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The Chicago Shamrox indoor professional lacrosse team begins their inaugural season this January. In preparation for the start of their season, the Shamrox hosted an event at Harry Caray's to unveil their home and away team jerseys. Flanked by two members of the Shamrox Dance Team, Shamrox players Chris Panos and Zach Heffner modeled the jerseys.
The opinions around the Chicagoist office water cooler have been mixed, at best, on the uniforms and worse when evaluating the uniforms for the dance team. Usually, Chicagoist only uses uniform designs to pick the winning jockeys when we go to Arlington, so we will wait to see how the team performs this season before we give our final opinion of them. Fans of the new team can purchase their jerseys prior to the first home game by visiting the Shamrox website.
The Shamrox compete in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The indoor league plays on a field similar to an indoor soccer field including hockey-style boards and glass. The Shamrox will play 16 regular season games, with eight of them at their home in the Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estates. Tickets for home games will start at $15, with season tickets starting at $10. The Shamrox also have a partnership with Comcast SportsNet and ION Network WCPX-38 to broadcast their eight home games.
The Shamrox are just under a month away from their first match. They play the New York Titans on Saturday, January 6, at 7:30 p.m.
Photo by Rob Grabowski.
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omg @ the fugly models.
Its pictures like that that make me long for the heady era of the XFL. Go Outlaws!
Ok, what the hell IS IT with the gimmick spelling of shamrocks?
Shamrox? WTF?
While lacrosse is neither Irish nor connotates, "rock," I can understand naming a team, "Shamrocks" due to the Irish heritage of Chicago.
But why the ROX? It sounds like a bad heavy metal band! Then again, they ARE playing in Schaumburg, so maybe its appropriate.
As a dancer, not *that kind* of dancer, but a professional one ... I just wonder how these ladies plan to do anything but walk around very carefully in this getup. One kick, and those shorts are going straight up their ass, and their boobs are falling out of the shirt. Then again, that's probably the point, eh?
so it isn't coed/intramural? well, cancel my ticket order then.
I've seen lacrosse on TV a few times, and it's interesting enough as sports go, but the subtleties of the rules escape me. I mean, it seems to be OK to whup someone upside the head with your stick, but only in certain areas or only so hard? Or is it how big of a backswing you take before thunking somebody's coconut?
I'm having a tough internal debate.
Those guys seem good looking enough, and since they play lacrosse (which has all the running of soccer) they're probably in fantastic shape, so it would stand to reason they could pull down MUCH prettier girls than these.
However, they do play indoor lacrosse for a living (that's worth what? 19-25K a year? I have no idea what a lacrosse player is worth on the open market) in Hoffman Estates, so maybe these ARE the top of the line for them.
And bear in mind, I'm talking long term girlfriend. I'm sure they could get good looking women short term, but no lacrosse player is pulling Eva Longoria or anything.
Um, those women are on the dance team. They're not their girlfriends.
However, they do play indoor lacrosse for a living (that's worth what? 19-25K a year?
I don't know how much they make, but one of the guys in the picture--defenseman Zach Heffner--was arrested three years back when he was a player at the University of Virginia for narcotics trafficing according to the Richmond, VA Cavalier Daily:
http://www.cavalierdaily.com/CVArticle.asp?ID=17134&pid=1056
I am not sure if he was ever convicted, but that might be a way to supplement their paltry paycheck!
Of course they're not their girlfriends, I just wondered if they would think about hitting on them.
Or maybe it's like the NFL where they're not allowed to.
And awesome find, Flerno! The Chicago Shamroxxxxxxx (the extra "x's" are for EXTREME!) are the Trailblazers/Bengals of the NLL! Count me in!
my lacrosse-playing coworker estimates between 10-15k/yr for the crappy players to around 30k for the top dogs.
Looks like a fun sport to play, I would have to imagine that you would have to be a player to actually want to see the games in person.
Yeah, I can see how one would need supplemental income to play professional lacrosse.
But narcotics trafficing? Dang!
Is it possible to get severe stomach cramps from viewing such a photo?!
P-A-I-N-F-U-L.
The uniforms make these guys look like walking Gatorade bottles. Why do new or expansion teams feel the need to make their uniforms so tacky. Isn't apparel sales part of the business model for this team?? It would be nice to see uniforms become less busy, like Penn State's uniforms. They are simple and primarily have not changed for years because to this day they are still cool...
looks like a cool team so far....seems to me that they know what they are doing (from the website and other stuff). i am going to give it a shot and check out a game.
Hey Flerno-yeah nice find. As an avid fan of the sport i think we should stick to helping the sport (and the shamrox) with our support instead of throwing a four year old charge in the mix. And like you said, not sure if there was even a conviction. show some class. GO 'ROX!!
As an avid fan of the sport i think we should stick to helping the sport (and the shamrox) with our support instead of throwing a four year old charge in the mix. And like you said, not sure if there was even a conviction. show some class.
Uhh, I'm NOT and "avid fan of the sport"--so don't use your "we" around me.
I don't give a damn either way about the Shamrox [sic]--although I do agree with "afhad" that the gimmick spelling is moronic.
I love how I'm the one who is supposed to "show some class" when Heffer was arrested for drug trafficking!
You must be a mole from the Shamrox [sic] marketing department. If you are, the team should come clean about Heffner's background.
Maybe the "ROX" thing is because in lacrosse the players fight over hard little balls that are sometimes called "rocks" because that was what the Indians used when they invented the game. Not sure what to do with the "SHAM" part, or the inventive spelling.
But I gotta say, picking on professional lacrosse players? You guys are like the high school bully finding soft targets for cheap shots - who's next, stamp collectors and role-playing gamers? I mean, if we're looking for dorky losers we can laugh at, well, you guys are running a BLOG for Chrissake...
Flerno, seriously you need to get a life, lets looking into your past and most likely you have some crazy shit in your closet. Maybe Flerno should come clean about his identity, but he probably won't.
I've been to a few NLL games, and they're actually really fun. Fighting is allowed (as it was in the old NHL), game play violence is higher than any other sport, high scoring, cheap tickets, and all the players are normal dudes (most are blue collar candians). And unlike the prima donnas of the major sports, these guys typically go to the local pub after the game to throw some back w/ the fans.
And just a guess, but I think the "rox" in shamrox is related to "lax", a common abb. for lacrosse. Regardless, I agree its an unfortunate name.