BBTV Posted November 16, 2014 Share Posted November 16, 2014 I thought some team said that you have to take a number that is within N from another existing number to make it look more like a team and not having guys standing out with super high numbers. "The views expressed here are mine and do not reflect the official opinion of my employer or the organization through which the Internet was accessed." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBubba Posted November 17, 2014 Share Posted November 17, 2014 I thought some team said that you have to take a number that is within N from another existing number to make it look more like a team and not having guys standing out with super high numbers.Was it Calgary? I know Burke's implemented a "1-50" rule, and I think that may have been part of his reasoning. Nobody cares about your humungous-big signature. PotD: 29/1/12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BBTV Posted November 17, 2014 Share Posted November 17, 2014 I don't even remember if it was hockey. I guess it would make sense that it's a hockey team since there aren't too many outlier numbers in baseball and basketball. "The views expressed here are mine and do not reflect the official opinion of my employer or the organization through which the Internet was accessed." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeypower Posted November 17, 2014 Share Posted November 17, 2014 Nah, Burke's is part of his old time hockey shtick. If they were good enough in the '30s, it's good enough now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echo Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 On a related note, James Wilson freaks me out.Actually this year Wilson is wearing #49. Van Gaal made him change it because as a striker he "should have a 9 in his number". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OffCenteredScoreboard Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 On a related note, James Wilson freaks me out.Actually this year Wilson is wearing #49. Van Gaal made him change it because as a striker he "should have a 9 in his number".wow that chevy ad is horrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lights Out Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 I personally admire the creativity but can see why people disliked it.Agreed. I understand they were trying to follow the striping pattern, but it looked like the number and NOB were starting to melt off in the wash. A straight NOB/number alone would have improved those sweaters immensely. POTD: 2/4/12 3/4/12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_Temple_Owl Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 I personally admire the creativity but can see why people disliked it.Agreed. I understand they were trying to follow the striping pattern, but it looked like the number and NOB were starting to melt off in the wash. A straight NOB/number alone would have improved those sweaters immensely.(Boss to person sewing on the numbers): No no no, Johnston YOU IDIOT! Those numbers are perfectly straight and organized! They're supposed to be crooked and wonky! Look! Look at how straight and square they are! They look terrible! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DelayedPenalty Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 Why players choose #0 is baffling to me. Choosing 00 is even worse. I believe 00 is banned in the NHL now, but 0 might still be an option? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmic Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 No 0 or 00 in the NHL. They're not Y2K compliant yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ConcreteCharlie Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 Neil Sheehy was the only NHL player to wear the goose egg ( i think) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjd77 Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 I personally admire the creativity but can see why people disliked it.These have long been a guilty pleasure of mine...these things encapsulate just about everything one needs to know about the '90s era of sports design.This also gives me the chance to bring up another relic from the 90s, only because of something I noticed a while back...Look closely...If you can straighten out the waviness in your mind, you'll notice these two teams pretty much used the same font...the only two instances I can remember of this particular [style of] font being used in pro sports. Speaking of the Motre Bames...as much as I loved that particular uniform set (much more post-'96), the "4" from that set was just inexcusable...Frankly, I like that font better than the Brewers current font. The current one just looks extremely dated to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echo Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 Here's an interesting article about the 1934-35 Montreal Canadiens, who had several players who wore non-traditional numbers, including #99, 88, 75 and 64. Turns out in the early '30s the Montreal Canadiens also had a box lacrosse team, who wore the same style jerseys as the hockey Canadiens. As a cost saving measure (Great Depression and all), they reused the lacrosse jerseys for the hockey team when the lacrosse team folded, resulting in unusually high numbers for several members of the Habs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Admiral Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 "Here are the numbers, the names, and the weights of the players on the Canadiens hockey club. This list is official and was turned in to us yesterday afternoon by the office of the Canadiens hockey club." Didn't even have to check google translate wooooooo still got it baby ♫ oh yeah, board goes on, long after the thrill of postin' is gone ♫ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabrejeff Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 Speaking of traditional goalie numbers and "Uniform numbers that look bad", how about traditional goalie numbers on non-goalies:Chris Nilan wore #30 on three different teams for his entire 10-year career.Turner Stevenson wore #30 for most of his eight seasons with the Canadiens. Donald Brashear wore #35 for all three-plus of his seasons with the Canadiens.Tomas Plekanec wore #35 for the first two-plus seasons of his career. Pavel Kubina wore #31, an inverse of his usual #13, as one of his few different numbers with the Leafs.Those are the ones I can remember off the top of my head (there's probably more). Odd that it's mostly Montreal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echo Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 Odd that it's mostly Montreal.Montreal has a lot of retired numbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hat Boy Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 I don't like the look of the number 4 if it is open at the top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OffCenteredScoreboard Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 from the washington post holtby explains why he is #70: "Is there any significance to you wearing the number 70?No, they just gave it to me at my first camp. I got a surprise call-up my first year, played a few games and people started to buy the jersey. And I felt too bad to change it after I’d seen a couple of people pay money for the jersey, so I stuck with it."http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/capitals/just-asking-the-capitals-braden-holtby/2014/11/12/bad359e2-6116-11e4-8b9e-2ccdac31a031_story.html?wprss=rss_magazinefunny how a "strange" number like that sticks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nash61 Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 Jeremy Brodeur wears number 56 in net for the Oshawa Generals. It looks really odd. On September 20, 2012 at 0:50 AM, 'CS85 said: It's like watching the hellish undead creakily shuffling their way out of the flames of a liposuction clinic dumpster fire. On February 19, 2012 at 9:30 AM, 'pianoknight said: Story B: Red Wings go undefeated and score 100 goals in every game. They also beat a team comprised of Godzilla, the ghost of Abraham Lincoln, 2 Power Rangers and Betty White. Oh, and they played in the middle of Iraq on a military base. In the sand. With no ice. Santa gave them special sand-skates that allowed them to play in shorts and t-shirts in 115 degree weather. Jesus, Zeus and Buddha watched from the sidelines and ate cotton candy. POTD 5/24/12, POTD 2/26/17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windmill360 Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 I think I heard that Ottavino chose to wear 0 because it looks like an "O" which is his last initial. So technically he is #O not #0.Here is another oddity, last season after the Nuggets acquired Aaron Brooks there was a 0 and 00 on the team, which has to be the first time that has happened in sports history.I was thinking that happened for the Utah Jazz. Greg Ostertag wore 00. I was thinking he wore it when Olden Polynice came in 1999. But according to this wikipedia page Ostertag changed his number to 39.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999–2000_Utah_Jazz_seasonSpencer Hawes and Jeremy Pargo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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