Coughlin to Media: ‘I don’t like to brag, but it’s this big’

7am (Central) and uni watch is up already? Must be my lucky day. I better call that cute girl I’ve been hanging out with.

Ah, the timeless look of the US soccer team. You can look at any design and know exactly what week it was that they wore that one before they changed and wore something else.

I’m not so sure that Junior’s Flip Flops would qualify as “mandals.” My wife and I are avid ‘Mandal-Watchers’, and those are just flip-flops. I do agree with you that they look a bit rediculous with his uniform, but in order to be classified as “Mandals” there needs to be more straps, velcroe, etc.

On those PortlandBeavers uniforms, it looks like the sand-colored home jerseys have names on the backs, but the road grays and “vintage” dark blue don’t. If any of them are gonig to have names, it should be the dull gray.

I think what’s “vintage” about the dark blues is that they use white caps and white piping with a single letter logo, which is kind of old-fashioned. Trade the white pants for dark blue pants and you’d have some link.

And Jon, if you’re out there, I’m really looking forward to the MBTN book! I sent you a picture of some Japanese baseball players with link a few years ago. The picture is long out of copyright; did you use it in the book?

Since the team pictures are also taken on media day wouldnt that be a valid reason to have the players in full uniform?

Is it just me or is the new US soccer teams training stuff a blatant ripoff of linkby nike?

[quote comment=”213030″]Is it just me or is the new US soccer teams training stuff a blatant ripoff of linkby nike?[/quote]

I thought the same thing. I wonder why Nike would go ahead w/ such a similar design. Maybe they are getting lazy?

Big thumbs up here for the new USA football kit.

Umbro have lost the plot with England of late, pretty much given up on the new designs so instead decided to buy a link recently. That’s much more like it.

denzel & spike saw the knicks & lake show in LA last night…who would have thought denzel would violate link whilst spike ALMOST link?

Paul,

Great beefsteak article. I live in north Jersey and was just at a charity beefsteak a few months back, so I can definitely relate!

I am anxiously anticipating the barrage of colorfully created captions to go along with this link

And on a uni-note, the Ohio State unis were gorgeous on ESPN last night, while what was up with the sidebars on the Nittany Lions gear?

link to highlights of said game featuring TOSU and WE ARE PENN STATE

I can only assume the “vintage” refers to the vertical sleeve striping (which is pretty cool, IMO), as well as breaking out the “Lucky Beavers” name. Other than that, yeah, there’s not much vintage about it.

[quote comment=”213048″]If USA Soccer wants to have a sustainable identity they should first get rid of the crest which is awful compared to other countries. link
link

link[/quote]

I kind of like it as opposed to the busy 1990 badge or the stylized USA or US of the past. That especially went for the 1991-1994 “US World Cup Team” or “US Olympic Team” writing. Not a proper shield.

But when Ante Razov kissed the badge after a goal in a 2000 qualifier in Foxboro against, I think, the Bahamas, that was a defining moment for me.

The blue shirt has been on bigsoccer a while, and it’s solid blue.

That being said, doesn’t the front of our jersey violate the “solid body” rule that they’ve been bugging some of the European clubs about?

Also, is it my imagination, or do the white panels alternate between differing shades of white?

Yesterday’s column referred to the curling outtifs as “1950s vintage sweaters”, but the link has a woolmark which wasn’t created until 1964 (as far as link).

link from Salon has a segment on Super Bowl logos today. Nut uni-related, but within the same ballpark.

I second the point about the Giants wearing non-game jerseys, I own a Game Issued jersey and without pads they look silly, the shoulders have extra material that bunch up and the stretch fabric shrinks down to form fitting on medium people even if it is xxxl. Based on that I think the Pats are wearing non-game jerseys as well.

The ST. Louis Blues almost had to go without there All-Star Goalie last night due to a lost in transportation moment with his pads-

link

The soccer jersey? Looks like a Nike shirt with the US soccer logo on it. Could the swoosh be any *bigger*!?!

[quote comment=”213080″]That being said, doesn’t the front of our jersey violate the “solid body” rule that they’ve been bugging some of the European clubs about?

Also, is it my imagination, or do the white panels alternate between differing shades of white?

The “solid body” rule applies to the back of the jersey, so that the player’s name and number appear on a solid color, per the rules of the Champions League and the UEFA Cup. It makes less sense when you have a team like Inter which has royal blue and black stripes and white numbers (a very good contrast), or Milan (red and black, white numbers), or Barcelona (claret and royal blue, yellow numbers). But if you see some of Newcastle United’s jerseys, the numbers would be lost in the black and white stripes.

And yes, it seems that the US jersey has white and a pearl-gray striping, with thin red pinstriping in between. If the corresponding socks follow this, with navy shorts, that could be a really sharp kit.[/quote]

In case you’re wondering, the jersey does have a link, no stripes to accommodate nunbers.

If anyone gets the chance to visit the Bergen County area of northern NJ, try to go to a beefsteak. Awesome!!!!

[quote comment=”213104″][quote comment=”213080″]That being said, doesn’t the front of our jersey violate the “solid body” rule that they’ve been bugging some of the European clubs about?

Also, is it my imagination, or do the white panels alternate between differing shades of white?

The “solid body” rule applies to the back of the jersey, so that the player’s name and number appear on a solid color, per the rules of the Champions League and the UEFA Cup. It makes less sense when you have a team like Inter which has royal blue and black stripes and white numbers (a very good contrast), or Milan (red and black, white numbers), or Barcelona (claret and royal blue, yellow numbers). But if you see some of Newcastle United’s jerseys, the numbers would be lost in the black and white stripes.

