Reader Jonathan Lacaster has picked up an interesting logo design trope that I’d never noticed before. Here it is, in his own words: I’m an Auburn fan and have always …
Month: December 2006
Shirts Off Their Backs
The other day I got an e-mail from Matt Kowalski. The subject line read, “The only sport where the winner gets the loser’s uniform”¦” When I opened the e-mail, the …
Dead Presidents (Or, NYC to Ford: Drop Dead Nice Uni!)
New ESPN column today — here’s the link. Meanwhile: Recognize that kid with the golf clubs and the letter sweater? It’s 13-year-old Gerald Ford, in front of his childhood home …
Lace-ism
Consider the humble shoelace. Or better yet, let reader John Muir consider it for you: Look at this picture of Marc Savard in Boston’s home uniform, complete with yellow laces. …
What’dja Get? What’dja Get??
My family doesn’t celebrate Christmas (chosen people and all that”¦), but Uni Watch hedge fund analyst Jenny Strasburg and I had our own little Christmas celebration last Wednesday, before she …
Stuck in the Chimney: Xmas Open Thread
(Photo by Otto Greule Jr/Getty Images) A rare sight: LaDainian Tomlinson running without his usual dark visor in yesterday’s game against the Seahawks. Back tomorrow with a regular post. Merry …
Saturday Open Thread
(Photo by Garrett W. Ellwood/NBAE via Getty Images) Allen Iverson’s new jersey awaits his arrival in the Nuggets’ lockerroom last night. Note the padded tank top hanging in the locker.
North by Northwest Redux
We have a lot of ground to cover today, boys and girls, so let’s get crackin’… I’ve written several times in the past about sports historian Dave Eskenazi and his …
No, Not Those Brownies
[Editor’s Note: Today’s entry marks the blog debut of Uni Watch intern Vince Grzegorek. Please join me in congratulating him on his fine work. — PL] If you’ve been watching …
Aggie Antiquities
Another university is doing a public service by putting its visual history on the web. Reader Dan Hardin has the details: Texas A&M has an ongoing project to digitize historic …
So Much for that ‘Sun Devils’ Moniker
New ESPN column today — here’s the link. Meanwhile: As I was working on some other stuff late last night, I got an e-mail from reader Mark Surra, who had …
Old-vs.-New Smackdown
Arthur Farrell’s Hockey: Canada’s Royal Winter Game, published in 1899, is thought to be the first book ever written about hockey. Only four copies are known to exist, none of …
And He Always Flew Coach, Too
New ESPN column today. I’ll add the link when it goes live. [Update: No ESPN column today after all. It’ll run next week.] Meanwhile: As I noted at the end …
Uni Watch Book Club
As I recently mentioned in another post, a lot of our knowledge, if you can call it that, of early uniforms is based more on templates and illustrations than on …
Finally, Something That Passes the ‘Is It Good or Is It Stupid?’ Test
We’ve had a lot of chatter in the Comments section lately about the use of Native American imagery on uniforms and logos. So it felt like a nice coincidence the …