logos on the damn stickers that people leave on the bill, either.)
I noticed the Grambling State Tigers borrowed the Colorado Avalanche font for their uniform numbers, joining Link Northwestern as NCAA teams borrowing numbering fonts designed for a pro team. Any other examples?
Grambling recently has seemed to come up with some different crazy elaborate “crowded” uniform pretty much every season. If you don’t like this design don’t worry- it won’t be around for long.
Oregon is wearing green/green/green today. with YELLOW cleats. I’m one of the few (two or three?) people that actually like what the football team is doing with their uniforms.
The Buckeyes are on tv at the moment and I must say, the new jerseys are not bad. I was one of many who cried FOUL, when the change was announced this past spring.
The tabs on the new Nike visors are huge. It looks rediculous.
And Tennessee now has stripes on their pants again after having plain white for a couple years. Anyone have a picture of the orange pants/orange jersey look they had a few years back?
Maybe with more of the minor league teams requiring players to wear stir-ups, this will carry to the majors and hopefully reverse the pajama legs trend.
Unfortunately, I think the reverse is likely to be true. As young players reach the bigs, the thinking will be, “OK, hiking up my pants was so minor league — now that I’m a major-leaguer, I’ll pull my pants down.” And if they don’t think that themselves, their veteran teammates may tell them. Something similar happens in the NFL, where rookies often stop wearing thigh and knee pads (which are required in the NCAA but optional in the NFL).
dont you think some of the players in the oregon lockerroom are a bit embarrassed? WE have to wear THOSE? I know Nike dares to be different and cutting edge—but—those are truly horrible.
Oklahoma appears to be going without names on their backs this season. Apparently this format will be used all season?
Tennessee looks like they have a commemorative patch of some sort on the left front of the jersey. Maybe a university logo?
I really don’t think Kentucky’s jerseys are that bad, in regard to the Fox Sports article. They aren’t exactly my favorites, but they are not even in the worst 70 or so, much less the worst overall.
And does anyone know what the patch that some of the Tenn. players are wearing is? It looks like a torch. Maybe one of those academic achievement kinda things.
I noticed something this afternoon while I was watching the Nebraska game. Nebraska has a patch on the front left side of their jersey, it looks like it is an ‘N’ and says around it Nebraska Cornhuskers perhaps. Caught a glimpse of their QB, Zac Taylor, looked like his patch had a ‘C’ in the center. Anyone else maybe catch it? I’m assuming that’s how they distinguish the captains on the team.
In the ND/ GT game, how can the gold GT jerseys be considered a dark jersey? On the wide shots, I can barely tell the difference. Dont they know football is a TV game?
Auburn’s new Under Armour jerseys have “Auburn” written in the same ugly font their mens’ basketball jerseys have. And Oklahoma’s jerseys look really small right now.
In the ND/ GT game, how can the gold GT jerseys be considered a dark jersey? On the wide shots, I can barely tell the difference. Dont they know football is a TV game?
I was thinking the same thing. I can’t tell who is who, especially on the full-field shots. It doesn’t help that they both have gold helmets. Two teams shouldn’t be allowed to wear the same helmet! (I know GT has a logo on their helmet, but it is close enough).
I noticed the Grambling State Tigers borrowed the Colorado Avalanche font for their uniform numbers, joining Link Northwestern as NCAA teams borrowing numbering fonts designed for a pro team. Any other examples?
Northwestern uses Crillee as the number font. It was not designed for the Blue Jays, they just happen to wear it on their jerseys. NU isn’t trying to copy Toronto. That’s like saying the Denver Nuggets are copying the University of Maryland.
San Diego State also wears the Avalanche-style numbers, and I’ve seen a few other I-AA and Div. 2 teams wear them as well.
If you want to talk about copying teams, look at Central Michigan. The numbers are the font Demonized (one of the most overused fonts in sports logos currently). Demonized is a freeware version of the font designed specifically for DePaul University.
Wait a few more years, and you’ll probably see other teams “adopt” the custom fonts used by the Miami Hurricanes, Boston College, Washington Huskies, Florida State, and maybe even the horrors of Oregon.
In the ND/ GT game, how can the gold GT jerseys be considered a dark jersey? On the wide shots, I can barely tell the difference. Dont they know football is a TV game?
