Final Score: Cowboys 24, Giants 14

Good morning! Paul, can you (or anyone else) please provide the name/link to the site that has been recommended/utilized for patches for DIY items? Thank you.

Would you trust this electrician? “I know that there are many varieties of three-prong plugs around the world, but I’ve never seen one with that configuration,” says James Huening, who snapped the photo on his way to work yesterday.

250V, 30A

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I’d never have thought the Richmond/Gwinnett Braves could concoct a logo as horrible as link…but by god, they’ve done it! Good fucking riddance to this embarrassment of an organization …there’s no baseball in Richmond for the first season in decades, and somehow it’s an improvement.

[quote]”She criticized me for making her look too good”[/quote]

that’s love man

[quote comment=”318685″]I’d never have thought the Richmond/Gwinnett Braves could concoct a logo as horrible as link…but by god, they’ve done it! Good fucking riddance to this embarrassment of an organization …there’s no baseball in Richmond for the first season in decades, and somehow it’s an improvement.[/quote]

Rob, I used to live in Richmond earlier this decade…I had no idea the R-Braves moved. Probably for the best as they were not a very popular draw. I used to bag work and go take in a game from time to time, never a problem getting a seat behind the dugouts. Then when the ballpark got flooded out from Gaston, putting the kibosh on the remainder of the 2004 season I pretty much stopped going for good.

And they couldn’t have found a more depressing location for the park…of course, if they rebuilt it, they would have done so way the F out in Short Pump or something with lots of fountains.

Hmmm… looking at those green Knicks outfits, you have to wonder whether the NBA deliberately planned an off day for them on St. Patricks Day, hoping they wouldn’t wear them.

What’s up with wearing green in honor of St Patrick’s day the day after the fact? It’s like dressing up like Santa Clause on December 26th, or having a Superbowl party the Monday after. Aside from that, these uniforms look ridiculous.
Paul, how come you’re ripping into the ‘Los’* movement every chance you got, but you’re letting this one slide?

From a political standpoint the orange and green combo is interesting, though. Green is the color of the Irish republic, where the predominant religion is Catholicism. Orange on the other hand is the color of a Protestant fraternity that is pretty big in Northern Ireland. And just this difference of opinion between the Catholics who want to join up with the Irish Republic, and the Protestants who like it in the UK was at the basis of the mess that Northern Ireland used to be (and sometimes still is). Even now, the yearly Orange marches through catholic neighborhoods in Northern Irish cities sometimes lead to riots. Maybe the Knicks just wanted to show that ornage and green don’t have to clash… but in that case they failed miserably.

[quote comment=”318689″]And they couldn’t have found a more depressing location for the park…of course, if they rebuilt it, they would have done so way the F out in Short Pump or something with lots of fountains.[/quote]

Richmond Magazine allowed me to do link a few years back…suffice to say, I agree with your assessment of the situation. I live in Bellevue, less than two miles away from the Diamond, and I only went to two games in five years. Lousy product, lousy atmosphere, everything.

There’s actually an initiative afoot to build a park in Shockhoe Bottom, but this being Richmond, don’t expect any progress to be made for at least a decade.

Anyone know if the O’s have permanently ditched the coolflo batting helmets or are they just wearing the old style for spring training?

[quote comment=”318693″]
Richmond Magazine allowed me to do link a few years back…suffice to say, I agree with your assessment of the situation. I live in Bellevue, less than two miles away from the Diamond, and I only went to two games in five years. Lousy product, lousy atmosphere, everything.

There’s actually an initiative afoot to build a park in Shockhoe Bottom, but this being Richmond, don’t expect any progress to be made for at least a decade.[/quote]

That comic was awesome. However, you made the bus station look like Shangri-La in comparison to its actual disgusti-tude.

Shockoe Bottom should be condemned, although my bias is showing as I lived and hung out in the Fan and as such thought I was better than the VCU students getting shitfaced down by the river. It’s no place for a stadium down there.

Are the Richmond Riverdogs still down there? When I first came to Richmond I interviewed with the team for a job. Rod Langway, the coach at the time, interviewed me.

[quote comment=”318696″]

Full disclosure: That isn’t our actual steak. I brought my camera but neglected to use it (too caught up in the protein rush of the moment). That photo, however, looks v-e-r-y much like the medium-rare steak we devoured.[/quote]

That’s the beauty of Luger’s…every time you go it’s the exact same thing. Very, very consistent, and that’s how they got to be where they are. But of course I love the waiters. Once I asked them “what kind of beers do you have?” (I was 19.) Waiter glares at me and says “Dark and light. Choose.” And I had beer with my steak.

[quote comment=”318699″][quote comment=”318696″]

Full disclosure: That isn’t our actual steak. I brought my camera but neglected to use it (too caught up in the protein rush of the moment). That photo, however, looks v-e-r-y much like the medium-rare steak we devoured.[/quote]

That’s the beauty of Luger’s…every time you go it’s the exact same thing. Very, very consistent, and that’s how they got to be where they are. But of course I love the waiters. Once I asked them “what kind of beers do you have?” (I was 19.) Waiter glares at me and says “Dark and light. Choose.” And I had beer with my steak.[/quote]

Then you would like McSorleys on 2nd Avenue in NYC as well.

