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Month: September 2015

Mirror, Mirror

We’re going off-uni today, because I want to talk about an aspect of visual culture that I’ve thought about for years but never written about until now. So: When I …

New NBA Uniforms Revisited

Yesterday was NBA Media Day, with lots of teams doing photo shoots and showcasing players in full uniform. That included five teams with new uniforms. Let’s see how those new …

Monday Morning Uni Watch

Click to enlarge The Browns appear to be trying to outdo themselves with each successive week. And hey, let’s give them credit: They’re succeeding! Their latest uni combo was a …

Sunday Morning Uni Watch

Click to enlarge By Phil Hecken Welcome to Weak Week IV of the NCAA Football Season. Like the third Saturday (and Thursday/Friday), this is generally one of the weakest weeks …

Designing Minds, Volume VII

By Phil Hecken Every so often, as a lede, I will run a set of uniform and/or logo concepts from a single designer that are either so good, so innovative, …

Pump It Up

Toward the end of eighth grade, I took the New York State Regents Exam for algebra. A few days later, my math teacher told our class that three of us …

New England Road Trip Report

Click to enlarge That’s me and my friend Aimee last Friday afternoon, aboard the Lake Champlain car ferry from Plattsburgh, New York, to Grand Isle, Vermont, part of a six-day, …

‘When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It’: R.I.P., Yogi Berra

Click to enlarge Hey there. I’m back after a six-day road trip (more on that soon, maybe tomorrow). That trip wouldn’t have been possible, or at least would have been …

Introducing Wafflebored

[Editor’s Note: Paul is off on a short vacation, returning on Wednesday, but he left behind this piece for today’s entry. Enjoy.] A few Saturdays ago I ran the latest …

Monday Morning Uni Watch

Click to enlarge By Phil Hecken Week 2 of the NFL season was a pretty quiet one, uni-wise, with no teams wearing alternates or throwbacks, and not a lot of …

Sunday Morning Uni Watch

By Phil Hecken Back today with Week III of the NCAA Football Season, which means it’s time for another installment of Sunday Morning Uni Watch, featuring the stylings of Terry …

Cross-sport Uni Watching, NFL & Golf Edition

Click to enlarge By Phil Hecken When Paul went on his annual August sabbatical, you guys will recall I had asked readers if they’d like to pitch stories to me …

A Uni Watch Look at the Rugby World Cup

[Editor’s Note: Paul is off on a short vacation, returning on Wednesday. Today we have a guest entry by Josh Gardner, editor of the site Rugby Shirt Watch, who’s going …

Meanwhile, Half a Mile From My House…

The Islanders unveiled their BFBS alts yesterday (further info and the alt uni schedule here). It pretty much conforms to the jersey leaks we’d seen earlier. A few notes: 1. …

The New NHL/Adidas Deal: What It Means for Uniforms

The NHL held a conference call yesterday to officially announce that Adidas will be taking over as the league’s uniform outfitter starting with the 2017-18 season and will also be …