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Klinsman should be allowed to wear whatever he wants. However, I can see where a problem would arise if he was expected to put on a nike branded USA soccer t-shirt or warm-up suit

Cork beat me to number one post. Even though we technically posted at the exact same time.

While I don’t know about Chocolate Thunder’s mismatching (sorry Paul, but I’ll look into it), this reminds me of when Ron Artest definitely did play in mismatching shoes. When he played in the 2004 All-Star Game, he felt that being an All-Star made him deserving of a big-time shoe contract, so he wore four different shoes in the first half of the game (mismatching them all). I’m pretty sure he wore Nike, adidas, And1, and DaDa, but I’m not sure… I’ll get pictures in a bit.

Paul,

What did you think of the all black Under Armour uniforms worn by Maryland on Saturday Night against Florida State. and how about the long sleeves shirt worn underneath the jersey.

[quote comment=”17440″]The exposed armpits of NLF linemen are seriously grossing me out. For a league that is usually worried about players keeping their shirts tucked in and so forth, the NFL has really dropped the ball on this one. Barf.[/quote]

As an ex-lineman, I wish has my jersey sleeves cut like that. I had full sleeves with the massive lineman pads and you simply couldn’t move you arms past 90 degrees. Practice jerseys were actually much more comfortable because they were loose and had half sleeves.

[quote comment=”17441″]While I don’t know about Chocolate Thunder’s mismatching (sorry Paul, but I’ll look into it), this reminds me of when Ron Artest definitely did play in mismatching shoes. When he played in the 2004 All-Star Game, he felt that being an All-Star made him deserving of a big-time shoe contract, so he wore four different shoes in the first half of the game (mismatching them all). I’m pretty sure he wore Nike, adidas, And1, and DaDa, but I’m not sure… I’ll get pictures in a bit.[/quote]

Here are the pictures… sorry I couldn’t get any better ones without the Getty overlay. He’s #23.

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Here’s the 2nd link…

[quote comment=”17442″]On an different note – has anyone come across examples of three digit uniform numbers for athletes?

I was watching a Mexican soccer game this weekend and one of the players on CD Guadalajara (Chivas) had uniform number 100.

I also remember watching a Chilean soccer game a while back and one of the goalies wore 188.

Does anyone know of more examples? Or does anyone know if this is allowed in any of the major sports leagues in the US?[/quote]

Robert, there have been several examples in the Japanese baseball leagues. Numbers can’t overlap between the big-league team and the JV, so minor leaguers get stuck with numbers in the 50s and 60s, the coaches get the 70s and 80s, and the 90s are left for mid-season signees, bullpen catchers, and BP pitchers. When that’s not enough (particularly with the staffers), they go over 100. Here’s a link, and the same team’s red jersey. Here’s an Orix Blue Wave BP pitcher jersey link, and this is a Carp interpreter wearing link.

Where things really get interesting is with the new system (started in 2006) of “developmental players”. They aren’t eligible to be called up to the majors and are paid pittances. Most of the teams decided to squeeze these guys in with the staffers in the low link, but the Chunichi Dragons went link!

I can’t wait to see what happens if a Japanese team decides to create a whole chain of teams, Branch Rickey-style. They’ll end up looking like link.

Rutgers, who has some of the greatest link in college football, finally manages to get some major network television coverage, and what do they wear. link Ugh.

Kind of a weird deal in the Washington-ASU game from Saturday. The Huskies have lots of double-numbers, and the two guys that wear 17 are punter Sean Douglas and back-back-backup QB Felix Sweetman. When Washington’s QB got injured they had to use Sweetman to hold for placekicks, and they had him don a #40 jersey on top of his #17. I’m not really sure why it was necessary since they Douglas doesn’t take the field for placekicks.

I tried to find a photo but haven’t been successful so far.

Watching the Giants game yesterday, my sister made an interesting point. Frank Gifford and some other oldsters were on hand for an anniversary celebration, but while the Giants were wearing blue, Gifford was wearing white…to the casual fan, it didn’t even look like they were representing the same team.

[quote comment=”17465″]Kind of a weird deal in the Washington-ASU game from Saturday. The Huskies have lots of double-numbers, and the two guys that wear 17 are punter Sean Douglas and back-back-backup QB Felix Sweetman. When Washington’s QB got injured they had to use Sweetman to hold for placekicks, and they had him don a #40 jersey on top of his #17. I’m not really sure why it was necessary since they Douglas doesn’t take the field for placekicks.

