On today’s ticker: all the alt’s and oddities for today’s NFL games, a bunch of NHL Reverse Retros debuted and more!
Uni Watch News Ticker for Nov. 27, 2022
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Baseball
- The Chunichi Dragons have announced new uniforms for the 2023 season. (From Jeremy Brahm)
- The Yakult Swallows add two new alternates for the 2023 season. (Also from Jeremy Brahm) The one on the left is…something.
- There’s a small baseball exhibit right now with some fun old unis at the Vanderbilt Mansion in Hyde Park, NY. (From Max Weintraub)
Football
NFL
- NFL Alts & Oddities today:
- Cleveland will live up to its nickname today, as they’ll wear their all-brown CR uniforms against Tampa Bay, who will counter by going pewter/white/pewter.
- The Washington Commanders are scheduled to wear their alternate black vs. the Atlanta Falcons.
- Jacksonville will go black/black/teal (with black socks) against the Ravens in black/white/purple.
- The NY Jets will again wear their all black alternates against da Bears. In their 10 previous games so far this season, the Gang Green have worn neither green jerseys nor green pants.
- Tennessee will wear navy/light blue/navy vs. the Bengals, who will counter with orange/white/white (with black socks).
- The Eagles will debut their alternate black helmets, and pair those with their alt black unis for SNF against the Packers.
- Apparently Dak Prescott uses a picture of himself (in uniform) as his phone wallpaper. Submitter Marc Burgess adds, “Also attire related — is it me, or does his hoodie look like it has a blank name plate on the back?”
College
- Ohhh. Check out this vintage color vs. color action between Tennessee and Vanderbilt. (From Lee Wilds)
Hockey
NHL
- On Friday night, the San Jose Sharks debuted their new Seals-inspired RR uniforms. And they are, in a word, spectacular.
- The Toronto Maple Leafs have added a shoulder patch in memory of Börje Salming, who passed away a couple days ago. Here’s a look at the patch on the players. (From James Beattie)
- The Colorado Avalanche debuted their new Reverse Retros last night.
- And the Vegas Golden Knights also debuted their Reverse Retros last night, and these, um … glow in the dark.
Minors/Juniors
- The QMJHL’s Cape Breton Eagles wore special uniforms for Reconciliation at the Rink night on Friday. (From Wade Heidt)
- The OHL’s Hamilton Bulldogs have unveiled their new warm-up jerseys to honour the Indiginous Community. (From Wade Heidt)
- The London Knights are a junior ice hockey team from London, Ontario, Canada, and their new sweaters have leaked. (From Mayan Sabuwala)
Soccer
International
- World Cup: Japan’s team had the power of Blue Lock on its side in its stunning victory against the four-time champion Germany in the World Cup.
- Japan: Here is Takumi Minamino putting a badge onto his Japanese jersey. (From Jeremy Brahm)
- Germany: Possible new kits for Bayern Munich.
- Mexico/Argentina: When you are a Messi fan but are Mexican. (via Paul)
Basketball
College
- Twenty years after playing a major role in Syracuse’s first NCAA Basketball Championship, Gerry McNamara ’06 and Hakim Warrick ’05 will have their Orange jerseys retired by the school.
More
- Right from the jump, Ice Cube wanted everything in Big3 to look sharp. “Ugly uniforms make me cringe.”
- Here are all of the logos for the different events with the Japanese basketball B-League All-Star Game in Mito, Ibaraki in January. Mito was to host Two years ago but was canceled due to Covid. (From Jeremy Brahm)
Grab Bag
- Sumo is dependent on dirt-mud and how do you take a convention center floor and make it into a sumo arena? This is for the Kyushu Basho always in this venue in Fukuoka in November. (From Jeremy Brahm)
- Michael MPH says, “These NLL (National Lax League) Wings and Georgia Swarm Native Heritage unis (last) night’s preseason game at Tsha’ Thoñ’nhes Arena on the Onondaga Nation Reservation near Syracuse are incredible.”
Comments (5)
Looks like London Knights doing their own Reverse Retro style uniforms. Will need to look into this.
Colorado RR are sharp. I feel like the socks with thinner stripes would be better though.
And I must be the only one who dislikes San Jose’s RR. Just don’t get it.
*looks at the London Knights item* Oh… oh my… SPIDER-KNIGHT IS BACK!
Some history: The London Knights have traditionally had the colors of the North Stars, green and gold (and later black); their current unis are similar to the 1988-91 green-gold-black North Stars unis. But in the 1990s, the Knights decided to “modernize” by replacing their bucket-head logo with a superheroic-looking knight seemingly bursting out of the jersey (okay, weird and creepy). Given his pose was reminiscent of a certain superhero, the logo was almost immediately dubbed the Spider-Knight. (Or Spiderknight, I don’t think they’re too choosy about the parsing.) The team also ditched the North Stars colors for Mighty Ducks colors. By the early 2000s, though, they were back in green, gold, and black (varying between Dallas forest green and metallic gold and classic Minnesota green and yellow-gold over the last two decades), and the Spider-Knight was relegated to the history books…
… until now. Apparently the official reveal is set for this Tuesday, the 29th.
What the hell, Chunichi Dragons, I haven’t seen pants tucked into socks since little league:
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I’ve got to say, I have a problem with the Colorado R R uni.
It’s not that it looks bad. I think it should be related to the old Nordiques.
They had nothing to do with the Colorado Rockies. I guess they could have done something related to the old Grizzles or Colorado Rangers, but certainly not the Rockies.