WARNING: This thread will contain graphic depictions/descriptions of hideous uniforms

[Racing Truth]

Well, this is Phil Knight's world after all.:irked: So, with that said, let's name/discuss/post the worst uniforms in sports (college, pro, or even other). I'm too computer-dumb to post a picture myself, but I'll nominate the absolutely vomitous Washington Wizards "3rd uniform", a gold (kinda, but not really) and black abomination.:yuck: :yuck:

Feel free to contribute.

[Tifosi24]

Milwaukee Admirals new logo.

[Ankf00]

http://static.flickr.com/67/171277505_38ad397e95_b.jpg

[Ankf00]

what RT alludes to:
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000KPORK4.01-AT26F6GZJEB06._SCLZZZZZZZ_V36470525_.jpg

http://www.nflticketsnow.com/images/houston-texans.gif




add to that every college team w/ the generic nike uniform, and the WAC/MWC teams with the low-cost New Balance ripoff of said Nike treatment. Buffalo Sabres too

[devilmaster]

The old LA Kings uni's from the early 80s that looked like yellow pajamas.

Oh and another for hockey (and i used to wear them). Cooperalls. Philly wore them for a spell.

[Andrew Longman]

Chisox clamdigger uniforms from the 70s -- Shorts? What is this, softball?

[cameraman]

Chisox clamdigger uniforms from the 70s -- Shorts? What is this, softball?

http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/exhibits/online_exhibits/dressed_to_the_nines/pictures/timeline_1976.jpg

:rofl:

[oddlycalm]

Phil Knight is a major league douchebag of Tony George proportions, Nike is run like a cult and the product is the stuff bad dreams are made of. Ank's post of the Oregon uniforms pretty much says it all. :thumdown:

oc

[IlliniRacer]

http://www.nbcsports.com/2006/1107/336854_225X300.jpg

I'd like a Taco Bel Grande and 2 Chalupas please:
http://www.onlinesports.com/images/mn-pd78r-31.gif

[Dr. Corkski]

http://nhluniforms.com/1990s/Images/BluesNeverWorn.gif

[ferrarigod]

Buffalo Sabres too

Which sabres jersey? Cause the classic Blue/yellow is amazing.

Also, I love the ugly jersey's from hockey in the 60's, 70's and 80's. They are pure and awesome.

I don't like the commercialized nike crap going on now in ncaa foosball.

Personally I even enjoy the Pred's grey poupon jersey, but I understand why most do not.

http://www.nashvillepredators.com/assets/pressbox/sullivan_ht_bench_300w.jpg

[Elmo T]

I never got this:

http://www.dugout-memories.com/astros80.jpg

[Don Quixote]

Ank beat me to it on the Oregon Nancy Boy unis. :shakehead

[RHR_Fan]

Those short basketball shorts from the 70's and 80's.

~Nicole

[ferrarigod]

I never got this:

http://www.dugout-memories.com/astros80.jpg

Someone made them look cool:
http://mlb.mlb.com/hou/images/allstar/ph_ryannolan_250x148.jpg

[Elmo T]

Someone made them look cool:
http://mlb.mlb.com/hou/images/allstar/ph_ryannolan_250x148.jpg


:thumbup:

But we are judging the "covers" - not the "books"... ;)

[Andrew Longman]

I never got this:

http://www.dugout-memories.com/astros80.jpg

Surpassed by these

http://espn.go.com/i/magazine/new/050728_norman.jpg

http://espn.go.com/media/mlb/2003/0205/photo/padres.jpg

[WickerBill]

Right up my alley. I judge teams on their uniforms first, everything else second. :)


Oregon Ducks are worst in college fb... maybe ever. However, worst use of undergarments goes to Swooshville, for introducing the mismatched sleeves:

http://www.bevosports.com/images/vick_fugly.jpg


In the NFL, the Seahawks monochrome home unis are awful, and the stripe of tennis-ball grellow doesn't help a bit. Looks like shiny bird poop:

http://starbulletin.com/2006/02/08/sports/art1a.jpg


However, giving the Seabags a run for their money are the teams who sport the all-black "leotard look" (let's get physical, physical!):

http://cmsimg.indystar.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?NewTbl=1&Avis=BG&Dato=20061210&Kategori=SPORTS03&Lopenr=612100803&Ref=PH&Item=4&MaxW=500&MaxH=400&Q=60
(by the way, I'm sure he ran for about 12 more yards after this hit)

