We all love jersey typos. But you don’t often see typos on retail replicas, in part because any store manager who spotted a misspelled jersey would most likely just send …
Category: Typos/Glitches/Wrong Uni/Etc.
Let’s Give Thanks for the Simple Things …
”¦ like, say, uniform numbers that don’t fall off of our jerseys. That’s Amare Stoudemire, whose numero uno pulled a disappearing act in the closing seconds of last night’s Knicks/Bobcats …
I Bet This Never Happened to Peter Jennings
That’s Dan Jennings — not Jeninngs — of West Virginia, whose NOB was misspelled in yesterday’s game against Davidson. I suppose the lettering could have been done by a local …
Not That Cliff Lee Needed Any Help, but Still…
When Dave Robertson entered last night’s Rangers/Yanks game during the top of the 9th, the score was 2-0 and the Bronx Bombers still had visions of a comeback in their …
Form Follows Dysfunction
Reader Sean Robbins just alerted me to some weird stuff that went down two nights ago in San Diego, and it relates to something that came up in my ESPN …
The Story Behind the Sotry
Last week I wrote about Eugenio Velez’s jersey typo. I’m often the only writer who covers glitches like these, but not this time — the media world was buzzing about …
Letter Imperfect
Three games into the baseball season and we already have our first jersey typo. It happened yesterday afternoon in Houston, where Giants reserve outfielder Eugenio Velez had his city name …
The Bluegarss State
The great thing about being the best player on a top-ranked team is that Nike is always making a fuss over you, coming up with new designs for your team, …
History Lesson: Why Getting It Right Does Matter
By Phil Hecken, with Tim Brulia and Rick Pearson It struck Ricko and me at about the same time. We were trading E-mails before the Denver Broncos played the San …
Anyone Who Posts ‘Wanna Get Away?’ or ‘Great Googly-Moogly’ in the Comments Gets Banned, No Exceptions
Several Chicago Bears players apparently have a few issues with the Soldier Field turf. I confess that I’m not particularly sympathetic — a crummy field surface is kinda old-school, right? …
We All Know Ichiro Would’ve Won
I know, that screen shot looks like it’s from a video game, but it’s actually Carlos Peña from last night’s home run derby, where his Rays logo sleeve patch was …
That’s No Way to Treat Tom Terrific’s Number
OK, things have now officially gotten so weird that the question needs to be asked: Is there someone at Majestic who’s pissed off because his wife had an affair with …
Washington and Hinckley: Never a Good Combination
Man, what does Majestic have against the Nationals? In the team’s latest uni snafu that can be traced back to the outfitter’s factory, Mike Hinckley’s 8 was upside-down last night …
Natinal Joke
Paul here. Phil had something special planned for today, but it’ll have to wait, because there was a uni snafu for the ages last night in DC. Actually, it was …
And Your Mother Coach Dresses You Funny
Let’s say you’re a high school basketball team and you show up for tournament game at a neutral site. Just one problem: You’ve brought along your home whites, but it …