WEBVTT - Special Teams: The Uniforms 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.480 Welcome to Special Teams, a production of I Heart Radio 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:22.360 Greetings and Welcome inside Special Teams. With Jason Smith and 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:24.840 Mike Harmon, we are your house as we take you 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:28.479 through what usually is a very special year in sports 0:00:28.480 --> 0:00:32.519 for a specific team in sports history. But one of 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:34.040 the fun things we get to do here on the 0:00:34.040 --> 0:00:35.840 show is played with the format a little bit because 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:38.600 special teams can count for a lot of different things. 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:41.559 Sometimes it's two great teams playing against each other in 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:44.320 a big game. We chronicle their seasons, sometimes the season 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:47.440 that where a team wins a championship, sometimes they come 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:51.080 just short, sometimes they win no games. But special teams 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:54.000 can mean many things, and we figured something fun to 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:56.600 do now while we're going on, we're getting through the 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:59.640 coronavirus pandemic, and you know, we're not having sports for 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:01.720 a law period of time, and how are we getting 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:07.000 through things? Mainly as we wait for full seasons across 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:10.160 the board to return. We're gonna do something a little 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:13.880 bit different this week. The NFL has spent most of 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:17.560 the off season revealing new uniforms. He had seven teams 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:20.520 revealing their new uniforms over the course of the off season, 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:23.880 and and look the Chargers look great. Uh. The Tampa 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:26.679 Bay Buccaneers uniforms look really good. They go back to 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:31.080 the Pewter pirate concept. The New Patriots uniforms look really good. 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:34.840 They're using the color rush uniforms. And the Brown's uniforms 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:37.720 look good. They have the big three stripe on the side. 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:40.520 Some other ones not so good. You know, the Cults 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:43.000 is a little bit lacking. The Falcons are using all 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:46.280 black jerseys and okay, that's gonna look how it's gonna look. 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:50.280 And the RAMS logo is the RAMS logo, which is 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:52.960 all the way down at the bottom. So look at 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:56.360 you soft shoeing those bottom feeders. Well, well we we 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:58.280 have a we have a lot of bottom feeders to 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:01.080 non soft shoes. So I figure, if I soft shoe now, 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:03.760 it's not it's not as much of a soft shoe. 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:08.400 Later on you start waiting, you know, playing like um 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:11.920 whacking day on the Simpsons where you're going out and 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:15.720 hitting the snakes and you just start whacking these bad logos, 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:20.240 bad jerseys right off to jump. So with that in mind, 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:22.639 we figured, why do we do with special teams where 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:26.280 we look at the best uniforms that some special teams 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:30.560 war in baseball and football history, because those are really 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:32.880 the two sports where you pay attention to the uniforms 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:35.400 the most. And these are now going to be an 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:39.120 episode where it's about the best uniforms, What were the 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:41.200 best looks that we liked, What are some of the 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:43.600 worst looks that we liked? And then we'll get to 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:45.560 a topic that is near and dear to my heart, 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:47.760 and near and dear are many other people because it 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:49.800 involves hats, because you know me, I'm a hat guy, 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:53.120 as I wear my Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs hat as 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:55.840 we do this podcast, because the you know, the mascot 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:58.240 is an iron Pig, and so the logo is a 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:00.680 piece of bacon. I mean, that's prety cool, that piece 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:03.119 of bacon on a hat. See, that's where it gets fun. 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:06.240 The minor league hats because they do a lot of 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:09.800 one off promos, and we we see promotional days at 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:13.800 Major League Baseball, but they don't generally change their logos 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:20.000 and uniforms completely to go for a single day minor 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:22.520 league baseball, and we can sell a little bit of merch, 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:25.160 right yep, get them on. I never thought that I 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:27.359 can't believe minor league teams hadn't had that much money. 