Uni-Watch

I've been saving this post since sometime in late June, allowing the topic of college football to slowly simmer back up to the surface. And here it is, September and we are now already in the middle of the season. It's a perfect time to bring up one of my favorite time destroying activities...evaluating uniforms.

For those of you new to this type of keen evaluation, there are a boatload of resources to help ease you in. In fact, ESPN online actually pays a guy to write a column about uniforms that appears every once in a while. In addition, he has his own blog which is updated more frequently. Based on the time and effort he puts in to evaluating uniforms, I wonder if he does it full time.

Anyway, my post stems from a list released in June from Sports Illustrated giving their top 10 best and worst uniforms. They came up with the list after Oregon State announced their snazzy new duds.



All in all I thought the list was a little silly. For example, SI lists Michigan on their best dressed and Delaware on their worst dressed. Huh? Did they same guy/team of editors work on these projects? The other funny one was their inclusion of Yale.



I guess no one bothered to look at BYU?

The one thing I did think SI got right, which to me should be unanimous across the globe, is that the Oregon Ducks have the worst uniforms ever. One of my favorite photoshopped pictures has Oregon ties. Here is the latest in Oregon fashion. Notice the chubby fellow second from the left. He's no lineman. Actually, he's in his costume carefully photoshopped to show us all what the movie Tron would have looked like if it would have been shot in Oregon.


Anyway, evaluating uniforms is fun. Or at least can be if you have nothing else to do. With that being said, I'll leave you all with my all time favorite football photo with newspaper caption. Here's to you Marquis Weeks and your uncanny gift of description.

Mr. Weeks had just scored a touchdown on a 100 yard kickoff return and was pretty excited talking to the newspaper. His exact quote, in case you can't quite read it from the newspaper, "That was just instinct. Kind of like running from the cops." Awesome.

Have a great college football season and go Cougars!