And yes, it seems that the US jersey has white and a pearl-gray striping, with thin red pinstriping in between. If the corresponding socks follow this, with navy shorts, that could be a really sharp kit.[/quote]

In case you’re wondering, the jersey does have a link, no stripes to accommodate nunbers.[/quote]
Why does the inside of the collar have “Don’t Tread on Me” written in cursive?

check out the link on the back of the post.

That Super Bow patch would’ve looked pretty bad on the Green Bay Packers’ jerseys, but pretty good on the Chargers’ revamped powder blues. –link.

That beefsteak article was awesome Paul. Sounds like my kind of thing.

In Manhattan, one Tony Riane, eating beefsteak in a restaurant, choked to death. Doctors, reporting the death, said he “ate too ravenously.”

– link, July 9, 1924

Beefsteak dinners were also link, according to Time, “to which all rushed hungrily.”

When the Republican New York Sun reported happily that a big bookie ‘named Frank Erickson had attended a beefsteak dinner given in honor of [Mayor Bill O’Dwyer] and Democratic Senatorial Candidate Herbert Lehman, O’Dwyer had a strange & wonderful answer. “Lehman,” he said indignantly, “has been framed.”

– link, November 7, 1949

Apparently the National Press Club also link in Washington. I wonder if it had anything to do with New York reporters, and how long the practice lasted there.

Loved the link to the No Mas article on Super Bowl XXIX. They missed the obvious uni connection, though; 1994 was NFL’s throwback year. The 49ers loved their throwbacks so much, they continued to wear them for the rest of the season (and the Super Bowl). The Chargers, who had rolled out their fantastic sky-blue unis for the first time in decades, strangely chose *not* to wear their throwbacks — preventing what would have been the most aesthetically pleasing Super Bowl uni matchup ever.

Interesting that both teams have, now in 2008, more or less settled back to those throwback uni designs as their standards.

[quote comment=”213088″]Urine?! I love cream-colored home unis (usually). Especially if paired with a simple, solid, dark color.

Hey- there’s a lot worse out there.[/quote]

Looking at the photos on the Beaver website, the home uniforms don’t appear to resemble Padres sand. They look more like the simulated natural wool color of Giants home uniforms. I like it.

[quote comment=”213126″][quote comment=”213114″]check out the link on the back of the post.[/quote]

wow, that didnt take long[/quote]

I love when they do this. It’s like maybe the readers won’t realize that he used to pitch for another team. I don’t mind still head stops with a photoshopped cap but is it really necessary to do this with action shots?

[quote comment=”213112″][quote comment=”213104″][quote comment=”213080″]That being said, doesn’t the front of our jersey violate the “solid body” rule that they’ve been bugging some of the European clubs about?

Also, is it my imagination, or do the white panels alternate between differing shades of white?

The “solid body” rule applies to the back of the jersey, so that the player’s name and number appear on a solid color, per the rules of the Champions League and the UEFA Cup. It makes less sense when you have a team like Inter which has royal blue and black stripes and white numbers (a very good contrast), or Milan (red and black, white numbers), or Barcelona (claret and royal blue, yellow numbers). But if you see some of Newcastle United’s jerseys, the numbers would be lost in the black and white stripes.

And yes, it seems that the US jersey has white and a pearl-gray striping, with thin red pinstriping in between. If the corresponding socks follow this, with navy shorts, that could be a really sharp kit.[/quote]

In case you’re wondering, the jersey does have a link, no stripes to accommodate nunbers.[/quote]
Why does the inside of the collar have “Don’t Tread on Me” written in cursive?[/quote]

Aparently they haven’t given up on the slogan they were using during the World Cup. Although I got emotionally caught up in the moment during the world cup, and thought the slogan was cool then, it just sounds played out now. Especially since the US got torched, and is sitting at about 20th in the FIFA rankings at the moment.

I despise the new US soccer kit. I really liked the previous style, with the stripes on one side. But i would have been happy with the away kit style for both (with the red stripes going across the chest.
those look like ones you can get team bulk specials on at a discount sports store

[quote comment=”213031″][quote comment=”213002″]I like the new US Soccer jersey, but why can’t they find one look and stick with it? They can’t build a brand to compete with other world soccer powers if they can’t stick with a “Signature” look.[/quote]

Agreed. It is a sharp, simple, design, but as previous discussion had pointed out, the US National Team lacks a true identity, like the stripes of Argentina, or the orange of Holland. On the other hand, England, another team where white is thier primary color, has done some things with stripes and designs in the past. Germany has also changed thier white primary jersey depending on the manufacturer template. So maybe the only constant is the predominately White Jersey. Bottom line, the more Nike changes it, the more they sell, the more money they make. Same with all sports.[/quote]

I strongly agree with you guys about the signature look. Otherwise I LOVE the new jerseys, I wouldn’t change a thing.

[quote comment=”213002″]I like the new US Soccer jersey, but why can’t they find one look and stick with it? They can’t build a brand to compete with other world soccer powers if they can’t stick with a “Signature” look.[/quote]
Our signature look is a white shirt with navy blue shorts, and save for 1994, it’s always been that. What else do you want? England gets different Umbro patterns on their trademark white shirt every few years, why can’t we? The only country with a trademark other than color that comes to mind is Argentina with their vertical white and sky blue stripes. Brazil’s trademark is just a color. So is ours.

Sneaker Technology Post
Feel Free to bypass if totally disinterested!

