Mycoskie said:

Here’s another candidate for the worst high school uniforms, the Rock Bridge Bruins of Columbia, MO.

Am I the only person who has a real problem seeing names on the back of high school jerseys? First, names on the back really runs afoul of the “we’re teaching teamwork and important life lessons” message we hear regarding scholastic sports. Second, considering the problems we have with funding in public schools all over the country, how is it that these schools have the money to buy at least two new sets of uniforms every year?

At my high school in the early/mid 90’s, the players bought some if not all of the uniform (the soccer team I played on bought 2 jerseys, 1 pair of shorts and 2 pairs of socks for $70 at the start of the year) and kept it at the end of the year. So a lot of our teams had jerseys with names on the backs: football, basketball, volleyball, soccer, baseball and softball. It’s died down now, I don’t think any team has them now, so the school may be buying and reusing the uniforms.

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Does this really mean that every uni in the country will be exactly the same? This needs to be stopped.

Here’s another candidate for the worst high school uniforms, the Rock Bridge Bruins of Columbia, MO.

Am I the only person who has a real problem seeing names on the back of high school jerseys? First, names on the back really runs afoul of the “we’re teaching teamwork and important life lessons” message we hear regarding scholastic sports. Second, considering the problems we have with funding in public schools all over the country, how is it that these schools have the money to buy at least two new sets of uniforms every year?

I like the team nickname…. the Boxer after Marvin Hagler, I presume?

Actually, “Boxers” after Rocky Marciano. But Hagler only adds to the legend.

I noticed something about the Saints helmets during MNF, it looks as though on certain helmet designs they have a faux back bumper. You can see it here. has this always been the case with the Saints and other NFL teams?

A lot of teams are now putting their back bumper logo decal on the Schutt and Adams helmets (sorry, I can’t see the photo you linked; it’s blocked where I am now). I’ve seem them on the Colts, Saints, Bears, Packers, and Panthers for sure this season – I didn’t pay attention to whether or not the Falcons had them last night as well. I guess it is to make all the teams helmets look more similar, but I’ve always thought it looked kind of dumb on those helmet shell designs.

The only thing worse is the teams like the Bengals and Jaguars who place a tiny decal on the wider center part of the exposed foam padding on the back of the Schutt Air helmets.

The Steelers, Chiefs and Giants might have the right idea – no logos on the back of the helmets.

And I’ll throw in a good high school uniform, the Brockton Boxers. I’ve always liked the maroon-gray-black color scheme, and these uniforms are simple and sharp.

I like the team nickname…. the Boxer after Marvin Hagler, I presume? … maybe they should have just gone w/ the Bombers? Long Live Marvelous Marvin !!!

Hey, Paul… maybe there’s a sport you’ve yet to mine: boxing. You’d have nearly a century of documentation to wade thru ….