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Month: September 2016

Talking Hand Warmers with Steelers Safety Mike Mitchell

Four days ago, in this week’s Monday Morning Uni Watch report, I mentioned that Steelers safety Mike Mitchell was wearing a hand-warmer pouch even though it was a warm day, …

Some Thoughts About Big Uni

I was back-and-forthing the other day with reader Alex Janeczek, who mistakenly thought I was the one who came up with the term “Stormtrooper” to describe an all-white football uniform. …

A Close Look at a 1965 NFL Uniform Article

Click to enlarge Longtime reader Jerry Wolper spends a lot of time looking through old newspaper archives. He recently came across a UPI wire story about the ’Skins uniform expenditures …

Marlins Memorialize José Fernández by Wearing No. 16

For most of today’s photos, you can click to enlarge Unprecedented move yesterday evening in Miami, as the Marlins memorialized fallen teammate José Fernández by having every member of the …

Monday Morning Uni Watch

The big NFL uni news yesterday came out of the Meadowlands, where Washington unexpectedly broke out the burgundy pants for the first time since 2011. I heard a lot of …

Sunday Morning Uni Watch

By Phil Hecken, with the SMUW crew Plenty of interesting unis on the gridiron yesterday, including the one worn by Mississippi State — who did something not-quite-unique, but in the …

Leo Gets (Another) Lede: Odds & Ends

Click to enlarge By Phil Hecken, with Leo Strawn, Jr. Those of you who are familiar with the Weekends (and if you remember over the Summer), I’m fortunate to have …

Oregon Going Full-Puddles This Weekend

It'll be like looking in a mirror for Oregon on Saturday. (via @GoDucks) pic.twitter.com/RFCgg3V1i7 — ESPN (@espn) September 23, 2016 The Oregon Ducks will be a little more duck-like for …

New Throwback Uniform for Texas A&M

Texas A&M football came out with a new retro alternate yesterday. It’s based on the team’s uniform from 1956, when the Aggies won the Southwest Conference championship for the first …

New Era Logo Creep on MLB Caps, continued

Yesterday’s post about the New Era logo being added to MLB game caps prompted a lot of comments from people who said they routinely remove the company’s logo from fashion …

New Era Logo to Appear on MLB Caps

And now it’s official: As we speculated yesterday, the New Era logo will indeed be added to MLB caps beginning with next month’s postseason, and then will be retained for …

Monday Morning Uni Watch

Click to enlarge Yesterday the Rams played their first regular season game in Los Angeles since 1994, and they marked the occasion by wearing their royal-and-yellow throwbacks — a nice …

Sunday Morning Uni Watch

By Phil Hecken, with the usual cast of characters Welcome to SMUW for Week 3. This is usually one of “those” weeks where we still haven’t really gotten into the …

‘Radom Thoughts’ – Athletes as Artists — Andrew McCutchen and the 1948 LA Rams

Click to enlarge [Deputy Editor’s note: You guys may recall that last year, I asked uniform and logo designer Todd Radom if he’d share some of his logo case studies …

Bills and Jets Get 2016 Color Rash Program Started

Click to enlarge The NFL had its first Color Rash game of 2016 last night, as the Jets and Bills played a rematch of last season’s Colorblind Bowl (but with …