By Phil Hecken as well as Jeremy Brahm
[After a brief hiatus, UW Pacific Rim Correspondent Jeremy Brahm is behind currently to bring to us a demeanour during a foe which doesn't get a lot of fool around upon Uni Watch: Australian Rules Football. you got my initial taste of this foe in a nascent days of ESPN, behind prior to No Limit Texas Hold 'Em was featured in primetime, as well as well..."Prime Time" still hadn't played a down in a NFL (or an inning for a Yankees). While you admit you never quite accepted a sport, being a cross in between American football as well as rugby in my mind, you did suffer examination it during your convenience it was upon a telly. And they've got a small unequivocally cold uniforms too. That's where Jeremy comes in. So, without serve ado, let's take an in-depth demeanour as this erotically appealing foe which receives small or no airtime anymore in a United States (although which might be changing), yet which is quite popular elsewhere. Enjoy! -- Phil]
As a youngster who initial got wire in 1981, ESPN during which time was a consternation since you regularly got something brand new upon a radio which you might have never seen before, even not upon ABCs Wide World of Sports. A number of a readers asked about Australian rules football uniforms (call them guernseys or jumpers, mate) in June after a posting about a striped hosiery for a single of a teams. But who can dont consider about a goal umpire lab coats as well as hats. Sadly, right away they demeanour identical to a unchanging officials, solely which they get to wear a hat as well as pants. They still call a flags though.
Today, Ill give you a bit of a story as well as well have a demeanour a Australian Football League as well as their clubs. you wish to give a large thanks to Rob Meredith as well as his website, footyjump! ers.com as well as Wikipedia.
The Australian Football League (AFL) essentially dates behind to 1896, when 8 clubs pennyless away from a Victorian (State) Football Association, Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Geelong, Melbourne, St. Kilda as well as South Melbourne (now Sydney Swans). In 1897, a Victorian Football League (VFL) was created. These teams were all around a Victoria state as well as centered upon Melbourne as well as a suburbs.
In 1908, Richmond as well as University were expansion team, yet by 1915 University had disbanded as well as left a joining with 9 teams. In 1925, Footscray (now Western Bulldogs), Hawthorn as well as North Melbourne assimilated a joining as well as these 12 teams would all sojourn in their stream place as well as a partial of a joining until 1982.
After a 1981 season, a South Melbourne Football Club moved to Sydney as well as became a Sydney Swans. You can see a old Victorian Football League trademark here as well as upon a physique of a swan. With a Swans move, a VFL had spin an widespread foe since Sydney is in New South Wales.
In 1987, a West Coast Eagles as well as Brisbane Bears assimilated a joining as well as therefore it became a national competition.
In 1990, a joining was renamed a Australian Football League. The joining serve stretched to Fremantle, dual teams in Adelaide (Port Adelaide as well as a Adelaide Crows) to a stream sixteen teams, which included a partnership of a Brisbane Bears with Fitzroy to spin a Brisbane Lions.
In 1999 a AFL instituted away or strife uniforms. This was due to a fact which a small teams have identical designs or colors for their uniforms. Such as Essendon as well as Richmond, Essendon as well as Carlton, North Melbourne as well as Geelong, North Melbourne as well as Collingwood, Collingwood as well as Geelong, Melbourne as well as Essendon, as well as Melbourne as well as Carlton.
Previously teams would wear white shorts to compute themselves (look during those photos again as well! as you will see it). Now these swap designs have done it easier for players, officials as well as fans to compute to a teams. (But for a most partial a teams jumpers have not unequivocally altered which much, over a years.) And right away for a teams:
Adelaide Crows, formed in Adelaide, South Australia. The Crows colors have been army blue, red as well as gold. Their army blue can crop up to be black with a light hitting it (2008 model). This years initial unvaried (home) looks roughly exactly a same from a front, solely for a miss of a black side panels to a bottom as well as a bullion sleeve as well as neck cuff cuffs. Also they have been well well known to wear striped socks. Their strife indication for this past deteriorate uses a bluster as a centerpiece with yellow as well as red panels accenting a birds shape. The Crows have a brand new trademark as well as a 2010 strife unvaried is white with a fierce crow.
