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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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?)



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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.