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They have a great logo though.

I don't know I've seen a lot of people rave about the white gloves on Vegas' road jersey, plus the inclusion at the all star games, the new Buffalo 50 jersey, it looks like its going to be the new 'piping to nowhere'

I'm not a fan of the burgeoning trend of white gloves for hockey teams.

I always thought it was bland. It just looked like denim to me.

Not every team that plays in Quebec has to be ramming Francophonia down your throat.

The ultras are the most plastic thing I’ve ever seen. I went to an MLS game this year and that was extremely offputting. Prime cringe material are those terrible forced song sheets they hand out.

You're talking about European teams with 100 years of history in an entirely different sporting culture. I don't really have an issue with 'City Name FC' (though I do find it a little milquetoast). However I don't know how names like 'Sporting Kansas City' or 'Real Salt Lake' can be seen as anything other than forced appropriation of European football naming conventions in an attempt to somehow appear more legitimate, but ending up even less so. It feels like when McDonalds puts out some deluxe specialty burger with a fancy French Haute Cuisine sounding name and pretends its gourmet.

Why? It's a valid opinion, he even admitted it was unpopular. Personally I don't mind outrageous theme identities for a stretch of games. It's the minor leagues afterall. It's when companies like brandiose completely usurp a team's identity that it becomes a problem.

I agree, and I’ll go one step further. Pinstripes on any uniform, regardless of sport are incredibly ugly, Yankees included.

Weird that a bunch of wealthy former athletes are sending their kids to a public school.

Did Edina sleep with everyone’s moms or something?

You can basically count this under unpopular opinions.

I like it. Only thing I’d add is maybe an extremely thin stripe of bronze on the Flying V.

These are all interesting, I’d like to see Johnny Canuck in Grizzlies colours.

Every club you listed has a wealth of history behind it, which is why those names don't come across that way. They've built up enough brand recognition over the years that it comes across as iconic, but if Detroit got a brand new team and it was announced they'd be called the "Tigers", the general consensus on this board would be 'Wow, thats really generic, underwhelming, etc'. In a vacuum, the name is pedestrian, you can find 10 high schools in every city called the Tigers. But since they've been around so long, they've shaped that great identity.

Mostly just history I'd say. I don't think any of those looks are particularly great, but I can see why they won't ever be touched. I absolutely hate the Yankees uniforms, but when you hear the term 'pinstripes' they're the first team to come to mind.

Disagree completely, a team's nickname should be a homage to the city/state/region's character. Whether thats geographical, cultural, etc, it doesn't really matter. That's the entire point of a nickname. Its bad enough when you get generic ones like "Bulldogs" or "Warriors", even worse when they kept a nickname from a city where it no longer makes sense, like Utah Jazz. Imagine for the sake of argument the Colorado Avalanche or New York Islanders moving to Kansas City. "Kansas City Islanders" or "Kansas City Avalanche" is a bit absurd. Also I never understood what was so great about the Houston Oilers identity. The colours were pretty unique, beyond that they had a clip art oil derrick for a logo and a a generic striping pattern. Nothing about it screams "untouchable" or "iconic" to me.

I just wish the panthers would drop every instance of silver in their colour scheme for white. It would look so much better, cleaner and more vibrant

Could be worse.

I just came here to post this. Gritty is amazing.

It’s the black socks. It makes it look like they continue down to midcalf, like yoga pants. Even if they wore purple socks with them it would be a massive improvement.

I like the Oilers in orange. I think the design is just as good, if not better than their classic blues, but people are (rightfully) biased towards the blue because those are the jerseys they won 5 cups in. However I still think the orange is a better look for Edmonton. There are 7 Canadian teams, four of which would be wearing monochromatic blue and the others red. The orange separates the Oilers a bit, gives them a bit of distinction, and this is the McDavid era, not the Gretzky era. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it having a distinct aesthetic. Also as perhaps another unpopular opinion, that thing about every Canadian team being in blue or red is why I would not be upset if the Canucks went to green full time and the Sens went back to black.

This is a good look, but honestly I wouldn’t want them to go back to it just because there are already enough teams that do silver helmet + pants that it would just get lost in the mire. Maybe if they changed the helmet to blue or even green.

I didn’t hate it, but man did that shade just make it look like they were wearing all denim.

I'd actually just like to see them replace silver with white in every instance.