These jerseys came in from Geeky Jerseys last Fall and I forgot to photograph them. Shame on me given how much I love Futurama! The people behind the site were awesome to me on a special request you’ll see below.
Firstly, what does the headline mean? It’s esoteric, stretched reference to the Fox Network (the main commercial one) airing hockey in the Nineties. They introduced the glowing puck to help the audience follow along on TV. Allegedly there was a special modification similar to how you can see the necessary yardage for a first down with the NFL now. This made the pucks cost much more. Rumor has it around $50 so the network (or NHL) wasn’t keen on letting players keep them for monumental goals or whenever a fan caught one. What was inside? I’ve heard electronics to something radioactive, yet not dangerous. It didn’t go over well in the end. Canadians and other diehard fans mocked the “glowy” puck to help fair-weathered watchers.
Next up, the “player” I had to immediately have when this design appeared!
I had to indulge in adding Bender’s first initial, his middle initial (stands for Bending) because Rodriguez is fairly common in hockey. To save you the trouble of pressing your Google-search skills, 6C1 is Bender’s favorite number. However, in order to get it to fit, I had it sewn on in hexadecimal which is even funnier/super nerdier. Robots will know what it means immediately, same goes for Math and Computer Science fans for 6C1 = 1729 in human readable terms. Why is it Bender’s favorite? It’s first number that is the sum of two different cubes: 1 cubed plus 12 cubed or 9 cubed plus 10 cubed. How Geeky Jerseys pulled it off and how I knew is for a different style altogether.
I have little regret on this weird choice but it was hard to pick a second character from the plethora on Futurama so I went with Old Man Waterfall who is the funniest member of Phil Hendrie’s Waterfall family. You may remember him as Zoidberg’s attorney for flag eating. Old Man was such a First Amendment absolutist, everything he backed and believed was unpopular, even with his inevitable Waterfall death.
I have one more to photograph and display then another pair ordered, awaiting to being made and delivered with specific, hidden correlations.