I tried to find a photo but haven’t been successful so far.[/quote]

Maybe more than one player can’t occupy the same number in the same game. Had Douglas punted previously in that game?

[quote comment=”17436″]Yes, technically ochenta y cinco would be correct, but in Chad’s defense (it pains me to do it), he always refers to himslef as eight five, so in this case ocho cinco is probably the better way to go.[/quote]

Easier than putting the Spanish version of “Hey, look at me with my Golden Mohawk and gold teeth – never mind the fact that normally, I couldn’t score if I walked into a $5 whorehouse with a fistful of $100’s.”

But I digress….

Jags looked good in the white-on-whites yesterday in Philly. They also looked good in kicking Philly’s behind up and down the field.

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[quote comment=”17471″][quote comment=”17465″]Kind of a weird deal in the Washington-ASU game from Saturday. The Huskies have lots of double-numbers, and the two guys that wear 17 are punter Sean Douglas and back-back-backup QB Felix Sweetman. When Washington’s QB got injured they had to use Sweetman to hold for placekicks, and they had him don a #40 jersey on top of his #17. I’m not really sure why it was necessary since they Douglas doesn’t take the field for placekicks.

I tried to find a photo but haven’t been successful so far.[/quote]

Maybe more than one player can’t occupy the same number in the same game. Had Douglas punted previously in that game?[/quote]
I don’t think that’s a rule. U of AZ has two number 1’s a WR/KR and DE. They both start and see plenty of playing time.

Getting back to the Darryl Dawkins thing… I couldn’t find any photos of the incident (it may have only been for one game, and there’s not extensive archived photos from back in the 80s), but it appears that this happened in 1982. link references the incident at the bottom, and I found a New York Times article that discusses a 1982 “sneaker war” between Nike and Pony over Dawkins. Here’s an excerpt:

Darryl Dawkins’s feet belonged to Nike. So when the center of the Philadelphia 76ers showed up on the basketball court in May wearing shoes made by Pony Sports & Leisure, there was big trouble. What galled Nike officials most was that Mr. Dawkins, known as ”Chocolate Thunder,” had asked for, and received, a $20,000 advance on his $50,000-a-year endorsement contract only a few weeks before his defection. Then, too, Mr. Dawkins’s shoe switch came in the middle of the National Basketball Association playoffs -when his feet would be most conspicuous – and left Nike with 20,000 useless ”Chocolate Thunder” posters. Nike promptly sued Mr. Dawkins, striking the first legal blow in what could become an all-out sneaker war.

So, I’m assuming this story is true… it would be great if we could find a photo, though.

Another humorous part of that Times article, however, was this:

Mr. Werkschul said Nike had also terminated contracts with about a half-dozen athletes who had used Nike’s logo on another brand of shoe. Charges that Mike Schmidt of the Philadelphia Phillies was wearing shoes with a doctored logo once came up as a peripheral matter in a tangled antitrust suit between Brooks and Nike, but apparently neither side thought Mr. Schmidt was acting in bad faith.

Reminds me of when Doug Mientkiewicz put link (he was under contract with adidas) last year.

Regarding the Giants honoring the 1956 Championship game, the 1956 players were wearing the white jerseys with red trim, the former Giants wearing blue were past members of the Giants that were not on the 1956 team, hence the different color jerseys. The guys in blue just showed up as part of the ceremony.

[quote comment=”17440″]The exposed armpits of NLF linemen are seriously grossing me out. For a league that is usually worried about players keeping their shirts tucked in and so forth, the NFL has really dropped the ball on this one. Barf.[/quote]

Football jerseys should have sleeves… perhaps short sleeves, but sleeves. More and more football jerseys are coming to resemble basketball jerseys. If the problem is eliminating more fabric that opponenets can grab on to you would think that Nike or some other manufacturer would come up with a design for tight fitting sleeves to eliminate the players’ concerns. With all of the different panels made up of different materials performing different functions on modern football jerseys you would think that grab resistant sleeves would be a no-brainer. I know that in the grander scheme of things this may be a non-issue, but I would like to see football maintain some traditional apearance.

i went onto that room painter thing and searched the schemes for the raiders and mets and wouldn’t you know that there was BLACK for the METS thank god for people unafraid of changes. on a side note the raiders room looked amazingly sharp.

