Not a Bad Way to Start the Year

Re: Kashima Antlers swtiching jerseys for the trophy ceremony.

I’m certain Real Madrid did the same thing a few years ago, they played the European Cup final in their gorgeous black with gold road uniforms and then broke out the classic all-white home jerseys for the presentation. I’m sure it was them, but if it wasn’t then some team somewhere has certainly pulled the trick before.

You’re correct AJ, but Barcelona did the same when they won the European Cup in 1992, putting on their red and blue striped shirts over the orange kit they had worn against Sampdoria

Not uni-related at all, but those are some of the cutest kitties evarrrrrr

Actually, Dany Sabourin wore old school brown equipment for the outdoor game. Unfortunately for him, and us, the Pens decided to start Ty Conklin in goal.

New Year’s Day’s best bowl uni

I noticed those USC cheerleader Rose Bowl sweaters during the game and thought the same thing. Throwback-y and classic.

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New Year’s Day’s best bowl uni

I noticed those USC cheerleader Rose Bowl sweaters during the game and thought the same thing. Throwback-y and classic.[/quote]

Of course, they’re not exactly throwback-y if they’ve never changed away from those uniforms, they’re just classic.

Uni Watch mascots Tucker and Caitlin’s new year’s resolution

I like how the calico seems to have gotten the long hosiery memo, but the gray cat with the white only going to his front paws’ “ankles” clearly doesn’t “Get It”.

What’s the deal with Sidney Crosby’s little sock suspenders? I’ve never seen that before.

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lets hope this is then end of the metallic monocrap link…if you’re going to wear the red, at least keep it link

/just sayin

[quote comment=”196675″]What’s the deal with Sidney Crosby’s little sock suspenders? I’ve never seen that before.[/quote]

Its a garder belt, keeps socks up during play. Players either wear those, or have shorts that have Velcro on them to keep them up, which also has the cup sewn in too. I wear the shorts myself, I like my garders on women only…..

Here’s an article about the Phiten necklaces that athletes are wearing to help healing time. The Phiten store in Seattle has a display of athlete autographs from those players who are also customers. link

I’m surprised there wasn’t anything about link from last night’s butt whoopin’. UGA still looks odd in a black jersey…

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[quote comment=”196689″]I’m surprised there wasn’t anything about link from last night’s butt whoopin’. UGA still looks odd in a black jersey…[/quote]
Isn’t that their standard road helmet?

Does anyone remember when Southern California played in the Orange Bowl in 2003 that the song girls had sweaters with oranges on them?

No, get thine brains out of the gutter, there were chenille oranges on the sweaters where roses usually were.

Forget about the Hawaii helmets what about those goofy looking pants they were wearing last night. The QB looked like he was ready for a dance recital. I think they actually looked worse then when the Ravens go the same leotard looking route.

[quote comment=”196679″]Anyone know what Illinois QB Juice Williams’ real name is? He wears ‘I. Williams’ on his jersey so I’m assuming Juice isn’t his given name. Ichabod perhaps?[/quote]
It’s Ike.

“Incidentally, we’ve now had hockey in the snow, football in the snow, and baseball in the snow all within the past nine months. All we need now is a snowy NBA game (which, at the very least, would probably lead to some high-sock action), an idea I offer to David Stern at no extra charge.”
We’ve had a season-long NBA snow job here in NY from someone whose real name is Isiah Lord Thomas.

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[quote comment=”196648″]You’re correct AJ, but Barcelona did the same when they won the European Cup in 1992, putting on their red and blue striped shirts over the orange kit they had worn against Sampdoria[/quote]

I remember one cup final where both teams already exchanged their shirts before the ceremony, which resulted in the winning team receiving the cup wearing their opponents shirts.

I am very sad to bid adieu to the Nike-clad Michigan football uniforms! The three stripes will take over this coming year!
Let us pray that they not mangle their uniforms as they have with the likes of Louisville.

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I always looks forward to the Big bowl games because Nike previews their gloves and cleats for the upcoming season. LSU has been wearing the new cleats, but so did some of the players from Florida and USC. I checked both school’s websites and the only good pic I found were numbers 5 and 18 in this gallery:

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If anyone has video of the Wild game against the Oilers, they talk about the ref not having his gear, and using borrowed stuff. Not sure what part of the game though, sorry.

New Era has made a new line of caps called MLB Twisted that features a teams official logo transplanted on various other teams base hat-i.e. the Cardinals’ STL set on an Oakland or Pittsburgh official hat. Some of the hats are quite an upgrade-some loof suprisingly good (I personally love the Twins set to the Brewers’ hat scheme) while others (most notably the Brewers and Indians) are completely horrendous. Interesting to look at and think of the possibilities.

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[quote comment=”196668″][quote comment=”196665″]

New Year’s Day’s best bowl uni

I noticed those USC cheerleader Rose Bowl sweaters during the game and thought the same thing. Throwback-y and classic.[/quote]

Of course, they’re not exactly throwback-y if they’ve never changed away from those uniforms, they’re just classic.[/quote]

Ah, I don’t follow cheerleading, good for USC then.

[quote comment=”196699″]Forget about the Hawaii helmets what about those goofy looking pants they were wearing last night. The QB looked like he was ready for a dance recital. I think they actually looked worse then when the Ravens go the same leotard looking route.[/quote]

i was gonna post this last night, but im NOT a fan of colt brennan’s wearing link in lieu of socks, which definitely gives the link link

i hope this was a colt decision, and not a nike decision…cold weather gear is fine in the cold, not a dome…are nike-clad legs better than sockless ones?

The throwbacks were great, but the one thing they got wrong was the Buffalo socks. The originals had three sets of stripes, like Toronto (which I think was deliberate on the part of Punch Imlach).

When will the league realize that fans like REAL hockey uniforms, NOT something designed by a marketing committee?

Just loved the Winter Classic. From the setting to the unis to the game.
It was mentioned during the broadcast that the Pens have petitioned the league to make their throwback blues their alternate jersey for next season.

Several Georgia defenders do not link and why didn;t link wear the link?

To my eyes, the Sabres look just like the Minnesota Vikings did in their throwbacks: So natural and right that I’d forgotten they’d switched to some other, lesser, kit in the meantime.

[quote comment=”196739″]New Era has made a new line of caps called MLB Twisted that features a teams official logo transplanted on various other teams base hat-i.e. the Cardinals’ STL set on an Oakland or Pittsburgh official hat. Some of the hats are quite an upgrade-some loof suprisingly good (I personally love the Twins set to the Brewers’ hat scheme) while others (most notably the Brewers and Indians) are completely horrendous. Interesting to look at and think of the possibilities.

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I like the Twisted hats, its a good way to support your team if you aren’t in love with their cap style and like another team’s more. Although it will definitly confuse alot of people.

On Christmas Day Fox Soccer Channel ran a marathon of old FA Cup Final games from England, several of which I recorded. Being an Arsenal fan, I was particularly interested in seeing two of the famous victories in their history, the 1971 final vs. Liverpool (Arsenal won 2-1 in a 30-minute extra period after the regulation 90 ended 0-0); and the 1979 final vs. Man United (Arsenal took a 2-0 lead to halftime, then in the last 5 minutes of the game ManU scored 2 to tie it before Arsenal scored the winner with seconds to go).

