Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Today's award

The Gorton's Fisherman Memorial Trophy:
awarded for the league's worst uniform


This one will be a lot of fun. Some great candidates here, also a great opportunity to show off the award's namesake. A Google search of 'We want fishsticks' turned this up as the first result:














Special thanks to Gary Bettman and Reebok for making this a tough decision, since more teams than ever before were in the running due to the Edge jersey redesign.


This year's nominees are:

The Atlanta Thrashers




First they go from a handsome navy blue uniform to those ugly-ass baby blues. Now they've introduced a third jersey that has nothing to do with their team colors whatsoever. Ugly as hell, and completely nonsensical.

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The Montreal Canadiens













Ouch. Retro is cool and all, but these uniforms are from an era before televised games. Best to leave the past in the past with these.

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The New York Islanders













What was wrong with the old uniforms? Answer: Nothing. So the Islanders did what they do best, completely ruining what was fine to begin with. It looks like the circus is in town every time the Islanders play.

2 comments:

Number31 said...

Atlanta's looks like a football uniform...

A Concerned Citizen said...

Yes they do. What's with this trend to put the team's name in an arch above the logo or the numbers? The Rangers are excluded, since they have it in that cool diagnonal, also since it functions AS the logo, and because it's well-established. Vancouver, Atlanta, and especially Dallas just look like dumb-fucks.