It's been very hot and dry this last week. Temps have been from 104° - 107° F or 40° - 42° C. It's also smoky as this is the season when they burn the fields to get ready to plant when the rains start. Not the best idea in these times but old ways die hard. There is a constant hot, dry wind blowing and everything seems to be shriveling in the heat. A lot of the trees are flowering though and while beautiful, the pollen is also a pain to those of us with allergies. It's true, what I'd been told, that May is the best month to go north. Hopefully, when the house is finished we will be able to do that.
Yesterday, after running all kinds of errands in the heat of the day - I've got to stop putting things off until the hottest part of the day - we decided to have lunch at Boston's. I thought it would be the 3rd or 4th US chain restaurant that I've only been in here in México. My count now is Chili's, Sirloin Stockade, and I thought Boston was another. Turns out I think the one I'm thinking of in the US is Boston Gardens or something? This was a pretty nice sports bar/restaurant with freezing cold AC and lots of TVs. The food was pretty good too.
I like watching futbol or soccer, lots of action and emotion and all. It doesn't have that let's-watch-testosterone-poisoned-men-bash-each-other thrill that US football has but it isn't like watching paint dry which is more exciting than watching baseball. So, I was enjoying all the soccer games except WTF is going on with the uniforms??? Can someone explain them to me?
First, nowhere on them does it say what the team name is. The player's name is on the back and the rest is filled up with advertisements. These guys are running billboards.
Second, why is there no relationship at all between the uniforms on the goalie and the uniforms on the rest of his team?
There was one team in spiffy black and white stripes that mostly looked like the jail outfits in old movies. That was ok once I realized they weren't all referees which is the other thing their unis looked like, US football referees if they wore shorts. Well, and had ads plastered all over themselves including one bright yellow bumper sticker across their stomachs. Their goalie had on all black, that kind of went along with the black and white stripes of the other guys EXCEPT... he was dressed exactly like the real referees who wear all black (since they don't wear stripes) except his socks were white and the refs socks were black. Come on! Help us out here a little, why would you have a player dressed exactly like a ref? Are the players supposed to be checking socks before body blocking?
The other team though, sheez! They were in royal blue and pink stripes! Friggin godawful! Their goalie was in an orangey red and white stripped shirt. I mean, do they just tell the goalies to wear whatever is clean? Just pick something up off the floor of your closet and wear it to a game? This was a televised game with full stands, they must not have been the bush league.
So, can someone please explain why in a sport that is the most popular in the world, no one has gotten a designer to straighten all this shit out?
Yesterday, after running all kinds of errands in the heat of the day - I've got to stop putting things off until the hottest part of the day - we decided to have lunch at Boston's. I thought it would be the 3rd or 4th US chain restaurant that I've only been in here in México. My count now is Chili's, Sirloin Stockade, and I thought Boston was another. Turns out I think the one I'm thinking of in the US is Boston Gardens or something? This was a pretty nice sports bar/restaurant with freezing cold AC and lots of TVs. The food was pretty good too.
I like watching futbol or soccer, lots of action and emotion and all. It doesn't have that let's-watch-testosterone-poisoned-men-bash-each-other thrill that US football has but it isn't like watching paint dry which is more exciting than watching baseball. So, I was enjoying all the soccer games except WTF is going on with the uniforms??? Can someone explain them to me?
First, nowhere on them does it say what the team name is. The player's name is on the back and the rest is filled up with advertisements. These guys are running billboards.
Second, why is there no relationship at all between the uniforms on the goalie and the uniforms on the rest of his team?
There was one team in spiffy black and white stripes that mostly looked like the jail outfits in old movies. That was ok once I realized they weren't all referees which is the other thing their unis looked like, US football referees if they wore shorts. Well, and had ads plastered all over themselves including one bright yellow bumper sticker across their stomachs. Their goalie had on all black, that kind of went along with the black and white stripes of the other guys EXCEPT... he was dressed exactly like the real referees who wear all black (since they don't wear stripes) except his socks were white and the refs socks were black. Come on! Help us out here a little, why would you have a player dressed exactly like a ref? Are the players supposed to be checking socks before body blocking?
The other team though, sheez! They were in royal blue and pink stripes! Friggin godawful! Their goalie was in an orangey red and white stripped shirt. I mean, do they just tell the goalies to wear whatever is clean? Just pick something up off the floor of your closet and wear it to a game? This was a televised game with full stands, they must not have been the bush league.
So, can someone please explain why in a sport that is the most popular in the world, no one has gotten a designer to straighten all this shit out?
posted by Jonna at 12:31 AM
10 Comments:
Just another one of those, "Don't try to understand it, or it will drive you crazy," Mexico things?
blah blah blah blah. Why so full of derision for their uniforms? Just enjoy the game fer chrissake.
Amiga - Of course you are looking at this from a female perspective in terms of uniforms - but all still some good observations ;-)
The goalies wear a different shirt to be highly identifiable in the field of play. They have different ball handling privileges - it is good for the players to know where that hombre is on the field for that and the obvious fact that you want to kick or head slap the ball where that hombre isn't.
The advertising is kind of like race car drivers I suppose - but more distracting as the driver is in the car - although the cars are covered with ads as well. I tend to agree that uniform uniforms would be better (goalie excepted).
Like other sports the ownership seems to be finding their way in terms of uniform design. I can remember a lot of iterations and some gross errors in U.S. sport team uniforms - particularly baseball - which I like a little better than you.
I am enjoying futbol more now that I live here in Mexico - more than I got into soccer in the US. I am sure part of it for me is the local camaraderie of hanging out and watching the games with the guys.
Maybe your displeasure with the uniforms dilemma might be written off to the more free form, less rigid and uptight, reality of the world beyond the U.S.?
Oh and... jeeez Wilhem - who pee'd in your Cherrios? You have a problem with people discussing issues and thinking out loud - maybe you better stick to reading the sports page.
Hmmmm....
"no one has gotten a designer to straighten all this shit out?"
Well, hell, Jonna - give 'em my number, willya? I'm pretty good with color. ;^)
Ilene
I completely agree with you. The goalies could have uniforms that allow them to stand out from all other players but which still make it clear what team they are on. This is not hard from a design standpoint.
It's true, what I'd been told, that May is the best month to go north.
Odd you should write that Jonna - I just responded to a thread on another board somewhere - a thread about snowbirding. I wrote that we feel attracted to the Yucatan Peninsula, but we might feel a need to travel some in the April to June time period.
I suggested that people who do that should be called Heatbirds :-).
Stay as comfortable as possible
Ron and Kathy
Uniforms? They wear uniforms? I don't think I've watched since last July (I'm a fair weather friend and only come out for the big games) but never really noticed that much uniform adverts.
Course, my attention is on the legs and thighs, and when end game comes, the lovely chests when they rip off their shirts and exchange (sometimes) with the other team.
Uniforms? :)
I get the part about the goalie needing to stand out but I'm with River Girl, this could be done while still making it possible to tell which team he is on. Also, is it strategy to have your goalie dressed just like an umpire? I can see that having the other team get them confused could work in your favor but it seems like something that might not be quite legal. Anyway, this is not a México thing, this is international so I guess they like it the way it is.
So Helmut, glad you stopped by MY blog. Yup, it's my opinions on things so if they bug you then move on down the line, eh? Although, I have to say that I loved Juan's line about the cheerios, that made it all worth it.
Ron, you have coined a good word.
oops¡ Harvestmoon, I missed your comment. Yeah, they are in great shape. I don't get the same charge from it though :)
Jonna,
You might want to catch the big game, today. MAN U vs CHELSEA...in Moscow!
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