On the Home Depot topic, when my wife and I purchased our house I wanted a “Brewers” room so I had the paint made up at Home Depot. The blue looked really weird, almost purple-ish, but the gold was really cool. I didn’t purchase the “brewers blue” but found a reasonable substitute. My point is if you want to try this, have them make 1 gallon first and check the color. They won’t charge you if you don’t like it. Cool concept, though, and the room is pretty sweet. (If you’re a Brewer fan)

Paging Messrs. Krevanchi and Mihalik:

must be a lehigh valley thing…

Great post on the Japanese ballplayers in the 100s above.

[quote comment=”17539″]I noticed the Nike counter is gone, is that due to inactivity over the last few weeks?[/quote]
Yeah. I don’t know whether they stopped visiting or switched to a different IP range. It doesn’t really matter, the point was made.

I was at the Titans/Texans game yesterday and sat right behind the Texans bench. I noticed that both David Carr and Sage Rosenfels both have their uni number on their wristbands.

I mentioned this before, but does anyone know if Nike is coming to its senses regarding their undersleeves? FSU players were wearing a different design the other day.

The upper left sleeve was Garnet, and below the bicep it went to gold. There was also a block of gold on the shoulder. It didn’t have the stupid TriBolt logo (their term, not mine).

Now, it’s not as classy as the UMD version, but a step in the right direction.

[quote]From the makers of “Ditch the Black”…comes “Punt the Pits!!!”[/quote]

I prefer ‘Pitch the Pits’, but either way there is a lot of spitting involved.

[quote comment=”17490″]I know this may be sacreligious, but I think the NFL may need to go away from the zebra stripes for officials and into another color. I had a really hard time yesterday watching the Jags-Eagles game picking out the officials from the Jags players. The Jags were wearing all-white with black trim and black helmets which is link.

Maybe they need to go the soccer route an have a couple of different referee jerseys.[/quote]

what i really think needs to be done is stop the jaguars from ever wearing those hidious uniforms again. they don’t look so bad when they do white on black, but any team wearing white on white should be kicked out of the league

the same uniform number rule states that the players cant be on the field at the same time. So you can have a punter and a QB with the same number but one has to change if they both have to be on the field. So the third QB probably got the new number instead of the starting punter due to seniority probably

[quote comment=”17554″][quote]From the makers of “Ditch the Black”…comes “Punt the Pits!!!”[/quote]

I prefer ‘Pitch the Pits’, but either way there is a lot of spitting involved.[/quote]

Even though this trend does look pretty bad, I think it helps the lineman out a ton. I know when I was playing, it was really hard to get my arms out with a full sleeve.

Punter is usually considered a defensive position and placekicker offensive, no? If this is the case, holder would be an offensive position, and the punter (now holding placekicks) would now be an offensive player.

[quote comment=”17452″]Ok, I got used to logo creep on goalie’s pads, glove, blocker and stick, but square in the middle of the mask ?!? Now that’s gonna take a lot to get used to…[/quote]
I think you may be confusing the logo in the middle of Luongo’s mask for that of the evil empire when it is in fact their retro team logo!!
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Duplicate numbers in college football may have something to do with freshman eligibility. Back in the day when a high school quarterback, for example, was signed he was probably given a QB number on the college freshman team. If he changed positions he was usually given a new number appropriate for that position when he made the varsity. Now I would bet that some signees are promised that they’ll be allowed to wear their high school numbers in college. Look at Joseph Addai for example, the ex-LSU running back. He was a high school quarterback and he wore #10, a traditional QB number, at LSU for his entire career as a running back at LSU. You see college linebackers now wearing #10. In fact I saw a college game a few weeks ago on TV (can’t remember which one) in which there were standout players on the same team on offense and defense each wearing #10. It gets a little confusing…

Regarding UW’s Felix Sweetman wearing #40 over his #17 jersey…

He first came in as the upback on punting formations, so he couldn’t wear #17. He put on the #40 for that, and therefore had to wear it as the placekick holder as well.

CLARIFICATION: It turns out Sweetman DID actually get in on the punt-coverage team, so he was on the field with Douglas. I thought he was just holding for PATs.

