great interview, btw.

“and I didn’t even know they used to have a helmet with just the word “Bengals” on it.”

two words- Paul Brown. He was keeping close to the Browns look as he could

He liked a simple, classic look. He used to say that there was nothing worse than a bad team drawing attention to itself with ugly uniforms.

Guess he really was a visionary – he could see the Bengals of the future coming a mile away….

MPowers said:

MPowers1634 said:

the steelers bladder issue-when we used to stripe helmets we would puncture the stripe at that time with the riddell head gear on the schutt/air head gear we would actually cut the hole out since it was a single inflation point. but when a coach is screaming at you-sometimes you do what ya gotta do. we also has spares to gt a guy on the field for a play or 2.

As a freshman in college, the first road trip I made with the varsity was a night game at St. Peters college in New Jersey.

The closest I came to getting on the field was when Steve mejia a backup fullback snapped his facemask during a play. Since I was directly next to the head coach, trying to sneak into the game, I was right in front of my fellow running back, whom had the same brand helmet(Schutt Air AdvantageI took mine off and threw it to him…Three plays later, the EM had the facemask switched out, using a mini cordless drill, and my helmet had some war wounds, albeit not caused by the owner.

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Yes, it is from Wagner!

No news yet on United’s response, however, given that this is the third sponsor to collapse in two seasons, they have some precedent to follow. XL Holidays, a vacation package company, was in the middle of a four-year sponsorship deal with West Ham United. They went bankrupt last Friday, and for their game on Saturday, West Ham covered up the company’s logo on their jerseys and throughout their stadium.

However, Newcastle United’s sponsor Northern Rock had a fate more similar to AIG. Last September (a bad month for jersey sponsors, it seems), the British bank received a large loan from the Bank of England in a move that was supposed to just get the bank through a rough period. Northern Rock never recovered, and the government took control in February. Newcastle United still has Northern Rock’s name on the front of their shirts, as the government-appointed chairman decided that their sponsorships of United and the Newcastle Falcons (a rugby team whose stadium is also owned by the bank) were both still “commercially viable”.

I’m eagerly awaiting the responses from both sides to the question of AIG’s sponsorship, and the aftermath that may occur. Will teams start to hesitate before signing huge sponsorship deals knowing that they may not be carried out for the full duration? Will the league (or even FIFA) start imposing limits on the deals? Will there be any recoil in the US at the thought that, if the sponsorship continues, the government will be indirectly funding an American-owned foreign sports team? What I’d like to see come out of it is more teams taking charity sponsorships (like FC Barcelona and Aston Villa have for Unicef and Acorns Children Hospice, respectively).

*The article I found this from also has a slightly different take on American owners’ failure to sell advertising space on their teams’ uniforms. Obviously they’re not Uni Watch readers.

Tom from si said:

the steelers bladder issue-when we used to stripe helmets we would puncture the stripe at that time with the riddell head gear on the schutt/air head gear we would actually cut the hole out since it was a single inflation point. but when a coach is screaming at you-sometimes you do what ya gotta do. we also has spares to gt a guy on the field for a play or 2.

As a freshman in college, the first road trip I made with the varsity was a night game at St. Peters college in New Jersey.

The closest I came to getting on the field was when Steve mejia a backup fullback snapped his facemask during a play. Since I was directly next to the head coach, trying to sneak into the game, I was right in front of my fellow running back, whom had the same brand helmet(Schutt Air AdvantageI took mine off and threw it to him…Three plays later, the EM had the facemask switched out, using a mini cordless drill, and my helmet had some war wounds, albeit not caused by the owner.

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is that a old wagnor college helmet

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All this time, I thought the most fascinating thing about Tyler Kepner was that we both came from the suburbs of Philadelphia and wound up matriculating at Vanderbilt University. In fact, I mentioned as much to our site’s keeper at a Philadelphia meet-and-greet. At the time, Paul had never met the man. Good to see that with the interview, such an oversight has been corrected.

Actually, no, I’ve still never met him. That interview was conducted over the phone when Tyler was working a Yankees road trip last month. He provided the photo — I didn’t take it.

Jays back-to-back Champs with Robbie Alomar on the cover? That’s a tasty bit of crumpet.

i hope this brings an end to the goddam black unis, that’s all i gotta say…

LI Phil, don’t hate the unis, hate the players!

P.S. I heard back from Eddie Guns. That made my night!