Holy Crap! And I thought the game at my school was bad today UNCo/UC Davis
UAB’s quarterback Hunt, who wears #3, is wearing a helmet with the number 68 on the back.
On closer view, it appears that every UAB player is wearing 68 on their helmets. Anyone know why?
I would guess it is for the following individual. UAB alum, and former football player, Kirk Tuck, passed away from leukemia in July of this year. Anyone from the Birmingham area able to confirm this?
Maybe with more of the minor league teams requiring players to wear stir-ups, this will carry to the majors and hopefully reverse the pajama legs trend.
Unfortunately, I think the reverse is likely to be true. As young players reach the bigs, the thinking will be, “OK, hiking up my pants was so minor league — now that I’m a major-leaguer, I’ll pull my pants down.” And if they don’t think that themselves, their veteran teammates may tell them.
As I think you already directed us to see in David Wright’s blog earlier in the year. I’m crediting you because I don’t know how else I would have stumbled upon it without some kind of link from this or ESPN’s page. Cliff Floyd was giving Wright crap about his socks, so he pulled them down to be more “professional” (if I recall correctly).
I remember one year when Idaho played Southern Miss in the Humanitarian Bowl in Boise. Southern Miss was using the more metallic gold instead of yellow gold then, and wore black helmets, metallic gold jerseys and black pants. That was countered by Idaho in a photo negative effect, going with gold helmets, black jerseys and gold pants. All of that on blue turf. The effect was similar to staring at an eclipse.
Maybe with more of the minor league teams requiring players to wear stir-ups, this will carry to the majors and hopefully reverse the pajama legs trend.
Unfortunately, I think the reverse is likely to be true. As young players reach the bigs, the thinking will be, “OK, hiking up my pants was so minor league — now that I’m a major-leaguer, I’ll pull my pants down.” And if they don’t think that themselves, their veteran teammates may tell them. Something similar happens in the NFL, where rookies often stop wearing thigh and knee pads (which are required in the NCAA but optional in the NFL).
this is exactly right. have a friend who is a minor leaguer and I asked him about Ian Kinsler of the Ranger. “He’s the only one doing it right!” I said. “He has to because he’s a rookie. Next year he’ll pull’em down” he told me.
great. being a vet means you can wear pajamas in the game.
per Wikipedia: The green “V” worn on the back of the football players’ helmets (and also on the front of the basketball uniforms along the neckline) honors the agricultural industry of the San Joaquin Valley, and the importance it plays in financially supporting Fresno State (as well as the university’s contributions to the area economy).
that is just horrible. reminiscent of Hayden Fry’s Save American Farmers sticker. horrible.
am i the only one who thinks james blake looks badass? i mean what else can sum up old school agassi like a crazy shirt like that? i mean other then growing a mullet. if james blake grew a mullet, i think he’d become my favorite athlete in any sport. can someone with photoshop make this happen?
Ted Ginn is out to be the Nike poster boy Ginn #1 Ginn #2
By my count, he was wearing at least 15 ads this afternoon
2 on each shoe (4)
1 on pants (5)
2 on jersey (one on hang tag) (7)
2 on helmet shield tab (one swoosh, one NIKE)(9)
2 on each arm (13)
1 on each glove (15)
Also, you can just barely see the red “24″ sticker on his helmet in the 2nd photo. The Buckeyes are wearing it for Tyson Gentry, a walk-on punter who lost the ability to walk in a freak accident during spring practice
Nebraska has a patch on the front left shoulder that says “A tradition of excellence” in a circle around an ‘N.’ Captains have the N replaced with a ‘C.’
This being an international weekend in Europe (no club games to facilitate Euro 2008 Qualifiers), I decided to watch some Mexican soccer today. On Chivas, I noticed Adolfo Bautista dressed with the number 100 (not this season, but he was wearing the same number. BTW, the keeper in that picture is wearing a baseball cap). Given that the current Chivas side has nowhere near 99 players who would prevent him from wearing a two-digit number, I found this pretty strange. Looking around the FMF team pages on Wikipedia, I found two other instances of this… Hebert Alferez of CF Atlas, who wears #151, and Jorge Campos V of Santos de Laguna who wears #100, though I can’t find an image for either.
Any more regular Mexican soccer viewers who know the story behind this?