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[quote comment=”318698″][quote comment=\”318680\”]Here is another TNOL

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i was thinking of that also when he mentioned TNOL, since Case has lost to them in the football playoffs recently.

Rick -well they could\’ve added white trim, and therefore been exactly like the irish flag. with the white symbolizing peace between the two groups[/quote]

Dan,

Thanks for being a good sport about Wabash. I will say, I have enjoyed my visits to Case Western (the wins probably have a large part to do with that) but I think you all would fare better against UW Whitewater than we have. But all that aside, I don’t particularly enjoy the ‘Modern” uni’s that Wabash now adorns, but they look a lot better than some of the other D3 teams out there

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And the Steeler having just made the catch is….?

Jimmy Orr, wearing #86 with the Steelers, prior to his more well-known career as #28 with the Colts (see Super Bowl III films of him wide open on a flea-flicker, trying to get Earl Morrall’s attention).

—Ricko

[quote comment=”318702″][quote comment=”318682″]http://wejones.ftdata.com/steelerR.html

This page is great. The bright yellow uniforms, the offensive formation with 7 down lineman and 3 running backs, the old programs – complete with ads for Iron City Beer. Some things will never change.
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That offensive formation appears to be the single-wing wherein the QB was mostly a blocker. The deep back was commonly called the tailback and did a good deal of the running and passing.[/quote]

UCLA, with Billy Kilmer at tailback, was the last major NCAA team to run the single wing regularly…I believe. The tailback did virtually ALL the passing (what there was of it) in the single wing. Oregon State ran it early in Terry Baker’s career but switched to the T-formation because of his skills.

Kilmer being drafted by the 49ers led coach Red Hickey to develop the “shotgun” formation, allowing Kilmer and the other Niner QB’s to pass from a deep set on occasion. So, in a way, the shotgun is about the only remnant of the single wing we see today.

—Ricko

2 notes on the first day of the tourney.

1. Did anybody dvr the Villanova game. One of their players had on sweet socks. They had liked a strip going down the achillles.

2. Western Kentucky had a sharp shooter named Orlando Gomez-Mendez. His NOB was sweet! Lookout for the Hilltoppers on Saturday!

Major college, perhaps, but Keith Piper at Dennison U.(Div.III) continued to use the single wing until 1969! It was very effective and he won a lot of games with it – hard to prepare for it if even opposing coaches had never seen it!

Larry W,

That is some awesome and beautiful stuff from 1940.

Thanks for sharing!

[quote comment=”318711″]Major college, perhaps, but Keith Piper at Dennison U.(Div.III) continued to use the single wing until 1969! It was very effective and he won a lot of games with it – hard to prepare for it if even opposing coaches had never seen it![/quote]

I mentioned major college on purpose, as in the last time it was widely seen. I know Whittenburg or someone also ran the single wing, perhaps well into the ’70s. But they weren’t on national TV a whole lot. LOL

—Ricko

[quote comment=”318713″]Larry W,

That is some awesome and beautiful stuff from 1940.

Thanks for sharing![/quote]

Don’t thank me, I just stumbled on it. Don’t know who it belongs to other than he had some cool shoulder pads in 1946 (see the last photo).

The Western Kentucky player was Valdez-Mendez (not Gomez-Mendez) so there was another letter in his high arcing nameplate.

And the reason the NCAA is going to standardized courts is that some of those decals were getting so big and they were very slippery. We hosted at Marquette a few years back (I was the media director for the event) and the NCAA logo was like 1/4 the length of the court because we had such a big center court logo.

I didn’t like it when they went to all four regional courts last year, but I’m finding myself like it if they use it throughout the tournament. I’m not going to miss Taco Bell Arena’s floor. However, the Wachovia Center kept it’s Sixers floor with the big center court decal and floor colored decal over the NBA three point line. That just looks bad all around.

[quote comment=”318712″]Is that Cybill Shepherd in the link?[/quote]

are you feeling better or…oh you maybe had a virus or somethin’, a 24-hour virus you know…it happens

Based on the OJ picture, it’s apparent that he even liked going for the throat way back then!

[quote comment=”318714″]The Old Smuggler ad is priceless. I love that the majority of whiskey ads that have pictures of dudes in them, the men are sporting facial hair.[/quote]

Beat me to it. That Old Smuggler means BUSINESS!

[quote comment=”318723″]Based on the OJ picture, it’s apparent that he even liked going for the throat way back then![/quote]

And he’s wearing his SpotBilt “Juicemobiles”!!! (As opposed to black Bruno Mail’s, “ugly ass shoes” he’d “never own” but was later shown to have been photographed wearing.)

I’ll bet he pissed that this jail thing is cutting into his continuing search for the real killers on every golf course he could find.

Just a few quick questions for Mr. Rob Ullman:

I was just wondering how much your amazing pictures cost, how long they take to get done, and how I can get in touch with you to make an order?

I am getting married this summer at Lambeau Field, and I would love to get a picture done of my fiancée. Thanks in advance!

