| Today we are back in full force from our various vacations and technical malfunctions and are ready to hit this blog today at The Gridiron Uniform Database with a vengeance. We have no less than 36 database updates to bring you, and we will try to do a huge chunk of them today.
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Let's get started with the 1994 and 1995 Raiders. Thanks to Mako Mameli, who brought this change to our attention. We have added Starter manufacturer logos to the front of the pants. Discussion is on-going in our forum about the number font of the 1960s Raiders. I believe at one point we thought it was as simple as the black jerseys always had a particular font, and the white jerseys with the silver-with-black-outline (1963-64 & 1970) had the squared-off numbers and the other white jerseys -- the regular black numbers -- had the standard numbers. Now, thanks to Mako, we are finding it is more complicated than that.
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| Cookie Gilchrist of the Bills in a 1962 Preseason tilt against Boston. Still undetermined is the status of the Pats' logo-less helmet on #85 |
We have made some changes to the 1957 Eagles and Browns, thanks to some images posted to our forum. For the Eagles, we have changed the pants that they wore with the stripe-less white jersey to the white pants, and for the Browns, we added the preseason variation of number-less helmets. They apparently waited until the regular season to debut their helmets with the numbers on them. Thanks go to LarryB and BD Sullivan for this forum thread that brought us these updates. This whole discussion owes itself to the images available online at the USC Digital Library, which has many 1950s Rams images in its collection.  |
| Here are some images from the USC Digital Library: 1957 Eagles at Rams (left), 1957 Browns at Rams (center) and 1955 Packers at Rams (right). |
In these above images, in the picture on the right, which you can see in more detail here, we are currently looking into the Packers' stripe pattern. Of this Packers image, our historian Tim Brulia says, "It's from 1955 and the Packers look to be clearly wearing WHITE stripes
on the jerseys and socks and WHITE numbers on the jersey. Helmet and
pants are clearly yellow." Debate continues on this issue.
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We still have many more database updates to bring you, but we will save them for another time. We have more on the 1996-2003 Eagles we discussed earlier this week, plus Houston Oilers and New York Jets changes, as well as a modification to the 1990 San Francisco 49ers, thanks to Larry Schmitt that we have to update. We'll bring you those in the coming days.
Our other on-going contest is the Best NFL Uniform Of All-Time tournament. Voting will soon end on the first group of entries, so if you haven't voted on those yet, hurry up and do so. Monday we will have our second group of first-round match-ups, so be sure not to miss that.
The USC Digital Library will be "seeing" me quite a bit, I do believe.
ReplyDeleteI found a date error already, though.
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assetserver/controller/view/search/examiner-m15902/EXM-N-12374-056~8
It's identified as Packers at Rams '58, but it has to be '57. Ray Nitschke's rookie-year number with the Packers was 33, but that's clearly not Nitschke. The man who wore 33 for the Packers in '57 was Frank Purnell from Alcorn A&M. It was his only season with the team.
As for the mid-'50s Packers wearing white-numeral jerseys with the gold pants, there's another instance of them using that combo against the Lions at Tiger Stadium. I've seen it on video, but I'll try to find a photographic source.
There's also a 64 for the Packers clearly playing defense in that set. Jerry Kramer wore 64 right from the start with the Packers and was an offensive guard the whole time, while in '57 a linebacker named Ernie Danjean wore 64.
ReplyDeleteI think the whole set of photos is actually from '57. A moot point with regard to the uniforms, since the Packers wore that all-white uni in L.A. in '57 and '58, but worth noting for future reference.
The set identified as Packers at Rams 1955 is much more likely to be accurately time-stamped. The Rams, under Sid Gillman, won the Western Conference title in '55, their first since '51. That's clearly Gillman being lifted onto his players' shoulders. So the Packers had a dark jersey with white numerals as early as '55.
ReplyDeleteI'm with you that the white jerseyed Packers-Rams game is from 1957. If the Rams have the white outlined yellow body numbers, then it's 100% 1957.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your research, Tom!
A labor of love, Timmy.
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