[quote comment=”17572″][quote comment=”17569″][quote comment=”17452″]Ok, I got used to logo creep on goalie’s pads, glove, blocker and stick, but square in the middle of the mask ?!? Now that’s gonna take a lot to get used to…[/quote]
I think you may be confusing the logo in the middle of Luongo’s mask for that of the evil empire when it is in fact their retro team logo!!
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I think he was talking about the giant RBK that’s attached to said logo[/quote]
Don’t mind me..1000 apologies, I’ll wake up soon….poker last night, LOL!!

Johnny Canuck is pretty cool.
The same website had this pic which shows that the original Vancouver unis had an awesome detail I never saw before: A “V” is carved out of the sleeve stripe by negative space. Very cool

Beauty is in the eye of the Buffalsug…or you might not like the design of the Sabers new identity but apparently 900% more of Sabres fans do.

Sports Business Journal
October 23-29 Issue // Coast to Coast Section

Sales of Sabres Gear Up 900%

The Sabres have the top-selling jersey on NHL.com since their new logo and color scheme last month. Sabers merchandise has accounted for almost 10 percent of all products sold on the Web site. From Sept.12 to Oct. 16, sales of Sabres gear was up almost 900 percent compared with the same period last year. Overall sales on NHL.com this month are up 85 percent compared with 2005.

Didn’t Colorado bring the retired #’s the franchise had in Quebec. Is Petr Stastny’s #26 still retired and he allowed his son to wear it or did Colorado leave all of the other retired #’s behind when the moved south?

Wow! Busy place today. First of all, Banker Bill and Ek, you guys should do an act together. You guys crack me up with that riff on Ocho Cinco.

Second, Joe H., as I said before, what FSU wore was not true black. The ‘tribute’ uni had some sort of weird greenish tint to it. link is true black, and it looks damn good. Besides, they are the Ravens. They should be in black.

Finally, Mark in Shiga. Yes, I am Asian. The reason my name is spelled with two Ns is because my parents named me after MN as well as because it translates nicely into Chinese (even though we are Taiwanese). There are a few of us up here in the chilly north!

p.s. I, too, like the Maryland unis except for the random striping. A nice way to blend the old and the new.

[quote comment=”17586″]At the Indiana-Mich. St. game Saturday I noticed several of the IU players wearing mismatched sleeves-one crimson, one white. IU wears Adidas, not Nike. Is Adidas making mismatched sleeves now too, or could these be self-made shirts?[/quote]

Indiana wears underarmor for underwear. Tracey Porter was wearing the half/half you speak of.

Bluenoser. If I’m going to give you a shout-out, I should try to get your name right.

[quote comment=”17589″]Beauty is in the eye of the Buffalsug…or you might not like the design of the Sabers new identity but apparently 900% more of Sabres fans do.

Sports Business Journal
October 23-29 Issue // Coast to Coast Section

Sales of Sabres Gear Up 900%

The Sabres have the top-selling jersey on NHL.com since their new logo and color scheme last month. Sabers merchandise has accounted for almost 10 percent of all products sold on the Web site. From Sept.12 to Oct. 16, sales of Sabres gear was up almost 900 percent compared with the same period last year. Overall sales on NHL.com this month are up 85 percent compared with 2005.[/quote]

Bring back the original blue and gold with the awesome striped socks.

[quote comment=”17582″][quote comment=”17574″]Sidenote, it is also a retired jersey (not number, of Chris Wienke) so players can still wear it.[/quote]
Huh?[/quote]
Some players have their number retired (2, Deion Sanders, 17, Charle Ward, while others have their jersey retired (For show in the stadium athletic center) such as Weinke(16) and Warrick Dunn(28). Players can wear these numbers, such as Chris Rix changed his number from 15 to 16 after Weinke left, (now three have it) and Lorenzo Booker wears 28. They might have to get permission from the former players to wear it, but I am not sure.

[quote comment=”17442″]On an different note – has anyone come across examples of three digit uniform numbers for athletes?

I was watching a Mexican soccer game this weekend and one of the players on CD Guadalajara (Chivas) had uniform number 100.

I also remember watching a Chilean soccer game a while back and one of the goalies wore 188.