Adding on to my previous post…. I know the Laws of the Game don’t require numbers on jerseys (LOTG assumes that the ref asking a player his name when booked is sufficient, but numbers are much easier and more foolproof), but LOTG also doesn’t require nets on the goal frame (the law says that a net MAY be attached to the goal frame). I would think convention would shun 3-digit numbers…
Is anybody else watching the BYU-Arizona game? It’s BYU’s first game of the season, but yet some of them have several big play stickers on their helmets. Did they update the helmets at halftime? Are they carry-overs from last season? Touchdowns from the spring blue-and-white game? Academic awards?
per Wikipedia: The green “V” worn on the back of the football players’ helmets (and also on the front of the basketball uniforms along the neckline) honors the agricultural industry of the San Joaquin Valley, and the importance it plays in financially supporting Fresno State (as well as the university’s contributions to the area economy).
that is just horrible. reminiscent of Hayden Fry’s Save American Farmers sticker. horrible.
Why is it horrible? Being the only major school in the area, it wants to show appreciation for those who support the school and the region. In a way, it’s “Cal. State University, Fresno, of San Joaquin Valley” without the extended letterhead.
Explain to me how this is different from the University of Texas having a sticker of the state of Texas on the back of its helmets (color issues aside).
In the ND/ GT game, how can the gold GT jerseys be considered a dark jersey? On the wide shots, I can barely tell the difference. Dont they know football is a TV game?
I was thinking the same thing. I can’t tell who is who, especially on the full-field shots. It doesn’t help that they both have gold helmets. Two teams shouldn’t be allowed to wear the same helmet! (I know GT has a logo on their helmet, but it is close enough).
(…and quoting Brian and Forrest too)
Can we start awarding UniWatch yellow cards where the referee should send one team back into the locker room to change confusing uniforms? This would never pass in the Nationwide Conference!
…er, make that the Coca-Cola League, or more simply, “Championship”, “League One”, or “League Two”. It is 4am on a Sunday–don’t even know why I’m awake.
UAB’s quarterback Hunt, who wears #3, is wearing a helmet with the number 68 on the back.
On closer view, it appears that every UAB player is wearing 68 on their helmets. Anyone know why?
I would guess it is for the following individual. UAB alum, and former football player, Kirk Tuck, passed away from leukemia in July of this year. Anyone from the Birmingham area able to confirm this?
I read the comments often, but not always, so this may already have been brought up…
I was loking at the merchandise section, and I have to say out loud something I’ve believed since the beginning: I think the UniWatch logo looks like a beer bottle. I know it’s a fabulously striped stirrup, but it just looks like a beer bottle, especially when displayed as an icon, and I can’t get over it.
Is that the whole point? Is it supposed to look like a beer bottle? Or am I making too much of this?
I noticed something this afternoon while I was watching the Nebraska game. Nebraska has a patch on the front left side of their jersey, it looks like it is an ‘N’ and says around it Nebraska Cornhuskers perhaps. Caught a glimpse of their QB, Zac Taylor, looked like his patch had a ‘C’ in the center. Anyone else maybe catch it? I’m assuming that’s how they distinguish the captains on the team.
Since no one has mentioned this comment yet…I will. This is something I think they started last year, normally the patch as an ‘N’ on it and says ‘Nebraska Football-A Winning Tradition’ around the circle. The ‘C’ patch does deliniate Captain status. Last year I-back Cory Ross and SS Daniel Bullocks were the captains. This year you will see QB Zac Taylor, DE Adam Carriker and Special Teams player Brandon Rigoni. Hope that helps!
#1 by Scott on 09.02.06 12:07 pm |
Even for tennis, that looks terrible. The neon pink idea is an eyesore, and even if you took that away, you would have a black/white stairway design which would look horrible. Essentially, it is a bad design on top of a worse one
#2 by Scott Turner on 09.02.06 12:17 pm |
Somehow, the I-got-run-over-by-a-Sherman-tank look doesn’t inspire confidence.
#3 by Craig on 09.02.06 12:19 pm |
A fabulous Sherman tank
#4 by JDE on 09.02.06 12:19 pm |
James Blake *was* wearing a Andre Agassi throwback… ugly was the point.
http://www.usopen.or...
