Speaker 1: Welcome to Special Teams, a production of I Heart Radio
Speaker 1: Greetings and Welcome inside Special Teams. With Jason Smith and
Speaker 1: Mike Harmon, we are your house as we take you
Speaker 1: through what usually is a very special year in sports
Speaker 1: for a specific team in sports history. But one of
Speaker 1: the fun things we get to do here on the
Speaker 1: show is played with the format a little bit because
Speaker 1: special teams can count for a lot of different things.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's two great teams playing against each other in
Speaker 1: a big game. We chronicle their seasons, sometimes the season
Speaker 1: that where a team wins a championship, sometimes they come
Speaker 1: just short, sometimes they win no games. But special teams
Speaker 1: can mean many things, and we figured something fun to
Speaker 1: do now while we're going on, we're getting through the
Speaker 1: coronavirus pandemic, and you know, we're not having sports for
Speaker 1: a law period of time, and how are we getting
Speaker 1: through things? Mainly as we wait for full seasons across
Speaker 1: the board to return. We're gonna do something a little
Speaker 1: bit different this week. The NFL has spent most of
Speaker 1: the off season revealing new uniforms. He had seven teams
Speaker 1: revealing their new uniforms over the course of the off season,
Speaker 1: and and look the Chargers look great. Uh. The Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers uniforms look really good. They go back to
Speaker 1: the Pewter pirate concept. The New Patriots uniforms look really good.
Speaker 1: They're using the color rush uniforms. And the Brown's uniforms
Speaker 1: look good. They have the big three stripe on the side.
Speaker 1: Some other ones not so good. You know, the Cults
Speaker 1: is a little bit lacking. The Falcons are using all
Speaker 1: black jerseys and okay, that's gonna look how it's gonna look.
Speaker 1: And the RAMS logo is the RAMS logo, which is
Speaker 1: all the way down at the bottom. So look at
Speaker 1: you soft shoeing those bottom feeders. Well, well we we
Speaker 1: have a we have a lot of bottom feeders to
Speaker 1: non soft shoes. So I figure, if I soft shoe now,
Speaker 1: it's not it's not as much of a soft shoe.
Speaker 1: Later on you start waiting, you know, playing like um
Speaker 1: whacking day on the Simpsons where you're going out and
Speaker 1: hitting the snakes and you just start whacking these bad logos,
Speaker 1: bad jerseys right off to jump. So with that in mind,
Speaker 1: we figured, why do we do with special teams where
Speaker 1: we look at the best uniforms that some special teams
Speaker 1: war in baseball and football history, because those are really
Speaker 1: the two sports where you pay attention to the uniforms
Speaker 1: the most. And these are now going to be an
Speaker 1: episode where it's about the best uniforms, What were the
Speaker 1: best looks that we liked, What are some of the
Speaker 1: worst looks that we liked? And then we'll get to
Speaker 1: a topic that is near and dear to my heart,
Speaker 1: and near and dear are many other people because it
Speaker 1: involves hats, because you know me, I'm a hat guy,
Speaker 1: as I wear my Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs hat as
Speaker 1: we do this podcast, because the you know, the mascot
Speaker 1: is an iron Pig, and so the logo is a
Speaker 1: piece of bacon. I mean, that's prety cool, that piece
Speaker 1: of bacon on a hat. See, that's where it gets fun.
Speaker 1: The minor league hats because they do a lot of
Speaker 1: one off promos, and we we see promotional days at
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball, but they don't generally change their logos
Speaker 1: and uniforms completely to go for a single day minor
Speaker 1: league baseball, and we can sell a little bit of merch,
Speaker 1: right yep, get them on. I never thought that I
Speaker 1: can't believe minor league teams hadn't had that much money.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do one off hats. You're a minor league team,
Speaker 1: you're playing short season single A ball in CANASTDA. You
Speaker 1: have enough to keep changing hats this often, but yet
Speaker 1: they do so Hey, I'm not gonna complain, but it's
Speaker 1: really really weird. Look, if you buy in volume, you're
Speaker 1: gonna do just fine. You buy enough hats. You gotta
Speaker 1: be able to have figured that out. Oh yeah, I do. See.
Speaker 1: I always had an idea where and I don't know
Speaker 1: if this works. You minor league hats are and yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I got a pat in this idea. Minor league hats
Speaker 1: are like the like I think they're the greatest hats
Speaker 1: in the world. Minor league baseball hats, all different teams,
Speaker 1: all the different crazy as. They look awesome and and
Speaker 1: they're made really well. If you had, like a minor
Speaker 1: league had of the month club where I would pay
Speaker 1: say twenty dollars a month and I would get from
Speaker 1: either forty seven brand or New Era, whoever was, I
Speaker 1: would get a minor league out of the month that
Speaker 1: they're they're specializing that month. Hey, this week, you're gonna
Speaker 1: get the Syracuse Mets hat. Okay, and you get it
Speaker 1: in your size, and it's twenty dollars a month. Now, look,
Speaker 1: these hats normally go for anywhere between twenty five and
Speaker 1: thirty thirty five dollars. So, okay, twenty dollars a month,
Speaker 1: and I get a hat, all right, that's not bad.
Speaker 1: I'll use that and I can push my collection. I
Speaker 1: can get the hats I want to and and I
Speaker 1: wind up getting a deal on it in the process.
Speaker 1: And I think there's enough people who like hats out
Speaker 1: there where that could work. I mean, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't have the business model law worked up, but
Speaker 1: I think that could work. I think that can definitely work.
Speaker 1: We just gotta work on the distribution. May we've got
Speaker 1: all these other box clubs. Right, here's your Avengers box
Speaker 1: with a bunch of you know, merchandise each month. You
Speaker 1: if you work on the hat, maybe get some decals
Speaker 1: or something small thrown in and away you go, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you've got a subscription series with
Speaker 1: some products that that you roll through. I like that
Speaker 1: subscription series. I like that right there. Uh so we
Speaker 1: we'll so we'll get to that. At the end. We'll
Speaker 1: get two hats at the end. But we'll start off.
Speaker 1: Why don't we start off with the best four MLB uniforms. Now,
Speaker 1: I will do baseball first and we'll get into football. Alright.
Speaker 1: So here's what I looked at you. I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: you my favorite four and you tell me what you think.
Speaker 1: Uniforms you like, agree or disagree? Oh cool, because I've
Speaker 1: got some great lists in my own. So best four
Speaker 1: uniforms in Major League Baseball now, in no particular order.
Speaker 1: Best four they have right now? The Cardinals baby blue uniforms.
Speaker 1: Cardinals logo with the blue that looks so sharp and
Speaker 1: so cool. Look, I just can't get enough of staring.
