![]() Right now, for example, she’s checking the original membership orders against the roster page, so I can finally fill in the remaining 15 or so names that got wiped out by that software hiccup a few weeks back. Staph Infection Staff Addition: The search for Vince’s replacement continues (more on that in a sec), but meanwhile I’ve taken on a new assistant: Meet Nina Dubin, who’s generously offered to help me with administrative tasks, membership processing, and other clerical-ish stuff. And nobody affiliated with the Devils or the NHL had the integrity or the courage to say no to this? Shame on everyone involved. Let’s take a little inventory here: The name of an insurance company appears four times on the patch, and the company’s logo appears six times. It’s bad enough that corporations get to buy the naming rights for such facilities, but the corporate flimflammery on the jersey patch that the Devils wore for the occasion really scaled new heights in offensiveness. It was in Newark, where the Devils played their first name in their new arena on Saturday night. Unfortunately, a corporate advertising logo did appear on a uniform over the weekend - but not in London. Instead, they included the word “London” in red type, although it was really hard to make out. As I’d been told, the jersey patches worn for the game did not feature the Bridgestone logo (unlike the patch worn by that giant Jason Taylor robot last week).Hey, Joe Skiba, care to fill us in on that? I’ll be curious to see if Tynes sticks with the Umbros next week or if it was just a one-game thing. Jints kicker Lawrence Tynes was wearing Umbro cleats yesterday - particularly interesting since Umbro’s diamond-shaped logo echoed the diamond logo used to promote the game itself.The latest incursion: Michael Strahan wore red shoelaces. Something really needs to be done about the increasing prominence of red in Big Blue’s color scheme.I was mildly surprised that there was no special helmet decal for the occasion.Any Uni Watch reader would’ve noticed that in less time than it takes Sebastian Janikowski to run the 40-yard dash scarf down three hot dogs. If I’m wrong about that - i.e., if he was posing as a game official - then the security staff really blew it by not picking up on his incorrect hose and headwear. So I’m assuming that he was disguised as a member of the chain gang (typically comprised of local college officials, although I’m not sure what would qualify as “local” in London), not as an actual on-field official. Note that his cap also lacked the NFL logo. Consider: NFL officials wear socks with two white stripes, but college and high school zebras wear socks with Northwestern stripes - and that’s what Roberts was wearing. It’s good to see that all the finest aspects of pro football were on display yesterday in London, where the Giants and Dolphins sloshed around in the mud for three hours before adjourning for fish and chips.īut Mark Roberts (or, as the wire service captions identified him, “serial streaker Mark Roberts”) gave us plenty of Uni Watch fodder, even with his abbreviated attire.
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