Personally, I think the Wizards new third uniform is very good, and would only be made better if it weren't so shiny. Do something different, step out. Almost every other sport on the earth has different colored shirts and shorts, but for some reason it's off limits in basketball... that's a dumb limitation we're putting on the sport.

(next post)

[WickerBill]

Do you remember the Mavs' silver duds?

http://images.usatoday.com/sports/basketball/_photos/2003-10-30-inside-mavs.jpg


Pistons, 90s:

http://www.bballone.com/granth/pistons/images/pistons8.jpg


Sorry not a better view, but these TBDRays "motor oil on pavement" unis were hideous:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/mlb/features/2000/sipreview/devilrays/devilrays_sm.jpg


But not as bad as the all-red uniforms the Cleveland Indians wore in the 50s... sorry, no picture. Actually, I'm not sorry.



And despite what this picture shows, these uniforms were not really "orange".. more of a light tangerine color, and might have been the longest-running bad uniform in pro sports:

http://espn-att.starwave.com/media/other/1999/1216/photo/tampa2.jpg

[Rob]

I think the current Buffalo Bills and Cincinnati Bengals uniforms look terrible. The Bills use about three colors and eight stripes too many, and the Bengals look like clowns. The previous-generation Bengals uniforms looked so much better.

And I've always hated the classic/current New York Jets unis based on the color alone.

[TKGAngel]

Buffalo Sabres too

While the new Sluggalo uniforms may be an acquired taste, the fact that 5 of the top 10 selling jerseys in the NHL are of Buffalo players (Miller, Briere, Drury, Pominville and Afinogenov) shows that the Slug is catching on.


The Bills use about three colors and eight stripes too many, and the Bengals look like clowns.

I agree with you when it comes to the white Bills jerseys, but the blue ones aren't that bad.

http://assets.buffalobills.com/uploads/photo/3747B9E2DEC144CFA8881D0BDE827409.jpg

[Ankf00]

still too many stripes. oilers had that problem too

[nrc]

still too many stripes. oilers had that problem too
http://assets.bengals.com/assets/default/gallery060910-3.jpg
Can you ever really have too many stripes? :D

[SteveH]

get worse than this, if you can

http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/B0000AN9WZ.01-ABGHDZ3KEZBCN._AA216_SCLZZZZZZZ_.gif

old school ugly

[pfc_m_drake]

The Bills jerseys may very well be the worst in the NFL.

I don't mind the Sabres jerseys, other than the slug. The colors and design are fine, but everytime I see the logo I think to myself "You know, they paid a graphic design/marketing firm a lot of money and that's the best they could come up with?"

I understand it sells well, but I just think they could have done better without even trying.

[ferrarigod]

The Bills jerseys may very well be the worst in the NFL.

I don't mind the Sabres jerseys, other than the slug. The colors and design are fine, but everytime I see the logo I think to myself "You know, they paid a graphic design/marketing firm a lot of money and that's the best they could come up with?"

I understand it sells well, but I just think they could have done better without even trying.

I just thank God every day that they got rid of those red jersey's that they CONSTANTLY lost in and now have the yellow/blue old school French Connection, Lafontaine/Mogilny colors back. :thumbup:

[pfc_m_drake]

I agree - I love the blue and the gold...it's that snail in the middle that bugs me.

