Saturday Open Thread

Not the best looking uniforms I have ever seen. One plus at least is no awful looking colored pants.

I just wonder why France’s helmet blue cannot match the blue of the jersey.
Here’s hoping the USA comes out on top. Looking forward to seeing some other unis from this tournament.

Reminds me of the 80s Giants and Patriots.

Another tidbit from the “World Cup” picture… Japan has their nation’s flag on their colored socks! Atta boy, Nippon!

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Barcelona are famous for not wearing a sponsor’s logo and apparently the Unicef logo is no exception as Barcelona wears the logo to support the charity and does not recieve sponsorship money from Unicef.

In fact, Barcelona makes an annual donation to UNICEF in order to wear the logo.

Japan won the game 48-0!?!

The french helmets explanation could just be lack of money. I remember they used to have darker jerseys a few years ago. I am not sure but if you look closer you might find mismatching helmets, socks and pants as well, just like in the french league. Anyway it’s cool they lost 48-zip because the headcoach refused to select the 07 mvp for this tournament.

About the tournament: a whopping six teams are playing. Japan, Sweden, France, Germany, USA, and Korea. ‘All teams will play a round-robin within their group. The top team in each group will advance to the championship game. The second team in each group will play in the third place game and the third team in each group will play in the fifth place game.’

doh. link

UnderArmour continues to have a stranglehold over every sports team that appears in the movies of late. Last night, I saw a preview for that awful-looking movie in which Dwayne Johnson, a/k/a/ “The Rock,” is a pro football player who suddenly has to parent a young child he never knew he had. Guess who provides the uniforms for Johnson’s team? You guessed it . . . UA. I kept waiting for the little girl to say “click clack.”

Oh, and, I’ve been in Ireland for a month and the new Arsenal away kit came out on Thursday and I saw this ad for it while I was looking in one of the shops…dig link.

Interesting article here link

Props for including the Seinfeld reference; negative props for goofing up the end of it.

I just saw this uni-related article on MLB.com about the number 7. link

[quote comment=”115104″]One thing i will say is that I’ve always wanted the Canadiens and Maple Leafs play a red vs. blue match. Maybe they could put one of those together at the Rogers Centre or something…[/quote]

You mean rouge (rouges? I’m not sure if that should be plural or not) vs. blue.

Frances jerseys look like the old Giants jerseys

don’t think its been brought up, but colorado got new football unis

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So, I was watching NFL Films’ “America’s Game” on the 1986 Giants, and during that year’s Divisional Playoff game against San Franciscop I noticed a uni-related oddity that I haven’t been able to find an explanation for. In link it appears that a San Francisco defensive lineman is wearing a black facemask, unlike the grays everyone else is wearing. Is this a lighting trick or is there an actual discrepancy? Does anyone know?

[quote comment=”115102″]Japan won the game 48-0!?![/quote]

Japan is actually going for a three-peat, so they are somewhat of a favorite. (Granted, their second tournament win was only against 3 other teams and this year is the first year the US has participated.) And I mean, c’mon, they were playing France. The pre-game cheese and cigarettes probably got to them 3 minutes into the game and they just couldn’t keep up with link.

[quote comment=”115235″]Flip on the Yankees Angels game on FOX and look at the sleeves on Roger Clemens’ jersey. His right sleeve appears to be cut slightly shorter than his left. FOX even showed a recap of Clemens’ last start in which this was also visible.[/quote]
In even bigger news, he’s rocking the lucky high pants!

[quote comment=”115235″]Flip on the Yankees Angels game on FOX and look at the sleeves on Roger Clemens’ jersey. His right sleeve appears to be cut slightly shorter than his left. FOX even showed a recap of Clemens’ last start in which this was also visible.[/quote]

His sleeve is probably cut shorter b/c that is his pitching arm and it I’m sure he feels less restricted with the sleeve cut short.

um, this is a random question, but does anyone know which of their home jerseys the Mets’ players will be wearing in the all-star game?

Angels/Yanks game on Fox…when did Kyle Farnsworth start wearing specs? Don’t remember him using them as a Cub (Chicago fan here). Willits looking good in the socks department too.

Since the N.L. has been sucking big time in the All-Star Game recently, the Mets players should wear link in an effort to reverse the Senior Circuit’s fortunes.

I really like that blue Spurs Anniversary kit, much more so than the white one.

Anyone else watch the golf today? Anyone else notice KJ Choi’s link on the visor band just behind his left ear? What’s up with that?

Cubs/Pirates game on WGN, Brenly and whoever else does the announcing now had a conversation about the red Pirates vest. I’m paraphrasing here, but something to the effect of they look like they had an unfortunate ketchup accident. Then they went on about who’s idea was it for the red. They said the Cubs might as well have a green or yellow alternate. Apparently they said more Friday (when the Pirates were actually wearing the vests) but since Friday’s game was not on WGN TV, I could not watch it.

