If that was their look anyway, then I guess so. But it's so far removed from what they actually wear. I'm perplexed as to why would you dress a basketball team to commemorate a TV show? I'm not so sure about that.
While Miami's hot pink look does kind of work for the style. And if Miami ever gets another WNBA team they should use those colors. But personally I'm so sick of anything retrowave right now due to the saturation of that style right now that it's best to keep them off the court.
@@NinhLyUK I can see you're point there, but I would say that, that neon pink & blue color scheme is quite infamous with Miami as a city itself. It's fair to say that you could consider it part of the Miami brand, and not just an iconic TV show logo. So, that alternative design, really does fit the city well. That's the one of these new alternative jerseys the NBA uses that I don't have that big an issue it for that reason. The rest of them however, I agree with you, they suck.
As a rugby union fan, I actually like Stade Français Paris’ jersey because it’s pink which you don’t see at all in sports uniforms (kits). I don’t support the team (I’m a Racing 92 fan), but I do respect the lightning bolts LOL
I just find it very strange that they deck themselves out in total pink. Now if it was predominantly navy with pink, then I'm all for that. It's certainly unique, that's for sure.
@@NinhLyUK Former club president Max Guazzini decided to have a pink color away kit that proved to be very popular with fans and became their home kit later. From 2005 onwards, STP had some horrible kits.
I don't think you understand what the earned nba Jerseys represent. NBA teams have always been experimental when it came to Jersey designs, team colour designs... The Miami Heat Jerseys are an homage to Miami vice colours, the Cavs jersey is a classic throwback, the Timberwolves one is a reference to Prince, Milwaukee is another throwback... I agree that you can dislike the Jersey due to it's design, but you can't call it bad just because you don't know the deeper meaning of it.
Well, I actually do. I'm fully aware that each jersey has some sort of meaning, Miami vice, Cleveland's colours from the 90's, Toronto's 'We The North' campaign etc. But as mentioned in the video, they're all badly designed. I stand by that.
@@NinhLyUK What do you mean by "badly designed"? What principles/standards are you using? Is it how well they convey their message, how well they identify the team, sloppy execution? "Badly designed" doesn't explain your specific problems with the jerseys, it's just a vague complaint used without explanation. How do you think they were poorly designed?
@@NinhLyUKI see. I apologise for the inconvenience. I just really like those kind of Jerseys. Anyway, I think I found some really bad ones (trust me, you don't want to see them) talksport.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2015/06/lahoyalorca.jpg?strip=all&w=700 cdn.totalfratmove.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/180eb613434aeececa853706ca3d8196.jpeg cdn.images.dailystar.co.uk/dynamic/122/photos/526000/900x738/1001526.jpg www.nba.com/media/wizards/gallery_061019_aj_bh.jpg overcomingthechair.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/dallas.jpg
@@milochanel9491 no, i started watching the nba at 6 years old. And ive loved that uniform. And i dont know somebody who watches the nba and dislikes that uniform
@@MrPresident1878 Same, and I wouldn't buy one in a million years... don't get me started about the eyesore that they call the Bucks city jerseys this year
Tbh there’s a few I disagree with here. The NBA earned, and most Stade jerseys (some are a bit insane) imo look ok to even good. I’d agree that the Raptors original jerseys were actually quite nice, but the SA super rugby superhero jerseys completely miss the mark for me, with the possible exemption of the Sharks. It’s all pretty subjective tbf. One mans radically different / revolutionary is another mans too far / ludicrous
Yeah definitely. I've stated that on my top comment that this is largely subjective because everyone's going to disagree on one or two of them. There are some people on here that have a bug bear with that, and fail to realise that people may have different opinions to their own. Well stated though, I appreciate your comment.
Ninh Ly The original Steelers hooped jerseys would have dated back to when they didn’t wear huge plastic shoulder pads underneath the jersey, so they would have looked fine back then. However hooped jerseys worn over modern gridiron plastic armor just makes the players look like bloated bumblebees. There’s a reason why all post WWII era gridiron jerseys are all solid colors, no hoops except maybe on the sleeves.
