By Phil Hecken One of my great pleasures in serving at Paul’s Bench Coach is getting to meet (either in person or through the magic of the Interwebs) many of …
Category: Patches
A New Name Game
I recently got a note from Anil Adyanthaya, who pointed out that Adam Foote’s name is represented twice on his jersey — first on his NOB, and then on the …
But Will They Close The Roof?
By Phil Hecken Forty-five years ago, in 1965 to be precise, the newly-named Houston Astros played host to the Philadelphia Phillies in the first ever regular season game in the …
Patches? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Patches
By Phil Hecken, With Noel Basnight A couple weeks ago, reader Noel Basnight (who posts as the pseudonymous “Leon”) noticed the recent reference to Super Bowl patches on the blog, …
Uni Watch DIY Project: Jasmine or Earl Gray?
[Editor’s Note: Today we have a guest entry from Joe DeAngelis, who did a DIY project nearly 20 years ago — and who, I’m fairly certain, is the only DIYer …
We Really Need to Find Out Who the Cartoonist Was
Last Friday I linked to this super-groovy Penguins patch. A few readers sent me links to a few other teams’ patches from the same series, but reader Gordon Fall went …
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. …
Putting the Y in DIY
Got a note the other day from Terence Kearns, who wanted to tell me about his latest DIY project. Along the way, he raised an interesting question. Take a look: …
Meet Mr. Hockey (Jersey)
By Phil Hecken He’s been a member of Uni Watch for a long time. You have undoubtedly heard of his wonderful blog (if you don’t already have that bookmarked, you …
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 …
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 …
Design-A-Wildcat Uni, Pt. III
By Phil Hecken Today we begin with Round III of the Clarksville “Design-A-Uniform” Contest, with a plethora of superb entries. If you missed the first two rounds (or just want …
Devaluing the Design Process, Pt. I (aka “Design-A-Uni”)
By Phil Hecken OK, the long-awaited “Design-A-Uniform” contest entries have finally been all uploaded and flickr’ed (there were approximately 190 individual entries, from close to 40 entrants) that came in. …
Checking in with the NBA
Two Fridays ago I spent a few hours up at the NBA offices, where they showed me all the new gear for this season. Some of the new designs have …