On another note, I’ve decided I hate the red billed away hats for the Cubs.

I’ve also decided I hate players wearing soccer socks with their pants high. It doesn’t look right.

I googled searched to see if I could find standings or anything for the World Cup of American Football. I found an article about Japan beating France and as a note at the end was about team USA. It said who the coach was and that the team was made up of college players and said “The United States, making its debut in the World Cup, will face South Korea on July 10 and take on Germany two days later in Group B.” Even pee wee football only plays once a week, whats up with playing 2 games in 3 days?

[quote comment=”115053″][quote comment=”115047″]What I find interesting is that on the Japan leg piping, the writing starts at the bottom and goes up…[/quote]

That way, when the players are seated, the text “Japan” reads right-side up.[/quote]

But that would mean the Japan on the right side would then be upside down when they’re seated–however, both sides are right side up when they’re seated, since on the right, the Japan starts at the top and reads down. (See the nose bumper pic). It’s kind of like how if you lay a cd down face up, the writing on both the left and right spine will be face up as well, as one side reads up and one reads down. Interestingly enough (to the type of people still reading this comment), they didn’t design video tape boxes (or DVD boxsets that have writing on both spines) like this. One side will be upside down when it’s laid flat. At least in most “cases”…

Ryan:

Puma has been using that font since the World Cup. It’s called Puma Pace. It was designed for them by Dalton Maag, a german design company. It was never released to the public but there are plans to do so in the near future.

Also the reason there is so much logo creep on those jerseys as opposed to nike’s set of jerseys currently is because the clothes Puma’s teams wear are all template pieces with custom colors.

This means you can go pick up the same exact pair of those shorts or socks at any soccer store, the difference is the embroidered logo and sometimes the colors. Basically those uniforms aren’t custom designed for those teams (exception italy) and so they have a template which just changes the colors for each team. Hence all the logo creep.

Although generally Puma is much better about it than either of the other two soccer congloms.

[quote comment=”115066″]Here’s the other Uni Watch-style email I got from Kitbag.com…

Football Round Up – Part 2

It’s been a busy week so far with some great new kits going on sale and some massive new signings see below for links to take you straight to the hottest new lines.

The Mission Continues with Manchester United, with the eagerly awaited launch of the new home kit, available to pre order now for delivery on launch day 1st August. There is a new guy at number 10 with Wayne Rooney taking this legendary shirt, get yours now by clicking link.

Liverpool’s record signing Fernando Torres has finally been unveiled at Anfield, get his name and number on either of the two Liverpool shirts including the new away shirt by clicking link.

The second instalment from Spurs 125th anniversary collection is now available to pre order; guarantee yours now by clicking link.

A new era is starting at Portsmouth FC. A great new home kit manufactured by Canterbury is available to pre order now by clicking link.

Celtic’s new away shirt is now available to pre order; get the shirt of the champions now by clicking link.

Thierry Henry’s new club, Barcelona, have got a great new home kit celebrating 50 years at the Nou Camp, get his name and number on the new shirt by clicking link.

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There was some discussion a while back about the Unicef logo on the Barca jersey. Barcelona are famous for not wearing a sponsor’s logo and apparently the Unicef logo is no exception as Barcelona wears the logo to support the charity and does not recieve sponsorship money from Unicef.

There is a chapter devoted to the significance of Barcelona FC in the book “How Soccer Explains the World.” It’s a great book and I recommend it to anyone interested soccer, sports, politics, and / or world cultures.[/quote]
Please please puh-leeeeze stop shilling for Kitbag! They do shit work, use awful replica lettering and are overpriced at that.

link They’re ridiculously large, and look terrible on hats that don’t match the orange color scheme.

I hope someone is still up. Is Dressed To The Nines not working for anyone else?

this has been covered at least three different times this past week.

There’s a database error at the up-to-date site, so that Daniel (and the rest of us) can’t look up uniforms.

[quote comment=”115356″]Ryan:

Puma has been using that font since the World Cup. It’s called Puma Pace. It was designed for them by Dalton Maag, a german design company. It was never released to the public but there are plans to do so in the near future.

Also the reason there is so much logo creep on those jerseys as opposed to nike’s set of jerseys currently is because the clothes Puma’s teams wear are all template pieces with custom colors.

This means you can go pick up the same exact pair of those shorts or socks at any soccer store, the difference is the embroidered logo and sometimes the colors. Basically those uniforms aren’t custom designed for those teams (exception italy) and so they have a template which just changes the colors for each team. Hence all the logo creep.

Although generally Puma is much better about it than either of the other two soccer congloms.[/quote]

Correct for the most part, however some teams have a lightly screened on logo huge on the shirt, like Czech Republic.

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same on the white shirt and for a few other teams.