It alwas was like the Goalkeeper being that flamboyant Peacock with Rainbowcolours and the rest of the players looked kinda plain ... i really liked that :D
I agree, there was nothing wrong with their classic look. I know that they tried to do a re-iteration of one of their jerseys this year, but it clearly didn't work. I heard that the league or Disney put a stop to them bringing it back, but I'm not sure that's 100% fact.
The MLB jerseys from the 1990's were the infamous "Turn Ahead The Clock" unis. They didn't go over very well. And shame on you for not mentioning the Vancouver Canucks "V" jerseys.
Yes, they did not go down well at all. But shame? There's a LOT of bad jerseys out there. The flying V jersey was bad for sure, but I'd argue that the 10 aforementioned were worse (subjectively, obviously). Thanks bro.
Whilst the Preds mustard jersey wasn't that bad in terms of colour, the second rate logos certainly didn't help. Still better than the worst 10 I mentioned though.
Lol. I actually like the bumblebee Steelers jerseys. Not to wear, just to collect because it's a throw back jersey, But I'm a Steelers fan, and I'll definitely agree, they are quite ugly. I thought they looked like convicts with numbers.
Finally, a Steelers fan who actually agree their jersey is ugly! And I completely agree that they look like convicts in that one. The color rush ones however are awesome. Thanks bro.
The color scheme probably made sense back in the b&w television days, but don't translate well today. It could be worse. I bet Collingwood (Black and White vertical stripes) v. Geelong (Blue and White horizontal stripes) in the AFL would be fun to keep track of on a b&w TV.
I'll be honest, I love the retro jerseys that teams do as long as it's only for one or two games. I think it's a great way to honor a team's history. Even if it does make the players look like a bumble bee or a barber's pole (New York Rangers).
The Sabres "Buffaslug" jersey, any neon green jersey (Seahawks, WLAF Orlando Thunder), the Eagles 30s yellow throwback, oh, and the time the Arena Football League incorporated Zubaz patterns in their uniforms in the 90s.
As a canucks fan i see them as a very important part of the teams history Sure they were FAR from the nicest jersey But can you name a more distinctive hockey jersey? If you wear one in a crowd you will be noticed instantly Also they were worn during 1982 when they went all the way to the stanley cup finals
Ninh explains - the Top 10 Worst Sports jerseys ever made. Before any commenters or PETA nut jobs hate on this: 1) This was based on other people’s opinions and my own. This is not meant to be a definitive 100% accurate objective guide. People are entitled to their own opinions, so don't be a dick if your opinion doesn't match mine. 2) I must have had a brain-fart moment when I didn’t include the Nashville Predators mustard jersey or the Jacksonville Jaguars ‘gold’ color-rush monstrosity in the Top 10. They’re mentioned in the video, but probably deserved to be shamed in detail. 3) Before any of you comment that I’m a Manchester United hater, I am actually a Manchester United fan. And those that counter with ‘you’re just a tourist fan’, I currently sharing a season ticket in the Stretford end. 4) I made an error - it's not the Colombian National Cycling team - just a private team from Colombia apparently.
The 1999 Ryder Cup uniforms that the U.S. team wore were absolutely hideous (and I'm saying that as an American who loves golf and the U.S. Ryder Cup team).
Oh god, I remember those '90s goalkeeper kits. And in the inaugural season of Major League Soccer, *all* the kits were '90s goalie kit caliber, except for D.C. United, who were the only team whose kits looked like the kits of a professional football club.
It certainly appears that way?! I understand that if you talk about subjective things, you're always going to get a ton of people that will vehemently disagree with you. It's just the nature of TH-cam these days.
Somehow the Habs (Montréal Canadien NHL) striped throwback from their centennial didn't mad the list. Good. I wouldn't want anyone to see it ever again.
The Los Angeles Kings colors were the same as the Los Angeles Lakers until the Oakland Raiders moved to Los Angeles. Then the Kings changed their colors to match the Raiders. The original team colors were far better.