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:29.680 We're gonna do one off hats. You're a minor league team, 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:33.560 you're playing short season single A ball in CANASTDA. You 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:36.360 have enough to keep changing hats this often, but yet 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:38.320 they do so Hey, I'm not gonna complain, but it's 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:41.080 really really weird. Look, if you buy in volume, you're 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:43.280 gonna do just fine. You buy enough hats. You gotta 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:45.880 be able to have figured that out. Oh yeah, I do. See. 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:48.080 I always had an idea where and I don't know 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:51.520 if this works. You minor league hats are and yeah, yeah, 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:53.800 I got a pat in this idea. Minor league hats 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:56.200 are like the like I think they're the greatest hats 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:58.520 in the world. Minor league baseball hats, all different teams, 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:01.160 all the different crazy as. They look awesome and and 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:04.440 they're made really well. If you had, like a minor 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:07.360 league had of the month club where I would pay 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:11.720 say twenty dollars a month and I would get from 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:14.280 either forty seven brand or New Era, whoever was, I 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:16.680 would get a minor league out of the month that 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:20.080 they're they're specializing that month. Hey, this week, you're gonna 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:23.240 get the Syracuse Mets hat. Okay, and you get it 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:25.680 in your size, and it's twenty dollars a month. Now, look, 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:28.280 these hats normally go for anywhere between twenty five and 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:31.080 thirty thirty five dollars. So, okay, twenty dollars a month, 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:32.520 and I get a hat, all right, that's not bad. 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:35.320 I'll use that and I can push my collection. I 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:37.719 can get the hats I want to and and I 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:41.520 wind up getting a deal on it in the process. 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:43.720 And I think there's enough people who like hats out 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:45.120 there where that could work. I mean, I don't know, 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:47.080 I don't have the business model law worked up, but 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:49.839 I think that could work. I think that can definitely work. 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:52.320 We just gotta work on the distribution. May we've got 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:56.080 all these other box clubs. Right, here's your Avengers box 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:59.840 with a bunch of you know, merchandise each month. You 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:02.400 if you work on the hat, maybe get some decals 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:06.200 or something small thrown in and away you go, and 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:08.080 all of a sudden, you've got a subscription series with 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:11.360 some products that that you roll through. I like that 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:15.400 subscription series. I like that right there. Uh so we 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:17.000 we'll so we'll get to that. At the end. We'll 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:19.320 get two hats at the end. But we'll start off. 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:23.200 Why don't we start off with the best four MLB uniforms. Now, 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:26.640 I will do baseball first and we'll get into football. Alright. 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:29.000 So here's what I looked at you. I'm gonna give 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:31.760 you my favorite four and you tell me what you think. 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:34.880 Uniforms you like, agree or disagree? Oh cool, because I've 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:38.479 got some great lists in my own. So best four 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:41.680 uniforms in Major League Baseball now, in no particular order. 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:46.000 Best four they have right now? The Cardinals baby blue uniforms. 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:50.360 Cardinals logo with the blue that looks so sharp and 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:53.440 so cool. Look, I just can't get enough of staring. 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:56.720 The logo looks some The logo of the Cardinals with 0:05:56.800 --> 0:05:59.960 the two birds in the bat looks. I mean, it's 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:02.839 just striking when you see it on a on a 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:05.640 jersey with the baby blue, and so you're you're kind 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:09.920 of heartless, fantastic and hard day of Oh sure, I 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:12.400 go back to John Tudor and the World Series against 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:16.039 the Brewers, playing against the Brewers. Yeah, Oh that looks. 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:19.520 That looks that's a fantastic looking uniform. Okay, I'll give 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:22.880 you that one, alright. I dig that one. Okay, I'll 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:24.880 run mind past you on the on the back end, 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:26.560 keep going all right, all right, So I'm gonna go 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:31.880 with the the Oakland A's and they're deep green uniforms 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:35.400 that they wear now just really catch the eye and 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:37.960 and it goes back to looking like how they looked 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:40.440 in the in the seventies. Look, the big bold colors 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:43.839 always look good, especially in Major League Baseball. You can't 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:47.159 get too crazy with with different colors, you know, different 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:49.320 like like in the National Football League where