Transcript of Drip Drill: The Return of Mike Ryan Ruiz and Pulitzer Prize Winner Amin Elhassan New

Hi, hello, my fellow football Americans. It's your old pal Dave Damaschick coming at you from the headquarters here in Miami, Florida. Looking forward to this episode. We're going to deep dive all the uniforms in North America, or at least those in the four major sports. Drip Drill special. We're going to try to figure out what the top 10 uniforms are. We're going to do it with our partner in crime and esthetics, Mike Ryan, and Pulitzer Prize winner Amin El-Hassan. There isn't a moment to waste. Let's start the show. Yes, hi and hello and welcome to Football America, my fellow football Americans. This is episode number 63, presented as ever by our pals over at DraftKings. DraftKings, the crown is yours. And while we await those fellas jumping in here, the aforementioned ones, Amin and Mike, Mike and Amin, I see Mike Fuentes behind the glass, I see Gino Fuentes behind the glass, And behind them is Buddy Budowski. How is everybody?

We're doing great, Dave. How you doing?

Excellent. I hope you— what was that excellent? I don't know. I hope you have your train— yeah, that was a weird train.

I think he was trying to save us all from the long pause. I'm exhausted. My fire alarm went off at 3 o'clock in the morning last night.

Oh no.

And that—

you stayed up the whole time after that?

Isn't it weird when people put the microphone on? I don't know why. It's the same sort of thing. You see it all the time when people have a camera pointed at them when you're at a sporting event and they're in the background. They act in a way that they otherwise would never behave. And that's what we just saw from Gino Fuentes. I don't know where that voice came from. He would never make those sounds where there's not a microphone in front of him.

Never heard that in my life.

You know, it's funny, I was waiting a beat and you didn't say a word, and I was waiting a beat and he didn't say a word. Oh, let me just get in here.

It's always funny at sporting events when people get put on the big screen and they do like this number where like they're looking at themselves but they're waving, so they can't really see themselves waving in full because they have to look this way to see themselves at all. So you get this weird thing like this where nobody's really looking, or not knowing what they're doing. It's always so awkward. I don't know, it feels It is weird.

It is weird to look at, and I hope it hasn't been too weird to look at the Le Batard Show this past week hosted by Jonathan Zaslow. Capable. That's not a dig at his appearance, it's a dig at mine because I've been seated next to him. Been a great time as always when I get down to Florida, thanks in part to the Fuentes boys and the good treatment everybody shows me down here. And I hope your sartorial eyes are trained and ready to go here. Real quick though, before we dig in Gino Fuentes, it's episode number 63. What player or players in the NFL, nay, in all of sports, wore that jersey number best?

Well, as a Florida Panthers fan, I gotta say Brad Marshawn. He's the first one that pops in my head.

He's a mercenary. Yeah, but also bound for the Hall of Fame.

That's our guy.

He's a legend, yeah.

He will go into the Hall of Fame as a Panther.

When you dip into football, Gene Upshaw comes to mind, Mike Munchak, but we're still in the offensive line territory here. What do you got for me, Dave?

Dermonte Dawson, he's a Hall of Famer. What are you talking about? Leroy Selmon. Oh, that's a good one, in fact, because he wore one of the most admired uniforms, the Creamsicle, for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. And then they changed to Pewter. And who's going to be talking about uniforms in just a minute? A Pulitzer Prize winner. Look how nice and tidy that is.

Um, did we not mention Jeff Saturday? That was the first name that came to mind at 63.

You're right.

Are you positive?

100%. Peyton Manning Center.

Saturday.

I'm looking at it right now. Jeff Saturday, '63 Colts, underrated uniform.

Hey, Dave, I agree.

What's your perfect Sunday?

I don't know what that question's about. What's that supposed to— I didn't know what— I thought you were asking that sincerely and I got a little creeped out there.

Wait a minute.

Awkward. I'm trying. I'm trying to pace it up, friend.

I want to get—

I want to get to our special guest here, but I can't help it. I'm also a dip. Who— a dork who has to mention this— 63. 63 is a pretty iconic number. 63 is the point total of Michael Jordan against Larry Bird and the Celtics. That was his real national breakout game. 63, um, is Ernie Fats Holmes. Ernie Fats Holmes is a name that I bet you, you guys don't know, but he is one of the four— when you hear Steel Curtain, do you think that that applies to all the Steelers defense? It doesn't. It's just the front four.

Yeah, right.

It's Dwight White, it's Elsie Greenwood, it's Mean Joe Greene, and it's Fats Holmes. Those are the original 4 members of the Steel Curtain. Um, and Fats Holmes, before they won Super Bowls— this is in 1973, I believe— here's the— this may be the greatest what-if-there-would-have-been social media when this went on. What would our perception be of this person, and how differently would society handle it? In 1973, he's a pro football player, Fats Holmes. He has a psychotic episode driving on the highway, and he starts shooting at other cars while he's driving because he thinks they're following him. Now the cops are out. Somebody's shooting, somebody's, uh, firing live rounds out on the highway. Let's go get him, dispatch the helicopter. So Fats Holmes shoots at the helicopter and he hits one of the cops in the ankle. Ernie Holmes gets some treatment, goes on to win 2 more Super Bowls. And when you mention Fats Holmes around Pittsburgh, they say That fat— he had the arrow shaved into his head, that guy.

He was wild, huh?

Imagine if a professional—

it wouldn't happen nowadays.

Imagine if a professional athlete started shooting—

the personal conduct policy.

What if you were shooting into the sky? What would happen? They wouldn't break in on SportsCenter. They would break in like O.J. driving down the freeway, right?

Yeah.

Did you hear what— well, there's an NFL football player taking shots at a helicopter right now.

Also very impressive. He hit the helicopter while moving in his car.

We're not advocating advocating for that.

I'm not advocating, just saying it's who we are on this show.

Please, please, Gino. All right, listen, let's get to it now, shall we? Let's get to drip drill. Let's rank the uniforms. Hi and hello, my fellow football Americans. Your old pal Dave here talking about living over just surviving. I talk about it a great deal, but of course when you have a kid or 4, I think, is what I'm up to now. 4 kids, something like that. Um, you start to live not so much for yourself but for other people. You want to take care of the little ones and their future. The last thing you want to be worrying about is what's going to happen if you aren't still living or surviving. Would they be financially prepared? With life insurance from Ethos, your family is going to be protected. Ethos makes getting life insurance fast and easy, 100% online. You can get a quote in seconds, apply in minutes, and get same-day coverage and no medical exam. See, I would maybe fail that, the speaking portion of the medical exam, although I don't think they have a speaking portion of it, although that might, uh, might be an area of concern. But either way, all you have to do is answer a few simple health questions, um, and it's not going to cost you a fortune.

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A bad one.

