Today on Uni Watch: A new anniversary logo for an NHL team, more Black History Month uniforms, and more.
Uni Watch News Ticker for Feb. 16, 2023
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Baseball
Softball
- New uni combo for Tennessee: light-blue jersey with orange pants. (From @viceforever88)
Football
NFL
- Here’s a good look at how the Lions’ eligible and ineligible receivers wore different-colored helmets in 1950. Additional info here.
- Here’s a video recap of every Super Bowl field design. (From Marc Mayntz)
Hockey
NHL
- The Ducks will apparently have a 30th-anniversary logo next season. (From @The_Real_Albert)
Minors/Juniors
- Here are the jerseys for the WHL’s Calgary Hitmen’s annual Bret Hart game on March 11. (From Wade Heidt)
- New Black History Month pregame sweaters for the AHL’s Tucson Roadrunners.
Basketball
College
- Virginia Tech men’s went BFBS last night at Georgia Tech. (From Andrew Cosentino)
- New arena renovations in the works for Xavier. (From Kary Klismet)
- Also from Kary: New Black History Month alternates for Louisville’s men’s and women’s teams.
- New BHM alternates for Washington’s men’s and women’s teams as well.
More
- A school in Portland, Ore., had its basketball uniforms stolen.
- Emmanuel Christian Academy in Springfield, Ohio, has named its basketball court after lontime boys’ coach Danny Moore. (From Kary Klismet)
- Also from Kary: DeKalb County High School in Tennessee has named its basketball court after the late Harold Luna, who coached both the girls’ and boys’ teams during his career:
Soccer
International
- England women’s captain Leah Williamson will wear the One Love captain’s armband for the Arnold Clark Cup, England’s invitational tournament that starts this week. “It’s in solidarity with Sparta Prague midfielder Jakub Jankto, who came out as gay on Monday and became the first active senior-level men’s international player to do so,” explains our own Jamie Rathjen.
- Also from Jamie: “Here is a short thread of kits from the early years of Germany’s Frauen-Bundesliga, which was founded in 1990. Some of them are insane even by the standards of the ’90s, when pretty much everybody wore something bizarre at least once.”
- One more from Jamie: “Canada’s women’s team is playing under protest at the SheBelieves Cup, the U.S.’s invitational tournament, because of an ongoing dispute over pay and the relative lack of support from the Canadian Soccer Association. They were going to refuse to play but were basically forced to play under the threat of lawsuits that they can’t afford. At training on Wednesday, they wore their shirts inside-out. On Thursday they’re playing the USWNT, which may also do something related to this.”
Auto Racing
- NASCAR drivers will celebrate the circuit’s 75th anniversary with a sleeve patch on their firesuits. (From John Flory)
- An erroneous flag and a typo changed the outcome of the last Formula E race. (From David Firestone)
Grab Bag
- New uniforms for the U.S. men’s and women’s national field hockey teams. (Thanks, Jamie)
- Various U. of Michigan teams are wearing decals to show support for the Michigan State mass-shooting victims. (From Brandon Weir)
- George Washington University has settled on 10 finalists for its new team name. (From John Gagosian)
- New costumed mascot for Sandusky (Ohio) Public Schools. (From Kary Klismet)
- New track and field uniforms for D3 Linfield University.
Comments (15)
Those GW options are hilarious. -C.
I like Blue Fog which is a nod to the neighborhood GWU ate – Foggy Bottom
Agreed. Among those choices, at least that one sounds formidable and definitely unique. It would get my vote, if I was an alum. -C.
The video showing the Super Bowl field designs is fascinating, particularly in showing how the NFL apparently used a template for the end zones that included team helmets with 2-bar facemasks through 1995 (!), when only a few kickers and punters still wore that design.
Yesterday, I saw a video of Washington Nationals pitchers throwing side by side and they had the Nationals patch on what I believe was their non-throwing arm. The other sleeve was blank (for now). It was so dystopian to see. It’s just awful. Ad patches don’t belong on uniforms, but it’s a whole different level when it won’t be “uniform” in having team patches on one sleeve consistently.
GWU alum here. Those options are for the most part atrocious. I am pushing for Blue Fog because it is unique and not a generic “We’re So Tough” name like “Sentinels”. Plus, I want the marketing staff to earn their money by having to toughen up “Blue Fog”.
and hopefuly get Bama on the scedule.
Blue Fog vs Crimson Tide sounds awesome.
That should be Sandusky, Michigan in the Grab Bag .
The Lions’ helmet game in that time period was just way out there. Separate black and red helmets in 1948, separate blue and silver helmets between 1949 and 1955, and then the gold helmets worn from 1953 through 1956!
The Lions gold helmets were more of an artifact than a specific color choice. Those were early Riddell helmets that were a “clear shell” made of a somewhat yellow-tinted plastic. They were painted silver on the inside, which came out somewhat gold due to the tint of the plastic. As the plastic yellowed more with exposure to light and age (the plastic aged quickly) the helmets got more gold color. These helmets were made of 3 separate pieces – the 2 sides were glued together, then the center ridge was glued over the seam. On the Lions gold helmets the center ridge is silver because it was painted on the outside. Their blue and silver helmets were made from a different type of plastic that was completely painted on the outside.
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Moniker Madness? SMH.
If there was a way to gamble, I’d put my money on “Truth”. And then wait for the comedy surrounding the branding…
Thank you for the video of the Super Bowl fields. Wonderful to look back on all of them. I really miss the teams helmets, the SB logo at the 50 and the AFC/NFC logos in the end zones. The NFL shield could go on the opposite side of the conference logo in each end zone. With the helmets they wouldn’t need the team logos in the end zones.
If GW chooses “Truth” as their name I will be extremely grossed out.
When I played “little league football” for lack of a better name, (so like 6th graders), if you weighed more than 105 lbs., you had a black X on your helmet and you could not be a ball carrier/receiver. This was the early 80s.