For all photos, click to enlarge When I was growing up in the 1970s, our house was full of old copies of magazines like Pro Sports, which had been left …
Month: January 2017
Notes from All-Star Sunday
Embed from Getty Images Rare sight in yesterday’s NHL All-Star tourney, as Canadiens goaltender Carey Price, playing for the Atlantic Division, wore the captain’s “C” — something that’s normally not …
A Quick QBC Rundown & A Mets Jersey Parade
Fascinating UniPanel @QBConvention with @PhilHecken @UniWatch! pic.twitter.com/JCR4puZAX7 — Finding Nostalgia (@svuocolo31) January 28, 2017 By Phil Hecken I spent most of the day yesterday at the Queens Baseball Convention (basically …
Meet Dan Kennedy – Griffins Design Contest Winner
Click to enlarge By Phil Hecken Last weekend, I ran an article which was chock full of photos and short writups by Dan Kennedy, the reader who won the Grand …
Uni Watch DIY Project: Building a Ballpark
For most of today’s photos, you can click to enlarge [Editor’s Note: Today we have a guest entry from Jeff Callahan, who’s come up with a great DIY project. Enjoy. …
Some Thoughts About Mary Tyler Moore’s Vikings Jersey
Mary Tyler Moore died yesterday. For those of us who grew up watching her eponymous sitcom, which was set in Minneapolis, one indelible image of her will always be the …
Celtics Announce GE Advertising Patch Deal
When the news came down that the NBA would allow corporate advertising patches on game jerseys for the 2017-18 season, I heard a few people in high places saying, “Okay, …
What’s the Best Way to Fill In a Box?
I want to go off-uni today and discuss a topic that’s been on my mind lately. It started when I recently donated blood, as I do every two months. As …
Here’s Your Super Bowl LI Uniform Pairing
Barring a surprise, the uniforms shown above are the ones we’ll be seeing in Super Bowl LI two weeks from now. The NFC is the designated home team this time …
A Uni Watch Reader Design Hits The Ice
Click to enlarge By Phil Hecken Uni Watch readers will (hopefully) recall that back during Paul’s August sabbatical, when I took over the weekday posts for the month, I kicked …
Hooray for the Red & White Blue Jays
By Phil Hecken Yesterday morning the Toronto BLUE Jays (named for the bird of the same color) introduced a new alternate jersey, to be worn on home Sundays, as well …
Let’s Redesign the Baseball Hall of Fame’s Jersey Already
By now we know the routine: Each January there’s a new class of Baseball Hall of Fame inductees. And that means each January, like clockwork, we have to see the …
The Latest Step in Football Helmet Evolution
Click to enlarge Behold — the new Schutt F7 helmet, the latest round in the anti-concussion wars. As you can see, it has an exterior plate situated across the top …
A Man(ning) of Many Masks
Longtime reader/contributor Gene Sanny recently got in touch to let me know about a really unusual facemask worn by former Saints quarterback Archie Manning (who’s shown at right; dig those …
Report: Nike Not Planning to Make Sleeved NBA Jerseys
Ever since the NBA announced that Nike would be taking over from Adidas as the league’s uniform outfitter in the fall of 2017, one of the recurring questions on people’s …