#5 by Smail on 09.02.06 12:34 pm |
as much as it pains me to say this, I have to give Michigan props for keeping the logo from that company out west as small as possible
#6 by Brinke Guthrie on 09.02.06 12:50 pm |
A nice gesture from Blake. I wore all that Agassi stuff ‘back in the day,’ (the denim compression shorts stood way out at the staid Hyde Park Country Club where I played a lot, plus they felt great.) Not as cool as the Borg Fila stuff of the late 70s, but still a nice signpost from the late era 80s tennis scene.
Say it with me once more for posterity:
“Image..is..everything.”
Of course, having the best return of service in tennis history also helps.
#7 by todd krevanchi (krvanch) on 09.02.06 1:09 pm |
kudos on accuracy…
http://cache.gettyim...
http://cache.gettyim...
to bad they couldnt retro a pair of those air tech challenges…
#8 by Micah on 09.02.06 1:42 pm |
Todd,
Yeah, those Zoom Vapor III’s aren’t exactly accurate! I think it’s funny paying tribute to Agassi with Nike stuff when he is now with adidas.
Also, the Michigan game, I noticed that Steve Breaston and other players have Nike face shield tab logos instead of the usual Oakley moniker. Interesting….
#9 by Jeff E. on 09.02.06 2:13 pm |
Went to see the Columbus Clippers play the Toledo Mud Hens (triple-A) last nite and was pleasantly surprised to see all the Mud Hen players wearing short pants with real stir-ups (as far as I could tell). Nothing earth shattering, but nice to see a team staying with tradition. Maybe with more of the minor league teams requiring players to wear stir-ups, this will carry to the majors and hopefully reverse the pajama legs trend.
#10 by Josh W on 09.02.06 2:39 pm |
It looks like Western Kentucky has the school logo on the back of their jersies where the last names should be. It looks pretty weird.
#11 by C.N. on 09.02.06 2:52 pm |
Officials in the Vandy- Michigan game have the New Era logo on their hats. Never noticed that before.
#12 by Eric on 09.02.06 3:05 pm |
I was playing NHL ‘06 with my friends and I noticed that Montreal’s 1937 jersey was plain white with the logo in the center.
I love it.
#13 by Donny on 09.02.06 3:19 pm |
I noticed the Grambling State Tigers borrowed the Colorado Avalanche font for their uniform numbers, joining Link Northwestern as NCAA teams borrowing numbering fonts designed for a pro team. Any other examples?
#14 by Andy from KC on 09.02.06 3:19 pm |
C.N. said:
You know, now that I think of it, New Era is guilty of quite a bit of logo creep themselves. Every single hat they make, with the exception of the 3930 and 5950 hats the MLB players actually wear on the field, has a New Era logo on (I think) the left side. (This doesn’t count the logos on the damn stickers that people leave on the bill, either.)
#15 by C.N. on 09.02.06 3:43 pm |
Donny said:
Grambling recently has seemed to come up with some different crazy elaborate “crowded” uniform pretty much every season. If you don’t like this design don’t worry- it won’t be around for long.
#16 by matt on 09.02.06 4:06 pm |
http://msn.foxsports...
any other teams come to mind for worst college football uniform? I would say wyoming
#17 by Brian A on 09.02.06 4:52 pm |
Oregon is wearing green/green/green today. with YELLOW cleats. I’m one of the few (two or three?) people that actually like what the football team is doing with their uniforms.
#18 by Chuck Ryals on 09.02.06 4:52 pm |
The Buckeyes are on tv at the moment and I must say, the new jerseys are not bad. I was one of many who cried FOUL, when the change was announced this past spring.
#19 by Smail on 09.02.06 4:58 pm |
Speaking of the Buckeyes, their newest victim of logo creep patrols the sidelines.
Pardon the crappy quality.
#20 by Mike from Queens on 09.02.06 5:43 pm |
Smail said:
I just typed out this whole thing with beautiful links and hit the back button accidentally. But, I’m determined. A shorter less pretty version:
http://graphics.fans...
http://images.sports...
http://msnbcmedia.ms...
http://www.ocolly.co...
http://starbulletin....
This is obviously not a new or contained phenomenon. Especially if Marv Levy was even a victim long ago:
http://www.buffalobi...
Although, check out one of the only schools to get the damn thing right. Sweet irony in Uni Watch land:
http://oregoninsider...
