This past spring, we wrote a quick post about the Seahawks planning to utilize a lime green alternate jersey during the 2009 season. The story was leaked around April 1st, though, and we added an update that the jersey appeared to be, in fact, an April Fool’s joke.
Seahawks Green Jerseys
After Sunday, I guess the joke was on us, as the Seahawks rolled out the jerseys for their home game against the Bears.
We can only hope that the Bears 25-19 victory means that the green jerseys will be put in mothballs permanently–and this is coming from a guy who still lists the Buccaneers creamsicle orange jerseys amongst his favorites of all time.
It isn’t the lime green that’s the problem for me–in fact, the Orlando Thunder lime green uniforms are also amongst my favorites of all time. After all, a guy can’t tackle you if you’re uniform is so bright that it blinded him (of course, blinding your own offensive players might cause problems too).
But combining the lime green with that putrid greyish-blue that is the Seahawks primary color–that’s what I don’t get. I would list the Seahawks amongst the teams that I think should start using a throwback alternate, and then once they find the right mix, go back to it permanently.
Jerome Bettis was a pretty good NFL running back (some might say great–I’m not sure I’d go that far). And he hasn’t been horrible as an NFL analyst since he retired, working with NBC and the NFL Network.
Somewhere along the way, he’s even gotten himself a column on Sports Illustrated’s Website, called Bus Stops (or Buss Stops, when the editors are too busy wading through Peter King’s latest weekly novel).
This week, amongst some tidbits about the Raiders pathetic QB situation (that’s going out on a limb), and theorizing that the Titans should have paid Jim Schwartz like a head coach (which only would have worked if money was all that mattered to him), Bettis graces us with his Class of 2010 Hall of Fame thoughts.
Jerry Jones, owner of the Dallas Cowboys, decided it would be a good time to open his mouth regarding the upcoming labor negotiations with the players union, under the guise of encouraging the people of Minnesota to deliver a new stadium to Zygi Wilf and the Vikings. As usual, Jones was wrong.
We’ve written a couple of posts regarding Twitter and the NFL now, a topic that given that my day job requires a certain amount of knowledge of the platform, continues to amaze me. I’ve grown from someone who thought Twitter was a complete waste of time to someone who…thinks that it’s still largely a waste of time, but is strangely useful and entertaining for certain things.
For instance, during the NFL draft this past spring, I was watching the draft and following along on Twitter at the same time, gauging reaction from fans (and in a couple cases communicating directly with them) around the country (globe?) in real time, as the picks rolled in.
Further, as we’ve built our list of people we follow, we now occasionally find news tidbits that we will write about, or explore further on Zoneblitz.
More recently, we’ve started following a lot of NFL players, teams, and league employees (and even Drew Rosenhaus…although we still feel kind of dirty about that), watching for their opinions and comments on league happenings. A lot of it is crap, but again, at times it’s entertaining.
To that end, we’ve started putting together a list of all of the official NFL team, player, and media profiles that we’ve found, so that anyone who’s into Twitter can find their favorite team’s players, and start following them as well.
We’ll do our best to finish the list (we’re probably not even half way there yet), and keep it updated–but feel free to contact us if you see something that we’ve failed to catch.
The National Football League, despite encouraging players to connect with fans with new media tools such as Twitter, has updated it’s social media policy to largely outlaw usage of such tools by players, coaches, and media during games. The policy includes other social media tools, such as Facebook, and extends for 90 minutes before the game, and until post game interviews are done.
The new policy also includes representatives of players–so players like Chris Cooley, who regularly blogs throughout the year, including during the season and on game days, might be in hot water if his brother (who manages his site, and regularly posts there as well) are posting on game days.
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