Look closely at the photo shown above and you’ll notice something odd: The player (who happens to be Titans linebacker Ryan Fowler) has cut holes in the tips of his …
Category: College Football
Boy Wonder
Major developments in the batboy realm lately, as several readers have noted that Mets batboy Matt has recently started wearing stirrups. But Matt, whose full name is Matthew Harris, isn’t …
Preseason Ponderings
Now that the first slate of NFL preseason games has been played, a few new developments have come to light (aside from those green dots on QBs’ helmets, which we’ve …
Buttonholier Than Thou
Got an interesting note a few days ago from reader Jim Borwick, as follows: I was watching the Blue Jays play the Sox in Chicago a couple of weeks ago …
Uni Watch Profiles: Neil Jenney
The question of who does and doesn’t Get Itâ„¢ rarely comes up in my social circle. That’s because for better or worse (probably a bit of both), very few of …
Switching to a Completely Predictable Color Scheme Is the New Black
Jerry Glanville has always been such a blowhard. The whole “Man in Black” thing, leaving a ticket for Elvis, driving a replica of James Dean’s car — a shtick as …
Green-360, on One
I can’t imagine why anyone would want to watch something as completely irrelevant as the Hall of Fame game, which is pointless even by NFL exhibition standards. But it’s a …
…But I Know What I Like
If you’re a regular reader of this site, I’d say there’s a pretty good chance that you used to doodle uniforms or at least logos in the margins of your …
Back to the Future
New ESPN column today — here’s the link. Meanwhile: We all know about the futuristic uniforms that most MLB teams wore in 1999. You may also recall that about six …
Dash of Hell, Pinch of Handbasket, Mix Thoroughly
Man, I go away for a week and an entire league goes down the toilet. The trouble started just a few hours after I put up the “Gone Fishing” sign, …
Pain in the Button
You’ve heard of a player’s uniform prompting a warning letter, and then there are the uniforms that lead to fines. But Marlins pitcher Scott Olsen has taken uni-related insubordination to …
55 Sullivan Place
HBO’s Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts Of Flatbush debuted last Wednesday, but I was in St. Louis at the time and didn’t get around to seeing it until Saturday. Aside from …
Uni Watch Profiles: Conor Clougherty
Conor Clougherty works for Honig’s, a company that specializes in uniforms for umps, refs, and other sports officials. He’s also a big Uni Watch fan, so we recently spent some …
Stars and Stripes Forever for Nine Innings for, uh, as Long as It Sticks There
New ESPN column today, and it’s a doozy — here’s the link. Meanwhile: Does fabric adhesive not stick as well to polyester as it does to wool? That’s the obvious …
Matches, Lighter Fluid, Uniform, Marshmallows? Check, Check, Check, and Check.
By Vince Grzegorek By now most of you have probably heard about Scott Proctor’s equipment bonfire after Saturday night’s game at Yankee Stadium. (In a world of cell phone cameras, …