Today's Tidbit... Patently Ugly Football Fields

Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

I've written a few times about the emergence of new knits and artificial fabrics in the 1930s that allowed sporting goods manufacturers to offer pants and jerseys with piping, inserts, and miscellaneous striping that resulted in football uniforms with too many stripes. Perhaps taken from the friction strip jerseys that emerged in the late Teens, coaches or whoever designed team uniforms decided that if one uniform stripe was good, two, three, or four ...