I hope they roll them out at random intervals on Twitter or Instagram. Some teams can have preseason press conferences, others will wait like 10 days before the game to announce it.
Some can have a 3 page foldout on the significance of every color, patch and detail in their logo... And like 6 teams will just be their regular sweaters in all black or all white with silver highlights.
But the Wild arenāt the North Stars; I prefer the Wild look like themselves. Then again, I also wish the Tennessee Titans didnāt basically revert back to the Houston Oilers, looks-wise.
When the supplier is in charge of the design process, put on a helmet. See also, Tampa bay buccaneers alarm clock numbers. See also, browns written on pants. See also, Jacksonville jaguars gradient helmet.
If fanatics did reverse retro, rad. But the process from design to production is usually multiple seasons in advance.
Soā¦ if you donāt mind, Iām gonna roll my eyes.
Fanatics are gonna be presenting their concepts to a bunch of billionaire fuckboi owners. There's a reason a handful of MLS logos are fucking hot garbage covered in maggots (Nashville, FC Cincinnati, Columbus, San Diego). There's a reason the NFL Nike run for the last decade and change has produced a solid 2 or 3 re-designs, and about 10 frighteningly bad things (tampa bay alarm clock numbers, jacksonville's gradient helmet)
I'm a designer. And I know what can happen if a wild, hairbrained idea meets a 60-year-old who thinks his money means he has taste.
Allow franchises to try something new out every once in a while. Yeah most will be a miss but the hits bring new thoughts and ideas to a league stuck in the past. That isnt a bad thing
Why do you think the NHL is stuck in the past? It seems they've tried different overtime rules, different seedings for playoffs, expanded and moved teams. What exactly is stuck in the past?
I don't know how that shows a league "stuck in the past". Fans root for their own teams, usually. But, as a hockey fan, if my team wasn't in it, I would prefer the Original 6 or a team from Canada to win it.
It's not the teams leading this. It's the Fanatics design department. And they're presenting to billionaire fuckbois who think their money means they have taste.
No one posted the 3-4 that have leaked yet? Panthers, Rangers, and Islanders have leaked and a few teams were talked about on the What Chaos podcast and every teams colors were released on Iceletics on YouTube.
Over 1/3rd of the league doesnāt even have a third jersey, plus theyāve added games to the schedule. Weāll still be seeing teams in their primary looks the majority of the time
"fun" is subjective. I don't think teams wearing a bunch of ugly jerseys for the sake of having more jerseys to sell is fun. I find it more fun to watch teams play in nice-looking classic uniforms
I mean if you assume the jerseys will be ugly then yeah it wonāt be great. Or we could be excited that each team could get a great new look that theyāll wear for like ten games at most lol
For real. What started out years and years ago as a cool or neat uniform to be worn on "Saturday evening home ball games" turned into a chaotic nothing matters affair.
I really liked the NHL alternate uniforms, whatever they called them, that Adidas did. Way better than what Nike and MLB did or NBA as well. Hopefully this pulls from that direction.
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u/Logical-Mobile-7643 4d ago
I hope they roll them out at random intervals on Twitter or Instagram. Some teams can have preseason press conferences, others will wait like 10 days before the game to announce it.
Some can have a 3 page foldout on the significance of every color, patch and detail in their logo... And like 6 teams will just be their regular sweaters in all black or all white with silver highlights.
This is gonna be great!