Question for Todd K. or any other Nikehead.
This morning, I wore link to the gym.
The difference in “zoom” cushioning between any shoe of the late 90’s, Flightposites, Penny 2’s for example, and those now like the Huarache Elites is palpable.
What’s up with that…Are the older ones DOuble Stacked Zoom?

Excellent beefstake article, Paul. I’m a vegetarian, but it made my mouth water!

[quote comment=”213131″][quote comment=”213120″][quote comment=”213099″][quote comment=”213063″]I think the strangest thing about the Portland Beavers new logo is that the bat is under the wordmark on the top but on top of the wordmark on the bottom (the knob of the bat). Where’s the consistency?[/quote]

He has the top of the bat tipped back, like any normal batter.[/quote]

Even so, I still don’t think it’s correct. A tipped back bat would fall behind the entire top of the circle – not just the letters. Unless we are to assume some major depth to the entire logo. If that’s the case then the letters would be in front of the beaver and the circle which the letters rest upon would be behind the beaver (assuming the beaver has normal beaver thickness).

Picking at nits, I know, but isn’t that what we do here?[/quote]

I think it gives the logo a little depth, with the knob of the bat in front of the text and the top behind it suggests the lean of the bat. I like the logo, but I think a flat beaver/text/background would work too.[/quote]

linko….discuss.

I could go either way with it.

Paul,

Great slice of life (and meat) writing. Never having been to (or heard of) a beefsteak before, I’ll keep an eye out for one next time I’m in your neck of the woods. I think your video is essential watching too–a bunch of Jersey guys enjoying mass quantities of beef. Perfect. Congrats on another writing success.

[quote comment=”213126″][quote comment=”213114″]check out the link on the back of the post.[/quote]

wow, that didnt take long[/quote]

I do hope the Mets assign him a number lower than that egregious 57 he had with the Twins. I’ve always liked how the Mets assign numbers in the low 50s to coaches who don’t often step on to the field. Not so high that they look weird when you do see them, but at the same time they leave more “regular” numbers open for the players.

DC to north Jersey is what? 4 hours? I need to go to a beefsteak.

Hi Paul

if that was your piece on “beefsteak” in todays nyt….I loved it!

[quote comment=”213177″][quote comment=”213131″][quote comment=”213120″][quote comment=”213099″][quote comment=”213063″]I think the strangest thing about the Portland Beavers new logo is that the bat is under the wordmark on the top but on top of the wordmark on the bottom (the knob of the bat). Where’s the consistency?[/quote]

He has the top of the bat tipped back, like any normal batter.[/quote]

Even so, I still don’t think it’s correct. A tipped back bat would fall behind the entire top of the circle – not just the letters. Unless we are to assume some major depth to the entire logo. If that’s the case then the letters would be in front of the beaver and the circle which the letters rest upon would be behind the beaver (assuming the beaver has normal beaver thickness).

Picking at nits, I know, but isn’t that what we do here?[/quote]

I think it gives the logo a little depth, with the knob of the bat in front of the text and the top behind it suggests the lean of the bat. I like the logo, but I think a flat beaver/text/background would work too.[/quote]

linko….discuss.

I could go either way with it.[/quote]

Joe, I like yours better except…
It could almost look like it’s spelling “PORTDAND”. The “L” that is now being partially hidden looks similar to the “D” at the end of the word. Otherwise, link.

[quote comment=”213184″][quote comment=”213126″][quote comment=”213114″]check out the link on the back of the post.[/quote]

wow, that didnt take long[/quote]

I do hope the Mets assign him a number lower than that egregious 57 he had with the Twins. I’ve always liked how the Mets assign numbers in the low 50s to coaches who don’t often step on to the field. Not so high that they look weird when you do see them, but at the same time they leave more “regular” numbers open for the players.[/quote]
I dunno… mayhap Señor Santana prefers to wear #57, since he’s had such success with it! (Hoping I’ve also closed the italics!)

[quote comment=”213195″][quote comment=”213162″]Sneaker Technology Post
Feel Free to bypass if totally disinterested!

Question for Todd K. or any other Nikehead.
This morning, I wore link to the gym.
The difference in “zoom” cushioning between any shoe of the late 90’s, Flightposites, Penny 2’s for example, and those now like the Huarache Elites is palpable.
What’s up with that…Are the older ones DOuble Stacked Zoom?[/quote]

A lot of football training shoes like the Turf Trainers had double stacked zoom due to the fact that “Large Volume” Zoom Air or full length Zoom Air hadn’t been fabricated yet.

Penny 2’s and Foamposites (all of them to be exact) featured large Air Max bags under the heel and the forefoot. It usually depended on the athlete it was modeled on, most in the 90’s liked Air Max cushioning.

Huarache’s (that includes the 2K4’s, 2K5’s and the Elite series) have an Air Max bag in the heel and a single Zoom Air bag in the forefoot.

Lebron 2’s had a full length large volume Zoom Air Bag and Kobe 2 has full length zoom air bag as well.[/quote]

That’s twice today, Thanks Paulie

[quote comment=”213193″][quote comment=”213177″][quote comment=”213131″][quote comment=”213120″][quote comment=”213099″][quote comment=”213063″]I think the strangest thing about the Portland Beavers new logo is that the bat is under the wordmark on the top but on top of the wordmark on the bottom (the knob of the bat). Where’s the consistency?[/quote]

He has the top of the bat tipped back, like any normal batter.[/quote]

Even so, I still don’t think it’s correct. A tipped back bat would fall behind the entire top of the circle – not just the letters. Unless we are to assume some major depth to the entire logo. If that’s the case then the letters would be in front of the beaver and the circle which the letters rest upon would be behind the beaver (assuming the beaver has normal beaver thickness).