here's a 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:51.640 jersey where we have seventeen colors on it. Okay, not 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:54.560 looking so great, but that deep green the A's have 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:57.039 that they I see that and I go, oh yeah, 0:06:57.040 --> 0:06:59.360 I'm I'm thinking back to those great A's teams of 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:01.680 the seventies ease and even the good teams they had 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:04.720 in the early eighties. But just that color, the deep 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:08.160 colors that that teams us that that are that are bold, 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:11.400 but yet they're they're a little bit darker, but they 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:13.680 don't lose any of their color. And that's how I 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:15.240 feel when I look at I look at the as 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:17.920 it's a weird way to describe it, but that deep green, 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:20.480 I just love that color. So much well, it gives 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:23.480 you some of the throwback, and again some of it 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:27.720 is remembering the uniforms from when we were kids and 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:31.880 seeing how well those are orchestrated and executed in in 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:37.320 return mode. Sometimes it's successful. Sometimes they just figure you'll 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:40.480 buy anything, and I think that's been danger with no 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:42.240 but I mean that's been the danger with a lot 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:45.520 of uniform changes through the years. It's just a an 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:47.560 obvious cash crab kind of like when you were able 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:49.800 to go in, you know, going back to hats for 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:51.680 a second, and all of a sudden you went on 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:58.320 and the shelves were red and green and yellow Yankees hats, right, 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:00.720 and it's certain major League baseball team here. It's like 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:03.560 they made no sense, but they knew that fans of 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:06.440 the team would come up with the thirty bucks and 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:10.640 the way you'd go. So same thing with uniforms they're lacking. 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:13.480 When it's all said and done, I'm gonna go with 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:16.520 my next one, The Pirates, yellow and black with the 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:20.160 yellow jersey the full because yellow and black looks so good, 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:23.160 but if it's too much black, you don't get enough 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:26.480 of the the accent. So when they have the top, 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:30.200 that's all that's all yellow and black. That looks really good. 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:32.160 You know that That's something I hope that you know, 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:34.760 any any team with that color scheme, you gotta really 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:36.920 have a little bit more. You gotta have more cowbell, guys, 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:39.520 you gotta have more yellow on those on those jerseys 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:41.680 and uniforms and then you would normally have that's just 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:44.920 gonna pop that. Oh that always wins. And my fourth 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:46.840 I'm gonna take you by surprise a little bit because 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:49.160 being an n L East guy I am. I'm gonna 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:52.880 go with the Phillies. The cream uniforms with the blue 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:56.880 star over the eye for Phillies. That's just such a 0:08:56.960 --> 0:09:00.200 great look. And your eye gets caught by the uh, 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:03.120 the star all the time. And it's it's not white, 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:05.160 which you know every team wears white, but it's more 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:08.200 like a cream color. And and that just really stands 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:11.280 out to me that that look especially expect looking, you 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:13.040 know me. You know, Philly's fans are gonna watch Bryce 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:14.760 Harper do this now for the next third teen years. 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:18.920 But but that uniform don't matter no matter who's wearing it. 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:21.760 That is that is a really sharp look. So I'm 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:24.320 gonna put that as my top four. The Cardinals, baby Blue, 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:27.680 the A's deep green, Pirates, yellow jerseys and black pants, 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:30.760 Philly's cream with a blue star over the eye. I 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:33.960 gotta I dig that insertion because I know that took 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:37.880 a lot of thought and and a willingness to say 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:40.880 that a division rival is actually doing something right and 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:43.400 that's just being Mets Mets, and that's that's big of you. 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:45.800 It's very big of you. I have a quick form, 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:49.360 just gonna run through really fast. You got the Royals home. 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:51.959 I mean it's just classic. Yeah, yeah, the roy You 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:53.840 have the Royal script. It looks really good. And the 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:59.360 blue is always solid. The blue Jay's timeless. Oh and 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:01.120 you know, and I even like when they go with 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:03.199 the alternate with the red when they when they when 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:06.560 they really accent the red. I like that a lot too. Yeah, 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:09.199 so that works. The Dodgers road gray. I don't usually 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:13.240 like the gray uniforms, but the blue logos, right, the 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:17.000 blue logo work, and the red letter numbering works for me. 