Friday, April 13, 2007

Ugly Uniform Of The Day-Hockey Retro Edition


The Vancouver Canucks have a legacy of ugly uniforms. None are worse than their home jerseys, worn from 1978-1985.

These are the infamous "V" jerseys. There is a multi-colored "V" coming down from the neck, with no logo. The road version is not quite as bad, since it was a black jersey. The home version, however, was hideous. There was no white, only a mustard yellow that would fit well in the German Bundesliga.

Any uniform is an improvement over this one. This is one of the worst uniforms in the history of sports, and probably the worst one in the history of the NHL.

At least Wayne Gretzky was dominating the NHL at that time, and the Canucks didn't even smell a Stanley Cup with those uniforms.

3 comments:

Zee said...

The colors do feel very German to me. The V is cool. I like that they tried something different, but the V reminds me more of the tv show called V than Vancouver.

So overall, yes ugly, but I like the effort they put forth to be different.

John said...

Oh, I remember that show, V. I don't think I ever watched it, but I know it was some science fiction show.

The Canucks toned that one down, doing away with the V, adding the logo, and going to a white home jersey. That is what they wore when they played for the '94 Stanley Cup. They changed unis soon after that, when they moved into their new arena.

Those German colors are really, really bad on a hockey uniform.

John said...

And, it looks like there are "V"'s on the hips of the pants. From this angle, it wouldn't take a whole lot to take the ends of the V's on the pants, extend them up to the jersey, and turn the jersey V into an X. LOL