Click to enlarge When I was six years old, I reached into a box of corn flakes and pulled out this giveaway card of 49ers running back Ken Willard. At …
Category: BFBS
Goths and Jocks Make Peace (at least in Under Armour’s imagined fantasy world)
I you’re a fan of mono-black on the gridiron (or anywhere else, I suppose), yesterday was a very good day. Let’s start at Northwestern, where the Wildcats unveiled a new …
Does Bob Seger Know About This?
It had previously been reported that the Lakers would have a BFBS alternate uni this season. Yesterday afternoon, with no advance warning and little fanfare, they let us see how …
A Big Uni Day for College Football
Click to enlarge Several college football developments yesterday, beginning with this BFBS alternate uni that Nebraska will be wearing for its game against UCLA on Sept. 14. As you can …
Two More Reasons to Ditch the Black
The photo you see above, from the Nov. 17 Baylor/K-State game, ran in this week’s issue of Sports Illustrated. Only problem is, Baylor didn’t wear green jerseys for that game …
Fade to Black
[Editor’s Note: Today is Black Friday (aka Idiots Day, Natural Selection Day, and Buy Your Own Weight in Electronics Day), so we have a guest entry from Trevor Williams on …
Because There Aren’t Already Enough BFBS Unis in NCAA Football
By Phil Hecken I’d like to blame this all on the Mountain West. I really would. But somehow, I gotta think Nike had a hand in it. Whatever it is, …
And Then There Were Ten
By Phil Hecken Last weekend, we looked at the 35 Finalists in the Seahawks uniform redesign contest. Taking into account the reader comments, I assembled a crack panel of divergent …
Ditching the Black, One Little Bit at a Time
When the Mets wore their blue Los Mets jerseys a few weeks ago, literally dozens of readers asked me if it might have been a test-drive for a blue alternate …
BFBS in Auto Racing?
By Phil Hecken with Rob Caplette Back before Paul began his month-long R&R away from Uni Watch, I asked of the readers if they were interested in having any topics …
BFBS IV: Your Thoughts
By Phil Hecken, with James Huening We’re just about done beating the Black For Black’s Sake horse, but not without one last column. If by some slim chance you missed …
BFBS…PT III – Your Turn
By Phil Hecken, with James Huening Three weeks ago, Uni Watch Pollster Extraordinaire James Huening and I teamed up to bring you the first of two comprehensive looks at the …
BFBS PT. II
By Phil Hecken, with James Huening In a wonderful bit of serendipitous timing, the Arizona Cardinals broke some 100+ years of history on Thursday, introducing a black jersey and new …
BFBS…PT I
By Phil Hecken, with James Huening “Black For Black’s Sake” — or BFBS — it’s the second entry in the Uni Watch Glossary. It’s defined in there as “a reference …