Jets patch

Here's the patch the Jets will wear on the 26th.

I like the shield shape but the mix of green and red doesn't do much for me. As stated elsewhere on site/blog, I have mixed emotions about it. Certainly there's pride in remembering the glorious and historic, even iconic victory that made Namath a NY god-for-life.

Then there's the depressing thought of "God damn thats a long time to go without getting back to the big dance" Of course since I spent a lot of those 40 years, as Joe Herman would put it, "whoring around the league" (as a fan)... so I don't feel that pain as much as the bone deep bitter lifers of Jet nation. However, much as when your wife or girlfriend is sufficiently annoyed by something, the pain becomes yours as well because you have to hear about it. Whatever it may be. In this case I know this point will bring up bile from my Jet fan friends which they will spew in quantities that will make it inevitable that I will have to wade through it ankle deep.

Oh well, I have rubber boots... and Brett Farve under center this year ; )

Evil genius

re Photo ID contest on main site www.footballfashionfanatics.com

Danny Rock won todays photo contest identifying... well I won't say just to see how many others get it. The tricky bastard just moused over the photo and got the name of the file and googled the name.
(channeling Stewie) DAMN YOU!
Can you tell I'm new to this thing? So Herr Rock wins 10 imaginary points redeemable for future FFF merchandising crap.
Anywhooo I changed the file name so lets see if anyone else can identify the pic by legitimate means.

Another patch item. The Jets will be wearing a 40th anniversary commemorative patch of the last franchise super bowl win on Oct 26 vs the Chiefs. I don't know about you but do you really want to remind people that its been that long since a championship? The Jets are also one of the teams in the league with a standard front of shoulder patch so will this one replace that one temporarily or will there be dueling patches. If so where will the captains patch go? Burning issues, I'm sure you'll agree

Patch Proliferation paranoia

Logo creeps evil twin "Patch proliferation"(tm) has reared it's ugly head once more. I like this patch.


You may have noticed it on the Chief uniform, an altogether fitting tribute to Lamar Hunt. If you'll forgive the F Troop reference, Hunt was to the Chiefs whatt Wild Eagle was to the Hekowi's. I guess that would make Hank Stram the Crazy Cat. (Of Lamar's prime). Herm Edwards, sorry to say because I like the man, is looking like Screaming Chicken. But I digress.
I was under the impression it was a one year patch but, according to the awesome AFL history site run by the Coniglio family http://www.conigliofamily.com/AFLdecals.htm it's now a permanant part of thier uniform. I fear for my family. Once the patches overrun the jersey numbers societal anarchy won't be far behind. Mark my words.
On a related note they have this patch labeled as a suggested patch for the upcoming 50th anniversary of the AFL.






I suppose it's a cool idea (as patch ideas go) but who would wear it? All teams? Original AFL teams? Just the AFC? What about the teams that started in the AFC but are now NFC? My head hurts. I'm tired of this, I'm going to make coffee.

Throwback update

But, oh yeah. One more thing, the Chargers will be wearing their Powder Blue alternates this weekend. This sucks because it reminds you of how great the Powder Blue throwbacks are and how much the alternates suck by comparison. What Einstein designed that alternate and didn't include the helmet numbers?

The Jets will be in their NY Titans throwback uni's against the Bengals this week as well. Yeah baby.

Word is The Raiders will be going with silver numbers on their white jerseys next year, also as part of a tribute to the 50 year anniversary. Shades of Daryl Lamonica.

A few people asked me what was up with the refs wearing black pants in a few recent games. I was stumped, my head still reeling from the all the dizzying changes to the zebras get-ups of the past two seasons. However a clue comes from the bible of this pointless trivia, Uniwatch. Apparently the black pants are cold weather pants. Glad thats somewhat settled. I don't know about you, but that one was keeping me up at night.

And finally Stiener had the answer to the "Stump the commissioner" video question of the week with this sneering, condescending e-mail.

AJR= Arthur Joseph Rooney. Hell, even my 9 year old knows that. Stiener

Well played sir! Thank you for bringing our knowledge base up to the level of your nine year old. I never imagined we'd reach such dizzying heights when we started this project. Kids let this be a lesson to you. Dream big and you may even exceed your wildest expectations! (I bet she knew about the refs black pants too, didn't she?)



Remember, check out main site for other content or the baby gets it. http://www.footballfashionfanatics.com/

God dammit !

Now I know from my Google analytics that a shitload of you visited yesterday, I'm guessing from Stieners post on the Jet message board but not very many visited the main site. Well I didn't want it to have to come to this but if you don't go to the main site and check out the content there I'm going to drop this baby. Don't test me man, cause I'll do it... I swear it... I'll make Micheal Jackson look sane. I know I'm smiling but trust me it's a Jack Nicholson Joker evil smile. I mean business! Now click on this link and nobody gets hurt.

http://www.footballfashionfanatics.com/

Holy Shit, I found it !

Well raise my rent! I found it. After my usual half assed effort to find out if there was indeed a NY Titans away jersey I came up dry and quit. (cont' below, the next paragraph accompanies the pic from the website I found it on )http://www.conigliofamily.com/TitansJets.htm

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In the third game of the 1961 season versus the Boston Patriots, Titans fullback Bill Mathis broke his collarbone and this jersey was cut and removed from his body as he was helped off the field. Despite the injury, Mathis went on to play all 14 games that season - a testament to the toughness exhibited by the players of the American Football League. He led the AFL that year with 202 attempts, was second in rushing yards with 846 and second in touchdowns with seven.

