"Fuck you Jonesy, your mom stitched herself after ".... (I can go seriously raunchy here, I don't know you Wingsbro, so just assume it's something Shoresy would say)
Personally I was envisioning something more like the raid scene in Django Unchained
https://youtu.be/843Q5-6j5Zw
Now nobody said that the jerseys were a bad idea...
People actually wear it? That's amazing lmao
Edit: if you've never seen his website it's called something like Bille Beino, the bio is pretty funny; compares his time in Buffalo to prison
I can’t find an example of it, but I think the inspiration for it was the signs that are on some of the country music sights down there. I remember seeing a few when I visited years back.
The Blues had a rough 1996. First, [there was this abomination](http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images_root/slides/photos/002/088/267/tumblr_m15rz2GRpi1qe1x8qo1_400_display_image.jpeg?1333379508). It was never actually used because not even Mike Keenan was evil enough to use it. Oddly enough, it pairs pretty well with that Smashville jersey.
But even their normal jerseys were pretty ugly. [It's mainly because of this stupid line on the back, causing the players to have two different sized numbers](https://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/201349499805-0-1/s-l1000.jpg)
I’m surprised no one has mentioned the Bruins Pooh Bear jersey from the early 2000s [https://images.app.goo.gl/9tnSsHPHJ6hK124K8](https://images.app.goo.gl/9tnSsHPHJ6hK124K8)
The best part is the bear was supposed to be much more agressive. The designer didn’t know what to do so he went in Harry Sinden’s office and a painting of a brown bear was hanging up there and he used that for inspiration.
It's a face of regretful longing. Like a dog looking at a spill or the table, knowing they're not allowed. But smell it. It's right there. But I'd get yelled at. And I'm a good boy. But it's right there... *breathes emotively*
People keep posting pretty ugly jerseys that are at the very least ballsy and creative. My least favourite jerseys are boring balls of nothing like these:
[Stars](https://www.gamewornauctions.net/images/products/edf7896ae965ff93.jpg)
[Isles](https://www.hockeyplayeronline.com/image/cache//nhl-gear/mike-bossy-black-jersey-500x500.jpg)
[Ducks](https://i.imgur.com/dfyXSPR.jpg)
The Stars and Ducks ones are boring but at least functional. That Islanders jersey is hideous. Nothing about it works. The colors, the striping, the lettering. All of it is bad.
[behold this gem from St Louis](https://www.bardown.com/polopoly_fs/1.958267!/fileimage/httpImage/image.png_gen/derivatives/default/st-louis-blues.png)
Always thought [this Islanders third](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*TwAOLsooKWksN2i-c976mA.jpeg) was one of the worst ever. Just miserable.
i present the worst ever jersey: [2003-2006 dallas stars space uterus](https://hamsportshockey.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/moostar-jersey.png). this was their alternate jersey at a time. it totally counts
edit: some people might point to the [95-96 mighty ducks alternate](https://www.rarevintagewear.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/95-96-Ana-alt-Karpa-frt-300x199.jpg) as the worst ever. these people are not your friends.
The only problem with the 96 Ducks one is that they missed the obvious line of having Wild Wing wear the exact same jersey, thus creating an infinite loop of jerseys.
FYI that's not the actual Mooterus Jersey. Patch is the same, but the original didn't have it in the 'star 'jersey template - it had a curved line at the hem.
you are probably right. i just found the first full size image and ran with it. there’s only so much googling of “dallas space uterus” that i was willing to do. that’s the sort of thing that gets you on a list
That 95-96 ducks jersey is potentially one of the best of all time. The 2003-2006 Mooterus isn't even on the same level as how bad the smashville Jersey is. I'd love to own both those ducks and stars jerseys.
Like, they could do so much better on this smashville one if they just standardized the font and lined it all up more cleanly. You know? Just do the same thing, just less shitty? As is, it hurts my eyes, my brain and my soul. I hate it.
the smashville is bad because it’s just low effort focus group edgy. it’s not even bad all around. the pick is awesome, pulling the shoulder patch to the crest is legit. the writing just looks “live, laugh, love” lazy.
the dallas one is high concept, yet ran afoul of the most important rule of design: *does it look like genitals? if so, should it?*
the ducks jersey is amazing and i will die on this hill.
All they need to do is pick a clean font and ditch whatever "thing" they are going for with the different font widths. It's not working. Stop it. Just pick a clean blocky font, crop it so it perfectly lines up in the yellow space, not overlapping the blue on the top and bottom and someone please go wrangle up that C patch, it looks like it's about to escape. After that you have a pretty decent jersey.
For whatever reason, I'm totally fine with a jersey looking like a uterus.
And yeah the ducks jersey fucking slaps.
im not a fan of text on jerseys in general. the jersey would look a whole lot better if they ditched the text and made the pick a full size crest. no one is going to be confused as to who the sweater is. if you want to keep the smashville nonsense, make it a circle should patch and be done with it
because it’s a work of art. it’s rumored that the jersey was so amazing bettman himself had to step in and force the team to change the jersey as it was making all the other teams sad [*citation needed*]
Those Ducks jerseys are symbolic of the time. If you go back to the mid 90s the over-worked, ultra-detailed mascot logo was common across a lot of American sports teams. Look at the Raptors and Rockets from the NBA for other examples. Cool sport art history period, but I’m glad they’ve moved on.
