In today’s ticker: the Lions and Seahawks will look like NFL teams today, that time NBA teams wore white at home, and much more!
Uni Watch News Ticker for Jan. 1, 2023
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Football
NFL
- After wearing mono-blue, mono-gray, and mono-white this season, and generally looking like an Arena League team, the Detroit Lions will finally break out their outstanding throwback unis today against da Bears. That sound you hear is everyone saying, “make these permanent.”
- The Seattle Seahawks will again wear the (very rare) blue-over-gray combo at home today against the New York Jets.
- Pretty well done Packers/Vikings frankenjersey here. (From Jeremy Brahm)
- Pretty great Detroit Lions concepts are featured on this blog — by designer Jonah Ward, whose designs I have featured on Uni Watch several times (and will again).
College
- Check out this interesting graphic with a FSU Football helmet and Aggie Football jersey. (From Clint)
- ESPN was using the Frog graphic (aka “Hypnotoad”) from Futurama to represent TCU during yesterday’s semi-final against Michigan. (From Nick Cihigoyenetche). Here’s an article from yesterday’s New York Times with much more than you want to know. (From Jerry Wolper)
Basketball
NBA
- Why did home teams in the NBA (originally) wear white uniforms? The answer is probably what you were already thinking.
College
- Louisville wore red throwbacks vs. Kentucky yesterday.
- Kentucky returned the favor by wearing 1993 throwbacks of their own.
- The AFAS plague has spread to Boomer’s hoop unis. (Via Paul)
G League
- Jontay Porter for the Wisconsin Herd has his name and number a little off center. (From Mike Boscaljon)
Hockey
NHL
- Some pretty cool vintage hockey goalie masks here. (From Allie Allie Oxenfree)
- The LA Kings wore “1000” hats for Alex Edler’s 1000th game yesterday, and the hats have a half-Kings half-Canucks logo on them. (From Steve Dubs)
Minors/Juniors
- How did a junior hockey team in Ushuaia, Argentina end up with jerseys from Juneau, Alaska? Ushuaia got a rink recently, and there was no hockey store in town, so Val Martinez, who is originally from Ushuaia but now lives in Juneau, went to visit her family in Ushuaia and she brought down a whole bag of used hockey gear from Play It Again Sports in Juneau. (From Cressy)
- The OHL’s Sting played the London Knights Friday night and again on New Year’s Eve. Sarnia were wearing a memorial decal for London Knights player Abakar Kazbekov who passed away unexpectedly earlier this month. (From Wade Heidt)
- The OHL’s North Bay Battalion have a white version of their new alternate uniform. Here’s a first look. (From Wade Heidt)
- WHL’s Swift Current Broncos wore special New Year’s Eve unis last night. Wade Heidt says. “Strange. Wearing the colours of rival Brandon Wheat Kings instead of usual blue and green.”
More
- We bitch (and rightfully so) about many American sports teams going BFBS, but one of the worst offenders happens to play in the Great White North.
Baseball
MLB
- Fun Fact about Roberto Clemente: Clemente’s original number with the Pirates was 13, but early in the season he switched to 21 … It is reported that Clemente chose the number because his full name, Roberto Clemente Walker, has 21 letters. (From Texas Trev)
- Apparently Gotham City has the same color scheme as Pittsburgh. (From Jimmy Parker)
- With twin brothers Taylor and Tyler Rogers both now members of the San Francisco Giants, how will their NOB situation be handled? (From Carlos Montalvan)
More
- As the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters move into their new stadium in 2023, Tsuyoshi Shinjoh takes a tour. One thing that stands out immediately is the foul poles are Fighters Blue as well as the home run line. (From Jeremy Brahm)
- And here’s the logo for the new stadium for the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters. (From Jeremy Brahm)
Soccer
International
- Japan: 2023 home look for J1 Avispa Fukuoka. (From Jeremy Brahm)
- Japan: Here is the 2023 look for J2 Montevideo Yamagata (From Jeremy Brahm)
- Italy: The FIGC is teasing a new national team logo. The outline in the video appears to confirm the previous leaks. (From Trent Lowe)
- Japan: J1 Shonan Bellmare with their home 2023 look and diamond pattern paying homage to their 1994 look, the team’s first season in the J-League. (From Jeremy Brahm)
Grab Bag
- But wouldn’t it have been just as easy to remove the sign itself? (From Michael MPH)
Comments (10)
Happy New year. What’s maddening about the Lions is that they have the throwback uniform set that they could have worn on Thanksgiving but instead thought all grey was a better choice. Let’s hope they go through with the 90s style/throwback efforts they mentioned.
The Lions unis in the 80s were perfection.
Canada should never wear any colours but red and white. Kids these days…
Correction for the ticker: actually Roberto Clemente’s full name is Roberto Enrique Clemente Walker, according to Wikipedia. Apparently in some Spanish name the maternal familial name will be added after the surname.
Seattle should only wear gray pants, home and away. Just ditch the white and blue.
The Christopher Nolan Batman movies were shot in Pittsburgh and Chicago. In the last movie, Hines Ward had a cameo, so black and gold it was.
The Lions mock up works be perfect with the old font. The correct font stinks imho
Thought the same thing. Love the blue face mask and white stripe on the helmet but the modern numbers are unnecessary, especially if the Lions were to move toward a more classic look.
I think the Seahawks may be sending a subtle message as to their second helmet choice next year. Get used to Navy/navy/grey being Silver/royal blue/silver…one can hope…
The other thing the Seahawks need to do is a 1961 Broncos-like burning of all the neon green they have in inventory.
Until the Lions lose bubbles the lion on the helmet and pick a different shade of blue (what does Honolulu have to do with Detroit anyway?), those unis will be a dumpster fire. Losing the WCF decal is a huge step in the right direction. Never sure why there was a permanent memorial patch to an owner whose tenure was synonymous with losing. And more losing. And still more losing.
The best Lions unis were the ones with the numbers rendered with material that sparkled and was the traditional blue and silver colors. They were special.