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:20.120 And then one that's introduced. And folks might not have 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:23.640 seen these yet because they're they're scheduled to make their debut, 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:26.440 but I already put them on my list. The Milwaukee 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:34.240 Brewers road blue with gold lettering sharp as sharp as 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:38.320 can be. So again and we'll we'll celebrate Christie Yelloch 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:40.719 and all those here is along the way. But you 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:43.920 know Major League Baseball uniforms because it's also good because 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:46.440 they're button downs, so it's not you know, they're not 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:49.640 tank tops like you've got in the basketball world, which 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:52.480 I don't have a body shape that should be running 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:56.000 around in basketball jerseys. That's just I'm not long enough. 0:10:56.040 --> 0:11:00.680 I'm just not And then very difficult, yeah yeah, and 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:03.280 then football jerseys. I've got a bad shoulder, so you know, 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:06.280 just trying to pull that over, just especially because you 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:07.800 want to se media because you want to look small. 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:11.480 It's it's, it's it's a little hurt. This is a 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:15.040 button down, nice and easy. Uh So with our four 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:18.319 favorite uniforms, now, let's go to our four favorite MLB 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:22.720 uniforms of all time. Now, there's been so many and 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:25.280 and and and you see lists of great uniforms going 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:27.800 back to the fifties and the forties and the thirties. 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:31.439 I need a little more color because color always look 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:34.280 for everybody says all the Yankees pinstrips. It's classic but 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:36.800 is it really eye catching or is it just classic 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:39.280 because the Yankees have always worn it. I like a 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:41.760 little more color. My list is gonna be a little 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:44.880 weird of my favorite four uniforms of all time. Uh, 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:47.439 and there's a lot in common with it, so I'll 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:51.600 kind of go through it because you'll see what's in common. Um. 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:55.040 I love the Astros rainbow uniforms of the seventies. I 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:58.679 love the way the orange, red, and yellow works together. 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:02.680 I know that potentially when when if you told me, Okay, 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:04.800 here's a color scheme that's gonna work, it's the orange, red, 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:07.439 and yellow. What's next, Well, another orange, red and yellow stripe, 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:08.920 and what's that gonna be. Well, it's kind of gonna 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:10.880 be those colors all the way through. I'm like, oh 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:14.080 my god, that sounds awful. But it works, you know, 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:18.880 the Astros uniforms. It's kind of day glows seventies ish. 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:21.720 But I'm okay with that. I'm okay with that because 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:24.959 it's a it's a really good look and it is 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:29.439 something that each color stands out. No color gets lost 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:32.000 in anything else. The orange is the orange, the red 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:35.280 is the red, the yellows the yellow, and it's It's 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:38.559 an anti look of many things the Major League Baseball 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:40.080 teams have done. No mab we have, because you know, 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:43.760 we talked about the creamsicles for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:46.360 and we've had that kind of but this day glow 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:49.719 look by the Astros was unique back then and it 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:51.480 still is unique. I wish they'd go back to those 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:54.520 uniforms now now. Yellow is kind of a big theme 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:56.400 with a bunch of my jerseys because the next two 0:12:56.400 --> 0:13:00.000 one on my list the Padres brown and yellow from 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:03.200 the seventies. That's another sharp look. You know, we talked 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:05.520 about the Pirates with the black and yellow, but the 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:08.319 Padres had the same thing. I know that by the 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:11.880 time they changed the look, fans were sick of, oh 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:14.880 the brown and yellow. There was a big anti um 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:18.080 image of the Padre's uniforms. Oh they look brown and 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:20.480 yellow and people think of poop. And I mean that's 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:22.280 really what it was. I mean it was I I 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:24.160 don't get over why that was such a that that 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:26.720 was such a good uniform. So then it went away 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:29.440 from it. But the strike, the strikingness of the yellow 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:34.120 really work. Same thing. The A's all yellow uniforms. They 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:37.240 wore in the sixties and the seventies. They look great too. 