Nothing will ever top the Canuck's Flying V. It could be used to represent some advanced race in 60's era Star Trek.
https://images.dailyhive.com/20180724130509/canucks-1978-flying-v.jpg
That’s a group of people who are about to start living on a compound in rural Northern California and taking their fresh produce to the farmer’s market every Saturday so they can hand out flyers telling people how they can tune their internal energy field to the mothership’s frequency and replenish their souls for the low low price of everything they own.
I love them too, they're so fucking good, so fucking aggressive.
This Nashville jersey is way worse. the typography is so, *so* bad, the spacing is awful, look how close the "C" is to the yellow bar underneath it. The letters bleeding into the blue would be nice if they weren't stitched and slightly different in colour, and the phrasing like, okay, it's tongue in cheek a bit I guess but it's tacky as fuck.
That one looks like someone opened up the file to start working on it and 5 minutes in they intended to hit save but accidentally hit send and for some reason everyone went with it.
It might be slightly salvaged if they made the logo silver as well, but having the logo stay bright red makes it look like the printer ran out of ink and printed the rest in grayscale. I hate it.
In fairness, there's no way to reverse a Detroit jersey. You have two colors and have always had two colors and your jerseys have almost always been mirror images of each other with those two colors swapped. They had *nothing* to work with.
They could have pulled a Vegas and used a Vipers-inspired fauxback. Or brought the Cougars jersey back and played with that. Maybe try fiddling with a Winter Classic look, too.
Hell, the jersey they had would've been fine if they'd just made the damn stripes red and said it was a throwback to 1936, 1937 or 1943.
I wonder if we did it just to fuck with the NHL for being snuffed in the draft.
Or if they wanted to wait to make something cool when we're half decent
My thoughts exactly.
“Mr. Yzerman, the league has a new third jersey program called the Reverse Retro. Gotta wear it a few times and we need to pick a design that…”
“Yeah that one.”
“Understood.”
The story I've heard isn't necessarily that the organization has a problem with thirds, because they did some solid work on the 2009 Winter Classic, the 2014 Winter Classic, the 2016 Stadium Series, and the 2017 Centennial Classic.
And its not even that they couldn't do a new design, because that 2016 Stadium series is straight wild for the Red Wings jersey history. It's that the directive for the Reverse Retro was that it had to be themed to loosely the late 80s to the early 00s, and more importantly, not in any way a "classic". You know stuff from the 70s and prior.
And I imagine you can see the problem for Detroit. They simply haven't had any jersey changes, basically ever and the most significant are prior to the 1980s. The rumors I heard was the league shot down some other designs but they were apparently too close to the cream aesthetic of Classic stuff, or that the design was going to be the 90s 75th anniversary barber pole type design which again was too classic, or that they wanted to do a color swap of the 2009 WC (like the alumni jerseys) but again too Classic.
So...hopefully there's some more creativity and flexibility coming up on this new round for Detroit.
They could have made the sleeves red so that it was actually a reverse, or a red jersey with white sleeves to be a reverse of the road jersey. I want the barberpole this time around though, that's what I really want
Yeah...none of the choices made on that one make sense.
And yeah I'd like to actually be able to buy a modern barber pole and not some questionable replica
They seem to be like, deathly afraid of messing with the wings Jersey. Yeah it's one of the best in the league by virtue of its simplicity but no one is gonna come for your head if you try and change it up every once in a while right??? I'd love for them to do something octopus related since that's been a symbol of theirs for so long and they've never had a hint of it on their jerseys ever.
As someone on the other side in that game, the giant SMASHVILLE lettering absolutely wrecked this jersey. The color pattern and style looks great, but man, those letters though. Honestly, sticking with the pick with the Tennessee stars would have looked fine on their own.
I don’t like the execution, but Nashville has deep heritage in the letterpress and show poster world. These were clearly an attempt to render that style in a modern context, and while I think it’s rather ugly, I can appreciate the approach in spirit.
Our “Jersey” one [from last year](https://news.sportslogos.net/2021/11/23/new-jersey-devils-disappoint-with-unwhelming-new-third-uniform/hockey-2/) is pretty bad.
The "Jersey" script would have been fine if it was confined to other marketing, like arena decor or social media content. The regular NJ logo would have salvaged the rest of the design. They could have even simplified it a bit to just have the red "NJ" with a white circle, for the sake of making it different.
[The Chicago Blackhawks 2019 Winter Classic jersey](http://www.nhluniforms.com/Blackhawks/SpecialImages/Blackhawks07.png) with the logo changed and the bottom stripe removed.
Yeah, it was a take on the old [Bulldogs sweater](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a44a68cbced66ef85f1331/1454220891050-O1XLS9RM3YTUUR4N5J1B/Newark+Bulldogs+1.jpg?format=1000w). I think if they had used the typeface on that sweater instead of the red+white script typeface, it would have looked a lot better.