Picking at nits, I know, but isn’t that what we do here?[/quote]

I think it gives the logo a little depth, with the knob of the bat in front of the text and the top behind it suggests the lean of the bat. I like the logo, but I think a flat beaver/text/background would work too.[/quote]

linko….discuss.

I could go either way with it.[/quote]

Joe, I like yours better except…
It could almost look like it’s spelling “PORTDAND”. The “L” that is now being partially hidden looks similar to the “D” at the end of the word. Otherwise, link.[/quote]

I exceeded my bandwidth, so I had to repost the link.

All in all I’m very pleased with the new Beavers look. Especially after some of the proposed names they had when they were thinking of changing the mascot. I was afraid they’d get too gimicky, etc. Keeping things traditional was a great choice. Especially in this city.

I had a feeling that they were going to be somewhat similar to the Padres. Which makes sense, but I wish they would have picked something unique (dark blue and dark green I say!!). Especially for when the day comes that SD is no longer the parent club.

I have to say, I dont understand why people have a problem with the off-white looks that some teams have come out with. I hate the Giants with a passion, but I think their look is really nice. San Diego made perfect sense to me…seeing as it’s a “sand” color. Same goes for the Beavers, they’re trying to include a natural/”Oregon coast” feel to everything. Fine by me.

I really really like the shoulder stripe that they used. Very unique and old school. Well done.

All in all the logos are fine by me. It’s nice to see that they’re not too cartoony, and that they also brought back “Lucky”. I also like the simple look to the numbers.

My main complaint is the logo for the hats. It just doesn’t look right to me. Too cluttered, etc. If anything, I’d much rather have preferred just using the P with the beaver tail on it. But if that’s my only real problem with things, then so be it. Oh yeah, and nice to see a white hat in the mix. Not too many of them around anymore.

All in all, pretty ‘dam’ good looking.

[quote comment=”213215″]As for the discussion about the US needing a recognizable consistent uniform, frankly, that’s a bunch of BS. As someone else said, the home kit of white jerseys and blue shorts is the US signature.[/quote]

My point is this: How can it be a signature when we only wear it (or variations of it) half the time?

[quote]
Acting like the US team doesn’t ‘get it’ because they have differing styles of home jerseys is ignoring the entire sport.[/quote]

Didn’t say they didn’t “get it”TM

Said I’d prefer it if they’d pick a jersey and stick with it instead of thinking they have to have a new one every year.

[quote]I prefer the previous home jerseys with the red and blue offset stripe, because I think it looked classic and unique, but just because it’s gone doesn’t mean I look at the US jerseys like they’re doing something different than every other team in the world does.[/quote]

Every other team….except Argentina. And Italy. And, you know, teams like that.

I’m sure the new Beavers uniforms (especially the home) will look different in person, but the photos on the beavers’ website shows a white home uni, perhaps even off white.

As for the vintage…who knows? I think they are referring to the logo, and not the uniform combo. That P was used a long time ago when they were called the “Lucky Beavers”. I used to be a bat boy with the team that preceeded the Beavers (Short-A Portland Rockies) and we had a great turn back the clock night featuring that P.

[quote comment=”213100″]The soccer jersey? Looks like a Nike shirt with the US soccer logo on it. Could the swoosh be any *bigger*!?![/quote]

It seems to me that more designers are putting the logo up towards the clacivle rather than at the sternum. It was something I noticed this year in the Prem.

Hey Junior Seau, Nice Hat! He looks like he should be selling newspapers on the corner. I bet he gets a fine like Brian Urlacher did last year since I’m guessing that is not a “league-approved” hat.

[quote comment=”213214″][quote comment=”213193″][quote comment=”213177″][quote comment=”213131″][quote comment=”213120″][quote comment=”213099″][quote comment=”213063″]I think the strangest thing about the Portland Beavers new logo is that the bat is under the wordmark on the top but on top of the wordmark on the bottom (the knob of the bat). Where’s the consistency?[/quote]

He has the top of the bat tipped back, like any normal batter.[/quote]

Even so, I still don’t think it’s correct. A tipped back bat would fall behind the entire top of the circle – not just the letters. Unless we are to assume some major depth to the entire logo. If that’s the case then the letters would be in front of the beaver and the circle which the letters rest upon would be behind the beaver (assuming the beaver has normal beaver thickness).

Picking at nits, I know, but isn’t that what we do here?[/quote]

I think it gives the logo a little depth, with the knob of the bat in front of the text and the top behind it suggests the lean of the bat. I like the logo, but I think a flat beaver/text/background would work too.[/quote]

linko….discuss.

I could go either way with it.[/quote]

Joe, I like yours better except…
It could almost look like it’s spelling “PORTDAND”. The “L” that is now being partially hidden looks similar to the “D” at the end of the word. Otherwise, link.[/quote]

I exceeded my bandwidth, so I had to repost the link.[/quote]

Thanks, Joe. I like your logo better. Seems more consistent to me. In all, I like the logo and uni design and this is a minor item to obsess over.

[quote comment=”213225″]http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/4295/nabbypicmf5.jpg

Looks like Evgeni Nabokov of the Sharks was wearing the old Sharks socks last night. Isn’t that a fineable offense?[/quote]

If only Tampa Bay, Calgary, and Ottawa would wear their old socks.

