In today’s Ticker: The college and pro football uni seasons kick into high gear, a retro Hot Wheels auto racing livery, and more.
Uni Watch News Ticker for Sept. 7, 2023
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Baseball
MLB
- We all know about the problems with the NOB font on the Mariners’ navy jerseys, but it looks like the Twins’ navy jerseys have some issues as well. (From Ryan, who didn’t give his last name)
Football
NFL
- Some Broncos fans got the team’s logo stenciled onto their cars.
- Here are this week’s uni combos for the Bills, Jags, and Lions. (Thanks, Phil)
College
- Very slight helmet adjustment for Virginia Tech: The center striping, which used to be solid, now has thin white spacing. (From Andrew Cosentino)
- Washington State will salute the late Mike Leach by wearing the same uni combo they wore when he coached his final game for WSU in 2019. (Thanks, Phil)
- Here are this week’s uni combos for BYU , Oregon, and Utah. (Thanks to all who shared)
- Virginia is adding “UVa Strong” to one of its end zones. (Thanks, Jamie)
CFL
- Here’s a fun piece about how the Roughriders/Blue Bombers rivalry became known as the “Banjo Bowl,” complete with its own musical instrument-themed trophy. (From Kary Klismet)
Hockey
- The Russian-based KHL has unveiled a new costumed mascot. (From Kary Klismet)
- The OHA’s Hamilton Steelers are relocating and becoming the Stoney Creek Tigers. (From Ross Taylor)
Basketball
NBA
- Some uni number changes for the Bucks.
- Several arena upgrades in the works, including a new scoreboard, for the Thunder. (From Kary Klismet)
Soccer
USA
- The Major Arena Soccer League’s Mesquite Outlaws are changing their name to the Texas Outlaws. (From John Flory)
International
- Argentina: Racing Club recently made a small badge adjustment for testicular cancer awareness. (Thanks to all who shared)
- Italy: New third shirt for Napoli. (Thanks, Anthony)
- Spain: Barcelona plans to add a black away shirt next season. (Thanks, Phil)
- Spain: Real Madrid has posted a video showing upgrades to its stadium ahead of the 2023-24 La Liga season. (From Kary Klismet)
- Ukraine: New kits for FC Kryvbas. (From Ed Zelaski)
More
- Interesting article about how soccer players modify their cleats. (From John Flory)
Tennis
- Karolina Muchova’s mid-match outfit change resulted in a bit of drama during Tuesday night’s women’s quarterfinals.
Auto Racing
- NHRA driver Ron Capps used a 1973 Hot Wheels-themed livery on his funny car at last weekend’s U.S. Nationals to honor legendary drag racer Don “The Snake” Prudhomme.
Volleyball
- Virginia’s volleyball team is playing at John Paul Jones Arena — the school’s basketball arena — for the first time on Oct. 29. (Thanks, Jamie)
- Power Volley Milano’s new kit features a map of the Milan subway system. (From Jeremy Brahm)
Rugby
- New men’s World Cup kit for Japan, made from — get this — recycled fan uniforms. (Thanks, Phil)
Grab Bag
- New uniforms for fast food chain Subway.
- Owego Free Academy in upstate New York has changed its team name from “Indians” to “River Hawks.” (From Kary Klismet)
- Also from Kary: Kean University in New Jersey has updated the look of its costumed mascot.
Comments (19)
The Lions still insist on wearing plain white pants on the road…yuck…
Is there any NFL team who has such great “primary” uniforms that also has probably the worst set of alternates (white, stripeless pants, mono-gray CR), AND one of the best throwbacks in the game (which they chose not to wear last Thanksgiving, preferring instead to wear the horrid mono-gray)?
FFS, their redesign (featuring the new blue hat) can’t come soon enough.
The Colts?
Their standards are almost perfect…heck, even the gray facemask works well with them.
The all-blue alts were pretty bad – now they have a re-design in denim with a shiny black hat! Terrible.
The back horseshoe throwbacks are wonderfully understated and under-used (which is OK by me).
If the white pants had some blue stripes, maybe they wouldn’t look so bad. But, then again, the Giant’s white pants with just the red stripes look a little plain to me as well. Let’s not forget the Lions probably have one of the most boring looking endzones at Ford Field. At least make the letters contrast a little from the rest of the endzone.
Really do like the blue helmet though. Just not with the boring gray unis.
White pants is a great (read that as ‘preferred’ if you’d like) road look for a good number of teams…the Lions are not one of them. They should have but 1 set of britches – silver.
The Jags/Colts match-up is simple yet effective.
The Bills get-up puts a damper on the return of the Jets’ Sack Exchange homage.
I just don’t understand the trend with the mono-color uniforms? I guess like I don’t understand the skin tight jerseys with the loose undershirt sticking out from under them.
I agree, except Nike can’t make metallic football pants worth a damn. They’re ruining the Lakers, 49ers and Saints (when they aren’t ruining themselves by going black unitard).
Lakers?
I just saw this, and being at work, couldn’t scream out loud, but internally? link
It’s only the biggest stage the Lions have been on in a long, long time, and they go with one of their worst looks. I’m half-tempted to root for Kansas City to blow them out just on sartorial principle!
The Lions have basically two Color Rash unis thanks to this damned white yoga pants combination and those God-awful mono-grays that are getting paired with the new blue helmet. The next uni set can’t come soon enough, and hopefully they’ll do better than… this.
I think this is the Lions’ best look. Not that any of them are very good. I would think they’d be at or near the bottom of any non-obsessive’s uni rankings
Um…
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even this
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is better than that icy white shit
No. This is college-level garbage. There are teams with better practice uniforms than what the Lions are wearing tonight.
That Snake Hot Wheels funny car is so beautiful. It needs a Mongoose friend, of course.
It is the same on the CFL schedule every year. Labour Day Classic is Winnipeg Blue Bombers at Saskatchewan Roughriders. The rematch the next week in Winnipeg is the Banjo Bowl.
Interesting report from the 4 letter network on jersey numbers
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Lions wearing mono white tonight? Count that as an L. Would love to see this game in red vs. blue. Would it kill the NFL to allow that?
I’m guessing you’ve been linked to this, but since I don’t have twitter and cant see.. the Browns added a 32 to the sidelines:
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That’s new. Thanks!
The Bills mono blue, and mono red are both so ugly. They need to knock it off already.