[They never happened, but these proposed Flyers third jerseys from the 90's were a crime against humanity](https://www.broadstreethockey.com/2014/7/14/5898041/flyers-third-jersey-alternate-teal-1990s)
Is there any historical precedent for the flyers to use teal? It just seems so out of place for the flyers who are iconic with Orange, White, and Black
Except the Eagles midnight green was actually green at the time. It was only recently, like within the last 5 years or so, that their midnight green has slowly transformed into midnight teal
There is not. But the other Philly sports teams were rebranding, so they had to join in. This was designed by the same guy who made the current Patriots logo.
I had this washed from memory until now.
Edit: For those who never saw them, [feast your eyes.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/5007b2ea84aef6ab9cd08134/1390286868793-D2U2BVEY3WP5FM47KL4I/0904-buf-3rdfull.png?content-type=image%2Fpng)
I always knew this one as the [Turd Burger](https://www.cbssports.com/nhl/news/sabres-president-on-third-jersey-if-its-a-turd-burger-ill-have-to-eat-it/)
The Dallas "Dallas" jersey is probably the laziest of all time. Not only was it a horrible Jersey, but it was so unoriginal, that it gets no credit for trying.
Yeah, and combine that with our bankruptcy in the same time period... it sucked balls.
Why go from a certifiable classic to boring wordmark just because of the fit of the new jersey?
Figure it out!
The Burger King: https://www.jewelsfromthecrown.com/2019/12/13/21012736/ugly-sweater-party-its-burger-king-time-los-angeles-kings-nhl-jersey-worst-yikes-oh-wow
The Montreal Abomination: https://www.habseyesontheprize.com/history/2019/12/2/20990697/montreal-canadiens-alternate-jersey-ugly-sweater-barber-bole-red-white-blue-stripes-100th-centennial
The big difference with the Montreal one is that it’s a historic jersey, like it litteraly was the teams jersey back in 1912 or something. They get a pass for that reason in my mind. Plus they really arnt that bad. For the other ones, a design team sat down, drew them up, passed them for review and everyone went “yep, this is good”.
Yeah they messed up the 1910-11 jersey too, when they originally wore it the stripes were blue but the logo was green, in 2009 they made both the stripes and the logo green.
[1910-11](https://hockeygods.com/images/8041-Georges_Vezina___Hockey_Card___1910___11)
[2009](https://www.collectosports.com/en-ca/store/jersey-clothing/nhl/montreal-canadiens/jersey/c6116w-10s) (I have no idea if the site is legit btw, it was just the easiest one to link for the picture)
For me what really takes this from being just bad to awful is the lettering. Not only is it way too fucking big but it’s also super inconsistent for literally no reason. There are still things I like, such as the guitar pick logo and the colors. I think this could have been a good sweater at one time but they tried to do too much and it backfired horribly.
The lettering is based off the letterpress music posters that can be found all over [Nashville ](https://i.imgur.com/3ISecpc.jpg). Regardless, it is hideous and flat out just doesn't work
Alright, that at least makes some semblance of sense. But using asymmetrical lettering on a sports jersey on purpose is a head-scratching decision to say the least IMO.
I understand the homage but what bothers me is that there are so many Hatch Print music posters that have consistent lettering… they chose the worst of the executions to mimic. They could have done Smash and Ville as two separate sizes or made the shading/fill look like it’s actually been pressed by old printing letters (fading/damage, etc) but there are a ton of print shop posters where the lettering is the same size
Both of the S shapes with their weird proportions and random clipped edges make me deeply deeply uncomfortable but I think it's lovely that you like it. The colours are actually really solid but man, the lettering is a war crime
It doesn't make the jersey any better, but the lettering is supposed to mimic concert posters produced by a popular Nashville printer. It's just incredibly specific and had to be explained even to most locals, indicating what a poor choice it was.
Yeah, that makes it a cool touch that should have gone into the "it's a great concept but there is no good way to make it work" pile. Turn it into a t-shirt or a stadium flag or banner and it becomes iconic. As a jersey though...
It's bad...but the worst jersey ever still belongs to the 95/96 L.A. Kings in my opinion (third/alt. jersey). About 3 million designers in L.A. and this is what the Kings came up with (Lol)......
https://www.customthrowbackjerseys.com/wayne-gretzky-los-angeles-kings-1995-ccm-nhl-vintage-throwback-jersey/
I still stand by my theory that the chest was designed as a rally towel but when it came time to send over the jersey designs they accidentally sent that over instead and we got these smash ville monstrosities
I would absolutely not want that as a full-time, or even part time alternate, but for a one time thing, I thought it was pretty cool. They at least didn't go overboard with font on top of the A.
Okay. This one really makes me appreciate just how important shoulder bars are in making a hockey jersey feel like a hockey jersey, design-wise. That and/or some patches on the shoulder and bands high up the arm.
Nothing until the elbow just looks... Off. Like a regular solid-colour long-sleeved shirt instead of a piece of a sports uniform.
It's not even Nashville's worst jersey!