Well, no, you got that Chandler Parsons thing that the youngs are doing where they shave up all the— forget sideburns, you're going way up past that. You're like 2 inches up over the ear. You gotta shave it.

There was a GQ article that said the fade is dead.

Okay, this isn't a fade.

No, it just ends on the sides.

Mattingly, I thought I told you about getting rid of those sideburns. That's exactly how Mattingly looked.

While we're on esthetic matters, I have to say it again. I've said it before and I'm going to say it into this microphone right now. You have lovely eyes.

Thank you.

Really lovely eyes. Do you get a lot of compliments on those in life? I do.

I do.

Your number one feature? Acting career.

I would guess it's a thing that I get complimented on. And also tall.

Tall?

Yeah, people say tall.

What's my best feature?

Your penis. It looks like Jack Nicholson.

Oh, thank you.

In The Shining. Frozen.

Frozen penis.

Picking up where we left off on Thursday's episode of Dan Le Batard Show, We are coming at you from Miami, of course, and a gay time so far there. One more to go here, and we've been celebrating all week on The Levittard Show. The other special guest for this special edition of Drip Drill, he's a Pulitzer Prize winner, also a host of multiple podcasts. Here he is, everybody. It's— oh, wait, what?

Sir, you besmirch me.

Oh. Yeah, Pablo Torre finds out, is what I should mention. Yes, congratulations, Pablo.

So how many Pulitzer winners are there adjacent to the PTFO universe? Like, how many people can claim— like, Ryan Cortez is now a Pulitzer winner.

He is, absolutely.

So how many people?

I don't know how many people. Uh, Matt Sullivan, he's on that list. Uh, me, David Sampson, Pablo Torre.

Oh, I always used to think this was an exclusive club, and now I know, like, Randy, like Patrick Kim, 10 of them.

Chris, there's a bunch of people. Hey, a lot of people worked to make this thing happen.

I'm happy for you that you got it. That's not what we're here to do. By the way, I would also like to promote that I made an appearance on Mystery Crate this week, and among the important discussions we had there, we talked about what is the best movie or TV home. Mike Ryan, you didn't get to weigh in on that. I, uh, it's another esthetic.

I've been rewatching, uh, Full House lately. And while it's not the best, I do love the home, and I would, I would probably pick that one because it's so quaint and it means a lot to me. And also, they just kept adding on. More people kept moving in, and they're like, all right, the attic. Oh, you need a radio studio? The basement.

I loved it. We also landed on— I— it took me a lot of thought to come around to this one. One of the worst ones ever is Luke Skywalker's boyhood home on Tatooine with, uh, Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru.

That doesn't really come to mind.

It's a family legacy home. Anakin grew up there.

It's like an igloo but for the desert. Yeah.

Yeah, I'm okay with Star Wars, but I'm not a super fan.

They did have a lot of land out there. They had a moisture farm. And you had a lot of land out there. Nobody wanted to live there, of course.

Well, that's the point.

Kind of like rural America. But, you know, it was a lot of land. And if there's a big real estate rush on Tatooine, they're primed to make a nice penny.

More on an Outworld kick recently.

Oh, I love that.

Not so far from Tatooine Power Station, by the way.

Now here's what I wanted to talk about. I have put together this blue ribbon panel because this is the hash I would like for us to settle as of this moment, which is to say basically mid-2026. We will bury this down deep and we will pull it up at, uh, at our leisure, as will all the listeners interested in uniform talk. As we've talked about before, I think there's a cut point of about 50 of sports fans love uniforms and the other 50% don't consider them at all. The latter group is a complete group of weirdos, in my opinion. I don't know how you can stare at something for 3.5 hours and be like, "I don't know, I never thought about it." You don't think about what your eyes are looking at for 3.5 hours? I think you're protesting too much. I think you're trying to guard against some insinuation that nobody would care about. Of course you care about uniforms. Anyway, I think at the time of this recording there are 123 sports franchises among the four major sports. I'm not including Major League Soccer. Um, and I would like to see if we can put our heads together here and determine which are right now the 10 best uniform sets in all of North American sports.

And we went back and forth on this, uh, Mike Ryan. Let's pull the curtain back. For this Drip Drill. You could do individual getups, but then that gets into, well, can I take the one like the Atlanta Hawks wore, the kelly green that Pete Maravich wore in 1974? The answer is no. If they've left it in, in the rearview mirror, so will we, right?

Yes, I think that's a good rule. Throwbacks— then, then we just get into boomer talk. Like, most of the time we do Drip Drill, we talk about how good the uniforms were before, so What I'm gonna do with this is I'm gonna offer up a couple of uniform sets that are contemporary that I believe represent the best look that the franchise has ever had, and you could take that for data and you can compare it to what I assume are, you know, the legacy brands, uh, the, the classic uniforms, the New York Yankees of it all.

Okay, so, I mean, if you followed that, what we're gonna do is let's look at the standard sets, as in home and away. Let's not get into throwback territory. I think we'll end up touching on some of that because, as a for instance, everybody under the sun, apparently aside from Seahawks ownership, agrees that the Seahawks should be wearing the silver hats with the, with the royal blue and the Kelly green and the silver pants. They choose to wear what they wear, and maybe they get dinged for that. We're not evaluating that throwback, right, where what they wore in the Super Bowl and the road version of that.

And we're also not evaluating the one-off. So for example, right, the Miami Heat have a very popular alternate jersey called the Vice jersey. They had it, they wore it this year, but it was not their main home or away jersey. So that jersey is disqualified. We're just talking about your standard down the middle. This is your home jersey, this is your road jersey, as we understood it to be 5 years ago before Nike decided to say F you to that whole—

that's right. And I also think that you can ding them though. You get the Miami Heat maybe deserve to be taken to task. If that uniform is better, then maybe they should be wearing that full-time. On the other side of that coin though, you can't have a color scheme, you can't decide to tell the world, hey, this is our color scheme, and then like 10 years later be like, oh yeah, never mind that. The worst example of that, the Arizona Diamondbacks. They go out and win a World Series this millennium, no less, in the purple and green, striking if nothing else. It's a turquoise.

Turquoise?

Okay, okay.

More in line with a desert color scheme that you see often.

Okay, that's a fair description. Either way, they win a World Series, they beat the Yankees in those uniforms, and what do they do 10 years in? Like, yeah, now we're black and red. No, you're not allowed to change, uh, not allowed to do that.

Well, there's a couple reasons why, right? The, the in-universe reason is the— it is more representative of the entire state of Arizona. The red rocks of Sedona, which is very world famous, since that red, that particular shade of red—

and they should have told the people 10 years ago, don't do the, don't do the purple jazz.

