Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Ugly Uniform of the Day


For today's UUOTD, we remain in the Great Lakes. That area has been a center for bad taste in uniforms.

The NBA, the 90's, and the city of Cleveland have provided plenty of fodder for this blog in recent days. Now, they all converge for one UUOTD.

The Cleveland Cavaliers changed color and uniform schemes with their move into Gund Arena (now Quicken Loans Arena) in 1994. They changed to this black, orange, and baby blue uniform. There is a splotch of baby blue across both the jersey and the shorts. It looks like a kid spilled blue paint on a black uniform. The orange trim does not help at all. This was bad, bad, bad. The Cavs wore these for four years, before keeping the colors and removing the splotch on a revised uniform, which they wore for five years before moving to their present uniforms.

Once again, the NBA tried to get too cute. Somewhere out there, there is a uniform designer who is the object of much ridicule. The league may not design all uniforms, but they do approve all uniform changes. The uniform czar at the NBA was asleep on the job in the mid-90's.

Don't worry, though. These will come back as throwback jerseys in another 10 years or so.

For what it's worth, the Cavs are wearing their late 80's-early 90's orange jerseys Thursday night, in a throwback promotion. They are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the beginning of their run of quality teams, which played third banana to the Pistons and Bulls of that era.

Ya gotta look out for CLE.

3 comments:

Zee said...

I like the baby blue streak.

Now, that Bull's uni leaves something to be desired!

Zee

John said...

That's the same uniform Michael Jordan wore while winning six championships. They won't change that.

They have changed the road jersey over the years, going from the script "Chicago" to the all caps "BULLS".

Pretty ordinary.

That Cavs baby blue splotch, though, is pretty ugly, especially on the black road jersey.

Zee said...

No, that robin egg blue is very pretty. Being against the black only make it POP!

The Bulls may not change their uni, but it doesn't make it any nicer to look at. It's still ugly!