Hey, Johnny-

I’d love to help you out! Shoot me an email…click my name above for my address.

[quote comment=”318714″]The Old Smuggler ad is priceless. I love that the majority of whiskey ads that have pictures of dudes in them, the men are sporting facial hair.[/quote]

Agreed. That one for Ambassador Scotch is pretty sweet too.

[quote comment=”318707″][quote comment=”318702″][quote comment=”318682″]http://wejones.ftdata.com/steelerR.html

This page is great. The bright yellow uniforms, the offensive formation with 7 down lineman and 3 running backs, the old programs – complete with ads for Iron City Beer. Some things will never change.
[/quote]

That offensive formation appears to be the single-wing wherein the QB was mostly a blocker. The deep back was commonly called the tailback and did a good deal of the running and passing.[/quote]

UCLA, with Billy Kilmer at tailback, was the last major NCAA team to run the single wing regularly…I believe. The tailback did virtually ALL the passing (what there was of it) in the single wing. Oregon State ran it early in Terry Baker’s career but switched to the T-formation because of his skills.

—Ricko[/quote]

While UCLA and Oregon State ran the single-wing, they employed a balanced line. Princeton, however, under Charlie Caldwell, employed it with an unbalanced line and often used the bucklateral series in which three backs handled the ball on one play.

I’m glad that the ISU Cyclones can logo comparisons (best “I”) and mascot contests, because we sure can’t win games! (apart from women’s bball and wrestling)

Another icon of Pittsburgh sports has left us:

Vince Lascheid, long-time organist for the Pittsburgh Pirates at Three Rivers Stadium and PNC Park and the Pittsburgh Penguins at Mellon Arena, died overnight.

Visitation for Mr. Lascheid, 85, will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. and from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at Laughlin Memorial Chapel, 222 Washington Road, Mt. Lebanon.

His family requests donations to the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf, 300 East Swissvale Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15218.

The Pirates are planning a special tribute to Mr. Lascheid on Opening Day, April 13, according to the funeral home.

[quote comment=”318735″][quote comment=”318707″][quote comment=”318702″][quote comment=”318682″]http://wejones.ftdata.com/steelerR.html

This page is great. The bright yellow uniforms, the offensive formation with 7 down lineman and 3 running backs, the old programs – complete with ads for Iron City Beer. Some things will never change.
[/quote]

That offensive formation appears to be the single-wing wherein the QB was mostly a blocker. The deep back was commonly called the tailback and did a good deal of the running and passing.[/quote]

UCLA, with Billy Kilmer at tailback, was the last major NCAA team to run the single wing regularly…I believe. The tailback did virtually ALL the passing (what there was of it) in the single wing. Oregon State ran it early in Terry Baker’s career but switched to the T-formation because of his skills.

—Ricko[/quote]

While UCLA and Oregon State ran the single-wing, they employed a balanced line. Princeton, however, under Charlie Caldwell, employed it with an unbalanced line and often used the bucklateral series in which three backs handled the ball on one play.[/quote]

Oh, man, forgot about that.

Numbers owe a lot to the single wing, too. Quarterbacks (who largely were lead blockers) wore numbers in the teens, halfbacks in the 20s and 30s and tailbacks in the 40s…most of the time, anyway. Terry Baker, for example, wore #47 his Oregon State sophomore year as a single wing tailback. For his junior and senior seasons as a t-formation quarterback he changed to #11.

I think Sid Luckman changed numbers with the Bears when they switched to the T. Also explains Charlie Conerly’s #42 with the Giants. He didn’t change from his typical tailback number, even though he was, I believe, the Giant’s’ first T quarterback.
(Giants illustrations from today’s entry; bottom left…)
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—Ricko

Anyone ID those Giants illustration, btw?
Pretty sure they are…
Alex Webster, Emlen Tunnell, Y.A. Tittle
Andy Robustelli, Jimmy Patton, Joe Morrison
Sam Huff, Frank Gifford, Tucker Fredrickson
Charlie Conerly, Roosevelt Brown

[quote comment=”318741″][quote comment=”318735″][quote comment=”318707″][quote comment=”318702″][quote comment=”318682″]http://wejones.ftdata.com/steelerR.html

This page is great. The bright yellow uniforms, the offensive formation with 7 down lineman and 3 running backs, the old programs – complete with ads for Iron City Beer. Some things will never change.
[/quote]

That offensive formation appears to be the single-wing wherein the QB was mostly a blocker. The deep back was commonly called the tailback and did a good deal of the running and passing.[/quote]

UCLA, with Billy Kilmer at tailback, was the last major NCAA team to run the single wing regularly…I believe. The tailback did virtually ALL the passing (what there was of it) in the single wing. Oregon State ran it early in Terry Baker’s career but switched to the T-formation because of his skills.

—Ricko[/quote]

While UCLA and Oregon State ran the single-wing, they employed a balanced line. Princeton, however, under Charlie Caldwell, employed it with an unbalanced line and often used the bucklateral series in which three backs handled the ball on one play.[/quote]

Oh, man, forgot about that.

