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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.

Symbolic of where the Hawks are as a franchise right now, unfortunately.

Yeah, most likely. My understanding is that SP Sports has been making University of Minnesota’s jerseys since 1999, whether those jerseys were tagged Nike, Mission, or Easton.

If it’s Nike and the jerseys look more or less like what their output in college hockey has been the past years, I can live with that. Each jersey manufacturer has its own quirks, and in recent NCAA hockey, it’s been truncated sleeve stripes. But other than that, the Nike schools in B1G hockey—Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio State, Penn State, Michigan State—generally looked pretty good. Or at least, no worse than the average NHL team. It also shows that if the client wants a traditional look, Nike can do that, too.

Wonder how he feels about diagonal letters or cursive word marks…

Gophers wore them for their 100th anniversary set and they looked great.

I suppose an originalist would go back and look at what Northwestern originally wore to determine what people were calling a Northwestern stripe. And I think the original jerseys support the monocolor interpretation, but since most people also apply it to the USC version, it’s futile go against common usage. (And yet every day a grammar teacher will get after someone for ending a sentence with a preposition or splitting an infinitive.) Northwestern–Purdue from 1932:

I think a lot of people don't know IATA has city codes for multiple airport cities, so if you're searching for flights to a city and are indifferent about airport, many search engines will allow you to use these codes: Chicago's is CHI (covering ORD, MDW, and RFD, though apparently not GYY), New York's is NYC (covering JFK, LGA, EWR, and HPN), DC's is WAS (covering DCA, IAD, and BWI), London's is LON (covering LHR, LGW, LCY, STN, LTN, BQH, and SEN). So in that sense, the White Sox are wearing Chicago's IATA code CHI on their City Connect uniforms, which as you mention is a little better than the alternative ORD or more locally-fitting MDW. Anyway, list of these IATA codes here: https://wikitravel.org/en/Metropolitan_Area_Airport_Codes

I know I've been here for a long time and should know this, but I thought Northwestern stripes technically meant monocolor stripes--i.e., a thin stripe with offset thin stripes all of one color. Or maybe it's other way around--i.e., a thin stripe with offset stripes of a different color. Either way, if Northwestern stripes only mean one or the other, then either the black jerseys or the purple and white ones aren't Northwestern stripes.

Agreed 100%. Match the shoulder and pants stripes, and those uniforms would improve from being solid to great. But no matter what, SDSU needs to be referencing the Faulk era in their uniforms (more than just color scheme). As an aside, I was at the game Faulk ran for 299 at BYU. Easily the best single performance by any player I’ve ever seen. It was one of those typical no-defense WAC games—BYU ended up with 560 total yards and still lost.

The Aztecs had a set that was on point. Then they ditched them.

Yeah… that reminds me…

I get it. But it still doesn’t explain why they didn’t choose Utah Institute of Technology or Utah Technological University, or even Utah Polytechnic University. As far as I recall, Utah doesn’t maintain separate U and State U systems like California or Minnesota, so there was really no need for the “S” in the UPSU.

I like the name change, but I'm surprised they went with Utah Tech University as their official name. Not Utah Institute of Technology. Not Utah Polytechnic Institute. Not even Utah Technological University. Just Utah Tech University. Of all the other "tech" schools out there--MIT, Caltech, Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech, Michigan Tech, IIT--they had to follow the lead of Texas Tech.

I think that’s the general consensus.

And may it always be that way. Seems just like yesterday that the Flyers were subjecting us to this (and its hideous Edge cousin, which I refuse to post):

*80s. The 90s Pens were Robo-pen. Of course, if being dated is your primary critique, you’re ignoring the 900 lb, straight up 40s gorilla on the ice. The Rangers uniform has arguably as many flaws, it’s just that it’s had 70ish years to become endearing. For the record, I think Rangers–Pens matchup is the best-looking first round matchup.

Oh, absolutely. I say it facetiously because visitors always complaint about how stone cold sober Provo is and yet every year a BYU athlete will get busted, not by the university but by the Provo cops and local media. Of course my friends on the football team back in the day used to claim Provo cops would follow them around, and it wouldn’t surprise me if that were true to a degree. The city of Provo’s has a love-hate relationship with the university that is very different than, e.g., an SEC school and it’s town. I get why the Knights put their AHL team in Henderson, but I do think they missed a huge opportunity to spread their brand up the I-15 corridor by not putting the Silver Knights in Salt Lake City. Because of geography and history, Utah has more of an affinity towards Las Vegas than Denver anyway, but putting an AHL team there combined with the buzz the Golden Knights already generated would solidify the growing Utah market for the Knights.

As much as this BYU grad would love to see NHL in Provo, there are at least two problems with this: 1. They don’t sell beer at LaVell Edwards Stadium. Or pretty much anywhere else in Provo (and yet BYU football players somehow are able to find it and consume it in front of either a cop or the media). 2. More importantly, there aren’t very many hockey fans in Provo. I know, as I was one of the few. In fact, for being a winter sports haven and a former Winter Olympics city, Salt Lake City is a surprisingly mediocre hockey market. That’s not to say there aren’t hockey fans there doing the Lord’s work spreading the gospel of Howe, Orr, and Gretzky, it’s just that there aren’t enough of them to even make a smaller venue like Rice Eccles Stadium work.

Isles-Devils in Piscataway. Make it so.

If the Hurricanes insist on wearing black alternate jerseys, they should differentiate themselves from every other black alternate team by wearing red breezers. I know the Wings and Rangers are currently the only red-breezers-only teams, but Carolina (and Columbus) should join that club and wear red breezers regardless of jersey.

Good. Then they can bring back this:

Makes me wish I would have bought a Getafe Burger King jersey:

Looking south from Canada, east is on the left.

Georgia's proprietary font suffers from the same problem as Wisconsin--their lines are too thick giving them a bloated appearance. If they went from Bulldog Bold to as hypothetical "Bulldog Regular" or even "Bulldog Semibold," I'd probably be fine with. Maybe I'm a sucker for art deco, but the numbers on the throwback uniforms Washington used many years back (no to mention the originals on which they were based) were fantastic.