Does anyone know of more examples? Or does anyone know if this is allowed in any of the major sports leagues in the US?[/quote]

I remember going to a soccer game at Elon College several years back, where my father and I were both tickled pink that the Goalie’s number was 911. This was obviously before Septbember 11th, and at the time, it was pretty dang funny.

that didn’t quite work

what i meant to say is the first photo is a photo shopped picture of Leon Washington from a game last year of what the uniform was suppose to look like.

While the second photo was the actual game jersey a “true black” if you must honoring the Seminole Tribes colors of Black, Garnet and Gold.

Ok. jwb, that looks better, but the unis are way too busy. Plus, I saw part of the game on tv, and the FSU unis did not look true black to me.

Let’s put it this way: that uni is just wrong, regardless of color.

Sorry I’ve been M.I.A. and I haven’t posted at all this weekend, but Halloween weekend was kind of crazy (plus I was too busy being extremely ecstatic over the WS win by STL).

– The Maryland sleeves were OK at best in my
opinion. FSU’s = hideous

– Loved what Ocho Cinco did. And if my memory is correct, I know baseball players call teammates by their number and when I was playing football we did the same thing – nice block seven four, good move six

– link look odd to me. Once a year is good enough to see them, especially when they play the 49ers.

– link

– link

– link otherwise it would look like ND was scrimmaging in Baltimore

– link

[quote comment=”17550″]I was watching a college football game this weekend and saw a team playing where a lot of their linemen had shirts under their uniforms with the sleeves coming out past their uniform sleeves…about halfway down their biceps. They looked like they had a spider-man print on them…like the uniforms the US Olympic Ski team wore a few Olympics ago. I don’t remember what team it was though…[/quote]
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Buccigross is on espn.com by the way – best hockey columnist there is – his mailbag is hilarious every week.

[quote comment=”17629″]John Buccigross mentioned the Sabres logo resemblance to “Barney Rubble’s toupee” today – we have someone (I forget who) who has been calling the Sabres the “Barney Rubble Hairpieces” for about a month…you should write him and link to the first time you mentioned it on here!![/quote]
No, the Barney Rubble hairpiece has been mentioned many months ago over at the SabresReport.com forum.

[quote comment=”17633″][quote comment=”17629″]John Buccigross mentioned the Sabres logo resemblance to “Barney Rubble’s toupee” today – we have someone (I forget who) who has been calling the Sabres the “Barney Rubble Hairpieces” for about a month…you should write him and link to the first time you mentioned it on here!![/quote]
No, the Barney Rubble hairpiece has been mentioned many months ago over at the SabresReport.com forum.[/quote]

I didn’t even know about that – I know there’s someone on here that has been calling them that – I just thought it was an obscure way to look at it but apparently it isn’t…

and don’t bust Minna for it – I said it, not her.

Plaxico Burress wore the blue spandex shirt that people are talking about, and began the game with his usual white mouth piece attached to his chinstrap here:
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But later sported an unattached blue mouthguard here:
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Michael Strahan started the game with both sleeves:
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But finished the game with only the left sleeve:
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[quote comment=”17636″][quote comment=”17633″][quote comment=”17629″]John Buccigross mentioned the Sabres logo resemblance to “Barney Rubble’s toupee” today – we have someone (I forget who) who has been calling the Sabres the “Barney Rubble Hairpieces” for about a month…you should write him and link to the first time you mentioned it on here!![/quote]
No, the Barney Rubble hairpiece has been mentioned many months ago over at the SabresReport.com forum.[/quote]

I didn’t even know about that – I know there’s someone on here that has been calling them that – I just thought it was an obscure way to look at it but apparently it isn’t…

and don’t bust Minna for it – I said it, not her.[/quote]

I was thinking the same thing. I thought to myself, “I didn’t write that, did I?” It has something to do with how you quote, apparently. Ek, any idea?

