Not sure if this has been delt with already so I'll ask: What happens say, when a team wins more championships so that having X amount of stars on their kits becomes ridiculous? Is MLS planning to like use a system which relates to however many # of Championships a team has won...e.g. gold star= 1 MLS Cup silver= 5 MLS Cups e.t.c., e.t.c., e.t.c....
comedian I see...we all know DC will when another MLS Cup by the time the Galaxy manage a 2nd! So what, every 7 years or three MLS cup defeats in a row, which ever comes first.
I'd like to see the following become standard: 1 MLS Cup - white star on home kit, black on away kit (if practice of white away kits continues) 5 MLS Cups - silver star Defending MLS Cup champion - gold star (gold star replaces 1 MLS Cup star, so defending champion with 5 total championships wears 1 gold star and four white/black stars) Defending Open Cup champion - Open Cup sleeve patch Defending Supporters Shield winner - Supporters Shield sleeve patch
no the fire should hold off on putting the stars on for two more years so we can put all three on. it'll look better that way.
Supposing say eventually An MLS side wins 10-20 MLS CUP Championships, well I just think the teams would be hard pressed to wear 20 stars across their kits as it would look rather silly... So I am asking what should be done to conteract such a thing?
Do you honestly believe that would happen? Really? If DC United rips off 7 straight championships, I'd be willing to bet you anything that they never have more than 5 stars on their jersey at ANY time. It's a ludicrous consideration.
We already agree, this was the reason I started the thread. I was wondering what would happen when a team does have more than 5 championships... It's obvious that they wouldn't continue mounting stars, but the idea then becomes, ok what represents the winning of 5 MLS Cups so that when they add the 6-7-8 we know ok Silver -5 MLS CUPS White -1 MLS CUP Gold -Current MLS CUP Champs...
I'm sure they'll just make it up as they go along. We've got three teams playing on artificial turf, and we're likely 10-20 years (statistically speaking) away from any team getting it's sixth MLS Cup.
In addition to MLS Cup stars, the Open Cup winners should wear moons, and the Concacaf Cup winners get suns. This, with apologies to Jimmy Cliff, is the Sun, Moon and Stars system. An alternative would be the "Lucky Charms" system, where Open Cup winners get diamonds, Concacaf Cup winners get clovers, and I don't remember the other thing in Lucky Charms, so someone will have to help me, but that will go to MLS winners of the World Club Championship, whenever it's reinstated. Another possibility would that for every five championships, you cut a star-shaped portion of fabric from the jersey. Eventually, a successful club would have jerseys that like like Edvard Muench drawings, with cut-away stars merging into star patches, and very little nylon fabric left. I think all these patches and sponsor patches just make for ugly jerseys, myself, but I want to be helpful for those of you who find these things important. Another challenge, at the point in 2315 or so when clubs have accumulated so many patches that their jerseys are noticeably heavier, do you think we'll have invented a light-weight fabric that can still withstand the stresses of all that sissyish MLS defender shirt-tugging? There's a lot to work out before we have a fully functional shirt patch scheme in place.
Let me be the first to say that when the Burn win a championship, I don't want them putting any damn star on their jersey. I would, however, like it if they were to have "CHICAGO SUCKS" embroidered underneath the logo. Permanently.
I don't know, I think it makes our league a little bit different, I mean sure in Italy the Serie A winners wear the scudetto patch the next season, but I don't think any other league allows a team to wear its past accomplishemts on their kits. It adds an air of tradition in a young league, perhaps the need to 'force tradition' will change when the league is 20 years old, but for now it is a decent idea....
The thing is - In Italy you gotta win 10 titles to get the star. And maybe only 5 or 6 teams a year have any real shot at winning in one year. You maybe have 3 or 4 teams with any star at all. Out of what 80 or 90 pro teams in the country. In MLS, in 7 years, we've got 5 different MLS champs. Its the nature of the beast - any team any year and all that rot. So - getting a star isn't that big of a deal. Half the teams already have one. Maybe you win 5 titles you get a star. Who knows? All I know is I wish my team was in the postion to spurn a star.