In today’s Ticker, we’ve got the newest MLS franchise leaked, the Dolphins going white at home in ’72, and more!
Uni Watch News Ticker for Oct. 20, 2023
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Baseball
Minors
- The Salt Lake Bees, Triple-A affiliates of the Angels, have unveiled new renderings of their proposed ballpark in Daybreak, a master-planned community in southern Salt Lake County. (From John Ewanowski)
Football
NFL
- Reader Bob Gassel sends along this newspaper clipping about the ’72 Dolphins choosing to wear white at home for day games in order to combat the heat, but switching to aqua for Week 6 because the Bills brought their white jerseys. Here’s a shot from that game.
- The Ravens are going purple-over-white.
- The Bucs are going white-over-white at home against Atlanta this weekend. (From Ivis Aburto)
- Judging by their practice attire, it looks like the Iggles are going with their kelly green throwbacks this weekend. (From Sam McKinley, who notes that kelly green helmets and midnight green jerseys do not mix)
- Reader Brad Eenhuis sends along this 1966 Sports Illustrated cover, featuring what is pretty clearly a staged photo featuring the Rams offense and … some models in generic unis on defense? It’s pretty weird!
College
- Is Iowa teasing an alternate uniform for their matchup against Minnesota this weekend? There are some on social media who think so. (From Kary Klismet)
- Here are this weekend’s uni combos for New Mexico, UNC, UNLV, Mizzou, Pitt (a new all-white set for them), and Michigan State. (Thanks to all who shared)
Hockey
NHL
- One thing I don’t think we’ve previously mentioned is that the Bruins are wearing their 100th anniversary patch on their pants, as well as on the right shoulder of the jersey.
- Maple Leafs RW Ryan Reaves says that the Capitals have the worst sweaters in the NHL because their logo is entirely in lowercase. “Figure it out, please,” Reaves implores. (From William F. Yurasko)
- The Canucks have unveiled their black throwback uni schedule. (From Wade Heidt)
College
- Colgate is letting students borrow a replica jersey by exchanging their student ID card for one ahead of games. They get their ID card back when they return the jersey. (From John McGraw)
Minors/Juniors
- The Portland Winterhawks of the WHL have added a grey trim to the cuff of their pants on the road. Here’s how their pants looked last year. (From Wade Heidt)
- The Millet Lightning of Alberta’s Noralta Junior Hockey League debuted new home uniforms last weekend. More info here. (From Kary Klismet)
Basketball
College
- New unis for Utah men. (Thanks, Phil)
Soccer
USA
- MLS is formally announcing the name and logo of the new San Diego team today, but both leaked to The Athletic yesterday evening, and we couldn’t be more disappointed. The team will be called “San Diego FC,” and have this as its primary mark. Yeesh. (From multiple readers)
- The NWSL’s Kansas City Current announced that they were holding a “major stadium announcement” press conference. It turned out just to be a new naming rights deal. Sigh. (Thanks, Jamie)
International
- Spain: As part of Barcelona’s ongoing kit advertising deal with Spotify, the Blaugranas will wear the Rolling Stones’ tongue-and-lips logo on their kits for the upcoming Clásico against Real Madrid. I must say — it looks really bad.
Auto Racing
- Red Bull Racing will have a special livery for the United States Grand Prix this weekend. (Thanks, Jamie)
- New livery for the McLaren Racing Team in the Formula E series. (From Kary Klismet)
Wrestling
- No official reveal yet, but the new University of Iowa women’s wrestling team’s social media accounts have teased what their singlets will look like for their debut season. (From Kary Klismet)
Grab Bag
- Tattoo artist Eduardo Lozano Barreto’s unique style makes his tattoos look like embroidered patches on skin. (From Sammy Barbour)
- A woman in Gettysburg, PA., has claimed legal ownership of the Gettysburg High athletics logo, and is demanding the school district pay her royalties. A Penn State intellectual property expert says her claim is worth bupkis. (From Jason Reed)
- Here are ten fun facts about Smokey, Tennessee’s live bluetick coonhound mascot. (From Kary Klismet)
- A Taiwanese designer is taking old firefighter uniforms and recycling them into new fashion creations. (From Kary Klismet)
- Community groups in Australia are calling for the 2032 Brisbane Olympic committee to adopt the dugong (a marine mammal similar to a manatee) as the official mascot for the games. (From Kary Klismet)
Comments (35)
San Diego Loyal have such an amazing and original logo. SDFC is a crime. another bland MLS team name and forgettable logo.