[quote comment=”17646″][quote comment=”17626″][quote comment=”17550″]I was watching a college football game this weekend and saw a team playing where a lot of their linemen had shirts under their uniforms with the sleeves coming out past their uniform sleeves…about halfway down their biceps. They looked like they had a spider-man print on them…like the uniforms the US Olympic Ski team wore a few Olympics ago. I don’t remember what team it was though…[/quote]
link[/quote]
Uhhhhh, I think that the sleeves are meant to simulate alligator skin.[/quote]

during the game it looked as though many of the gator players had a similar patterned do-rag on as well. unless people created sleeveless compression shirts and used the left over sleeves as the do-rag, ive seen that too…

[quote comment=”17626″][quote comment=”17550″]I was watching a college football game this weekend and saw a team playing where a lot of their linemen had shirts under their uniforms with the sleeves coming out past their uniform sleeves…about halfway down their biceps. They looked like they had a spider-man print on them…like the uniforms the US Olympic Ski team wore a few Olympics ago. I don’t remember what team it was though…[/quote]
link[/quote]

I remember that Paul referenced this a while ago… the Nike “Culture” sleeve. There’s a few more link, and they all try to identify with the school’s mascot or region. I’m amused by these more than anything… the pattern in the Texas one in particular is really pretty feminine.

Ok, lots to dicuss… little time… here we go.

The Johnny Canuck logo was used when the Vancouver Canucks joined the PCHL. The hockey stick logo was used when the Canucks joined the NHL. In my opinion, they should use the Johnny Canuck logo as a shoulder patch on their Vintage jerseys. This would bring their humble beginning to life, and make for a cool shoulder addition… better than the Orca Bay logo.

The sale of the Barney Rubble Hairpieces merchandise is a normal increase for a new look. The San Jose Sharks had the top-selling jersey for three years from the time they entered the league. The Avalanche jerseys sold strong for the year they moved to Denver.
The Hairpieces’ strong sales are nothing out of the ordinary.

As for how I refer to them, Minna is correct. I had seen it on a Hairpieces forum, but didn’t fully adopt it until Tim Macallef of The Score sports station here in Canada did a side-by-side comparison. It made me laugh out loud, and I accepted it being correct. John Buccigross referred to it on ESPN, so I think it should be accepted continent-wide much like the Avalanche are called the “Avs” or the Penguins called the “Pens”. Again, just my opinion. :o)

Finally, in speaking about the Avalanche, they have only two numbers raised to the rafters, but three officially retired. They are:
#33 – Patrick Roy
#77 – Ray Bourque
#99 – Wayne Gretzky (league-wide)

I find this a bit unclassy in that they removed the lineage of players that helped found the franchise. Peter Stastny (#26) and Michel Goulet (#16) should be hanging in the rafters as well as a tribute to the team’s past. I understand the younger Stastny asking for #26, and I’m sure Peter would say yes, but Peter and Michel Goulet were key parts of the Nordiques’ history.

[quote comment=”17643″]Ek, any idea?[/quote]
Vegas deleted the wrong “quote comment” function and it ended up quoting you instead of Banker Bill. I fixed it.

[quote comment=”17553″]It’s not supposed to say “eighty-five”, so it wasn’t a faux pas. It is supposed to say “eight five”. It’s more street. When people refer to Detroit, they say “three one three”. Same kinda concept.[/quote]
They Say that in Detroit because it’s the area code. Nobody would say “three-thirteen”.

[quote comment=”17654″]Ok, lots to dicuss… little time… here we go.

The sale of the Barney Rubble Hairpieces merchandise is a normal increase for a new look. The San Jose Sharks had the top-selling jersey for three years from the time they entered the league. The Avalanche jerseys sold strong for the year they moved to Denver.
The Hairpieces’ strong sales are nothing out of the ordinary.

As for how I refer to them, Minna is correct. I had seen it on a Hairpieces forum, but didn’t fully adopt it until Tim Macallef of The Score sports station here in Canada did a side-by-side comparison. It made me laugh out loud, and I accepted it being correct. John Buccigross referred to it on ESPN, so I think it should be accepted continent-wide much like the Avalanche are called the “Avs” or the Penguins called the “Pens”. Again, just my opinion. :o)

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Once again, it’s not me, Teebz. I guess I’m just omnipotent.

Thanks, Ek, for fixing the quote. Will you fix the time as well to adjust for DST? It’s bugging me. Thanks!

[quote comment=”17639″]Anyone know why the Chiefs retired Warren Moon’s #1 yesterday? He played a total of three games with them. Apparently, the Vikings are going to honor Moon tonight too.[/quote]

The Chiefs didn’t retire Moon’s number. link still wears it. They just gave Warren Moon a framed Chiefs jersey.

[quote comment=”17591″]First time commenter here.[/quote]

I think there might be two Andrews already. I think we all like to know who posts what, so maybe you would want to come up with some addendum to your name? You should get credit for everything you dig up or say. Just a suggestion, and welcome.