Speaker 1: The logo looks some The logo of the Cardinals with
Speaker 1: the two birds in the bat looks. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: just striking when you see it on a on a
Speaker 1: jersey with the baby blue, and so you're you're kind
Speaker 1: of heartless, fantastic and hard day of Oh sure, I
Speaker 1: go back to John Tudor and the World Series against
Speaker 1: the Brewers, playing against the Brewers. Yeah, Oh that looks.
Speaker 1: That looks that's a fantastic looking uniform. Okay, I'll give
Speaker 1: you that one, alright. I dig that one. Okay, I'll
Speaker 1: run mind past you on the on the back end,
Speaker 1: keep going all right, all right, So I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with the the Oakland A's and they're deep green uniforms
Speaker 1: that they wear now just really catch the eye and
Speaker 1: and it goes back to looking like how they looked
Speaker 1: in the in the seventies. Look, the big bold colors
Speaker 1: always look good, especially in Major League Baseball. You can't
Speaker 1: get too crazy with with different colors, you know, different
Speaker 1: like like in the National Football League where here's a
Speaker 1: jersey where we have seventeen colors on it. Okay, not
Speaker 1: looking so great, but that deep green the A's have
Speaker 1: that they I see that and I go, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm thinking back to those great A's teams of
Speaker 1: the seventies ease and even the good teams they had
Speaker 1: in the early eighties. But just that color, the deep
Speaker 1: colors that that teams us that that are that are bold,
Speaker 1: but yet they're they're a little bit darker, but they
Speaker 1: don't lose any of their color. And that's how I
Speaker 1: feel when I look at I look at the as
Speaker 1: it's a weird way to describe it, but that deep green,
Speaker 1: I just love that color. So much well, it gives
Speaker 1: you some of the throwback, and again some of it
Speaker 1: is remembering the uniforms from when we were kids and
Speaker 1: seeing how well those are orchestrated and executed in in
Speaker 1: return mode. Sometimes it's successful. Sometimes they just figure you'll
Speaker 1: buy anything, and I think that's been danger with no
Speaker 1: but I mean that's been the danger with a lot
Speaker 1: of uniform changes through the years. It's just a an
Speaker 1: obvious cash crab kind of like when you were able
Speaker 1: to go in, you know, going back to hats for
Speaker 1: a second, and all of a sudden you went on
Speaker 1: and the shelves were red and green and yellow Yankees hats, right,
Speaker 1: and it's certain major League baseball team here. It's like
Speaker 1: they made no sense, but they knew that fans of
Speaker 1: the team would come up with the thirty bucks and
Speaker 1: the way you'd go. So same thing with uniforms they're lacking.
Speaker 1: When it's all said and done, I'm gonna go with
Speaker 1: my next one, The Pirates, yellow and black with the
Speaker 1: yellow jersey the full because yellow and black looks so good,
Speaker 1: but if it's too much black, you don't get enough
Speaker 1: of the the accent. So when they have the top,
Speaker 1: that's all that's all yellow and black. That looks really good.
Speaker 1: You know that That's something I hope that you know,
Speaker 1: any any team with that color scheme, you gotta really
Speaker 1: have a little bit more. You gotta have more cowbell, guys,
Speaker 1: you gotta have more yellow on those on those jerseys
Speaker 1: and uniforms and then you would normally have that's just
Speaker 1: gonna pop that. Oh that always wins. And my fourth
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take you by surprise a little bit because
Speaker 1: being an n L East guy I am. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with the Phillies. The cream uniforms with the blue
Speaker 1: star over the eye for Phillies. That's just such a
Speaker 1: great look. And your eye gets caught by the uh,
Speaker 1: the star all the time. And it's it's not white,
Speaker 1: which you know every team wears white, but it's more
Speaker 1: like a cream color. And and that just really stands
Speaker 1: out to me that that look especially expect looking, you
Speaker 1: know me. You know, Philly's fans are gonna watch Bryce
Speaker 1: Harper do this now for the next third teen years.
Speaker 1: But but that uniform don't matter no matter who's wearing it.
Speaker 1: That is that is a really sharp look. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna put that as my top four. The Cardinals, baby Blue,
Speaker 1: the A's deep green, Pirates, yellow jerseys and black pants,
Speaker 1: Philly's cream with a blue star over the eye. I
Speaker 1: gotta I dig that insertion because I know that took
Speaker 1: a lot of thought and and a willingness to say
Speaker 1: that a division rival is actually doing something right and
Speaker 1: that's just being Mets Mets, and that's that's big of you.
Speaker 1: It's very big of you. I have a quick form,
Speaker 1: just gonna run through really fast. You got the Royals home.
Speaker 1: I mean it's just classic. Yeah, yeah, the roy You
Speaker 1: have the Royal script. It looks really good. And the
Speaker 1: blue is always solid. The blue Jay's timeless. Oh and
Speaker 1: you know, and I even like when they go with
Speaker 1: the alternate with the red when they when they when
Speaker 1: they really accent the red. I like that a lot too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that works. The Dodgers road gray. I don't usually
Speaker 1: like the gray uniforms, but the blue logos, right, the
Speaker 1: blue logo work, and the red letter numbering works for me.
Speaker 1: And then one that's introduced. And folks might not have
Speaker 1: seen these yet because they're they're scheduled to make their debut,
Speaker 1: but I already put them on my list. The Milwaukee
Speaker 1: Brewers road blue with gold lettering sharp as sharp as
Speaker 1: can be. So again and we'll we'll celebrate Christie Yelloch
Speaker 1: and all those here is along the way. But you
Speaker 1: know Major League Baseball uniforms because it's also good because
Speaker 1: they're button downs, so it's not you know, they're not
Speaker 1: tank tops like you've got in the basketball world, which
Speaker 1: I don't have a body shape that should be running
Speaker 1: around in basketball jerseys. That's just I'm not long enough.
Speaker 1: I'm just not And then very difficult, yeah yeah, and
Speaker 1: then football jerseys. I've got a bad shoulder, so you know,
Speaker 1: just trying to pull that over, just especially because you
Speaker 1: want to se media because you want to look small.
Speaker 1: It's it's, it's it's a little hurt. This is a
Speaker 1: button down, nice and easy. Uh So with our four
Speaker 1: favorite uniforms, now, let's go to our four favorite MLB
Speaker 1: uniforms of all time. Now, there's been so many and
Speaker 1: and and and you see lists of great uniforms going
Speaker 1: back to the fifties and the forties and the thirties.
Speaker 1: I need a little more color because color always look
Speaker 1: for everybody says all the Yankees pinstrips. It's classic but
Speaker 1: is it really eye catching or is it just classic
Speaker 1: because the Yankees have always worn it. I like a
Speaker 1: little more color. My list is gonna be a little
Speaker 1: weird of my favorite four uniforms of all time. Uh,
Speaker 1: and there's a lot in common with it, so I'll
Speaker 1: kind of go through it because you'll see what's in common. Um.
