In today’s Ticker: A change to an MLB team’s uni ad, a college football team with a really unusual conference logo patch, and more.
Uni Watch News Ticker for Feb. 23, 2023
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Baseball
MLB
- Phillies beat writer Todd Zolecki’s latest email newsletter says the Phils will not wear green for St. Paddy’s Day this year because of Nike’s “four plus one” rule. He also says the team’s City Connect uni will make its on-field debut in 2024 but might be unveiled sometime this year. (From Shawn Sweeney)
- White Sox OF Luis Robert is going JrOB this season. (From Aaron Telecky)
- The D-backs’ sleeve ad, which was originally presented as a massive square patch, has apparently been trimmed to match the shape of the logo, although it’s still plenty prominent. The full square is still appearing on the team’s spring training jerseys, at least for now. (From @DbacksStatsInfo)
- Back in 2010, I wrote an ESPN article about baseball artist/designer Joe Petruccio, who among other things designed the Mets’ “racing stripe” uniforms in the 1980s. Here’s a good new article about him. (From Kary Klismet)
- Hall of Famer Ferguson Jenkins’s hometown of Chatham-Kent, Ontario, plans to honor him with a statue.
- Whoa, check out the amazing socks worn by the 1973 Twins’ wives’ softball team.
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- Wichita State is doing a retro promotion next month that includes a cool “Wu-Shock” cap. (From Michael Hochman)
- Here’s Mexico’s uni for the World Baseball Classic. (From Kary Klismet)
Football
NFL
- Reader Rich Meyer was in Jamaica during the weekend of the Super Bowl. “Our hotel showed the game in a little theater. Outside of the theater entrace they had a couple NFL cutouts, one of which showed Tom Brady in the rare Patriots mono-white alternate combo.”
- Seahawks prexy Chuck Arnold says the team hasn’t yet decided whether they’ll wear their new silver-helmet throwbacks one time or two times next season.
- Very cool: Remember how Tuesday’s post about the 1960 NFL merch catalog included a stylized map of the league’s TV coverage at that time? Here’s that map converted into an interactive Google map. (From Greg Franklin)
College
- New uni number assignments for South Carolina freshmen and transfers.
- Back in the 1990s, Wake Forest wore large “ACC” lettering on both shoulders. (From Nathan Fry)
Hockey
NHL
- Nice article on the guy who designed the Canadiens’ Black History Month sweaters.
- Fun article about what NHL players do with all their team-branded gear when they get traded. (From John Flory)
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- Oh man, check out this vintage hockey-themed shoelace display.
Basketball
College
- Two SEC men’s teams — Auburn and Florida — wore orange at home last night. The visiting teams — Ole Miss and Kentucky, respectively — both wore white on the road. (From Andrew Cosentino)
- NC State men’s wore 1983 throwbacks last night. (From Rex Henry and Gabe Cornwall)
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- Oh man, check out these great pics of old high school hoops teams from Mount Desert Island in Maine.
