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Month: December 2011

The Yoke’s On Them

By Phil Hecken, with Rick Pearson Well boys and girls — we’ve made it through another year. I hope it was a good one for you, and that all your …

How Come There’s No Disarmament Bowl?

Click to enlarge Whenever I hear someone mention the Armed Forces Bowl, I instinctively think of this (which you have to admit would make for a very cool helmet motif). …

Small Child Destined to Be First North Korean Executed by Kim Jong-un

The video you segment see above was taken from TV coverage of yesterday’s Kim Jong-il funeral in North Korea. It features a lot of what you’ve probably already seen on …

Vote Uni and Often

If the endless see-sawing of the opinion polls is any indication, Republican voters just can’t make up their minds regarding who they want as their party’s standard-bearer next year. With …

On the Second Day of Christmas, My True Love Gave to Me Two Shoes a-Spatting

Most of America had shifted out of Christmas mode by last night, but the Saints apparently didn’t get the memo. As you can see above, half a dozen New Orleans …

And Enough Leftovers for 11 More Days of Christmas

Happy Boxing Day, gang. Sorry, no uni-related content today. I’m still basking in that post-Christmas glow, and I bet many of you are as well. So please bear with me …

The One Day of the Year We Can All Be Happy

. Didn’t find what you wanted under the tree this year? Not to worry — for a bunch of you out there, Santa’s getting a mulligan. Here are the 31 …

Good Thing There Are No North Koreans in the NHL

. Interesting move in last night’s Rangers/Flyers game, as Jaromir Jagr and Jakub Voracek — both native Czechs — paid tribute to the recently deceased Václav Havel by wearing his …

Now We Know Where the Seahawks Got the Idea

Click photos to enlarge For one game in 1991 — and only one game, thankfully — Notre Dame basketball coach Digger Phelps outfitted his team in lime green uniforms. (There’s …

‘I see,’ said the blind man, as he picked up the hammer and saw

Click photos to enlarge I own lots of objects that have nothing to do with sports but are nonetheless very interesting from a design perspective. I’ve decided to start discussing …

Uni Watch Exclusive: Bird of Prey Goes Undercover

Click to enlarge What you see above is the NBA’s first-ever camouflage uniform, which will make its on-court debut in Toronto on March 21 (my birthday, oddly enough) as part …

A Sock of a Different Color

Click photos to enlarge The two images shown above, both of which are from last night’s Steelers/Niners game, really capture today’s NFL in a nutshell, at least from a lower-leg …

Monday Morning Uni Watch

Two things I really liked about yesterday’s slate of NFL games: First, for the first time since 2008, we had two head coaches named Romeo and Lovie (too bad they’re …

THE Jeff … and his Helmet Concepts — AFC Version (or…’When the Inmate runs the Asylum’)

By Phil Hecken I had really hoped to bring you the twice promised NCAA Bowl Pool contest (and in fact, this may still happen, but not today). For that I …

Let’s Go Bowling…

By Phil Hecken (Hoping to get a UW College Bowl Pool set up, possibly by tomorrow. Stay tuned for more information.) We have three Bowls kicking off today. I had …