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I understand they won a title in these but they look so 2007

Love the current kings uniforms but I do miss the purple sometimes

Names, location or team, look fine on uniforms in every sport and league besides the NFL. In the NFL, it just looks so tacky to me. You’re a team in the NFL: you don’t need name tags to identify your city or team. You play in the most popular league in America; everyone knows who you are. In my opinion, they heavily detract from the aesthetic of the uniform, and every nameless uniform is more visually appealing than those with names.

I think these really capture the true colors of the school and work well together.

eBay listing for a youth L/XL similar to the panthers posted last week. Keep in mind, these may be prototypes and final design may vary. Thoughts?

(shitpost) (if you don't get the joke, stare at this photo until you get the joke.)

Hated by near everyone. I love them. What are your favourite hated or unpopular threads?

I’m old (28). Old enough to see jerseys that were somewhat disliked in their time come back as throwbacks that everyone loves (Kachina coyotes, gradient Rays). When this happens, the jerseys usually have a few characteristics:
- LOUD designs
- Design elements that are very ‘of their time’
- Very different design to the current look
- Nostalgic moments
- Worn in the childhood of fans aged 25-40 (so, currently, 1994-2009)

Here are some looks I think fit the criteria- not great, disliked even within the uni community at the time, but likely to come back as beloved alts some day soon.

- Swoosh Broncos: Worn during multiple Super Bowls, unique design, THE prototype for late 90s-2000s football jerseys
- Greatest Show on Turf Rams: Iconic teams, sleek design, very distinct from their bright current look
- Nuggets Melo: Fun, colorful look worn by entertaining teams
- Linsanity Knicks: Linsanity memories, a bit more happening than their current look
- Neon Zebra Arsenal: Unique, bright, unforgettable, worn in a lot of big games

Drop your predictions in the comments!

Apparent Florida Panthers hometown jersey leak for 2026-27 😬😬

I’m a sucker for purple. Pair it with silver/grey and it’s perfection.

These are way too ugly to be worn in the Conference Finals

Team names/logos to be determined later, but these are the colors of the new teams. This means, combined with the WNBA and NWSL, there will be 48 women's teams in action next year.

Nick Morabito made his Mets debut tonight, and was wearing number 8. This was Gary Carter's number as a Met (and throughout his career except for a few games in 1974), and while it's never been retired, there has been speculation that it will be, and it hasn't been given out since 2001.

HOWEVER, the team's announcers said on the broadcast that this was just temporary, because there wasn't time to have the uniform done so they just went with what they had. It seems strange to me that that's what they'd have, although I suppose it's possible that they keep a spare number 8 around precisely because it's not likely to be anyone's permanent number. But it doesn't seem terribly unlikely that either it was given out by mistake, or that they really intended to give him the number and changed course when fans (or maybe even Carter's family or someone) objected.

At any rate, Anthony DiComo is now reporting that Morabito will switch to number 55, saying that "Unlike No. 8, he chose that one himself."

This feels like an "only the Mets" moment, but has something similar happened with any other team in recent years?

To make this clear- all of the throwbacks in the pictures are good. I am NOT saying we shouldn’t have throwbacks. My points here are just about throwbacks as alternates- not them returning full time. But I wanted to share some thoughts I have had about the increasing prevalence of throwbacks across sports, and the unintended effects they could have on the ‘uni-verse’.

Extending the shelf life of bad ‘base’ uni sets (See: Timberwolves, Minnesota)
The Timberwolves have had some of the worst home and away sets in the NBA for about 20 years now. Their current home look is particularly uninspired, but has somehow been around for 10 years. I believe a major reason for this is that several times over the past 5 years, the Timberwolves have had AWESOME throwback jerseys, or heavily throwback-inspired jerseys, that they have worn in nearly all their big games. When you think of this year’s playoff run, for example, surely you think of Anthony Edwards in the black throwback jersey.
In the microcosm, thats probably a good thing. However, if they didn’t have the option of wearing that much better throwback jersey for games on national TV (and selling boat loads every year as a result), they likely would have given serious thought to changing their base home and away jerseys MUCH sooner.
Other, similar cases: Atlanta Falcons (before this season), Jacksonville Jaguars, early Rams in LA, Utah Jazz (before this season), Denver Broncos

Creating confusion around major moments (See: Sabers, Buffalo)
In the NBA and increasingly in the NHL, teams have decided to wear throwbacks (and other alternates) in major playoff games. It has popped up in the NFL too. This creates a strange effect where the most memorable moments of a team’s season happen in jerseys they got rid of 20 years before, and won’t wear again for years after- creating an anachronism of memories with these big moments.
That may be ok when the throwbacks are much better, and the teams are moving back to them (or a similar look) shortly- see the Penguins in 2016. But it can also mean, with the Sabers tonight (edit: NEVERMIND), or with the 76ers this season, that perfectly good ‘base’ jerseys are having their defining moments taken by throwback jerseys.
See also: 76ers in the 2026 playoffs

Drying up the well of creativity, and leaving eras without a defining ‘look’ (See: La Liga throwback weekend)
This may be the most controversial point here. Part of what I love about this hobby is seeing how the aesthetic of sports, and leagues, changes over time. It’s fun to look back and see the good 90s jerseys- and the awful ones too. A game from 2010 looks totally different to one from 2000… for better or for worse.
One thing that’s starting to happen in soccer, with teams releasing jerseys so frequently, and often referencing past jerseys as they do so, is that the current era lacks a defining aesthetic. What truly says “2026” when so many teams are trying to look like it’s 1986, or 1996? This also leads to fans embracing those familiar aesthetics and completely opposing newer ideas which could have become classic in time.
The beloved TeamGeist adidas soccer template from 2006 looked completely new at the time. Would a similarly novel look be so beloved now, when fans are often just looking for teams to bring back the TeamGeist look (as Adidas has done 2-3x)
Other cases: Block fonts in the NFL, extreme minimalism in College Football

Long post, I know- curious for your thoughts!