The worst jersey combination ever was on Nov. 12, 2015. The Buffalo Bills and the New York Jets played in their "color rush" uniforms with the Bills in all red (with white helmets) and the Jets in all green (with white helmets). The game was unwatchable for anyone with red/green colorblindness, due to the particular shades of red and green being seen as the the same tint by those viewers. Honorable mention: the Dec. 17, 2015 game between the St. Louis Rams and Tampa Bay Buccaneers was another color rush game...only it looked like bottles of mustard playing bottles of ketchup.
I'm glad the NFL ditched the color rush thing. The beauty of most uniforms is how the team's colors all interact with each other. Color rush games looked like Atari 2600 sprites.
The 90s MLB uniforms were a special "turn ahead the clock" promo (in contrast to the NFL doing their 75th anniversary throwbacks a few years earlier...the first time that throwbacks really became a thing in North American sports). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_Ahead_the_Clock Interesting fact: a lot of "throwback" NFL jerseys became the teams "new" colors. The LA Rams had white (from 1964-1972) or yellow (1948-1963, 1973-1999) horns on their helmets before changing to gold after they won their first Super Bowl (after moving to St. Louis in 1995); after they moved back to LA in 2016, they changed back to wearing either white or yellow horns as part of their regular uniforms. The LA Chargers started out in the AFL in 1960 with light blue jerseys and white helmets, then getting to a medium blue jersey and navy helmet look in 1974, then to all navy in 1985. They wore their original AFL uniforms for a few games in the 1994 75th Anniversary season and the fans loved them, so they started wearing those uniforms more often starting in 2000 before returning to a "modernized" light blue jersey/white helmet look in 2007. I'm an NFL uniforms nerd :P (My favorite all-time NFL uniforms are the 2004 Cincinnati Bengals...not because they're my favorite team or anything...)
Yes, I'm fully aware which promotion they're from. It was also a test to see how fans would react to such designs with the hopes of implementing them. Obviously they were abysmal and they never saw light again. As for the 'throwback jerseys' - I hate them. Near enough all of them ... evolution is a thing for a reason!
Sometimes, fans just love the old unis. Or the rebrands were just kinda ugly. The Bills went back to their late-70s look and those are a lot better than their 90s look. Same goes for the OG Pat The Patriot vs. Flying Elvis or the Gay Creamsicle Pirate vs. Ugly Buccaneers jerseys :P Whereas the Bengals and Broncos should burn their inaugural season unis from everyone's memories.
I don't mind if they update a classic look (like the Padres did just now, that's pretty sweet). But to bring back something exactly like it was 50 years ago seems counter-intuitive. And yes - I agree with your assessment of the Bengals/Broncos jerseys.
Islanders fan here, personally I really like the new alternate jersey we wear, I actually own one and a lot of people love them. I actually own a fisherman jersey as well, and I actually kinda like them in a retro sorta way. By far the worst jerseys we ever had were the black and gray ones, and the black Brooklyn Nets inspired jerseys.
I got panned for saying that, but real fans like yourself agree that the silver/black thing and the Brooklyn Nets inspired jerseys were terrible. Statistically and from a fan point of view - just terrible. Thanks bro.
When you got to Man United, I thought you were going to say about that grey kit they wore in the 90s again Southampton, and they let 3 goals in, in the first half and Sir Alex made them change to their blue and white strip for the second half because quote "they couldn't see each other".
The grey kit was infamous because of the reason you specified. It was unlucky and players claimed they couldn't see each other. Why they released a grey kit last season was beyond me?! Did they learn nothing?! I like most of the Adidas Manchester United kits. But the grey and this seasons pink one (as well as the one in the video) are in the wall of shame.
You have a horrible taste in jersey designs and the Miami Heat jerseys were fab favorites so they even replicated them the next year with slight changes
In the defence of SF Paris, Pink is a very noble colour in some places and pink being referred as a "Girl's colour" it takes special bravery to wear pink and make pink look badass rather than players soft. Remember Bret Hart anyone?