The basic look of the soccer uni hasn’t changed much since the 70s (although the look of the English league’s top-flight players has — they’re now bigger, stronger, and no longer all white). But I still did make some uni-related mental notes when I finally got around to watching my recordings the last couple of days:

– Uniform numbers were 1-11, and strictly by position — keeper #1, fullbacks #2-3, center forward #9, etc. Only one substitute was allowed and only one dressed, always wearing #12.
– For some reason, in the ’71 match Liverpool keeper Ray Clemence wore an un-numbered jersey. Otherwise, both keepers wore identical green jerseys; both also wore caps (we’d call them baseball caps; the Brit announcers called them golfing caps) when defending the goal facing the sun. Actually, you still occasionally see this today.
– No ads on the jerseys, nor any logos that I saw, except the team crests. One of the teams did have a big Adidas equipment bag strategically placed in front of their bench in the ’71 game.
– As I mentioned, players are bigger today, even in soccer. One bigger player in ’79 was referred to as “Arsenal’s 6-footer” — that would obviously not be a particular distinction today. The complete absence of black players was certainly striking. Just as they do today, the announcers bemoaned the shortage of English players on the pitch — but the non-Englishmen were all Irish and Scots! Now, of course, EPL players come from all over the world, and Arsenal (for one example) has only 2 English players, who seldom start. And black players from all nations abound.
– The most amazing thing — the ’71 game was played in exceptionally hot weather, and as the game went on more and more players rolled their socks down, discarding on the field the laces and pieces of tape that had been holding them up. They could easily do this because: almost nobody wore shin guards! I couldn’t believe it. Does anybody know when shin guards became common? I guess I’d thought they were a lot older than the 70s. (I also noticed a lot of players missing front teeth — they looked more like hockey players than soccer players.)

From the other day.
(Rant ON) As a long-time play-by-play broadcaster, “duplicate numbers” oughtta be outlawed!!! As is, they’re only permissible in NCAA football; which leads to abominations like this! The “dupes” aren’t allowed on the field at the same time, which is why running back Jimmy Jackson and safety William Moore both get to wear #1!

Identical numbers have been on field at the same time. I have season Tickets to Northern Illinois. last year (2006) our backup QB at the time was number 19 and handed off to a 3rd string tailback number 19. That was quite impressive.

[quote comment=”196739″]New Era has made a new line of caps called MLB Twisted that features a teams official logo transplanted on various other teams base hat-i.e. the Cardinals’ STL set on an Oakland or Pittsburgh official hat. Some of the hats are quite an upgrade-some loof suprisingly good (I personally love the Twins set to the Brewers’ hat scheme) while others (most notably the Brewers and Indians) are completely horrendous. Interesting to look at and think of the possibilities.

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It really says something, doesn’t it, that my favorites in that cap line are all the various logos when placed on the green and gold caps of the Oakland A’s?

Happy New Year, UniWatchers.

Now that Reebok’s proved they can make link hockey uniforms, can we please get rid of the damn link and return to real link for my beloved link?

[quote comment=”196774″][quote comment=”196772″]From the other day.
(Rant ON) As a long-time play-by-play broadcaster, “duplicate numbers” oughtta be outlawed!!! As is, they’re only permissible in NCAA football; which leads to abominations like this! The “dupes” aren’t allowed on the field at the same time, which is why running back Jimmy Jackson and safety William Moore both get to wear #1!

Identical numbers have been on field at the same time. I have season Tickets to Northern Illinois. last year (2006) our backup QB at the time was number 19 and handed off to a 3rd string tailback number 19. That was quite impressive.[/quote]

And quite against the rules. Was there a penalty on the play? There certainly should have been.[/quote]
That NIU example is bad. The only possibility of dupe numbers would be special teams, but I don’t think the rules allow that either.

Fans of the ESPN Classic show Cheap Seats might remember the Sklar Brothers doing a show about an old rose bowl game and Washington had two players with the same number and they both scored. I think it was an RB on offense and a CB returning an INT on defense. They were like I thought that number was the other guy!

Personally, I don’t have a problem with this and I see it as a quirk of the college game. Sure they could all have eligible numbers with the relaxed code of college numbering, but why not let a guy pick a number he really wants? The majority of D1 players don’t go pro and this is the last meaningful football they’ll play.

The play-by-play rant is bunk. If common sense can’t tell you that John David Booty is a QB and Brian Cushing a LB, find a different line of work! I know all examples are not obvious as this one, but still. Rules state that the players must be one offense and one defense. Use different colored highlighters on your roster when you’re calling the game.

[quote comment=”196745″]Can you say WAAAAAY to many logos?

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Yeah, but at least the helmets are nice. I liked what UA did to Maryland’s uniforms and what they didnt do to Auburn, but after Texas Tech and South Carolina, I’m not too excited to see that game.

[quote comment=”196784″]Now that Reebok’s proved they can make link hockey uniforms, can we please get rid of the damn link and return to real link for my beloved link?[/quote]
Umm just to let you know bettman doesnt create the uniforms, Reebok creates them and then the team has to approve them.

Interesting Uni photo. Here is a photo of Philadelphia Eagles’ Reno Mahe locker clean-out. You can see the black alternate jersey still in the polybag. The Eagles did not wear the third jerseys this season.

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[quote comment=”196756″]Several Georgia defenders do not link and why didn;t link wear the link?[/quote]

my thoughts exactly re: Hawai’i. their’s is one of the few modern uni designs i really like. and that one leg garter stripe pattern is very cool. it looked like they borrowed some penn state pants for the game.

[quote comment=”196787″][quote comment=”196774″][quote comment=”196772″]From the other day.
(Rant ON) As a long-time play-by-play broadcaster, “duplicate numbers” oughtta be outlawed!!! As is, they’re only permissible in NCAA football; which leads to abominations like this! The “dupes” aren’t allowed on the field at the same time, which is why running back Jimmy Jackson and safety William Moore both get to wear #1!

Identical numbers have been on field at the same time. I have season Tickets to Northern Illinois. last year (2006) our backup QB at the time was number 19 and handed off to a 3rd string tailback number 19. That was quite impressive.[/quote]

And quite against the rules. Was there a penalty on the play? There certainly should have been.[/quote]
That NIU example is bad. The only possibility of dupe numbers would be special teams, but I don’t think the rules allow that either.
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Duplicate numbers are not allowed on special teams–happened to our team this year. Two guys who both wore #32, a WR and a LB, were both put on the kickoff coverage team towards the end of the season (lots of special teams changes for us, rarely had the same lineup every game for kicks). The first game after the new lineup was established, both players with #32 lined up for kick coverage…and we got away with it, simply because the refs missed it. At halftime the LB was given a #27 jersey, and he wore it for the remainder of the year.

I have been in rural Iowa for the last few days without and internet connection, so please forgive if this has already been brought up.

As I was watching the Maryland Bowl game a few nights ago they showed the QB and his helmet. As the light hit is just right you could see white numbers on the white helmet. They were on the back left hand side. Same number as his Jersey, #10. I couldnt tell if anyone else had this same thing going on. Did anyone else see this? I was not able to find a pic on the web. Very interesting, Anyone know the story?

They have been doing that since changing the helmets in ’02 or ’03. Kinda dumb…they should just make numbers part of the helmet design.

If anyone wants to check out the gallery of pictures from various sources (AP, Reuters, Paul’s blog, etc.) I have compiled of the Winter Classic, please link.

Lots of glorious views of the game at various times as well.

[quote comment=”196778″][quote comment=”196739″]New Era has made a new line of caps called MLB Twisted that features a teams official logo transplanted on various other teams base hat-i.e. the Cardinals’ STL set on an Oakland or Pittsburgh official hat. Some of the hats are quite an upgrade-some loof suprisingly good (I personally love the Twins set to the Brewers’ hat scheme) while others (most notably the Brewers and Indians) are completely horrendous. Interesting to look at and think of the possibilities.

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It really says something, doesn’t it, that my favorites in that cap line are all the various logos when placed on the green and gold caps of the Oakland A’s?

Happy New Year, UniWatchers.[/quote]
some of them were cool i guess.

