Whats with some US team's with the small numbers on the FRONT of the sweater!!!!!!!!! Looks fucking stupid. Isnt there a rule that governs what goes on the uniforms? The CFL is just as bad with the RONA and SCOTIABANK logos on the sweaters.
NHL Uni's
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Revenue streams, my good man.
Most, if not all major soccer teams in the world have much bigger advertising patches on their uniforms. It will come to MLB, the NHL, NBA, and the NFL at some point.
For years, there was no advertising on the outfield walls of MLB parks, but now, most, if not all stadiums have ads there.
Already in the NBA, some teams have advertising on their practice uniforms.
I know I don't shop at Rona or bank at Scotia because of their sponsorship of the CFL (though I do do some banking with Scotia, and I have purchased items at Rona).
there is a rule when it comes to jerseys in the NHL (other than advertising rules) is that the Goalie, if named 'captain' cannot wear the C on the jersey....
other than that... there are a bunch of complexities that must occur for a team to get a jersey certified by the league.. any advertisement on the uniform is strickly prohibited...
euro hockey jersey's are skating billboards!!!
and with regards to euro football/soccer.... Barcelona was the last of the
"big teams" to put a sponsor on the front of the uni....oddly enough UNICEF was the first brand they endorsed....
other than that... there are a bunch of complexities that must occur for a team to get a jersey certified by the league.. any advertisement on the uniform is strickly prohibited...
euro hockey jersey's are skating billboards!!!
and with regards to euro football/soccer.... Barcelona was the last of the
"big teams" to put a sponsor on the front of the uni....oddly enough UNICEF was the first brand they endorsed....
I don't know about you guys ...
But I really wish that hockey teams would go back to wearing their white (or gold) uniforms at home and their dark ones on the road. As far as I'm concerned that's the way it should be. The "good guys" wear white in my book.
Gary Buttman changing NHL teams to wearing their darks at home felt to me like a way-cheap attempt to make hockey like football, because, you know, the NFL is huge in the United States, so anything that makes the NHL like the NFL will make it more popular, right? What an idiot ...
White or Gold at home. Darks on the road. Get it right. Please ...
But I really wish that hockey teams would go back to wearing their white (or gold) uniforms at home and their dark ones on the road. As far as I'm concerned that's the way it should be. The "good guys" wear white in my book.
Gary Buttman changing NHL teams to wearing their darks at home felt to me like a way-cheap attempt to make hockey like football, because, you know, the NFL is huge in the United States, so anything that makes the NHL like the NFL will make it more popular, right? What an idiot ...
White or Gold at home. Darks on the road. Get it right. Please ...
Did Buffalo start it?
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I was thinking of this because they started rotating their captaincy last year.
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I was thinking of this because they started rotating their captaincy last year.
*Emphasis mine.
If we're going to get things right, it might be important to provide the correct information in the first place.
In the N.F.L., the home team gets to choose which uniform they want to wear.... i.e., Whites, or Colour. The road team wears the opposite.
You'll find most N.F.L. teams tend to wear their colours at home, with the notable exception of the Dallas Cowboys.
However, if you go back to c.1970s, the home teams wore their darks and the road wore whites. But I do agree the home teams should wear their whites. And here's my logic: As a fan of the home team, you already know what their jerseys look like. But the road team, you want to see their colours since you don't see them very often. That way there is more variety in the colours on the ice, instead of always e.g. red for the home team (Canadiens) and white for whomever is the road team. It just gets boring. I would prefer white at home (Canadiens) and red (Red Wings) or blue (Maple Laffs) or green (Wild) or purple (Kings c. 1967-198x) or any other colour.
You are correct sir.