It was their 'unlucky' grey shirt in the mid 90's - they hadn't won many games wearing it. The actual reason was that they couldn't see each other on the pitch, so Sir Alex made them change to a white kit at half time.
Around 2010 the Montreal Canadiens wore a throwback jersey to the 1920s that had like a million little stripes and the gloves and pants they wore were brown that jersey was terrible
Actually, studies have demonstrated that SEEING the color pink reduces aggression, which is why many prisons have switched to pink jump suits, and why the University of Colorado used to have the visiting team's locker room painted entirely pink in their football stadium . . . and why that was eventually made against the rules in their conference. So wearing mostly or all pink uniforms actually makes the other team softer/weaker. I suspect the way so many sports teams have embraced "wearing pink for breast cancer awareness" has as much to do with this fact as it does with a desire to fight cancer. {8^))
For number 2 i'd basically add every other single NHL alternate jerseys from the late 90's and early 2000's. There's the bull logo jersey for Dallas Stars, the Pooh bear logo for Boston Bruins, the mustard Nashville Predators jersey, oil drop Edmonton Oilers jersey, stormy sea Tampa Bay Lightning jersey, and the list goes on...
I must admit, the 90's didn't fare too well for hockey. There were quite a few bad ones, some of which you've stated. I must have brain farted when Nashville's mustard jersey didn't make the top 10.
In fairness to those 90s baseball jerseys, they were not the regular jerseys for any of the teams, but were worn for a one-day promotional event called "turn ahead the clock night." They were supposed to be "futuristic" uniforms. You're right to say they were all terrible, but they were not worn more than once. It started as a special promotional event in 1998 for the Seattle Mariners and their opponent that night, the Kansas City Royals. Then the following year, MLB had every team do it for one night. A few of them looked OK, the rest were awful. That promotion never happened again. In general, the 90s were a pretty good decade for baseball uniform design, with a return to the traditional button-up style of jerseys after the 70s and 80s-era pullovers and double-knits. That promotion was the big exception.
Disagree with a lot of these takes, but I just want to add a bit. 1) The Earned jerseys are all homages to the past or the city or something. If you read up, they all mean something that I fell connects very well with each of the cities. They aren't just some cobbled together mess. 2) Those MLB jerseys you showed were basically SUPPOSED to look ridiculous. They were all from a promotion that was a throwforward instead of a throwback. They were intentionally ridiculously "futuristic" (or retro-futuristic, to us anyways) as a couple game pronation, hence why they are so radically different (hell, the Mariners whole color scheme was different, which I think is pretty funny given their colors are literally oceans colors. What else would the "Mariners" be?) So, yeah, they suck. But that was the idea.
Thank you for your comments. To answer your points ... - You're entitled to your opinion of course, but as mentioned in my top comment - I'm entitled to mine. I don't mind people disagreeing with me, but this is a largely subjective video. - I am fully aware of the meaning behind the city jerseys. My qualm is that the links are tenuous and it's merely a marketing ploy/excuse to peddle more jerseys. Miami's jerseys were based from 'Miami Vice', but what's a TV show have to do with basketball? Minnesota's jerseys are inspired by Prince. What's Prince got to do with basketball? If you still think that this is to reflect the culture of these respective cities, you might as well put Donald Trump on the front of Knicks jerseys. Besides, no team needs 6 jerseys per season - do they? - I don't think the MLB jerseys were 'supposed' to look ridiculous. I believe that they were testing the market for an overhaul of the look of baseball jerseys. This isn't the first time a sport has done this (see hockey). The fact that the fans hated them, meant that these jerseys never saw light of day again. And for good reason.
Major League Baseball in the United States toyed with pastel uniforms during the late '70s and '80s. They were horrible. Also during this time the Chicago White Sox actually wore a uniform with shorts. Yes, I said shorts. You have to see them to believe it.
The wacky MLB jerseys were part of a "Turn Ahead the Clock" gimmick in 1999, and were supposed emulate what jerseys might look like in 2021. It was a failure.
