Minnesota's new hockey jersey goes Wildly 'vintage'
We must be getting close to Halloween, because the Dallas Stars are looking more like extras from a Freddy Krueger film than professional hockey players:
Of course, when the Stars were still in Minnesota, no self-respecting member of the Minnesota North Stars would have been caught dead in this gawd-awful, butt-ugly get-up. Of course, Dallas IS the capital of Butt-Ugly Nation. Please, in the name of all that is good and decent, do NOT buy one of these monstrosities. I'm all for alternate jerseys (after all, teams have to find SOME way to fund the ridiculously outsized salaries they're paying to middling, slow-skating fourth-liners), but the Star have committed a major fashion faux pas here.
Please...in the name of all that is good, right, and holy, do NOT buy one of these abominations. You'll only encourage them....
I'm guessing that the Stars alternate jerseys were designed by the same fashion-sense-impaired sap who designed this abortion for the Nashville Predators:
What is that color? Baby Poop Yellow? Aarrrgggghhh....
Now, if you're looking for classic alternate jerseys, it appears that the Minnesota Wild have hit on something. It's subtle, understated, and, most importantly, it doesn't look like something your eight-year-old would want to wear Trick-or-Treating.
Fans in Minnesota seem to agree. A poll in the Minneapolis StarTribune indicates that 49% of fans love the design, vs. 19% who hate it. Personally, I may be asking for one of these for Christmas.
You see, the whole point of designing alternate jerseys is to come up with something that fans would actually want to BUY and BE SEEN in. Of course, this being Dallas that we're talking about (where tacky and over the top has always worked well), I'll wager that the Stars alternate jersey will be a huge hit.
At times like these, I sure do miss the North Stars. At least they had good taste and common sense- if not always a competitive hockey team.