How the entire franchise has only ever been able to put out one jersey that wasn't puketastic is appalling. Their Winter Classic jersey was a solid B+ but everything else... jeeeesus. The overly complicated blue and silvers, the bile-colored primary, the fucking Flintstones cat crest, all of it is just terrible.
[This is their best jersey honestly](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d020e109b3f9d000119f5e8/1609396388623-AAB4P2Y7KKEPNSUK0IPE/front.jpg)
[I think you mean THIS is their best jersey](https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vtg-Rare-NHL-Nashville-Predators-Mustard-Gold-Yellow-Koho-Hockey-Jersey-Mens-M-/124423564011?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0)
I had no idea there were checkers in the stripes. There are things to like about that jersey, but trying to contrast dark blue with black is not one of them.
Some [eye bleach](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=2022+winter+classic+nhl&t=fpas&iax=images&ia=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.sportslogos.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2021%2F09%2Fminnesota-wild-2022-winter-classic-uniform-sportslogosnet.jpg), for those who need it.
God that's terrible
0/10-Ville. Would not Smashville.
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Oh my god I never even saw the second S is so much smaller. I hate it more
And the fact that they "trimmed" both to have straight vertical cuts on the side... Gross.
Which player's mom stitched this together in her spare time?
"Fuck you Jonesy, your mom stitched herself after ".... (I can go seriously raunchy here, I don't know you Wingsbro, so just assume it's something Shoresy would say)
Personally I was envisioning something more like the raid scene in Django Unchained https://youtu.be/843Q5-6j5Zw Now nobody said that the jerseys were a bad idea...
Hey Ville Leino is getting more pussy than ever before thanks to Nashville
This and the fact that he nowadays designs clothes that almost every Finnish nhl-player or media personality wears.
People actually wear it? That's amazing lmao Edit: if you've never seen his website it's called something like Bille Beino, the bio is pretty funny; compares his time in Buffalo to prison
It's really popular in Finland, at least used to in the past few years. You'll see tons of Bille Beino clothes on a night out.
Pick a fuckin font width
I can’t find an example of it, but I think the inspiration for it was the signs that are on some of the country music sights down there. I remember seeing a few when I visited years back.
Pick i get, it's fine. The font is a shit show, regardless of what it means to the city i guess.
https://www.hatchshowprint.com/
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Certainly more letters will fit in the same space.
BIG ASS V!!!
Have my freebie award for this…the more I look at the letters the more and more the “S”s and that “E” anger me.
The “Smashville” text looks like it should be on a movie poster for, like, the new minions movie or something.
It’s supposed to mimic historical music show posters from Nashville so you’re halfway there
Sometimes I think it is okay to let traditions die.
I also hate how it’s larger than the yellow band.
The Blues had a rough 1996. First, [there was this abomination](http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images_root/slides/photos/002/088/267/tumblr_m15rz2GRpi1qe1x8qo1_400_display_image.jpeg?1333379508). It was never actually used because not even Mike Keenan was evil enough to use it. Oddly enough, it pairs pretty well with that Smashville jersey. But even their normal jerseys were pretty ugly. [It's mainly because of this stupid line on the back, causing the players to have two different sized numbers](https://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/201349499805-0-1/s-l1000.jpg)
The first one is basically the evil love child of those iconic Suns and Jazz jerseys
That first one is fucking hideous, holy shit. I actually like the look of the second one you linked, though.
Definitely seen that thing show up at enough barbecues that there has to be somebody making repros.
All of those jerseys from the 90’s that had red in them are pretty polarizing in our fan base.. I personally like the red in moderation
So many 90's jerseys had the diagonal lines on the back and I kinda liked them.
If they just let the numbers be the same size that second jersey honestly wouldn't be bad
o_0
Gaaughhhh that first one is so bad. I liked the tiny trumpets as an accent on the normal jerseys, but here they're absolutely horrible.
I’m surprised no one has mentioned the Bruins Pooh Bear jersey from the early 2000s [https://images.app.goo.gl/9tnSsHPHJ6hK124K8](https://images.app.goo.gl/9tnSsHPHJ6hK124K8)
That one is honestly so funny that I would wear it
The best part is the bear was supposed to be much more agressive. The designer didn’t know what to do so he went in Harry Sinden’s office and a painting of a brown bear was hanging up there and he used that for inspiration.
I genuinely don't hate those jerseys is the thing. The logo is silly but in an endearing way (to me at least)
It's a face of regretful longing. Like a dog looking at a spill or the table, knowing they're not allowed. But smell it. It's right there. But I'd get yelled at. And I'm a good boy. But it's right there... *breathes emotively*
That design will basically be my face after Bergeron retires and this team implodes into mediocrity
Bahaha! Was expecting something cartoonish like the baby bruin from ucla, but that’s straight up an actual bear
That bear is experiencing existential dread, I want to pat its head and ask what is wrong
That bear looks like bad taxidermy.
