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When Nike took over the reigns and became the official manufacturer of uniforms and gear for the NFL, one of the obvious drawbacks was the gaudy “toilet-seat” collars that a majority of teams who switched to Nike’s template were forced to wear. Here’s an example of what the teams were
On Thursday, June 2, 2016, the Florida Panthers made their first radical branding change in their 23-year history. Gone is the original 1993 primary “leaping cat” logo and the athletic gold trim colour. Gone is the sun, stick, and palm tree alternate logo. In aesthetics the team now bears little
In 2011, Prince performed a concert in Columbia, South Carolina, the hometown of his drummer, John Blackwell. After the concert, Prince donated a quarter-million dollars to a charity called the Eau Claire Promise Zone, which benefits preschoolers in the city’s poorer neighborhoods. Since then, the donation has had a substantial effect.
Purple reigns today in Minnesota. Prince Rogers Nelson, an extremely popular musician better known to those of us left here on Planet Earth as simply “Prince”, died earlier today at his recording studio in Chanhassen, Minnesota. To show their respects to their fallen hometown star, the NHL’s Minnesota Wild and baseball’s
This story begins with a hockey fan who simply wanted a T-shirt for the minor league team he grew up with. It culminates with a brand-new beer that has reawakened an entire community’s love affair with its long-defunct team. The New Haven Nighthawks played in the American Hockey League for
The majestic Pikes Peak, one of 53 mountains in the state of Colorado that ascend above 14,000 feet, was named for Zebulon Pike, who led an 1806 expedition to the base of the mountain. The mountain has been called a lot of names, including the Arapaho “Heey-otoyoo” (Long Mountain), El Capitán (by Spanish explorers in the 1700s), Highest
The ECHL’s Ontario Reign are moving on up to the American Hockey League next season where they will be the top affiliate of the NHL’s Los Angeles Kings… and with that they will have a new logo. Borrowing heavily off of the logo originally used by the Kings from 1988-1998, the
We’ve talked multiple times about how college football uniforms are basically the Wild Wild West of the sports logos/uniforms world. You’ve got schools who now pride themselves on wearing a different uniform every week, other schools who are willing to drop school colors in the name of looking cool, schools
The ECHL’s Toledo Walleye and Evansville Icemen will square off November 22 wearing Batman and Riddler jerseys. The “Heroes Night” celebration commemorates Batman’s 75th anniversary. The jerseys’ designer, Jeff Tasca of Athletic Knit, was originally asked only for jerseys, but the self-proclaimed comic geek was given free reign and came up with two sets
When you think of Ontario and hockey, the first thing that leaps to mind is probably not southern California’s Inland Empire. But that’s where you’ll find the minor league Ontario Reign, an affiliate of the nearby LA Kings. The Reign play in the double-A ECHL, which used to stand for
Twenty years later, the big purple dinosaur is coming back to Toronto Raptors basketball. The Raptors announced yesterday that as part of their 20th season celebrations next year, the team will wear their original purple road uniforms for select home dates. “We are excited to bring back a piece of
Hallelujah. The worst abomination from the new Nike reign over the NFL jersey universe is all but expunged from the playing field. The ridiculously stupid two-colour necks, that made a player look like they had a dress shirt on under their jersey, have disappeared for all but three teams, according
