In Today’s Ticker: The Golden Knights live up to their name, an NFL QB tries to trademark his slogan, and Pearl Jam still has issues with the SuperSonics leaving Seattle.
Uni Watch News Ticker for Sept. 21, 2022
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Football
NFL
- Eagles QB Jalen Hurts has applied for a trademark for the phrase “Hurts so good.” (From Michael Hochman)
- The Eagles’ team drumline wore caps using the “E” from the team’s new wordmark. (From @SomeMlgKid)
College
- Mono-black this week for Ohio State.
- Mono-white this week for Virginia. (From our own Jamie Rathjen)
- Throwbacks for Maryland on Oct. 1. (From our own Phil Hecken)
- White/white/blue for West Virginia this week. (Also from Phil)
- Clemson has published a history of Memorial Stadium in honor of its 80th anniversary. (From Kary Klismet)
- Kennesaw State is giving fans replica championship rings to celebrate its 2021 Big South conference title. (Also from Kary)
Hockey
NHL
- Confirming a move that was already an open secret, the Golden Knights are redesignating their gold alternate as their primary sweater. They also have a new gold center ice logo. (From multiple readers)
- Speaking of open secrets, we got another clue about the Oilers’ Reverse Retro McFarlane/”oil drip” design. (From Wade Heidt)
- Sharks players in yesterday’s Rookie Faceoff game wore last season’s jerseys and socks (note the orange trim) with this season’s new pants and helmets. (From Jared Buccola)
- With the Coyotes playing at Arizona State’s arena, the center ice design will feature the team’s logo and the school’s logo. (From Steve Sher)
- Here’s a time-lapse video of the Capitals’ ice surface being prepared for the new season. (From William Yurasko)
Basketball
NBA
- The Knicks have tweaked their shades of blue and grey. Old shades on left, new shades on right.
- New wordmark for the Timberwolves. They’ve also gotten rid of one of their secondary logos. (From Conrad Burry)
- Pearl Jam’s set list for a recent show in Oklahoma City shows that the Seattle-based band is still bitter about their old NBA team moving to OKC. (From Kurt Esposito)
College
- New unis for BYU men’s. (From our own Phil Hecken)
Soccer
USA
- New Oktoberfest-themed shirt for FC Tulsa of the USL Championship. (From @mattgwillison)
International
- Italy: San Siro, the home stadium of AC Milan and Inter, will be demolished to make way for a new stadium to open in 2027. (From our own Anthony Emerson)
- Brazil: New shirt for Palmeiras. (From Trevor Williams)
- Tunisia: New kits for ES Tunis. (From Kary Klismet)
- Portugal: In yesterday’s Women’s Champions League match vs. Rangers, Benfica’s Nycole Raysla had to use a makeshift No. 28. She plays with No. 9 domestically but is registered with 28 in UEFA. (From @MikeDfromCT)
Grab Bag
- An Australian Football League player was reunited with a guernsey he wore in 1983. (From Jeremy Brahm)
- A concrete company in Arkansas is using the Arkansas State University logo but is named after the University of Arkansas mascot. (From Sean, who didn’t give his last name)
- A scholastic sports website is holding a bracket-style competition for fans to vote on the country’s most unique high school team names. (This, along with the next two items, are from Kary Klismet)
- Iowa State has unveiled renderings of a proposed entertainment district called “CYTown,” to be built between Jack Trice Stadium and Hilton Coliseum.
- CNN has a history of the UK’s Royal Family mourning dress codes.
Comments (13)
Oof, I don’t like the new T’wolves wordmark. The skinny letters and pointy Ns just are not attractive to me!
“The Knicks have tweaked their shades of blue and grey.”
Because when I think Knicks, the first color that comes to mind is… grey.
Several EuropeanWorld Cup team captains are supposedly going to wear a rainbow armband to protest Qatar’s laws against homo-sexuality.
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A detail that had been placed in the back seat with the Golden Knights ‘ announcement. The road uniform seeing a change. The grey pants replacing the black pants. Black has been fully removed as a trim colour on primary uniforms.
It’d be funny if that Arkansas concrete company got a cease & desist from both Arkansas & Arkansas State.
I’ve never been in position to name a company or create its visual identity, but I am pretty certain I wouldn’t be so lazy about it.
Lee
I don’t think NHL helmets have ever been drawn from as wide a palette as this season. The teal helmets of the Sharks are added to anthracite, black, navy blue, royal blue, red, green, gold, and yellow, Once there were purple helmets (L.A. Kings) and plum (Mighty Ducks) but those have been relegated to the odd throwback. Brown and orange buckets exist, just not in the NHL.
Gotta wonder what John Mellencamp thinks of that trademark filing. Though, he might just be bemused… on the other hand, whoever owns the rights to his music distribution might have different thoughts regarding the application.
As they say on the interwebs, “I am not a lawyer.” But I suspect the precedent of Apple Corps vs Apple Computer applies in this context. Two different industries, so no direct competition.
Jeff Ament, the bassist for Pearl Jam…who was on University of Montana’s basketball team for his freshman year, tells the story of when he got his first ‘big’ check from Pearl Jams success, he bought Sonics season tickets.
Eddie Vedder specifically addressed the Sonics at the show (Not a great show, but still PJ)
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{Ed apologizes for how being so angry with Oklahoma City getting the Seattle Supersonics and hopes that they can be forgiven. He says he is glad The Sonics went to a great city and terrific people running the team.}
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The new shade of Knick blue is more like Giant/Dodger blue, rather than Met blue.
Leave it to the Knicks to even screw up their team colors. How many MSG brainiacs were needed to make that decision?
I like the Wolves new wordmark, but the home/road unis are now mismatched from the new alt which features this.