Comments on: Jack and Meg: Huge College Football Fans

By: Josh Petty

Josh Petty — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:10:26 +0000

I know it was touched on in a previous Uni Watch entry…The new $5 bill, featuring the color purple, goes into circulation today.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:14:24 +0000

Here’s Mel Renfro with a striped ball 1975.

By: superstar

superstar — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 06:02:59 +0000

the stripes on the ball also help with the grip in poor weather conditions. They are usually a different material that remains dryer and has a better grip to it

By: lwiedy

lwiedy — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:25:55 +0000

lwiedy said:

KT said:

What about it? The Oilers apparently were the last team to use the striped ball. Great info from Luther.

If that is all you’ve today, I’m sorry.

Key word missing is “learned”

By: lwiedy

lwiedy — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:23:03 +0000

KT said:

What about it? The Oilers apparently were the last team to use the striped ball. Great info from Luther.

If that is all you’ve today, I’m sorry.

By: KT

KT — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:13:08 +0000

What about it? The Oilers apparently were the last team to use the striped ball. Great info from Luther.

By: lwiedy

lwiedy — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:00:51 +0000

KT said:

I stand corrected on the Pastorini thing, and bow to the greatness of the NFL Photo library.

What about this?
#158 by Luther Mahoney on 03.12.08 5:17 pm

Re.Striped footballs.

1)The NFL adopted the brown football with white stripes in 1956,for night games. Before 1956,various colored balls were used for night games,the most common was a white ball with black stripes. The NFL outlawed the striped ball after the 1975 season because many quarterbacks complained about slippage on their grip with the
painted white stripes.

2)I believe that the reason why the ball in Super Bowl VIII had stripes on it was because the league
used balls from the Houston Oilers’ supply. Since
the Oilers played in the Astrodome,the Oilers used
a stiped ball for all thier home games from 1971 to 1975. Before the league took over every facet
of the Super Bowl,the home site team usually supplied all the field and game equipment for the game.

By: Johnny O

Johnny O — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:54:32 +0000

Joe T. said:

Is it going to be like that every year or just this year?

I believe since 2004 or 2003, the Marquette team has had “AL” on their uni’s. I know D-Wade had it on his jersey for sure. I would assume it is on their for the long haul.

By: KT

KT — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:52:03 +0000

I stand corrected on the Pastorini thing, and bow to the greatness of the NFL Photo library.

By: lwiedy

lwiedy — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:44:30 +0000

Adam said:

San Diego Padres have a guy in their farm system named Trevor Huffman.

Any relation to Cady Huffman?