Here's the other part, right? So the team, when it was created, the guy who owned it was a man named Jerry Colangelo. Jerry Colangelo owned the Phoenix Suns, prominent color is purple. So he wanted the symmetry between his two franchises to carry over, purple and purple. That's why he spent a ton of money to win that World Series and then went massively into debt, and then they sold the team. And when the new people came in and said, well, we want to distance ourselves from the old owner Jerry Colangelo, we're going to give it some different colors. The other out-of-universe, really cynical way to look at this is, uh, market studies. It's just a lot of studies that say red is the color that sells.

So the example that you cited right now, the Diamondbacks, is why I think I kind of misunderstood the assignment, because I'm like, if I have a time capsule to represent the Arizona Diamondbacks, I'm putting their '01 World Series look in there because number one, it's their best look and that's what they're most known for. So what I did was the sports teams, and it's hard to do, that are presently wearing their time capsule look. And I eliminated legacy teams like the, the Packers and the Chiefs and the Cowboys that have basically only had one look their entire time, because I assumed you guys would go ahead and do that. I think it's way more difficult to pick franchises that are presently rocking their best look because we're always so inclined to go with a throwback look.

Such a slender pool of candidates for Mike Ryan. He's eliminated— not only has he eliminated all the things that are bad, just objectively, I don't like the way it looks. He's also eliminated all the good ones if they've been wearing it for a while, which sounds kind of a little draconian if you ask me.

I, well, I think it will help surface uniforms we otherwise might not hit here, one. And two, because of course I think you're to be commended if you've made it for half a century in the same getup, like the Kansas City Chiefs. They deserve extra credit for not having to change that uniform. At all.

Or bowing to societal pressures.

Yes, I think there's some— but then again, the other side of that is that it creates a sort of stuffiness about who you are, and like, oh, the Yankees would never dare change. I was like, all right, get over yourselves a little bit.

Yankees did change their away look recently. How so? It's a white shirt. With the Navy? The New York is like now just more straight color. It used to have an outline. The Red Sox and the Yankees do little tweaks to their uniforms that most people don't seize on, but I'm a freak about uniforms.

I mean, why'd you just check your watch?

Because I got an alert and I was trying to figure out—

okay, I was worried that we'd already lost your attention. Mike and I are real, real, real into uniforms.

I'm into uniforms too. Okay, and I'm ready to get into this list.

Let's get into it. No more flapping of the gums, except that you now have to flap your gums. You start us off. First up for consideration in the top 10, Amin El-Hassan says—

so I'm going from 10 to 1, right?

Yeah.

And none of these are exclusives, right? It's not like if I take it, you can't take it. It's not a draft.

How should we do this, Mike Fuentes? Do we just tick through each person's top 10?

Uh, do whatever you want. I don't care.

Okay.

Yeah. And I'm going top 5 because I assume in your top 10s you're going with some classic looks that would— I mean, obviously be by any measure Great uniform.

So in a way, I'll be like the judge. Yeah, I will, I will take all the information from you guys and the fellas behind the glass, and then I will retreat back to my chambers.

You don't need 3 dudes saying Yankees.

Okay, fair, take it away.

Number 10, the New York Football Giants. And here's why, right?

Because you said yesterday to me when I brought this up to you, you're like I'll be good for this because you're a homer and you'll just say all Pittsburgh teams and I'll be good and objective. And the first one you say is New York?

Because I'm at number 10.

Number 10. That's number 10 on my list. They barely eked in, by the way. I got some great ones on the OLIs, but I decided to set those aside. But one of the things that really resonated with me, Mr. Damashek, is that you said, hey, it's gotta be the full set, meaning home and away. So if they have a great home jersey But the away jersey, not so much. You almost have to average out their score. And so for me, I love the blue of the New York Giants. It's a clean look, the blue and white. It was the original look, and then they changed around Lawrence Taylor in those years. They had the red outline on the numbers. Then they went back to this original look. I think it's a great look. And then the white with the red, I'm not as big a fan of. And that's why it sagged it all the way down to 10 for me.

They've gone away from the gray pants, and I like the gray pants in the Arsenal.

Me too.

I don't— I love their uniform right now, but is it their best uniform they've ever worn? That's where it gets docked for me.

That's where you're—

that's where my time capsule is different.

But go back to the gray.

I like the gray.

I like—

and also, I have a bone to pick with the throwbacks. While everyone loves them, and I love the back nameplate, the blue on the helmet doesn't match the, the blue on the jersey.

That's true.

I will say, New Yorkers should get to decide with cast the deciding vote, but I think the lowercase NY is better than GIANTS. How say you, Amin?

I am a fan of the— I mean, I'm always gonna feel fond about those 'cause those are the more recent Super Bowls came with the NY, whereas the Phil Simms, Lawrence Taylor Super Bowls, they had the GIANTS all caps written on the side. I agree with you. The NY, that is the classic look 'cause it goes with the classic look of the jersey.

Kinda feel it's one of the rare times 2 wins on the helmet. NY and the Giants.

They're both great.

Both wins.

Good point.

But they have to be congruent.

Great set and a good number 10. I mean.

Yeah, thank you.

Uh, you know what I mean? Since, um, since Mike has 5 and you have 10, and then we want to hear from the fellas behind there, why don't you go—

Rattle off some more?

Give us— well, just give us number 9.

Number 9, a team that I have no connections to at all, but I've always loved the look. I like the color scheme, the blue and the, the blue and the silver and the black. And I love the home jersey, that, that white is so clean. It's the Dallas Mavericks of the NBA. I really like those Dallas Mavericks jerseys.

They've gone— they were lost for a long stretch. This is a good candidate for Mike Ryan's list of best edition of uniform that the franchise has ever worn, because the ones that they wore The, you know, the way back.

Rolando Blackman, uh, Derek Harper.

The Kelly greens were no good, and then the Dirk ones looked more like they should be playing tennis at a country club than playing NBA basketball.

That would probably be their time capsule look though, as a franchise. The '06 uniform.

The current one isn't that far off from it. It is just a lot sleeker, a lot nicer looking. The one you talk about would be the time capsule because of what was achieved wearing that jersey, and that's why.

And it's probably like their most successful long run, even though they made a Finals here. And then they had fun with the alternates, the green alternate. Good choice again.

For what it's worth, I have tried my best to detach the deeds within those uniforms from just looking at them and liking them esthetically. Just visceral, that's a good-looking getup. I don't care if they've ever won a single game in their sport before. Alright, let's go behind the glass here real quick. Buddy, you've done a lot of work in this field.

Yeah, I'm a big uniform guy.

Hammer through a few.

I'm a classics guy. Alright, I'll start with the Chicago Cubs home uniform. Pinstripes, see Target logo with the Cubs inside, blue hat, blue socks. It's a perfect baseball.

Would probably be in my top 10 if I were doing this conventionally.

Really? Yeah. Of all the uniforms in the 4 major sports.

Great.

I love the movie Rookie of the Year.

Okay.

And definitely not going with a homer pick there. All right, next one. I'll go Atlanta Braves road uniform. My favorite gray.