Speaker 1: I love the Astros rainbow uniforms of the seventies. I
Speaker 1: love the way the orange, red, and yellow works together.
Speaker 1: I know that potentially when when if you told me, Okay,
Speaker 1: here's a color scheme that's gonna work, it's the orange, red,
Speaker 1: and yellow. What's next, Well, another orange, red and yellow stripe,
Speaker 1: and what's that gonna be. Well, it's kind of gonna
Speaker 1: be those colors all the way through. I'm like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, that sounds awful. But it works, you know,
Speaker 1: the Astros uniforms. It's kind of day glows seventies ish.
Speaker 1: But I'm okay with that. I'm okay with that because
Speaker 1: it's a it's a really good look and it is
Speaker 1: something that each color stands out. No color gets lost
Speaker 1: in anything else. The orange is the orange, the red
Speaker 1: is the red, the yellows the yellow, and it's It's
Speaker 1: an anti look of many things the Major League Baseball
Speaker 1: teams have done. No mab we have, because you know,
Speaker 1: we talked about the creamsicles for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Speaker 1: and we've had that kind of but this day glow
Speaker 1: look by the Astros was unique back then and it
Speaker 1: still is unique. I wish they'd go back to those
Speaker 1: uniforms now now. Yellow is kind of a big theme
Speaker 1: with a bunch of my jerseys because the next two
Speaker 1: one on my list the Padres brown and yellow from
Speaker 1: the seventies. That's another sharp look. You know, we talked
Speaker 1: about the Pirates with the black and yellow, but the
Speaker 1: Padres had the same thing. I know that by the
Speaker 1: time they changed the look, fans were sick of, oh
Speaker 1: the brown and yellow. There was a big anti um
Speaker 1: image of the Padre's uniforms. Oh they look brown and
Speaker 1: yellow and people think of poop. And I mean that's
Speaker 1: really what it was. I mean it was I I
Speaker 1: don't get over why that was such a that that
Speaker 1: was such a good uniform. So then it went away
Speaker 1: from it. But the strike, the strikingness of the yellow
Speaker 1: really work. Same thing. The A's all yellow uniforms. They
Speaker 1: wore in the sixties and the seventies. They look great too.
Speaker 1: I mean, which one are you talking about. You're talking
Speaker 1: about the green sleeve one. Yeah, the green sleeve with
Speaker 1: the yellow with yellow. That's not my worst will get
Speaker 1: to Oh you're kidding, really no, it's you gotta be hating, man.
Speaker 1: Look what my whole thing as a lot that are
Speaker 1: just really bad or things that look like vests, things
Speaker 1: that look like vests somehow, because I got that, and
Speaker 1: I got the Reds with their vests on the list.
Speaker 1: For me, I'm here wearing a vest from home Depot.
Speaker 1: Canna help you with anything? Hey, didn't you play for
Speaker 1: the A's in the seven? Aren't you? Sal bando? Um?
Speaker 1: But I think yellow is a really is a color
Speaker 1: that is really underutilized in sports, and yellow really pops.
Speaker 1: And I don't get white people don't don't don't wear
Speaker 1: that more. And of course my fourth just because it
Speaker 1: looks I mean, and and this is not just me,
Speaker 1: but the mid eighties Mets when they had the orange
Speaker 1: and blue stripes down the arms and all the way
Speaker 1: down the pants that cut through. I mean, that was
Speaker 1: a really fresh look. And it still looks good now,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm surprised they haven't gone back to doing
Speaker 1: something like that a little bit more permanent, because the
Speaker 1: stripes that start from the shoulder down they look really
Speaker 1: good and then down the pants. Anytime you can accent
Speaker 1: the pants, that's a good look. Look, the Chargers do
Speaker 1: that in football all the time with the lightning bolts on.
Speaker 1: It looks awesome. But but teams don't accent the pants enough.
Speaker 1: And if you can do that, you can have something
Speaker 1: that looks really really good. I dig that you started
Speaker 1: looking like wrestling tights. It's a good thing. Uh So
Speaker 1: I had the Astros, I have the late seventies Pirates
Speaker 1: again one that's uh a bit divisive. But when we
Speaker 1: get to the pop stars, all the pillbox hats and everything,
Speaker 1: I'm in. I'm all in the Ken Griffy early era
Speaker 1: Mariners uniforms. When you know he he's running them up
Speaker 1: with you know, uh, you know the some of those
Speaker 1: power hitting teams. The blue, the blue is brighter and
Speaker 1: and the and the gold is that. Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: that was a nice look too. That's a great throw
Speaker 1: back a little bit. And then I would be remiss
Speaker 1: if I didn't do some home cooking because it's a
Speaker 1: culture change. I mean, we have a huge fan base,
Speaker 1: and I know the white Sox get mocked quite a bit,
Speaker 1: and they'll be on these lists for many other reasons.
Speaker 1: There's yeah, but when you when they changed to the
Speaker 1: black silver white combinations in and it's started showing up
Speaker 1: in you know, ice Cube and and Stoop Dogg videos
Speaker 1: and became this this big cultural and iconic logo that
Speaker 1: stood all those years during the Robin Ventura Frank Thomas years.
Speaker 1: I mean that that is just a culture changer and
Speaker 1: tongues of merch sold and it just looks sharp. I'm
Speaker 1: staring at us signed Frank Thomas mini helmet right here, boy,
Speaker 1: just smiling. Know that that was a big culture change.
Speaker 1: It was well, look how cool all black looks? You know,
Speaker 1: I mean, look how cool? Look how clear do you?
Speaker 1: Sometimes you don't need colors and you can go to
Speaker 1: the all black with a white and the socks logo
Speaker 1: on the hat. That was just the s o X
Speaker 1: And so many people wore wore that hat and bought
Speaker 1: that hat and it was it was such a big look.
Speaker 1: And that you know that that was the hat that
Speaker 1: Jordan wore right when he was playing in the minor
Speaker 1: league system. That was the look for the White Sox.
Speaker 1: It was black Jack McDowell all that. I agree. We
Speaker 1: had that all the way through the farms system too,
Speaker 1: Like that became that I'm with you. I'm with you
Speaker 1: on that. But however, when we want to talk about
Speaker 1: the worst uniforms of all time, there's a lot I'm
Speaker 1: not a fan of, like the Devil Rays first uniforms,
Speaker 1: which are like blue and light blue and green and yellow.
