Today in the Ticker: A fun video game and basketball crossover, more uni fallout from the recent Hockey Canada scandal, and updates on NHL uniforms.
Uni Watch News Ticker for Oct. 12, 2022
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Baseball
MLB
- TBS yesterday referred to the Guardians by their former name, which comes off the heels of more Guardians name and logo mistakes from just a few days ago. (From @AntsTweeting)
- In an ad, MasterCard used the seating chart of the long-gone Shea Stadium to represent Yankee Stadium. (From Taylor, who didn’t give his last name).
Football
NFL
- As previously reported, the Bears will debut their orange helmets this week. (From our own Phil Hecken)
- Here’s what Bears LB Roquan Smith thinks about the team’s orange look. (Also from Phil)
- One more from Phil: Orange/white/white for the Bengals this week.
- A Patriots radio host asked a few Patriots for their thoughts on the team’s throwbacks. (From Joe Giza)
College
- Blue/yellow/blue for West Virginia this week. (From our own Phil Hecken)
- New space-themed unis tomorrow for UCF. (Also from Phil)
- BFBS for Marshall tonight. (One more from Phil)
Hockey
NHL
- Here’s the alternate uni schedule for the Bruins. (From Kenny Saidah)
- The Flames are bringing back their “Blasty” throwback uniforms. That link also includes the dates when they’ll be worn. (Thanks to all who shared)
- The Rangers announced D Braden Schneider’s new number in a graphic with an incorrect name and number font. (From @uniformnerd)
- Here are this season’s NHL-related hashtags that will auto-populate a team logo in Twitter. (From Andreas Papadopoulos)
Minors/Juniors
- The Peoria Rivermen have received their championship rings for winning last season’s Southern Professional Hockey League title. (From Kary Klismet)
More
- Bauer has suspended its deal with Hockey Canada over the latter’s handling of an alleged group sexual assault involving members of the 2018 men’s national junior team. (From Andreas Papadopoulos)
Basketball
NBA
- The Timberwolves and Lynx are having a huge fire sale of merch this week.
WNBA
- Cross-listed from the NBA section: The Lynx and Timberwolves are having a huge fire sale of merch this week.
College
- New away unis for Kentucky men’s. (From our own Phil Hecken)
- Utah Valley men’s new uniforms may have leaked. (From Jordan Bianucci)
More
- Sonic the Hedgehog and Pac-Man are seen in a social media graphic promoting a J-League game between Shibuya Sunrockers (owned by Bandai Namco, creator of Pac-Man) and Susanoo Magic (owned by Sega, creator of Sonic). (From Jeremy Brahm)
Soccer
International
- Big Ukraine and Poland flag card stunt for yesterday’s Shakhtar and Real Madrid Champions League match. (From our own Anthony Emerson)
- France: New ball for Ligue 1. (From Kary Klismet)
- Germany: New 70th-anniversary shirt for Karlsruhe of the 2. Bundesliga. (Also from Kary)
Grab Bag
- Goshen College has unveiled its new costumed mascot, a black squirrel named Dash. (From Kary Klismet)
- Also from Kary: The editorial board of George Washington University’s student newspaper wants Hippopotamuses to be the school’s next team name.
- The latest episode of the podcast 99 Percent Invisible is about the vuvuzela, the South African horn instrument that took over the 2010 FIFA World Cup. (From Andrew Cosentino)
- More AFL Women’s pride designs, this time for Collingwood, Hawthorn, and Freemantle. (From our own Jamie Rathjen)
Comments (19)
As a GWU alum, I want the new nickname to be Continentals, but I won’t mind Hippopotamuses. Former school president Trachtenberg will be pleased if that’s the name, as he’s responsible for the giant “river horse” hippo statue near the center of campus. I think he also placed a couple of smaller hippo statues around the edges of campus prior to the big one in 1996.
Other than not understanding why Colonials is offensive, I submit (per an awesome old comedy record from Alan Sherman I used to listen to incessantly)
“One Hippopotami would not fit on a bus
Because one Hippopotami is two Hippopotamus.”
So should they change from Colonials to Hippopotami or Hippopotamuses?
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“not understanding why Colonials is offensive”>
From this article link:
“The Colonials name has been criticized in the past for its association with colonialism, which is defined as domination of a people or area by a foreign state or nation, occupying it with settlers and exploiting it through economic means.”
And to Scotty: My undergrad alma mater, Hamilton College, are the Continentals, a much better nickname than Colonials. But you can’t have it ;). Go Hippopotami!
Don’t kid yourself; the standard usage is going to be “Hippos”. Hippopotamuses/Hippopotomi will be a footnote.
Did the old RR “Blasty” for Calgary Flames have the flame graphics at the cuffs? That may be a new feature.
I see that it is a new feature.
Hmmm…getting a 404 error on the link for the Bruins alternate uni schedule.
Here you go: link
Thanks, Paul, but still there on my browsers. Strange.
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That link works fine for me.
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Interesting! Must be a Canadian thing. When I activated my VPN for a New York address, it worked. Thanks, guys!
The first sentence in the Roquan Smith article begins, “The Bears will wear orange helmets Thursday for the first time in franchise history”.
The GUD would beg to differ, as it attests orange helmets being worn at least three times in 1933 (with the uniform for the game in Portsmouth on December 3rd being unknown), at least four times in 1934 (neither team’s uniform from their shutout of Pittsburgh on October 10th are accounted for), eight times in 1937, and once in 1938.
While I don’t dispute the excellent research by the GUD (and there’s probably a separate page somewhere on the site that *confirms* the orange hat before 1937), the also excellent Helmet History site (link) doesn’t confirm an all orange helmet for 1933 or 1934; they do mention an “orange helmet with blue stripes” in 1934 (link). But, the solid orange helmet is confirmed in 1937-38, so either way, the Roquan Smith piece is wrong (if there were no solid orange helmet in 1937-38 I might let him slide, but the team definitely wore the solid orange lids during those two seasons).
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I actually tried to look up the model type of that blue-striped helmet, since that style was worn a lot in the leatherhead era (whether unpainted, painted solid, or having the crown-converging stripes painted a separate color), but all I got was a bunch of sites selling modern-made replicas, that completely fail to mention what the original models were.
Somehow my original post didn’t include the link to the Helmet History site. (link). It’s now there (and also in this comment), so you may be able to ascertain the model(s) from the photos
Hippos kill 500 people year. Just saying.
Just call them helmets. No need for all these goofy attempted synonyms.