Numbers owe a lot to the single wing, too. Quarterbacks (who largely were lead blockers) wore numbers in the teens, halfbacks in the 20s and 30s and tailbacks in the 40s…most of the time, anyway. Terry Baker, for example, wore #47 his Oregon State sophomore year as a single wing tailback. For his junior and senior seasons as a t-formation quarterback he changed to #11.

I think Sid Luckman changed numbers with the Bears when they switched to the T. Also explains Charlie Conerly’s #42 with the Giants. He didn’t change from his typical tailback number, even though he was, I believe, the Giant’s’ first T quarterback.
(Giants illustrations from today’s entry; bottom left…)
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—Ricko[/quote]

Keep mind that the Giants didn’t switch directly from the single-wing to the T. Under coach Steve Owen they ran both the single-wing (B formation) and a different direct-snap set (A formation); ultimately the B was dropped and the A became the
choice of formations.

[quote comment=”318706″]The ad in the Jints program for the NFL Films music was the one I used to order my first album. I think they put out four LPs before coming out with the CD “The Power and the Glory” about 10 years ago, followed up by a CD box set that came out about three years ago.

The CD box set, “Autumn Thunder” is a must-have for any NFL Films music fan. The early stuff, mostly done by Sam Spence is priceless and some of the more modern stuff is decent, but not in the great 70’s Spence style.[/quote]

Man, back when you couldn’t see all the NFL highlights until NFL Films came out with their shows during the week (and I remember how hard I TRIED to see MNF’s halftime show, rarely succeeding) that music just said NFL highlights.

Great memories of seeing plenty of bars with signs in the window saying something like “we watch ALL Bears/ND games…” :-)

Cubs, #31: for one thing, to me this is just indicative of the ongoing and accelerating trend of retiring too many numbers. And why didn’t you retire Fergie’s number years ago guys?

NCAA standard floors: this should have been done years and years and years ago. And those #$%& decals are a definite safety hazard: just ask the world-class marathon runner who won the Chicago Marathon about 5 years ago and slipped on the sponsor decal placed precisely at the finish line. IIRC he spent the night in the hospital being monitored for concussion.

Last night Capitals rookie goal simeon varlamov wore a mask that was designed in half. Basically half of it was a caps design and half was hershey bears, never seen anything like it.

SINGLE WING IN THE 1970s

I played Bantam/Playground football in New Orleans in the late 1960’s through 1972 – my playground still used the Single Wing as the primary offense for almost all weights and ages teams through 1972 – when I left. The “QB” was really the fullback/blocking back that called the signals prior to the snap, and the TB handled the ball on almost every play. The “draw play” was a direct snap to the QB/blocking back.

We would use the (new-fangled for 1972) “T” Formation on the goal line.

EVEN BETTER…..

Into the 1980s there was a Louisiana high school, I believe Catholic HS – Pointe Coupee, that used the Notre Dame Box as its primary offense. The school used it for several decades, through several coaches, and was written about each year due to the oddity of using the “Sandskrit” of offenses. If I’m not mistaken they regularly made the playoffs running that offense.

[quote comment=”318748″][quote comment=”318738″]Paul,

Are you able to confirm or deny the rumors about Jacksonville getting new unis for 2009? I completely understand that more often than not you are required to keep quiet about such things until there is a team/league announcement.

And I’m not really looking for design specifics, just a yea or nay on the change. Unless you can say something like “minor changes” or “radical changes.”

Normally, I would be excited about a uniform change, but I just got a Jags jersey for Xmas, and it might now be obsolete.

Thanks.[/quote]

Yes, a change is coming. And the jersey you just got for Xmas is way better than the one that will replace it.[/quote]

Say it ain’t so

Let me guess – they’re going to go with black unis full time, and well the teal as it’s passe, will be replaced by blue, and maybe the gold will be replaced by silver – and the uni will have a big ugly white side panel – and it will look more XFL than NFL – and the big three (Buffalo, Cincinnati and Seattle) will become the big four – something to look forward to for sure

Rob Ullman: With all due respect, your lady’s wrong. Your illustrations score highly in the department of accurate representation.

Some absolutely amazing – amazing – Steelers/Redskins shots from 1940 can be found here (major discovery by Larry Wiederecht).
Holy cow! Astounding! I didn’t know the Steelers ever went gold/gold/gold. Well-done, Larry W.

[quote comment=”318739″]“Another icon of Pittsburgh sports has left us:

“The Pirates are planning a special tribute to Mr. Lascheid on Opening Day, April 13, according to the funeral home.”[/quote]

And another stadium succombs to the curse of pre-recorded music. I remember one time when Joe Strain was hitting for the Giants as he was introduced that he played Sheena Easton’s “Moring Train”. He was into the puns long before Berman.

[quote comment=”318719″]“The reason the NCAA is going to standardized courts is that some of those decals were getting so big and they were very slippery. We hosted at Marquette a few years back (I was the media director for the event) and the NCAA logo was like 1/4 the length of the court because we had such a big center court logo.

