Month: September 2019

Click to enlarge Good morning! The Bears wore their much-discussed 1936 throwbacks yesterday. Since they were wearing white at home, the Vikings wore purple — the first time they’ve ever …

By Phil Hecken, with the SMUW Crew Follow @PhilHecken I’m gonna be honest, folks — I didn’t watch a lot of football yesterday — this was due in part to …

By Phil Hecken, with Ron Bolton Follow @PhilHecken Today we continue with some posts that I’d hoped to run during Paul’s August sabbatical, but just simply didn’t have time to …

Earlier this week I mentioned that a group of Bears players and the team’s chairman, George McCaskey, had posted a two-minute video statement about the uncomfortable history of the uniforms …

Note the “Hit” and “Error” indicators in the sign; click to enlarge I was recently watching a ballgame on TV. At one point a batter hit a grounder that sent …

The Mets have a habit of making some really odd decisions — naming an agent as their general manager, refusing to create a statue for Tom Seaver until after he …

For all phtoos, click to enlarge In 1973, when I was nine years old, my family drove upstate to check out the Baseball Hall of Fame. It was my first …

Click to enlarge Happy autumn! The Browns wore their mono-turd combo with orange socks last night — definitely an improvement over the brown socks, although not enough to make this …

By Phil Hecken, with the SMUW Crew Follow @PhilHecken In all my years of doing the Sunday Morning Uni Watch, I don’t think I’ve ever “featured” Rutgers (although that will …

By Phil Hecken, with Lex Levy Follow @PhilHecken As you guys are aware, when Paul takes his annual August sabbatical, I will put out the call for readers to submit …

Sometimes people get in touch with me and propose good topics to write about. If I’m busy, those topics sometimes get back-burnered — and then I sometimes forget about them. …

For all photos, click to enlarge When I recently launched the new Uni Watch mini-helmet, a Twitter-er named Shane Bua had an intriguing reaction: How about a Uni Watch gumball …

Click to enlarge The Warriors unveiled six, count ’em six new uniforms jerseys yesterday. Most were either already known to be in the pipeline or recently leaked, and several are …

Click to enlarge Distressing news yesterday from Minor League Baseball, which announced that the two teams competing in tonight’s Triple-A Championship Game — the Columbus Clippers and the Sacramento River …

For all photos, click to enlarge End of an era yesterday in Oakland, as the Chief and Raiders played what is likely to be the final NFL game to take …