In today’s Ticker: The Super Bowl champs visit the White House, a rare uni combo for the racing presidents, and more.
Uni Watch News Ticker for June 6, 2023
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Baseball
MLB
- The Nationals’ racing presidents took part in a social media video to promote UK-US Friendship Day at the ballpark, and made a rare appearance in the team’s road grays. They were at the UK embassy, after all. (From William F. Yurasko)
- The Blue Jays are giving away Blue Jays cricket jerseys on June 24. (From Jeremy Brahm)
Minors
- The Sussex County Miners of the Canadian American Association of Professional Baseball will wear hunter camouflage jerseys on Friday. (From John Cerone)
More
- Officials behind Baseball United — the new four-team league that will begin play in the Middle East in 2024 — have unveiled the logos for the Karachi Monarchs. (From Kyle Shaner)
Football
NFL
- KC players and staff visited the White House yesterday to celebrate their Super Bowl win, and presented President Joe Biden with a No. 46 jersey and a signed football. Coach Andy Reid dressed up for the occasion and wore a “KC” blazer inspired by Hank Stram, the Chiefs’ original Super Bowl-winning coach.
- The Bills officially broke ground on their new stadium yesterday, and the team announced that the new facility will be named after the same company that is paying for the naming rights at the current stadium. (From @MDMambo)
- Paul found this photo of Seahawks OL Reggie McKenzie wearing glasses on the sideline during a 1985 preseason game.
Hockey
NHL
- With Florida in the Stanley Cup Final(s), ESPN has published a piece on the origins of the team’s name.
Soccer
USA
- New alternate jerseys for USL Championship squad San Diego Loyal SC. (From Phil)
International
- Scotland: Ross County have a new primary jersey, which the team believes is the first-ever bilingual English/Scottish Gaelic shirt launch for a “top tier” Scottish club. (From our own Jamie Rathjen)
Tennis
- Here’s an interesting piece about how to decipher the markings on the French Open’s clay courts.
Grab Bag
- Two jersey props from old movies are currently up for auction: the Eagles jersey that Bradley Cooper’s character wore in Silver Linings Playbook, and the Los Angeles Kings jersey worn by Justin Timberlake’s character in The Love Guru. (From Dane Drutis)
- Have you been seeing paw print stickers on mailboxes recently? It’s part of a new program by the USPS to keep letter carriers informed about homes on their routes with dogs. (From “Block ‘O Canada'”)
- Here’s an interesting analysis of how presidential candidates dress. (From Jason Hillyer)
Comments (15)
Re the Stanley Cup finals, I notice both teams have an advertiser on their helmets, and a second, different one on their sweaters. I may have missed it, but since when are NHL teams donning two ads on their unis? Again, I may simply be late to the party here.
The jersey ad program began this season, and was announced by the NHL back in August 2021.
Teams were allowed to start tainting the helmets in 2020-21, and can desecrate the sweaters starting this season, the advertiser doesn’t have to be the same.
Thanks. Like I said, late to the party, and I hadn’t noticed the sweater desecration before for some reason.
Reggie McKenzie’s last year with the Seahawks was 1984 according to Pro Football Reference, although he may have been with the team in preseason in ’85.
(That’s not to confuse him with the other Reggie McKenzie, who was a LB for and later GM of the Raiders, as well as a player and executive for other teams, whose first year in the league was ’85.)
… although he may have been with the team in preseason in ’85.
Yes, exactly.
Would love to see Andy Reid wear that ensemble on the sidelines.
Actually, I’d like to see all NFL head coaches wearing their ‘Sunday Best’…were the last to do so Del Rio (JAX)and Nolan(SF)?
cf Hank Stram:
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Thats aweome!
Lee
Did the Jays show the actual cricket jersey they’re giving away?
Looks like this
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Looks more like soccer or golf.
Cricket came first.
Sussex County now plays in the Frontier League. The Can Am League last existed in 2019.
I’ve had two paw print stickers on my mailbox since 2020. I only accepted them from the post office because I figured they might work as a burgler deterrent!