Today in the Ticker: Oregon’s new Pinktober uni, the Avs’ new championship rings, a new NBA City leak, and more.
Uni Watch News Ticker for Oct. 11, 2022
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Baseball
- Yakult Swallows slugger Munetaka Murakami, who hit 56 homers this season, uses an atypically proportioned bat. (From Jeremy Brahm)
Football
NFL
- NFL commish Roger Goodell has floated the idea of having NFL teams in London, and elsewhere in Europe.
College
- BYU seems to announce their weekly uni combo earlier than any other school. Here’s what they have on tap for this week. (From Thom Carter)
- Oregon is going with a Pinktober uniform on Oct. 22. (From Jonah Henderson)
- Could Michigan be going with yellow jerseys and pants this week? Sure seems like they’re hinting at it. (From Brandon Weir)
More
- In a girls’ flag football league in Chicago, the players wear helmets that resemble old leatherheads. (From Mike Chamernik)
Hockey
NHL
- The Hurricanes have released their full uniform schedule for the new season. (From @BraydenTeeter)
- The Avs have revealed their championship rings, which are enormous. Each ring comes in a box that, when opened, plays a little video clip of the team winning the Stanley Cup. Additional info here.
College
- New BFBS uniforms for Tennessee’s men’s club team. (From Lee Wilds)
Minors/Juniors
- The QMJHL’s Chicoutimi Sagueneens wore Pinktober uniforms on Sunday. (From Wade Heidt)
- Also from Wade: The BCHL’s Powell River Kings recently unveiled their new mono-green uniforms, but now they’re changing things up by wearing them with yellow socks. “Reminds me of the old Boston Bruins,” says Wade. I’ll add that it also reminds me of the March 2021 Uni Watch pin!
Basketball
NBA
- The Timberwolves’ new City alternate has apparently leaked. (Thanks to all who shared)
- Here’s a look back at Washington Bullets and Wizards uniforms through the years. (Thanks, Phil)
College
- Andrew Cosentino notes that Virginia Tech’s new men’s uniforms have hokie tracks on the jersey trim.
- New uniforms for Purdue men’s.
- New uniforms for Long Beach State men’s. (From Mandy Lopez and Alex Manfredi)
- ACC Media Day featured a nice display of this season’s men’s and women’s uniforms. (From James Gilbert)
Soccer
International
- England: Tottenham Hotspur is reportedly considering selling the naming rights to its eponymous stadium, possibly to Google. (From James Gilbert)
Grab Bag
- Syracuse field hockey has retired Julie Williamson’s No. 9 — the first retired number in the team’s history. (From Michael Hochman)
- The town of Chicopee, Mass., is inviting students to create an anti-littering logo.
- The Commonwealth Clash — the head-to-head competition between Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia across 22 sports — has a new trophy. (From Andrew Cosentino)
- Here are some AFL Women’s pride designs for Melbourne, the Western Bulldogs, Sydney, and Carlton. (Thanks, Jamie)
Comments (19)
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The Timberwolves’ design is intriguing. I’m cautiously optimistic!
First thoughts on the T-Wolves: this could be a jersey for any country during any Olympics for any sport that uses a tank top. Also, it’s pretty awesome. Some of these statement and city alts I’m seeing I just don’t understand the point. The pistons and warriors statements come to mind. What’s the statement? “This could be a regular rotation jersey in a parallel dimension”? Like they are nothing designs. Not offensive but not interesting or different enough to coexist with the standard home/away set. And the sixers city? Really just a white jersey with the mister rogers title card on the front?
This design at least looks very different AND looks like someone put a little thought into it. Hire that intern.
The Avalanche’s jersey crest is butt-ugly. I wish they’d redesign it. In fact, I wish they’d wear old NHL Rockies’ jerseys, if the Devils would let them.
Nordiques for me, please!
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I’d be ok with either of these suggestions. All they need to do is cross the “n” on the Nordiques logo and it’s an “A” in the shape of a mountain with a hockey stick shaped avalanche down one side! Though my personal preference would be to use the old Rockies unis, original colors or color-swapped for the modern colors is fine with me.
Looking at the Long Beach State uniforms, it appears that the big west conference has a new logo.
Re: Michigan Football’s yellow jerseys
This may be a bit of trolling by the Wolverines whose request to wear yellow jerseys at PSU last year was denied by the Nittany Lions. They responded that week by wearing yellow undershirts, gloves, pants, socks, and cleats, with the jersey being the only white on the uniform.
I can see Harbaugh carrying a grudge about that for a year
The all-yellow look for UM is terrible. Especially considering how good the blue/blue/yellow combo looks.
Please, everyone… please. It’s not yellow… it’s “maize”. I’m not from Michigan so it’s nothing to me either way, but I do live in Michigan currently and I feel the entire state grimacing every time UM’s color is called yellow.
“Clarence! Listen! Every time their unis are called yellow and Michigander gets indigestion!”
As a former Michigander don’t drag me into that. I prefer the beautiful green and white (and occasionally black and bronze, though maybe not the neon) the Spartans are wearing up the road to the incredibly overrated and nonsensical wings they wear at Meatchicken (and I’m not alone).
You already have a great uniform and have made a couple of tweaks that were cool and now someone thinks football players need to come out in all yellow…nope
I don’t have a problem with the all maize (or gold or yellow) uni. The *problem* is that NCAA designates this as a “dark” uniform, so, unless special Papal dispensation is achieved, teams going all-banana almost always face opponents in white jerseys (and sometimes pants or helmets or both), which is not optimal contrast. The yellow/maize/gold should be worn against DARK jersey’ed teams.
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Those look awful.
But let the opponent wear dark colors? Looks great
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Don’t know if anyone has mentioned this but Emma Stone wore a beautiful SD starter jacket at Citifield. Sorry Paul…link
Those types of soft helmets are pretty standard for flag football leagues. My son wore one on his age 7 team a few years ago, and again on his 7th grade team this year.
Today’s championship rings are ridiculous…and not in a good way. Who would ever wear that tacky monstrosity?? Go look at championship rings from the 60s through the 70s. Rings you could actually wear…and want to wear. What a concept.
The best Bullets uniforms were the ones with the fat stripe that was blue, red, blue on a white jersey and went down the side of the jersey to the shorts, around the back, and up and over. The red uniform had a white, blue, white stripe. Those need to be brought back.
Next step: instead of a huge ring champions get a diamond studded tablet with all their highlights playing on a gold and platinum chain around their necks. This ring is almost as big as a laptop mouse.