In today’s modest Ticker we’ve got almost all the major sports (plus hockey) covered.
Uni Watch News Ticker for Nov. 19, 2023
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Football
NFL
- The New York Jets will wear green pants for the first time this season when they play in Buffalo today. The Bills will go white/blue/white with blue socks, so the game should be pretty good looking (at least from a uni standpoint).
- Also today: the Houston Texans will create a never-before-worn combo, pairing their alternate red helmets with their CR unis vs. the Arizona Cardinals, who will be in mono-white.
- The Green Bay Packers will wear their 1950s-era throwbacks today against the LA Chargers. Here’s some more information on those unis, and other throwbacks the Pack have worn over the years.
- The Washington Commanders will go mono-BFBS against the NY Giants.
- The Detroit Lions will again wear their monolulu blue uniforms against the Chicago Bears.
- And the Cleveland Browns will be wearing white facemasks (instead of their usual brown) in their matchup with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
- ICYMI, the Philadelphia Eagles will again wear their kelly green throwbacks this season, in their Week 12 matchup (next Sunday) against the Buffalo Bills.
- Did you know there was once a Cincinnati Reds NFL team? They didn’t last long and they weren’t very good.
College
- The U has retired Gino Torretta’s Number 13 jersey.
CFL
- The CFL Season concludes today with the Grey Cup (basically the equivalent of the NFL’s Super Bowl, only with about a 50-year longer history) and features Winnipeg vs. Montreal. Unfortunately, the Grey Cup is unavailable on a network or cable channel in the U.S., but American viewers can stream it for free at cfl.ca/plus starting at 6:00 PM Eastern.
Hockey
NHL
- Check out these Roberto Luongo “career retrospective” pads. (From Aaron Pinto)
- Despite the NHL’s previous ruling that teams could not honor individual causes in warmup with specially designed jerseys and garb, the Winnipeg Jets will auction off custom rainbow sweaters for Pride Night on Friday, November 17.
Minors/Juniors
- A uni snafu forced the Kalamazoo Wings to wear the practice jerseys of the Toledo Walleye to begin the game. The Wings’ jerseys had not arrived in time for them to wear them at the start of the game, although the jerseys did arrive later. (From Brandon Weir)
- The WHL’s Saskatoon Blades unveiled new retro jerseys on Friday.
More
- The Nottingham Panthers are retiring Adam Johnson’s Number 47. (From Jerry Wolper). You will recall that Johnson recently died after his throat was slashed during a game, following an on-ice collision.
Basketball
NBA
- Former Lakers veteran Metta World Peace wanted to change his jersey number to 60 from his favorite jersey number 37 “to pay homage to Kobe Bryant’s iconic 60-point game against the Utah Jazz in 2016.”
- The Brooklyn Nets’ Mikal Bridges had his jersey retired at Villanova University.
College
- “Curious to know if there’s any other college in the country that has “University of” on the jersey?” asks Chris Hopkins. “Never seen this before.”
Soccer
International
- 100 cap jersey for Sadio Mane. (From Steve Kriske)
Comments (8)
The Grey Cup is an interesting trophy. It has commonalities with the Super Bowl but also with the Stanley Cup as well.
Today is the 110th Grey Cup. Yep the Grey Cup is old. Quirky thing is it has “Amateur Rugby Football Championship of Canada” inscribed right on the cup portion. When these days and for a really long time it is not a trophy for that at all.
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I am sure this has been discussed on here, but why didn’t green bay try and get the shade of green closer to the original?
You’re asking Nike to get a color right?
Hahahahahahahahaha!!!
Maybe there’s another team in Dubuque and they wanted to avoid any confusion?
Technically there is, Loras College, but lol anyways!
The only other example of a school spelling out “University” in full on their basketball jerseys that I’m aware of is Kansas during the 1988-89 season: link. It’s not quite the same thing as the “University of” that Dubuque is using, but it’s the closest analog I’ve found.
Also, it’s curious that Kansas would go by “Kansas University” on their uniforms. Sure, they go by “KU” as an initialized nickname for the school, but their official name is still the “University of Kansas,” not “Kansas University.”
Woah, woah, woah. Is hockey no longer a major sport or am I just too Canadian to have gotten the memo?
I think Bobby Lou wore those pads in last year’s skills competition at all-star weekend