I would say the logo is a nod to the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. SD is about 1/3 Hispanic, so it makes sense to me and, IMHO, it looks good.
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The name sucks though.
If someone wants to officially state those connections, I’ll begrudgingly accept them, but I’d say it’s a big stretch visually and logistically. For one: the SDFC colors are red, yellow, and blue, not red, white and green. For two: people who know fonts, Olympics, or design instantly recognize the Mexico City Olympics font, the font SDFC is using looks like an old padres font. For three: celebrating the Hispanic population in SD should entail some inspiration that San Diegans can embrace, not something that is quite specific to a different city in a different country. So I truly hope that’s not what they’re going for.
I was talking about the soccer ball. I made no reference to the font, whatsoever. Ask me next time if you don’t understand what I am talking about.
“celebrating the Hispanic population in SD should entail some inspiration that San Diegans can embrace, not something that is quite specific to a different city in a different country.”
History: SD used to be a part of a Mexican territory (renamed “Alta California” in 1824, two years after Mexico won its independence from Spain in 1822). Being a part of Mexico IS a part of SD history and it’s not a stretch to say cities/states embrace their history. A well known example of cities/states embracing all of their history is “Six flags over Texas” (which, coincidentally, also includes Mexico).
I should have said “Latinos” but the info on Wiki said “Hispanic”, so I parroted. Nevertheless, I would imagine that most of the people that are demographically considered “Hispanic” or “Latino” in SD can trace their heritage to Mexico (which is literally just a few miles away and was home of the 1968 Olympics), so I would imagine anyone specifically of Mexican heritage in SD would openly embrace that part of the design, and that could be up to 1/3 of their population.
I would have thought SD’s proximity to Mexico with a large Hispanic (Latino) demographic and the soccer ball on the logo with the graphic design elements of the 1968 Olympics should have made my statement obvious.
MLS ran the Loyal out of town for _that_? I am reminded of one of the great lines in all of theater: “Why Richard, it profit a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world. . . but for Wales?” The name and logo are the Wales of pro sports in this instance. If I were a soon-to-be-orphaned Loyal fan, I would adopt LAFC as my MLS rooting interest right now.
Hot take, I actually like teams that are just “City/location” FC. I actually like SC better tbh. But I also like how City FC/SC allows an organic unofficial nickname to develop over several years of actually seeing them play, as opposed to forcing an official nickname. So many European teams are Location FC, then they develop a nickname organically. Like Everton are the Toffees, Newcastle United are the Magpies. Let i just happen.
Logo isn’t great though I’ll grant that. Looks like a new EV startup.
About San Diego Soccer: For those of you who have never been involved in business, you CAN NOT just put money down today, and have your team playing tomorrow. There are things like licenseing , copyrights, etc. Those can take time, sometimes years, to finalize. That’s why you see some horrible original team logos.
The Lions are are playing the Ravens this Sunday, and will be wearing the new blue helmets for Week 8 on Monday night against the Raiders. With the two combined into one bullet, it makes it sound like the Lions would be wearing their grey alternates against the Ravens in Purple, which isn’t the case.
Always good to check the GUD for weekly matchups
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Here’s how I’d rewrite that Ticker item for better clarity:
“The Ravens are going purple-over-white *this Sunday* while their opponents, the Lions, *are breaking in their new alternate blue helmets, which they’ll debut the following Monday night against the Raiders.*”
Fixed.
The Bucs are going mono-white at home this weekend, not in Atlanta.
I don’t think the Caps jerseys are great by any measure, but it sounds like Reaves is just bitter about losing to them in the SCF when he was with Vegas
Fixed.
MLS team names. Ugghh.
What’s up with all the “FC” team names in MLS? It’s called “soccer” in the US. How tough is it to use “SC” instead? Assume they’re trying to place themselves on the same level as elite European teams.
Well, at least there’s the Columbus Crew SC.
It’s called Football and Futbol in the United States, alongside Soccer. Even Anglo fans increasingly refer to the sport as Football (or Footy), and literally nobody, whether a soccer fan or a gridiron fan, is ever confused about what sport anyone is talking about. Nobody, not one person, who sees this news will mistakenly believe the NFL has just put a new expansion team in San Diego. FC is fine.
A better solution would be for the NFL sport to adopt a name that actually describes the game and how it’s played.
