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Because it’s the offseason? Because their free-agency moves haven’t been all that flashy and they need attention? To congratulate a team member on an incredible milestone in his life?

The Wolves had a great look from the get-go; in fact, I’d wager that all four of the late-1980s expansion teams began with nice looks (Wolves, Magic, Heat, Hornets). The problem with their original uniform/logo design is that it’s kind of like the NBA’s version of the Buccaneers’ creamsicles, in terms of the team’s performance and reputation while using them. Minnesota was constantly terrible from 1988-96. Zero playoff appearances. They usually had one of the worst records in the league. It probably didn’t help that they also had outrageous guys like Christian Laettner and Isaiah Rider either - brash characters are fun when you’re winning but offputting when you’re bad. If memory serves correctly, they went to the playoffs the first season of their new, more “intimidating” look, too - just like the Buccaneers.

I call dibs on Ron Livingston playing me!

I don’t like plain white socks under any circumstances. A lot of teams could benefit from white socks with team-color stripes, though.

A black Canucks sweater? I get that black-red-yellow used to be their scheme, but after so many years of the classic, lovely blue and green, the black Canucks sweater looks even more wrong than the Flames one.

A black Flames sweater looks more wrong to me than the helmet finish does.

Or SMU.

I’d like to see a blue jersey in the old Pat style, with the old logo and striping pattern.

Those pant stripes are chef’s kiss.

They made it lighter in like 1988 or 1989. Since then it’s been the same - at least officially.

Maybe people think that because Meatchicken are a bunch of yellow-bellied cowards. Sorry, obligatory anti-UM trolling by an OSU alum. And yes, I’m quite aware what has happened the past three seasons.

Their insistence on wearing white socks 75% of the time doesn’t help either.

Man, that’s gorgeous.

I wish players today would say they hate monochrome.

Didn’t John Elway himself supposedly nix wearing those in the regular season?

That’s awesome. Somebody whipped it up and now it’s been used by an NFL team for over sixty years and two colleges for who knows how long. I know Vince wasn’t the first to use proper color blocking. What I was saying was that, after the way the Packers tore through the 1960s, the monochrome looks that were occasionally seen before that disappeared. The Packers themselves had worn mono in the ‘50s. IIRC it didn’t recur for Green Bay until the advent of Color Rush. Of course, the OG low-def color televisions had something to do with it too, I’m sure. Different colors for different parts of the uniforms kept the players from looking like Colorforms and made the action easier to keep track of. Ironically, with today’s hi-def mega-screens, basketball (NBA and college) has gotten so far from its roots that many games are literally black against white uniforms, and it can be hard to tell, at least initially, which team is which. The NFL at least generally sticks to team colors.

It’s hilarious that Vince Lombardi - a coach, not a designer, and colorblind at that - had such a part in standardizing football uniform formats for so long. I have read that he associated it with winning, maybe from his time as an assistant coach in Cleveland, but he apparently preferred the helmet and pants to be the team’s secondary color, effectively ending non-white monochrome looks for more than a quarter of a century. Was he also the one who commissioned the G logo, or was that just a coincidence?

Kinda silly, perhaps, but an infinitely better explanation than the one from the LA Clip Art unveiling.

Right. At least they aren’t black and red! That’s like a quarter of the league right there.

That’s a relief!

As soon as I saw the white jersey I was reminded of the Twins’ current look. Not a bad thing. So with the powder blue and grey backgrounds, is there any reason to believe either of those will eventually be the base for an alternate, or is it just to see what the navy blue script looks like on them? I know the powder blue is a trim color. Is there any grey in the new scheme?

Not a huge fan of the navy, but given the nautical theme it makes sense. Kinda wish they’d gotten rid of black altogether (that is the script color on white and red jerseys, right?), and scripts on blue and red jerseys could use white outlines. All that said? This is a huge leap forward from the various colors of garbage they’ve worn for…what, close to a decade now?

Do any of them look like Hack Wilson or Babe Ruth or Bartolo Colon yet? If not, let’s just keep going.

The Vikings have actually changed their shade of purple several times in their history. For all four of their Super Bowl appearances, it was a very dark, blue-heavy shade. More recent versions have been a bit brighter and more balanced.

I really doubt they would do that. It’s probably “HURR DURR ” stuff.