I didn’t like it when they went to all four regional courts last year, but I’m finding myself like it if they use it throughout the tournament. I’m not going to miss Taco Bell Arena’s floor. However, the Wachovia Center kept it’s Sixers floor with the big center court decal and floor colored decal over the NBA three point line. That just looks bad all around.”[/quote]

It also looks bad in Miami and Minneapolis but since Dayton is a permament installation, there is an excuse for decals. Man, I miss those psychedellic floors in Boise.

[quote comment=”318756″]OK, show of hands. How many here started looking for more instances of the adidas logo on her uniform?[/quote]
Why yes, I was looking for a triangle…

[quote comment=”318748″][quote comment=”318738″]Paul,

Are you able to confirm or deny the rumors about Jacksonville getting new unis for 2009? I completely understand that more often than not you are required to keep quiet about such things until there is a team/league announcement.

And I’m not really looking for design specifics, just a yea or nay on the change. Unless you can say something like “minor changes” or “radical changes.”

Normally, I would be excited about a uniform change, but I just got a Jags jersey for Xmas, and it might now be obsolete.

Thanks.[/quote]

Yes, a change is coming. And the jersey you just got for Xmas is way better than the one that will replace it.[/quote]

Thanks, Paul.

[quote comment=”318709″]2 notes on the first day of the tourney.

1. Did anybody dvr the Villanova game. One of their players had on sweet socks. They had liked a strip going down the achillles.

2. Western Kentucky had a sharp shooter named Orlando Gomez-Mendez. His NOB was sweet! Lookout for the Hilltoppers on Saturday![/quote]

Mendez-Valdez

[quote comment=”318681″][quote comment=”318679″]Good morning! Paul, can you (or anyone else) please provide the name/link to the site that has been recommended/utilized for patches for DIY items? Thank you.[/quote]

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One of the embroidered MLB patches has Cincinnati spelled “CINCINATTI”.

As the proud owner of the Blackhawks illo, I can’t say enough nice things about Rob and the quality of his work. Thanks to Paul for featuring his work here and for his email address.
If only my wife would have used Tony O’s Soul-Glo the pic would be complete!

[quote comment=”318747″][quote comment=”318706″][/quote]

Man, back when you couldn’t see all the NFL highlights until NFL Films came out with their shows during the week (and I remember how hard I TRIED to see MNF’s halftime show, rarely succeeding) that music just said NFL highlights.
[/quote]
Yup, if you were lucky, the local news would show a play or two at 11:00 PM, then maybe you saw your favorite team on MNF narrated by Cosell, and the Brookshier-Summerall NFL Films show on Saturday or Sunday morning was a “can’t miss.”

There were no VCRs, DVRs, random repeats….if you missed any of the three above shows, you were SOL…until the next week.

Oh, and we watched the games by candlelight..:)

gonna toss this one out there, but the last several days, the nhluniforms.com home page has had the teaser, “COMING SOON a brand new nhluniforms.com!”

I’m wondering what that will be?

Team by team navigation?
Sharper detail?
Pre-NHL unis?
Additional finds from the days of yore?

And the BIG question?? When will the relaunch occur??

I – for one – am really on pins and needles for this!

Watching the Portland MLS 2011 press conference, the owner confirmed that the team will indeed be called the Portland Timbers. He also stressed the team’s legacy, leading me to believe that the colors (and less likely, the logo) will also stay the same.

[quote comment=”318778″]Watching the Portland MLS 2011 press conference, the owner confirmed that the team will indeed be called the Portland Timbers.

He also stressed the team’s legacy, leading me to believe that the colors (and less likely, the logo) will also stay the same.[/quote]

I’ve been trying to watch it, but MLS doesn’t have a link to it on their site anymore.

Thing is, Portland’s link. Seattle’s got green now after wearing link in the NASL days.

[quote comment=”318781″]Do teams have to come up with iconic names for their colors now?

Apparently the Sounders colors are Sounder Blue, Rave Green and Cascade Shale. Rave green? Does it come with ecstasy and glow sticks?

Of course, The Minnesota Wild has Iron Range Red, Forest Green and Minnesota Wheat so I’m in no position to point and laugh.[/quote]

Carolina Panthers have “Panther Blue.” Broncos have “Broncos Navy.” SF used to have “49ers Gold.”

[quote comment=”318782″][quote comment=”318781″]Do teams have to come up with iconic names for their colors now?

Apparently the Sounders colors are Sounder Blue, Rave Green and Cascade Shale. Rave green? Does it come with ecstasy and glow sticks?

Of course, The Minnesota Wild has Iron Range Red, Forest Green and Minnesota Wheat so I’m in no position to point and laugh.[/quote]

Carolina Panthers have “Panther Blue.” Broncos have “Broncos Navy.” SF used to have “49ers Gold.”[/quote]

Charlie Finley’s A’s had Wedding Gown White, Pacific Ocean Green, and Fort Knox Gold.

The stars are in alignment today…Rob Ullman sends in the truly terrific portrait he did of my gal in her Brian Westbrook jersey, and the front page story mentions my former employer, NFL Films. I think I am obligated to comment today.

If anyone is considering commissioning Rob to do a portrait, I can testify that not only does he do great work but he’s also a nice fella.

[quote comment=”318784″][quote comment=”318782″][quote comment=”318781″]Do teams have to come up with iconic names for their colors now?