“Forward Pass Ball?”
Are the announcers and sports writers saying “San Diego are . . .” yet? Gawd, that makes my skin crawl.
The badge for the new MLS team in San Diego is awful. The default options in Create A Club in the new EA FC 24 game (and, I’m assuming the FIFA games before it) are better.
I disagree that the Rolling Stones sponsor on Barcelona’s shirt looks “really bad”, especially as a one-off.
Don’t let them fool you. They’re an advertiser, not a sponsor.
Yeah, we’ve been over this a number of times. The UW preferred term is “advertiser”, and while I don’t disagree, the preferred term in the world of soccer is sponsor, so I tend to use that.
Paul and I have agreed to disagree on the matter.
I used to live in KC but am not a fan of any sports teams, but for the life of me I don’t get why NWSL isn’t using the existing soccer specific stadium. While I’m on my KC rant, I’m also annoyed the royals are looking to build downtown when over a decade ago they passed on the opportunity and got a local sales tax passed for their stadium renovations. Ok, I’m done lol
Kaufman Stadium is a palace, IMHO, and any talk of replacing it is a kick in the groin.
Or as Archie Bunker once said, a kick in the groan.
Describe the San Diego FC crest as “six palm leaves, rendered in marine overcast grey, circling in a gyre over the deep Pacific blue”. Fixed it!
I’m assuming San Diego FC stands for the San Diego Fucking Chargers. You cannot convince me otherwise. Let’s go Fucking Chargers!!!
The grey trim on the pants for the Portland Winterhawks is both home and road. They have one set of pants.
Interesting to note. WHL teams have been wearing white at home to start the season this year. The usual was dark at home for the first half of the season, then switch to white at home after Christmas and through the playoffs. Haven’t heard anything but I expect they will switch to dark at home for the second half and playoffs.
My beef with the Capitals is emphasizing the “t” because they can make it look like a hockey stick. Why don’t they place importance on the W or the C? Even I can make a hockey stick out of those letters.
Capitals are at or near the top of my list for NHL teams needing a uniform redesign. The Weagle would make a better crest on the front of the jersey compared to what they have now. Weagle is basically their 1a primary logo now. A new Capitals uniform needs stars on it and stars along the side of the pants.
The Weagle is one of the strongest potential jersey-front logos in the modern NHL, whereas the Capilals lettering is barely a C-minus mark for a print logo, and among the worst jersey-front logos in NHL history. I say as a devoted Caps fan. Why they stick with the mediocre letterhead when nearly all hockey fans agree about the visual greatness of the Weagle is beyond me; there’s a level of Dan Snyder cussedness behind the choice to stick with the uniforms that everyone recognize as lacking.
That big green square of an ad patch completely distracts from the great beauty of the Canucks’ flying skate jerseys. On their regular blue-and-green jerseys it’s still obnoxious but it doesn’t *completely* clash; on the black jersey, though, it’s so distracting, it’s GIANT SACK OF FREAKING CONCRETE bad.
Agreed that the Caps are way overdue for a uni redesign.
Those aren’t generic uniforms the LA Rams offense is blocking. Those are the old Eastern Division Pro Bowl uniforms from when the Pro Bowl was in LA. link
I was talking about the soccer ball. I made no reference to the font, whatsoever. Ask me next time if you don’t understand what I am talking about.
“celebrating the Hispanic population in SD should entail some inspiration that San Diegans can embrace, not something that is quite specific to a different city in a different country.”
History: SD used to be a part of a Mexican territory (renamed “Alta California” in 1824, two years after Mexico won its independence from Spain in 1822). Being a part of Mexico IS a part of SD history and it’s not a stretch to say cities/states embrace their history. A well known example of cities/states embracing all of their history is “Six flags over Texas” (which, coincidentally, also includes Mexico).
I should have said “Latinos” but the info on Wiki said “Hispanic”, so I parroted. Nevertheless, I would imagine that most of the people that are demographically considered “Hispanic” or “Latino” in SD can trace their heritage to Mexico (which is literally just a few miles away and was home of the 1968 Olympics), so I would imagine anyone specifically of Mexican heritage in SD would openly embrace that part of the design, and that could be up to 1/3 of their population.
I would have thought SD’s proximity to Mexico with a large Hispanic (Latino) demographic and the soccer ball on the logo with the graphic design elements of the 1968 Olympics should have made my statement obvious.
This was meant as a reply to Dave, sorry.