Brisbane Lions, formed in Brisbane, Queensland, a Lions have been a multiple of a Fitzroy Lions as well as Brisbane Bears in 1996 as well as proposed fool around in a 1997 season. The unvaried colors have both teams history, maroon (Brisbane Bears), blue (Fitzroy) as well as bullion (both teams). Fitzroy was formed in Victoria state as well as when a Lions fool around games there, they adopt a red, bullion as well as blue tone scheme, which was Fitzroys tone scheme. You can see upon a behind of a uniform, BBFFC or Brisbane Bears Fitzroy Football Club. Their stream initial unvaried looks identical to it has over a years, yet usually with a change in a collar. The Lions usually altered their trademark to this. And here have been their uniforms for 2010.
Carlton Blues, formed in Melbourne, Victoria as well as have been well well known for carrying an interlocking C (Carlton), F (Football) as well as C (Club) upon their chest in white. Their strife jumper is white with dim blue side panels as well as a interlocking trademark in dim blue as well. Both looks to me have been classics sinc! e they h ave been unequivocally simple, yet striking with a chest logo. They additionally wore a Livestrong special in Jul this past season.
Collingwood Magpies, formed in Melbourne, Victoria. Collingwood warranted their nickname since of their white as well as black stripes which mirrored which of a magpie. Their initial unvaried as well as strife unvaried have been mirror images. The initial unvaried is some-more black, whilst a strife is some-more white. Surprisingly a Magpies do not wear striped socks. you would identical to to see a opposite pattern for a strife unvaried usually so which it is unequivocally different. Like this a single from 2002. Even Collingwood as well as Carlton have had problems with a identical uniforms in a past.
Essendon Bombers, formed in Melbourne, Victoria, have regularly had a red cincture from a left shoulder to a right hip upon their black tops as well as striped socks. Their strife unvaried looks similar, usually with a wider cincture as a diagonal line. What is funny yet is which when they face Richmond, identical pattern yet with a yellow sash, they have to write a letter to a AFL says which Richmonds unvaried clashes. Maybe they could wear a white unvaried with a red sash?
Fremantle, formed in Fremantle, Western Australia, have a purple, red as well as green tone scheme. Paul would consider which it would demeanour horrible, yet a initial unvaried looks flattering decent since a white anchor separates a other 3 colors. But a behind looks uncanny with a red as well as green sections stopping so high. If they went all purple upon a back, which would have been fine. The strife unvaried is white with a purple anchor. Very simple, yet keeps a anchor a same as a primary, usually in a opposite color. Originally a nickname of a organisation was a Dockers yet Levi Strauss & Co. challenged a bar since of their Dockers brand (now not a partial of Levi Strauss). After a 1997 season, Dockers was forsaken officially, yet it still an unofficial nickname from a fans.
Ge elong Cats, formed in Geelong, a suburb southwest of Melbourne, have been well well known for their army blue vertical lines (hoops) upon a white uniform. Their initial unvaried is identical to their chronological colors. Also a Cats have ragged striped socks. But with an introduction of a brand new trademark in 2008, a Cats done their strife unvaried demeanour identical to their logo. you unequivocally identical to this strife demeanour since it is a infancy tone as well as a striking looks cool. For a 150th anniversary of a team, combined in 1859, Geelong wore a special jumper with a names of all of a players, in all years, for a Round sixteen diversion upon Jul 18th, 2009.
Hawthorn Hawks, formed in Melbourne, Victoria, have been well well known for their yellow as well as brown plumb striped uniforms. Sometimes a Hawks wear striped hosiery as well. Their strife unvaried is formed upon their organisation logo, yet with small yellow in a design. Personally you am not a fan of a yellow as well as brown tone intrigue as well as cite a strife unvaried to a initial strip.
Melbourne Demons have been well well known for carrying a army blue bottom with a red V border for their initial uniform. This year (2009) a Demons have introduced a red strife unvaried with a delegate Demon logo, in army blue. you identical to a look, which is most better than their strife unvaried from 2008.
North Melbourne Kangaroos have been well well known for their stately blue as well as white vertical stripes. The strife unvaried which they have been regulating has been called Argentina stripes for good reason. Still not as bad as this a single in 2000 as a a single off with Orange cellular service. For their unchanging unvaried in 2000, usually change a orange to a light blue as well as there you go.