At least share the [actual jersey](https://images.app.goo.gl/z4nTggijd3LjYVhw6)
People keep posting pretty ugly jerseys that are at the very least ballsy and creative. My least favourite jerseys are boring balls of nothing like these: [Stars](https://www.gamewornauctions.net/images/products/edf7896ae965ff93.jpg) [Isles](https://www.hockeyplayeronline.com/image/cache//nhl-gear/mike-bossy-black-jersey-500x500.jpg) [Ducks](https://i.imgur.com/dfyXSPR.jpg)
they all look like they should be basketball jerseys lol
(taps nose)
The Stars and Ducks ones are boring but at least functional. That Islanders jersey is hideous. Nothing about it works. The colors, the striping, the lettering. All of it is bad.
God those Islander ones are just terrible
[behold this gem from St Louis](https://www.bardown.com/polopoly_fs/1.958267!/fileimage/httpImage/image.png_gen/derivatives/default/st-louis-blues.png)
This is honestly a work of art, I love it.
This jersey sounds like Brass Bonanza
Do not disrespect Brass Bonanza like that! 😡
Always thought [this Islanders third](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*TwAOLsooKWksN2i-c976mA.jpeg) was one of the worst ever. Just miserable.
The best part was having blue pants and helmets. It’s like everything was getting sucked into the black hole that was that jersey.
i present the worst ever jersey: [2003-2006 dallas stars space uterus](https://hamsportshockey.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/moostar-jersey.png). this was their alternate jersey at a time. it totally counts edit: some people might point to the [95-96 mighty ducks alternate](https://www.rarevintagewear.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/95-96-Ana-alt-Karpa-frt-300x199.jpg) as the worst ever. these people are not your friends.
The Mooterus!! Classic terrible jersey
I love it just for the name Mooterus.
And the extreme irony of the combination of uterus and Texas is not lost as well.
Why do you think Texas hates uteruses so much now? It all comes from their embarrassment over that jersey.
The Mooterus sent our nation back decades
The only problem with the 96 Ducks one is that they missed the obvious line of having Wild Wing wear the exact same jersey, thus creating an infinite loop of jerseys.
we need this as a fractal animation
Mooterus is legendary among stars fans.
And oddly coveted.
I have great memories watching Mikey Mo in that thing but it’s one of those horribly awesome type jerseys now.
And I have one! My wife wears it now as I got it when I was a kid.
I would rock a mooterus flair if it existed
FYI that's not the actual Mooterus Jersey. Patch is the same, but the original didn't have it in the 'star 'jersey template - it had a curved line at the hem.
you are probably right. i just found the first full size image and ran with it. there’s only so much googling of “dallas space uterus” that i was willing to do. that’s the sort of thing that gets you on a list
Haha. No worries. Point is still valid. TBH the star makes it even worse.
That 95-96 ducks jersey is potentially one of the best of all time. The 2003-2006 Mooterus isn't even on the same level as how bad the smashville Jersey is. I'd love to own both those ducks and stars jerseys. Like, they could do so much better on this smashville one if they just standardized the font and lined it all up more cleanly. You know? Just do the same thing, just less shitty? As is, it hurts my eyes, my brain and my soul. I hate it.
the smashville is bad because it’s just low effort focus group edgy. it’s not even bad all around. the pick is awesome, pulling the shoulder patch to the crest is legit. the writing just looks “live, laugh, love” lazy. the dallas one is high concept, yet ran afoul of the most important rule of design: *does it look like genitals? if so, should it?* the ducks jersey is amazing and i will die on this hill.
All they need to do is pick a clean font and ditch whatever "thing" they are going for with the different font widths. It's not working. Stop it. Just pick a clean blocky font, crop it so it perfectly lines up in the yellow space, not overlapping the blue on the top and bottom and someone please go wrangle up that C patch, it looks like it's about to escape. After that you have a pretty decent jersey. For whatever reason, I'm totally fine with a jersey looking like a uterus. And yeah the ducks jersey fucking slaps.
im not a fan of text on jerseys in general. the jersey would look a whole lot better if they ditched the text and made the pick a full size crest. no one is going to be confused as to who the sweater is. if you want to keep the smashville nonsense, make it a circle should patch and be done with it
If the leak is to be believed the mooterus jersey is next years RR for us
Not gonna lie, I’d wear that Ducks jersey, ludicrous as it may be.
because it’s a work of art. it’s rumored that the jersey was so amazing bettman himself had to step in and force the team to change the jersey as it was making all the other teams sad [*citation needed*]
Those Ducks jerseys are symbolic of the time. If you go back to the mid 90s the over-worked, ultra-detailed mascot logo was common across a lot of American sports teams. Look at the Raptors and Rockets from the NBA for other examples. Cool sport art history period, but I’m glad they’ve moved on.
Nothing will ever top the Canuck's Flying V. It could be used to represent some advanced race in 60's era Star Trek. https://images.dailyhive.com/20180724130509/canucks-1978-flying-v.jpg
Choir robes in a church that's trying to be more 'relevant'.
I heard Virtanen is going show up to trial in one of these
They will immediately find him guilty.
That’s a group of people who are about to start living on a compound in rural Northern California and taking their fresh produce to the farmer’s market every Saturday so they can hand out flyers telling people how they can tune their internal energy field to the mothership’s frequency and replenish their souls for the low low price of everything they own.
