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Category: Typos/Glitches/Wrong Uni/Etc.

What’s Wrong with This Picture?

Click to enlarge Notice anything amiss in this photo from last Friday’s game between Virginia Tech and Appalachian State? The Mountaineer at lower-right, Jay Canty, has a uni typo — …

Putting the ‘Thud’ in Thunder

The video game leaks of that alternate Thunder uniform are coming from multiple sources now, so I’m inclined to think they’re legit — except for one thing: As you can …

Check Your Head

Click images to enlarge As most of you probably know, the Cubs don’t use a conventional helmet logo decal — they used an embroidered adhesive patch. The good part is …

And They Can Be Used Again for Mexican Night

It’s been common knowledge for several months now that the Brewers would be wearing “Birrai” jerseys for Italian Day on July 1. What wasn’t known until yesterday was that the …

Now Just Change the Racist Team Name and We’re Good to Go

What you see above is the helmet for the Redskins’ new alternate uniform, which was unveiled last night. I don’t know who’s responsible for it — the team? Nike? Riddell? …

Angry Homeless Man: Big ‘Peebo’ Bryson Fan?

Hey, if you’re gonna look like a slob, you may as well have a slob-ish logo on your sleeve while you’re at it. Readers Geoff Hansen and G. Girard both …

Turning Back the Clock in Pittsburgh

By John Ekdahl The Pittsburgh Pirates and St. Louis Cardinals wore Negro League uniforms last night for Heritage Week. The Cardinals were outfitted in the uniforms of the St. Louis …

¿Cinco de Mayo…en el 20 de julio?

By Phil Hecken What if your opponents canceled a “Latin Heritage” night and no one told you? Well, you might feel a little like Kyle McClellan, starting pitcher for the …

Naval Gazing

The screen shot at right shows Navy placekicker Matthew Harmon from a 2006 game against Stanford. You’ve probably seen it before — it frequently shows up in listings of uniform …

Monday Morning Uni Watch, MLB Edition

The first weekend of the MLB season brought an unusually large number of uni-notable moments. Here’s a full accounting: • The Rockies weren’t supposed to have a purple jersey this …

Nobody’s Perfcet: NBA Scores Again

Anyone can make mistakes; I certainly make plenty of them myself. But the NBA, by any rational standard, has had a very rough first quarter of 2011. The latest mishap …

Monday Morning Uni Watch: The Return of Outmania!

We’ll have a double-dose of spring training coverage today. Over on Page 2, I have an ESPN column on uni-notable developments around MLB training camps. Meanwhile, here on the blog, …

A Blizzard of Wizards Mishaps

The Wizards are having quite a winter. First they sent Mustafa Shakur onto the court in that K-Mart jersey. Then Kevin Seraphin wore his shorts backwards. And last night, as …

Catch 22

Greetings from northwestern Ohio, where the temperature is in witch’s teat territory. I was working pretty much all day and all night yesterday (doing a video shoot at the Wilson …

Uni Watch Contest: Bring on the Oddities!

There are good uniforms and bad uniforms, but what most of us like best are the oddball uniforms. The typos, the incorrect fonts, the nickNOBs. The inconsistencies in number style, …