Buzz and I created a survey that asked a select group of people to rank the 29 FC Dallas/Burn jerseys - and the results were posted yesterday - here. Now you, too, can participate. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/5Y666RZ
That was really awesome, I had fun doing that. My rankings turned out really similar to the ones if the article with one glaring difference: Take all the jerseys with "wasabi", tie them to big blocks of concrete, and dump in a lake and laugh as they sink to the bottom. I don't understand the wasabi-love. That is an awful color and should never show up on anything anywhere.
I used to feel that way but maybe it's nostalgia, maybe it's acquiring a taste for it but I now like those a lot. I fact that white first year jersey is now top 5 for me. I think the wasabi goes better with white or black than red though where a little bit is the way to go. There are a bunch I don't like. A lot are the red and white stripes. Any other color combination would have been better than the peppermint look. I agree with Peter that red and black would be great, while red and navy would be right there with it. The FO deduced people didn't like the stripes but in reality they didn't like the red and white strips especially horizontal with it's where'e Waldo and peppermint connotations. They really missed their chance for an iconic look. Others I don't like are several around the middle years that look like practice jerseys. This year's I'm mixed on. Probably won't know how I really feel until years go by.
My top three: 1. 2001-02 home 2. 2003-04 home 3. 1998-99 home The current home shirt came in around #5 or #6, and I have it as the best of the FC Dallas shirts, mostly because I came to hate the hoops. I ranked the 2005 gray road shirts much higher than the rest of the panel did, and the best of all the road shirts. It was simple, clean, and contrasted well with all the home shirts in the league. I didn't really get the huge love for the black third jersey from the rest of the panel. It was good and I had it somewhere in the middle of the pack, but it was a black shirt that the Burn wore once at home. Big whoop.
actually, there is a great origin story about the black jersey from Andy Swift. We will tell it in a future episode of the KickAround.
Cool. I now know that my Burn jersey (shown in my avatar too) is a 2003-4. I think I waited until then to buy a jersey because it was the first one without a weird collar. My understanding of the "wasabi" was that it was supposed to be like a shade of old gold. I just thought it was odd.
I think so this new logo for Dallas is amazing...what think the FC Dallas fans? http://www.enriquealvaradodesign.com/blog/
I've always wished they'd used a real pegasus but that black nazgul horse is my second pick. Team fortunes changed when the mascot was switched from that regal horse and rider to a much smaller horse. I don't really like the bull as it isn't original.
Agree. That's great. Also, just love having something unique. Is there any other team that uses a Pegasus as it's mascot / emblem? Cool thing is in Dallas it actually fits. Too bad stupid Nike had to make it rad. Had it been more the ordinary one maybe it would still be here.
That's still not an excuse for the Hunts to drop it. Nike made everything over-the-top, counter-culture style when the league launched. We could've kept a great, beautiful, unique symbol of the city and just made it look simple and classy (exchange the fire for wings). Instead we get regurgitated "Texas" stereotypes to try to be a "Texan" team instead of something more local.
I think had it not been the fire breathing crazy one it may have become beloved and they wouldn't have dropped it. Who knows? Didn't someone on the internets make a badge with the Bull facing the Pegasus? If not that was a good dream.
Yeah, I seem to remember that too. I think there's a way to incorporate both in a badge but I think a clean looking, simple badge with a kick-ass looking Pegasus would be the tits.