In the National Football League, the home team always has the option of what uniforms it wants to wear. However, I don't think you'll argue the point that in football, it's universally acknowledged that the colours, or darks, are the home uniform, and the whites are the road unis. And yes, the Cowboys are the one rogue team to that convention, although even they wear their Navy-Blue jerseys at home sometimes (just not often). No, it's not an actual hard-and-fast rule in the NFL rulebook that teams have to wear their home uniforms at home - lots of teams choose to wear their road whites at home, especially hot-weather teams in sunny weather, believing that reflective white will keep their boys cooler.
But that doesn't change the fact that in football, the home uniforms are the darks, and the road unis are the whites. And that doesn't change the fact that Gary Buttman was transparently trying to make hockey more appealing to Americans (which is his life's purpose it seems) by making hockey teams wear their road uniforms at home to make it seem "more like" football ... And that he's a fool.
I completely agree with you!
I have never thought of it that way, but you're *totally* right!!! The white at home rule absolutely would give us home fans a wide variety of jerseys while we're watching our guys play ... Thanks, I never even thought of that! *Big Kiss*
And you're the first to mention that the NHL used to wear darks at home. I was waiting for someone to mention that, and you're the lucky winner, thanks for bringing it up.
Yes, they wore darks at home in the 1960s, and that changed to white at home in the 1970-71 season. But if anyone wants to argue that NHL teams currently wearing darks at home is "going back to the way it used to be", they're a bit wrong, and here's why.
I love NHL unis, and I've looked into their history - it's cool to see what we think of as the Leafs today wearing dark green jerseys when they were the St. Patricks. Back at the beginning of the league in the teens, there was no 'uniform rule' that made teams wear any kind of colours at home or on the road. In fact, all the teams only had *one* uniform that they'd wear all the time. You might think that could get confusing, but when there's less than 10 teams in the whole league, it's not hard for them all to have different outfits.
This lasted until the 1950s ... when television was invented. Back then it was all black-and-white, colour TVs didn't get invented until the late 60s or so. So the NHL decided that to take advantage of this new medium, they needed to keep things simple ... and with some games where both teams would wear dark colours (like the Rangers playing the Canadiens for example) *all* the players would come out equally dark grey on the screen. So they invented a new rule: Every team *must* have a white uniform, and a dark uniform, and there would be a rule as to what the home team would wear.
Guess what the rule was? Starting with 1950-51, home teams had to wear white, while road teams would wear their dark colours. Yup, that's right, home team wears white. That's the way it originally was ... and now anyone watching the game on television on Saturday nights would immediately know that the white team was at home, and the dark guys were on the road. Good guys wear white, like I've always said ...
In the late 50s the NHL decided to try changing it up, and they reversed it. This lasted until the end of the 60s, when the NHL decided that it liked the original way better, so they *changed it back to the way it was*, which is white at home. That's the way it lasted for over thirty years, until Buttman decided he wanted the NHL to emulate the NFL, so he made teams wear their road uniforms at home again ... Grrrrr ...
So yeah, they *used* to wear their darks at home before 1970 ... and they *originally* wore white at home in the 50s. So if you really, really want to get technical about it, and want to talk about the way it all started, it's white (or gold) at home, dark colours on the road.
Thanks for giving me the segue to be able to talk about that MisterMe, I *really* appreciate it! *big hug* I should give you a discount now if you ever want to book me. *winking at you*
Hi MisterMe.
I have never thought of it that way, but you're *totally* right!!! The white at home rule absolutely would give us home fans a wide variety of jerseys while we're watching our guys play ... Thanks, I never even thought of that! *Big Kiss*
And you're the first to mention that the NHL used to wear darks at home. I was waiting for someone to mention that, and you're the lucky winner, thanks for bringing it up.
Yes, they wore darks at home in the 1960s, and that changed to white at home in the 1970-71 season. But if anyone wants to argue that NHL teams currently wearing darks at home is "going back to the way it used to be", they're a bit wrong, and here's why.
