Ironically, Jeff, I got an email yesterday from the Moose store. Are you still looking for that Molson Canadian sponsor patch for your Moose jersey?

Actually, I did get one of those. Thanks for remembering.

LI Phil said:

question (prolly more for brinke) but open to anyone…

ivo minar is wearing this manufacturer called “TTK”

anyone ever hear of them? i kinda like his open gear…

Yes, I have. At one time I was the stadium announcer for our local ATP tourney, one of the major ones, so I was reaaally into it, played a lot, too.

Here’s the site: http://www.tennistek...

The big players at the open are obviously Nike and Adidas..to a lesser extent, Reebok &..who knows. But there are a zillion smaller lines. Like Gonzales tonight, he is from Argentina I think, and wore ‘Topper’;

http://en.wikipedia....(sports)

In the late 70s, Fila was really cool, with Borg and Vilas. The stuff was amazingly pricey and well-made, not like it is now. Ellesse (pronounced L.S.after founder Leonardo Servadio) had Vilas and Evert..Sergio Tachinni was huge with McEnroe and Sabatini. There were smaller lines then, too, like Kim Top Line (Martina,) Lafont, L’Apina Australian (Lendl at first) and more.

Some lines get huge into it and drop off the map.
Puma used to do Becker and Serena, then they’ve vanished. Puma, Fila (my choice, the Fila Wud-1), Adidas, Kneissel, Fischer, and Yamaha all did racquets..then poof.

thanks, brinke!

yeah..late 70’s/early 80’s (my JHS & HS years)…big time into tacchini (jimbo, nasty & vitas wore him, then mac)…LOOOVVVVED the 79 open final (was there…also 82, 83, 84 & 88)…and connors was like my god…then he got his own “JC” line (which i hated), but mac kept the faith till the swoosh finally took him & andre…

had some fila & ellesse outfits too…and of course, the fila ripoff, TODD1…plus ‘Boast” (they had like a pot leaf for a logo)…and some lacoste thrown in too…probably some adidas as well

i know there’s a bunch of ‘lesser’ lines (to wit, minar & gonzales)…but for the most part, im not impressed…i did like ivo minar’s “kit” tho

does anyone wear RBK anymore? i remember a-rod had some pretty nifty outfits (including that custom outfit he won the open in…course, now he wears the gator…

=bg= said:

Keyshawn never played for the Vikes. Maybe you mean Moss, who wore 84.

Now there was a Gene Washington who wore 84 for the vikes..and Gene Washington, the league’s Gene Washington, and he wore 18 for the Niners.

There was also a WR for the Colts in the early 70’s..wore 17. Sam Havilcek I think.

Havrilak, if memory serves.

=bg= said:

Here’s a really good one tho. 1971 bengals roster:

10 Eric Crabtree WR
11 Virgil Carter QB
12 Greg Cook QB
13 Ken Riley QB
14 Ken Anderson QB
15 Dave lewis P
16 Horst Muhlmann K
17 Speedy Thomas WR
18 Paul Robinson RB
19 Essex Johnson RB
20 Lemar Parrish DB

Legacies. If you had a number pre-merger, you could keep it, even after the new rules went in.

I don’t believe you can wear #00 anymore. Jim Otto was, I believe, the last.

=bg= said:

Does the NFL think it’s game is SO complicated and sophisticated that the public can’t possibly follow it?

I don’t know. I do know that the NFL likes to set itself apart in all things, and, yes, they are very anal when it comes to how they like things done (like the uniform police).

=bg= said:

Or maybe they’re obliquely admitting their part-time officating crews are easily confused?

Well, you know I love ya, Ricko, but now you’re getting into territory about which you’re under-informed.

These “part-time” officiating crews probably spend as much time, if not more, working at this than a lot of people spend at their “regular” jobs.

I used to think of NFL officials as doddering old men, too. I thought that you had to be a dentist for at least 20 years before they’d let you be an NFL official.