Hold on.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

I'm going to stop you right there because the man told us You gotta take the whole thing. Both. Yeah, there ain't no picking and choosing.

How dare you take liberties with the rules?

We all had different interpretations of the rules.

Well, no, that was a pretty straightforward rule from the man himself.

You know, these kids these days, they can do whatever they want. They just come in, you know, they get put on the show, two weeks later, I'm not gonna consider Dave's rules, I'll just do whatever the hell I want.

This is a modern classic though, the Braves, and also a throwback to the Hammer and Hank Aaron days.

Yes. Well, now let's continue. It's not throwback.

No, because they were like the blue—

like, I'm just saying they picked up— they went to the ice cream shop kind of getups for the early part of Dale Murphy and all of that.

All right, I'll go next with the Oakland— whatever you want to call them— Sacramento, Oakland, Las Vegas— the Athletics. Classic green and gold look. Looks great on a, on a home uniform with the white cleats, looks great on a road uniform as well. And then any of their— I know we're not talking about any of their other sets, but the green, the yellow, everything is just so good.

Yeah, it's one of my all-time favorite uniforms. Back before when you actually had to wear either white or black cleats with your uniform in baseball and not like all these like fuchsia colors, they really popped with the white cleats.

I think that they've done away with stirrups in Major League Baseball entirely.

There's some guys out there that are still rocking them, but still rocking them.

That is the biggest loss, the single biggest loss among the stirrup community is the Oakland Athletics not pulling the green stirrups over the Golden Sox. What a loss that is. What a shame, but I'm glad you shouted that one out. Gino Fuentes, how say you?

You want my 10 and 9? Is that what we're asking for now?

Yeah, go ahead. Okay, 10.

I like the Bengals. Really?

They fixed those up.

It's a distinctive helmet, and I know we're not talking about the alternates again, but that all-white kit is It's awesome. It's awesome to look at. It pops off the screen. And my number 9, you're gonna like this, I actually do like the Steelers. The Steelers, basic getups. I like the circular logo, distinctive logo, black and yellow. Uh, now when you get into their older shit, their special kits, I hate them.

If you want to be an asshole, there's— the Steelers are one of those uniforms that you really can't mount much of an argument against.

These are 9 and 10 on my list.

The best Pittsburgh uniform All things all considered, in my opinion, they all look the same. I'm kind of like a Pirates guy.

Really?

I don't like the Pirates.

Can I say something? Hey, put your logo on the other side.

I like that they have their own thing.

I like that they have one side and one side. That's what makes it distinctive.

That's— but that's trying too hard. Like, you know what, we're gonna just put it on one side.

What's the story behind that?

Don't you think Rune Arledge— because that's how the steelworkers did it— and the— don't you think that Rune Arledge or whoever, Monday Night Football in the early days of pro football on network TV. Don't you think they went to the Steelers and like, hey, we need you to get on board, Steelers, here? Because like we like to do in promotions, we like one helmet here and the other helmet on the like. And so when you're one side, the left side of your helmet's just going to be a black hat. And the Steelers like, deal with it. I love it. What a middle finger. What a middle finger it is. We don't care what your fancy TV desires. We're sticking with the one-sided logo. It's great.

Gino, you want to keep going?

I'm gonna go one more, one more for you.

No, you give us— yeah, there's two right there.

I gave you 9 and 10. I'll give you 8 just for the hell of it. I love black uniforms. I like, like dark color schemes. I like the Ravens. The Ravens getups, especially when they're wearing all black from head to toe, looks really nice.

I mean, they, they updated them a little bit almost.

And I just realized here I went 3 NFC North teams in a row.

But also, isn't, isn't the Ravens all black, that's an alternate, right? Isn't it purple?

No, they have new look that now has weird feathers around the neck. They're not an upgrade. They're fussy and strange.

This is just a personal list, man. Let's be cool, guys.

You broke Dave's rules just to vomit out Ravens all black?

That's really what you did? Oh, what a novel idea. Like every other team in every sport. Oh, we're midnight blackens. Or Let's go, Icy.

Let's go. Let's take it easy. Maybe there are some people that like what they did.

By the way, I mean, is the only one to follow the rules here so far.

Take it away, Mike Ryan. Who do you got next?

Well, I'll just venture one. I think this is a time capsule look for this franchise. My number 5 is the Tampa Bay Lightning. And it just so happens they've done most of their winning in this set, but it's very clean, all blue. They don't even have Tampa Bay on their jersey. They're identified by their logo. I like their alts too, but the home and away are very clean. And that is their time capsule look. A team that is presently wearing their best look right now, Tampa Bay Lightning number 5.

I mean, I don't know if you heard, but there's another team called the Toronto Maple Leafs. They just went up to Toronto, grabbed their uniforms and put a new logo on. It's the exact same uniform. You don't get any credit for mimicking someone. They've been wearing that uniform for forever. It is— it— they haven't been wearing it forever. And in fact, they won— did they win? Yeah, they won their first Stanley Cup wearing the black and blue and white.

Interesting.

That's a better—

well, you have— you want— look, there's a million lists here.

Okay. All right.

What about you?

I've decided to be a judge, Mr. Hostman. I'm gonna go back into my chambers and put all these thoughts together.

So far, my game though, like Would you agree at least the Tampa Bay Lightning are rocking presently their best look in franchise history?

No, I just told you I thought their best look was the black and the—

Oh, I thought you were talking about the Leafs.

Nobody asked and I really don't care, but nobody picked the new Washington Commanders throwback-inspired new unis.

What?

I mean, we're in the middle of doing this. Oh, you act like— why are you acting like a spermed, uh, child.

And then like, I didn't—

no one mentioned it.

Also, it was more like, that's our best look.

He's not playing the game. The game is their standard home and their standard road set together.

They now have— they brought them back. They basically brought back the Joe Gibbs era ones, except it's a W.

Distinguished Gentleman on the side.

I will say their past look that they just upgraded from would have been bottom, bottom, bottom on my list of uniforms.

Well, especially the one that did Commanders across the top. Horrible.

You're one of 30 Added in the stripes. The Falcons as well. Huge upgrade this summer.

Well, aren't we doing worst 5 to 10?

We'll get to that. But yes, the Browns dumped their old ones from 5, 10 years ago, and that was such an embarrassment. Of 32 pro football teams on the planet Earth, you feel such low self-esteem that you have to put the word Browns on your pants.

They won like 4 games in that uniform.

Brown. Which team is the Browns? The one whose pants say Browns?

The team that wears orange over there.

That's right. The one in the orange hats. It's very confusing. Mike Ryan, your next one.

My number 4 team that is presently wearing their best look. And this is really more like of a rhetorical trick that I'm doing because it's the Clippers and they've never really had like beautiful, beautiful uniforms. I like invoking like the, the nautical items that they have. I— they got away from the red uniform and I like the darker blue on the road. I think their home uniform right now is the strongest set they've had. Again, I'm comparing it to a team that hasn't had great years first.