[WickerBill]

The Bills uniform isn't great, but their alternate uni is pretty awesome, IMO:

http://assets.buffalobills.com/uploads/photo/F79739606CF0452AA576C8EDCFD2AA99.jpg

[Ankf00]

true, but they're throwbacks, no? I do like how NYG & the jets returned to their old school helmets & unis back in the 90's. the cowboys alternates are atrocious though, imo

http://msnbcmedia2.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/061208/061208_romo_vmed_5p.widec.jpg

also, those posting the 'stros old stripes, the rainbow ones w/ the navy were much worse than the orange/red/yellow ones imo.


and who can forget WC '94?

http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/fifa/gen/fi/20060615/i/4272530701.jpg

:yuck:

[Michaelhatesfans]

http://www.lustreking.com/sigs/Michael_Andretti.jpg

[Ankf00]

you guys sure mikey isn't okie?


mullets don't lie, yo.

[pfc_m_drake]

Ank - yes, those are the Bills 'throwback' uniforms.

WB - you're right, I like those much better than their regular ones. So much so that I wish the Bills would use those for their regular uniforms, and use the ones from the Super Bowl years as the alternate/throwback.

[WickerBill]

There was some rumor last year that the players liked the Bills throwback/alt uni so much (and the fans too, I assume) that the Bills A. petitioned to use it more than twice and were denied, and B. petitioned for a permanent uniform change (must give 2 years notice, so I guess we'll find out in 2007).

You can't get the full heinous effect of this jersey from this shot:

http://www.weboshawa.com/sports/raptors/vincecarter/carterjambig.jpg


But here it is, in all the "glory" it deserves...

http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/1/8/2/0/9/9/webimg/17231142_tp.jpg

[TKGAngel]

There was some rumor last year that the players liked the Bills throwback/alt uni so much (and the fans too, I assume) that the Bills A. petitioned to use it more than twice and were denied, and B. petitioned for a permanent uniform change (must give 2 years notice, so I guess we'll find out in 2007).

I did not know that. I guess that can go on the list of things that Ralph Wilson is pissed at the NFL PTB for.

I did hear that the Sabres petitioned to use the old blue/gold home jerseys as their alternate 3rd jersey, but the league put the kibosh on that, since throwbacks are worn at home and home jerseys must be dark.

And those Raptor jerseys are horrible.

[Racing Truth]

what RT alludes to:
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000KPORK4.01-AT26F6GZJEB06._SCLZZZZZZZ_V36470525_.jpg

http://www.nflticketsnow.com/images/houston-texans.gif




add to that every college team w/ the generic nike uniform, and the WAC/MWC teams with the low-cost New Balance ripoff of said Nike treatment. Buffalo Sabres too

Yes, but you cannot fully appreciate teh suck of the Wizard's unis without the black, with white trim, shorts. Hideous.:yuck:

But the worst might be Oregon's yellow on yellow look.:saywhat:

The Buffaslug looks... odd, but me likey the old school Sabre unis.

[nrc]

The trouble that the Bills and a lot of other NFL teams have is that at some point they decided that nobody wanted to buy brightly colored merchandise. So a lot of teams darkened their colors and we lost good colors in favor of a lot of a lot of navy blue. The Chargers original blue was biggest loss, I think.

The alternate color uniforms are helping to bring some of those back. I imagine you'll see some teams switching to those colors and using the alternates as a way to keep a darker scheme that they can sell to fans who aren't comfortable wearing powder blue.

[Ankf00]

I also don't like the new age stripes on the helmets of the ravens, titans, panthers, etc.

http://www.nflticketsnow.com/images/baltimore-ravens.gif

they're the 70's NBA hot pants of the '00's NFL. It's like a faux-hawk for helmets.

[ferrarigod]

I agree - I love the blue and the gold...it's that snail in the middle that bugs me.

yea. this years are bad. but i'm talking about this years third jersey's. the retro 70, 80, 90's blue/yellow. wit the round sabre. i can finally wear my lafontaine jersey again without feeling like a complete dork.

[WickerBill]

Okay I gotta come clean... this is a horrible look:

http://www.longmontfyi.com/Assets/newspics/101706s3a.jpg



This is a little better:

http://artfiles.art.com/images/-/John-Elway---2-Minute-Drill-Photograph-C10038834.jpeg
(EDwardo just threw up in his mouth)


But the alt uni is where it's at... they NEED to wear this!:

http://media.scout.com/Media/Image/18/185559.jpg

[WickerBill]

Good Falcons:

http://www.rtoonline.com/images/Warrick-Dunn--C10213972.jpeg


Okay Falcons:

http://onlineathens.com/images/081006/15724_223.jpg


LeoTard (aka Bad) Falcons:

http://atlantafalconsfan.tripod.com/images/photo1.jpg

[EDwardo]

....


