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Don’t know if this story had made UW but in 1988, most of the Niners were wearing the narrow sleeve stripes (I think including JM). Montana has told the story that his wife packed his SBXIX jersey for him to take to SBXXIII, which he wore. So JM’s jersey looks a little different than everyone elses in that game.

Another telltale: his NOB is a different font from everyone else’s (they all have serifs, he doesn’t).

Ricko said:

Just got to thinking about how the NFL mandated tackle twill numbers a while back. Only two NFL teams never wore silk screened numbers during that time when they were in vogue. Can anyone name them?

Pittsburg Steelers & Oakland Raiders

That would be, to the best my knowledge and from keeping an eye on it as best I could every season, correct.

—Ricko

Ricko said:

Just got to thinking about how the NFL mandated tackle twill numbers a while back. Only two NFL teams never wore silk screened numbers during that time when they were in vogue. Can anyone name them?

Pittsburg Steelers & Oakland Raiders

CORRECTION

I’m gonna say that the Steelers are the only team to never have worn silk screen in game. I don’t believe that they ever wore screened numbers.
I believe they are also the last teanm to wear solid dureen jerseys. DOUBLE KUDOS !!!

Kudos to the Raiders, Browns, 49ers and a few others thar wore twill during the almost exclusive screened number era.

However, it just seems that all of these teams at one time or another wore screened numbers before the most recent trend toward twill. numbers.

Query, do any teams still wear screened numbers, and which was the last to do so? I say the Chargers were the last to wear screened numbers.

I also heard that some of the Giants receivers wore screened numbers only on THE FRONT of their jerseys after the team switched to twill in order to avoid fumbles and to better catch the ball.
A jersey collector told me awhile back that he bought a Giants gamer like this from MeiGray.

Anyone know if that is true.

Kenny said:

here’s a whole list of baseball movies. There’s one on there for the Padres (The Kid From Left Field)
http://www.bostonbas...

From that list…
Houston: Night Game (interesting-looking obscurity!)
Brooklyn Dodgers: It Happened in Flatbush
St. Louis Browns: A Winner Never Quits
St. Louis Cards: The Winning Team
Detroit: Tiger Town
Chi Cubs: Elmer the Great

ANYONE KNOW THIS MOVIE NAME?

Saw a 1950s movie on AMC or Tuirner Classic about 5 years ago that focused on the drama of Spring Training of the 1950s New York Giants, starring Edward G. Robinson as a fading talent scout or G.M. who needed to produce new talent or his job was in jeapordy.

The climax of the movie was a Spring Training game against the Brooklyn Dodgers where the Giants faced a pitcher that Ed. G. Robinson had cut a week earlier.

A pretty good movie if you like stuff on the old Dodgers and Giants, it appeared to have been filmed at the real Spring Training sites with the actual teams.

ALSO, Since I’m a N.O. Saints fanatic, I love the pretty bad late 1960’s movie titled “NUMBER ONE”, starring Charlton Heston as a washed up 40 year old (Former Champion !!!) QB for the Saints.

The movie really stars the early Saints, the now-gone Tulane Sugar Bowl Stadium, and most of the early Saints team. Lots of late 1960’s New Orleans scenes also, including dozens of players chain-smoking on the team bus as the travel to the game.

Just got to thinking about how the NFL mandated tackle twill numbers a while back. Only two NFL teams never wore silk screened numbers during that time when they were in vogue. Can anyone name them?

Pittsburg Steelers & Oakland Raiders

The Hemogoblin said:

Interesting notes in a game you can’t see (it’s only on closed circuit on campus):

Jeremiah Massoli and Ed Dickson were sitting next to each other on the bench, white jerseys, and the underarm portion on Dickson’s uniform was much, much larger.

There’s two refs who are wearing socks with differing sock patterns.

Cole Linehan’s rocking some wicked bad cry black. (so was Texas Tech’s center earlier today)

Nick Reed, rumor has it, wears the grey shirt under his jersey so that his mother can tell which one is him.

White helmet/white jersey/yellow pants… looks good on top and then YEEEEEECH.

Arizona State is in red/red and it looks unitarded. The tape on the belts is black, so it’s hard to differentiate that from the belt itself (as ASU wears a dark red).

The ASU coaching staff’s white polo with red stripes looks sharp.

When did ASU put the interlocked AS on the left hip of the pants?

I just got back form that game and I must say it was one of the worst football games i’ve seen, both uni- and footballwise… a zillion turnovers for both teams, white-on-white-on-yellow and maroon-on-maroon.

BTW, I’m pretty sure the AS has been on the hip since they introduced the maroon pants two years ago, i think.

My condolences… loser comrade.

Lwiedy said:

Eric B in KC said:

fluxcap said:

Ricko said:

Just got to thinking about how the NFL mandated tackle twill numbers a while back. Only two NFL teams never wore silk screened numbers during that time when they were in vogue. Can anyone name them?

i believe its the browns and the 49ers, but i thought the steelers also never had screened numbers

the niners wore silk screen or heat transfer numbers in their first super bowl.

browns and steelers might be a good guess. maybe colts?

Niners in 1981 were heat transfered, not sure when they switched but by ‘84 they were screened.

Don’t know if this story had made UW but in 1988, most of the Niners were wearing the narrow sleeve stripes (I think including JM). Montana has told the story that his wife packed his SBXIX jersey for him to take to SBXXIII, which he wore. So JM’s jersey looks a little different than everyone elses in that game.

Yup, Joe had switched by then: http://www.checkoutm...
Here he is in SBXXII with the old jersey: http://i.cdn.turner....(MikePowellGI).jpg
Kinda cool story, I think!

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Eric B in KC said:

fluxcap said:

Ricko said:

Just got to thinking about how the NFL mandated tackle twill numbers a while back. Only two NFL teams never wore silk screened numbers during that time when they were in vogue. Can anyone name them?

i believe its the browns and the 49ers, but i thought the steelers also never had screened numbers

the niners wore silk screen or heat transfer numbers in their first super bowl.

browns and steelers might be a good guess. maybe colts?

Niners in 1981 were heat transfered, not sure when they switched but by ‘84 they were screened.

Don’t know if this story had made UW but in 1988, most of the Niners were wearing the narrow sleeve stripes (I think including JM). Montana has told the story that his wife packed his SBXIX jersey for him to take to SBXXIII, which he wore. So JM’s jersey looks a little different than everyone elses in that game.

Yup, Joe had switched by then: http://www.checkoutm...
Here he is in SBXXII with the old jersey: http://i.cdn.turner....(MikePowellGI).jpg
Kinda cool story, I think!