Mediocrity, basically.

Yeah, and I think presently the Clippers are rocking their best look in franchise history. If I were to have a time capsule and put a look that would best describe these Clippers, it would be that one.

Buddy, I get it. It was affiliated with a very dark time in the franchise, but that Clippers script on a red jersey? That's your time capsule jersey right there.

When you see that, you just think of Loiwatt. Mm-hmm.

Eric Pietkowski.

Pietkowski, the Polish Rifleman.

To get in the Wayback Machine, in fact, they are the old Buffalo Braves. Yeah. You ever see those old Buffalo Braves getups? The orange and black ones?

You're smart.

We park our cars in the same garage.

All right, let's see. Take it away, Jeremien. What's next?

All right, so I'm going to— you want me 8-7 now?

I mean, that's how you said you're counting down and you finished at number 9, so of course, yes, 8 and then 7.

I don't know, 8, 7, 6, because you got this guy all the way up to 3.

Okay, go 8, 7, 6 if you want.

Number 8, again, a team I have no connection to.

Why don't you care about this, Mike? And then you, you don't care about it, Mike Fuentes, but then you chime in. Nobody said the— nobody said Washington, which is the one I wanted to say, and we're still doing it.

Well, I only chimed in so it looks like I'm working, but, uh, because I, you know, you mentioned the beginning, there's 50% of people who are really into it and 50 who aren't. Guess which side I'm on.

Okay, all right, you figured it out. Go ahead.

Number 8, the Baltimore Orioles. I love the orange and black. I love the road with the gray and the orange script with the black outline. I love the home white with the Orioles across the front, little bird on a baseball bat. I like the hat. It's just, it's a nice like top to bottom look.

It's a great look, one of my favorite uniforms. The only issue I have is the hat.

You don't like the hat?

I'm not— it's like the Miami Dolphins thing.

3 different hats.

Yeah, it's a— it's hat inception on the bird. It's a—

it's a hat of a bird wearing a hat, and it's not the hat that's on the hat.

I—

it bothers me.

How'd you guys like the classic Big Bird?

I love the—

the Cal Ripken early '90s when they first moved into Camden Yards and it was a simple Oriole on there.

That was beautiful.

We get Orioles and Blue Jays in my Los Angeles backyard. We were well on our way to—

I have them too.

Oh, really?

We got Cardinals down here.

Wait a second, guys. Are you telling me that I parked my car in the backyard of Dave D'Amelio? Whoa! Because number 7 is the Blue Jays!

Whoa!

The Blue Jays! That's a cool-looking jersey.

Yes.

That blue, that light blue, the bird, the red hints just let it pop here, pop there.

And I like the font that's like the two lines.

I was going to say, their numbers, nobody else in any other sport has their number in text.

It's the neatest. Numerals, cleanest font. The hat is very cool. Remember when everyone was wearing— like, the big thing was like, you wear hats from like Exotic Hats. That Blue Jays hat did numbers. Toronto Blue Jays, number 7.

Let me say, let me say 2 things here. Um, one, the single best color scheme, again removing myself from black and gold, and that is the single coolest thing for any sports town in anywhere on Earth. All 3 teams wear black and gold, it's the coolest. And now I see other people online say our city should do that too. No, I mean, do it, but you're just copycatting the city of Champaign if you do it. But okay, and then other blind— you can choose any color scheme— navy blue and light blue is where I would go. So we are parking our cars in the same garage. Give us one more.

I mean, number 6. So this one, uh, has been going for a while now, and it helps that the team has been wildly successful under this current incarnation of the jersey. It's the Golden State Warriors. You got that Bay Bridge on there letting you know it connects the two cities by the bay. We're not the San Francisco Warriors, we're not the Oakland Warriors, the Golden State Warriors. And then the number placement, right? NBA teams seem— tend to be very, very conservative with number, team name, and then number on the back and then player name on the front. The Warriors do a good job of like, hey, you know, we're going to hide the number right here next to the bridge. I like that the logo is the majority of the front of their jersey. Blue is nice. White is nice. The gold accents is awesome. Golden State Warriors, number 6.

This is a good question to turn to you, Mike Ryan, with because they had some wacky uniforms in navy orange. Remember that guy? What was that?

He was an actual warrior with the— when they had the—

from outer space.

Yeah. Future Warrior with a lightning bolt piping.

Like, for the time.

I think you can make a strong argument that this is their time capsule uniform.

Absolutely.

It's hard to detach the success that they've had on it, and they've had uniforms that are a little close to it, which is why they didn't make my list, but they're definitely wearing the look that they're most known for.

Yeah, like the— so before this was the Thunderbolt one, that one was widely unliked in the, in the local area. They didn't like it because the blue was too dark blue, the orange was too far from They've always been a kind of royal blue and gold. Think about the Warriors that Tim Hardaway and Latrell Sprewell and those guys were, just said Warriors on the front like that. And then going further back, there was a version that kind of looked like that with the bridge on it. That's where this one was inspired from. So this definitely would be the most memorable and the closest to the, the essence of the franchise. And it doesn't hurt that the greatest stretch of time they've had has been wearing these jerseys.

Well, what's funny, the irony of the ones you talk about, the royal blue Warriors across the front, the player I associate those uniforms with most is—

Chris Mullin?

No, Chris Webber, as a matter of fact, because he wore that uniform for about 4 minutes before he got traded on—

before he demanded to get traded—

before on draft night. Um, all right, I'm doing a terrible job of managing the clock.

I kind of, I kind of like how you're bouncing around though.

Okay, Buddy Budowski, you're next.

All right, I'm gonna move these down because we're doing it as a whole set, so I'm gonna move these down a little bit from where I had them. I'm gonna go with the Dallas Cowboys uniforms. So I really, I I love the road Navy. Like, I can't get in— I think the road Navy is probably— that was going to be my number one.

They're the LA Express. Congratulations, you copycatted a USFL team, America.

It's not even the best Navy kit in football, the road, in the division.

The road uniform actually makes sense as opposed to whatever they got going on with the home. You know, that makes zero sense.

My problem why I'm moving it down here is because the pants on the home uniform, like, as iconic as the shirt is The pants don't make any sense.

Then why are we talking about them? This is a top 10.

Cowboys are the Cowboys.

You have iconic—

what does that mean?

The Cowboys are the Cowboys.

Cowboys have been the Cowboys and they've been the Cowboys wearing a wrestling home uniform.

Still love their uniforms.

You weren't even alive when they were the Cowboys.

You just said you don't like them and you said, but they're the Cowboys. I love their uniforms.

Did I say I didn't like them?

I just said— wear that uniform like 80% of the time.

Just trying to get the Cowboys fans—

what do I give a shit about the Cowboys? I just love that road uniform.