However what is wrong with the link
They didn’t have the little design in the middle of the S

And people wonder why we’re getting our asses kicked in the global economy.

Except we’re NOT getting our asses kicked in the global economy. Stick to uniforms, about which you have knowledge.

I wonder how many of link have been sold by the LIDS gang. Just wrong, man.

Speaking of the Iggles, link.

[quote comment=”196848″]However what is wrong with the Mariners hat
They didn’t have the little design in the middle of the S

That looks like an link of the Mariners cap logo.[/quote]
Thanks for that
I’m pretty sure that is the correct hat
on that site they also have link
so it makes sense now

[quote comment=”196860″]Speaking of the Iggles, link.[/quote]

Absolutely!!!

How awesome did the Sabres coaching staff look in those jackets? Talk about a great touch!

A guy named Ryan Grote used to post on a track and field/running listserv I subscribe to, and he once worked at the Niketown in Portland in the mid-90s. He described having to do the exact same ritual and how it made his skin crawl. A Jersey boy, he returned east and opened a shoe store called runner’s pace. I may be wrong but I think he doesn’t carry nikes at all.

I wonder what some of your opinions on this are:

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I’m of course referring to the “Throwbacks could throw viewers off” blurb near the bottom of the story.

I get the point of trying to attract new hockey viewers but I think the throwbacks were an important part of this promotion. Sure, it was marketing in order to make more money (I saw so many of these jerseys at the Pens/Sabres game in Pittsburgh Saturday).

To a person not familiar with hockey, I thought NBC did a good job stating they were special uniforms, etc. I would think the excitement of the game and the players would be what would bring non-fans back, but on the other hand, the uniform is what we use to identify one team from another.

Any thoughts?

[quote comment=”196891″]I wonder what some of your opinions on this are:

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I’m of course referring to the “Throwbacks could throw viewers off” blurb near the bottom of the story.

I get the point of trying to attract new hockey viewers but I think the throwbacks were an important part of this promotion. Sure, it was marketing in order to make more money (I saw so many of these jerseys at the Pens/Sabres game in Pittsburgh Saturday).

To a person not familiar with hockey, I thought NBC did a good job stating they were special uniforms, etc. I would think the excitement of the game and the players would be what would bring non-fans back, but on the other hand, the uniform is what we use to identify one team from another.

Any thoughts?[/quote]

Do we think casual fans are going to be more confused if they see the Penguins and Sabres not wearing the same uniforms they wore yesterday or by the fact that they’ll be playing indoors the next time they see them?

[quote comment=”196784″]Now that Reebok’s proved they can make link hockey uniforms, can we please get rid of the damn link and return to real link for my beloved link?[/quote]

Hear Hear.

Even though ours arent the worst of the bunch, theyre a definite downgrade from what we had.

from the heritage game article on throwbacks:

[quote]What isn’t clear is how much anyone at the league considered the potential downside of that idea. A big part of the motivation for staging a novelty game like this one is to attract casual fans who might have limited familiarity with, say, Sidney Crosby. Or the participating teams. Or the sport, for that matter. Why present those people with uniforms they likely never have seen and might never see again, at least for a number of years?[/quote]

is the motivation really to attract casual fans? and if so, are the uni’s going to make that much of a difference, one way or the other? so what if the’d never seen a blue penguin before…i bet sid the kid never did before this year…and now we’ll all have these wonderful memories…douchebag

[quote]Does anyone really think that a first-time fan who stops by NBC while channel-surfing is going to care that the teams are wearing “heritage” uniforms, let alone know (or care) how the clubs’ sweaters have evolved over the years? [/quote]

no…and a first-time fan (WTF is that anyway, someone who’s never seen or heard of hockey???) isn’t going to care if the home team is wearing the buffaslug sweater either

[quote]Wouldn’t it make more sense — short-term profits aside — to have the players in uniforms those casual fans will recognize the next time they see them on, say, a national highlights show? As it is, people in non-traditional markets whose interest might be piqued by something they see Crosby or Evgeni Malkin or Thomas Vanek do during the outdoor game won’t necessarily make the connection when they see those players on TV again in the future.[/quote]

you clearly don’t Get It, and neither will the ‘first time’ fan, so fuck ’em, and let us enjoy the beautiful baby blues, jackass

[quote]That’s particularly true of those playing for the Penguins, whose powder-blue uniforms will be unlike anything the team has worn in nearly three decades. That the NHL, which puts such an emphasis on “branding” its product, introduced new uniforms for every team this season makes the decision to put the Penguins and Sabres in sweaters that will be worn just once even more perplexing.[/quote]

until next season, when they become the third jersey, dipshit

[quote comment=”196927″][quote comment=”196878″]good list link of Sports Illustrated’s top 10 ugliest college football unis.
Its good list, except I personally love the Notre Dame greens
Well the dark green as shown on the site not link[/quote]

Wyoming on the list? Brown and gold are the most underrated sports uniform colors. I love the link too.[/quote]

I wouldn’t say underrated. However, it is rare and they haven’t changed or “upgraded” to a link color scheme like many schools have.

[quote comment=”196929″][quote comment=”196927″][quote comment=”196878″]good list link of Sports Illustrated’s top 10 ugliest college football unis.
Its good list, except I personally love the Notre Dame greens
Well the dark green as shown on the site not link[/quote]

Wyoming on the list? Brown and gold are the most underrated sports uniform colors. I love the link too.[/quote]

I wouldn’t say underrated. However, it is rare and they haven’t changed or “upgraded” to a link color scheme like many schools have.[/quote]

Exactly. The article was saying they were ugly, and I disagree. I think that brown and gold look great, and that feeling is, more often than not, is the opposite of popular opinion about the scheme. That’s why they are underrated. Why should they “upgrade”? First, I don’t think it would be an upgrade, and second, don’t you think Brown says Wyoming and cowboy more than taking on some generic blue and red color scheme?

[quote comment=”196932″][quote comment=”196929″][quote comment=”196927″][quote comment=”196878″]good list link of Sports Illustrated’s top 10 ugliest college football unis.
Its good list, except I personally love the Notre Dame greens
Well the dark green as shown on the site not link[/quote]

Wyoming on the list? Brown and gold are the most underrated sports uniform colors. I love the link too.[/quote]

I wouldn’t say underrated. However, it is rare and they haven’t changed or “upgraded” to a link color scheme like many schools have.[/quote]

Exactly. The article was saying they were ugly, and I disagree. I think that brown and gold look great, and that feeling is, more often than not, is the opposite of popular opinion about the scheme. That’s why they are underrated. Why should they “upgrade”? First, I don’t think it would be an upgrade, and second, don’t you think Brown says Wyoming and cowboy more than taking on some generic blue and red color scheme?[/quote]

Oh, I agree with you. I like the brown. It is unique and they haven’t changed because of fashion trends.

Interesting Uni photo. Here is a photo of Philadelphia Eagles’ Reno Mahe locker clean-out. You can see the black alternate jersey still in the polybag. The Eagles did not wear the third jerseys this season.

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its really interesting since he even has that jersey, since he wore a different number last season (34?). He has only been wearing 25 since he was resigned after the greg lewis/jr reed punt returning debacle

No shit, Sherlock. My point is that the entire TEAM did not wear the black/third jerseys this year (although it seems the players were issued the jersey).