Unless the two Andrews want to have a deathmatch or something. Let Paul do the uniforms…

[quote comment=”17566″]Punter is usually considered a defensive position and placekicker offensive, no? If this is the case, holder would be an offensive position, and the punter (now holding placekicks) would now be an offensive player.[/quote]

I guess, technically, they’re special teams and thus neither. But, removed from that, I would call both of them offensive positions because they never play during the defensive downs. I would, however, love to see Jeff Feagles or Scott Player in at linebacker.

[quote comment=”17651″]I’m pretty sure that during the Ravens-Saints game this weekend, Steve McNair and Chris McCallister who play for the ravens had slightly inconsistent nameplates. McNair’s c after the M was superscript but McCallister’s c after the M was a subscript.[/quote]

You link link. At least, those were from a couple of weeks ago, not last week. Proof of concept, though.

Jeff said:

The interesting part: Moon was wearing an oxford shirt with Seattle Seahawks logo on it – IN KANSAS CITY? Did they surprise him with this and he came unprepared???

My guess is that since Moon is the color guy for the Seahawks radio, he was just dressed for work. They may have surprised him, but even if they didn’t he wouldn’t have worn a KC shirt when the ‘Hawks are the ones paying him.

[quote comment=”17684″]In listening to and reading all of this about Red Auerbach, I heard about this for the first time: His brother Zang Auerbach created the Celtic Logo.

Here is the link:
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[quote comment=”17674″][quote comment=”17663″][quote comment=”17610″]”>[/quote]

Been in Koch’s a million times..worked one block over at WRRM on 205 W 4th. Koch’s had EVERYthing Uni related. Paul should go and say hi to Kris Koch.[/quote]

We’re you in direct competition with link

Sorry, couldn’t resist.[/quote]

Wow, I tore a hole in the space-time continuum. I may have had some help though. Somehow my clever response got listed before the post I quoted…cool I guess.

Somebody beat me too the Moon as Seahawks broadcaster bit, but I do have to mention he’s terrible as a color guy.

Who has the best shoes for NBA opening night?

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Oregon players in training? link

Cal’s actually got two star players using the same numbers: Marshawn Lynch, their star RB, is number 10/offense, and Desmond Bishop, perhaps the best player on their defense, is… you guessed it. 10.

I don’t really get it, since unlike the legendary Nebraska teams of yore, Cal doesn’t exactly suit up an army of players, even for a home game. Guess the players want the numbers they want.

[quote comment=”17710″]The Celtics will honor Red Auerbach with a link on their sleeves with the word Red in green inside it. Wouldn’t it just make more sense to make the leaf red?[/quote]

Not at all, because black is the only color appropriate for mourning a death.

Paul,

In the sentence you wrote (that’s “eight five,” in case you don’t habla Español), shouldn’t the word “Español” be spelled with a lowercase letter “e”?

In Spanish (and other languages such as German) names of countries, days of the week and languages are not capitalized… just curious and being nitpicky!

Jonathan

[quote comment=”17708″]Oregon players in training? link[/quote]

That middle guy needs a LOT of training, then. Egads.

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Monday Night Football UniUpdate

Bill Bellichick ( whos son is supposedly a pot head ) is wearing a Cut Off Sleeve Sweatshirt… no joke

Vikings… sadly… still wearing those hideous ” things “[/quote]

He always wears the sweatshirt with the sleeves cut off like that. Nothing new.

[quote comment=”17725″]Paul,

In the sentence you wrote (that’s “eight five,” in case you don’t habla Español), shouldn’t the word “Español” be spelled with a lowercase letter “e”?

In Spanish (and other languages such as German) names of countries, days of the week and languages are not capitalized… just curious and being nitpicky!

Jonathan[/quote]

Actually, German capitalizes all of its nouns, regardless if it’s a proper one or not. This includes countries, days, languages, etc.

