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Month: February 2013

Kinda Captures the Whole Franchise in a Nutshell, No?

Click to enlarge “I saw this Bengals-branded wedding garter lying in the street here in Pittsburgh the other day,” says reader Jason Bernard. “It is simultaneously the funniest and saddest …

Peel-and-Stick News Items

Click bottom photo to enlarge Yesterday I Ticker-linked to a screen shot indicating that the Mets had added uni numbers to the back of their batting helmets this year. As …

MLS Begins Its Jersey Week

MLS began its weeklong jersey-unveiling promotion last week, with the Colorado Rapids, New York Red Bulls, and Houston Dynamo all debuting new kits. Videos about the thinking that went into …

Hipster Brooklyn Jew Invades Dixie, Discovers NASCAR

Click to enlarge My friend Matt and I — both non-religious Jews — like to play a game called “Jews Don’t Do That,” which basically entails creating a running list …

Who Among Us Doesn’t Love NASCAR?

By Phil Hecken The Daytona 500, one of the most famous of all the American stock car races, is today. In fact, the Daytona 500 is often referred to as …

More Voices

By Phil Hecken As we continue to discuss the use of Native American iconography, names and logos on Uni Watch, I’ve attempted to include different voices in the discussion. Last …

Curling Pins, Revisited

Two years ago I did a post about the wonderful curling pins accumulated by reader Katie Moorhead’s family. Katie recently got back in touch with some good news: “Over Christmas, …

Uni Watch DIY Project: Hold That Tiger, Continued

Last month I ran an entry from reader David Byrne’s father, Dick Byrne, who was making David a Detroit Tigers jersey from scratch. As you may recall, this wasn’t a …

Equal Time

Last Thursday I Ticker-linked to a story about how the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe, which is based in Michigan, had no problem with a local high school that used Native …

Gentlemen, Start Your Engines

[Editor’s Note: Today we have a guest-written column from David Firestone, who’s going to take a close look at a auto racing suits. Enjoy. ”” PL] By David Firestone The …

One for the Ages

Click to enlarge Reader John Adomaitis was going through some old childhood stuff and came up with the absolutely astonishing photo you see above. “Art Baumgarten’s Major League All-Stars were …

Kickin’ It at the NBA ASG — A Sneakerhead’s Delight

By Phil Hecken Taking a break from the past week’s rather in-depth discussions of Native Peoples’ iconography/logos/naming, Klan uniforms, and other more “esoteric” subject matter, today we break out the …

Continental Divides: How New Zealand’s Chiefs Handle Native Peoples’ Iconography & Naming

By Phil Hecken Uni Watch (and ESPN, via Paul) have recently done some in-depth investigation of the relationships between American sports teams who use either Native American names (racist or …

A Different Kind of Uniform Catalog

I’ve written many times about the assorted vintage uniform catalogs that I collect. But Kirsten recently pointed me toward a post on the history site Retronaut, which featured something I’d …

Uni Watch Profiles: Mark Willis

Lots of readers have recently told me how much they like “Soccer Out of Context,” a web project in which designer Mark Willis has been taking MLB jerseys and repurposing …