Then I was going to address Stieners issue of poor number visibility by suggesting that since there was white in the shoulder stripe, why not outline the numbers and nameplate letters in white? So I went looking fot a generic pic of the NY Titan jersey currently in use and stumbled across this beauty. Check out the stripes at the bottom of the long sleeves. I want it,... I want it bad. Its reminiscent of a Vikings away jersey of the seventies, isn't it?

No need to thank me Stiener... it's just what the crack staff of FFF does... yep... ahhh.

NY Jets/Titans away uni?

Just a few days ago Stiener was wondering if the NY Titans had an away uniform back when they were the precursors to todays Jets.
Well, apparently he wasn't the only one thinking along those lines. I just read this little item in Paul Lukas' Uniwatch.com

According to this message board post (sent my way by Steven James DeBlasi), the Jets “have announced that they … will unveil an away Titans uniform next season.” I have my doubts about that, at least in terms of a game uni, although a fashion replica isn’t such a stretch.

As I recall when the subject was last raised, I didn't follow up because my lovely partner had just offered to "love me long time". Since she's out with having coffee with the girls I'm going searching for that info right now... really... no really. Back soon

Check out new AFC North Power Rankings on main site www.footballfashionfanatics.com

New and improved !

Ken, (Left center) and his agents of the Swedish national guard have their eyes on your suspicious activities Mr. Hate mail person

Well, here I have a semi response to Danny Rocks response to my response of his hate mail from yesterday. You still with me? Anyway, although I can't recall all the details of Mr. Rocks complaints because, lets face it, nobody can spare the amount of short term memory that would be required to store the endless stream of nonsense that spews from the front of his head on a daily basis. (Am I right Ulrika, eh? are you feelin' me?)

First off, I was referred to as "Snapperhead" ! A throwback insult... Well played sir!

But I do recall something to the effect of wanting more images to go with the commentary. Well Daniel, go to the just posted power rankings and behold the glory. In each review is a "click here" that brings you to the teams slide show for the week and you will have a chance to see with your own two beady little eyes the details being "diskussed" ; ) ... and so continues our relentless march to NFL fashion website perfection.

Whoshyadaddy, whoshyadaddy, whoshyadaddy....

btw, thnx for Homer sox n corn muffins

First Hate Mail !

Check it out...

Daniel said...
Hey! Old man river! Could you diskuss some current events too so we who didnt exist during the civil war can participate. And post more pictures tho what you are discussing. Its kind of hard to follow when you cant see it. Specially for a rookie like me. There you go Ken! Your first of many hatemails! Dannerock

All right, lets break it down... Old man river... good. A pedestrian hit but it brought the man down. Next up, the spelling of "diskuss". It's discuss but hey, he's not a native English speaker so we're gonna let that one slide. The civil war comment... its just a continuation of the old man river theme. A little bit of piling on there... I like! Next up another spelling error... "specially".... "hey Lucy, you got a lot of 'splainin' to do. ; ) ... ok, sorry, now I'm piling on.
All I can say is that I feel your pain and that as I get better with handling images in the software I will try to remedy that situation and violate copyrights left and right till I have lawsuits coming out my ass... this I promise.
Aside from that what can I say, I'm grateful and humbled and I'm going to print this out and frame it as my overdue first hatemail on this site.
Thank you Dannerock

Dick Lynch, former NY Giant player and later radio announcer died this past week. He had a special connection to our own FFF commissioner Rich Geary.


He took off his commisioner's hat and prepared to step into a nearby phone booth to undergo his weekly metamorphosis into Giant man. But the usual joy associated with this process was tinged a somber streak. He pulled the Topps trading card from its protective plastic cover and slipped it into the other protective plastic cover of his quarterbacks wristband.
The big Dick in the sky would be calling the plays for Giant man this weekend. He paused to wipe the tear from the corner of his eye as he looked at the worn card. It was scratched and worn from the many "flipping" competitions he'd battled through as as a kid at St Joe's grammar school. Back then being a Giant fan meant nothing but seemingly endless crushing defeats and non stop taunting from the other kids.
But Dick Lynch had symbolized hope for him. Dick Lynch had come from an era just before his time when the Giants were a powerhouse to be feared. Dick Lynch was his namesake. You see Giant Man didn't just pop up out of the ground or appear out of thin air... no, his is a genetic condition inherited from his father. And so it came to pass that when the future Giant Man was born on 11/11, the father added up the numbers and coming up with 22, he realized it was a sign from the football gods and he named his new son after the Giants current 22... Dick Lynch.
And so with the disease succesfully passed along to a new generation, he did what all Dads back then did right after a birth, (before all this mamby pamby, touchy feely crap trapped us all in the delivery room for the bloody duration)... he hung up the phone, made the announcement to the other bar patrons, passed out cigars and went back to work on his third tumbler of scotch.
I was watching the Giants tattoo the Seahawks last night and one of my uniform related thoughts was about how much I love the Giants white numbers with no border. Bold, great, simple. Ditto the helmet numbers. Then I look at the picture above and see how this is exactly what the commisioner aka Giant mans current uniform configuration is and I know that the football circle of life has come around to form the big Ok thumb and forfinger sign and that it's coming from Dick Lynch up in the clouds... and I think he's winking too. Or maybe he just has something in his eye, I'm not sure.
But you get my point. RIP Mr Lynch. Any fan of Dick Butkus knows that there has been more than one great Dick in the NFL but as far as Football Fashion Fanatics is concerned... you were the biggest.
Ken