#21 by Mike from Queens on 09.02.06 5:46 pm |
Not even a new phenomenon in Ohio.
#22 by Smail on 09.02.06 5:55 pm |
Mike from Queens said:
I remember all the old Telex and Verizon headsets, I think it’s the blue in the logo that really makes it stand out against all the scarlet and grey.
#23 by bwalsh on 09.02.06 6:14 pm |
The tabs on the new Nike visors are huge. It looks rediculous.
And Tennessee now has stripes on their pants again after having plain white for a couple years. Anyone have a picture of the orange pants/orange jersey look they had a few years back?
#24 by Joe on 09.02.06 6:24 pm |
Getting off the college football topic for a moment, the Atlanta Thrashers will be wearing the third jersey as the new home jersey this season.
http://www.ajc.com/n...
#25 by Paul Lukas on 09.02.06 7:00 pm |
Jeff E. said:
Unfortunately, I think the reverse is likely to be true. As young players reach the bigs, the thinking will be, “OK, hiking up my pants was so minor league — now that I’m a major-leaguer, I’ll pull my pants down.” And if they don’t think that themselves, their veteran teammates may tell them. Something similar happens in the NFL, where rookies often stop wearing thigh and knee pads (which are required in the NCAA but optional in the NFL).
#26 by Brinke Guthrie on 09.02.06 7:08 pm |
dont you think some of the players in the oregon lockerroom are a bit embarrassed? WE have to wear THOSE? I know Nike dares to be different and cutting edge—but—those are truly horrible.
#27 by C.N. on 09.02.06 7:27 pm |
Some random thoughts…
Oklahoma appears to be going without names on their backs this season. Apparently this format will be used all season?
Tennessee looks like they have a commemorative patch of some sort on the left front of the jersey. Maybe a university logo?
I really don’t think Kentucky’s jerseys are that bad, in regard to the Fox Sports article. They aren’t exactly my favorites, but they are not even in the worst 70 or so, much less the worst overall.
#28 by Josh W on 09.02.06 7:28 pm |
bwalsh said:
My dad played in the all orange uni’s back in the late 70’s. he said they looked like giant pumpkins. Maybe i could find some old pics of him for ya
#29 by bwalsh on 09.02.06 7:32 pm |
And does anyone know what the patch that some of the Tenn. players are wearing is? It looks like a torch. Maybe one of those academic achievement kinda things.
#30 by Brandon on 09.02.06 7:33 pm |
Those Thrasher jerseys are disgusting sky blue is not even a Thrasher color y have it as a primary jersey color
#31 by Michael on 09.02.06 7:46 pm |
I noticed something this afternoon while I was watching the Nebraska game. Nebraska has a patch on the front left side of their jersey, it looks like it is an ‘N’ and says around it Nebraska Cornhuskers perhaps. Caught a glimpse of their QB, Zac Taylor, looked like his patch had a ‘C’ in the center. Anyone else maybe catch it? I’m assuming that’s how they distinguish the captains on the team.
#32 by Brandon on 09.02.06 8:24 pm |
Yahho! has a piece on the Good the Bad and the Ugly of CEB unis
#33 by Brandon on 09.02.06 8:25 pm |
I meant CFB unis sorry
#34 by Brian on 09.02.06 8:27 pm |
In the ND/ GT game, how can the gold GT jerseys be considered a dark jersey? On the wide shots, I can barely tell the difference. Dont they know football is a TV game?
#35 by Brandon on 09.02.06 8:27 pm |
heres the link sorry
#36 by C.N. on 09.02.06 8:28 pm |
Auburn’s new Under Armour jerseys have “Auburn” written in the same ugly font their mens’ basketball jerseys have. And Oklahoma’s jerseys look really small right now.
#37 by Eric on 09.02.06 8:41 pm |
Baylor goes under Bad? I like the new look. Also, Va Tech does not deserve to be under ugly. Good job getting Harvard in, too.
#38 by Jill on 09.02.06 8:41 pm |
Brian said:
I was thinking the same thing. I can’t tell who is who, especially on the full-field shots. It doesn’t help that they both have gold helmets. Two teams shouldn’t be allowed to wear the same helmet! (I know GT has a logo on their helmet, but it is close enough).