Port Adelaide Power, formed in Adelaide, South Australia have a white, silver, black as well as teal tone scheme. Can anyone contend San Jose Sharks? The initial unvaried is well atrocious, teal chest, black to! rso, fra zzled white as well as black lines. Hell this strife unvaried from 2003 looks better than what their initial unvaried looks like. The 1870 upon a behind of a neck is when a organisation was combined (as a club, not when they entered a AFL which was in 1997). Their stream strife unvaried in white with a sash-like teal as well as black looks nice. The all teal behind could be better in white with teal numbers. This week a Power announced complete change in their jumper designs, an instant classic as well as they have been written by a 7-year old, brilliant!
Richmond Tigers, formed in Melbourne, Victoria, have been well well known for their black unvaried with a yellow cincture from a left shoulder to a right hip. The strife unvaried had additional yellow side panels. They could do a white strife unvaried with a yellow cincture couldnt they?
St. Kilda Saints, formed in Melbourne, Victoria have been a single of a difficult fitness teams in AFL story with usually a single premiership (Grand Final win) in 1966 as well as a single of a couple of teams in a world which have had a hang figure for their mascot. The Saints have a red, white as well as black tone scheme, which is shown in 3 panels for their initial unvaried as well as even 3 colored striped socks!! Their strife unvaried has a far-reaching white row as well as a white behind to have white a accepted tone for a uniform.
Sydney Swans have been a usually organisation in New South Wales, have a white bottom with a red V border with a outline of a Sydney Opera House during a bottom of a V. The Swans additionally wear striped socks. Furthermore, upon a behind of a uniform, you see SMFC for South Melbourne Football Club, which was where a organisation was formed prior to moving to Sydney.
West Coast Eagles, formed in Perth, Western Australia, have a army blue, white as well as bullion tone scheme. The Eagles have a 3 row initial unvaried with a Eagle head trademark in a center of a chest. you would cite which a complete trademark be ! summariz ed in white since a behind gets mislaid in a army blue. Their strife unvaried is formed upon their strange home uniform, with white additions yet with a stream Eagle head logo. This week you found which a Eagles had altered their strife jumper for a 2010 season. Dont these demeanour identical to a strife jumpers of Adelaide?
Last is a Western Bulldogs, formed in a Western suburbs of Melbourne. The Bulldogs have a red, white as well as blue tone scheme. In Westerns previous story as a Footscray Bulldogs, had a story of blue tip with a far-reaching red plane ribbon summarized with white lines. Western has a single after another a demeanour with a initial uniform, yet combined a Bulldog head upon a bottom white line. The bulldogs ear is summarized in red, whilst a line to a eyes is blue, where a line comes from. you would identical to to see a blue or red outline for a numbers upon a back, instead of this. Also notice a FFC for Footscray Football Club. The Bulldogs strife unvaried is white based, with a red plane line as well as a blue plane line as well as a Bulldog head trademark in a middle. The behind does have an outline in white upon a plane lines. you identical to how a trademark is incorporated in to a unvaried upon both initial as well as strife versions.
Also Australian Football from time to time has a small special events as well as special uniforms, such as a Indigenous All-Stars team, with a rebound as well as roughly even a smiling face with a logos looking identical to eyes. And a Legends match from 2007.
Now with ESPNs agreement with a AFL, you can watch a AFL again upon radio without a pay-per-view subscription. So lay back, put a shrimp upon a barby as well as toast a Fosters to a indeed Australian game.
~~~Phil here. Thanks Jeremy, for which erotically appealing demeanour footy down under.
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If you didnt catch Thursdays criticism thread, you might have missed this small ditty from Beardface:
You know what would be a fun plan Coming up with a list of a most appropriate probable unvaried for any organisation in a NFL. Use any unvaried in their past as well as choose a most appropriate one. now, of course, youd have teams identical to Carolina where you have a default, yet which would be a fun project, dont you think?
A couple people played along, yet this thought never generated any real legs. But a essentially a good suggestion for a project. Only, instead of tying it to a NFL, lets embody all a major sports. OK, hockey too. So, in a comments below, consider of your a one preferred organisation in any foe as well as consider behind (or, forward) upon what was a greatest unvaried set which organisation ever had. Is it a stream one? Or is it something from way behind when? Lets see what you can come up with. To get this started, you had dual suggestions from Thursday Ill repost here as examples of a most appropriate uni set a organisation ever wore: Saints as well as Lions. Gotta say, those have been both beautiful unis as well as expected good possibilities for a most appropriate uni set a organisation has ever worn.
