projectjohn

I missed a number of pages here, but I'd agree with this take, with the exception of also using the blue pants with the white jerseys (it's actually one of the better looks in the NFL, IMO.) Also wish they didn't have black pants but I guess they have to under the Color Rush rules. Overall, I like the Lions update a lot but I wish the blue and white pants had stripes, and I'm somewhat afraid monochrome combos will be used 90% of the time, which will hinder the set overall.

That, pants stripes, and no black pants and this is an A+ update.

Quite good and I'm breathing a big sigh of relief. Just need to make sure all the pants have stripes, please. And hopefully no black pants.

I mean, I don’t want black but I’d rather have a reasonable black alternate top than the all gray.

They'll be hampered by the overuse of mono-black and mono-green but when the right combos are used, these will be quite good.

That or a classic edition would be my guess. It would be nice for the Raptors to bring back the Vince Carter era branding, it's a lot better than the Drake/OVO stuff they use now - even the Chris Bosh era red/black version.

Figured as much. The organization has been going out of their way to minimize red in their color scheme - even eliminating the classic red and blue court design they'd been using since the Bad Boys days. I'll take this as a confirmation they are changing the Statement jerseys at least. I'll hold out some hope that the new ones are an improvement, and at least somewhat congruent to the team branding this time.

A Pistons uniform tracker account on Twitter is claiming their Statement editions are being retired. I haven't heard that from anywhere else, so I'm not sure if it's just wishful thinking since they are eligible to be changed after two years, or the account has inside information. Certainly hoping it's accurate since I find the current Statement jerseys abysmal. Hopefully they might finally bring back either the 2000s or 90s red jerseys, which for some unknown reason they continually refuse to do.

Something like this would be pretty decent, as long as it's paired with regular gray or white pants. Maybe I'm scarred by some of the atrocities Nike has put out in the NBA's City Edition program, but I'm a little afraid of what the Tigers are going to do. But they have been pretty adamant about maintaining a fairly traditional look over the years. Having said that, I'm also the guy who has hoped at times they'd add a road-only navy alternate top, something akin to an inverse of the regular home jersey. I also always kinda liked the orange bill on the road hat for the Tigers.

Tigers City Connect is debuting May 10, with merch available May 6. Most I've seen are believing it will be navy/orange and feature the '90s Tiger face logo.

Please at least add blue striping to white pants. No mono-color pants, please. I'm a little less afraid for the Lions new set than I was previously (going off a quote from the team president a year or two ago about the new set being a more significant change than the 2017 set, which he referred to as a tweaking.) Overall, if there's no mono-color pants and the all gray set is gone, I guess I'll consider it a win, even though I rather liked the 2017 set overall as long as the right combos were used. Oh, and it'd be nice if we get true silver back, rather than dull gray.

Official Lions unveiling happening on April 18. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/nfl/lions/2024/03/28/detroit-lions-will-unveil-new-uniforms-at-event-for-season-ticket-holders-in-3-weeks/73126480007/

That spawned some heated debate in one of the NBA threads.

That is indeed the classic historical look but for some reason the change never bothered me too much. It improved the color balance on the front side of the jersey IMO.

Don't remind me, especially in light of the disaster the Pistons have been for the last 15 years..

The Pistons are using horizonal NOB today for the 20th anniversary celebration of their 2004 championship, proving it is possible on the Nike template. I wish they'd go back to it full-time.

Sounds like the Bally Sports branding is going away at the end of MLB season. Hopefully a new graphics package will be something more akin to what Fox had at the end of their ownership of the RSNs. https://awfulannouncing.com/bally/diamond-sports-group-branding-rsns.html

Not bad - a lot better than the black and white NWA look we all thought they would be going with.

Was the Lions current set unpopular? While not perfect, I thought it was a huge improvement over the two sets that came before it. The all-gray was the worst part, and then the blank white pants being introduced late in its life cycle also weren't great, but other than that it was their best look since the Barry Sanders era set. It was definitely good enough IMO that I'm dreading the new set, fearing that there's a reasonable chance it will be downgrade.

In the NBA, Zach Lowe had an article a few years back about the Heat refusing Nike's City Edition concept, and instead designing the well-received Vice jerseys in-house.

I don't subscribe to "The Athletic," although there are ways to get around the paywall that I presume are verboten to discuss.

Nike has pushed chrome/gray pretty hard for Detroit teams the last 5 years or so.

I'm afraid. Very afraid. But then again, if the focus grouping Uni-Watch posted about a few years ago was presumably getting feedback for potential City Connect jerseys, maybe I shouldn't be. https://uni-watch.com/2021/09/22/exclusive-tigers-focus-grouping-new-throwbacks/

The Pistons have pivoted heavily into black and gray in recent years (thankfully gray seems to have mostly passed), and also seem to be actively minimizing red to the best of their ability - refusing to bring back their old red alternate as the Statement edition, and eliminating their classic court design which was red-heavy. I keep hoping sanity will prevail at some point, but the trend just keeps getting worse.