Love that. So the uniform you see about maybe once or maybe twice in NFL season is worth it for you to put them in your top.

That was my number one when I thought we were doing individual uniforms. That was my number one. The Dallas Cowboys.

The hell's wrong with you? I don't know that we let him continue. You know what? You know what?

That's not— it's not three words.

Not—

I have a good idea of how we're better on time.

I know how we can pace it up. Gino, take it away.

All right, this one's for limited jersey.

I don't want to say too much, but when the judge emerges from, from his chambers, the Cowboys will be mentioned and they will not be in the top 10. I can assure you that.

Okay, we're going number 7, Chicago Blackhawks. Uh, is this, is this one of the only franchises that has the actual Native American still on?

Still on there.

You can go ahead and say the other one.

Yes.

Uh, I think it's— I think the color scheme is nice. It's bold, it's not messy.

It's—

I like it.

Perfect hockey sweater. Okay, they're also on my list.

The problem is black and red is too much. It's fine, but there's like the marketing department figured that out and half the NHL teams now wear black.

The accent of the green and the orange and the feathers on the top, that is true.

The accent colors pop it off.

Yeah.

All right, after that we had number 6, Golden State Warriors. I think that's our first overlap.

Okay, there you go.

Yeah, for all the reasons Amin said, great look. Number 5, because it's clean and St. Louis Cardinals. I just, I like it. It's just, I like the car, I like the birds and the bat and the cursive lettering.

Kind of cool, when I mentioned Pittsburgh wears black and gold, there were two St. Louis Cardinals at one time for a stretch when I was growing up. They shared the same stadium.

Also, in the same garage.

And also, their cards in the Forum, though, in the Forum, they used to both wear— the Lakers and the Kings wore purple and gold. So that it's not like—

I don't remember the Kings wearing purple and gold.

Forum blue. Yeah, for some reason It's called form blue. I don't know why. That's clearly purple.

Yeah, good shouts there.

I meant the St. Louis Cardinals baseball, just in case no one got that before.

No one thought you were talking about Neil Lomax and Roy Green era St. Louis Cardinals. O.J. Anderson. Give us two more real quick, Gino.

Let's move up the list. Uh, I like the Kraken uniform.

Oh, speaking of hockey, also the Utah Mammoth.

It just says Utah. No, but you know, oh, now they have the Mammoth Club.

They have the Mammoth head now.

And it has that black Like powder blue and white. Very nice.

Okay.

Stupid name for the team. Black and light blue is okay. Not great.

What do you think of the Kraken, though?

Oh, the Kraken.

The Kraken.

I love the Kraken. I like— I love the Kraken navy. I don't love the white as much. The colors don't work as well together on the white.

You know what I like on the Kraken? Inside the top of the S, the little red eye.

Exactly.

Yeah, I like that.

I like that.

Like, we park our cars in the same garage.

Left the cards behind. That was—

Yeah, I'll go with my number 3, and this one I'm proud of. Of because I think this team, they've been wearing this set for a few years. I think it represents their best look and they've had a lot of different looks. I'm going with the current Milwaukee Bucks uniform set.

Really? You like the green with the stripes on the back?

I love it because they kind of built their uniform and their logo around their superstar. There's a lot of Greek influence within their uniform. I like that they go with cream. It taps into the region. I like the color green that they settled on, and they've had a lot of different looks over the course of their history. But I think that you can say for a team that's had fun looks, they are presently wearing their best look. That is their time capsule. It doesn't hurt that they've had some success.

A lot of people in that jersey came out, felt it was a little too unimaginative, right? It was just too very— they had this thing where the logo, new logo says Milwaukee Basketball Club on it. And it was— you're right, it's very soccer-inspired.

A little like M. Yeah. Neck. Yeah, I kind of dig.

But that you don't see that on the jersey though.

You do on like the piping on the side. I just kind of like those old blocky Greek letters.

I think that's what I don't like.

I, well, I, again, building around your superstar, giving them an identity, and the little tinge of blue, which is also, I guess, a tip of the hat to Greece. I kind of like it. I think it's their best look in franchise history. Do you have a better Milwaukee Bucks look?

Yes. Sidney Boncrieff, Bob Lanier era. They used to wear, much like DePaul did in the early '80s—

The green spectrum?

Yes, they were stripes, but they were horizontal stripes, if you can imagine brick stack.

Kind of like the Astros.

You know what's funny?

And but they were— what was weird was you don't— you hardly ever see this. It was two shades of green. Yeah, light green and dark green with red mixed in.

Yeah, green spectrum.

Yeah, it was really cool. Yeah, it was.

So, so the funny thing is the current one, the one that you like, also has the horizontal stripes, but they're all the same color. They're all cream on the, on the away jerseys, and on the home jerseys they're green. So I look forward—

I look forward to this day. And it's going to happen in our lifetime, maybe in the next decade. A big name free agent is going to say, okay, I'll come sign with you if you name the team after me. I'll— yeah, I'll come play. I'll come play for, for you Brooklyn Nets as long as we become the Brooklyn Giannis.

They should have signed Buck Williams.

There you go.

I'll go here. I'll drop—

is that— that's your last two.

And then that was my number three. And then I have two more.

So no, let him—

let him do number—

well, hold on.

But if I do three right here, then I'll be to my top two and now we'll all be caught up.

Smart.

That's why you have a Pulitzer.

There you go. Number 5. How could I get this far without naming the greatest uniform collection known to man? Yet it's number 5. The New York Yankees. Come on, those pinstripes, they strike fear in everybody who walk in. What brings them down to 5, you might ask, is I'm not crazy about the road jersey.

The old road was better with the navy and the white stripe. They had a little white on the sleeve.

Now they're just blue.

Now they're just blue. I don't like it.

It looks too much like a pajama.

Yeah. Yeah, it takes away from the formality and again, the fear factor of the Yankees. When they were Yankees, when you walked into Yankee Stadium, you saw those pinstripes, that meant something. When you went on the road and you saw the New York with the white outline, that meant something. Now it's kind of like, uh, who are these guys, right? Number 4.

Well, I want to say I agree with that, and this is again hard to separate the Yankees are the Yankees. Just if you walked in and saw that one clean, I still think I would be like, oh my God, what is that simple beauty? The pinstripes obviously make it something that isn't just simple and down the middle, but also the grays with New York is badass. I don't know that Kansas City would be as cool, but New York, that's all it is, just a gray thing with navy. Like, we don't have time even to outline the navy. We're here to kick your ass. So why? Because we're New York.

So as I said, that brings it down, which ironically— two things. Number one, this is my lowest— my highest ranked New York team was the Yankees at 5. No more New York teams in the top 5, right? Also, my second highest ranked MLB team, because guess who's number 4? The Atlanta Braves.

Hmm.