[quote comment=”196659″]Actually, Dany Sabourin wore old school brown equipment for the outdoor game. Unfortunately for him, and us, the Pens decided to start Ty Conklin in goal.[/quote]

Pic here of Sabourin’s pads…
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[quote comment=”196728″]I always looks forward to the Big bowl games because Nike previews their gloves and cleats for the upcoming season. LSU has been wearing the new cleats, but so did some of the players from Florida and USC. I checked both school’s websites and the only good pic I found were numbers 5 and 18 in this gallery:

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if you want to look at all of the new nike cleats and golves link starting at page 33

[quote comment=”196932″][quote comment=”196929″][quote comment=”196927″][quote comment=”196878″]good list link of Sports Illustrated’s top 10 ugliest college football unis.
Its good list, except I personally love the Notre Dame greens
Well the dark green as shown on the site not link[/quote]

Wyoming on the list? Brown and gold are the most underrated sports uniform colors. I love the link too.[/quote]

I wouldn’t say underrated. However, it is rare and they haven’t changed or “upgraded” to a link color scheme like many schools have.[/quote]

Exactly. The article was saying they were ugly, and I disagree. I think that brown and gold look great, and that feeling is, more often than not, is the opposite of popular opinion about the scheme. That’s why they are underrated. Why should they “upgrade”? First, I don’t think it would be an upgrade, and second, don’t you think Brown says Wyoming and cowboy more than taking on some generic blue and red color scheme?[/quote]

Brown and gold can look good, especially if the gold is metallic and shiny, not mustard yellow.

What did SI find objectionable about Delaware’s uniforms? Maybe that the helmet blue doesn’t match jersey blue?

[quote comment=”196711″]I was watching the Capital One Bowl and noticed that the NOB of Mario Manningham’s jersey seemed to have wider spacing than his teammates’ jerseys. Does anybody have a pic to verify this? Here is a pic from when UM played Notre Dame to compare to.

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I also noticed this. Manningham was sitting next to Mike Hart on the bench. Hart’s name was nice and centered about his letters and Manningham’s name went from shoulder to shoulder. My boyfriend said it make it look like his name was 88Manningham88.

[quote comment=”196958″]That ritual at Niketown is sick. Absolutely repulsively SICK! I would refuse to do that.

Employee: “Come on and join in the Swoosh salute!”
me: “Nike has no soul.”[/quote]

Dude, get over it. I actually think it’s kind of funny. What’s “repulsively sick” about it? I guarantee you that none of them take it all that seriously. Christ.

Today’s blog should have been an exclusive topic only…with postings only waxing poetically on how fuckin’ AWESOME the whole Winter Classic was. The unis, the weather, the total fuckin’ PACKAGE…

Hey NFL, NBA and MLB can you imagine learning a lesson from the NHL…well better start… Huge kudos to Gary Bettman for actually doing this right. MEGA KUDOS GARY!!!

Hey REEBOK, it’s okay to look back to look forward… really it is…look what happened, you went to the Syl Apps Jr., Greg Polis, Gil Perrault, Rick Martin time machine and nailed it!!!

Yesterday, maybe, maybe, just maybe the team outfitting world learned a lesson, it’s fuckin OK to be creative…in a good way…not an Oregon or Cincinnati Bengals creative way,…

[quote comment=”196958″]That ritual at Niketown is sick. Absolutely repulsively SICK! I would refuse to do that.

Employee: “Come on and join in the Swoosh salute!”
me: “Nike has no soul.”[/quote]

employee: “you can pick up your final check at personnel next tuesday”

do you also refuse to ask the customer if he’d like fries with his happy meal

[quote comment=”196941″][quote]Flyers vs. Penguins from Happy Valley in 2009, perhaps?[/quote]

funny you should say that…this morning a co-worker and i were discussing the game, and he mentioned “rangers and isles at shea”…which should be available anytime after september 28th

i thought rangers-devils @ meadowlands might be better[/quote]

Clearly, Blackhawks – Red Wings at Soldier field would not only be the greatest, but the greatest looking, outdoor game possible.

[quote comment=”196948″][quote comment=”196941″][quote]Flyers vs. Penguins from Happy Valley in 2009, perhaps?[/quote]

funny you should say that…this morning a co-worker and i were discussing the game, and he mentioned “rangers and isles at shea”…which should be available anytime after september 28th

i thought rangers-devils @ meadowlands might be better[/quote]
I think if there is another outdoor game,
Which there should be.

They should use original six teams.
So maybe Chicago vs. Detroit at Soldier Field
Wrigley would be kinda weird but awesome at the same time.
Or even Comerica park in Detroit
Chicago could wear link
And detroit in .link
I think it would be great![/quote]

Uh….i think Chicago and Detroit should stick to their already-awesome untampered with designs!

[quote comment=”196961″][quote comment=”196960″][quote comment=”196958″]That ritual at Niketown is sick. Absolutely repulsively SICK! I would refuse to do that.

Employee: “Come on and join in the Swoosh salute!”
me: “Nike has no soul.”[/quote]

Dude, get over it. I actually think it’s kind of funny. What’s “repulsively sick” about it? I guarantee you that none of them take it all that seriously. Christ.[/quote]

If no one took it seriously, then why would any of them do it? Would someone want to do that as a joke everyday?[/quote]

Why not? If it’s a bunch of dumb high school or college students working there (which I would imagine) I can definitely see them doing that. At my summer job throughout college and a few years after that we had stupid handshakes and other things we did just because it was funny and made the days go by faster.

To start off every day we would do the handshake, which did involve a stupid chant and you know what, it was hilarious to us every day when we did it.

Get a sense of humor is all I’m saying really. This isn’t like building a golden idol of Phil Knight or the swoosh or something. It’s just a dumb little habit.

[quote comment=”196971″][quote comment=”196961″][quote comment=”196960″][quote comment=”196958″]That ritual at Niketown is sick. Absolutely repulsively SICK! I would refuse to do that.

Employee: “Come on and join in the Swoosh salute!”
me: “Nike has no soul.”[/quote]

Dude, get over it. I actually think it’s kind of funny. What’s “repulsively sick” about it? I guarantee you that none of them take it all that seriously. Christ.[/quote]

If no one took it seriously, then why would any of them do it? Would someone want to do that as a joke everyday?[/quote]

Why not? If it’s a bunch of dumb high school or college students working there (which I would imagine) I can definitely see them doing that. At my summer job throughout college and a few years after that we had stupid handshakes and other things we did just because it was funny and made the days go by faster.

To start off every day we would do the handshake, which did involve a stupid chant and you know what, it was hilarious to us every day when we did it.

Get a sense of humor is all I’m saying really. This isn’t like building a golden idol of Phil Knight or the swoosh or something. It’s just a dumb little habit.[/quote]

A sense of humor is one thing, bowing to a corporation is another

[quote comment=”196963″][quote comment=”196927″][quote comment=”196878″]good list link of Sports Illustrated’s top 10 ugliest college football unis.
Its good list, except I personally love the Notre Dame greens
Well the dark green as shown on the site not link[/quote]

Wyoming on the list? Brown and gold are the most underrated sports uniform colors. I love the link too.[/quote]

I agree 100%. Wyoming’s colors are great. They aren’t traditional by any means– that’s what makes them great. There new basketball unis are nice![/quote]

Oregon State should definitely replace Syracuse on that list. I don’t mind Wyoming’s colors, but the uni design isn’t great.

[quote comment=”196967″]Clearly, Blackhawks – Red Wings at Soldier field would not only be the greatest, but the greatest looking, outdoor game possible.[/quote]

If it was the old Soldier Field, yeah.

But you can’t see the collonades from inside SF anymore. It’s just a big ol’ glass and steel thing. No better or worse than anything else, I guess.

Plus, clear, cold winter days in Chicago aren’t that prevalent. They’re mostly just generally crappy and windy and the wind alone is probably enough to put the kibosh on it.

Bill Wirtz wouldn’t have considered it. John McDonough, I’m sure, would consider it. But Chicago weather just sucks ass in the winter – and not in a good way.

The Blackhawks at Wrigley would be outstanding. Maybe McDonough could make that happen.

