Sunday Open Thread

Doesn’t the Ireland flag have the same colors? Or maybe its orange instead of red I don’t know but maybe they could break those unis out for St. Patricks Day.

Are those jerseys on sale to the public? Cause I know a couple of my nationalistic Italian buddies who would love one more thing with the Italian flag. As a Nets fan I look at our jerseys (shite) and the Celts (golden) and weep.

Irish flag is green-white-orange; Italian is red-white-green (and yes, the colours of Boston in the pic above are the wrong way around).

Raptors are also link the red side panels/wraparound on their shorts

[quote comment=”153772″]i have to admit, i like what the celtics did.
understated, but cool. i like that they went for the more chill approach.

also, why are they not playing in ireland? wouldn’t they sell a MILLION t-shirts and jerseys there?[/quote]

Because Ireland doesn’t have pro-basketball teams to play

The smoking gun has link with the Yankees road aliases from a 2005.

Nothing that clever there, but it makes me wonder what my hotel alias would be, if I ever needed one.

hopefully, ‘Whats the deal with the Celtics jersey?’ doesn’t become a “hey, what’s the deal with these Tampa Bay Buccaneers jerseys?’ type of thing

[quote comment=”153773″]Irish flag is green-white-orange; Italian is red-white-green (and yes, the colours of Boston in the pic above are the wrong way around).[/quote]
link about that?

I’m going to be honest, yes, those jerseys look a little goofy, but i think its one of the cooler marketing ideas the NBA has come out with in some time

and I’m generally anti-nba

[quote comment=”153798″]The smoking gun has link with the Yankees road aliases from a 2005.

Nothing that clever there, but it makes me wonder what my hotel alias would be, if I ever needed one.[/quote]
Nothing that clever, but whenver I read the name “Turd Ferguson” I still laugh out loud.

[quote comment=”153830″][quote comment=”153817″][quote comment=”153773″]Irish flag is green-white-orange; Italian is red-white-green (and yes, the colours of Boston in the pic above are the wrong way around).[/quote]
link about that?[/quote]

Yeah, I’m Italian and I’ve never seen the flag as red-white-green. I’ve always seen it green-white-red and a google image search (sorta) justifies my claim.[/quote]

It’s definitely green-white-red. The jerseys are fine.

Randy White? Someone must be a Cowboys fan. Or maybe a Maryland fan.

looks as though the hoodie’s missing e has made a return.

[quote comment=”153762″]Doesn’t the Ireland flag have the same colors? Or maybe its orange instead of red I don’t know but maybe they could break those unis out for St. Patricks Day.[/quote]
irish flag is orange …not red come out of your cave

I don’t know if any pic exists of it, but its something my wife and I noticed last night at Coors Field, it was either in the 7th or 8th (8th I think), but someone really needs to tell Charlie Manuel to make sure he zips up his fly before he heads out to the mound for a pitching change. Noticed it for about 2 or 3 seconds on the Jumbotron, couldn’t get to the camera quickly enough myself.

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Grace Manning, or Grace Place, depending on how you look at it. I sniffed it out, the Mrs. knew the first name.[/quote]

[quote comment=”153852″]Who is ThresherK someone famous? Peyton Manning?[/quote]

Not hardly! I used a fake name for the commonest reason when staying with one’s brand new spouse.

TD is right: I signed my wife in as Grace Metalious, who wrote Peyton Place. That I’m a Colts fan was icing on the cake.

[quote comment=”153867″][quote comment=”153849″]those celtic jerseys are dumb…how can they put italian colors on an irish symbol?? looks dumb….if it was orange that would be sweet[/quote]

Kinda like putting a hammer and sickle on the American Eagle. Or putting stars and stripes on the Maple Leaf. Leave the shamrock alone. The coloring of “Celtics” is okay in my book though. Dis the Timberwolves make any modifications for their games in Turkey?[/quote]
So that’s where they were playing! Yeah, somebody posted a picture last night. The T’Wolves had a red border on their jerseys. (Turkey’s flag is all red, save a white star and crescent.)