Apparently the Sounders colors are Sounder Blue, Rave Green and Cascade Shale. Rave green? Does it come with ecstasy and glow sticks?

Of course, The Minnesota Wild has Iron Range Red, Forest Green and Minnesota Wheat so I’m in no position to point and laugh.[/quote]

Carolina Panthers have “Panther Blue.” Broncos have “Broncos Navy.” SF used to have “49ers Gold.”[/quote]

Charlie Finley’s A’s had Wedding Gown White, Pacific Ocean Green, and Fort Knox Gold.[/quote]
Not to mention Vida Blue….

[quote comment=”318788″]Not to mention Vida Blue….[/quote]

…rimshot…

(Catfish) Hunter Green?

[quote comment=”318774″]Yup, if you were lucky, the local news would show a play or two at 11:00 PM, then maybe you saw your favorite team on MNF narrated by Cosell, and the Brookshier-Summerall NFL Films show on Saturday or Sunday morning was a “can’t miss.”

There were no VCRs, DVRs, random repeats….if you missed any of the three above shows, you were SOL…until the next week.

Oh, and we watched the games by candlelight..:)[/quote]

LOL! Yep-that’s about the reaction you’d get from someone 25 or younger who never knew a world without ESPN.

Brookshier-Summerall: those were the days. One show was “Game of the Week” with 30 minutes of highlights from a single game. The other was supposed to show highlights from all the games. I’m sure it had a simple title but its escaping me at the moment. Maybe something like “This Week in the NFL”.

[quote comment=”318790″][quote comment=”318788″]Not to mention Vida Blue….[/quote]

…rimshot…[/quote]

Full disclosure – not my joke. It’s Vida’s. And he tells it pretty well.

[quote comment=”318728″][quote comment=”318683″]Would you trust this electrician? “I know that there are many varieties of three-prong plugs around the world, but I’ve never seen one with that configuration,” says James Huening, who snapped the photo on his way to work yesterday.

250V, 30A

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OK, help me out here. I’m still not seeing one that matches link.

I think you’re referring to 6-30R/6-30P, but neither of those quite match the picture on the van.[/quote]

It would be the 6-30P (it’s the plug, not the receptacle). It doesn’t match the picture exactly, but it’s very close, and I think the picture on the van is closer to reality.

Re: Craig Morton’s ad…

I know when I think of “oriental” cooking, the first thought that comes to mind ISN’T “Route 17, Paramus.”

[quote comment=”318682″]http://wejones.ftdata.com/steelerR.html

This page is great. The bright yellow uniforms, the offensive formation with 7 down lineman and 3 running backs, the old programs – complete with ads for Iron City Beer. Some things will never change.

Looking at the 1940 Steeler roster, only one player with a number above 60. Also, do you think you’ll ever see an NFL roster again with 10 players from either Duquesne or Carnegie Mellon?[/quote]

A few things about the memorabilia on that page. Yes, the team were the Pirates in 1934, when they had the yellow sweaters with the black stripes and the City of Pittsburgh crest in the middle.

The pro rules allowed head slaps back then, evidently not knowing the kinds of neurological damage that can occur through frequent concussions. What were they thinking?

Same thing with the elimination of the rule that the ball was dead when any part of the body other than the hand or foot touches the ground (which meant that you had to wrestle a player to the ground and stop all forward motion).

A clip was a 25-yard penalty? In truth, why not make all personal fouls a “third-of-the-field” penalty like in Aussie Rules? They have 50-meter penalties for major fouls on a 170-meter pitch. Just a thought.

That snow game was pretty ridiculous. The weather and Wabash’s playing.

[quote comment=”318791″]Any information about Morgantown would be helpful too. Thank you.[/quote]

Throw couch into street. Ignite.

[quote comment=”318682″]http://wejones.ftdata.com/steelerR.html

This page is great. The bright yellow uniforms, the offensive formation with 7 down lineman and 3 running backs, the old programs – complete with ads for Iron City Beer. Some things will never change.

Looking at the 1940 Steeler roster, only one player with a number above 60. Also, do you think you’ll ever see an NFL roster again with 10 players from either Duquesne or Carnegie Mellon?[/quote]

I was just going to post that. 7 guys from Duquesne and 3 from Carnegie Mellon was it? None from Pitt or Penn State
Pittsburgh had 3 major football teams in the 1930’s

Would you trust this electrician? “I know that there are many varieties of three-prong plugs around the world, but I’ve never seen one with that configuration,” says James Huening, who snapped the photo on his way to work yesterday.

Essentially, what’s pictured on that van is a standard American household 3-prong plug with a round neutral prong and a blade-type ground prong. In other words, the neutral is where the ground should be and vice-versa.

I am referring to the 6-30R/P. The plug/receptacle is for 30 amp 250 volt service. That is what is on the van, just spun around at an odd angle. Go to your local home supply store, find one, and you’ll convince yourself rather quickly. BTW, the round piece is ground/negative, and the flat pieces are hot.