How about Hockey in the Desert next?
Maybe something like LA Kings Vs Phoenix Coyotes
in old Sun Devil Stadium?
The ice couldn’t be much worse than say Florida or Dallas in May…

[quote comment=”196974″][quote comment=”196971″][quote comment=”196961″][quote comment=”196960″][quote comment=”196958″]That ritual at Niketown is sick. Absolutely repulsively SICK! I would refuse to do that.

Employee: “Come on and join in the Swoosh salute!”
me: “Nike has no soul.”[/quote]

Dude, get over it. I actually think it’s kind of funny. What’s “repulsively sick” about it? I guarantee you that none of them take it all that seriously. Christ.[/quote]

If no one took it seriously, then why would any of them do it? Would someone want to do that as a joke everyday?[/quote]

Why not? If it’s a bunch of dumb high school or college students working there (which I would imagine) I can definitely see them doing that. At my summer job throughout college and a few years after that we had stupid handshakes and other things we did just because it was funny and made the days go by faster.

To start off every day we would do the handshake, which did involve a stupid chant and you know what, it was hilarious to us every day when we did it.

Get a sense of humor is all I’m saying really. This isn’t like building a golden idol of Phil Knight or the swoosh or something. It’s just a dumb little habit.[/quote]

A sense of humor is one thing, bowing to a corporation is another[/quote]

That’s my point exactly. Paling around is one thing, worshiping the brand is another.

[quote comment=”196979″][quote comment=”196976″]whether you are an employee at the campus in beaverton, at any of the overseas locations, the regional offices in the united states or an employee at niketown, the nike belief and way of life is very serious and is not joked around about.[/quote]

When a company starts equating its business with a “belief and way of life,” and when the employees buy into that bullshit — whether the company is Nike, Apple, McDonald’s, or whatever — you’re thisclose to religion/cult/Jonestown territory.[/quote]

before ray kroc purchased and franchised a certain restaurant, founding brothers mcdonald had but three simple philosophies/beliefs:

1) don’t steal shit
2) get high on your time, not mine
3) the secret ingredient in the special sauce is manjuice

then the corporate-types came and screwed it up for the rest of us with all their ‘customer comes first’ shit

[quote comment=”197000″][quote comment=”196999″]I work at the Niketown in San Francisco, and I can tell you, none of the sales staff gives a shit about the chant. The managers tell us do it, we do it so we don’t get in trouble. I don’t see what the big deal is.[/quote]

The government decided to force everyone to take a loyalty oath, and I can tell you, none of the people gave a shit about it. The government told them to do it, so they did it so they didn’t get in trouble. None of them saw what the big deal was.[/quote]

The pledge of allegiance?

[quote comment=”196976″][nike, like many other major corporations has a very intense corporate culture.

whether you are an employee at the campus in beaverton, at any of the overseas locations, the regional offices in the united states or an employee at niketown, the nike belief and way of life is very serious and is not joked around about.

if you find it to be a joke, then you are probably not working there in the first place. so i can tell you that most of them do take it quite seriously.[/quote]

how shall we fill people with blind faith in the correctness of a doctrine, if we ourselves spread uncertainty and doubt by constant changes in its outward structure?

[quote comment=”196636″]Re: Kashima Antlers swtiching jerseys for the trophy ceremony.

I’m certain Real Madrid did the same thing a few years ago, they played the European Cup final in their gorgeous black with gold road uniforms and then broke out the classic all-white home jerseys for the presentation. I’m sure it was them, but if it wasn’t then some team somewhere has certainly pulled the trick before.[/quote]

Actually its quite common in Soccer. FCBarcelona has done it at least twice when winning important European Cups (Most notably in their 1992 European Champions Cup win in London)

link

Did anyone catch/have a photo the white baseball cap a couple of the Hawaii players were wearing? It was all white and looked like it had an outline of the islands in green. Pretty sweet. Too bad they didn’t really play well.

[quote comment=”196992″]
after the Winter Classic… the NHL will be back to the old crappy NHL…best hockey year was the strike year[/quote]

I agree, the compressed schedule of the 1995 season, combined with the in-conference only competition, provided the perfect amount of drama.

if anyone here has an “in” at fox sports, can you please call them up and tell them they need to increase the volume on the talent mic’s and decrease the volume on the field and crowd mic’s.

its like im actually working hard just to hear what vasgersian, haden and donohue are saying…

plus i really could go without hearing “boomer sooner” every 2 seconds….

Speaking of Real Madrid and uni-changes… I noticed last year that they did a uni change in a unique way for their La Liga title celebration. They were already at home, and played under one sponsor… but halfway through their celebration changed to special 30th title kits and their new sponsor on front.

In Game, with BENQ:
link

post game, with BWIN (wait til Becks gets to the team for the “Campeones 30” kits)
link

two things:

1. did anyone realize at the beginning of the winter classic they sang the Canadian national anthem followed by God Bless America and not the Star Spangled Banner…What’s up with that? As a fan of Ronan Tynan’s voice and 7th inning stretch at Yankee Stadium, I was a little disappointed they didn’t sing the National Anthem.

2. Is it just me or are the WV shoulder patches on west virginia maroon for a VT tribute (It looks real noticeable on Pat White.) Maybe it is just the blue/yellow on white color combo throwing me off, but I noticed it earlier in the year also…is there a story behind this or are my eyes playing tricks on me?

I don’t have a picture, but just go to the fiesta bowl and tell me what ya think!!

Happy new year!

WVU*

sorry, tired

[quote comment=”197098″]two things:

1. did anyone realize at the beginning of the winter classic they sang the Canadian national anthem followed by God Bless America and not the Star Spangled Banner…What’s up with that? As a fan of Ronan Tynan’s voice and 7th inning stretch at Yankee Stadium, I was a little disappointed they didn’t sing the National Anthem.[/quote]

I think God Bless America is a better pairing for Oh, Canada than the Star Spangled Banner, it just happens that the nation has adopted the Banner as our National Anthem. Now that I think of it, are there any other countries with a National Anthem written about a battle? Most of the ones I know of are of the “I love my country, and always will” variety.

[quote comment=”197000″][quote comment=”196999″]I work at the Niketown in San Francisco, and I can tell you, none of the sales staff gives a shit about the chant. The managers tell us do it, we do it so we don’t get in trouble. I don’t see what the big deal is.[/quote]

The government decided to force everyone to take a loyalty oath, and I can tell you, none of the people gave a shit about it. The government told them to do it, so they did it so they didn’t get in trouble. None of them saw what the big deal was.[/quote]

McCarthyism?

[quote comment=”197103″][quote comment=”197098″]two things:

1. did anyone realize at the beginning of the winter classic they sang the Canadian national anthem followed by God Bless America and not the Star Spangled Banner…What’s up with that? As a fan of Ronan Tynan’s voice and 7th inning stretch at Yankee Stadium, I was a little disappointed they didn’t sing the National Anthem.[/quote]

I think God Bless America is a better pairing for Oh, Canada than the Star Spangled Banner, it just happens that the nation has adopted the Banner as our National Anthem. Now that I think of it, are there any other countries with a National Anthem written about a battle? Most of the ones I know of are of the “I love my country, and always will” variety.[/quote]

top of my head, yeah

link, link, link…

there’s prolly dozens more, but those are all either about war or inspired by it

[quote comment=”197103″][quote comment=”197098″]two things:

1. did anyone realize at the beginning of the winter classic they sang the Canadian national anthem followed by God Bless America and not the Star Spangled Banner…What’s up with that? As a fan of Ronan Tynan’s voice and 7th inning stretch at Yankee Stadium, I was a little disappointed they didn’t sing the National Anthem.[/quote]

I think God Bless America is a better pairing for Oh, Canada than the Star Spangled Banner, it just happens that the nation has adopted the Banner as our National Anthem. Now that I think of it, are there any other countries with a National Anthem written about a battle? Most of the ones I know of are of the “I love my country, and always will” variety.[/quote]

This is a misconception quoted by Star Spangled Banner haters. Check out the lyrics to the French anthem:

“Let’s go children of the fatherland,
The day of glory has arrived!
Against us tyranny’s
Bloody flag is raised! (repeat)
In the countryside, do you hear
The roaring of these fierce soldiers?
They come right to our arms
To slit the throats of our sons, our friends!

