In today’s Ticker: Some pre-Super Bowl lawn ornamentation, another NHL team skips the rainbow-themed Pride gear, and more.
Uni Watch News Ticker for Feb. 9, 2023
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Baseball
MLB
- With the Royals bringing back the full powder blue uni, a Chicago blogger thinks the Cubs should do the same.
More
- The U. of Tennessee violated NCAA rules by loaning a team uniform to a recruit for a video session.
- The U. of Nebraska plans to retire three players’ jerseys next month.
- New spring training logo for the CPBL’s Wei Chuan Dragons. (From Jeremy Brahm)
Football
NFL
- With the Super Bowl just a few days away, a Philadelphia artist is painting Eagles logos on fans’ lawns.
- Here’s a fun video of an auto-pen drawing Flying Elvis on a golf ball. (From @CGMike)
College
- LB Nick Jackson transferred from Virginia to Iowa yesterday. “He wore No. 6 for UVa, but his commitment image for Iowa shows him wearing No. 10, which he seems to have chosen because one of the murdered Virginia players, D’Sean Perry, wore it in high school,” says our own Jamie Rathjen.
- A Florida State podcast had some thoughts on how things would be handled if MLB’s new “four jersey rule” applied to college football. (From @VictoryCB)
Hockey
NHL
- The Capitals are turning their Valentine’s Day home game into a heart health promotion and giving away a fan-designed rally towel. (Thanks, Jamie)
- The Islanders are the latest NHL team to skip the rainbow pregame jerseys and stick tape for their Pride Night promotion. That article also says that wearing pregame jerseys for military appreciation and St. Paddy’s Day are league-mandated, which I had not previously known.
Minors/Juniors
- The OHL’s Hamilton Bulldogs are moving and will become the Brantford Bulldogs. (From Wade Heidt)
Basketball
NBA
- Reprinted from last night’s comments: Reader Patrick in Michigan points out that newly approved Suns owner Mat Ishbia is also the CEO/chairman of a mortgage company that happens to be the Pistons’ uniform advertiser. Seems like a weird conflict. The fact that we even have to think about this kind of nonsense is just another reason to hate uni ads.
College
- Howard University’s men’s team has unveiled new uniforms for Black History Month featuring the school’s nickname, “The Mecca,” in reference to its status as a hub of cultural diversity. (From Kary Klismet)
More
- Unusual photo from a girls’ high school game in Louisiana: Lady Cats vs. Lady Cats!
Auto Racing
- Former NASCAR driver Trevor Boys passed away recently. “A proud Canadian, he had his car painted in red and white and would even use red maple leaves to mark the jack post locations,” says Chris Hickey.
Golf
- New logo for Stewart Golf.
Grab Bag
- Fun article about the little mascot character who appears on U-Haul trucks. (From Jason Tierney)
- Local students have designed a 135th-anniversary logo for the California city of Lompoc.
- Following a public vote, Great Falls College in Montana has unveiled its new team name — the River Otters — and logo. (From Kary Klismet)
- Here’s our first look at the new first dress for the UK’s Netball Super League’s Strathclyde Sirens. “The design is a total banger and has Jamie’s seal of approval,” says our own Jamie Rathjen.
Comments (32)
Typo: The Hamilton Bulldogs will become the Brantford Bulldogs.
Fixed.
Re: the Hamilton Bulldogs, I’m guessing the headline should say “will become the Brantford Bulldogs”
Yup. Now fixed.
Further to this, the B shoulder logo with the paw as seen worn by a Brantford city councillor is new for the team’s move.
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That guy who paints Eagles logos on lawns is going to get sued for trademark violation or something, isn’t he? I can’t imagine the NFL letting him make money off this without express written permission, which I’m guessing he doesn’t have, and a cut of the profits.
Too bad, because he does a nice job. But he might regret letting local TV bring attention to it.
His eagle is noticeably different. It isn’t as long. Shorter beak, etc. I wonder if it intentional? Just different enough?
The MLB “4 jersey rule” would be great to see in college football. What would be even better would be if the NCAA adopted the 5 year rule that the NFL has for new uniforms (even though that’s frustrating if a team realizes they made a mistake). I’m sure the majority of us on here know who’s playing because we love this stuff, but wouldn’t it be great to turn on the TV and know who is playing immediately? Wouldn’t it be great to just be consistent with uniforms for more than a 2 year stretch?
I totally agree. Nothing is more frustrating to me than to see teams wearing uniforms that aren’t even in their color scheme. NBA has REALLY gone overboard with that theme. And we all know it’s all about selling more apparel.