[quote comment=”153867″][quote comment=”153849″]those celtic jerseys are dumb…how can they put italian colors on an irish symbol?? looks dumb….if it was orange that would be sweet[/quote]

Kinda like putting a hammer and sickle on the American Eagle. Or putting stars and stripes on the Maple Leaf. Leave the shamrock alone. The coloring of “Celtics” is okay in my book though. Dis the Timberwolves make any modifications for their games in Turkey?[/quote]
And by the way, they didn’t color in “CELTICS.” They colored in “BOSTON.”

[quote comment=”153866″][quote comment=”153820″]
Grace Manning, or Grace Place, depending on how you look at it. I sniffed it out, the Mrs. knew the first name.[/quote]

[quote comment=”153852″]Who is ThresherK someone famous? Peyton Manning?[/quote]

Not hardly! I used a fake name for the commonest reason when staying with one’s brand new spouse.

TD is right: I signed my wife in as Grace Metalious, who wrote Peyton Place. That I’m a Colts fan was icing on the cake.[/quote]
Am I the only one totally confused by this?

[quote comment=”153879″][quote comment=”153866″][quote comment=”153820″]
Grace Manning, or Grace Place, depending on how you look at it. I sniffed it out, the Mrs. knew the first name.[/quote]

[quote comment=”153852″]Who is ThresherK someone famous? Peyton Manning?[/quote]

Not hardly! I used a fake name for the commonest reason when staying with one’s brand new spouse.

TD is right: I signed my wife in as Grace Metalious, who wrote Peyton Place. That I’m a Colts fan was icing on the cake.[/quote]
Am I the only one totally confused by this?[/quote]

Nope.

LSU’s double-standard goal posts are a holdover from the old days, when all the posts were like that. LSU runs under the posts at the beginning of each game. For a while (from the mid-80s to the mid-90s), LSU did have the single-standard, yellow posts. But they went back the year they celebrated the 100th year of LSU football and have kept them. When the Saints played a few games at Baton Rouge when the Superdome was unavailable in ’05, the NFL (which unlike the NCAA requires all posts to be of the single-standard variety, and painted yellow) allowed the posts to stay put.

A few schools have the “old style” posts as well (Florida State and Washington State are two I know of right away)

I don’t know if anyone noticed this last night, but linkon it…who they were playing. I know Montreal is a company, I just found that kind of funny.

A few schools have the “old style” posts as well (Florida State and Washington State are two I know of right away)

And once again, if you want to move indoors link uses link

[quote comment=”153899″]John Kasay is kicking with a freaking wristwatch on![/quote]

That’s so he knows what time it is when the Aints LOSE AGAIN!!! I see a UniWatch column in which Paul or Vince examines the many ways in which Saints fans decorate the bags they will most certainly be wearing over their heads.

Bill Belichick isn’t the only Pats coach with a personalized hoodie. Josh McDaniels, the Offensive Coordinator, was sporting one with the initials “JM” just below the Patriots logo today. A screen grab link.

Ladanian Tomlinson STILL without a flag on his helmet…there was a close up at 2:29 in the first quarter if anyone can take a picture

Did anyone see this

Supposedly the Edge jerseys caused this guy to injure his shoulder

Enforcer Cam Janssen might have injured his shoulder tonight because of the league’s new Reebok Edge sweaters. His sweater ripped during his two first period fights with Philadelphia’s Jesse Boulerice. That might have helped Boulerice pull Janssen’s jersey over his head in both altercations and win both decisively. Arron Asham also had his sweater tear during his fight with Riley Cote.

“These new jerseys are supposed to make you faster, but what good are they if they tear that easily,” Mike Rupp said.

So, it’s not possible that the injury was caused by Boulerice kicking Janssen’s a**? Twice?!

Unless Boulerice is wearing some kind of SuperEdge jersey, it sounds like wittle Cammy-Wammy’s making excuses for getting beat up.

Portis is wearing yellow/gold laces with black shoes. Looks like CB Carlos Rogers had some kind of yellow sock thing going on too.