I honestly like loud jerseys, especially those goalie kits. They're ugly, yeah, but I think they're fun and unique. Sports could always use more of a sense of fun. Probably the reason why my all-time favourite jersey is the Coyotes' original jersey.
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While I do think the 90s MLB jerseys are bad, I do like how they stand out. The reason I like them is because almost all of the current team uniforms look the same and look very bland.
The worst jersey ever belongs to Colorado Caribous in the 1970s. They had a jersey in witch there were tassels on the jersey. What were they thinking?!
To be fair I liked the majority of Sports Jerseys shown here. Sports Jerseys aren't only used for performance anymore. Especially the NBA Jerseys looked really cool and aren't always plain and boring.
It's always going to be a subjective video, and as explained in the top comment - people are always going to have preferences and disagree. My take on the NBA jerseys is that they are poorly designed and the links as to why they designed them that way are tenuous at best.
With the NBA jerseys, in the beginning of the season, each team was given a “city edition” jersey. Two teams would play and the winner of that game would gain a “reward” Jersey, given the fact that each team doesn’t have one.
So the takeaways here were: 90s designers sucked when it came to jersey designs, and if you haven’t made the NBA playoffs, then you would be able to skip the god awful earned jersey thing.. seems like those were the main points in a nutshell.. lol!
I like the Islanders' fisherman jerseys as well! We're one of the few and when you put the team on the list, I thought for sure you would mention them. Worst NFL jerseys are the Denver Broncos Yellow and Brown ones IMO.
What made those Yellow and Brown uni's even worse were those vertical striped socks! A Bronco GM of the 1960's said in an NFL film that when he became GM the team put all but a few of those vertical striped socks in a bonfire.
I think the 90s may have the first time goalies could wear anything that wasn't just green (other colours were pretty rare). Anything made by Ribero for the early 90s in English Football deserves an honorable mention. Burnley, Coventry and Norwich had... 'Interesting' kits.
Those 90s MLB Jerseys are just the future jerseys teams wore in 1999. Fun concept, but it shows how badly these have aged and how unlikely it is to see them in 2027.
In Aussie rules football the worst guernsey (jersey) of all time was worn by the Brisbane Bears (1987 - 1991). www.lions.com.au/staticfile/AFL%20Tenant/BrisbaneLions/Images/Web8.png
@@NinhLyUK yeash! How did I miss that. Plaid diamond patterns should never be worn unless reclining in a Chesterfield, smoking cigars and drinking cognac.
Ninh Ly Fair point. I know that Port Adelaide has had a few, and North Melbourne (who are white with vertical blue stripes) went orange at one point. Most of the time though the horrid jerseys are made for special events like charity matches or “clashes”, so they differ from a lot of those suggested in the video in that the bad jerseys were substitutes rather than replacements. It’s an interesting topic though. I enjoyed the video.
Thanks man, I appreciate that! Yeah some of the special jerseys or 'clash' jerseys tend to be completely off the wall. PA Power also have some bad ones I completely forgot about those?!
Yeah, I love the Raps one. But the earned jerseys in my opinion are poorly designed and the links as to why they designed them that way are tenuous at best ... again, in my opinion.
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The neon Miami jerseys looked cool in a retrowave style. At least in the advert for the jersey
If that was their look anyway, then I guess so.
But it's so far removed from what they actually wear.
I'm perplexed as to why would you dress a basketball team to commemorate a TV show? I'm not so sure about that.
Honestly, most of the earned jerseys look good. Especially Miami and Boston
While Miami's hot pink look does kind of work for the style. And if Miami ever gets another WNBA team they should use those colors. But personally I'm so sick of anything retrowave right now due to the saturation of that style right now that it's best to keep them off the court.
@@NinhLyUK I can see you're point there, but I would say that, that neon pink & blue color scheme is quite infamous with Miami as a city itself. It's fair to say that you could consider it part of the Miami brand, and not just an iconic TV show logo. So, that alternative design, really does fit the city well. That's the one of these new alternative jerseys the NBA uses that I don't have that big an issue it for that reason.