Speaker 1: It looked terrible. I mean, there's a lot of the
Speaker 1: Florida Marlins all teal look bad when they first started
Speaker 1: with that. But what's funny, I had that as third
Speaker 1: on my list? Did you really? Yeah? And I was.
Speaker 1: It wasn't going through and looking up lists or it
Speaker 1: was just memory remembering the trading cards going Those are
Speaker 1: just so bright and terrible. But I'm sorry, buddy. The
Speaker 1: worst uniforms I've seen the mid seventies when they wore
Speaker 1: shorts and you had shorts coming you look like you
Speaker 1: look like a team that you were. It was it
Speaker 1: was a Beer League team going out to play. We're
Speaker 1: all wearing the same shorts. And not only that, I
Speaker 1: wear I wear shorts every day. Yeah, but there's where
Speaker 1: then you're playing baseball and shorts you're slides. That's part
Speaker 1: of the appeal. And shorts were terrible. Man. I'm still
Speaker 1: trying to get one of those game or jerseys though. No,
Speaker 1: seeing the jersey were just as bad. They're expensive as hell.
Speaker 1: Did you are just as bad because you had like
Speaker 1: the big long collar, like you were wearing a jacket
Speaker 1: under it. No, come on, No, that was the collar
Speaker 1: they as soon as the game was over. The dark
Speaker 1: blue collar was awful. It was I felt like when
Speaker 1: guys in the seventies and eighties would wear the jersey,
Speaker 1: they wear the big warm up jacket under it when
Speaker 1: it was cold in the spring and they would have
Speaker 1: to put the collar out. I feel like that's what
Speaker 1: the white socks jerseys looked like. And I said, who
Speaker 1: said this is a good look? Who thought this is
Speaker 1: a good idea? I mean, this jersey looks bad. You've
Speaker 1: got grown men wearing shorts. They can't be happy about that.
Speaker 1: No one's gonna want to slide because they're gonna wind
Speaker 1: up getting cut up all the way. I can't believe
Speaker 1: that actually made it out. Come on, he was a
Speaker 1: carnival barker guys trying a bunch of gadgets. But one
Speaker 1: of the things they're lamenting in Chicago coming out of
Speaker 1: the pandemic is that they'll have to shut down the
Speaker 1: homage to old Chamiskey and shower that's out there. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's what Bill was all of that, right, So so
Speaker 1: it was about game, you know, the exploding scoreboard, all
Speaker 1: those other things that that he brought to the game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the record demolition night right when they just shot all
Speaker 1: the records doll and all that craziness and chaos and
Speaker 1: just marked another anniversary of that that you know when
Speaker 1: you when you add it all up, I mean this
Speaker 1: was just part and parcel for the owner that he
Speaker 1: was something a little different. So there you go. There's
Speaker 1: our best baseball uniforms now of all time and our
Speaker 1: least favorites of all time. Coming up next, we get
Speaker 1: into the National Football League, the best and the worst.
Speaker 1: Does your team make it on it? Find out? Coming
Speaker 1: up next right here on special Teams, We've just given
Speaker 1: you our favorite MLB uniforms in our least favorite MLB
Speaker 1: uniforms shorts. Uh. Now it's time to get to the
Speaker 1: National Football League and our best four uniforms of all
Speaker 1: time and our worst four uniforms of all time, best
Speaker 1: uniforms of all time. I'm gonna go here. I got
Speaker 1: my four and this is a list. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's ever gonna change. I don't see anybody having uniforms
Speaker 1: that get better than these four. And here's a hint,
Speaker 1: that's a hot take. Here's a hint. The Chargers powder
Speaker 1: blue comes in at number five because there's uniforms as
Speaker 1: good as the Chargers powder blue looks and it looks awesome. Right.
Speaker 1: Their uniforms this year are gonna look phenomenal. Right, the
Speaker 1: color Rush uniforms look good. Oh, the yellow pants look fantastic.
Speaker 1: Look to you know. We we talked about the uniforms
Speaker 1: coming into this year that we liked from the from
Speaker 1: the team so far, but right now all time. They
Speaker 1: come in at fifth for me because my four favorite
Speaker 1: uniforms of all time in the NFL. Number one the
Speaker 1: Rams blue and white from the late sixties, early seventies.
Speaker 1: It's the look they tried to go to the past
Speaker 1: few years before they had that crazy ass redesigned for
Speaker 1: this year, and I don't know why that didn't work.
Speaker 1: The blue and white looked so good, and it was
Speaker 1: such a cleaner looked and you know it's it's the
Speaker 1: blue and the yellow and the RAMS logo they've had
Speaker 1: for a long time. It was it was very colorful.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying it didn't like the Rams uniforms
Speaker 1: before they made the change, but the white and blue
Speaker 1: just really strikes you. You know, it hits you and
Speaker 1: you go whoa, especially when you see as much white
Speaker 1: as the Rams had on the jersey. You know, the
Speaker 1: blue numbers back in the sixties and seventies were just
Speaker 1: kind of there. It was very machine like. It didn't
Speaker 1: look like it was a very you know, expensively put
Speaker 1: together uniform, a lot of bells and whistles on it.
Speaker 1: But sometimes less is more. And the blue and white
Speaker 1: worked really really well together, especially the blue and white
Speaker 1: helmet that start like the most about it. Look at
Speaker 1: you blue and simplicity, and the helmets the key like
Speaker 1: without the helmet, it's it's almost the colts too, integree
Speaker 1: now now that the sea is for cookie colts of
Speaker 1: of but you know, just some of those Peyton Manning
Speaker 1: jerseys say so I'm running around in for years. But
Speaker 1: the the blue is is certainly a different shade than
Speaker 1: you're used to seeing in in modern uniforms anyway. So yeah,
Speaker 1: going back to the evolution, I love that we're seeing
Speaker 1: more and more details, uh, and love online just showing
Speaker 1: the evolution of uniforms. And you loved the more interviews
Speaker 1: with people like what the hell were you thinking when
Speaker 1: you did different things? But these are classic, no question.
Speaker 1: I've already talked about the Buccaneers creamsicles, which the bright
Speaker 1: orange is so so few teams do something like that,
Speaker 1: and I get that that's polarizing a little bit, little
Speaker 1: bit too much. Hey man, we're back in the sixties.
