Tech note

Just a note to say that I just realized that the click here's don't actually work on the blog. They work on the site so if you want to see what the items refer to just go to the site version of the item at http://www.footballfashionfanatics.com/.

Or you can wait for me to figure out how to make the links work on this blog but I've got a constantly puking, dumping, crying baby to deal with. The baby just turned six weeks old and you guys with kids out there know what that means. Yeah, that's right; it means the post birth ban on sex has just expired so I also have a partner who needs... ahem... attention.

So the point is that I wouldn't hold my breath if I was you waiting for me to fix a tech problem. Yes I know its probably a simple thing that even a semi computer literate chimp could handle, but even a simple computer thing can tie me up for hours. These are hours I need to stay on the cutting edge of football fashion for you our faithfull, charming and talented readers .... ; )


Here's a pic of us before we became covered with spit up and reeked of diapers.

This is a woman who looks good in a football jersey and even went along with making "Tank" one of our kids middle names.
Shortly after he popped out I mentioned that he had a neck like Tank Johnson. I would have been happy using it as a nickname but she insisted it be on the birth certificate.
Believe it or not this was mild compared to what she actually claimed to want to name him before he was born..... D'Brickashaw ; )
Is that a great football partner or what?

New reader question takes the cake

Our very own "Beach Gal" comes through with this question.

"Are the teams only allowed to wear their throwbacks twice a season, and what does a hot voluptuous beach gal like me have to do to get busy with a football fashion stud muffin like you?"

..... ....... ok, I added the last part of that question but first part was legit.

The answer is yes and I suspect she was throwing us a softball just to get us warmed up. It may have been a pity question but much like a pity squeeze... We'll take it.

The better question that it brings up is "can a team wear its throwback on two occasions and then an alternate on another?" And so I pick up the red phone on the FFF main desk and call to our crack team of fashion researchers to crank up the phone lines and huge mainframe FFF computers to find an answer.

More later on this developing issue

Fans rejoice over release of NFC west power rankings

Follow this link to go to one of the most exciting weeks of power rankings ever.... EVER !

http://www.footballfashionfanatics.com/Week_6_nfc_west_power_rankings.html

Also this from the Browns website:

Brown pants update: No, the brown pants the Browns wore in their Aug. 18 Monday night massacre against the Giants were not set ablaze. They're collecting dust in the team equipment room and will be there for the next three years.
When an NFL club requests a special uniform change, it must live with it for a period of five years. The Browns pants were requested two years ago and only used that one time.
At the time of that uniform change request, the Browns also were granted permission to use the 1957 uniform that they will wear Monday night against the Giants. The throwback style has the player numbers on both sides of the helmet instead of on the shoulders of the brown jerseys.

This neglects to mention that the changes include thinner pant striping and that the helmet stripe is just white as opposed to the current white bordered by brown....

Updated Wow with Seahawk details !

What a weekend of football uniform pageantry!
There’s just so much ready to spew from my fevered brain that I’m going to go stream of consciousness and let you poor bastards sort it out.
The Rams shock the Skins… is it coincidence that they look spectacular with the white pants and tastefully striped pants. There was a little dignity in their unpretentious look that’s been lacking the past few years. Sure, other people will go on about it being their first game under new coach Haslett. What-e- veeerrr. To many Ram uni’s click here without a pants stripe of any kind the past few years if you ask me. All that they need to do now it turn that vertical shoulder stripe back into the curling Ram horn that it used to be.

Watching the Texans Miami highlights halfway through that game I was reminded of how much I wished they were consequential because I really did like their uni this week. click here Understated shoulder striping, great choice of colors, a logo simple sleek and macho. Then they go on to beat the surging Fins… coincidence? Maybe.

The NY Jets in Titan uni’s keep the good mojo going with another win in the Throwbacks. click here Previous complaints about the uni include poor visibility of the numbers. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again… Woody, tell the boys in design to make it a double layer twill number with a white outline. It would fit the color scheme and solves the visibility problem. I know its not 100 percent authentic but neither is the colored facemask or the Nike swooshed shoes. Either go all out or make this little adjustment for the fans in the seats.

In other Jets news, new punter Reggie Hooges hails from Ball State. I hated to see our token Aussie go but Reggie gives me an excuse to implore new readers to go to the weekly column archives (link on the weekly column page) and read about the fighting gonads of Ball state ; )
Final Jet note: Love that the grounds crew at the meadowlands put the Jet end zone logo in NY Titan colors…. Nice touch

New favourite wacky football name… Defensive lineman for the Bengals, Frosty Rucker. Shades of Alien 2 “Stay frosty, man” Anyone with that name deserves his own little fan club along the line of Gurellas Gorillas. Maybe a steroid buff version of Frosty the Snowman as a mascot?

Random note. Basic FFF principles include detesting with every fiber of our being solid tops together with solid pants. Seattle being one of the prime offenders. However to even out the balance sheet, gotta say I love that rounded shoulder panel tab thing on the Seahawks white jersey. I think that’s unique to them. Kudos

Interestingly enough you can see that skill positions have the rounded shoulder tabs but it appears the linemen do not. Things that make you go hmmm.... Still can't say why but I love that flourescent green pant stripe and collar stripe. There's just nothing like it anywhere else in the league, and even though I like it, I don't think it should be copied. I think it's just a one off thing that works. Thoughts? Comments? I'm talkin' to you Stiener.

The Card come up big beating the Cowboys. The Cowboys have one of the best uni’s in the league but as I watched the highlights I was struck at how good the Cards looked in their Tillman reds. Click here The Boys looked stale somehow and the Cards looked more solid and traditional than usual but the thin front curving pant stripe puts them squarely in the new millennium. It was a upset for the Cards on the design scoreboard as well as the stadium scoreboard. Nobody saw this one coming.Especially not Johnny Niland who just recently denigrated the Cards D as weak while trying to demean the Jets victory over them. Perhaps, before the season is over Phoenix will come to describe more than just the city they call home.

Random note: New Bud lite ads tout it’s superiority due to it’s “Drinkability”One of the many things I love about beer is the absurdity of the ads related to the product but this pushes the limit. Unless some competing brand has decided to put out a beer in gel form, I can’t see how any one of them is more “drinkable” than the other. They should just claim that those cool colored bottle shaped aluminium containers are a reason to choose them. That I could agree with.

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