(EDwardo just threw up in his mouth)


This is a much better pic of Elway....

http://tidefans.com/bamanation/thirdandlong/Derrick_Thomas=Shot_4.jpg


:D

[racermike]

The Ducks uni's can be hard to look at, but I think Phil Knight and the University of Oregon have a motive here, that is working.

Get yourself a uniform, thats gets you on Sportscenter in the first 5 minutes, EVERY week during the football season, and a much talked about subject on all the other networks.

End result?

It will help recruiting in the long run, just because potential players keep hearing the name, and seeing the program on the news.

It makes perfect sense

[nrc]

LeoTard (aka Bad) Falcons:

http://atlantafalconsfan.tripod.com/images/photo1.jpg

Even most Who-Dey fans seem to agree that the black jersey, black pants combo is horrible.
http://assets.bengals.com/assets/default/gallery061029-14.jpg

[WickerBill]

Did I really link to a tripod image? Oops... well if you can't see it, it's Mike Vick and he looks like he's about to work out on FitTV to the strains of Olivia Newton-John.

[Ankf00]

I hope no one had plans to watch the Las Vegas Bowl, because it's going to be simply unbearable:

Oregon's wearing their "lightning" jerseys & pants, and to go with it Nike's supplied them with new lids.

http://www.registerguard.com/news/2006/12/15/images/xlg/helmet2.jpg


http://www.registerguard.com/news/2006/12/15/c1.sp.vegasnotes.1215.p1.php?section=oregonfb




Oregon needs to be banished from D1 ball :yuck:

[formulaben]

OMG, I'm so embarrassed! :yuck:

[racermike]

I hope no one had plans to watch the Las Vegas Bowl, because it's going to be simply unbearable:

Oregon's wearing their "lightning" jerseys & pants, and to go with it Nike's supplied them with new lids.

http://www.registerguard.com/news/2006/12/15/images/xlg/helmet2.jpg


http://www.registerguard.com/news/2006/12/15/c1.sp.vegasnotes.1215.p1.php?section=oregonfb




Oregon needs to be banished from D1 ball :yuck:


Hahaha!

You beat me to it foo!

[mapguy]

Oh and another for hockey (and i used to wear them). Cooperalls. Philly wore them for a spell.

So did the Whalers.

http://cdn.nhl.com/image-upload/francis_cooperalls_tall.jpg

[Racing Truth]

I hope no one had plans to watch the Las Vegas Bowl, because it's going to be simply unbearable:

Oregon's wearing their "lightning" jerseys & pants, and to go with it Nike's supplied them with new lids.

http://www.registerguard.com/news/2006/12/15/images/xlg/helmet2.jpg


http://www.registerguard.com/news/2006/12/15/c1.sp.vegasnotes.1215.p1.php?section=oregonfb




Oregon needs to be banished from D1 ball :yuck:

Wow, that's... appalling.:saywhat: Notice I did not say "surprising" b/c that it is NOT. Someone stop Phil Knight from ruining the world.

Anyway, did y'all catch highlights from Sunday's Wiz/Lakers game? Those unis will NEVER NOT suck.

[chop456]

And the worst uniform in college football is...... (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/0706/campus.ugly.uniforms/content.10.html)

[devilmaster]

And the worst uniform in college football is...... (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/0706/campus.ugly.uniforms/content.10.html)

No real surprise there....

And i've never paid attention to them before, but does delaware have an old wolverine running their athletic dept?

[Sean O'Gorman]

Not even Tim Tebow's sister could make the Oregon uniforms look good.

[JoeBob]

No real surprise there....

And i've never paid attention to them before, but does delaware have an old wolverine running their athletic dept?


http://www.udel.edu/cheerleading/helmet.html