Refrain

Grab your weapons, citizens!
Form your batallions!
Let us march! Let us march!
May impure blood
Water our fields!”

Not exactly the “I love my country” variety.

[quote comment=”197110″][quote comment=”197108″]Pat White the QB for West Virginia’s playing with a big opening in the seat of his pants![/quote]

As long as we don’t see his 92 93’s ;)[/quote]

good one stevo

Not exactly the “I love my country” variety.

I’d have to agree!

That is a pretty intense anthem!

I like both the star spangeled banner and God Bless America. i just think its amusing when some people get mad about ‘one nation, under God’ in the pledge but then would not be mad if God Bless America were our new national anthem.

Either way, it was just odd to not hear the anthem before a sporting event…a pretty big sporting event if you ask me. (in the hockey community)

[quote comment=”197116″][quote comment=”197104″]New US citizens are sworn in. Isn’t that a loyalty oath?[/quote]

If you really think working at NikeTown is in any way akin to achieving U.S. citizenship, we’re all a lot worse off than I thought.[/quote]

use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few

[quote comment=”197121″]
What I love about hockey is that there aren’t hordes of bullshit timeouts, delays, and stoppages that basketball and football have. There are no visits to pitching mounds and constant pitching changes that baseball has.
[/quote]

What do you call the TV timeouts after the 15, 10, and 5 minute marks of each period?

[quote comment=”197116″][quote comment=”197104″][quote comment=”197000″][quote comment=”196999″]I work at the Niketown in San Francisco, and I can tell you, none of the sales staff gives a shit about the chant. The managers tell us do it, we do it so we don’t get in trouble. I don’t see what the big deal is.[/quote]

The government decided to force everyone to take a loyalty oath, and I can tell you, none of the people gave a shit about it. The government told them to do it, so they did it so they didn’t get in trouble. None of them saw what the big deal was.[/quote]

New US citizens are sworn in. Isn’t that a loyalty oath?[/quote]

If you really think working at NikeTown is in any way akin to achieving U.S. citizenship, we’re all a lot worse off than I thought.[/quote]

i dont think anyone is thinking that working for nike is akin u.s. citizenship. i do think that people are still trying to figure out what exactly you are speaking of in this statement.
The government decided to force everyone to take a loyalty oath, and I can tell you, none of the people gave a shit about it. The government told them to do it, so they did it so they didn’t get in trouble. None of them saw what the big deal was.

[quote comment=”197103″]it just happens that the nation has adopted the Banner as our National Anthem. [/quote]

Yeah. There’s that little detail.

[quote comment=”197119″][quote comment=”197118″]i just think its amusing when some people get mad about ‘one nation, under God’ in the pledge but then would not be mad if God Bless America were our new national anthem.[/quote]

Actually, most people who have a problem with the former also would also have a major problem wiht the latter.[/quote]

of course paul…and the founding fathers wanted to make sure we kept god the hell OUT of all politics and currency and so on and so forth

‘in god we trust’…added later…’on nation under god’ in the pledge…not part of the orig either

it truly amazes me that our youth (and others too) are so ignorant of our history and our past

link

ah well…it is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge

[quote comment=”197121″]
I don’t know if you actually watched the game or not, but it was the most difficult hockey game I have ever watched. The constant delays to fix the ice and the moorings for the nets was intolerable. [/quote]

And yet you…tolerated it. Apparently.

Based on link, I’m guessing the NHL wishes all of its games so were intolerable.

As a one-off annual freak show, it’s fine. And I doubt very seriously we run the risk of running off people who don’t see the Penguins’ baby blues the next time they watch a hockey game (which, in the case of most of those people, will be….never, and you know it). Some people just like to predict the end of the fucking world because negative commentary sells better than positive commentary.

The Winter Classic was fine. It was fun. Everybody survived. The NHL now goes back to its position of barely registering on most people’s radars.

I was at the Winter Classic and I did wear my baby blue Pens jersey…But in my opinion the most underrated uni feature of the day was how some Penguin players took off their visors and wore no mask because of the snow.
I know Letang and Kennedy did it for sure. I wonder if they will continue to go with no visor/

[quote]anyone agree with me on my 2 question? see post #173*[/quote]

link colors in certain photos…but i think it’s just light playing tricks…and WVU is a large east conference school

[quote comment=”197137″]What he was getting at, I think, is that’The Star Spangled Banner’ was written 1814 but wasn’t adopted as the national anthem until over a century later, in 1931.
[/quote]

No, I know that. What I read that as was “this is better, but the country decided that this other song is the official national anthem, and WTF do they know anyway?” as if the fact that it WAS adopted as our official national anthem is trivial.

God Bless America, quite frankly, is a nice sentiment, I guess, but a crap national anthem. It’s NOT our national anthem.

But there’s no law that says you HAVE to sing or play the actual, official national anthem before a sporting contest – as you note, it kind of was adopted in the aftermath of World War I and it’s now a tradition that has stuck. So you can do what you want.

But I feel shortchanged when I don’t hear the Star Spangled Banner before a game (let me tell you – hearing it, with everybody in one section of the stadium singing it – and meaning it before a World Cup match is something you have to experience once in your life). I don’t care about all the apocryphal and trivial crap about how it came about, the tune we stole from someone else, or whatever. It sums up what our country’s spirit is about better than just Kate Smith singing about what a nice place you have here.

But that’s just me. YMMV.

[quote comment=”197151″]for one, the loyalty oath thing is about nazi germany.

for two why the fuck should god bless america and not canada or russia or iran? why not god bless the world? what happened to love thy neighbor? or is it love thy white american born citizen neighbor?

fuck nike, fuck the pledge. you can swear allegiance to a flag all you want, but i could give a shit about a tattered piece of cloth.[/quote]

it is not truth that matters, but victory…make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it

[quote comment=”197134″][quote comment=”197128″][quote comment=”197123″][quote comment=”197121″]
What I love about hockey is that there aren’t hordes of bullshit timeouts, delays, and stoppages that basketball and football have. There are no visits to pitching mounds and constant pitching changes that baseball has.
[/quote]

What do you call the TV timeouts after the 15, 10, and 5 minute marks of each period?[/quote]

Unlike other sports, these “timeouts” in which necessary advertising occur, do not cause a stoppage in play. The advertising comes after a typical stoppage of play.[/quote]

How is that different from the TV timeouts in Basketball or Football? It’s not like Dick Bavetta suddenly blows his whistle at the 8 minute mark and says “OK, stop everything, ESPN needs to pay the bills!”[/quote]

The timeouts for advertising that disrupt the game are guised as intermissions between the first/second quarter and third/fourth quarter. It’s unnecessary to cut NBA and NFL games into quarters.

In the NHL, the intermissions between periods are necessary so that the ice can be re-surfaced.