Okay, changing my name tag . . .We’ve already got a JonathOn and apparently another JonathAn, so I will modify . . .
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Bill usually wears the cutoff sleeve sweatshirt….look at most every game from the past 3 years….only this year has he really started wearing something other than the cut off sweatshirt[/quote]

He’s actually got a couple of different looks . . .link, link, and a couple of other varieties (hood, cut sleeves) that I can’t find good pictures of.[/quote]

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Been in Koch’s a million times..worked one block over at WRRM on 205 W 4th. Koch’s had EVERYthing Uni related. Paul should go and say hi to Kris Koch.[/quote]

We’re you in direct competition with link

Sorry, couldn’t resist.[/quote]

Wow, I tore a hole in the space-time continuum. I may have had some help though. Somehow my clever response got listed before the post I quoted…cool I guess.[/quote]

WRRM is a soft rock station. I DID work at the station that WKRP was probly modeled for…WKRQ.
link. 13 years, and it was just like the TV show.

If anyone still interested in the “Friday Night Lights” uniwatch, the opponent tonight was wearing the uniforms of A&M Consolidated High School (College Station, TX).

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Been in Koch’s a million times..worked one block over at WRRM on 205 W 4th. Koch’s had EVERYthing Uni related. Paul should go and say hi to Kris Koch.[/quote]

We’re you in direct competition with link

Sorry, couldn’t resist.[/quote]

Wow, I tore a hole in the space-time continuum. I may have had some help though. Somehow my clever response got listed before the post I quoted…cool I guess.[/quote]

WRRM is a soft rock station. I DID work at the station that WKRP was probly modeled for…WKRQ.
link. 13 years, and it was just like the TV show.[/quote]

Yeah, complete with plastic blonde receptionist?

I just saw something worse than the Vikings’ unis–the egg they laid tonight against the Patriots. I tried to stick it out until the end—really, I did, but I just couldn’t.

Two Observations from MNF:

1) Yes, Bill’s sleeves were cut off, but so was the hood. WTF Bill? They DO make sweatshirts without hoods.

2) Action Chad (Go Gators) was wearing red tights under his uni. You can see this clearly when his sock gets pulled down when he scored his TD. You know they’re tights since the red color extends above the waistband of the pants.

Must be cold in the dome…

whistles

[quote comment=”17751″]Two Observations from MNF:

1) Yes, Bill’s sleeves were cut off, but so was the hood. WTF Bill? They DO make sweatshirts without hoods.

2) Action Chad (Go Gators) was wearing red tights under his uni. You can see this clearly when his sock gets pulled down when he scored his TD. You know they’re tights since the red color extends above the waistband of the pants.

Must be cold in the dome…[/quote]

Don’t think the hood was cut off. A hooded sweatshirt wouldn’t have that kind of neck band. It looks like the edge of the neck band is just very tattered. Still, though… WTF

I noticed Jackson’s tights too. Did the red color look right to you? Looked a little on the mauve side on my HDTV.

[quote comment=”17753″]whistles[/quote]
Some officials have these “straps” on both hands at the same time they are wearing a whistle around their neck.

If BB didn’t lop off the hood, the shirt has a strange collar on it. Kinda like a mock turtle look.

link

I’m partial to the Hank Stram logo’d-sport-coat look. I’d at least like a little variety. In college, coaches get whatever their sponsor gives them, but there is a variety of sponsors. Not so much in RBK’s fiefdom (aka the NFL).

A big shout-out to Ek for fixing the time-stamp. Thanks, man. It was driving me to distraction.

As for a Vikings’ sportscoat, I shudder at the thought.

from a Scoop Jackson article about his NBA predictions on espn.com’s Page 2:

“The Fashion: Players will start pulling their socks down and we’ll see less headbands.”

[quote comment=”17759″][quote comment=”17754″][quote comment=”17750″]Steve Bruce’s link.[/quote]

Let me try a better one. Liverpool’s manager, link.

It should be know that for the most part, they wear link during games. I wish the NFL still allowed this. It just looks classy.[/quote]

I disagree. It is classy, but it doesn’t look right when a coach is dressed in a suit—like in the NBA and the NHL. I’m not for the uniform route, either, like in the MLB. Hell, I’m not for the matching outfits, either, like the NFL. I think jeans and a nice shirt ought to do it.[/quote]
c’mon Minna…. these guys aren’t going BarHopping–they’re football coaches. I like the Hank Stram route–provided these guys can wear the cheesey toupee as well.

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I’m partial to the Hank Stram logo’d-sport-coat look.[/quote]

Best idea of the day – SF’s Mike Nolan already requested this and it could happen with more support.