I don't know if this idea has been mentioned somewhere else, but everyone has seen whining about white road jerseys around, but why not have the home team wear their white (or current away) jerseys? the NHL is changing to that this coming year and I think it would greatly help the percieved (by some) color problem. You see the same home jerseys every game anyways, just they happen to be the colored ones....
home teams in the nhl have worn their white jersies for years (the exception being third-color special jersies).
It really doesn't matter yet. There's no history behind the shirt yet. The league isn't even 10 years old and there's limited interest. Example: Liverpool will always have red. No matter what. When you think of Liverpool, you think red. The club has history. Come back in 20-30 years, if the MLS is still alive and kicking, and see where the fanbase is. If people remember Columbus for the yellow and black. That's when it matter. HEY LOOK!!! There goes the point!
many leauges switch their colors every few years... but do think the dark colors at home are btter. And just for the record i think the NFL rotates every five years or so just to show some variation... i would like to see some MLS teams create alternate jersys.
I believe that the NHL is switching the other way around, to dark at home and white on the road. I wouldn't be surprised to see that happen in the NBA as well. Dark-colored replicas, all things being equal, sell better. Just for the record: In the NBA, the home team wears white and the road team wears their "traditional" away jersey or a third jersey. In the NFL, the home team usually wears a dark jersey and the road team wears white, but some teams (the Cowboys most prominently) are known for wearing white at home, which is their option. MLB teams traditionally have white home uniforms and gray road uniforms, but most teams additionally have third and even fourth jersies which they wear at home and on the road, since it's not so important that uniform colors contrast in baseball, and because, as I mentioned above, colored replicas sell better.
Many southern teams wear white at home because of the heat. The Cowboys, Dolphins, and Chargers come to mind.
The NFL doesn't rotate. Never has, and probably never will. The home team decides which jersey they will wear (Color or white), and the road team wears the opposite.
The NHL in the past played with their dark jerseys at home. I don't know if they are going to revert to that.
I may need to see a counselor about this - but I get extremely irritated every single time I see a solid white road uniform. 45% of all home / away iniforms are solid white. WHY? Team recognition is a huge issue for MLS - yet almost 1/2 the uniforms are inditinguishable at the causal glance. Why Dallas can't wear red shirts and their white shorts when they play all-blue KC I will never know. Before games they show highlights of previous game to kick it all off - sometimes even I can't tell who one of teams is. Half of them are all white. Team recognition - team colors. Its not so hard to mix it up and it doesn't cost a dime. I am so frigging sick of seeing teh auto-reflex all-whites I could...I don't know - probably go see a therapist. Its just so damn easy to give the fans who care what they want and the fans who don't care, well it still won't matter. I assume there has to be a reason why MLS does it this way I just have absolutely no idea what that reason is. But if they do it just because NFL teams or NBA teams do it that way - then they are morons.
THis past week DCU wore BLACK shorts with their White Away jerseys, and it looked a LOT better than before, and more emblematic of the 'german' look that the team has fostered... :L
I never thought I'd be saying this but, Good for DC. Kits in all white are hard on the eyes, especially on TV.
Yes, this is their new "alernate kit". I think that this mismatched uniform (it looks good, but it's parts from the home and away kits) is a way for United to get out of wearing the Black home kits during hot afternoon games.
Yes, this is true. The NHL played with dark homes, then switched a long time ago, but are reverting back this coming year. I mispoke initially (go figure, as I went to like 10 NHL games last year)...my main point was that they were switching the road and home jerseys, which I think could be a good thing for MLS. Have the home teams wear white (and then maybe update those jerseys a little)....that way, you're always seeing the "colorful" opponents jerseys....and always seeing JUST your team's white jersey. It reverses this : That said, I don't really care about seeing whites as much as some, but it would be nice to see the opponents colored jersey every time instead of always a RED vs WHITE (ie the Burn)....then at least it would be a WHITE vs VARIED COLORS....just my though....
It was a refreshing break from the auto-reflex all-whites. The all-whites have their place I suppose - just not every frigging game.
I don't remember if the Chargers were still wearing light blue jerseys when the AFL joined the NFL, but if so, it musta been hell to watch them against the Colts on black & white TV. White helmets, white pants, tough to see a difference. Back in the day (may still be the case, I don't know), Washington used to wear their white jerseys at home against Dallas just so the Cowboys would have to wear blue. I think the Colts wore white in Super Bowl V against them as well.
I dont care about football...Why does football and other sports always get brought into things? Jus saying no point really