#39 by Jim on 09.02.06 9:04 pm |
Donny said:
Northwestern uses Crillee as the number font. It was not designed for the Blue Jays, they just happen to wear it on their jerseys. NU isn’t trying to copy Toronto. That’s like saying the Denver Nuggets are copying the University of Maryland.
San Diego State also wears the Avalanche-style numbers, and I’ve seen a few other I-AA and Div. 2 teams wear them as well.
If you want to talk about copying teams, look at Central Michigan. The numbers are the font Demonized (one of the most overused fonts in sports logos currently). Demonized is a freeware version of the font designed specifically for DePaul University.
Wait a few more years, and you’ll probably see other teams “adopt” the custom fonts used by the Miami Hurricanes, Boston College, Washington Huskies, Florida State, and maybe even the horrors of Oregon.
#40 by Forrest on 09.02.06 9:36 pm |
Brian said:
Holy Crap! And I thought the game at my school was bad today UNCo/UC Davis
Just…too much gold.
#41 by C.N. on 09.02.06 10:01 pm |
UAB’s quarterback Hunt, who wears #3, is wearing a helmet with the number 68 on the back.
#42 by C.N. on 09.02.06 10:03 pm |
C.N. said:
On closer view, it appears that every UAB player is wearing 68 on their helmets. Anyone know why?
#43 by Joe on 09.02.06 10:38 pm |
C.N. said:
I would guess it is for the following individual. UAB alum, and former football player, Kirk Tuck, passed away from leukemia in July of this year. Anyone from the Birmingham area able to confirm this?
http://uabsports.cst...
#44 by Mike from Queens on 09.02.06 10:57 pm |
Paul Lukas said:
As I think you already directed us to see in David Wright’s blog earlier in the year. I’m crediting you because I don’t know how else I would have stumbled upon it without some kind of link from this or ESPN’s page. Cliff Floyd was giving Wright crap about his socks, so he pulled them down to be more “professional” (if I recall correctly).
#45 by Mike Miller on 09.02.06 10:59 pm |
I remember one year when Idaho played Southern Miss in the Humanitarian Bowl in Boise. Southern Miss was using the more metallic gold instead of yellow gold then, and wore black helmets, metallic gold jerseys and black pants. That was countered by Idaho in a photo negative effect, going with gold helmets, black jerseys and gold pants. All of that on blue turf. The effect was similar to staring at an eclipse.
#46 by mark on 09.02.06 11:05 pm |
Paul Lukas said:
this is exactly right. have a friend who is a minor leaguer and I asked him about Ian Kinsler of the Ranger. “He’s the only one doing it right!” I said. “He has to because he’s a rookie. Next year he’ll pull’em down” he told me.
great. being a vet means you can wear pajamas in the game.
#47 by mark on 09.02.06 11:12 pm |
anybody see the Fresno State-Nevada game Fri night? Fresno State has a green V on the back of their helmets. anybody know why?
#48 by mark on 09.02.06 11:14 pm |
answering my own question: why the Green V?
per Wikipedia: The green “V” worn on the back of the football players’ helmets (and also on the front of the basketball uniforms along the neckline) honors the agricultural industry of the San Joaquin Valley, and the importance it plays in financially supporting Fresno State (as well as the university’s contributions to the area economy).
that is just horrible. reminiscent of Hayden Fry’s Save American Farmers sticker. horrible.
#49 by Tako on 09.02.06 11:15 pm |
am i the only one who thinks james blake looks badass? i mean what else can sum up old school agassi like a crazy shirt like that? i mean other then growing a mullet. if james blake grew a mullet, i think he’d become my favorite athlete in any sport. can someone with photoshop make this happen?
#50 by Cory on 09.02.06 11:16 pm |
Ted Ginn is out to be the Nike poster boy
Ginn #1
Ginn #2
By my count, he was wearing at least 15 ads this afternoon
2 on each shoe (4)
1 on pants (5)
2 on jersey (one on hang tag) (7)
2 on helmet shield tab (one swoosh, one NIKE)(9)
2 on each arm (13)
1 on each glove (15)
Also, you can just barely see the red “24″ sticker on his helmet in the 2nd photo. The Buckeyes are wearing it for Tyson Gentry, a walk-on punter who lost the ability to walk in a freak accident during spring practice
http://uweekly.com/s...