[quote comment=”213113″]check out the link on the back of the post.[/quote]
I wonder if any Philly papers did a photoshop on Pedro Feliz when he signed the other day.

Some link on Rivals.com. Can’t argue with their picks.

Hey, Paul, good NYT article. Nice pipes…..

[quote comment=”213235″]Hey Junior Seau, Nice Hat! He looks like he should be selling newspapers on the corner. I bet he gets a fine like Brian Urlacher did last year since I’m guessing that is not a “league-approved” hat.[/quote]

Or standing in for link.

I dislike the new US soccer tops. They look like 1980’s era polo shirts, sans collars.
As for the “signature” look, its basically a white shirt over blue shorts. That said, Nike likes to mix it up a great deal.

My favorite happens to be the one just replaced (white with the blue/red ‘racing’ stripes), my least favorite the denim stars they wore in 1994 (adidas).

I don’t think anyone in the world looks to the US as needing a shirt thats instantly recognizable because A) tons of team wear white and B) you reach iconic status not because of shirt color, but because of performance.

And I like the new Portland uniforms, “urine” colored or not. Beats plain ol’ white, although I don’t really see it as a “Portland” color.

Lee

[quote comment=”213114″]check out the link on the back of the post.[/quote]

Pretty linkfor the Post

Interesting site showing kits from International sides as well as english Premier league clubs, not complete (no sign of pinstripes) but worth a look

USA
link

Main Page
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[quote comment=”213245″][quote comment=”213191″]
We wore link and link in the 1994 World Cup.
[/quote]

Don’t forget the wavy stripes a la Paraguay.

link

Oddly enough, that uniform set from the 1994 World Cup got the most votes for a “Best Kit” (BBC) and “Worst Kit” (BigSoccer) poll.

That being said, this kit is actually a throwback. Remember our last few kits? The 1999-2001 shirt with the thick blue collar recalls 1916. The blue shirt we had the last two, three years is the same as 1995-1997.

The paean is to Team America! (Well, kind of.)

link

link

how does it work when a minor league team changes their uniform to match up w/ the bigs team – does the minor league team pay for it?

is part of the cost picked up by the parent club?

how much does the cost of any uni thing cost when its a minor league (baseball or hockey) part of a family –

i’m very curious to know some of the details about the partnership of the two clubs, or more as the case may be…

I just saw the video about the training kits for US Soccer, and wow, you guys are right–they DO look like the adidas template unis! Is this Nike’s rather subliminal way of saying that templates are for training purposes only?

Baskinger’s got into the beefsteak business in 1973 and is run today by Joe Argieri, who joined the company in 1983. “At that time, I was in my 20s and had no idea what a beefsteak was,” he said. “I grew up in Nutley – the only beefsteak I knew about was beefsteak tomatoes.”

To put that statement in perspective, consider that Nutley is only six miles south of Clifton. But it’s over the county line, in Essex, which in beefsteak terms means it may as well be in Kansas.
I grew up in Nutley as well and before I got to that paragraph I was thinking “how did I miss out?”

[quote comment=”213273″][quote comment=”213247″]bryan station hs in lexington, ky has an link font on their bball unis.[/quote]

Holy crap!!! I’m not sure that I want to confess that I went to Bryan Station. But, I guess I just did. And just try to find the Defenders logo anywhere on the official site. I found it, but it was at the link.[/quote]

link Maybe if you’re a link ;-)

[quote comment=”213093″]The new US Soccer jersey looks pretty decent. Although I really like the last white jersey, I was always bothered with the stripes always being on only one sock and on the back of one of the legs on the shorts, weird. Hopefully this design will only carry over to the socks, which should look pretty sharp. I’d love if they keep this and maybe that blue pin-striped jersey they wore last year, at least they’re different. They really do need an identity, kit-wise, that could be it. With yearly updates from Nike of course.[/quote]

I LOVE the current home whites with the RED/BLUE stripe down the left side, the badge inset in the stripe, and the verticle striping down only the left sock. It works for me, it’s unique and creates a “signature” look, to stand out from the many other majority white shirt countries. I do agree that the badge itself is substandard.

I wish they would stick with that design (any design?), and then play around with the design of their road blues and their third change kit year by year. Nations with iconic looks still tweak their second and third jerseys on a fairly regular basis. (Argentina, perhaps the most recognizable “Home” kit in international football, has had several road kits over the years, most recently a simple Navy blue stock Adidas template . . . )

[quote comment=”213290″][quote comment=”213273″][quote comment=”213247″]bryan station hs in lexington, ky has an link font on their bball unis.[/quote]

Holy crap!!! I’m not sure that I want to confess that I went to Bryan Station. But, I guess I just did. And just try to find the Defenders logo anywhere on the official site. I found it, but it was at the link.[/quote]

link Maybe if you’re a link ;-)[/quote]

Well, maybe it is appropriate then. Bryan Station has never had the reputation of being on the ‘right’ side of town.

Paul says: even though there’s nothing vintage about wearing a solid jersey with white pants.
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Not so. This was not so uncommon in the 1890’s, for example. Hazelton Penn State League 1896; Fall River New England League 1897 (light jerseys, dark pants); There are other examples if you search around.

[quote comment=”213041″]Big thumbs up here for the new USA football kit.