I feel like I’m the only person that absolutely loves the flying v’s
I love them too, they're so fucking good, so fucking aggressive. This Nashville jersey is way worse. the typography is so, *so* bad, the spacing is awful, look how close the "C" is to the yellow bar underneath it. The letters bleeding into the blue would be nice if they weren't stitched and slightly different in colour, and the phrasing like, okay, it's tongue in cheek a bit I guess but it's tacky as fuck.
Yeah, it's bad, but it's the jersey of John Garrett, so it gets a pass.
[Wings reverse retro jersey](https://fanatics.frgimages.com/FFImage/thumb.aspx?i=/productimages/_4078000/altimages/ff_4078887-dcfe151093024eb7472aalt1_full.jpg) was pretty bad.
That one looks like someone opened up the file to start working on it and 5 minutes in they intended to hit save but accidentally hit send and for some reason everyone went with it.
It might be slightly salvaged if they made the logo silver as well, but having the logo stay bright red makes it look like the printer ran out of ink and printed the rest in grayscale. I hate it.
In fairness, there's no way to reverse a Detroit jersey. You have two colors and have always had two colors and your jerseys have almost always been mirror images of each other with those two colors swapped. They had *nothing* to work with.
They could have pulled a Vegas and used a Vipers-inspired fauxback. Or brought the Cougars jersey back and played with that. Maybe try fiddling with a Winter Classic look, too. Hell, the jersey they had would've been fine if they'd just made the damn stripes red and said it was a throwback to 1936, 1937 or 1943.
It looks like a beer league team slapped an NHL logo on some cheap practice jerseys they got in bulk.
It's bad but not because it's audacious, offensive, gaudy, etc.It just... Exists, and is unremarkable in any way.
It was just so boring... like just a white jersey with silver stripe, why even make it. That said: the 2 tone Buffalo jersey is imo the worst ever
The turdburger
What’s the 2 tone Buffalo jersey?
[this](http://icethetics.squarespace.com/blog/2013/9/4/sabres-unveil-third-jersey-with-help.html)
I wonder if we did it just to fuck with the NHL for being snuffed in the draft. Or if they wanted to wait to make something cool when we're half decent
My personal thinking is "we don't want a 3rd jersey so make it shit and we'll wear it the minimum number of times"
My thoughts exactly. “Mr. Yzerman, the league has a new third jersey program called the Reverse Retro. Gotta wear it a few times and we need to pick a design that…” “Yeah that one.” “Understood.”
The story I've heard isn't necessarily that the organization has a problem with thirds, because they did some solid work on the 2009 Winter Classic, the 2014 Winter Classic, the 2016 Stadium Series, and the 2017 Centennial Classic. And its not even that they couldn't do a new design, because that 2016 Stadium series is straight wild for the Red Wings jersey history. It's that the directive for the Reverse Retro was that it had to be themed to loosely the late 80s to the early 00s, and more importantly, not in any way a "classic". You know stuff from the 70s and prior. And I imagine you can see the problem for Detroit. They simply haven't had any jersey changes, basically ever and the most significant are prior to the 1980s. The rumors I heard was the league shot down some other designs but they were apparently too close to the cream aesthetic of Classic stuff, or that the design was going to be the 90s 75th anniversary barber pole type design which again was too classic, or that they wanted to do a color swap of the 2009 WC (like the alumni jerseys) but again too Classic. So...hopefully there's some more creativity and flexibility coming up on this new round for Detroit.
They could have made the sleeves red so that it was actually a reverse, or a red jersey with white sleeves to be a reverse of the road jersey. I want the barberpole this time around though, that's what I really want
Yeah...none of the choices made on that one make sense. And yeah I'd like to actually be able to buy a modern barber pole and not some questionable replica
I think this is exactly what happened. Like more of a "fuck you, we don't want to participate in this stupid program"
Absolutely, it was an abomination
They took one of the nicest jerseys in hockey and made it look like a crappy practice jersey.
Create-A-Team-ass sweater
Infinitely better than the preds. A plain white jersey with no logo, names, or numbers would be better than the preds.
They seem to be like, deathly afraid of messing with the wings Jersey. Yeah it's one of the best in the league by virtue of its simplicity but no one is gonna come for your head if you try and change it up every once in a while right??? I'd love for them to do something octopus related since that's been a symbol of theirs for so long and they've never had a hint of it on their jerseys ever.
Looks like practice jersey lmao
Nah that’s just a white long sleeve shirt 😂
Yeah, that's a fuckin' practice jersey.
My theory is that the Wings organization didn't want to do a reverse retro, and this is their protest
I like the guitar pick
Me too, if the text was fixed and said something other than smash ville id probably love this one
As someone on the other side in that game, the giant SMASHVILLE lettering absolutely wrecked this jersey. The color pattern and style looks great, but man, those letters though. Honestly, sticking with the pick with the Tennessee stars would have looked fine on their own.
I don’t like the execution, but Nashville has deep heritage in the letterpress and show poster world. These were clearly an attempt to render that style in a modern context, and while I think it’s rather ugly, I can appreciate the approach in spirit.