That— look, there's something special about when you button it up and it looks perfect right there with the tomahawk and all that. That's a cool-looking jersey, the home and the away. That average bumps them over the Yankees for me because I like their away jersey way more than I like the Yankees away jersey.

They looked so cool in the '90s on the Superstation, rest in peace Ted Turner. What they did something to their uniform that I hated with the road set and they went all navy on the hat. I like the red accent on the bill.

Yeah, yeah, I don't, I don't like that as much, but still The jerseys carry the day for me.

People like to use the word timeless inappropriately. These in fact are timeless, or at least sprawl— they feel like they would fit any of the last 100 years.

They look— they don't look old, right? Like, even the Yankees jersey that I love, the pinstripes, but there is a level because of the pinstripes, you're like just classy from another era, right? Whereas the Braves jersey, it's like the design is like, that's a modern design, even though so much brand loyalty to it.

I hope they never change from that. I look at it and it reminds me of watching them on the Super conversation and you have a brand affinity that I don't even have to my local baseball team.

But the logo looks very similar to the Alabama Crimson Tide, as I learned in a bar.

Oh yeah.

That— okay, I'm getting very nervous now. We're running out of room here and you're gonna miss some obvious ones.

It's my list. You got a list, I got a list, everyone's got a list.

But mine is the correct list.

My number 3, this program is called Football America and I've only had one football team here So I got to put in another one. It's the Raiders. Black and silver, baby. And even though, you know what's funny? As I was, because I've never had to really do the math in my head before, but I was thinking about the white ones. I'm like, that's a clean-looking jersey too, man. That's a clean-looking jersey. Raiders, it goes with everything. You could wear whatever you want, you put on a Raider jersey, it matches. And you know how you— this is how you know it's good. Success? What has that been for the Raiders? We haven't seen that in a million years. But despite being an abject failure at playing football, they looked amazing.

I don't think you should be allowed a satin finish unless you're Notre Dame football. You can wear the gold pants. They look good against the gold hat. And the Raiders. Even the Cowboys shouldn't be allowed to wear that satin finish anymore. It would be doing them a favor to make the pants more true Royal— I mean, Powder Blue, as we discussed. All right, Buddy Budowski, quickly fire through whatever you have left there so we can consider them all.

We'll get to my top 3. Okay, so the San Francisco 49ers.

Great, great call. Just best, best road uniforms in the NFL.

Perfect.

Like the Steve Young one better.

Oh, with the shadow, with the shadow numbers, 75th anniversary ones.

Yeah, that's terrible. Yeah, that's a—

I mean, all of it. They've never had a bad look, in my opinion, the San Francisco 49ers.

The shadow ones were The gold hats with the all-whites made it look like they were wearing— damn, did we forget our white helmets? Just wear the— just wear the gold ones.

All right, what's number 2?

I'm going to go with the Green Bay Packers. Iconic, classic. I'm a classics guy.

Yeah, you already—

most people, that's a consensus opinion. Most people would put—

but you already, you already said Oakland Athletics, so you're kind of like clashing into the same deal here.

Yeah, I like green and gold.

It's very chic.

I like green and gold.

It's very chic. You are responding to them being a relevant franchise for your whole life.

Even Badowski. That's your name, I know.

It's fine. It's a fine uniform.

Badowski. I like that.

Can I throw a soccer kid into the mix?

No, no, because you're part of the 50% that doesn't get it.

Yeah, damn right. Number 1.

Damn right I'm not.

The best logo in sports. I was gonna go with the Blackhawks here, but I'm gonna go into another hockey team. Original Six. The best logo in sports. The Detroit Red Wings.

Oh my gosh.

The flaming wheel.

Get out of here.

It's a great logo.

The wheel is— the logo is— I love the uniforms too. That's such a good uniform. But you're not talking logo, you're talking the whole uniform, right?

That's your red, white. And I mean, if we want to do their home uniforms for this year, that's that like a 100th year uniform that they wore this year was spectacular.

I agree with you. Gino, quickly, your top 3.

I'm going to run through these real quick. Number 3, Buffalo Bills. I love the helmet. I love the white look on top, red, white, and blue. And my last 2 are LA teams. Number 2, the Lakers. Classic uniform, clean. I love the color scheme. And my number one—

current ones, the current purples are bad with the black.

Get the gold right either. It looks like a canary yellow.

Even the purple's wrong.

Okay, and my number one, LA Chargers. There's no—

they're like—

I love all Navy LA Chargers.

I was worried nobody was gonna hit the—

no, I had—

that would be crazy.

I'm willing to bet that at least half of us are gonna have almost any combination of those.

Yes, I don't like the lightning bolt. It was like a cartoon.

Like, no, I think it's perfect. Like the way it curves over the helmet.

I think, yeah, that's cool. All right, Mike Ryan, take it away.

All right. My number 2, again, the rules that I'm going with, time capsule. I think what the Baltimore Ravens did with their uniform set, they had a wildly popular look. They had done a lot of winning in it. And to make some tweaks to that uniform, when the news came out that they were changing their uniforms, I was like, this is terrible. And then they came out And I love the tweaks that they made. The feathers, the piping with the— that tap into the state flag, which is so— so great. It's iconic look. I think that it was a great update. The outlines to the numbers, the finish on the helmets and the away jersey that taps into the feathers. I think it was a big swing and the subtle changes to what was, I mean, universally beloved as a look were great and credit to them. Because to change a uniform set took guts and the chances that they took were also gutsy. And I thought it paid off. So I'm going with the Baltimore Ravens. I think Time Capsule, that's my favorite look, the updates that they made. And number 1, it's also the Chargers.

They've had a lot of great uniforms and the present set taps into all their histories with the modern font and that bolt with the numbers. They're presently wearing their best set.

How could one man be so right and so wrong in the span of 20 seconds? The Ravens look like the natives that Mel Gibson finds in The Bounty. He looks like he's wearing a puka shell. All the players are gonna look like they're wearing puka shells playing football.

I had different rules, and I like that they took the chance, and I think it's gonna pay off.

My top 2, I know this is gonna be wildly— both of them are gonna be wildly unpopular, but it's my list. Number 2, I've established with the Blue Jays earlier I like the light blue, dark blue kind of contrast. I also like the hints of gold from the Golden State Warriors. So you put it all together, give me the Memphis Grizzlies. I think, you know, we talked about it earlier, you know, between shows, and they were talking about, oh no, the Vancouver Grizzlies had a way better one. Look, I like the bear holding the ball, but the jersey itself, teal and black and red, teal and red, too much, too much. Light blue. Powder blue, excuse me, navy blue, gold accents. That Memphis Grizzlies both home and away set, mwah, perfection. And number 1, because everyone here broke a rule, I'm gonna break a rule. I'm going outside of professional sports.

What the hell are we doing? We can't go outside. That's like the number 1 rule.