The more games a team plays in its league schedule, the more I’m OK with a proliferation of alternates. If you’re playing a game a day, go wild. If you’re playing 2-3 a week, help yourself to a couple of fun alts over the course of a season. If you play once a week, you get one home and one contrast uniform and just be happy that I’m not king of the world, because if I were you wouldn’t even get the two uniforms for gridiron football. Every team would get a unique helmet-jersey-pants combination and wear the one uniform all season. Six days between games is plenty of time to do the laundry.
Powder blue is so played out at this point. Plus the Cubs take on it is ugly as sin.
In the early 20th century the Cubs took a back seat to no one as far as experimenting with new designs and ideas. First with pinstripes. First with powder blue. First with sleeveless. The team was a consistent winner during those years, and I consider it downright bizarre that they settled into a very staid, conservative approach through decades of losing. It’s usually the opposite.
I had no great love for the 78-81 roads at the time, but in my older age I appreciate uniqueness above all. The Cubs own this style. I’d like to see it.
First with zippered jerseys, too.
Speaking of zippers and powder blues, I grew up watching/enjoying the Phillies in them … so much better than their home pinstripes from that era… but I´ve grown to loathe their recent (over)use; I can´t bring myself to accept them as a home uniform (never minded seeing them for road games played on grass, though they looked best on ´Turf – maybe would be more appealing if they would allow road teams to wear white on those occasions, I dunno) and are just silly looking tailored in present-day roomy tops/modern pajama pants. I would not mind them getting the heave-ho when the 4 jersey ´rule´ goes into effect.
If the Cubs did anything, I would like to see them bring back the pullover blue tops/white pants for a few road games. AND, see some of the players do the Ryne Sandberg/Andre Dawson style stirrups from the 80’s.
Absolutely!
That was a terrific pairing for away games…one of my uniform guilty pleasures; teams really should stick with gray tops and bottoms on the road.
You like those skinny ribbon stirrups? If the Cubs went back to those 80s roads, they’d wear white shoes, probably solid blue socks, maybe with a fancy design on them, pants pulled up to the knee or drooping to the shoes, baggy jerseys, and they’d look nothing at all like Sandburg or Dawson. Same goes for the powder blues with pinstripes. Ah, well.
I will support anybody who returns white pants and color jerseys to baseball as a road uniform. It might lead to a rare outbreak of good taste.
Or at the very least eliminate the requirement that the road team wears something besides white pants. Never understood why MLB changed the “rules” to require road teams wear gray (or powder blue or tan, etc.). I didn’t necessarily love the softball tops over white pants, but those are infinitely preferable to softball tops over gray. Gray unis should be mono. If no gray top, then no gray pants.
That’s how we tell who the road team is, though.
The point is, as far as the Cubs were concerned, the (plain) white pants *were* a part of the road uniform, whereas the striped ones were a component of the home set. In every other instance, plain whites (and in Pittsburgh’s case, bumblebee striped whites) were worn at home and on the road. As far as I know, the Cubs were unique in that respect.
I liked the Cub’s powdered blue pinstripes back in the day.
It’s quite ironic that a school that claims to be the “Mecca” of diversity is actually one of the least diverse universities in the nation! You can look it up!
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I wonder if you are being as clever as you think are being.
Lee
Who’s trying to be clever? Howard University is one of the least diverse universities in the country. It’s a fact. Just saying.
Clarification necessary: It should probably be noted in the ticker that the Hamilton Bulldogs are not actually “moving” to Brantford, it’s a temporary relocation during the renovation of the Bulldogs’ permanent home arena in Hamilton.
It is an interesting situation and will be interesting to see how this plays out. A future OHL expansion team is certain. Both markets will end up with a team when the dust settles I feel. The renovation of the arena in Hamilton for some reason is to take as long as 3 years. The arena in Brantford upgrading for the Bulldogs arrival.
Feel bad for fans in Hamilton because of this debacle. CEBL basketball team left and now in Brampton. The NLL Toronto Rock just moved there and will be promptly displaced.
Here’s hoping the Toronto Rock move back to Toronto. At least their name will make sense again.
I believe the “loaning” ought to be “lending.”
Wow, I never thought I’d see my alma mater on UniWatch! (University of Strathclyde in Glasgow)
Regarding the Islanders item, Hockey News writer Ian Kennedy did some further digging about whether those pregame jerseys are mandated; turns out they’re not. The NHL says teams have the option.
Thanks for that. Do you have a link?
He tweeted about it; didn’t see a story.
So Pride=Optional
Camopander=Mandatory
St. Paddy’s=Mandatory
Got it.