An apparent wrinkle to the Las Vegas Posse story is that the team may have moved to Miami for the 1996 season and rechristened as…the Miami Manatees. I am both curious and horrified as to what their proposed uniforms may have looked like.

The logo probably would have looked like the manatees that Homer went up against. I believe that’s the episode where Homer told the goons on the jet-skis that he admired their barbed wire tattoos.

JTH said:

Dammit, France! You were so close to having fine-looking unis, but you had to go and ruin it with those mismatched navy helmets!

so…you’d have preferred something closer to this then

And some red trim around the “F” would be pretty. BTW You are much improved at the touch ups. I have no skills.

Dammit, France! You were so close to having fine-looking unis, but you had to go and ruin it with those mismatched navy helmets!

so…you’d have preferred something closer to this then

Very nice history on the US CFL teams. I vaguely remember them, but learned a whole lot today. Thanks.

I attended a minor league game last night between the Sarasota Reds and St. Lucie Mets. The Mets had the 4ALS adhesive patches stuck on their right sleeves, and it looked a lot better there than on the chest like in the majors. The S.Reds didn’t have them though.

The Reds looked sharp in their road greys with long red socks (like this), but I didn’t see any stirrups like that. A few Mets had very short stirrups for their blue socks. Overall, it was a very nice looking game (white+blue vs grey+red), and well played too.

I was at the West Michigan Whitecaps game Sat. night. The Whitecaps wore special patriotic jerseys with an American flag across the front. Also, the whole team was wearing their pants high cuffed and most of the team was wearing the really low cut stir-ups. This is the second Detroit Tigers minor league affiliate I have seen this season. I saw the Erie Seawolves earlier in the season and they were all high cuff too. I think it might be the standard for all Tigers minor league teams, but will know for sure when I got to a Toledo Mudhens game in a few weeks.

The Whitecaps played the Dayton Dragons who all went high cuff also. I saw Dayton earlier this season against the Lansing Lugnuts, but in that game only 1 or 2 guys were wearing the high cuff. Only a couple of the Dayton players wore stir-ups. All in all, both teams looked good, except the Dayton second baseman who had to large white Nike swooshes, shin high, on his black socks.

Chris said:

Andy Roddick’s wife is a model, but even so…at least show a picture of Federer’s wife when she isn’t about to pop out a kid

y’know…i was in brooklyn on the fourth (at paul’s)…

but i’d gladly trade places with roddick and be in brooklyn tonight

HI-OOOOOOOOO!!!!

I love the CFL, also. When we would go on vacation to Florida every July, I got to watch the CFL on cable TV while down there. The CFL on TV in Cincinnati????…….No way.

The Cardinals do need to ditch the navy caps. The red/cardinal looks so much better.

I wonder is the reason that MLB went to the red and blue Stars & Stripes caps was because of the poor quality control that New Era Cap has with the flags falling off. And players peeling the flags off, wearing the wrong cap with out the flag, etc.

They did it for the cheddar. And that’s the only reason

The Cardinals do need to ditch the navy caps. The red/cardinal looks so much better.

I wonder is the reason that MLB went to the red and blue Stars & Stripes caps was because of the poor quality control that New Era Cap has with the flags falling off. And players peeling the flags off, wearing the wrong cap with out the flag, etc.

OK, I hate the red caps overall. But it does confirm my thoughts that the Cardinals should ditch the black road caps and go with red again. They are the Redbirds afterall. Or are they affraid Sandberg will hit 2 more HR’s off of them again if they wear them?!

I think they should ditch the blue hats, and the red hats! Go back to the Musial era caps. Navy crown, red bill, red STL (no white trim). Redbirds is not their official name, so the bulk of the hat does not need to be red. BLUEjays? Another story.
Throw “St. Louis” on the road jersey (like the early thirties, I believe), pull up your socks, put on some black cleats, and you got yourself something flawless.
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