Large at Uniwatch

I took an enormous amount of aesthetic satisfaction from yesterday's championship games, particularly Giants/Packers, so much so that I was moved to write to Paul Lukas over at Uniwatch and ask if I could contribute a post. He graciously accepted, and so today I have a piece up over there titled "Winter Classic." Let me just add that if you don't regularly read Uniwatch, you're really missing out - it's one of the smartest, most unique and consistently excellent sports sites on the web. I'm proud to be a pinch-hit contributor.

Here's my lead paragraph with the direct link following:

Could any true football fan of a certain age who watched the Packers/Giants game last night honestly say that their enjoyment wasn’t keenly heightened by the mere sight of those two iconic uniforms doing battle against the freezing backdrop of Lambeau Field? The way the colors and logos so vividly hearkened to championship games played by these same two teams in the NFL’s glory years lent an inescapable air of nostalgia to the contest and a powerful sense of the sport’s past being present, a feeling that all too often seems lacking in this day and age of the league’s generally wretched marketing aesthetic...

Winter Classic (Uniwatch)