The rest of them however, I agree with you, they suck.
@@NinhLyUK the colors represent Miami so well plus gay people probably will love it
Even though 90s goalie kits look stupid sometimes. I like them because they all look creative
That's certainly a word to describe them!
Wycombe did one recently that was mental
Love them.
Thee 1994 World Cup shirts where great
The Miami vice jerseys are fire though 😂
Each to their own I guess.
It belongs IN a fire
Most of the earned jerseys were dope
Ninh Ly most people think its fire
As a rugby union fan, I actually like Stade Français Paris’ jersey because it’s pink which you don’t see at all in sports uniforms (kits). I don’t support the team (I’m a Racing 92 fan), but I do respect the lightning bolts LOL
I just find it very strange that they deck themselves out in total pink.
Now if it was predominantly navy with pink, then I'm all for that.
It's certainly unique, that's for sure.
Exactly what I was thinking, it's is kinda badass in a special way
LOL
Check out U.S. Città di Palermo for an example of the pink uniform done well.
@@NinhLyUK Former club president Max Guazzini decided to have a pink color away kit that proved to be very popular with fans and became their home kit later. From 2005 onwards, STP had some horrible kits.
I don't think you understand what the earned nba Jerseys represent. NBA teams have always been experimental when it came to Jersey designs, team colour designs... The Miami Heat Jerseys are an homage to Miami vice colours, the Cavs jersey is a classic throwback, the Timberwolves one is a reference to Prince, Milwaukee is another throwback... I agree that you can dislike the Jersey due to it's design, but you can't call it bad just because you don't know the deeper meaning of it.
Well, I actually do.
I'm fully aware that each jersey has some sort of meaning, Miami vice, Cleveland's colours from the 90's, Toronto's 'We The North' campaign etc.
But as mentioned in the video, they're all badly designed. I stand by that.
@@NinhLyUK What do you mean by "badly designed"? What principles/standards are you using? Is it how well they convey their message, how well they identify the team, sloppy execution? "Badly designed" doesn't explain your specific problems with the jerseys, it's just a vague complaint used without explanation. How do you think they were poorly designed?
@@NinhLyUKI see. I apologise for the inconvenience. I just really like those kind of Jerseys. Anyway, I think I found some really bad ones (trust me, you don't want to see them)
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@ Matthew Waterton I actually didn't mind the Dallas constellation jersey ... if they didn't use red, it'd actually work.
The rest are bad, for sure.
Sixers star jersey was made because the got independence in Philadelphia( where the sixers play )
The Toronto jersey at the end is considered to be one of the best basketball uniforms of all time...
I love that uniform, but it gets panned a lot.
@@milochanel9491 no, i started watching the nba at 6 years old. And ive loved that uniform. And i dont know somebody who watches the nba and dislikes that uniform
@@milochanel9491 no it doesn't lol
The Aussie Llama exactlyyy
The Packers throwback has successfully survived a "worst jersey" video
They're not the worst I've ever seen, but I actually like their look anyway.
Seriously. I’m a Packer fan and the old throwbacks look atrocious.
@@MrPresident1878 Same, and I wouldn't buy one in a million years... don't get me started about the eyesore that they call the Bucks city jerseys this year
So have the Browns
@@dayne357 the Bucks white ones look good, but the yellow ones look awful
Definitely a subjective subject. I like loud jerseys.
Totally. And yeah, sometimes it's okay. Radical evolution is sometimes a good thing.
Tbh there’s a few I disagree with here. The NBA earned, and most Stade jerseys (some are a bit insane) imo look ok to even good. I’d agree that the Raptors original jerseys were actually quite nice, but the SA super rugby superhero jerseys completely miss the mark for me, with the possible exemption of the Sharks. It’s all pretty subjective tbf. One mans radically different / revolutionary is another mans too far / ludicrous
Yeah definitely. I've stated that on my top comment that this is largely subjective because everyone's going to disagree on one or two of them. There are some people on here that have a bug bear with that, and fail to realise that people may have different opinions to their own. Well stated though, I appreciate your comment.