Umbro have lost the plot with England of late, pretty much given up on the new designs so instead decided to buy a link recently. That’s much more like it.[/quote]
You can’t blame them cuz they wouldn’t sell much these days! Also they can now benefit from all this new found Nike creativity…I like the US Soccer jersey and i DO believe they’re really establishing a brand, if not on the field (#20 not that bad anway, check last WC’s), but by being the most stylish team of the last decade, no matter what they wore.
This last design might be a link though. And maybe the Adidas “questionmark” template is not the best thing to plagiate, even for a training shirt. But the white/navy/red color scheme itself is a winner. It works perfectly with the crest, which is a great design too.

[quote comment=”213296″][quote comment=”213290″][quote comment=”213273″][quote comment=”213247″]bryan station hs in lexington, ky has an link font on their bball unis.[/quote]

Holy crap!!! I’m not sure that I want to confess that I went to Bryan Station. But, I guess I just did. And just try to find the Defenders logo anywhere on the official site. I found it, but it was at the link.[/quote]

link Maybe if you’re a link ;-)[/quote]

Well, maybe it is appropriate then. Bryan Station has never had the reputation of being on the ‘right’ side of town.[/quote]

If you look closely at the lower left leg of the player in white. you will see the swoosh, meaning that the uniforms are Nike made. However, it would seem to me that the team might have bought the unis complete with numbers and had an “after-market” screenprinter perhaps place the graffiti wordmark on the jerseys.

another vote for the revised bat over letters beavers logo. awesome work. any takers execs see the revision and go with it instead?

weve talked about the influx of gray uni’s in college hoop. oklhoma, osu, uconn…
although we thought this started in columbus in the mid to late 80’s, it may have started in vegas around the same time
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[quote comment=”213054″][quote comment=”213047″]denzel & spike saw the knicks & lake show in LA last night…who would have thought denzel would violate link whilst spike ALMOST link?[/quote]

Nice to see Spike with the Super Bowl XLII logo on his jersey already…..[/quote]

its interesting how spike’s giant jersey with the super bowl patch, is the blue one, yet the jints are going to be wearing their white ones.

does that mean that retail jerseys with the super bowl xlii patch are being sold in the white, dark and alternate jerseys of each team?

Congrats on your Mets landing Santana. We are going to miss him here in Minnesota! But we are getting used to this kind of thing here(losing big name star players for a handful of prospects or next to nothing). Randy Moss, Kevin Garnett, now Santana.

[quote comment=”213298″]I like the Beavers’ new logo too, but I find the argument interesting regarding the hither or yon effect of the word and bat. I wonder if somebody of skill could put a shadow on the bat to give the appearance of some depth between bat and “L”?[/quote]

The shadow would not be between bat and “L” – it would be between bat and “A” because of the way the highlight is hitting the bat. And it just link.

The reason why football teams were jerseys at media day is because there are always a ton of media there, who have no clue who any of the players are without their numbers– and plenty who don’t know who they are WITH their numbers. I was at an Ohio State football media event prior to their leaving Columbus for New Orleans, players come through in their normal workout clothes and I heard a handful of reporters complaining that they didn’t know who was who without their jerseys.

Good God, we have the most dull soccer uniforms on the planet. From white to gray. Whoo. Give us a red and a blue! Something with character and identity (well…a different identity from “boring”).

Now, the US Women’s gold jerseys…even if the players aren’t that fond of them, those are at least good-looking jerseys. How did the women get better jerseys than the men? Oh, right, they can actually win World Cups…

(At least the new men’s unis don’t have those doofy numbers in a circle on the front. Is that an identifier or a bullseye for the other team to aim for?)

link was always MY favorite US kit

I wasn’t planning on getting the US home jersey this rotation anyway but today sealed it for me. Yes, I realize that the look is never going to be exactly the same from jersey to jersey. Just wanted to see the vertical stripes (or diagonal a la ’50). ‘Bradley 4’ away top for me please.

[quote comment=”213320″][quote comment=”213054″][quote comment=”213047″]denzel & spike saw the knicks & lake show in LA last night…who would have thought denzel would violate link whilst spike ALMOST link?[/quote]

Nice to see Spike with the Super Bowl XLII logo on his jersey already…..[/quote]

its interesting how spike’s giant jersey with the super bowl patch, is the blue one, yet the jints are going to be wearing their white ones.

does that mean that retail jerseys with the super bowl xlii patch are being sold in the white, dark and alternate jerseys of each team?[/quote]

They already are. I was in Modell’s yesterday and they had home and away replicas with the Super Bowl logo screened onto the left chest. Looked like crap.

Uni Watch has ruined me. My team signs a new quarterback today and my first thought is “hmm…I wonder how they will handle the jerseys.”

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[quote]And I can’t believe we’re talking about soccer on this holiest of days, The Wednesday Before The Super Bowl.[/quote]

you had a valid point last monday

who’s complaining aboot footy posts today?

[quote comment=”213324″]Congrats on your Mets landing Santana. We are going to miss him here in Minnesota! But we are getting used to this kind of thing here(losing big name star players for a handful of prospects or next to nothing). Randy Moss, Kevin Garnett, now Santana.[/quote]

Don’t forget Big Papi….(I know the Twins released him)

[quote comment=”213320″][quote comment=”213054″][quote comment=”213047″]denzel & spike saw the knicks & lake show in LA last night…who would have thought denzel would violate link whilst spike ALMOST link?[/quote]

Nice to see Spike with the Super Bowl XLII logo on his jersey already…..[/quote]

its interesting how spike’s giant jersey with the super bowl patch, is the blue one, yet the jints are going to be wearing their white ones.

does that mean that retail jerseys with the super bowl xlii patch are being sold in the white, dark and alternate jerseys of each team?[/quote]

They sold black and white versions of the jersey with the Super Bowl patch the year the Steelers went.