[quote comment=”318791″]This is not uni related at all so i apologize in advance and if it bothers you go to the next post now. I am from south Louisiana i work in the oilfield and i am currently in morgantown, wv. I have the day off tomorrow and wanted to make the drive to pittsburgh because i don’t know if i’ll ever get another chance to be here. My point is that I only have one day for pittsburgh so what are the things i shouldn’t miss and some of the things i could probably skip. Where is the best place to eat lunch? Basically I want help planning my day trip because I know there are many of you from this area. Any information about Morgantown would be helpful too. Thank you.[/quote]

Adam
You sure picked an unfortunate time to come into town for a day if you’re looking for sports related things. It’ll be pretty dead tomorrow. No Pitt, Pirates, Pens or Steelers games to speak of. :-(

Anyway here goes.
Lunch – Primanti Brothers (A Pittsburgh Icon).

Stop into Jerome Bettis’ Grill 36 for a drink. The food isn’t anything to write home about but the bathroom alone will give you something to talk about back home. ;-)

Do take a ride up one of the two inclines. You’ll be pleasantly suprised at the gorgeous view.

If you are looking to quench your sports jones, the Heinz History Center which Paul visited recently has some good memorabilia from the area. It’s also a short distance from Primanti’s.

Other museums include, the Science Center, The Warhol, Carnegie Museum in the Oakland section of town (Nice collection of dinosaurs)

Sorry, Kennywood is not open (You won’t have to check your zipper…ask someone in town. They’ll clue you in on the joke)

Plenty o’bars in the South Side of town. Be careful…it attracts a young crowd. Smokin’ Joe’s is one down the road with lots of great beer. If you just want a typical shot and a beer joint, Dee’s Cafe.

Do not go to any Station Square or Strip District clubs at night.

As for Morgantown, the best thing you’ll see will be the reflection of your red lights as you leave. One good thing for you the Mountaineers lost today so there may or may not be a mass couch burning!!!!

[quote comment=”318810″][quote comment=”318791″]This is not uni related at all so i apologize in advance and if it bothers you go to the next post now. I am from south Louisiana i work in the oilfield and i am currently in morgantown, wv. I have the day off tomorrow and wanted to make the drive to pittsburgh because i don’t know if i’ll ever get another chance to be here. My point is that I only have one day for pittsburgh so what are the things i shouldn’t miss and some of the things i could probably skip. Where is the best place to eat lunch? Basically I want help planning my day trip because I know there are many of you from this area. Any information about Morgantown would be helpful too. Thank you.[/quote]

Adam
You sure picked an unfortunate time to come into town for a day if you’re looking for sports related things. It’ll be pretty dead tomorrow. No Pitt, Pirates, Pens or Steelers games to speak of. :-(

Anyway here goes.
Lunch – Primanti Brothers (A Pittsburgh Icon).

Stop into Jerome Bettis’ Grill 36 for a drink. The food isn’t anything to write home about but the bathroom alone will give you something to talk about back home. ;-)

Do take a ride up one of the two inclines. You’ll be pleasantly suprised at the gorgeous view.

If you are looking to quench your sports jones, the Heinz History Center which Paul visited recently has some good memorabilia from the area. It’s also a short distance from Primanti’s.

Other museums include, the Science Center, The Warhol, Carnegie Museum in the Oakland section of town (Nice collection of dinosaurs)

Sorry, Kennywood is not open (You won’t have to check your zipper…ask someone in town. They’ll clue you in on the joke)

Plenty o’bars in the South Side of town. Be careful…it attracts a young crowd. Smokin’ Joe’s is one down the road with lots of great beer. If you just want a typical shot and a beer joint, Dee’s Cafe.

Do not go to any Station Square or Strip District clubs at night.

As for Morgantown, the best thing you’ll see will be the reflection of your red lights as you leave. One good thing for you the Mountaineers lost today so there may or may not be a mass couch burning!!!![/quote]

thanks for the info.

Weirdest thing in the program: an illustration of FDR in a National Recovery Act uniform.

Not so much…I recall my high school U.S. history textbook mentioning the NRA’s eagle logo — which inspired the new NFL team in Philadelphia to name itself the Eagles.

I went to the Vintage patch site to check out the patches for my beloved STEELERS and the helmet caption for the Steelers has the logo on the left side. Very LAME!

[quote comment=”318818″][quote]”The food isn’t anything to write home about but the bathroom alone will give you something to talk about back home. ;-)”[/quote]

— larry craig[/quote]

Actually my beloved Buccos should put in some bathrooms like Bettis’ place. It would give a whole new meeting to “PNC” Park. ;-)

Anyone else notice that the Utah Men’s team had “Utah” on the back nameplate? Granted, I only saw one player (it wasn’t my local ‘featured’ game so I only saw a few moments during a ‘look-in’), so it’s possible that someone has the last name of Utah. Doubt that, though.

speaking of NCAA tournament displays, the scorer’s table during Louisville/Morehead State displayed “NCAA Opening Round” over the center line, then reverted to “NCAA First/Second Round” for Siena/Ohio State.
(“Opening Round” was Tuesday’s game; the First Round was/is Thursday/Friday.)

