Catching Up

There has been a lot in the last two months in terms of uni-related news and developments, and while certainly I won't strive to cover all of them, I'd like to comment on a few:

The NHL has returned to Winnipeg, and so too have the Jets. No uniforms yet, but the Jets have unveiled colors and logos. While I wholeheartedly welcome the return to Winnipeg and the reuse of the Jets name, I was hoping to see a sharper result in terms of logo and colors. Yes, they get points for basing their primary logo off of the emblem used by the Canadian Air Force, but on whole the design was a bit ho-hum. On one hand, there are way too many teams in the NHL using some combination of red, white, and blue so I understand the heavy use of gray, but there's no avoiding the dull look it creates. I think their secondary logo looks almost too much like it belongs to an airline, and the curvy script J-E-T-S, while traditional, is far too frilly to belong in hockey. Still, it's hard to criticize too much when we haven't seen the uniforms yet.

Among the host of usual changes a new season of college football ushers in are the new threads Oklahoma State will be wearing. I don't know about you, but beyond one of the greatest proclamations of middle-aged masculinity in the history of ever, I don't know much about OSU. I do know that their previous uniforms were one of my least favorite, making these new threads a major upgrade. They offer a clean, modern look and a black alternate that is, in what seems like an unprecedented miracle, NOT BFBS. You can snag a closer look at this new uniform set at http://www.nikeblog.com/2011/07/28/oklahoma-state-uniforms-amazing/. 

Staying with college football, the Michigan State Spartans will be donning Nike's Pro Combat uniform series for the first time this year. No word yet on what they'll look like, although if you do enough digging, you'll find plenty of mediocre-to-terrible mockups of what they 'might' look like. MSU however is just one of the other schools along with Army, Boise State, LSU, Navy, Ohio State, Oregon and Stanford that suit up in Pro Combat gear this coming season. As outlandish as most of the Pro Combat uniforms have been, it seems as though Nike's mentality has been, "as long as it's crazy–no one will notice how bad it looks." Say what you will about some of those uniforms, I'm just glad they only wear them for one game.

Expect more catch-up in the near future as I am able to get some features posted as well; that's all for now.