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I always like hearing about why someone is a fan of a team. For me, it's pretty straightforward: I cheer for all the Seattle teams in major sports because I was born right next to Seattle, and then for college sports I cheer for my alma mater (Michigan) along with UDub.

I remember, though, when the Atlanta Falcons unveiled their 2003 redesign.
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I don't know if it was because we were kids or because black, white, and red are the most badass color combination you can have or because Mike Vick was the face of this new brand identity--even if he broke his leg that preseason and missed most of the year--but those uniforms were more exciting than anything that we'd seen before, and I haven't experienced that sort of excitement around me since. Two of my neighborhood friends even became Falcons fans because of Mike Vick and that new look--they got that white jersey of his that he's wearing on the cover of Madden 2004, curse be damned.

This got me thinking, how many of yall are now fans of a team because you liked their uniforms so much? I imagine almost anyone who cheers for Boise State feels this way, especially now that you can't play the underdog card so much anymore. I know that I at least cheer for better-looking teams during individual matchups sometimes, like Mizzou's football team recently against all those SEC teams I hate, but I'm not sure I've ever become a full-fledged fan based off that.

"The pictures looked good on the computer," Will Brown explained

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London Knights pre-edge logo and uniforms, Philadelphia Eagles' logo for me.

On September 20, 2012 at 0:50 AM, 'CS85 said:

It's like watching the hellish undead creakily shuffling their way out of the flames of a liposuction clinic dumpster fire.

On February 19, 2012 at 9:30 AM, 'pianoknight said:

Story B: Red Wings go undefeated and score 100 goals in every game. They also beat a team comprised of Godzilla, the ghost of Abraham Lincoln, 2 Power Rangers and Betty White. Oh, and they played in the middle of Iraq on a military base. In the sand. With no ice. Santa gave them special sand-skates that allowed them to play in shorts and t-shirts in 115 degree weather. Jesus, Zeus and Buddha watched from the sidelines and ate cotton candy.

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The Anaheim Mighty Ducks. I never really grew up as a sports fan, but the animated series got me interested in hockey even though it wasn't a particularly good show in hindsight. That logo and uniform drew me in as an early teen, and then just as their games became easier for a foreign fan like myself to watch they went and switched over to the soulless, boring, half-arsed and incomplete crap they have now.

Despite the Ducks being on top most of the year, and despite this being Selanne's farewell tour, my interest this season took a plunge some time after Throwback Night was done. Incidentally I haven't been able to watch a lot of games anyway and have really been out of the loop. I've been a terrible fan :mellow:

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I was 15 years old and I'd never seen anything like it before. Everyone around me was a Reds fan, but I was the weird kid who took all the art classes and this just spoke to me. Nolan Ryan and JR Richards became my favorite players. By my mid-twenties I had decided that this uniform was the devil, but in my old age I've come back around, mostly out of nostolgia I'm sure.

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Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Seattle Seahawks, and later Charlotte Hornets.

I first learned of the Bucs in the spring of 1976, on a family vacation to Florida when I was 11. Riding in a car with my relatives, I saw an orange billboard in Tampa with the Bucco Bruce logo and the saying, "The Bucs are Coming!" (in red letters). I asked my Uncle Mike what that was about; he explained that it was a new NFL team, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, that would be starting up in the fall. I remember really liking the name and unusual color scheme. Later that summer, Icees (Slurpees for most of you) were being sold in collectible NFL helmet cups, and I got the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, which I thought was really cool. I also was able to get the other new team, which I found was the Seattle Seahawks, and found their blue, green and silver scheme with wrap-around totem pole-looking logo really cool. I became fans of those teams and actually saw the Tampa Bay Buccaneers first win (against the Saints) in 1977.