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:39.360 I mean, which one are you talking about. You're talking 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:42.000 about the green sleeve one. Yeah, the green sleeve with 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:45.280 the yellow with yellow. That's not my worst will get 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:49.360 to Oh you're kidding, really no, it's you gotta be hating, man. 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:52.840 Look what my whole thing as a lot that are 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:57.520 just really bad or things that look like vests, things 0:13:57.520 --> 0:13:59.600 that look like vests somehow, because I got that, and 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:02.920 I got the Reds with their vests on the list. 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:04.720 For me, I'm here wearing a vest from home Depot. 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:07.520 Canna help you with anything? Hey, didn't you play for 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:10.600 the A's in the seven? Aren't you? Sal bando? Um? 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:15.440 But I think yellow is a really is a color 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:19.040 that is really underutilized in sports, and yellow really pops. 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:21.160 And I don't get white people don't don't don't wear 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:24.240 that more. And of course my fourth just because it 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:26.240 looks I mean, and and this is not just me, 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:30.320 but the mid eighties Mets when they had the orange 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:32.760 and blue stripes down the arms and all the way 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:35.840 down the pants that cut through. I mean, that was 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:38.280 a really fresh look. And it still looks good now, 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:41.080 you know, I'm surprised they haven't gone back to doing 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:43.480 something like that a little bit more permanent, because the 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:45.880 stripes that start from the shoulder down they look really 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:48.840 good and then down the pants. Anytime you can accent 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:51.600 the pants, that's a good look. Look, the Chargers do 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:53.600 that in football all the time with the lightning bolts on. 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:56.840 It looks awesome. But but teams don't accent the pants enough. 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:58.600 And if you can do that, you can have something 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:01.440 that looks really really good. I dig that you started 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:05.200 looking like wrestling tights. It's a good thing. Uh So 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:10.400 I had the Astros, I have the late seventies Pirates 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:14.080 again one that's uh a bit divisive. But when we 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:17.840 get to the pop stars, all the pillbox hats and everything, 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:21.640 I'm in. I'm all in the Ken Griffy early era 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:26.400 Mariners uniforms. When you know he he's running them up 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:29.440 with you know, uh, you know the some of those 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:32.840 power hitting teams. The blue, the blue is brighter and 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:34.400 and the and the gold is that. Yeah, that was 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:35.920 that was a nice look too. That's a great throw 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:38.600 back a little bit. And then I would be remiss 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:41.240 if I didn't do some home cooking because it's a 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:44.080 culture change. I mean, we have a huge fan base, 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:46.320 and I know the white Sox get mocked quite a bit, 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:49.760 and they'll be on these lists for many other reasons. 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:53.080 There's yeah, but when you when they changed to the 0:15:53.160 --> 0:16:00.880 black silver white combinations in and it's started showing up 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:05.720 in you know, ice Cube and and Stoop Dogg videos 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:11.480 and became this this big cultural and iconic logo that 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:15.400 stood all those years during the Robin Ventura Frank Thomas years. 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:18.600 I mean that that is just a culture changer and 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:21.920 tongues of merch sold and it just looks sharp. I'm 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:26.000 staring at us signed Frank Thomas mini helmet right here, boy, 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:30.440 just smiling. Know that that was a big culture change. 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:33.080 It was well, look how cool all black looks? You know, 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:34.960 I mean, look how cool? Look how clear do you? 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:37.200 Sometimes you don't need colors and you can go to 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:39.640 the all black with a white and the socks logo 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:41.960 on the hat. That was just the s o X 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:44.840 And so many people wore wore that hat and bought 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:47.400 that hat and it was it was such a big look. 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:49.120 And that you know that that was the hat that 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:52.200 Jordan wore right when he was playing in the minor 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:54.560 league system. That was the look for the White Sox. 