“These new jerseys are supposed to make you faster, but what good are they if they tear that easily,” Mike Rupp said.

Who came up with that bullshit? Reebok. Faster? No.

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A few schools have the “old style” posts as well (Florida State and Washington State are two I know of right away)

And once again, if you want to move indoors link uses link[/quote]

Wow, I’ve never seen that before…I think its cool!! Do you think its done like that because it looks like a capital V?? In that second picture, the V in the seats and the V double upright basket supports struck me at the same time…

Paul, a column idea. Say I am the owner of an NFL team that has ugly unis. Say…the Falcons.
I want to re-do the whole look. Who starts the process? I call NFLP and they do artwork for me?
How long does process take? Just a thought.

Did anyone else notice that Jagr had his “sweater” tucked in last night.

looks as though the hoodie’s missing e has made a return.

I think last week it was a crew-neck.

Try to picture Bill Russell or Bob Cousy in one of those unis. It doesn not compute.

link

(I was tempted to title the link something like “She-Devil Skaters of the SS”)

[quote comment=”153993″]Here is the link.

Mike Tomlin went link.[/quote]
What’s up with that? Is Tomlin part of some pro cancer lobby?

And by the way, they didn’t color in “CELTICS.” They colored in “BOSTON.”[/quote]

Indeed, but didn’t they also color in the shamrock? That is the symbol I was talking about. I wouldn’t refer to a word as a symbol.

[quote comment=”153911″]Bill Belichick isn’t the only Pats coach with a personalized hoodie. Josh McDaniels, the Offensive Coordinator, was sporting one with the initials “JM” just below the Patriots logo today. A screen grab link.[/quote]
Isn’t that nice. I wonder, when they get hired as assistants, does Belichek reach into the bottom of his hamper and toss one of his old sweaters to them?

As a Bills fan (ugh), I can only imagine that they will be wearing the GORGEOUS throwbacks for tomorrow night’s game.

Bills are wearing throwbacks tomorrow night, confirmed.

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I’ve been doing lots of double takes this week, but I just realized that the towels being used by the players are intentionally pink for the whole breast cancer thing. At first, I thought it was the TV that was off, then I thought that they mixed some reds with the whites in the wash. Heh.

David Justice was a Yankee broadcaster for the YES Network during the 2005 season.

At first, I thought it was the TV that was off, then I thought that they mixed some reds with the whites in the wash. Heh.

The Detroit HD feed for the DET-WAS game started out digital, then at some point in the first quarter switched to HD, then back to digital. Then they went to commercial and came back to a screen that said “Fox Los Angeles, DET-WAS” with some message about who to call if there was a problem with the feed.

I used to know a girl who worked for CBS in NY and put the CBS football feed on the air, I wish I still knew her to find out the background, it would be interesting to find out what was going on there, but the Fox HD feed was definitely going out wrong. It was also interesting because the normal broadcast and HD signals are out of sync, but it was switching back and forth pretty seamlessly.

(Which also means that Mike Tomlin might not be pro-cancer, but could have been wearing his on the other side of his cap, Green Bay style).

[quote comment=”154078″]The Smoking Gun professes not to know why Matt Lawton signed in as “Eleven Fifty”, but we uniform buffs can give them a hint. Except for a brief stint with the Mets in 2001, eleven and fifty are the only two numbers Lawton had ever worn.

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Unless you count 23 and 15. Good detective work, though.

[quote comment=”154080″][quote comment=”154078″]The Smoking Gun professes not to know why Matt Lawton signed in as “Eleven Fifty”, but we uniform buffs can give them a hint. Except for a brief stint with the Mets in 2001, eleven and fifty are the only two numbers Lawton had ever worn.

link
Unless you count 23 and 15. Good detective work, though.[/quote]

Stuby, “except for a brief stint with the Mets in 2001” covers the 23, and “had ever worn” means that the 15 that he wore with Seattle came after signing that hotel register in 2005.

My comment was carefully worded so as to cover these exceptions! ^^;