Speaker 1: But I love the Buccaneers cream circles. And I like
Speaker 1: the Dolphins what they had in the early seventies, the
Speaker 1: deep awkward green that let the orange really pop because
Speaker 1: it's only a tiny bit of orange on those jerseys,
Speaker 1: but that deeper awkwad green is is, you know. And
Speaker 1: for me to say that as a Jets fan, I
Speaker 1: gotta say, like a Dolphins uniform, that's something. But that
Speaker 1: always stood out to me, you know, the Bob Greasy
Speaker 1: Larry Zanka. That was a really well thought put together
Speaker 1: and I always wanted the Dolphins to go back to
Speaker 1: that color because it looks so good. Look at you
Speaker 1: once again you're grabbing one of your division rivals and
Speaker 1: showing them some love because you know what, those jerseys
Speaker 1: were clean, because your defenses weren't touching any of those guys,
Speaker 1: so like I could see it without the grass stains,
Speaker 1: uh and problems and the paint coming up. No, uh,
Speaker 1: those those are certainly a beautiful look, a good color
Speaker 1: once again, you know the base of it. I gave
Speaker 1: you Jets a nod. I like nineties Jets. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know the j E T s with the jet Yeah.
Speaker 1: And that was a good green too. That was a
Speaker 1: good green to the Jets that I wish they would
Speaker 1: go back to that color. Like, yeah, it's a lighter green, right,
Speaker 1: not as punchy in the face green, so a little muted.
Speaker 1: The cream skulls and powder blues are certainly gonna be
Speaker 1: on there, uh, no question about it. H And I
Speaker 1: really like the Patriots of the eighty four to ninety
Speaker 1: two when you're you're talking about the red with the
Speaker 1: blue accents. Uh and then obviously, uh, you know path
Speaker 1: Patriot up on the No, that's a sharp look to
Speaker 1: the Patriots went back to those a few years ago,
Speaker 1: and I don't know why they didn't keep them, because
Speaker 1: that was They're kind of going back to them a
Speaker 1: little bit now with the color Rush uniforms, but I
Speaker 1: don't know why they didn't keep those, because that that
Speaker 1: I remember, that was really popular, you know, because look,
Speaker 1: the Patriots uniforms, to be quite honest, the silver what
Speaker 1: they used for the majority of the Tom Brady era.
Speaker 1: I mean, they were just okay, you know, I mean exactly,
Speaker 1: they were just kind of there's there's nothing Houston and
Speaker 1: one I just wanted to give an honorary mentioned too,
Speaker 1: because it's really not been worn much at all. But
Speaker 1: when bred Farr was running around for the Vikings that
Speaker 1: all purple look, purple pants, ball, purple works, All purple
Speaker 1: works just in my world, well yeah, well yeah, you
Speaker 1: kind of have no choice, you know. You. Oh, and
Speaker 1: you know the Emeritus is also the uh the legendary
Speaker 1: Houston oilers. But we you and I, you know, wax
Speaker 1: poetic about that forever, right, because that's my fourth one
Speaker 1: on my list is the baby Blue with the red combination.
Speaker 1: As much as I like the charges powder blue, the
Speaker 1: oilers were sharper, you know, with the Oil Derek. It
Speaker 1: was you know when when you're a little kid and
Speaker 1: you start watching football and you start watching sports, your
Speaker 1: eye goes to teams with colors. Look like, why did
Speaker 1: I grow up a Mets fan instead of a Yankees fan?
Speaker 1: My dad was a Yankees fan. I should have been
Speaker 1: a Yankees fan. But when baseball was on TV when
Speaker 1: I was a kid, the Yankees were look black and white, right,
Speaker 1: it was black and white, okay, But the Mets are
Speaker 1: in bright blue and orange. And I just liked watching
Speaker 1: those colors on the screen. And I think sometimes that's
Speaker 1: why we picked teams we do, because when we're little,
Speaker 1: we're watching these teams all the time, and then you
Speaker 1: you get familiar with them and you watch them and look,
Speaker 1: I admit that's how I became a Mets fan. I mean,
Speaker 1: I wish I didn't, But the Oilers. That was the
Speaker 1: same way. When I first really started watching football, the
Speaker 1: Oilers were a perennial wild card team in the late
Speaker 1: seventies early eighties, and it was you get to see
Speaker 1: these these big, bright, baby blue jerseys running on the screen,
Speaker 1: and and they would flash with the red and the
Speaker 1: like I said, the Oil Derek, and they had the
Speaker 1: lovely love You Blue songs and they would play the
Speaker 1: Oilers theme song, which was awesome, and I was hooked
Speaker 1: into that forever. I mean that was I mean that
Speaker 1: was a look that you know, of of all my
Speaker 1: looks that I like in in the National Football League,
Speaker 1: I think that Oiler's jersey maybe my all time favorite.
Speaker 1: There you go, Now, we gotta go find you one
Speaker 1: on the open market. I really one of I want
Speaker 1: the hat with the oil derry. I want to get
Speaker 1: a fitted baby blue hat with the oil derries. And
Speaker 1: because every time I look for one online, they're gone,
Speaker 1: Like you can't have been sold out. I know we've
Speaker 1: been looking for as a tan and for years because
Speaker 1: you know what, we we still do celebrate a lot
Speaker 1: of holidays. You're like family, uh at this point, and
Speaker 1: trying to find you something nice. But other than going
Speaker 1: and get walking around Houston and maybe stealing one off
Speaker 1: somebody's head and hoping get fit, I've had no success yet.
Speaker 1: Hey can I see that hat for a second? Yeah? Sure,
Speaker 1: see you? And then you often run away. Well, why
Speaker 1: do you think I've been training? Night? Maddie and I
Speaker 1: get out and we we kick the soccer ball around
Speaker 1: we're doing sprints. I mean, Quadzilla is coming back in
Speaker 1: a big way, and part of it is to maybe
Speaker 1: pill for a hat or two along the way. All right,
Speaker 1: there we go, let me write that down on the street.
Speaker 1: Don't let him wear your hat? All right, let me
Speaker 1: get that right there. Uh. Now you get to the
Speaker 1: worst uniforms of all time. And there's many I don't like,
Speaker 1: but there's one that stands out way more than anybody else. Right.
Speaker 1: I'm not a big fan of the Panthers. I've never
Speaker 1: been a fit. They're they're black and blue. I've never
Speaker 1: been a big fan of the Titans. Just have too
Speaker 1: much blue. Uh, it looks like it doesn't go together.
Speaker 1: The Jaguars have had a tough time figuring out the
Speaker 1: black gold teal. But anytime I see video and I
Speaker 1: see the Seahawks with the highlighter uniforms, I always say,
Speaker 1: that's the worst look I've ever seen. That is the
Speaker 1: absolute worst look. Nothing ever brings me back to it.
Speaker 1: It's not a look that I see and go, well,
Speaker 1: maybe if I get used to it. For ten or
Speaker 1: twelve years now, every time I see the highlighter uniforms,
Speaker 1: I go, that's terrible. I that's just that's just that's
Speaker 1: just terrible. I mean, by all the uniforms, I don't
Speaker 1: like that one is like so far at the top.
Speaker 1: It's like saying Jerry Rice is the best wide receiver
Speaker 1: in NFL history, and everybody else is like way behind.
