Two Ducks teams changed their uniforms, one a surprise, one not. As you might have already guessed the Oregon Ducks are going with new unis again this season. I guess UO believes it to be faux pas to get caught in the same uniform twice.

I would rip them apart, but the guys over at The M Zone already did an outstanding job:

First of all, what’s with the four different styles? Just so you know, most teams have two - home unis and away unis. Period. Not a different design for each month of the college football season … You guys have more wardrobe changes than a Madonna concert.

And let’s talk helmets. Rule of thumb: use one. Not three. Then again, with four different uniforms, maybe this is restraint…

… Ok, ok. We get it. Crazy outfits are sort of becoming what Oregon is known for. But so is Elton John. And I’m not sure that’s a good thing for a college football team…

… So please, before Phil [Knight] has the Ducks taking the field in bright yellow boas and Nike-swooshed tutus, somebody needs to put a stop to this. Stat.

How am I supposed to outfunny that? Just can’t be done. And now for the surprise: The Mighty Ducks of Anaheim have not only dropped the ‘Mighty’ from their name, but also managed to sound less pretentious by putting their city in the correct place and winding up with Anaheim Ducks.

And in another step in the direction of good taste, they dropped the purple from their uniforms as well (too Los Angeles Kings for my taste).

By the way… looking back on my Devil Rays story, do you think this means Anaheim finds the term “Mighty” to be offensive, or just a poor choice of words to describe a mediocre hockey team?  But when you take into consideration that the basis of their name comes from a movie about as popular today as New Kids on the Block, I don’t really think they went far enough.