ESPN.com calls Paul Lukas “sports journalism's foremost uniform reporter.” Lukas downplays that, calling himself “a minutiae fetishist” or “professional geek.”
Based out of Brooklyn, N.Y., the 51-year-old is the creator of Uni-Watch, a column devoted to uniform design in sports. In the 16 years of its existence, Uni-Watch has evolved into a small column for the Village Voice in New York City to its own daily blog (uni-watch.com) and the inspiration for countless other uniform-obsessed sites and blogs around the Internet.
Between obligations for his website and taking a break to move his car before getting a parking ticket, Lukas, sat down for a phone interview with The Oklahoman:
Uni-Watch was born in May of 1999: “At the time, it was a small print column in the now-defunct sports section of the almost-defunct Village Voice, an alternative weekly here in New York.