The Steelers Jerseys look more like a stripped rugby Jersey
Yeah, for sure. Hoops are acceptable in Rugby.
American football - not so much.
Yeah, I thought of the Wasps on the spot.
Gridiron (Canadian and American) football evolved from Rugby. A lot of early teams wore striped uniforms.
Ninh Ly The original Steelers hooped jerseys would have dated back to when they didn’t wear huge plastic shoulder pads underneath the jersey, so they would have looked fine back then. However hooped jerseys worn over modern gridiron plastic armor just makes the players look like bloated bumblebees. There’s a reason why all post WWII era gridiron jerseys are all solid colors, no hoops except maybe on the sleeves.
Like the traditional London wasps rugby Jersey
Miss the old goal keeper uniforms.
I think they're starting to being the patterns back, albeit subtly.
It alwas was like the Goalkeeper being that flamboyant Peacock with Rainbowcolours and the rest of the players looked kinda plain ... i really liked that :D
As an Anaheim Ducks fan, I can say that a large majority want the Mighty Ducks jerseys abd logos back, but I'm not sure about that jersey...
I agree, there was nothing wrong with their classic look.
I know that they tried to do a re-iteration of one of their jerseys this year, but it clearly didn't work.
I heard that the league or Disney put a stop to them bringing it back, but I'm not sure that's 100% fact.
Can't wait for them to go back full 90's, these classic teal and purple unis were fire. But I'm a 90's kid so I might be biaised lol
I personally like the 90s goalkeepr jerseys. They are way better than the modern boring one coloured
Each to their own I guess.
The SF jerseys at 4:18 and 4:34 actually look cool tho...
Each to their own I guess!
The MLB jerseys from the 1990's were the infamous "Turn Ahead The Clock" unis. They didn't go over very well. And shame on you for not mentioning the Vancouver Canucks "V" jerseys.
Yes, they did not go down well at all.
But shame? There's a LOT of bad jerseys out there. The flying V jersey was bad for sure, but I'd argue that the 10 aforementioned were worse (subjectively, obviously). Thanks bro.
@@NinhLyUK Something something liking the "Gortons Fisherman" jerseys... (I should talk, I love the Preds mustards, but I'm a bit biased...)
Whilst the Preds mustard jersey wasn't that bad in terms of colour, the second rate logos certainly didn't help. Still better than the worst 10 I mentioned though.
Lol. I actually like the bumblebee Steelers jerseys. Not to wear, just to collect because it's a throw back jersey, But I'm a Steelers fan, and I'll definitely agree, they are quite ugly. I thought they looked like convicts with numbers.
Finally, a Steelers fan who actually agree their jersey is ugly!
And I completely agree that they look like convicts in that one.
The color rush ones however are awesome.
Thanks bro.
I thought you said the Steelers were going to wear Penn State uniforms. No, I said State Pen.
The color scheme probably made sense back in the b&w television days, but don't translate well today. It could be worse. I bet Collingwood (Black and White vertical stripes) v. Geelong (Blue and White horizontal stripes) in the AFL would be fun to keep track of on a b&w TV.
I'll be honest, I love the retro jerseys that teams do as long as it's only for one or two games. I think it's a great way to honor a team's history. Even if it does make the players look like a bumble bee or a barber's pole (New York Rangers).
I'll agree with that. But there's certainly fine line between honouring a teams past and blatantly peddling shit to the general public.
The Sabres "Buffaslug" jersey, any neon green jersey (Seahawks, WLAF Orlando Thunder), the Eagles 30s yellow throwback, oh, and the time the Arena Football League incorporated Zubaz patterns in their uniforms in the 90s.
The Buffaslug jersey was okay ... it was just the logo that sucked!
The Canucks deep V jerseys were pretty Good awful.
Yeah, those were pretty bad.
As a canucks fan i see them as a very important part of the teams history
Sure they were FAR from the nicest jersey
But can you name a more distinctive hockey jersey?
