Great to see the Broncos lose last night wearing those blue on blue monstrosities, especially in dramatic fashion! Now maybe they’ll retire the monochrome look for good.

No offense to any Denver fans – your team usually looks much better. And if they’d adopt the orange alts full time, they’d look fantastic.

Glad to see someone else feels this way. I love the Orange Bronco alts too, but the Broncos lost twice in incredible late collapses wearing them. Shananhan thinks they’re bad luck and I doubt we’ll see them again as long as he is coach.

They’ve adopted a policy of wearing the solid blue for home night games without regard to wins or losses.

For 2007 the Rockies had 5 regular jerseys, more than any other MLB club. Includes a white jersey and white vest (home only), black vest and purple jersey (home or road) and grey jersey (road only). They always wore white pants and all black cap at home, and grey pants with black cap with purple bill on the road.

All season the Rockies would generally wear the same jersey the next day if they won and change jerseys the next game if they lost. Exception if they were in white and went on the road the next day for example. When they won 10 in a row on the 21 of 22 streak, they started in white vests, switched to grey on the road. The one loss of 22 was in white vests, so they wore black vests the next day. This was suddenly the “lucky jersey” they wore for the last two regular season games, the one game playoff with San Diego, the three game Phillies NLDS sweep and game one of the NLCS. Arizona tried to psych the Rockies by wearing their blacks for game two. Apparently by rule, the road team must wear a different color, so the Rockies wore grey that game. This didn’t stop the streak, then the Rocks went right back to black vests at home for games 3 and 4.

Entering the World Series, they clearly believed the black vest was the hot jersey. Obviously game 1 cooled off the Rox despite the black. They switched to grey jerseys the next night. In game three it was back to black (another blowout) and finally back to white for game 4. No World Series luck in any of those.

Interestingly, the Rockies two wins in Fenway in June ‘07 were performed in purple jerseys (I know Paul Lucas blood will boil if he reads this). The purple was mothballed well before the hot streak, but due to the earlier season Boston luck I thought they might have tried the purple again in the World Series. I mean, why not? They didn’t beat Boston in any color except purple this year!

Not so crazy about the lucite facemask “look”, but I love the old Rams’ helmets. The varying length of the horns and not so quite roundness of their shape gives away the fact these helmets were hand painted.

Ahhh…the charm of the old days of the NFL…

I went to a high school playoff game in 1978 with a team with 4-5 starters still wearing lucite facemasks!

Paul,
Rentzel’s facemask was made by Marietta a company based in Texas, it is also the helmet company that became MaxPro in the early 70’s. Sayers mask was made by Wilson who were based in Chicago and made most of the helmets for the Bears. Supposedly Halas had business affiliations with Wilson.

Hals apparently alsio had an interest in a sporting goods company in Chicago at that time. I have three jerseys from the now-defunct College Allstar Game that ended in 1975.

The College Allstar jerseys from the 1940’s through 1960’s have a Halas Sporting Goods store tag sewn next to the King O’Shea or Wilson manufacturers tags.

That was common for some suppliers up through the late 1970’s – depending on the suppliers for certain teams.

Thanks to Jeff Barak for that useful hockey number link.

And in case anyone is curious, every number has been worn by someone at some point, but only three numbers have been worn by only one player.

Martin Straka is the only player to wear number 82, according to that website.

LI Phil said:

whomever a rod does sign with better reserve this uni #:

24+1

does that mean the rest of the Yankees should have been wearing something like “we’d be golfing right now if not for A-Rod” in the playoffs? I don’t know how to state that numerically, though, since the Yankees don’t have words on jerseys …

“yankees” (home) and “new york” (away) aren’t words? OH…wait…you meant nameplates

i never stated nor implied a-god wasn’t a great playa…3 MVP’s in 5 years (most likely) proves he’s good…

perhaps i should have said his new number should be:

“0″ (as in # of rings he has) or
“$” (not really a number of course)

/difference between me-rod and jordan or gretzky was that those two could pull the entire team on their shoulders and actually WIN in the second season
//sorry for the rant

I know I’m way late and way redundant on the huddle thing, but I thought I’d link to a picture from last Friday to illustrate the current use of the open huddle.

Eagle-eyed Uni Watchers might recognize the qb’s undershirt, as well.

QB and one other guy with blue socks, one guy with white socks and several with none. Anyone familiar with the term “uniform”?