[quote comment=”197160″][quote comment=”197134″][quote comment=”197128″][quote comment=”197123″][quote comment=”197121″]
What I love about hockey is that there aren’t hordes of bullshit timeouts, delays, and stoppages that basketball and football have. There are no visits to pitching mounds and constant pitching changes that baseball has.
[/quote]

What do you call the TV timeouts after the 15, 10, and 5 minute marks of each period?[/quote]

Unlike other sports, these “timeouts” in which necessary advertising occur, do not cause a stoppage in play. The advertising comes after a typical stoppage of play.[/quote]

How is that different from the TV timeouts in Basketball or Football? It’s not like Dick Bavetta suddenly blows his whistle at the 8 minute mark and says “OK, stop everything, ESPN needs to pay the bills!”[/quote]

The timeouts for advertising that disrupt the game are guised as intermissions between the first/second quarter and third/fourth quarter. It’s unnecessary to cut NBA and NFL games into quarters.

In the NHL, the intermissions between periods are necessary so that the ice can be re-surfaced.[/quote]

There are exactly 2 minutes of commercials between quarters of a football or basketball game on the radio, maybe 2.5 on TV. It’s not like the teams go back to the locker rooms every time.

Dingle-Berry sighting at the Fiesta Bowl. The announcers even commented on it.

anyone agree with me on my 2 question? see post #173*

I noticed the same thing…you beat me to it!

Thanks! I know that WVU and VaTech are different conferences but being only about 3.5-4 hours apart, i didn’t know if they still had ties since VaTech used to be in the Big East.

*It must be the light. If it isn’t the light, someone in the equipment dept. didn’t do too hot of a job putting them on becuase it looks like some athletes have them and others dont. like i said earlier, i noticed it throughout the season so i still dont know which way to go with this.

[quote comment=”197064″]I gotta say, with adidas creeping on UM next year, my one hope is that they get different pants for their away uniforms. NOTHING looks beeter than the UM home unis, but as a UM season ticket holder, I just wanna see white pants/white jersey or navy pants/white jersey. With a two-toned helmet it just doesnt look right. I know the ‘classic’ lovers that rant here will go nuts, but why not give it a try?[/quote]

I guess they can introduce an Alternate uniform…I won’t have a problem with that. I know the “classic Lovers” will have a HUGE problem! They shouldn’t get rid of that iconic uniform though (Winged Helmet, Solid navy jersey, yellow numerals & solid yellow pants.)

link link

[quote comment=”196979″][quote comment=”196976″]whether you are an employee at the campus in beaverton, at any of the overseas locations, the regional offices in the united states or an employee at niketown, the nike belief and way of life is very serious and is not joked around about.[/quote]

When a company starts equating its business with a “belief and way of life,” and when the employees buy into that bullshit — whether the company is Nike, Apple, McDonald’s, or whatever — you’re thisclose to religion/cult/Jonestown territory.[/quote]
Give me a freakin’ break. I worked at Wal-Mart and we did the chant (Gimme a “W”, etc) and it was nothing but a light-hearted ice-breaker to focus everyone’s attention at the task at hand.

It’s foolish to equate something like that or having a “belief or way of life” to cult-like status. Every company I have worked for has had a certain “way of doing things”. Every business has a belief system. Surely you’ve read about Google and the way they manage projects.

I’m not being smart, I’m simply asking the question: have you ever worked for a large corporation? Brand focus, mission and vision statements, etc are tools compaines of all sizes use to promote their company goals.

I feel like the person that made the comment about your comment on the global economy: stick to your expertise, uniforms.

I don’t think I need to quote the Nike store discussion, as it’s beginning to reach almost a Mitchell Report proportion (like this post, sorry)… But I can sort of relate to the Nike employee situation. I work at Dick’s Sporting Goods, one of the largest stores of the chain, each and every morning we are reminded and encouraged to repeat nemonic (sp?) devices such as SWEET (Socks With Each and Every Transaction) and FACE (Friendly Available Customer Service and Enthusiasm). I know it’s diffrent than a chant, but to me, it fits into the same category of stupid corporate gimmicks for thier employees. I agree with the previous statement that employees don’t really take it seriously and do it to avoid getting yelled at. I can imagine employees using blatent over exageration to turn it into more of joke than anything. I know that many people who visit this site aren’t crazy about Nike (personally, I like thier products and, for the most part, thier marketing, but to each his own) but the idea that they are building a cult like ritual amongst their employees is simply rediculous. It’s something cheesy and quirky that helps co-workers loosen up, and perhaps one could argue, work together more cohesively.

I want to know if anyone heard any reports about the fan experience for the outdoor game. I can’t imagine that the nosebleed-seat view was too good. How can you see the puck?

I was thinking about other places this could be done to include the Detroit Red Wings, and I came up with Comerica Park, where you could run the rink from third to first base, use the existing behind the plate camera and announcer booths, and set up bleachers in the outfield. You wouldn’t get 70,000, but I can imagine 40-50k coming. Also, I think UM-MSU should reconsider putting the Cold War game out in the Big House, and really set a record for fans at a hockey game.

[quote comment=”197185″][quote comment=”197182″]I’m not being smart, I’m simply asking the question: have you ever worked for a large corporation?[/quote]

Yes — the Dutch media conglomerate VNU (now Neilson), for five-plus years. Thankfully, they didn’t make us chant “Gimme a V…” every morning.

And thanks for the career advice, but I know (and have written) about plenty of things besides uniforms. I also know that there’s something really creepy about making your employees chant your corporate slogan every day.[/quote]

Not to stir the pot more than already has been done, but what’s the difference between NikeTown workers chanting “Just Do It” and football or basketball players saying “Team” or “Defense” when breaking a sideline huddle? Aren’t players essentially employees chanting their “Corporate Slogan”?

[quote comment=”197188″]Not to mention that…you know…it’s your fucking blog and you can write about whatever the hell you want.[/quote]

dude wrote a link fer chrissakes

/pwn3d

[quote comment=”197174″]Unlike other sports, these “timeouts” in which necessary advertising occur, do not cause a stoppage in play. The advertising comes after a typical stoppage of play. 3 sets of TV commercials per 20 minutes of play is quite acceptable in my book.

The concept of “necessary advertising” seems fishy. Also, let me echo the other fellows in saying that people seem more than a little on edge today.[/quote]

Don’t forget that NHL playoff hockey goes the full overtime period without commercials. Plus, I’ve always thought that the breaks in a hockey game were less annoying than the TV breaks in a football game (TD-break-kickoff-break-possession-break-timeout-break, often) or the constant stoppages of a baseball game. But, as I was switching between the outdoor game and the Cap1 Bowl, I did notice that the hockey game was particularly slow, with the ice scraping and everything.

right, they just happened to make football 4 quarters *before* tv, knowing that one day it would be useful for commercials.

[quote comment=”196941″][quote]Flyers vs. Penguins from Happy Valley in 2009, perhaps?[/quote]

funny you should say that…this morning a co-worker and i were discussing the game, and he mentioned “rangers and isles at shea”…which should be available anytime after september 28th

i thought rangers-devils @ meadowlands might be better[/quote]
Blues and Blackhawks at Soldier Field

when i first stated that nike has a definite corporate culture, i had no intentions of creating this discussion which has gone way off topic.

i merely wanted to get through the point that in all the books ive read about nike, it was written that there is a true team spirit. in fact it seemed to me that the spirit employees have towards the company and the passion they have for their jobs was self initiated.

yes, nike provides a unique bonus structure for employees who, say, ride a bike to work vs. driving a car, use a part of their lunch hour for fitness and exercise and other types of activities which promote health and wellness, but its not like they are requiring employees to adopt a religion type belief system.

[quote comment=”196934″]I totally loved the game yesterday – I just wish they would’ve put more research into how to prepare the ice so they wouldn’t have had to deal with the constant stoppages and repairs, but I guess that goes without saying. Hopefully they make it an annual event.

Flyers vs. Penguins from Happy Valley in 2009, perhaps?[/quote]

The NHL had their Ice Guru on the job for that game, so it’s not like they put some part-timer from Manitoba in charge. The crew kept working on the same patch of ice, which was a place they knew ahead of time would be a problem.

