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□ Many Texas professional sports
teams have drastically changed
their "looks" in the past two years.
Staff and Wire Reports
What once was simply a way of identifying
different teams and players has become a full
blown industry.
As professional and college athletics have be
come money makers, logo and uniform designs
have become big business as every team and
school vies to create the most visually-appealing
and marketable look.
Several Texas professional sports franchises
have changed their uniforms and logos radically in
the past two years.
In 1994, the Houston Astros changed its logo to
a shooting star with one side open. When the uni
forms were introduced, Astros owner Drayton
McLane said the new look gave the Astros a “hard-
charging,” aggressive attitude.
In the same year, the Texas Rangers also
scrapped its old uniforms and introduced new ones
in conjunction with the opening of The Ballpark at
Arlington last April.
Three weeks ago, the
Houston Rockets, fresh off
their second-straight NBA
Championship, unveiled a
new logo, uniforms and col
or schemes. The logo, a
rocketship with teeth and
eyes orbiting a basketball,
has drawn harsh criticism
from many Rockets fans
who say the design is too
“cartoonish.”
Last year in the National
Football League, every fran
chise had at least three uniforms. Along with
home and away uniforms, each franchise had an
additional, “throw-back” uniform in honor of the
league’s 75th year of existence. The “throw-back”
jerseys reflected each team’s jersey styles from
their first years in the league.
Unique uniforms are brought out for special
occasions in all sports. The Texas A&M men’s
basketball team introduced new uniforms at last
season’s Southwest
Conference Basketball
Tournament in Dallas.
Kevin Hurley, ad
ministrative assistant
for Texas A&M basket
ball, played a major
role in deciding to
bring the new uniforms
out for the postseason
tournament.
“The uniforms were
supposed to be here to
start the season, but
since they were deliv
ered late, we decided to wait and bring them out in
the postseason,” Hurley said. “They showed us 15
different uniforms that we could choose from, so
we went with one that had flair.”
A&M last changed its basketball uniforms dur
ing the 1992-93 season. The team changed to the
longer, baggier shorts — made popular in the NBA
by Michael Jordan — that most basketball teams at
the college and professional levels now wear.
The Aggie football team has seen its uniforms
change dramatically over the course of the
sport’s history at A&M. The most obvious change
was the addition of helmets as part of the stan
dard uniform around the turn of the century.
Since then, the helmet has evolved into one
of the most recognizable symbols in college foot
ball. A&M toyed with several helmets before
deciding on its current maroon with white letter
ing model. Other A&M helmet styles included
a simple ‘T’ on each side, each players’ number
on the helmet and white helmets with maroon
lettering.
The football uniforms have stayed fairly consis
tent over the past 25 years. The Aggies wear ma
roon jerseys at home and white on the road.
A&M’s Assistant Athletic Director of Marketing
and football announcer Dave South, said some un
revealed changes will be made in the Aggies’ uni
forms for the 1995 season, the last year of South
west Conference football.
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