#51 by redemske on 09.02.06 11:24 pm |
Nebraska has a patch on the front left shoulder that says “A tradition of excellence” in a circle around an ‘N.’ Captains have the N replaced with a ‘C.’
#52 by Kevin W. on 09.02.06 11:55 pm |
Is it just me or did GT’s unis look more yellow than gold this year, and they sweat bands look liek pukey yellow.
#53 by Brian on 09.03.06 12:12 am |
This being an international weekend in Europe (no club games to facilitate Euro 2008 Qualifiers), I decided to watch some Mexican soccer today. On Chivas, I noticed Adolfo Bautista dressed with the number 100 (not this season, but he was wearing the same number. BTW, the keeper in that picture is wearing a baseball cap). Given that the current Chivas side has nowhere near 99 players who would prevent him from wearing a two-digit number, I found this pretty strange. Looking around the FMF team pages on Wikipedia, I found two other instances of this… Hebert Alferez of CF Atlas, who wears #151, and Jorge Campos V of Santos de Laguna who wears #100, though I can’t find an image for either.
Any more regular Mexican soccer viewers who know the story behind this?
#54 by Mike from Queens on 09.03.06 12:29 am |
Brian said:
One reason/story: tequila.
#55 by Brian on 09.03.06 12:47 am |
Adding on to my previous post…. I know the Laws of the Game don’t require numbers on jerseys (LOTG assumes that the ref asking a player his name when booked is sufficient, but numbers are much easier and more foolproof), but LOTG also doesn’t require nets on the goal frame (the law says that a net MAY be attached to the goal frame). I would think convention would shun 3-digit numbers…
#56 by Beau on 09.03.06 1:05 am |
This week’s ESPN article noted that Virginia has changed the orange “V” on their home jersey to white to match the “V” on the helmet.
The same is not true of the road jersey, which keeps the orange “V”.
#57 by Eric on 09.03.06 1:17 am |
Is anybody else watching the BYU-Arizona game? It’s BYU’s first game of the season, but yet some of them have several big play stickers on their helmets. Did they update the helmets at halftime? Are they carry-overs from last season? Touchdowns from the spring blue-and-white game? Academic awards?
#58 by Jim on 09.03.06 1:44 am |
mark said:
Why is it horrible? Being the only major school in the area, it wants to show appreciation for those who support the school and the region. In a way, it’s “Cal. State University, Fresno, of San Joaquin Valley” without the extended letterhead.
Explain to me how this is different from the University of Texas having a sticker of the state of Texas on the back of its helmets (color issues aside).
#59 by ThresherK on 09.03.06 4:22 am |
Jill said:
(…and quoting Brian and Forrest too)
Can we start awarding UniWatch yellow cards where the referee should send one team back into the locker room to change confusing uniforms? This would never pass in the Nationwide Conference!
#60 by ThresherK on 09.03.06 4:37 am |
…er, make that the Coca-Cola League, or more simply, “Championship”, “League One”, or “League Two”. It is 4am on a Sunday–don’t even know why I’m awake.
#61 by Kelli on 09.03.06 10:13 am |
Joe said:
Based on this picture, I would guess that the 68 is for him.
Kirk Tuck
#62 by Will on 09.03.06 12:37 pm |
The Helmet Project
Great website with pretty much any football helmet design you are looking for. I don’t recall seeing it here before.
#63 by Richard on 09.03.06 2:19 pm |
I read the comments often, but not always, so this may already have been brought up…
I was loking at the merchandise section, and I have to say out loud something I’ve believed since the beginning: I think the UniWatch logo looks like a beer bottle. I know it’s a fabulously striped stirrup, but it just looks like a beer bottle, especially when displayed as an icon, and I can’t get over it.
Is that the whole point? Is it supposed to look like a beer bottle? Or am I making too much of this?
#64 by JT on 09.13.06 2:12 pm |
Michael said:
Since no one has mentioned this comment yet…I will. This is something I think they started last year, normally the patch as an ‘N’ on it and says ‘Nebraska Football-A Winning Tradition’ around the circle. The ‘C’ patch does deliniate Captain status. Last year I-back Cory Ross and SS Daniel Bullocks were the captains. This year you will see QB Zac Taylor, DE Adam Carriker and Special Teams player Brandon Rigoni. Hope that helps!