Now I know that there is no other group of officials, anywhere, that is as highly-trained, highly-scrutinized, held as accountable or under as much pressure as NFL officials. And it’s the hardest gig in officiating to get – almost as hard to keep.

Are there great ones and not-so-great ones? You bet. Just like in any other profession. Are there NFL officials who make me scratch my head and wonder how the hell they got there and stay there? You bet. But I’m not the one scouting them, recruiting them, evaluating them or dismissing them and while I only have justthismuch of an idea about what they have to go through on a weekly basis (and have a slightly larger idea of just how hard the actual job is on Sunday afternoons), I am 100% sure that it’s more intense than your average fanboy in his Barcalounger with NFL Sunday Ticket could possibly handle.

=bg= said:

I really have never understood the need to be so anal retentive about numbers. Eligible and ineligible, sure. But I watched before instant replay and never once–not once–thought Night Train Lane or Carl Eller (both #81)were split ends. Or that Bobby Layne (#22) was a shifty halfback. I knew Sam Huff or Jim Marshall (both #70) didn’t play in the offensive line and, even though they both wore #19, I could tell the difference between Lance Alworth and Johnny Unitas. Honest. I could. Really.

Really? You could? Not shitting? Honestly? Really? Truly? Good for you. :)

There are lots of things I don’t completely understand about why certain things are the way they are. I figure there’s either a good reason now, or there was a good readon then.

As for numbers, well, I can tell you from experience that the game is hard enough with high school juniors running about. Anything that makes it easier at the professional level, well, that’s a good thing, even if it deprives us of some Brad Van Pelt moments.

Bingo! Havrilak. From….Bucknell?
Wasn’t Ken Burrough (WR) the last 00?

question (prolly more for brinke) but open to anyone…

ivo minar is wearing this manufacturer called “TTK”

anyone ever hear of them? i kinda like his open gear…

Yes, I have. At one time I was the stadium announcer for our local ATP tourney, one of the major ones, so I was reaaally into it, played a lot, too.

Here’s the site: http://www.tennistek...

The big players at the open are obviously Nike and Adidas..to a lesser extent, Reebok &..who knows. But there are a zillion smaller lines. Like Gonzales tonight, he is from Argentina I think, and wore ‘Topper’;

http://en.wikipedia....(sports)

In the late 70s, Fila was really cool, with Borg and Vilas. The stuff was amazingly pricey and well-made, not like it is now. Ellesse (pronounced L.S.after founder Leonardo Servadio) had Vilas and Evert..Sergio Tachinni was huge with McEnroe and Sabatini. There were smaller lines then, too, like Kim Top Line (Martina,) Lafont, L’Apina Australian (Lendl at first) and more.

Some lines get huge into it and drop off the map.
Puma used to do Becker and Serena, then they’ve vanished. Puma, Fila (my choice, the Fila Wud-1), Adidas, Kneissel, Fischer, and Yamaha all did racquets..then poof.

Sammy said:

I just saw the 2000 Orange Bowl on Big Ten Network (thanks, comcast), and I noticed that Michigan had TWO bowl patches. On their left chest, they had the regular FedEx OB logo, which Bama had as well, on their right chest. But, Michigan had a patch (or maybe even embroidered right on the jersey) something that looked like it says, “Michigan Orange Bowl,” and it looks like the date. I don’t know why they would want another reminder of what school and bowl game they are in. The only good picture I could find is here. Has anyone seen a team wearing two bowl patches before?

interesting…

here’s tom brady in a little better picture…still can’t quite make out what it says under the

MICHIGAN
Orange Bowl

patch though

I can’t quite make it out, but the spacing/number of characters makes me think it’s the date, “Jan. 2, 2000″

Just bought a Charlestown Chiefs jersey. I can’t wait to get it.

http://www.onlinespo...

Paul, or anyone else, photography question:

How are you getting such good shots of neon signs at night? What settings are you using? Flash or not? Close and no zoom or farther back and zooming in?

I tried to take a photo of a sign recently and took several shots and just couldn’t get it to come out right.

I’m wondering the exact same thing. Anyone???