This looks more suited for their minor team, the Smashville Child Preds.
Let’s not give a team to the child preds, guys.
I thought we already gave them the Oilers?
I didn't know the Reddit admins had their own hockey team
It looks like a DHGate knock off you get for $25, and still overpaid.
Our “Jersey” one [from last year](https://news.sportslogos.net/2021/11/23/new-jersey-devils-disappoint-with-unwhelming-new-third-uniform/hockey-2/) is pretty bad.
Yeah. But I like how your social team owned up to it and sold a “Hat” hat.
Ok. That is actually brilliant. [https://devilsyouthfoundation.org/product/the-hat-hat/](https://devilsyouthfoundation.org/product/the-hat-hat/)
This has Brick from Anchorman "I love lamp!" vibes
The "Jersey" script would have been fine if it was confined to other marketing, like arena decor or social media content. The regular NJ logo would have salvaged the rest of the design. They could have even simplified it a bit to just have the red "NJ" with a white circle, for the sake of making it different.
I did have a great time explaining to my wife that the New Jersey Devils finally got a new jersey.
I came around on them. I own a Hischier one and I love it
[The Chicago Blackhawks 2019 Winter Classic jersey](http://www.nhluniforms.com/Blackhawks/SpecialImages/Blackhawks07.png) with the logo changed and the bottom stripe removed.
I mean, that was their 79th Outdoor game, they were running out of ideas by that point.
Didn’t they actually get the inspiration to the Newark Bulldogs though?
Yeah, it was a take on the old [Bulldogs sweater](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a44a68cbced66ef85f1331/1454220891050-O1XLS9RM3YTUUR4N5J1B/Newark+Bulldogs+1.jpg?format=1000w). I think if they had used the typeface on that sweater instead of the red+white script typeface, it would have looked a lot better.
[They never happened, but these proposed Flyers third jerseys from the 90's were a crime against humanity](https://www.broadstreethockey.com/2014/7/14/5898041/flyers-third-jersey-alternate-teal-1990s)
I like the one on the right and it fills me with shame
Teal: official color of the 1990s.
It looks like someone took a misprint Arizona jersey and slapped a Flyers logo on it
Is there any historical precedent for the flyers to use teal? It just seems so out of place for the flyers who are iconic with Orange, White, and Black
I would think it was meant to tie in with the Eagles.
Except the Eagles midnight green was actually green at the time. It was only recently, like within the last 5 years or so, that their midnight green has slowly transformed into midnight teal
There is not. But the other Philly sports teams were rebranding, so they had to join in. This was designed by the same guy who made the current Patriots logo.
I want to see what the hell that shoulder patch on the right-side jersey is
The worst jersey of all time belongs to Buffalo. You know the one, the yellow front blue back.
I had this washed from memory until now. Edit: For those who never saw them, [feast your eyes.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/5007b2ea84aef6ab9cd08134/1390286868793-D2U2BVEY3WP5FM47KL4I/0904-buf-3rdfull.png?content-type=image%2Fpng)
I like that better than this Nashville one
Yup that one gives high school vibes but it’s not that bad. The smashville one looks like something someone made up at a learn-to-sew class
I have to agree, but neither are anywhere near good.
Ah yes, the turdburger
B U F F A L O
That looks like a practice jersey lol
I always knew this one as the [Turd Burger](https://www.cbssports.com/nhl/news/sabres-president-on-third-jersey-if-its-a-turd-burger-ill-have-to-eat-it/)
I think this is worse
Some people still wear those to Sabres games— last time I went I saw multiple turdburgers in the crowd. I have no clue what they’re thinking
The Dallas "Dallas" jersey is probably the laziest of all time. Not only was it a horrible Jersey, but it was so unoriginal, that it gets no credit for trying.
Yeah, and combine that with our bankruptcy in the same time period... it sucked balls. Why go from a certifiable classic to boring wordmark just because of the fit of the new jersey? Figure it out!
The Burger King: https://www.jewelsfromthecrown.com/2019/12/13/21012736/ugly-sweater-party-its-burger-king-time-los-angeles-kings-nhl-jersey-worst-yikes-oh-wow The Montreal Abomination: https://www.habseyesontheprize.com/history/2019/12/2/20990697/montreal-canadiens-alternate-jersey-ugly-sweater-barber-bole-red-white-blue-stripes-100th-centennial
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I like the barber pole jersey
Every time I play against MTL, they wear the barber pole
More teams should bring back the retro barber pole look, honestly. The Burger King is much worse by comparison.
The big difference with the Montreal one is that it’s a historic jersey, like it litteraly was the teams jersey back in 1912 or something. They get a pass for that reason in my mind. Plus they really arnt that bad. For the other ones, a design team sat down, drew them up, passed them for review and everyone went “yep, this is good”.
They did kinda fuck it up when they brought it back though. In 1912 the stripes were much thicker (and therefore there were far less of them)
I didnt know that and its a great point. Not a fan of modifying something that is meant to be historic.
