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Blackhawks whites aren’t even their best jerseys…

Agreed. I actually associate the diagonal letters more with college hockey than the New York Rangers. I assume lots of colleges and high schools did diagonal letters because it was cheaper and easier than a custom crest.

Well then that’s what the Flyers should be wearing to complete their look (with stripes, of course)—the modern day equivalent of Cooperalls. These presumably solve your heat and dangerous issues?

Makes you respect the refs even more, since they have to skate around wearing those unbearably hot and insanely dangerous Cooperalls. And the refs don’t get line changes to rest like the players do.

One thing I do with the Twins would tweak is to adopt the print version of the C on their hats. I would be the reverse of me also wanting the Blackhawks adopt their jersey shoulder patch as the print version of the tomahawk-C logo.

Yep, that’s why I qualified it. I remember my USC buddies would get so riled up hearing Keith Jackson say “Southern Cal.” Made me start using it too just to annoy them.

I wonder what the geographic limits of this are. I’ve lived in the West and the Midwest, and USC always meant Southern Cal (as Keith Jackson used to say). Does USC=Gamecocks extend much more beyond the Carolinas?

And speaking of stripes, Pitt should just get rid of the TV numbers altogether and go with sleeve stripes instead.

There are quite a few teams who’s homes and aways are more than just color swaps: Detroit, NY Rangers, Chicago, Dallas, Buffalo, Carolina, Nashville. Even the more extreme examples like Minnesota and Montreal never bothered me, but I guess to some people it’s all a matter of degree, and the Wild’s looks were too disparate for many. And I understand and respect that.

And I though they had bottomed out last Saturday… ugh. https://twitter.com/byufootball/status/1579484862427590656

The more NCAA hockey teams the merrier. I just hope they aren’t a big of goons as ASU was when they jumped. Dirtiest team I ever saw… I’m also interested to see how long it takes St. Thomas, who jumped from D3 to D1, to become competitive. With their location in St. Paul, I fully expect them to surpass Bemidji in couple of years. I still can’t believe the state of Illinois is a top producer of college hockey talent (outside of the 3 Ms of course) and yet there isn’t a D1 program in the entire state. Either U of I or UIC or both should have D1 teams. But I digress.

Yeah. Rumor among BYU fans was 1996 throwbacks. But alas…

BYU announced updated blackout uniforms for Shamrock Series game vs Notre Dame. I’m a fan of BYU’s traditional uniforms, so not a fan of the gradient helmet. But at least they’re not using the inverted colored logo (white oval, blue Y) they normally use with their blue helmets. https://twitter.com/BYUfootball/status/1576934572448567298?s=20&t=Mn8vNFHQXQW7p7nkpmCyiQ Here are BYU’s previous blackout uniforms:

I’ve been saying the same thing about UCLA—they should just go back to the lighter powder blue and bring back navy as an accent color.

Understood. But in some places where the pro sports teams are called by the state’s name, you have to use the nickname—e.g., using Minnesota would be completely ambiguous in the Twin Cities, so Gophers it is. The habit even carries over to in-state college hockey: you have UMD or Duluth, St. Cloud, Mankato, Bemidji, and the Gophers.

Need a third Bulldogs. Guess that makes Louisiana Tech an instant SEC expansion candidate.

I don’t think the Army wanted them to use Golden Knights either, as that is the name of the Army’s premier parachute demonstration team (Army’s equivalent of the USAF Thunderbirds or USN Blue Angels). And Black Knights of course is the nickname of West Point’s sports teams. On the gold question, I don’t mind teams wearing athletic gold jerseys or helmets full time. I’m a Golden Gopher fan, and while I prefer the hockey team in gold jerseys, I also appreciate, to your point, that by using maroon jerseys, the gold jerseys seem more special. I like the Bruins in gold as well, and wouldn’t even mind if they switched to gold full-time if they based it on their 2010 Winter Classic jerseys (not that they ever would). But Boston and Minnesota’s athletic gold (and Michigan’s maize) look good as hockey jerseys. In VGK’s case, I just don’t like their particular gold for hockey jerseys. It’s not a good shade for a jersey, let alone a full-time jersey.

Vintage Minnesota Hockey storefront has some good examples of the evolution non-NHL jersey aesthetics: https://classicmnhockey.com/collections/frontpage https://classicmnhockey.com/collections/classic-mn-gophers-hockey-jerseys-1 Their history section also has some great charts showing the jersey evolution of Minnesota’s 4 primary hockey universities (sorry Bemidji and St. Thomas): Minnesota Minnesota-Duluth St. Cloud State Minnesota St.—Mankato

Nike’s dark colored matte fabrics all suffer from this problem. Navy blue schools like sometimes BYU or maroon schools like Minnesota have jerseys that seem one shade darker than they should be. Back when the fabrics had some sheen, these colors looked more rich and saturated. From a physics perspective, it’s like the matte absorb too many adjacent color frequencies.

If Vintage Minnesota Hockey linked below is right, SP has been making U of Minnesota’s Nike/Bauer/Mission/Easton-branded jerseys since the Gophers originally switched from Champion to Nike in 1999. https://history.vintagemnhockey.com/page/show/893654-u-of-m-uniform-evolution-1922-2014-

I don’t disagree (how could I?), but the bigger main point is that fans who dislike a logo will come up with a pejorative shorthand to describe it.

Agreed. In hockey, refs routinely call over captains (or alternates) to explain a call or addressing behaviors they want to end. I’ve always assumed that by rule, only Cs and As could formally address the refs to complain about calls or seek explanations, which is one reason why goalies rarely wear a letter. So it makes sense for the hockey refs to be able to identify the Cs and As. I’m a lifelong football fan, and I don’t see the same logic applying to football. Maybe my perception is wrong here, but other than the coin toss, to refs ever specifically address the team captains? Do refs ever need to know who the captain is? I figure they just assume whoever comes out for the toss is the captain.

And the same reason the late 90s Bruins bear logo is called Pooh Bear even though it’s a fairly accurate rendition of a bear (c.f. Meth Bear for a less accurate rendition).

Come now, 37 is a bad number. It’s like you showed up for intramurals, they passed around the laundry bag of jersey vests, and you ended up with the last vest, which was 37.

As much as I miss the Waldo jersey, the 2006 set (including alternate) overall is till probably my favorite set. I recall most of 2006 Nike sets being pretty on point. Since 2011, I feel like Nike's off-World Cup sets have been better than their World Cup sets.