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By Phil Hecken Hallowe’en may be today, but we got a few treats from the NCAA ranks yesterday, beginning with Army vs. VMI yesterday at West Point. No, your eyes aren’t deceiving you, Army broke out full camouflage uniforms. In case you’re not familiar, that’s the “Army Combat Uniform” pattern, or ACU for . . . → Read More: In Which I Praise a Combat Uniform By Phil Hecken, with “The Jeff” Provo A few weekends back, I began the first of two tutorials on colorization. Many of you e-mailed me to thank me and a couple of you even sent me some of your first attempts. The following week, I tried to convey my technique for colorizing black . . . → Read More: Colorization – Third Coat It all started back on Oct. 5, when Robert Marshall sent me the photo shown at right and asked, “What the heck is that on this Kentucky Wildcat?” I had no idea, so I forwarded the photo to Hemet Hut honcho Curtis Worrell. He said the jaw contraption looked familiar but he couldn’t . . . → Read More: And He Won the Heisman the Following Year  145 comments - (Comments are closed)  College Football, Customization/Modification, Facemasks/Visors, Helmets, History As most of you have noticed by now, many of the new jerseys for the upcoming college hoops season have featured two new chest marks: a blue NCAA basketball logo and a manufacturer’s mark. Here’s the short version of the backstory on this: The NCAA has been concerned about an increasing number of . . . → Read More: Rules, Bylaws, Logos, and a Lot More 107 comments - (Comments are closed) College Hoops, Jerseys, League Logos, Logo Creep, Uniform Manufacturers Bill Henderson recently sold a copy of his excellent jersey guide to a woman named Patsy Elmer (that’s her at right), who runs an Arizona operation called BigTime Jerseys She’s done work for the Suns, Globetrotters, and Diamondbacks, and she liked Bill’s guide so much that she wrote back to him with some . . . → Read More: Because Draft Parties Aren’t Limited to the NFL, NBA, and NHL Giants equipment manager Joe Skiba is shaping up as the NFL’s seamstress tailor of the year. A few weeks ago he sewed up a gash in Ahmad Bradshaw’s pants, and then last night he performed some emergency surgery on Chris Snee’s jersey, as seen above. Of course, Snee probably wouldn’t have needed that . . . → Read More: That Sew-and-Sew We all know there’s no consistency regarding the striping and side panels on the Bengals’ jerseys. But even by Cincy standards, Morgan Trent was wearing something very odd-looking yesterday. Never seen the orange panel look truncated like that. I’m assuming this is another side “benefit” of Reebok’s super-stretchies. Progress, it’s a beautiful thing, . . . → Read More: Monday Morning Uni Watch By Phil Hecken, with “Bootheel Ben” Traxel At Uni Watch, we’re all about uniforms. The Obsessive Study of Athletics Aesthetics. Even those of us who are more conservative in our uniform views may have a “secret” team or uniform we really like, for whatever reason. As much as I am a fan of . . . → Read More: Because the NCAA Needs More Teams Like The Ducks |
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