Speaker 1: It's like the Seahawks and that's the absolute worst and
Speaker 1: everybody else's way behind. Yeah. That that certainly makes any list.
Speaker 1: I have two that stand out for me, and I'm gonna,
Speaker 1: you know, go after my own team for a minute.
Speaker 1: One unfortunately they do use a ton and and the
Speaker 1: other really wasn't either. Uh, there's plenty of candidates in
Speaker 1: our history. But the color rush Jaguars where they had
Speaker 1: that blended helmet yeah in the front, and then had
Speaker 1: that because it wasn't gold, it was like a mustard, right,
Speaker 1: I mean this was like a gray poupon yellow. Wait
Speaker 1: wait wait wait mustard. Yeah. I mean we'll make sandwiches
Speaker 1: and have some fun ard. But then you had mustard
Speaker 1: jerseys and mustard pants. Yeah, too much mustard a black
Speaker 1: to highlight them, but otherwise just that that color was
Speaker 1: just awful. Best way to ruin a hot dog. Too
Speaker 1: much mustard anything, but too much Mustard, we have to
Speaker 1: catch up. Well, you first shouldn't need hot dogs. They're
Speaker 1: an abomination. Um hot take right there, no hot what
Speaker 1: that's all everybody eats the games or hot dogs? Just
Speaker 1: bury the lead. Class it up, people of other fair
Speaker 1: anti American hates. How dare you? How dare you? What's
Speaker 1: your other one? Mr? Mustards? The other one goes to
Speaker 1: the well. They look like uniforms from medieval times. And
Speaker 1: that was when the Bears had those uh gladiator like throwbacks.
Speaker 1: Oh you know that's the thing is like a crest
Speaker 1: on them and terrible. There were so many bad throwbacks
Speaker 1: that teams just wore like a few times in the nineties.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to count those, like I'm not going
Speaker 1: to count the Steelers they look bad. The Packers ones
Speaker 1: look bad because it was uniforms. You can tell. It
Speaker 1: was like, listen, we decided to do this, Okay, so
Speaker 1: just where the uniforms a couple of times and shut
Speaker 1: up about it, and the players are like, okay, that's fine.
Speaker 1: There was some look at that bumblebee though I want
Speaker 1: one of those jerseys, I don't. I think you would
Speaker 1: wind up getting stung by a lot of bees. They
Speaker 1: would all get be drawn to that color and you
Speaker 1: would wind up getting stung, and you would say, I
Speaker 1: can't wear this anymore. I just thought I'd get a
Speaker 1: Hines Warden and put it on my wall or something,
Speaker 1: maybe an old Casey Hampton, because you know how I
Speaker 1: can celebrate the career of Casey Hampton. True, well, usually
Speaker 1: Casey Hampton and Trey Burton are guys you talk a
Speaker 1: lot about on our shows and and and I'm I
Speaker 1: don't have to yell about him. Oh that's true. Oh wait,
Speaker 1: so that means no more Trey Burton talked this fall awesome. No, No,
Speaker 1: I'm still gonna flame him for the failings of one
Speaker 1: Mitchell Trabiski. Oh okay, so it's gonna be he was
Speaker 1: part of a tapestry of failure executed from from Matt
Speaker 1: Naggy on down and that it's it's not all Mitchell's fault.
Speaker 1: I'm not absolving him from all the sins. But Trey
Speaker 1: Burton and Adam Sheheen are no help alright, So let
Speaker 1: me write this down. Harmon, gonna blame the guy no
Speaker 1: longer with the team for a future that hasn't happened yet,
Speaker 1: got it? Okay, great. Uh so those are our favorite
Speaker 1: NFL uniforms and our least favorite NFL uniforms coming up next. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll get into some hats, and the best minor league
Speaker 1: hats with a special honorable mention to one hat that
Speaker 1: was warned specifically one year in Major League baseball. Have
Speaker 1: that coming up next right here, Special teams, the special uniforms.
Speaker 1: Continuing on special teams, the special uniforms you've given you
Speaker 1: our favorite and least favorite, and Major League Baseball, the
Speaker 1: National Football League. Now let's get to something that really
Speaker 1: has its own subculture going on wherever you are, and
Speaker 1: that is the best minor league baseball hats. Now, it's
Speaker 1: it's hard to talk about the best minor league baseball
Speaker 1: hats of all time, because of my goodness, you have
Speaker 1: literally thousands of hats to choose from. But I will
Speaker 1: say this before you get into these hats, I want
Speaker 1: to say I have a special honorable mention for the
Speaker 1: pillbox hats that Major League ace ball war back in
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy six, right when it was the three stripes
Speaker 1: around the around the hat and it just looks so good.
Speaker 1: The Pirates kept wearing it, and that looks so sharp.
Speaker 1: Because then Willie Stargel came up with the Stargel Stars
Speaker 1: and he started putting the stars in the back of
Speaker 1: the helmets, kind of like in college football and Ohio
Speaker 1: State and different teams to put stickers on helmets when
Speaker 1: for players do specific things like score touchdown or make
Speaker 1: a sack or you know, this was what the Pirates
Speaker 1: did back in the late seventies. Yeah, they had a
Speaker 1: great uh um segment of the baseball Bunch that I
Speaker 1: had to seem just about a week before we sat
Speaker 1: down to start talking hats and uniforms. If you can
Speaker 1: believe that, where he had Johnny Benches there and all
Speaker 1: the kids are asking Willie Stargel if they can get
Speaker 1: some love and and some some stuff for their their hats,
Speaker 1: and he's like, man, I don't give that away. You
Speaker 1: know what I like? All these kids are looking at
Speaker 1: like jerk. You know what I liked was that whenever
Speaker 1: you see something like that, and I used to think
Speaker 1: this when I was a kid, I would look at
Speaker 1: and go, okay here because the stars would go on
Speaker 1: the hats when you hit a home run, RBIs whatever
Speaker 1: it was he did something good, you could always tell
Speaker 1: when someone was in the field. If they I would
Speaker 1: always want as a kid. Oh, this guy stinks. He
Speaker 1: only has like three or four stars on his hat.
Speaker 1: That guy's great. Look at all the stories he got
Speaker 1: it is at Dave Parker's got all those stars. That's awesome.
Speaker 1: Oh this guy, he's terrible. Like guy still have a job.