In the fall of 1987, just starting in grad school at Georgia Tech , I found out about the forthcoming 4 team NBA expansion (just the locations and the names). I doodled possible logos for each team, and kind of liked the name Charlotte Hornets. When I went to my first Atlanta Hawks game in November of that year, I bought a program which had articles about all 4 teams. Three of these had the logos (Miami's came later). The Orlando Magic's logo and colors were pretty cool, as were the Minnesota Timberwolves' Seahawk-esque blue, green and silver, but what blew my mind was the "teal and purple striped bee" as it was described for the Charlotte Hornets. The only team at that time to use a variation of teal was the Dolphins (who called it aqua), and no one had ever combined teal with purple. I found it the coolest color combo I had ever seen, and immediately took a liking to the team. . It also didn't hurt that teal/aqua was becoming a popular color in general at that time (ties, cars, gadgets, etc.) or that I've often taking a liking to teams in "new" areas without other franchises.

It is what it is.

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The year was 1979. I was only 4 years old and pretty much oblivious of sports. Just give me Star Wars 24/7. My mother brought me to Sears for some reason. There she held out 2 baseball caps and said pick one. There were no suggestions and there was no pressure. I simply picked the one I liked better.

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I picked the Yanks hat. End of story.

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i remember playing the old playstation football games around the time this uniform was out and i fell in love with it. the thing i liked about the uniform was the lighter and darker mesh on the body of the jersey, the italic numbers and the logo over the shoulders.

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I remember always liking the Bucs because they reminded me of the University of Tennessee (family favorite), but when they rolled over the Niners in that first game in 97 wearing the new pirate flag unis, I was HOOKED.

I've been torn on this for a few months now, but has anyone ever ditched a team due to a uniform change? I've seriously considered it lately, for many reasons, but in part due to their Bruce Jenner facelift-like disaster they just rolled out.

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This was my first basketball jersey, I was in about 2nd or 3rd grade. I thought the uniforms and KG were the coolest things on the planet. I was always a Wizards fan, but for a while the T-Wolves were a very very close second. Eventually I grew up, started caring about them less and less. Then KG left and they changed their uniforms and now they're just like any other team in the league for me.

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Being 10 or so when I saw them for the first time, I developed a soft spot for the Florida Marlins because of their logo/uniforms and to a lesser extent the Charlotte Hornets. I still mildly root for the Marlins but its very rare, more if they are TV and I'm watching that's who I'm rooting for. I even bought one of their new hats because I thought the logo/colors were so ridiculous.

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I began following baseball partway through the 1998 season, partly because the Mets had just acquired Piazza and were returning to respectability (for a short while). My dad and brother's enthusiasm about the team was a huge factor.

But I'd be lying if I omitted 2 other factors, both of which appealed to me as an 11 year old, and both of which I'd be bashing only a few short years later, along with everyone else... One being the McGwire/Sosa home run chase, and the other being the Mets "cool" new black caps and uniforms. If their goal was to attract more young fans with the look, I think it did it's job.

Now that the Mets DON'T wear black, I can appreciate it from a nostalgic point of view. But it's clearly an inferior look and they could have gotten rid of it 5-10 years earlier and made a lot of people happy.

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I used to cheer for the better uniform when I had a rooting interest, but there really are only two that I can think of that actually made me fans. (though I am no longer a "fan" of any team beside my own teams....I was as a kid)

Creamsicle Bucs

Tiger-stripe Bengals

Disclaimer: If this comment is about an NBA uniform from 2017-2018 or later, do not constitute a lack of acknowledgement of the corporate logo to mean anything other than "the corporate logo is terrible and makes the uniform significantly worse."

 

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The first baseball season I remember is 1972. I was a Yankee fan mainly because my mother was. (She cared more about baseball than my father did.) But, when I saw the Oakland A's uniforms (and mustaches), I took to them immediately.

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And the uniforms only got better the next year when they removed the front number, and added one more pip to the left side of the A:

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It was impossible not to groove on these guys.

The funny thing is that, as a general rule, I never liked pullovers, and I always hated beltless pants. The A's and the Pirates were the only teams whose pullovers I liked; and the A's were the only team which looked good in beltless pants.

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I remember wanting the Suns to beat the Bulls in the NBA Finals just because of their uniforms:

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The year was 1979. I was only 4 years old and pretty much oblivious of sports. Just give me Star Wars 24/7. My mother brought me to Sears for some reason. There she held out 2 baseball caps and said pick one. There were no suggestions and there was no pressure. I simply picked the one I liked better.

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I picked the Yanks hat. End of story.

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