Brick Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories....02284800&EDATE=Green Bay Packers, St. Louis Cardinals, San Diego Chargers Top Best-Dressed List; Denver Broncos, Tampa Bay Devil Rays Named Worst-Dressed NEW YORK, Oct. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- In the November 2004 issue of GQ, writerPaul Lukas names a definitive list of the twenty greatest-and five worst-sports uniforms of all time. Lukas's best-ever picks from the history of majorpro sports include the Green Bay Packers, St. Louis Cardinals, San DiegoChargers, Pittsburgh Penguins, New York Yankees, Montreal Canadiens, SanFrancisco Warriors, St. Louis Rams, Houston Colt .45's, Dallas Cowboys,Indiana Pacers, Pittsburgh Pirates, Kansas City Chiefs, New York Mets, ChicagoBlackhawks, Jacksonville Jaguars, Chicago Cubs, New York Nets, Boston Red Sox,and Oakland A's. The best-dressed list: Green Bay Packers (1961 - 1979): Forest green and mustard yellow-theperfect autumnal color palette for a fall sport. Toss in the nicely stylized"G" on the helmet and you've got the sports world's equivalent of the Platonic(or at least Cheeseheadian) ideal. St. Louis Cardinals (1962 - 1970 and 1992 - present): Yankees pinstripesget all the attention from old-schoolers, but the Cards' birds-on-the-batinsignia, which debuted in 1922, is every bit as classic-and more playful. San Diego Chargers (1967 - 1971): Generally speaking, men should neverwear pastels, but we'll make an exception for San Diego's sorely missed powderblue jerseys. Is there any doubt that the team would win three more games ayear if they brought back this design? Pittsburgh Penguins (1977 - 1980): There are certain things that willalways be funny: a man slipping on a banana peel; a pie in the face; and apenguin on ice skates. We liked this one best when it contained blue. New York Yankees (1936 - present): The Bronx Bombers didn't inventpinstripes (teams were wearing them long before the Yankees even existed), butno other team has created so much visual resonance from such an innocuousdesign. Simple, timeless. Montreal Canadiens (1958 - present): As iconic in Canada as Yankeepinstripes are here. Some say the little "H" inside the chest logo stands for"habs" (as in les habitants-native French-Canadians); actually it stands for"hockey." Either way, c'est magnifique. San Francisco Warriors (1966 - 1971): Gotta love a team that puts "thecity" on its jerseys. "Yeah, that's right it's the city. You got a problemwith that?" Bonus points for putting the rear uni numbers inside a littletrolley-car illustration. St. Louis Rams (2000 - present): The first NFL team to wear a helmetdesign (halfback Fred Gherke, a former art student, painted horns on the lidsin 1948). Neatly straddles the line between modern and traditional, thanks toa 2000 update. Houston Colt .45's (1962 - 1964): Oh, for the days when something aspolitically incorrect as a smoking pistol could be depicted on a baseballuniform. Imagine the merchandising and promotional possibilities! Alas, theteam changed its name to the Astros after only three seasons. Dallas Cowboys (1966 - present): It's tempting to penalize the Cowboys forcoach Bill Parcel's Humpty Dumpty-esque physique, but it's hard to argue withthe elemental simplicity of the helmet star and the blue/silver color scheme. Indiana Pacers (1971 - 1974): Basketball players are tall. So any non-vertical element, even if it's just a diagonal stripe coming across theshoulder, is a good idea. Why don't more NBA teams do this? Pittsburgh Pirates (1957 - 1961): The best trend in baseball attire thesedays? The return of the vest, of course. The Pirates weren't the first vestedteam (that'd be the 1940 Cubs), but they brought the sleeveless look into themainstream with their 1960 World Series championship. Kansas City Chiefs (1969 - 1988 and 2000 - present): If we wear red pants,we look like total clowns, but when the Chiefs do it, they look swank andbadass all at once. Don't try this at home. New York Mets (1965 - 1977 and 1995 - 1998): A sharp-looking design with ahistory lesson thrown in at no extra charge, the Amazin's original uni tookits colors from New York's two previous National League teams-blue from theDodgers, orange from the Giants. Chicago Blackhawks (1964 - present): Okay, so if Native Americans playedhockey, they probably wouldn't put white people on their jerseys. But if theydid, let's hope their design would be as handsome as this one, with itsmultihued headdress, feathers, and cool tomahawk shoulder patches. Jacksonville