I know minor league baseball teams often have wacky names. I also know the Houston area has a lot of mosquitos. And yeah, I realize there’s already a team called …
Category: Team Logos/Insignia
In Which I Totally Geek Out Over a Tiny Thing Nobody Else Will Care About
Last Thursday I wondered if the uniform shown in this ad might be the 2011 NBA All-Star uni. And now it turns out that it is. I don’t generally get …
And Their Team Names Don’t End in ‘S’ Either
Big day in the NBA yesterday, as two teams came out with new logos. There wasn’t too much suspense on these, as various leaks had been floating around for a …
Consistently Inconsistent
As we all know, MLB teams aren’t very good when it comes to logo consistency. Among the problems: The Tigers use two very distinct “D” letterforms on their cap and …
The League That Shoulda Been a Contender
Last fall I wrote an entry about a site devoted to NASL jerseys. Now that site has added a ton of MISL photos (that’s Major Indoor Soccer League, for those …
And They Lost Again Anyway
As if the Longhorns didn’t have enough problems on the court lately, last night they became the latest college hoops team to wear one Nike’s sublimated rear-jersey designs. If you …
When The Saints (& Colts) Go Marching In
By Phil Hecken, with Rick Pearson and Tim Brulia (with photo assistance from Larry Bodnovich) The Big Game is today, or the Super Bowl, as most of us call it. …
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 …
There’s No Service Like Wire Service, Vol. 2
Back in the summer of 2006, when this blog was less than two months old, I wrote an entry about the “White War” of 1967, in which the Washington Senators …
North Star Studies
Quiet day in the NFL yesterday, at least uni-wise, so let’s skip the football today and look at something else. To wit: Back in January I wrote an entry about …
A Good Design — Literally
Does the logo shown above look familiar? No? What about now? The first design is actually an early version of the mark that eventually became the Hartford Whalers logo. In …
And Now…The Clarksville Finalists…You Pick The Winner
By Phil Hecken You will all recall that over the past two weekends, I had the pleasure of bringing you the participants in the “Clarksville ‘Design-A-Uniform’ Contest.” All the entries …
The Last Train to Clarksville (Pt. IV)
By Phil Hecken And, finally, today we visit the last round of entries for the “Design-A-Uniform” contest for the Clarksville Wildcats. As with the previous three rounds, we have another …
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 …
To the Season’s Biggest Turkeys
The nice thing about Thanksgiving, aside from stuffing your face and watching the Lions lose again, is the elemental simplicity of the holiday’s premise: Surely even the most downtrodden of …