Team Canada hockey jerseys from the Olympics. That's the coolest jersey set ever. Ever, ever, ever, ever.

No, there's plenty of national teams in soccer.

I wanted to be Canadian. But it's not a 4 major. Yeah, before I was—

rudely shut down. I was going to say the Dutch national team, but it was the Four Majors.

Yeah, I think this, I think this sucks, Amin, to come in here and attack us all like this. We just devoted for 30 minutes of our lives, and this is what you do? You, you come in here with a figurative slap across all our faces like we're the Three Stooges. You lined us all up and went right down the line, slapped us all across the punim.

Besides, Sweden is better. I didn't—

their Four Nations set was better too.

Also, Amin, why are you betraying the Brazil look. I mean, aren't you? You've been a professional guy since I've known you.

All right, play the People's Court music because, uh, Wapner's got to go back into his chambers.

I don't have the—

I'll do it.

Okay, I'm gonna just play Communist Dave. You want to hear that?

All right, the judge is like a Stalin-era communist.

He does.

You do it in the uniform before.

If you give him the uniform.

Yeah, if I were to put a communist in a time capsule capsule, it might be Dave Damashek.

What you're talking about is a winner then. If it's Stalin era—

Mike, tell me, tell me Comrade Damashek doesn't sound perfect.

You run some AI slob communist uniform on him, he looks the part, right?

We have one, but it's loaded in the other rundown, so I can't pull it up that fast.

Yeah.

Um, all right, here, very quickly, here's what I've considered. All the information you've got, let's pay it off here. I'm gonna save worst 5 for another day. 8, because I don't think we properly covered that. Yeah, here we go.

Ethan did in his list, the Vegas Golden Knights.

I mean, the Dallas Cowboys— yeah, I understand their pants don't come close to matching the hat.

I, I get it.

But the blue, even, even the blue on the, on the number doesn't match the star.

Forget—

before you even get the, the silvers don't match each other.

Time, Dave. Time. Come on, stay on track.

All right, here we go. At number 10, the New York Yankees. You know what, I'm not even going to explain myself. I'm the Uniform Czar.

I don't have to tell anybody.

New York Yankees. Number 9, this is objective, this is not based on their deeds, the best basketball uniform is the Boston Celtics.

Ew!

At number 8— Gross.

Yuck.

Bad pick in this office.

I hate this team, the New York Islanders. At number 7, it's the Montreal Canadiens, and again, I am not reacting to their success. That red on the shoulders with the white and then the royal blue pants. Pants is sweet looking. And then the reds that they wear— well, now they wear them at home.

A unique look with the center piping going all the way around. It bothers me that the Panthers tried to replicate it, and then when they get to the back, they're like, ah, forget it.

I couldn't go with the Leafs. I almost went with the Cleveland Browns here.

Great look.

Cleveland Browns have great uniforms.

Yeah, I agree.

If you just change their name, it's like, this all makes sense.

It looks like shit.

No, they wear orange, all white with the orange helmets.

They wear orange and brown. They play in the Rust Belt. You know, you wouldn't I mean, it would be bad to wear that uniform if you were in Atlanta, but it makes all the sense in the world in Cleveland, Ohio. All right, now San Francisco 49ers, best road uniform in the NFL. At number 5, the Los Angeles Chargers. At number 4, the Los Angeles Dodgers. They wear that, that red number. Yeah, is everything.

Something about it.

Beautiful.

Yeah, they're just gorgeous in person. You got to go see them. At number 3, to prove I'm not a homer, it's the Pittsburgh Steelers. If I were a homer, they'd be number 1, but I have them at number 3.

That's because the other Pittsburgh teams round out the top 3.

Yeah, so what?

Also says often he's lived in Los Angeles for 20 years. The other 2 slots, Los Angeles teams.

Number 2, it's the Pittsburgh— no, it is to— again, to prove I'm not a homer, the Philadelphia Flyers. And the only reason they're not number The logo is great.

The nameplate.

Yeah, it's so 1975 and at the same time timeless, right? Great.

Perfect.

Yeah, great, great call.

They'd be number 1 if they still had that more fluorescent orange that they were wearing 5 years ago. That, that duller orange sways me just enough to return the best uniform in all of sports to its rightful place at number 1. It's the Raiders. Vegas, Oakland, Los Angeles, or otherwise, the Raiders are where it's at. And that's even with their mascot guy. He's a Raider. He's a pirate, but he's a— he's a pirate. He's gonna go out and rape and pillage, but before he does that, he's a gentleman. He gives himself a nice clean shave. He shaves his face nice.

He is. That's a good boy.

So he's a classic pirate. Yeah, the pirate in black and white with a football helmet on.

Well, also he has an eye patch, which makes him a classic classic pirate, but look close. His good eye is closed. What the hell? What the hell? And in spite of that, in spite— you know what it is? Logos, logos, logos for me are sort of like lyrics. I care, but I care way more about the other elements of it, right? You know, like rock songs, like, but the lyrics are kind of lame. They're, you know, they're, they're about Lord of the Rings, you know, that's what Robert Plant's singing about, right? And I don't care, it's a great song. I care more about Jimmy Page.

You just discovered that the eye's closed?

Is it possible he's squinting?

No, look at it.

I'm looking at it, I'm like, maybe, maybe.

Yeah, maybe he's looking into the sun, you don't know.

Something about Chris Cody's—

Maybe he's sleeping.

Wife's sister or something.

Maybe, hold on, here's one. Maybe he's winking.

Yeah.

You can't afford to do that if you only got one eye.

Well, I think we've settled a lot of hash here. We're gonna wrap it up. Another successful, maybe our greatest Drip Drill yet. That's what many people are already saying. Thank you, Mike Ross. Ryan, enjoy the High Line this weekend. I'll look forward to kibitzing with you next on the Dan Le Batard Show. And Amin El-Hassan, I look forward to talking with you on one of, uh, Le Batard Universe shows.

Thank you.

I was just about to say, and of course at the headline, Pulitzer Prize winner.

When you say my name, you include that part always.

There he goes, everybody. Pulitzer Prize winner Amin El-Hassan, guys, and High Line champion. Mike Ryan.

Cyclone should have been on the list.

All right, there they go. And here we go to— man, I really— what do you remind me at the top of the show to promote the YouTube and the audio podcast? I'll do it now, but in the future I should really do that near the top of the show. Audio, wherever you find your podcast, there's where you'll find Football America. And on YouTube, we are at Football America with the exclamation point. We do put extra stuff up there throughout the week. It's not just once a week, so make sure you're checking in there. Make sure you're subscribed Make sure you're spreading the good word. Every Tuesday we put something fresh up there for you. Definitely be on the lookout for that, and be on the lookout for us next Friday. We will be back in our usual spot. Until then, for the fellas, thanks so much, my fellow football Americans. It's been a thin slice of heaven. Dallas Cowboys, Christ.