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Final Score: Cowboys 24, Giants 14
New York football Giants equipment director Joe Skiba recently sent me a serious blast from the past: a 1976 Giants program. Naturally, it’s full of interesting tidbits, so let’s take a look: • Here’s...
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“The Rose Goes In The Front, Big Guy”
By Phil Hecken & Rick Pearson Classic line, classic movie. Said by Crash Davis to Nuke Laloosh in “Bull Durham.” Great baseball movie, nice unis. Some sports movies just strike a chord in us, and...
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Because Nothing Says Cool Like a Middlebrow White Guy
Got a DVD in the mail the other day from reader Kevin Gallo. It contained several uni-related baseball video clips from 1983, including one that by all rights should be legendary throughout the...
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I Don’t Think Don Draper Worked on Any of These
I recently came across a bunch of old uniform ads from assorted sporting goods brands. I started to add them to the Ticker and thought to myself, “Terry Proctor’s gonna shit when he sees these.” But...
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Who ARE These Guys?
By Phil Hecken, with Rick Pearson As we wrap up 2010, I’m joined by Ricko, as he and I join forces for our year-end quiz. It’s been a while since I worked with Rick, and as always, our sage uniform...
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Fridays With Morris
[Editor’s Note: Morris Levin will be contributing an article each Friday while Paul takes his break. Enjoy! — Phil Hecken] “No, I just meant Miami….. what did you just say?” By Morris Levin The...
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Monday Morning Uni Watch
Great game last night, and I’m really happy for the Giants (and also for weekend editor Phil Hecken and webmaster John Ekdahl, both of whom are lifelong Giants fans), but this wasn’t exactly the most...
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The Story Behind the Commercial
. On Monday morning I mentioned and embedded the “NFL Timeline” commercial that ran during the Super Bowl (and, as you can see above, I’ve embedded it again today). It’s supposedly about player safety...
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Pig with the Pigskin
As the outrage over Monday night’s NFL game spread across the nation yesterday, I wondered what the local reaction was like in Green Bay, so I went to the Green Bay Press-Gazette’s web site. There was...
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Kap Kontroversy
Click photos to enlarge What you see above, from top to bottom, are an original game-worn Brooklyn Dodgers cap, circa 1940s; a Brooklyn Dodgers cap made for use in the upcoming movie 42; and a...
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Major Blast From the Soft Drink Past
Click to enlarge Oh baby, check out this amazing 1930s ad for Celo soda featuring Dodgers pitcher Dazzy Vance, courtesy of reader Bruce Menard. Interesting uni detail: We’ve seen plenty of...
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I’ll Drink to That
I had meant to mention this on Monday (and I thank reader Nik Streng for reminding me): As many of you probably saw over the weekend, Pepsi was running a really great commercial during the NFL...
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MLB in 3D
[Editor's Note: Today we have an excellent guest entry by David Firestone, who's provided a close look at a unique element from MLB uniform history. — PL] By David G. Firestone From 1956 to 1958 the...
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Some Thoughts on the Pacers and Their Hickory Uniforms
Click to enlarge Big news yesterday out of Indiana, where the Pacers announced that they’ll be wearing Hickory uniforms from the movie Hoosiers for select games next season and beyond (no word yet on...
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A Very Close Look at NFL Captaincy Patches
As we all know, Uni Watch readers like to “go deep” on certain uni-related topics. But some readers go deeper than others. A good example of that is this missive I recently received from reader Ryan...
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How a Uni Watch Reader Was Almost in a Bill Lee Movie
[Editor’s Note: Today we have a guest entry from Michael Clary, who’s going to tell us about a near-brush with stardom involving former Bosox/Expos pitcher Bill Lee. — PL] By Michael Clary Back in...
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A Look at a 1965 Mets Program
Reader Brian Sullwold’s mother was recently going through her attic and found something cool: a 1965 Mets program, apparently purchased and saved by Brian’s grandfather half a century ago. His...
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Pharmaceutical Ad Includes Clever Logo-Centric Reference
A TV commercial for an anti-stroke drug called Xarelta, featuring NBA legend Jerry West, began running back in August (see above; it seems to play better in Chrome than in other browsers, at least for...
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Some Thoughts About Mary Tyler Moore’s Vikings Jersey
Mary Tyler Moore died yesterday. For those of us who grew up watching her eponymous sitcom, which was set in Minneapolis, one indelible image of her will always be the bit in the opening credits where...
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Uni Watch Movie Review: ‘The California Golden Seals Story’
I recently had an ESPN piece about how Alex Ovechkin was about to become the first NHL player to wear custom-painted skates. A few hours after that story was posted, I received an email from a...
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