By: Bert Harbinson / July 8th, 2021
Uniforms are a somewhat undiscussed aspect of the PHL; only two teams, Howell and Seattle, have ever spent any PR on them. These are also the only teams that have jerseys with team logos on them. Howell designated their black jersey as a home jersey, their white jersey for the road, and their yellow jersey as a throwback (to PHL I). The Hammers, also called their black/white shorts with gold trim “championship shorts” which the team wore once at home and once on the road to commemorate the PHL I Infinity Cup Championship. Seattle designated their white jersey as a home jersey, their gray jersey for the road, and their black and green jerseys both as alternates; the black jersey was called “night-vision black”.
I’ve taken a look back at the wardrobe of PHL two and broke it all down here. To start off, the most worn garment of the season was Seattle’s black shorts which were worn eight times out of 14 games. Seattle also had the most worn uniform of the season wearing their gray jerseys over green shorts four times. Staten Island had the most consistency for their jerseys, or should I say “jersey”, wearing navy every game; however, the shorts rotated between black (once), gray (three times), and blue (once). The most consistent team in terms of home and road jersey usage goes to Howell; the Hammers wore black jerseys for all five home games and white for all four regular season road games (the team wore yellow jerseys for their one road playoff game). Howell wore black shorts for almost every game (7/10). Seattle shouldn’t be overlooked here as they wore gray jerseys in seven of eight road games (green in other game).
At the other end of the spectrum, Anaheim and Boston were more inconsistent teams. Anaheim played eleven games across six game days and wore a different jersey each day. There was slightly more consistency with the shorts as the ‘Sharks wore both white shorts and dark blue shorts back-to-back game days. Boston played six games across four game days and also had a different jersey each day. Boston wore four different shorts which means that across the four game days, the Bartenders never once repeated any part of their uniform.
Howell and Seattle’s white jerseys are both 3/4 sleeve length but Anaheim takes the cake for extraordinary sleeves. Out of their six jerseys, four were sleeveless and two were long sleeved. Every other jersey worn throughout the season was short sleeve. Apart from one game where Boston wore pants, every team always wore shorts.
Through 46 man-games, 25 different uniforms were featured in PHL II for an average of only 1.84 games per uniform and 5.00 uniforms per team. The 18 different jerseys give an average of 2.56 games per jersey and 3.6 jerseys per team. The most worn jersey colors were blue (all shades)(x13), gray (x8), and black (x7). Blue jerseys had the most wins at seven (includes a navy vs. light blue contest). There was a three way tie for most losses by a jersey color at five: gray, black, and green. Green was the least successful jersey going 1-5 overall. Red (includes Anaheim’s pink and burgundy), orange, and yellow were all undefeated with a combined record of 7-0 which includes the orange jersey Anaheim won the Infinity Cup in.
Teams went mono- uniform (same color jersey and shorts) eight times. Anaheim wore dark blue over dark blue in Seattle, Howell wore black over black on four occasions, and Seattle wore black over black twice and white over white for a home game. Seven of the eight instances of mono- uniforms came from the home team. Two things should be noted here, one of Howell’s black over black games were actually the team’s “championship” shorts. While these are not considered the same uniform as the all black shorts, both shorts paired with the black jersey are considered mono-black. The other note is that even though Staten Island went blue over blue for a game, it’s not counted as mono-blue because the jersey was navy and the shorts were royal blue.
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