The Boston Bruins have started a new trend where their bench players wear “rally cap” style helmets a.k.a backwards.

Usually it’s just the guys who don’t shoot while the 3 guys take their chances, and once they get back to the bench they flip their lids.

However, tonight the shootout went 7-8 rounds and the Bruins had to use more players thane xpected obviously. The rally helmets caused a delay for Petr Tenkrat and Phil Kessel, because as their helmets were reversed, their hot/sweaty hair fogged up their visors and they needed to be wiped down so the shooters could see.

Here are the Bruins rocking the backwards helmet

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Jill said:

Terry Mark said:

Jill said:

Well, any chance of me doing any ‘real’ work today just went out the window.

Jill,

Surely as a Purdue graduate you could whip up a computer program or build a robot to do all your real work while you concentrate on the quiz.

I was going to say something about stereotypes and there is more to Purdue than engineering. But that would be tacky seeing as I am an engineer. At least we are one of the only teams that look good in black It could be much worse. Or where I went to grad school which not only reminds me of another hated logo but makes no sense (unless there are wolves swimming out in the Long Island Sound).

I was just guessing that you were an engineer. I would have sounded really stupid if you were, say, a hospitality management major.

Anyway, I agree with you that Purdue looks good in black. I’m glad they didn’t allow themselves to be Nike-fied. Purdue is one of the few schools outfitted by Nike that still look classy yet modern. I thought the football team’s black pants were nice.

As far as Bob Knight, I’m ashamed to say I was once a Knight apologist. I’ve reformed now and see him as he really is, a loathesome bully and hypocrite. He demands self-control and composure from his players but is unable to exhibit it himself.

The day he passes Dean Smith will be a dark day in college basketball history in my book.

To make this a more Uni-related post, I will say that one uni tradition I’m glad Knight was responsible for retaining was no nameplates.

I love purdues basketball jerseys.
Vs. Virginia
Vs. Depaul

Usually it’s just the guys who don’t shoot while the 3 guys take their chances, and once they get back to the bench they flip their lids.

However, tonight the shootout went 7-8 rounds and the Bruins had to use more players thane xpected obviously. The rally helmets caused a delay for Petr Tenkrat and Phil Kessel, because as their helmets were reversed, their hot/sweaty hair fogged up their visors and they needed to be wiped down so the shooters could see.

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well, i forgot to title the post. SI.com, ‘best dressed teams.’

A lot of these lists have been lame lately, but I won’t disagree with this one, since they put my boys at #3 …

The Cincinnati Enquirer has a “Vote For Your Favorite Cincinnati Reds Uniform Of All Time!” poll up.
I have my vote narrowed to #5 thru #9!

I voted for No. 11.

Chad G said:

Brian said:

On the topic of names/no names on the back of jerseys, one team comes to mind: USC. Even though I follow college football pretty consistently, I find it tough to watch a USC game and always trying to attach a name to a number, it kinda takes away from enjoying the game. Living in an east coast city the Trojans aren’t all familiar to me and name plates would help. It is much easier for even a casual fan to identify baseball players without the aid of nameplates but in football the task gets much more difficult, in my opinion anyways.

I currently live in LA, but was watching the USC-ND game from New York (Thats where I’m from originally). USC starting tailback is 23 (chauncey Washington). However they have another 23 (something Joseph) that returns kickoffs. It gets very confusing. Bob Davie the announcer even called the Joseph guy washington once. Musberger knew the difference though. I kinda like the teams with the tradition of having no name on the jersey to keep it that way, however the practice of giving the same number to 2 different players should be stopped. Thats the real problem.

I’d be interested to see a team with a traditional uniform like USC or Navy add names to the back but not change anything else. Would fans get used to this? Would someone actually complain? I mean from the front you can’t even tell if there are names on the back.

Navy already has names on the back. Not sure when they started but I know it wasn’t an incredibly recent development.