[quote comment=”197204″]link we could link in tonight’s link[/quote]

oh yeah…and link link

Both the Pens and Sabres looked awesome.

But… Didn’t the Penguins’ shorts have a triangular stripe on the sides back in the day?

[quote comment=”197198″]

I noticed the same thing…you beat me to it!

That is maroon!! I don’t care what anyone says!! hahaha. I think i am convinced that it is maroon!

*If anything, maybe the reason why we are having questions about it is because maybe only one of the WV patches are maroon and the other one is blue?!

But they just zoomed in on Noel Devine and that is maroon![/quote]

look at link

now tell me what color that patch is

[quote comment=”197212″]Noticed that WVU has “Big East” on the bumpers on their helmets. I’ve been hoping for a closeup on Bradford or something to see what OU has going on up there, but the announcers are more into slurping Pat White than his counterpart, it seems…[/quote]

it simply says link (not a great shot i know)

what’s more pleasing however, is the link lack of link on the jerseys

[quote comment=”197215″][quote comment=”197198″]

I noticed the same thing…you beat me to it!

That is maroon!! I don’t care what anyone says!! hahaha. I think i am convinced that it is maroon!

*If anything, maybe the reason why we are having questions about it is because maybe only one of the WV patches are maroon and the other one is blue?!

But they just zoomed in on Noel Devine and that is maroon![/quote]

look at link

now tell me what color that patch is[/quote]

ok…having watched enough of this game, and seeing the *scrubs* almost pure white jerseys…my theory is that the more “washed” (washed out?) jersey a player has, the more faded his numerals appear and the more “maroon” his WV patch appears

[quote comment=”196948″][quote comment=”196941″][quote]Flyers vs. Penguins from Happy Valley in 2009, perhaps?[/quote]

funny you should say that…this morning a co-worker and i were discussing the game, and he mentioned “rangers and isles at shea”…which should be available anytime after september 28th

i thought rangers-devils @ meadowlands might be better[/quote]
I think if there is another outdoor game,
Which there should be.

They should use original six teams.
So maybe Chicago vs. Detroit at Soldier Field
Wrigley would be kinda weird but awesome at the same time.
Or even Comerica park in Detroit
Chicago could wear link
And detroit in .link
I think it would be great![/quote]

Here here! I would love to see an outdoor game in Hockeytown. Chicago would be a good opponent as would Toronto. Lets get it done for next year.

anyone else watching the fiesta bowl notice some “accidental” advertising especially in the gatorade dept?

Did anyone notice theat during the Michigan/Florida bowl game that Tebow’s “W” on his nameplate looked different that the rest of his last name? My wife noticed it and I agreed. Great job Wolverines for winning one for Lloyd Carr.

Tonight #45 for UNC still didn’t have a nameplate. I’ll email a sportswriter for the Tarheels on that later to see what teh deal is.

[quote comment=”197185″][quote comment=”197182″]I’m not being smart, I’m simply asking the question: have you ever worked for a large corporation?[/quote]

Yes — the Dutch media conglomerate VNU (now Neilson), for five-plus years. Thankfully, they didn’t make us chant “Gimme a V…” every morning. And if they had, you can bet I would’ve been out the door.
And thanks for the career advice, but I know (and have written) about plenty of things besides uniforms. I also know that there’s something really creepy about making your employees chant your corporate slogan every day.[/quote]

I meant no disrespect, just pointing out an alternative opinion (although I know that’s not always welcomed in here!!!) I asked about prior work experience becaue I’ve worked for nothing but large compaines and I wouldn’t have had much employment history if I had left a company every time they came up with some corny game, chant, slogan, acroynm, etc to promote something.

I am very aware you have written on other topics, but this, however, is a blog based on the “obsessive study of athletics aesthetics”. I feel sometime you use it as a soapbox to blast Nike for the sake of blasting Nike.

Nothing in the paragraph titled “Latest Reason to Take the Gas Pipe” has anything to do uniforms per se, just an opportunity for you to get in some snarky commentary about your least favorite company (or so it seems).

I know the normal dittoheads will come back with “it’s your blog and you can do whatever the fuck you want” and yes that’s true but you lose credibility when the blog says it’s one things, but at times delievers something very different.

I worked for a large Japanese brokerage firm in the 90’s. We got the morning cheer/calisthenic down pat. Started doing it on our own. Used to crack everyone up. We even had other people in other firms believing it was “required”.

Today, this blog has officially jumped the shark…

In case you are wondering, the shark is wearing a baggy purple jersey with a swoosh on the chest, three stripes down each arm and is pledging allegiance to the flag…

Are we REALLY comparing Nike to Nazi Germany?

Let’s all call it a night, get some rest and await Thursday’s post. Seemed like everyone was on edge today.

link

[quote comment=”197251″][quote comment=”197243″][quote comment=”197185″][quote comment=”197182″]I’m not being smart, I’m simply asking the question: have you ever worked for a large corporation?[/quote]

Yes — the Dutch media conglomerate VNU (now Neilson), for five-plus years. Thankfully, they didn’t make us chant “Gimme a V…” every morning. And if they had, you can bet I would’ve been out the door.
And thanks for the career advice, but I know (and have written) about plenty of things besides uniforms. I also know that there’s something really creepy about making your employees chant your corporate slogan every day.[/quote]

I meant no disrespect, just pointing out an alternative opinion (although I know that’s not always welcomed in here!!!) I asked about prior work experience becaue I’ve worked for nothing but large compaines and I wouldn’t have had much employment history if I had left a company every time they came up with some corny game, chant, slogan, acroynm, etc to promote something.

I am very aware you have written on other topics, but this, however, is a blog based on the “obsessive study of athletics aesthetics”. I feel sometime you use it as a soapbox to blast Nike for the sake of blasting Nike.

Nothing in the paragraph titled “Latest Reason to Take the Gas Pipe” has anything to do uniforms per se, just an opportunity for you to get in some snarky commentary about your least favorite company (or so it seems).[/quote]

What I think about Nike’s approach to branding (and make no mistake, making your employees chant the corporate slogan is all about branding) will always be germane to Uni Watch, because I feel Nike is the worst thing that has ever happened to sports design. I don’t “blast Nike for the sake of blasting Nike”; I critique them because I think it’s important for people to understand how insidious they are. If you don’t agree, that’s fine — dissenting voices are welcome here, and we can agree to disagree. But I’ll keep expressing my opinions all the same — not because “it’s my blog and I can say whatever I want,” but because expressing my opinion on these matters is why I created Uni Watch to begin with.[/quote]
OK, I’ll respectfully agree to disagree with you on this one. If I ran a “Pizza-Watch” blog to discuss what company made the best pizza, had the best toppings, crust, etc and then I wrote a paragraph blasting Dominos because they made their delivery drivers say some sort of cheer before they hit the road, people would probably be like “what’s that have to do with anything”

Just an explanation on the ice bowl anthem business:

Buffalo always has the Canadian anthem sung at home games, because many of the Sabres’ fans are Canadian (given the proximity of Buffalo to Canada).

“God Bless America” is Ronan Tynan’s signature song, and apparently he sings it fairly regularly at Sabres games. Probably this could have been made known as he was announced just for clarity’s sake. Personally I prefer “America the Beautiful” to both GBA and the anthem. To each his own.

Oops. I thought I did the link right – here’s the article.

And on the football (soccer) teams changing their kits front, my own team Southend United had a really lame one in 2006. We won the League One title, sealing the championship at home. However, we had to wear our link because the week before, when we had sealed promotion, the players had thrown their link in to the crowd by way of celebration and the club had none left in stock for the following.
So one of the finest days in our history and we weren’t even wearing the right shirt. Typical!