In today’s ticker, we’ve got giant penguins on helmets, Drake on a soccer jersey, and more!
Uni Watch News Ticker for Oct. 15, 2022
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Football
NFL
- The Eagles are going green-green-white for Sunday Night Football. (Thanks, Phil)
College
- Florida will have a really nice Tom Petty memorial decal on their helmets today. Petty was a Gainesville native. (From Phil)
- You ever wonder why Ohio State coach Ryan Day wears all black on game days? Wonder no more. (From Jason Hillyer)
- Youngstown State will wear new penguin helmets tomorrow. (From multiple readers)
- BYU will have special homecoming alternate helmets against Arkansas. (Thanks, Phil)
- Here are this weekend’s uni combos for TCU (a debut for their “blood” alternates), New Mexico, Michigan,
CFL
- The BC Lions are bringing back their gunmetal grey unis. (From Wade Heidt)
Basketball
Soccer
International
- Spain: For the upcoming Clásico against Real Madrid, Barcelona will wear a kit featuring Drake’s OVO owl logo rather than their usual music streaming service advertisement. The change is meant to celebrate Drake becoming the first artist to hit 50 billion streams on the aforementioned music streaming service. (From multiple readers)
- Brazil: Left-wing presidential candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was introduced at a campaign event yesterday by a supporter wearing a replica Brazilian national team jersey, but instead of the normal crest, the jersey had a red crest depicting a raised fist. The move comes as incumbent right-winger Jair Bolsonaro attempts to associate the iconic jersey with his campaign.
- England: Manchester City FW Phil Foden just signed a contract extension to keep him at the club until 2027, and City gave him a “2027” jersey to celebrate. (From @SteveinLC)
Grab Bag
- Our own Jamie Rathjen sends along a handful more of AFL Women’s pride jerseys: Gold Coast, Geelong, and Greater Western Sydney.
Comments (7)
Michigan is calling it “Maize Out”? The unis are all navy and maize refers to their shade of yellow. Shouldn’t it be “Blue Out”?
BC Lions gun-metal grey uniforms a bit different than the first version from about 10 years ago. The fans liked them at the time so that appears to be motivation for a return as the 3rd uniform. Like the unveiling of the gun-metal uni the first time, the sprung it on us as a surprise. Doing it this week as we near the end of the regular season.
One of the differences is no gun-metal helmet. Going with black helmet. Unlike NFL, CFL still adhering to the one-shell helmet rule.
Unlike NFL, CFL still adhering to the one-shell helmet rule.
Do you think that will change next season?
Would not be surprised if it did but have heard nothing about it. Hoping it doesn’t. The teams are basically wearing helmet colours now (or similar to) that they have historically worn dating way back. Last decade for a period there were a few CFL teams with different colour home and road helmets. Didn’t like the results of that.
Though I still want just one helmet, I would be for some teams changing colours. Lions going back to the white helmet. Tiger-Cats back in yellow helmets. Prefer the Alouettes back in the royal blue.
And not only is Youngstown wearing a giant Penguin elsewhere in their league the Jackrabbits are wearing a giant bunny on their helmets
And Kansas is wearing a giant…jayhawk