I love NHL unis, and I've looked into their history - it's cool to see what we think of as the Leafs today wearing dark green jerseys when they were the St. Patricks. Back at the beginning of the league in the teens, there was no 'uniform rule' that made teams wear any kind of colours at home or on the road. In fact, all the teams only had *one* uniform that they'd wear all the time. You might think that could get confusing, but when there's less than 10 teams in the whole league, it's not hard for them all to have different outfits.
This lasted until the 1950s ... when television was invented. Back then it was all black-and-white, colour TVs didn't get invented until the late 60s or so. So the NHL decided that to take advantage of this new medium, they needed to keep things simple ... and with some games where both teams would wear dark colours (like the Rangers playing the Canadiens for example) *all* the players would come out equally dark grey on the screen. So they invented a new rule: Every team *must* have a white uniform, and a dark uniform, and there would be a rule as to what the home team would wear.
Guess what the rule was? Starting with 1950-51, home teams had to wear white, while road teams would wear their dark colours. Yup, that's right, home team wears white. That's the way it originally was ... and now anyone watching the game on television on Saturday nights would immediately know that the white team was at home, and the dark guys were on the road. Good guys wear white, like I've always said ...
In the late 50s the NHL decided to try changing it up, and they reversed it. This lasted until the end of the 60s, when the NHL decided that it liked the original way better, so they *changed it back to the way it was*, which is white at home. That's the way it lasted for over thirty years, until Buttman decided he wanted the NHL to emulate the NFL, so he made teams wear their road uniforms at home again ... Grrrrr ...
So yeah, they *used* to wear their darks at home before 1970 ... and they *originally* wore white at home in the 50s. So if you really, really want to get technical about it, and want to talk about the way it all started, it's white (or gold) at home, dark colours on the road.
Thanks for giving me the segue to be able to talk about that MisterMe, I *really* appreciate it! *big hug* I should give you a discount now if you ever want to book me. *winking at you*
Plus, something else to think about. I don't know where I found this, but an argument for road whites was this: back in the day fabrics weren't as colourfast, so it was easier to wash whites on the road than it was to wash darks. Home teams could do home darks because they had access to 'better washing conditions' in their home rinks. Or something like that. I don't recall completely.
That's fascinating!
But wouldn't that be an argument for home whites and road darks, not the other way around? The argument would be that home teams, with their superior washing facilities, would be able to launder their home white uniforms better and make them all sparkly white and clean, while they'd go on the road with their dark coloured outfits, and if they got a little dirty, well, you don't really notice when you're wearing navy blue, dark red, etc. And then you could take care of your road darks properly once you got home again.
Just seems logical to me like that is all ...
You are correct, Keyra.That's fascinating!
But wouldn't that be an argument for home whites and road darks, not the other way around? The argument would be that home teams, with their superior washing facilities, would be able to launder their home white uniforms better and make them all sparkly white and clean, while they'd go on the road with their dark coloured outfits, and if they got a little dirty, well, you don't really notice when you're wearing navy blue, dark red, etc. And then you could take care of your road darks properly once you got home again.
Just seems logical to me like that is all ...
Well, like I said, I don't recall where I came across that. In fact, you may very well be correct. This is just to the best of my recollection.That's fascinating!
But wouldn't that be an argument for home whites and road darks, not the other way around? The argument would be that home teams, with their superior washing facilities, would be able to launder their home white uniforms better and make them all sparkly white and clean, while they'd go on the road with their dark coloured outfits, and if they got a little dirty, well, you don't really notice when you're wearing navy blue, dark red, etc. And then you could take care of your road darks properly once you got home again.
Just seems logical to me like that is all ...
Home Dark Jerseys
I believe that the NHL converted to home jerseys being the dark version (in 2003) to allow teams to showcase their 3rd jerseys to their home fans...thus more revenue in jersey sales.
$$$$$$
PW
I believe that the NHL converted to home jerseys being the dark version (in 2003) to allow teams to showcase their 3rd jerseys to their home fans...thus more revenue in jersey sales.
$$$$$$
PW