I met someone at a game that had a beautiful authentic black Steelers Jersey, it was really nice. But she had sewn a Super Bowl Patch on to it, I was stunned and asked why she would do something so crazy to like a $350 jersey.

She answered, “I like the black jersey better, what’s the difference?” Some people just don’t get it.

Conventional wisdom states that Spike Lee, of all people, woudn’t wear an old worn out version of anything. Come on, this guy?

Why would you go trough all the trouble of buying a replica jersey to sew the patch on anyway.

If we’re talking football (soccer) teams changing their kit styles, link

Histories of all the kits for every major team in England and Scotland. Apologies if it has already been posted, I’m new here!

Just goes to show how easily teams change their colours. In the 22 years I’ve been following my team Southend United, we’ve been royal blue/yellow, all royal blue, royal blue and white and now navy blue. Not to mention the total abomination of 1996-98.

Please take a look people, it has to be seen to be believed. Like Bart Simpson sticking his head out of the player’s shorts.

[quote comment=”213368″][quote comment=”213324″]Congrats on your Mets landing Santana. We are going to miss him here in Minnesota! But we are getting used to this kind of thing here(losing big name star players for a handful of prospects or next to nothing). Randy Moss, Kevin Garnett, now Santana.[/quote]

Don’t forget Big Papi….(I know the Twins released him)[/quote]
As long as the Twins can continue to make lopsided deals like the Pierzynski for Boof/Nathan/Liriano trade, they should be fine. Of course you’ll need a dumbass like Brian Sabean on the other end of the deal.

[quote comment=”213380″][quote comment=”213376″]If you want a Joe Jurevicious creamsickle Bucs jersey, who am I to say you can’t have it?[/quote]

HA! i actually HAVE one of those…bought it when i was engaged to a lass down in winter haven…i still have the jersey, but she’s long gone[/quote]

SWEET! I have a Joe J. white replica.

Maybe I’ll put a Super Bowl XXXVII patch on it! ;)

link.

[quote comment=”213384″][quote comment=”213380″][quote comment=”213376″]If you want a Joe Jurevicious creamsickle Bucs jersey, who am I to say you can’t have it?[/quote]

HA! i actually HAVE one of those…bought it when i was engaged to a lass down in winter haven…i still have the jersey, but she’s long gone[/quote]

SWEET! I have a Joe J. white replica.

Maybe I’ll put a Super Bowl XXXVII patch on it! ;)[/quote]

maybe i’ll wear the creamsickle 99 83 JJ to sheep station

[quote comment=”213058″]link to highlights of said game featuring TOSU and WE ARE PENN STATE[/quote]

I’m confused. PSU has a basketball team?

[quote comment=”213376″][quote comment=”213372″]She answered, “I like the black jersey better, what’s the difference?” Some people just don’t get it.[/quote]

Though, to be fair: at the end of the day, it’s her jersey. Her $350. Her life. Her fandom. We may obsess about inseams and font styles and logo creep, but at the end of the day, it’s about how you take your coffee, innit?

If someone wants to put #1 and ROBERTSON on the back of a Milwaukee Bucks 2007-2008 jersey for the Big O, knock yourself out. If you want a Joe Jurevicious creamsickle Bucs jersey, who am I to say you can’t have it?

It’s all vitally important and completely trivial, all at the same time.[/quote]

Yea, that was kind of my point.

To me it was like colorizing the first fifteen minutes of the Wizard of Oz, it completely ruined the jersey. I wouldn’t wear it if she gave it to me for free, and it was beautiful. She couldn’t have cared less that it was no longer the exact right thing. I almost envied her.

[quote comment=”213404″] She couldn’t have cared less that it was no longer the exact right thing. I almost envied her.[/quote]

I don’t think there’s envy or pity to be had. It simply is.

I don’t collect garden gnomes or drink latte or enjoy Daughtry. But others do. More power to them.

[quote]To me it was like colorizing the first fifteen minutes of the Wizard of Oz, it completely ruined the jersey. I wouldn’t wear it if she gave it to me for free, and it was beautiful. She couldn’t have cared less that it was no longer the exact right thing. I almost envied her.[/quote]

my god jesse…that’s about the most beautiful thing i’ve ever heard…

i guess we all kind of feel like that…i just never heard it put into…words before

[quote comment=”213421″][quote comment=”213386″]link.[/quote]

Wow, I’d say that is a little past “slightly irregular.” Then again, the thought of Warren Sapp (wearing a WR’s number) going across the middle on a passing route is quite hilarious.[/quote]
Hilarious but true. link has 2 career TD receptions. BTW, who knew his middle name was Carlos?

[quote comment=”213236″][quote comment=”213223″][quote comment=”213215″]As for the discussion about the US needing a recognizable consistent uniform, frankly, that’s a bunch of BS. As someone else said, the home kit of white jerseys and blue shorts is the US signature.[/quote]

My point is this: How can it be a signature when we only wear it (or variations of it) half the time?

[quote]
Acting like the US team doesn’t ‘get it’ because they have differing styles of home jerseys is ignoring the entire sport.[/quote]

Didn’t say they didn’t “get it”TM

Said I’d prefer it if they’d pick a jersey and stick with it instead of thinking they have to have a new one every year.