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:56.920 It was black Jack McDowell all that. I agree. We 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:59.080 had that all the way through the farms system too, 0:16:59.240 --> 0:17:02.200 Like that became that I'm with you. I'm with you 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:04.840 on that. But however, when we want to talk about 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:07.680 the worst uniforms of all time, there's a lot I'm 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:10.320 not a fan of, like the Devil Rays first uniforms, 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:12.760 which are like blue and light blue and green and yellow. 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:14.720 It looked terrible. I mean, there's a lot of the 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:17.679 Florida Marlins all teal look bad when they first started 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:20.160 with that. But what's funny, I had that as third 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:24.440 on my list? Did you really? Yeah? And I was. 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:27.919 It wasn't going through and looking up lists or it 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:30.600 was just memory remembering the trading cards going Those are 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:33.960 just so bright and terrible. But I'm sorry, buddy. The 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:37.680 worst uniforms I've seen the mid seventies when they wore 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:44.080 shorts and you had shorts coming you look like you 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:45.959 look like a team that you were. It was it 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:48.120 was a Beer League team going out to play. We're 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:50.399 all wearing the same shorts. And not only that, I 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:52.920 wear I wear shorts every day. Yeah, but there's where 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:56.040 then you're playing baseball and shorts you're slides. That's part 0:17:56.040 --> 0:18:00.360 of the appeal. And shorts were terrible. Man. I'm still 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:03.399 trying to get one of those game or jerseys though. No, 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:06.080 seeing the jersey were just as bad. They're expensive as hell. 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:07.760 Did you are just as bad because you had like 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:10.480 the big long collar, like you were wearing a jacket 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:13.399 under it. No, come on, No, that was the collar 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:17.160 they as soon as the game was over. The dark 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:20.359 blue collar was awful. It was I felt like when 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:22.919 guys in the seventies and eighties would wear the jersey, 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:25.080 they wear the big warm up jacket under it when 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:26.919 it was cold in the spring and they would have 0:18:26.960 --> 0:18:28.840 to put the collar out. I feel like that's what 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:31.520 the white socks jerseys looked like. And I said, who 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:33.480 said this is a good look? Who thought this is 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:37.520 a good idea? I mean, this jersey looks bad. You've 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:40.000 got grown men wearing shorts. They can't be happy about that. 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:42.280 No one's gonna want to slide because they're gonna wind 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:44.879 up getting cut up all the way. I can't believe 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:48.119 that actually made it out. Come on, he was a 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:52.160 carnival barker guys trying a bunch of gadgets. But one 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:54.760 of the things they're lamenting in Chicago coming out of 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:57.960 the pandemic is that they'll have to shut down the 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:02.000 homage to old Chamiskey and shower that's out there. I mean, 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:05.600 that's what Bill was all of that, right, So so 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:08.399 it was about game, you know, the exploding scoreboard, all 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:11.680 those other things that that he brought to the game. Yeah, 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:14.360 the record demolition night right when they just shot all 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:18.240 the records doll and all that craziness and chaos and 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:21.440 just marked another anniversary of that that you know when 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:23.440 you when you add it all up, I mean this 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:26.520 was just part and parcel for the owner that he 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:30.480 was something a little different. So there you go. There's 0:19:30.520 --> 0:19:33.600 our best baseball uniforms now of all time and our 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:36.360 least favorites of all time. Coming up next, we get 0:19:36.400 --> 0:19:40.040 into the National Football League, the best and the worst. 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:42.560 Does your team make it on it? Find out? Coming 0:19:42.640 --> 0:20:03.040 up next right here on special Teams, We've just given 0:20:03.080 --> 0:20:06.560 you our favorite MLB uniforms in our least favorite MLB 0:20:06.760 --> 0:20:10.320 uniforms shorts. Uh. Now it's time to get to the 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:14.280 National Football League and our best four uniforms of all 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:18.920 time and our worst four uniforms of all time, best 0:20:19.040 --> 0:20:21.480 uniforms of all time. I'm gonna go here. I got 0:20:21.520 --> 0:20:23.600 my four and this is a list. I don't think 0:20:23.600 --> 0:20:26.520 he's ever gonna change. I don't see anybody having uniforms 0:20:26.520 --> 0:20:29.240 that get better than these four. And here's a hint, 0:20:29.720 --> 0:20:32.760 that's a hot take. Here's a hint. The Chargers powder 0:20:32.800 --> 0:20:36.840 blue comes in at number five because there's uniforms as 0:20:36.840 --> 0:20:39.679 good as the Chargers powder blue looks and it looks awesome. Right. 0:20:39.720 --> 0:20:42.720 Their uniforms this year are gonna look phenomenal. Right, the 0:20:42.720 --> 0:20:47.359 color Rush uniforms look good. Oh, the yellow pants look fantastic. 0:20:47.400 --> 0:20:49.560