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Category: NFL
Uni Watch Exclusive: The Super Bowl 50 Style Guide
Click to enlarge Thanks to a source who prefers to remain anonymous, I recently got my hands on the Super Bowl 50 Style Guide, which stipulates how the Super Bowl …
Dolphins Announce (but don’t show) New Alternates
By Phil Hecken On Friday and yesterday, there had been some speculation that the new Dolphins alternate jersey would be orange, and some additional chatter that the new alternate would …
What It’s Like to Attend the NFL Draft
For all of today’s photos, click to enlarge [Editor’s Note: Today we have a guest entry from Brian Crago, who recently got to attend the second and third rounds of …
My Favorite Team and I Need to Have a Little Talk
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 …
Uni Watch Rust Belt Unveiling Tour Rolls On
Click to enlarge Remember long-ago Uni Watch intern Vince Grzegorek (above left)? These days he’s the editor of the alt-weekly newspapers in Cleveland and Detroit, and it was great to …
Pro Sports Fight Songs: NFL
Greetings from Milwaukee, where I’ll be covering the unveiling of the Bucks’ new logo set tonight. Uni Watch intern Mike Chamernik, who’s a big Bucks fan, will be coming up …
Painting Uniforms on Uniforms
Reader Douglas Ford recently alerted me to the work of an artist named Dan Stromme, who has an interesting specialty: He paints sports scenes on helmets and jerseys. Let’s start …
Gold Diggers: NFL Marketing Scheme Officially Becomes Unbearable
Yesterday I wrote about how the NFL was going with gold 50-yard line markers, gold-trimmed Pro Bowl uniforms, and a gold NFL Draft logo, all to mark the season-culminating 50th …
NFL Goes for the Gold
The next NFL season will culminate with Super Bowl 50 (remember they’re using Arabic numerals for that one, not Roman numerals), and the league is apparently planning to mark that …
Right or Left? Right or Wrong?
We all know by now that if an American flag patch or decal applied to the right sleeve or the right side of an object should always have the blue …
Adidas Leaves, Nike Stays Put
Big day yesterday for league specific apparel contracts in the uni-verse, beginning with the news that Adidas will not be renewing its uniform contract with the NBA when it expires …
Jets-Setter
Reader Bill Kellick recently pointed me toward Connie Scouts.com, which is a site devoted to Connie Nicholas Carberg, who in 1976 was hired by the Jets to become the NFL’s …
A Big Day for Cleveland
Okay, so we all know what the big news is for today: The Browns will be releasing their new logo(s). Multiple sources have reported that showtime will be at 10am …
A Possible New Addition to the Uni Watch Glossary
I was recently interviewed by a guy from the San Diego Chargers’ website, who was working on a story about the team’s uniforms. We talked about various aspects of Chargers …