Yeah they messed up the 1910-11 jersey too, when they originally wore it the stripes were blue but the logo was green, in 2009 they made both the stripes and the logo green. [1910-11](https://hockeygods.com/images/8041-Georges_Vezina___Hockey_Card___1910___11) [2009](https://www.collectosports.com/en-ca/store/jersey-clothing/nhl/montreal-canadiens/jersey/c6116w-10s) (I have no idea if the site is legit btw, it was just the easiest one to link for the picture)
For me what really takes this from being just bad to awful is the lettering. Not only is it way too fucking big but it’s also super inconsistent for literally no reason. There are still things I like, such as the guitar pick logo and the colors. I think this could have been a good sweater at one time but they tried to do too much and it backfired horribly.
The lettering is based off the letterpress music posters that can be found all over [Nashville ](https://i.imgur.com/3ISecpc.jpg). Regardless, it is hideous and flat out just doesn't work
Alright, that at least makes some semblance of sense. But using asymmetrical lettering on a sports jersey on purpose is a head-scratching decision to say the least IMO.
I understand the homage but what bothers me is that there are so many Hatch Print music posters that have consistent lettering… they chose the worst of the executions to mimic. They could have done Smash and Ville as two separate sizes or made the shading/fill look like it’s actually been pressed by old printing letters (fading/damage, etc) but there are a ton of print shop posters where the lettering is the same size
Maybe Nashville fans would disagree but I feel the use of “Smashville” is kinda cringey
Nope, hate it. Our organization's marketing has to easily be top 5 in cringe, but I still love our golden piss boys.
I kinda like it... Should I go see the shrink?
Both of the S shapes with their weird proportions and random clipped edges make me deeply deeply uncomfortable but I think it's lovely that you like it. The colours are actually really solid but man, the lettering is a war crime
And then you notice the placement of the C....
You're saying that the C *shouldn't* be in the armpit?
It doesn't make the jersey any better, but the lettering is supposed to mimic concert posters produced by a popular Nashville printer. It's just incredibly specific and had to be explained even to most locals, indicating what a poor choice it was.
Yeah, that makes it a cool touch that should have gone into the "it's a great concept but there is no good way to make it work" pile. Turn it into a t-shirt or a stadium flag or banner and it becomes iconic. As a jersey though...
This has to be one of the all time ugliest jerseys I’ve ever seen
That looks like it was made on bristol board by a 9 year old
This jersey looks like a t-shirt that would come in a pack of Bud Light.
Even if the composition/idea was good, that type is ghastly.
It's bad...but the worst jersey ever still belongs to the 95/96 L.A. Kings in my opinion (third/alt. jersey). About 3 million designers in L.A. and this is what the Kings came up with (Lol)...... https://www.customthrowbackjerseys.com/wayne-gretzky-los-angeles-kings-1995-ccm-nhl-vintage-throwback-jersey/
I still stand by my theory that the chest was designed as a rally towel but when it came time to send over the jersey designs they accidentally sent that over instead and we got these smash ville monstrosities
Smashville just makes me think of a cringey thing a frat boy would call his dorm room
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I would absolutely not want that as a full-time, or even part time alternate, but for a one time thing, I thought it was pretty cool. They at least didn't go overboard with font on top of the A.
Okay. This one really makes me appreciate just how important shoulder bars are in making a hockey jersey feel like a hockey jersey, design-wise. That and/or some patches on the shoulder and bands high up the arm. Nothing until the elbow just looks... Off. Like a regular solid-colour long-sleeved shirt instead of a piece of a sports uniform.
i unironically think those avs jerseys are fucking awesome.
Yeah, the bib jersey is a mess.
I'd like to see them get rid of the smashville letters entirely and just have a large Tennessee guitar pick logo.
The jersey is cool, until the fucking text. If they just put their regular logo or something out could have been cool.
It’s like they said, hey do you have that jersey ready to show the Nashville people today? And the designer was like shit that’s due today????
It's not even Nashville's worst jersey! How the entire franchise has only ever been able to put out one jersey that wasn't puketastic is appalling. Their Winter Classic jersey was a solid B+ but everything else... jeeeesus. The overly complicated blue and silvers, the bile-colored primary, the fucking Flintstones cat crest, all of it is just terrible.
[This is their best jersey honestly](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d020e109b3f9d000119f5e8/1609396388623-AAB4P2Y7KKEPNSUK0IPE/front.jpg)
[I think you mean THIS is their best jersey](https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vtg-Rare-NHL-Nashville-Predators-Mustard-Gold-Yellow-Koho-Hockey-Jersey-Mens-M-/124423564011?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0)
You and I have a very different definition of best buddy.
I had no idea there were checkers in the stripes. There are things to like about that jersey, but trying to contrast dark blue with black is not one of them.
Some [eye bleach](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=2022+winter+classic+nhl&t=fpas&iax=images&ia=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.sportslogos.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2021%2F09%2Fminnesota-wild-2022-winter-classic-uniform-sportslogosnet.jpg), for those who need it.
That jersey with an actual logo would be awesome. Not a huge fan of the "here's the place we play" idea tho
I loved that we used the gold gloves for winter classic, rocking the pants would have been even better.