- Irvington (N.J.) High School’s girls’ basketball team wore throwback uniforms last weekend to commemorate its former team name, “Campers.” (From Kary Klismet)
- The Athletes Unlimited basketball league has new jerseys for its upcoming season. (Thanks, Jamie)
Soccer
USA
- New primary shirt for the NWSL’s Houston Dash. (Thanks, Jamie)
- In a related item, new Dash signee Diana Ordóñez’s NOB will include an accent and a tilde. When playing for her previous team, the North Carolina Courage, she had the tilde but not the accent. (From @dtra)
- Former USWNT coach Pia Sundhage received a commemorative jersey for her 50th match with Brazil. (From Steve Kriske)
International
- Former Sampdoria, Inter, and Italy goalkeeper Gianluca Pagliuca was very particular about his shirts, often covering up old team and/or manufacturer logos with new ones so that he could keep wearing shirts he liked. (From Alex Moggridge)
Auto Racing
- New helmets for F1 drivers Oscar Piastri of McLaren and Max Verstappen of Red Bull Racing. (From Kary Klismet)
Cycling
- A new time-trial helmet is creating a stir in the cycling community because of its unconventional shape. (From Kary Klismet)
- In a related item, Alexander Kristoff of the Uno-X Pro Cycling Team wears a modified time-trial helmet on the UCI ProSeries, which is an unusual move for a road racer. (Also from Kary)
Grab Bag
- Here are the Premier Lacrosse League Championship Series uniforms for the four participating teams — Atlas, Chrome, Whipsnakes, and Archers — plus a close-up of the championship series sleeve patch. (From Jared Buccola)
- Curling news: Here are the jerseys and jackets for this year’s Tim Hortons Brier. (From Adam Peleshaty)
- New costumed mascot for the College of Coastal Georgia. (From Kary Klismet)
Comments (16)
File under International soccer:
– Premier League players wore black armbandsat last weekend’s games in memory of Ghanaian international and former Everton player Christian Atsa, who was found dead after the earthquake that struck Turkiye and Syria.
– Real Madrid wore black armbands in their Champions League match at Liverpool in memory of Amancio Amaro, a Real player from 1962-76 and a club honorary chairman.
The player who died in the earthquake was Christian Atsu.
That interactive NFL map is not my creation at all. A member of the 506 Sports community, which specializes in NFL TV coverage maps, whipped it up based on the station list in the catalog. It even includes the (apparent) catalog error where a Cleveland station wasn’t included in the Browns market.
Right, but you’re the one who brought it to my attention, so I credited you for that. That’s how Ticker credits work.
It looks like. at that point, the Bears were America’s Team
Can’t wait to see the Seahawks throwbacks. But, with the jersey cuts these days, it will be interesting to see how they handle the sleeve stripes. Those are still the “Seahawks” uniforms to me.
¨The Seahawks had wore the classic silver helmet and teal jersey since their debut season in 1976 all the way until 2001.¨
Teal? Really? Sigh.
If they go with the pre-´83 look the sleeve stripes ´could´ be a problem since the TV numbers were right above them…if they go with the ´83-´01 design (which I prefer…loved those blue facemasks), the hawk-head striping should easily fit since the TV numbers were located topside.
Oof! The size of those MLB ads is so painful to the eyes!
Including the green as part of the four plus one rule is about as idiotic as it comes.
Agreed, but many (most?) teams have eschewed wearing green jerseys for St. Paddy’s Day — and everyone will be forced into wearing those caps (link), so there will still be a merch angle to the “holiday.”
That being said, I think it’s a bullshit excuse — I’m 99.9% positive teams can introduce a “limited use” (5 or less games a season) jersey without the usual 18-month lead time, and … at least before this 4+1 rule was enacted … those didn’t count towards a teams’ total number of alts. Even so, it’s a friggin Spring Training game…who cares if they want to wear a green jersey for the day? If they want to enforce 4+1 in season, that’s fine…but c’mon it’s Spring Training!
And minor league teams have a million single-use, theme night jerseys that go to auction. I don’t think Nike’s sweatshop will collapse by whipping up a bunch of plain green jerseys and stitching on the team’s existing wordmarks and numbers.
What I want to know re: the D-Backs is which of their jersey’s got the boot with 4+1? Is the white/teal now the primary home jersey, or do they have 2 whites and ditched the grey or one of the alts?
Regarding the Diamondbacks’ ad patch, Chris Creamer did a side-by-side post on Twitter last night, and the logo appears to be bigger, since the patches appear to be the same (maximum allowed) height. What an “improvement”, right?
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I will say, the pig looks ever-so-slightly better in this new shade of lipstick.
Irvington HS´s 1985 and 1986 girls basketball championship teams included one Dana Owens…aka: Queen Latifah.
Seahawks should wear the silver throwbacks 17 times next year.