Jaguars (1995 - present): Yeah, we know-teal sucks. But thisis more of a turquoise, and the key is in the details: the gold trim, thesubtly modern number font, the slick helmet logo. Twenty years from now, it'llbe a classic. Chicago Cubs (1990 - 1996): If your team's going to be cursed, they may aswell look good. The primary colors look particularly snappy during day gamesat Wrigley, and who doesn't love that bear sleeve patch? New York Nets (1972 - 1976): In the old ABA, which used a red-white-and-blue basketball, how come the Nets were the only team smart enough to wear astars-and stripes uniform? Boston Red Sox (1936 - 1967 and 1979 - 2002): If your team's going to becursed, they may as-eh, just see the Chicago Cubs. Oakland A's (1972 - 1980): Baseball teams wear white at home and gray onthe road-or at least they did until Charlie Finley bought the A's and dressedthem in green and gold. Lukas's five worst-dressed include: Denver Broncos (1960 - 1961): How bad were Denver's inaugural brown-and-mustard uniforms, with their infamous vertically striped socks? So bad thatwhen the new uniform arrived in 1962, the players torched the old socks in abonfire. Tampa Bay Devil Rays (1998 - 2000): The idea, however misguided, was thatthe Rays' multicolored jersey logo reflected the colors of the sea. Apparentlynobody noticed that it looked like a really bad 1970s airbrush painting. Afterthree years, it was mercifully retired. Cincinnati Bengals (1981 - 2003): The basic concept of adorning a helmetwith stripes instead of a logo is a good idea. Stripes on the shoulders andpants sound okay, too. So why is the result such an eyesore? Houston Astros (1975 - 1986): This design is reportedly among the biggestsellers on the throwback-jersey market, which just proves that popularity hasnothing to do with good taste. "The 20 Greatest Sports Uniforms of All Time," appears in the November2004 issue of GQ, on newsstands nationwide Tuesday, October 24, 2004. GQ isthe leading men's general-interest magazine and part of Conde NastPublications, Inc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brick Posted October 21, 2004 Author Share Posted October 21, 2004 I don't know why but only four of the five worst-dressed are included. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAD! Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 Ah, yes the guy who make the Uni-watch articlesThis list has it's mistakes.....Cincinnati Bengals old jersey, one of the worst? Yet, the SF Warriors and Indiana Pacers 70's jerseys on of the best? That should have been the other way around.And please don't get me started on the Chragers' powder blues. BTW go to the GQ website, Lindsay Lohan's on the cover. I saw, I came, I left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Rich Posted October 22, 2004 Share Posted October 22, 2004 (channeling Homer Simpson): "ummm... Lindsay Lohan.."Paul Lukas is okay, but this is a guy who has said that purple shouldn't be allowed as a sports color. Give me a break...... It is what it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesCraven Posted October 25, 2004 Share Posted October 25, 2004 Okay, the Bengals' current uniforms are WORSE than the ones that preceeded them. Then again, why did they look like a punk rock band? "I better go take a long walk off a short pier or something."Some people on this bolard have told me to do just that.My "Ron Mexico" alias is "Jon Tobago". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Needschat Posted October 25, 2004 Share Posted October 25, 2004 I wonder why GQ did not include some of the lime green jerseys, like those from the Atlanta Hawks in the early 70s and the Orlando Thunder from the WLAF? And they did not include any soccer jerseys. If they had, I wonder where the 1978 Caribous of Colorado would have been? You remember those jerseys, the brown and biege ones..that had a leather fringe midrift??? Oh what could have been.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CubsFanBudMan Posted October 26, 2004 Share Posted October 26, 2004 I'm lost on the Cubs "1990-1996" listing. If I recall correctly, the team had three different road uniforms with three different patches and the home unis were in a state of transition as well, adding red trim, then removing it and adding it again, making them button down, adding names on the back, etc., etc. (And it incudes the "Cuba" era.) I like the choice, the years picked seems odd, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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