What contend you, readers? Pick a foe as well as post a pic (or if you cant figure out how to post a link), report a year(s) a organisation wore a certain style of uniform.
Kudos to Beardface for a suggestion!
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As most of you have been aware, yet a rest of you have been notRicko as well as Teebz have been in a routine of organizing what theyre job a Winter Classic as well as theyre hoping to spin it in to what could be a unequivocally unequivocally fun event for any as well as all medd! lesome U ni Watchers. Ill let Rick report it:
~~~Even as you speak, Teebz (he of Winnipeg as well as Hockey Blog In Canada) as well as you (Ricko) have been commencement skeleton for a initial Uni Watch Winter Classic, a gathering here in a Twin Cities in January.
Paul might attend. Hes discussing covering Pond Hockey as well as other things with ESPN. Im assisting him with a list of story possibilities, together with an interview with Ray Crump, who purportedly fashioned a initial flapped batting helmet, for Earl Battey of a Twins (Crump owns a commemoration shop/baseball notable relic kitty dilemma from a Metrodome). Perhaps a Vintage Minnesota Hockey Jerseys folks? Maybe a small curling?
Were articulate Jan 22-23-24, 2009 to be precise, during which not one, yet TWO Pond Hockey Championships have been scheduled.
U.S. Pond Hockey Championships upon Lake Nokomis nearby Mall of America.
North American Pond Hockey Championships upon Lake Minnetonka, in a distant horse opera suburb.
Saturday a 23rd is Hockey Day in Minnesota
Also possible
Minnesota Wild versus Detroit Red Wings, Thursday a 21st during St. Pauls Xcel Energy Center. Wild is a difficult ticket.
Minnesota Timberwolves versus New Orleans Hornets (not, unfortunately, in their Mardi Gras unis), Friday a 22nd during Minneapolis Target Center. Special upon tickets, $20, together with a small kind of selected t-shirt.
Wild versus Columbus Blue Jackets, Saturday a 23rd during a X with Hockey Day in Minnesota patch giveaway. Not as difficult as Thursdays Red Wings game, yet still tough.
Possibility of NFC Championship during Metrodome which weekend (said possibility, lol). Tickets flattering most unfit yet you could tailgate.
Teebz cant get any info upon road house organisation rates until you have a small thought of how most bedrooms well need. The most appropriate gamble right away is which well focus upon a La! ke Nokom is Tournament. Its older, has some-more rinks as well as teams, as well as is a bit some-more whimsical, perhaps. Plenty of places to eat in a neighborhood, together with a span of joints which claim a Juicy Lucy as their signature snack as well as another with fabulous pizza.
Lodgings would then expected be in a area of a airport./Mall of America. That means easy light rail connectors to a airport, a mall as well as downtown (Target Center for Wolves as well as Metrodome).
When a time comes, either Teebz as well as you can hoop bedrooms as well as tickets by a PayPal accounts.
So distant you have half dozen or so locals committed, plus Teebz as well as rpm (Robert Marshall) from out-of-town, as well as Phil is working upon ways to precedence a small of his estate early so which he can swing it, too.
For now, wed identical to a small feel for who would be interested. Any some-more form Chicago? Wisconsin? Hey, a Teebz, Grand Poobah of a UW Hockey Wing, as well as with any luck, a beautiful Mr. Marshall, Phil, as well as maybe even a Fearless Leader/Founder.
Some links:
Lake Nokomis
Lake Minnetonka
Vintage Minnesota Hockey
Curling
Crumps. Baseball Museum
Elsies, voted Twin Cities most appropriate bowling (near downtown)
So post if youre meddlesome email me as well as you or Teebz will be in touch.
Looking brazen to meeting as most of you as possible,
Ricko
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OK, thats gonna do it for today. Obviously, you didnt get to a Clarksville Design-A-Uniform competition entries in time for this weekend, yet you will have a lot of time this entrance week to get to those so all of you who sent me your submissions, theyre coming. Lots of college football, with riflery games aplenty today. Lets see if those superhero costumes Nike is outfitting their tip programs with perform as well as they have been hyping them. Dont dont consider about to post your suggestions for most appropriate uni matchups in a comments for Jimmy Vilk, (or your worst, as a case might be), as well as lets have your suggestions for your a one preferred teams most appropriate unvaried demeanour in their unvaried history. Everyone have a good Saturday!
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