Speaker 1: He must be some stars. He's some guy just up
Speaker 1: from the miners. He's got like one star. They probably
Speaker 1: gave it to him because they felt bad that he's
Speaker 1: got no stars on. Uh. So I do like the pillbox,
Speaker 1: although I will say wearing the pillbox because I have
Speaker 1: a Mets pillbox hat. It's tougher to wear because it
Speaker 1: doesn't stay straight like you think the top of the
Speaker 1: hat would stay straight, and it kind of collapses in,
Speaker 1: so it makes it a tough hat to wear depending
Speaker 1: on the shape of your head. But it still just
Speaker 1: looks so good the way the pirates warm, and it
Speaker 1: was so different from anything baseball did. I wish they
Speaker 1: had kept them more than just a seventies season. But still,
Speaker 1: you know, you got pillbox hats at the stripes around
Speaker 1: you know what season it was, you get it's hearkening
Speaker 1: back to the early days of Major League Baseball where
Speaker 1: other teams would wear those all the time, like that
Speaker 1: was a look like in the in the teens and
Speaker 1: the twenties and the thirties, you know, pillbox hats would
Speaker 1: go all over the place. Now you're gonna go buy
Speaker 1: a butt run of those. As soon as you and
Speaker 1: I are done talking about hats, you're gonna be buying
Speaker 1: another stack of them. I know you, I know how
Speaker 1: your brain works. Oh I love hats. Uh So the
Speaker 1: best minor league baseball hats, and this is I'm looking
Speaker 1: at the hats that are current slash within the last
Speaker 1: couple of years. Is where I'm gonna go for my
Speaker 1: my five favorite hats in minor league baseball. A right
Speaker 1: number five, number five, the Myrtle Beach Pelicans. It's a big, thin,
Speaker 1: angry pelican that is on the front of the hat
Speaker 1: and they have like eleven different looks. It's it's like
Speaker 1: the Chargers in their uniforms. Like here, my I mean
Speaker 1: you want to go and look, go, Okay, Myrtle Beach Pelicans.
Speaker 1: They have okay, the one, two, three, they have all gray,
Speaker 1: they have gray and black, they have blue, and they
Speaker 1: have blue and black. They have blue and yellow, they
Speaker 1: have yellow and white, they have yellow, white, a little
Speaker 1: bit of blue. They have this. They have like eleven
Speaker 1: different looks. But still the angry pelican on the front
Speaker 1: of a hat looks pretty good. Anytime you get in
Speaker 1: you get an an animal or a bird that generally
Speaker 1: isn't angry, and you make it angry, it can either
Speaker 1: look really great or really bad. The angry pelican looks
Speaker 1: pretty good. Well. That pelican's tremendous. Remember the failure of
Speaker 1: the New Orleans Pelicans, and they had that scary as
Speaker 1: mascot that he's like to keep away from. I mentioned
Speaker 1: the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs. The hat I'm wearing today,
Speaker 1: which is a great hat because it's a piece of
Speaker 1: bacon across the front. I mean, that's that's classic right there.
Speaker 1: I mean, part of me feels bad. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: it's the pig, but it's the Iron Pigs or the mascot.
Speaker 1: But then it's bacon on the hat and it's a
Speaker 1: little weird, but still it's a hat, you know, and
Speaker 1: it's and it's the Iron Pigs, and it's the nickname.
Speaker 1: So I'm okay with where in a plus, I really
Speaker 1: like Bacon. I mean, I really really like bacon. That's good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like that. I like their basic logo too, though, Jason,
Speaker 1: I mean because it's it's like a terminator pig. Yes. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's a very angry looking pig. Yes, that's another one
Speaker 1: that works well. And angry looking pig because you think
Speaker 1: that big and just I think that big could kill anybody.
Speaker 1: That might be one of the most if we did it.
Speaker 1: If instead we did a most powerful looking mascot episode
Speaker 1: of Special Teams, I'd have the iron Pig definitely in
Speaker 1: the final four. Oh, now you're talking. I like that. Uh.
Speaker 1: The other ones I like and this is this is
Speaker 1: not me being a hometown thing, but the Staten Island
Speaker 1: Yankees Cannoli's hat. I mean that's you know, the pizza
Speaker 1: rat hats are fun. You know, they're the a hat
Speaker 1: for the rat that eight the pizza. But the fact
Speaker 1: that you can make a hat and you can make
Speaker 1: it a cannoli, which is an Italian pastry and it's
Speaker 1: just like a picture, it's like a cannoli but with
Speaker 1: a face coming out of it, like it almost looks
Speaker 1: like Mr Peanut, but it's a canoe. And I know
Speaker 1: many people would see that and go, I don't know
Speaker 1: what a cannoli is. Okay, Well, cannoli is its cream
Speaker 1: inside of it's it's fried dough and you move it up.
Speaker 1: I mean when you can make a big piece of
Speaker 1: food part of your thing, just like the lee high
Speaker 1: out with the bacon. But this is you know, this
Speaker 1: is this is a lesson. That is a pastry. You
Speaker 1: can make a cannoli look pretty good and pretty appetizing.
Speaker 1: And you know me, I'm I'm half Italian. I could
Speaker 1: wear a cannoli on my on my hat even though
Speaker 1: I'm not a Yankee fan. I'm from Staten Island. I
Speaker 1: could wear that hat. I'm okay with it. Leave the gun,
Speaker 1: take the cannoli. Everybody knows what the cannolis. But these
Speaker 1: are my two favorites, without a doubt. And and I can't.
Speaker 1: I keep looking for the right size and these and
Speaker 1: I haven't found one yet, but the Frisco rough Riders
Speaker 1: with uh Swinging Teddy, which is Teddy Roosevelt's I mean,
Speaker 1: you have a former you got a former president on
Speaker 1: the front of a hat, and that's pretty good, you know,
Speaker 1: because he had the rough Riders all throughout Texas and
Speaker 1: Frisco decided to make them, uh the mascot there. You
Speaker 1: have to read a history book or go to high
Speaker 1: school and know what the rough Riders were. But the
Speaker 1: but just I mean, the smiling Teddy is pretty good too,
Speaker 1: with the big sunglasses and the and the hand and
Speaker 1: the big tom selleck uh brush mustache. But the swinging
Speaker 1: Teddy is better. But look, I'll go either one with
Speaker 1: either one of Teddy Roosevelt on the front of a hat,
Speaker 1: that's pretty good. Well, you know, Danny, you make people
Speaker 1: understand how important Teddy Roosevelt. That's right. We're gonna learn
Speaker 1: about Teddy Roosevelt through a minor league baseball at How
Speaker 1: does that sound? Kids? You know what? You can spark anything.
