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Category: College Football

The Team That Can Never Play a Color-vs.-Color Game

As you probably know, Georgia Tech always wears white at home. And since almost everyone else wears color at home, that basically means Tech wears white for every game. They …

Up Pere-Scope!

Mike Hersh recently sent me a bunch of new wire photo submissions. I’ll be cobbling them into the latest installment of our wire service series soon, but today I want …

The Robert Harvell Files, Vol. 5

Been a little while since we checked in with Robert Harvell and his amazing archive of football imagery. Some real doozies this time, too. One thing I’ve noticed when preparing …

The Robert Harvell Files, Vol. 4

Can’t get enough of these tremendous football photos from Robert Harvell’s library of images. Here’s the latest batch: • I seem to recall that there’s a story behind Bob Lilly’s …

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 …

Chief Wahoo Has No Comment

There’s an old episode of This American Life in which a guy descended from Native Americans talks about the stories his grandfather used to tell. “He say, ‘All this land …

The Larry Bodnovich Files, Vol. 4

Been nearly seven months since we featured some material from screen-grab kingpin Larry Bodnovich (if you missed the previous entries devoted to his work, look here, here, and here. Today …

What Do You Call That Bristly Thing on the Top of the War Helmet Anyway?

So I get off the plane in Minneapolis last night, whip out my new Magic Phoneâ„¢ to check my e-mail, and I see that I’ve received 37 messages since I …

The BCS Is Broken (or, Beating A Dead Horse)

By Phil Hecken, with keen insight from Tod Hess, Robert Marshall, and Rick Pearson I don’t normally stray from uni-related topics, but there is one topic which has appeared quite …

Thank God That’s Over With (or: Only 41 Days to Pitchers and Catchers)

Man, ya think the BCS logo decal on Alabama’s helmet last night was big enough? It was freakin’ huge. It looked smaller on the Texas helmets, but I think that’s …

Guess What Chips I Won’t Be Eating Today?

Have there ever been a worse helmet design match-up than last night’s Fiesta Bowl? Woof. Fortunately, the game featured a few uni-notable aspects: • Boise State wore orange pants for …

Bucks vs. Ducks – A Rematch 52 Years In The Making

By Phil Hecken, with Larry Bodnovich and Michael Princip Happy New Year, Uni Watch! The first of January always is a great day for sports fans and uni watchers alike, …

Everything’s Coming Up Oranges

With bowl season upon us, Christopher Wheeler pointed me toward this Orange Bowl history page, which turns out to be chock-full of uni-notable photos. Here’s a chronological rundown: 1937 (Duquesne …

How to Dress A Duck

By Phil Hecken, with Kenny Ocker and Casey Martin It isn’t often the University of Oregon makes it to the Rose Bowl, but for those of us who are intrigued …

More Uni Design, More Football, and More!

By Phil Hecken Back with round two of the “Design-A-Uniform” contest entries for the Clarksville High School baseball team. If you missed the first batch of entries, you can see …