The Story Behind the Uniforms

by jrsyeagle on Dec 2, 2011 9:29 AM EST

Turns out, it's not as crazy as we all would have assume, and Loria or his creative near were not on some acid induced psychedelic trip. They may have even broken a few laws...

The teams uniforms are actually not original at all. I'm not sure whether it was Yahoo Sports, a random tweeter, or another blog that discovered it first, but our font and styling is incredibly similar (ALBEIT STILL WORSE) than the team from South Florida in the movie BASEketball!

via www.underconsideration.com

Ironically, the team name in that movie is "The Miami Dealers." Is it a coincidence that our owner is indeed, an art "dealer?" I would take their uniforms over ours though. At least they kept the teal. Their font still looks more art-deco-ey (which I like more if they were really going to go all in), but I think it's what Loria was actually going for.

In other news, did anyone read the article interviewing the designer of the homerun feature??? Some highlights:

He doesn't use computers
He doesn't believe in blogs
He knows his art is gaudy and repugnant
HE IS FRIENDS WITH LORIA
WHEN LORIA FOUND OUT HE GOT TO CHOOSE THE FEATURE, HE SOLICITED HIM TO SUBMIT A BID
IT WAS A GOVERNMENT FUNDED OPEN-BID PROCESS

I capitalized the last three because it seems pretty illegal to me that, in a public job funded by the government, the panel that selects the winner is indeed not the government and good friends with the winning bidder, whom admits he didn't intend to enter a piece until he was told to do so by his friend that gave out the $2.5MM government check.

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Not using computers & liking blogs is totally fine I actually like that he admits his work is gaudy & repugnant. Hell a ton of artist centuries ago were hated for their art that’s been acceptable for a while. But like you mentioned being lorias friend & getting gov money is unacceptable.

by The One G on Dec 2, 2011 1:22 PM EST reply actions

the uniforms look nothing alike

the only things thats similar is just a font thats art-deco, which is a traditional miami font anyway…and they arent even really the same.

if anyone stole an idea, its baseketball from miami vice. i highly doubt lorias even seen the movie

by FishNFinz on Dec 2, 2011 2:53 PM EST reply actions

Movie Buff

FishnFinz, I agree that Loria knew nothing about that movie, but Samson is a well known movie buff. He (the little weasel, Samson) has a weekly segment with Dan LeBatard to talk about “movies” on AM 790 The Ticket.

by Powerhouse on Dec 11, 2011 7:46 AM EST up reply actions

Wow

Those teal Unis look sick. Wish we would have gone with those haha. Either way I’m not complaining about the new uniforms, I like that we made a change and created a new persona. Hopefully we start winning some ballgames.

"Don’t do drugs, don’t have unprotected sex, don’t be violent. Leave that to me." - Eminem

by auh11 on Dec 22, 2011 6:59 PM EST reply actions