Speaker 1: People started learning about history after they caught a couple
Speaker 1: of catchy tunes from Hamilton's Where do we turn to
Speaker 1: in our book? Mr? Smith? No, We're gonna go to
Speaker 1: m i LB dot com on your computer, okay, and
Speaker 1: you want to scroll down Smiling Teddy scroll down, scrolled down,
Speaker 1: scrolled down, Go Pad, go past the Dayton of Dragons,
Speaker 1: scroll down, Evansville, scrolled down, scrolled down. Okay, stop right
Speaker 1: there at Frisco stop at the rough Riders. Uh. And
Speaker 1: my other favorite, the Montgomery Biscuits. When your logo is
Speaker 1: a biscuit and you can make the mouth a pad
Speaker 1: of butter, that's genius. I mean, that's like I don't
Speaker 1: need to do anything else in my life. I designed
Speaker 1: the greatest hat because I made a biscuit into a
Speaker 1: logo and a mascot and a pad of butter. Is
Speaker 1: the tongue stands the test of time and one of
Speaker 1: their best sellers for years now. Those are ones that
Speaker 1: are always out. It's so hard, Like any time I look,
Speaker 1: you know, every month or two for Montgomery Biscuits, frisk
Speaker 1: they don't have them. They have the other ones, which
Speaker 1: I'm like, why do I want one that says f
Speaker 1: R on it? Or are are for rough Ride? Give
Speaker 1: me something with Teddy Roosevelt on Give me someone a
Speaker 1: biscuit on it. I mean really, if you give me
Speaker 1: a good hat with food on it, I'll probably buy it.
Speaker 1: I mean I'm pretty good. I'm so easy. Yeah, so yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Because my favorites are let's see, a biscuit, president bacon,
Speaker 1: a cannoli, and a Pelican. I don't know what they
Speaker 1: all have in Roosevelt was not a small man. He
Speaker 1: liked and and and get to work. So you got that.
Speaker 1: And if that iron pig that I described before, think
Speaker 1: about it, that was the pig that the kids on
Speaker 1: Lord of the Flies were chasing. Right, think about how
Speaker 1: literature changes forever. Uh, couple that, I wanted to mention,
Speaker 1: why you do that to Piggy? Sorry spoiler alert. I
Speaker 1: mean it's not like he you know, he's not like
Speaker 1: he makes it out of there. Well, he had a
Speaker 1: good run, he had glasses, he had the glad. He
Speaker 1: needed the glasses. Ralph wouldn't have made it without him
Speaker 1: in the glasses. You take down the beast fad for Peggy.
Speaker 1: Now you just why he's really just brought me down
Speaker 1: right there, buddy, Now let me bring you back up.
Speaker 1: All right, bring me back up because because we're gonna
Speaker 1: go with Scavengers of Food, we've got two honorable mentions
Speaker 1: for our trash Panda is the Rocket City Trash Band?
Speaker 1: Does you you know you have been talking up the
Speaker 1: trash Pandas for so long. It's a hell of a
Speaker 1: logo because I mean it basically, you had a bunch
Speaker 1: of kids saying I like rock kids, guardians and they
Speaker 1: put him in a trash the trash panda, you know,
Speaker 1: reference and guardians in a way. You go the rabbits, right,
Speaker 1: bud Rabbit? Who's the rabbit? They think that the Quad
Speaker 1: City River Bandits time to go be the captain, which sorry,
Speaker 1: I just want to run rocket lines. Now, don't press
Speaker 1: this button. I am crutinous. No no, no, no, don't
Speaker 1: press the red button. Sorry, good buddy. Clearly he's the
Speaker 1: captain and the ship. Yeah, on the captain and the ship.
Speaker 1: So you have the river guy's leg. Oh I didn't
Speaker 1: really need the leg. How was it? I was just
Speaker 1: kidding around? Was it funny him hopping around after he
Speaker 1: gave you the leg? All right, I'm sorry, Now I'm done.
Speaker 1: Now I'm done. Go ahead, Quad City River Bandits, which
Speaker 1: is you know, with the kerchief over the face of
Speaker 1: another raccoon. I'm just ready to rob you. So you
Speaker 1: have that, Um, you have the flying squirrels. That's right,
Speaker 1: double a for the giants. Oh yeah, flying squirrels are
Speaker 1: cool because they have it. They have the big logo
Speaker 1: where they're actually flying and you can see like it
Speaker 1: looks like a cape that he's wearing, but it's really
Speaker 1: the underarm of the flap of skin. Yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: much better because he's he's much tougher than Rocky the
Speaker 1: Flying Squirrel Fain call. He's like on steroids. But my
Speaker 1: favorite is now, um it's a low a affiliate of
Speaker 1: the White Sox in Kannapolis and they are now the Cannonballers.
Speaker 1: They used to be the Intimidators that were owned by
Speaker 1: Dale Ernhard at one point, but they are now the Cannonballers.
Speaker 1: And you've got the big baseball head and the goggles
Speaker 1: on like he's just been shot out of a cannon.
Speaker 1: The Kannapolis Cannonballers sounds like a team from The Simpsons
Speaker 1: that the Isotopes are gonna play. Let's go see the
Speaker 1: Kannapolis Cannonballers. But believe it or not, there are several
Speaker 1: teams named the Isotopes out there as well. Well, yeah
Speaker 1: there are. And the ice Stopes is a pretty good hat.
Speaker 1: But now it's like so many people have it have
Speaker 1: like it's cliche. Now it's not cool anymore. Can I
Speaker 1: give you one more? You can the Biloxi Shuckers, all
Speaker 1: the clam it's the clam. I'm away for the Brewers. Well,
Speaker 1: going back to the food thing, well, yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: well we you know, if it was something where I
Speaker 1: just had to pick all my favorite food and then
Speaker 1: you know, maybe the lists would be different. But you know,
Speaker 1: as long as we have food represented pretty well, and
Speaker 1: I think this tells you a lot about you and I. Well,
Speaker 1: it really does speak to the show we've been doing
Speaker 1: on Fox Sports Radio for some six and a half years.
Speaker 1: As as we sit and talk about our favorite worst
Speaker 1: uniforms of all time, and the fact that you and
Speaker 1: I both like hats, we could go down that rabbit
Speaker 1: hole for another forty five minutes on hats. So there
Speaker 1: it is. Special teams. The special uniforms are favorites in
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball, the National Football League, a little bit
Speaker 1: of specialness with the r specialness if that's the word.
Speaker 1: But I just made it up. I have an English
Speaker 1: degree from Syracuse, uh, and the specialness of the best
Speaker 1: minor league baseball hats. I'm Jason, he is Mike. Our
Speaker 1: show is The Jason Smith Show with Mike harmon Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio Monday through Friday, ten b into two am
Speaker 1: on the East seven to eleven on the West coast.
Speaker 1: Like I said, we like to get to play with
Speaker 1: the format a little bit here on Special Teams. Coming
Speaker 1: up next week, we're back to special teams from specific
Speaker 1: seasons in sports, after having this fun little run here
Speaker 1: about when there were no games or special uniforms, and
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