[quote comment=”318822″][quote comment=”318820″]
The Minneapolis floor seems to be the same one they’ve used for years in the worst basketball venue I’ve ever been to Metrodome. How does that sponsor deal work, relative to the link reported the other day on link?[/quote]

Connor Sport Court provides the courts for Regional sites and the Final Four, beyond that it’s pretty much been either the house court for the arena or sometimes the home court of the host school (like when OSU hosted at Nationwide Arena).

The Humpydome is using their in-house UM court, and AAA in MIA is using FIU’s court. The Wachovia is either using their regular court in Villanova mode or a generic one, and Dayton’s court is permanent. And while I don’t know who actually paid for them, the Rose Garden, Sprint Center, Taco Bell Arena, and GBoro Coliseum are likely using new Connors, since the NCAA probably has that layout exclusively licensed to them.

Again, as I mentioned in my first comment, those 4 arenas were probably either encouraged to get those courts or were given them by the NCAA, since they are probably going to be in the rotation for Subregionals and Regionals for a while. Also, with GBoro and KC being hosted by a conference, instead of a school, it makes sense for them to have the “standard” court.[/quote]

The Palace of Auburn Hills link (as much as it pains me to use that video) in 2006.

A few other NCAA/Connor-designed courts:
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[quote comment=”318824″][quote comment=”318823″]speaking of NCAA tournament displays, the scorer’s table during Louisville/Morehead State displayed “NCAA Opening Round” over the center line, then reverted to “NCAA First/Second Round” for Siena/Ohio State.
(“Opening Round” was Tuesday’s game; the First Round was/is Thursday/Friday.)[/quote]

They were probably recycling the Morehead State display from Tuesday, since they were the road team for that game and on the same side of the court. They remembered to replace Alabama State with Louisville, but I guess they forgot to change the “opening”.[/quote]

It was, however, an electronic display, not a physical banner.

(And I guess the bullets in #146 didn’t work.)

Robert Morris has a player wearing #22 because his regular jersey was stolen after the conference tournament.

[quote comment=”318826″][quote comment=”318825″]
The Palace of Auburn Hills link (as much as it pains me to use that video) in 2006.

A few other NCAA/Connor-designed courts:
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Yeah, that NWST shot is almost as bad as the end of the Hampton game for me. I sometimes wonder if the NCAA saw how well that black court looked on TV and that’s why they decided to use that for the Regionals.[/quote]

Hampton beat Iowa State. Northwestern State beat Iowa (more accurately, Iowa beat themselves–Steve Alford was coaching, after all.) How both Iowa and Iowa State losing can be bad is beyond me.

[quote comment=”318830″][quote comment=”318829″][quote comment=”318826″][quote comment=”318825″]
The Palace of Auburn Hills link (as much as it pains me to use that video) in 2006.

A few other NCAA/Connor-designed courts:
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Yeah, that NWST shot is almost as bad as the end of the Hampton game for me. I sometimes wonder if the NCAA saw how well that black court looked on TV and that’s why they decided to use that for the Regionals.[/quote]

Hampton beat Iowa State. Northwestern State beat Iowa (more accurately, Iowa beat themselves–Steve Alford was coaching, after all.) How both Iowa and Iowa State losing can be bad is beyond me.[/quote]

I’m not as fanatic as most Iowans. The Hampton game sucked, the NWST game sucked, the WKU-Drake game last year sucked, and the Purdue-UNI game yesterday sucked.[/quote]

I’ll give you three out of four (esp. the third).

I’m watching the Wake-Cleveland St game, and I noticed that there is a giant decal covering one of the “AmericanAirlines Arena” wordmarks on the court. I guess part of the NCAA regs is only one naming rights wordmark allowed on the court. Anyone remember seeing this in Philly yesterday?

Santa Maria!!! Bucky wins!!

[quote comment=”318836″][quote comment=”318808″]
I am referring to the 6-30R/P. The plug/receptacle is for 30 amp 250 volt service. That is what is on the van, just spun around at an odd angle. Go to your local home supply store, find one, and you’ll convince yourself rather quickly. BTW, the round piece is ground/negative, and the flat pieces are hot.[/quote]
Um, I’m not an electrician, but isn’t one of the flat pieces hot and the other one neutral?

Anyway, link.
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Done with this.[/quote]

Round is ground, the flat one with the hole in it is hot, and the other one is neutral. My dad was a Navy electrician.

Big news out of the Illinois State Basketball Championships with a technical foul for jerseys!

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An d BTW, in Philadelphia, it’s the regular court the Sixers (and Villanova) use.

There’s a lot of Obama/uni crossover merch, but this has to be my favorite item:

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New Era cap with nods to old and new Bulls uni styles, injected with Hope. Classy.

I was thinking that the “Change” on the back should be vertically arched instead of radially arched, to match the “Bulls” style on the front of their more recent unis, but then I thought that “Change” might be mimicking the NOBs, or it could be trying to shoot for this:

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Still, I think the “Change” letters aren’t spaced far enough apart to reflect either radially arched example accurately. Hmm. Still a sweet cap.

In regard to “World Champions” jersey’s; the Phillies NHL counterpart Philadelphia Flyers had a Stanley Cup patch adorned to their jerseys when winning the Cup back in 1973.

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