100$ for Replica
130$ for Premier
250$ for Authentic
Authentic price aint change but the other two went up 20$ a piece. From the pictures on the site the replicas look like a freakin dri-fit T-Shirt but its just a graphic version and not an actual photo of them. I'd still rather spend the extra 20$ for the premier.
100$ for Replica
130$ for Premier
250$ for Authentic
Authentic price aint change but the other two went up 20$ a piece. From the pictures on the site the replicas look like a freakin dri-fit T-Shirt but its just a graphic version and not an actual photo of them. I'd still rather spend the extra 20$ for the premier.
Premiere is the way to go. I have premieres for Frank Gore and Patrick Willis. Since they're still on the team, I won't be buying a jersey this year unless I get a Reebok one on clearance cheap for another player.
If they were going back to the pre-swoosh orange jersey it'd be great...but they just swapped with their alts...which somehow makes the worst jerseys in football even worse.
Also, the orange would go better with the kind of blue that they used pre-1997.
As for Seattle, like The Nemesis said, I always thought it would be nice to see them go back to their older green and blue (Though the ones they'll no longer be wearing were nice and simple.). They better not have another lime 3rd jersey, though, that's for sure. Like the Canucks, they'll never be a team with that one classic jersey that you can't change or mess with.
One thing I noticed is that the teams who chose to go with the flywire collar yet keep the contrasting color collar just look like the have neck rolls on. If they wanted the flywire they should made the collar the jersey color. (In the Bucs case they didn't have a colored color before and added it for some reason)
Also the Dolphins (most likely the old orange ones), Rams, Steelers, Redskins and Jags are expected to get new alternates but they'll be released by the teams themselves when ever they feel like it.
Everyone else is expected to keep the same Alts they had last year (same goes for Away jerseys).
uni-watch.com has a good article breaking everything down, BTW)
The golden triangle yokes will never be used by the team again as the Rooneys find them embarrassing...so that leaves retro ideas from the infancy of the franchise, basically. Unfortunately going retro to the best design we've had in our history would barely qualify as a difference from the normal jerseys.
I know it was a split love/hate with the frankenretros we've had the past few years, but I wish they'd have just kept those. I loved the gold helmet.
At least they're still less offensive to the eyes than Philadelphia's retros from that same time period. Man, Pennsylvania sucked at making NFL jerseys in the 30s...actually, basically all of the league sucked at it back then. Why do we keep having to look at godawful throwbacks from that period?
Throwbacks only work when the jerseys worked to begin with. Buffalo, San Diego, New England, etc. had their best designs in the past to fall back on. Pittsburgh, Green Bay, Chicago, etc. don't. Their present design (more-or-less) is and has been their identity for so long now...going back 80 years to find some atrocity for the sake of making a legitimate throwback jersey for the sake of making a throwback jersey is stupid.
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Pittsburgh Alts are awful. They look like 30s Jockeys.
IDK what worse them, the Packers throwbacks or those yellow and blue things the Eagles wore a few years back.
If PIT ever played GB and both teams wore their throwbacks, I'd probably just listen to it on the radio.
It was a combination of Nike/Bauer looking to exit the market entirely, plus CCM/Koho wanting a monopoly.
As it turned out, everything happened at once. Pro Player, which had picked up Starter's contracts, went under when parent company Fruit of the Loom went into bankruptcy. And Nike/Bauer wanted to unload their apparel side entirely, which became SP Apparel.
SP, oddly enough, still makes a huge number of jerseys, but most are tagged with something else. They actually manufacture all the international jerseys (which are tagged Nike), and most of the special jerseys for the various Reebok-contracted leagues (which are branded as Reebok). SP only had its own contract with the AHL for a few years, starting in 2000-01.
It was a combination of Nike/Bauer looking to exit the market entirely, plus CCM/Koho wanting a monopoly.
As it turned out, everything happened at once. Pro Player, which had picked up Starter's contracts, went under when parent company Fruit of the Loom went into bankruptcy. And Nike/Bauer wanted to unload their apparel side entirely, which became SP Apparel.
SP, oddly enough, still makes a huge number of jerseys, but most are tagged with something else. They actually manufacture all the international jerseys (which are tagged Nike), and most of the special jerseys for the various Reebok-contracted leagues (which are branded as Reebok). SP only had its own contract with the AHL for a few years, starting in 2000-01.
I also know some ECHL teams (used to, at least) use SP branded jerseys. My Columbia Inferno jerseys are both SP Apparel branded.
Throwbacks only work when the jerseys worked to begin with. Buffalo, San Diego, New England, etc. had their best designs in the past to fall back on. Pittsburgh, Green Bay, Chicago, etc. don't. Their present design (more-or-less) is and has been their identity for so long now...going back 80 years to find some atrocity for the sake of making a legitimate throwback jersey for the sake of making a throwback jersey is stupid.
Exactly what I thought of the Hawks 3rd they finally dropped this past season. You wear essentially the same indian head since the 50s, then try to bring back a 30s logo