[quote]I prefer the previous home jerseys with the red and blue offset stripe, because I think it looked classic and unique, but just because it’s gone doesn’t mean I look at the US jerseys like they’re doing something different than every other team in the world does.[/quote]

Every other team….except Argentina. And Italy. And, you know, teams like that.[/quote]

I’m gonna have to agree. Although many teams change their template from year to year, very few change the entire concept from jersey to socks. It’s pretty bush. If they acctually did stick with white one blue, and blue on white, that’d be great, but they don’t. It’s a fricken crap shoot trying to figure out what they might wear from game to game. All we’re asking for is consistancy, we care if they switch templates.[/quote]
Blue/blue and white/white combos occur when the other team wears the same color shorts, but not the same color shirt. Man United swap their black and white shorts underneath their trademark red shirt all the time. I don’t think these count as different uniforms.

Thanks Joe H for the work, but I meant to change the existing logo to place a little depth on the bat. I think it looks a little like the words are painted on the bat. All in all, very cool indeed.

One thing about the new DC United jerseys … the numbers. I don’t see an MLS logo on the lower edge. Are these Adidas numerals or were these agreed on by MLS? Seems to be a ripoff of Puma.

[quote comment=”213450″][quote comment=”213446″][quote comment=”213425″]link[/quote]

WOW! Bee-yoo-tee-ful!
‘Specially since the link is a nice complement to the “A” on the caps[/quote]

Forgot the link[/quote]

it’s almost like they did it on purpose

seriously though…i am not usually, if ever, a fan of OLD ENGLISH being used to spell out full words, particularly when it’s ALL CAPS…

but damn…i gotta make an exception for link

that shit is gorgeous

[quote comment=”213463″][quote comment=”213450″][quote comment=”213446″][quote comment=”213425″]link[/quote]

WOW! Bee-yoo-tee-ful!
‘Specially since the link is a nice complement to the “A” on the caps[/quote]

Forgot the link[/quote]

it’s almost like they did it on purpose

seriously though…i am not usually, if ever, a fan of OLD ENGLISH being used to spell out full words, particularly when it’s ALL CAPS…

but damn…i gotta make an exception for link

that shit is gorgeous[/quote]

[sniff, sniff]….is that SARCASM I’m smelling? ;-)
Seriously, considering that Los Tigres de Detroit have some disparity between Old English “D’s” on hats versus jerseys….that Oakland vest is a thing of beauty.
Now, how to get my hands on it without the wife noticing that the checking account is $ 500 lighter…..

Did anyone notice that the teams during media day neither the Giants nor Patriots were wearing those Captain’s patches that every team wore during the regular season? Or these being dropped for the Super Bowl?

[quote comment=”213480″]Did anyone notice that the teams during media day neither the Giants nor Patriots were wearing those Captain’s patches that every team wore during the regular season? Or these being dropped for the Super Bowl?[/quote]

link link

maybe they haven’t named them yet or perhaps there will be a special link for the jersey?

I have one of those old Lucky Beavers t-shirts that I think I got from Ebbets Field Flannels.

love the logo

Carson Palmer may have his brother Jordan backing him up next year

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[quote comment=”213507″]Methinks the link looks very link![/quote]

Try link for the second link.

I had an authentic Maroney navy blue Patriots jersey that I put the SB patch on. It should look nice at the super bowl party sunday. I’m also thinking of putting the patches from all 4 Patriots s.b’s on a Brady jerseybut I wanted some expert opinion before I did, so what do people think about this.

Deal or No Deal is having an NFL night. The suitcase grils look mighty fine wearing only jerseys. Also most of the crowd and some famous NFL players are there wearing jerseys.

think the link will be photoshopped all over the back of ny’s tabloids tomorrow?

this is schweet: link at excel-deuce practice

[quote comment=”213511″][quote comment=”213507″]Methinks the link looks very link![/quote]

Try link for the second link.[/quote]

I thought the same thing! Everybody agree the Oakland vest is a thing of “BEAUTY”….now we have to deal with a stupid black alternate jersey that totally blemishes such a stand out uniform. I hope they didn’t get rid of their original Green alternate.

No pics, but apparently Snickers is sponsoring Pros vs Joes, all the “joes” have the Snickers logo on their jerseys, 3 times on their football jerseys.

At my request, Nolan also sent along a photo of his sweater’s inner label, which is a gorgeous piece of art in itself. …

Okay, enough, it’s an orange friggin sweater…ugh.

[quote comment=”213485″][quote comment=”213480″]Did anyone notice that the teams during media day neither the Giants nor Patriots were wearing those Captain’s patches that every team wore during the regular season? Or these being dropped for the Super Bowl?[/quote]

link link

maybe they haven’t named them yet or perhaps there will be a special link for the jersey?[/quote]

Well, the Pats havent worn them all season, neither have the Chargers (I think) or the Ravens. I brought it up a couple of weeks ago, their supposed to be optional. As for the Giants, it looks like they’re not even wearing their game jerseys so, it shouldnt surprise you that they didnt throw the extra patch on.

[quote comment=”213547″]link

huggins in gold[/quote]

Looks like a real estate agent!

[quote comment=”213617″]The y on Brandon Roy’s jersey was far apart from the rest of his name during tonight’s game. If anyone noticed, you ocould see a close up during the 4th quarter late in the game. Didn’t get a pic and can’t find one online.[/quote]

link

The new USA soccer shirt is ugly. I’m not a big fan of horizontal stripes for much of anything, and I agree with everyone else who’s said that they should establish a constant identity (yellow over blue for Brazil, green over yellow over red for Mexico, white and sky blue stripes for Argentina, etc.) going forward. There’s still plenty of room for varying designs within those templates if you’re concerned about selling more product.