If you wear one in a crowd you will be noticed instantly
Also they were worn during 1982 when they went all the way to the stanley cup finals
90’s Soccer goalies: we have wild kits. 90’s Hockey goalies: hold my beer, eh.
I still think 90's soccer goalies has wilder kits.
Ninh I can't hear you
All these Jerseys are too loud
I don't think that cranking up my voice volume would have made a difference - those are some loud ass jerseys.
We can easily say that the 90's are the worst period for style. Even in everyday's fashion, not just in sport
I kinda agree with your statement!
Ninh explains - the Top 10 Worst Sports jerseys ever made. Before any commenters or PETA nut jobs hate on this:
1) This was based on other people’s opinions and my own. This is not meant to be a definitive 100% accurate objective guide. People are entitled to their own opinions, so don't be a dick if your opinion doesn't match mine.
2) I must have had a brain-fart moment when I didn’t include the Nashville Predators mustard jersey or the Jacksonville Jaguars ‘gold’ color-rush monstrosity in the Top 10. They’re mentioned in the video, but probably deserved to be shamed in detail.
3) Before any of you comment that I’m a Manchester United hater, I am actually a Manchester United fan. And those that counter with ‘you’re just a tourist fan’, I currently sharing a season ticket in the Stretford end.
4) I made an error - it's not the Colombian National Cycling team - just a private team from Colombia apparently.
You should see Bedale Town's away kit, that was my local team
Oh yeah, those are bad.
The state kits are an iconic kit. It represents everything the club is about and how they play.
I think the Raptors earned jersey is pretty cool
I’d give the Preds and the Jags an Honorable Mention on the list (but that’s just me).
The 1999 Ryder Cup uniforms that the U.S. team wore were absolutely hideous (and I'm saying that as an American who loves golf and the U.S. Ryder Cup team).
Oh yeah, those were bad for sure!
The 1977 Chicago White Sox uniforms.
Short shorts and high socks.
You could see their knees.
As you might expect, they didn't last long.
I actually remember those! The jerseys were bad, but the shorts were way worse!
Their knees did not last long either! Comiskey Park had an Astroturf infield at the time.
Oh god, I remember those '90s goalkeeper kits. And in the inaugural season of Major League Soccer, *all* the kits were '90s goalie kit caliber, except for D.C. United, who were the only team whose kits looked like the kits of a professional football club.
Yeah, some of those early MLS kits were awful. I remember the Tampa Bay Mutiny jerseys being exceptionally bad.
@@NinhLyUK With a name as bad as "Mutiny," it only followed that their jerseys were atrocious.
1:41 Lionel Ritchie is that you?
That's the legendary Rene Higuita, aka 'El Loco'.
Search for his highlights, he was seriously bat shit crazy.
The 2003 Geelong Cats clash Jumper that they wore against Collingwood and North Melbourne was pretty shocking
You're the absolute king of making perfectly reasonable statements and getting tons of dislikes because of them
It certainly appears that way?!
I understand that if you talk about subjective things, you're always going to get a ton of people that will vehemently disagree with you. It's just the nature of TH-cam these days.
Somehow the Habs (Montréal Canadien NHL) striped throwback from their centennial didn't mad the list. Good. I wouldn't want anyone to see it ever again.
Oh yeah, those were bad. But I suppose it was just an exhibition jersey - so I didn't really count that.
There are so many bad designs....part 2 & 3, please?!
If I get enough demand, for sure.
The Los Angeles Kings colors were the same as the Los Angeles Lakers until the Oakland Raiders moved to Los Angeles. Then the Kings changed their colors to match the Raiders. The original team colors were far better.
I believe so. I actually preferred the black silver and purple. Having just black and silver is boring.
Minor League Baseball uniforms... there are some hideous ones
Yes, there's some strange ones out there.
I actually do like the Fresno Tacos one ... but that's about it.
@@NinhLyUK I love, love, love some of the minor league baseball teams' HATS - but that's not why we're here, is it?
The worst jersey combination ever was on Nov. 12, 2015. The Buffalo Bills and the New York Jets played in their "color rush" uniforms with the Bills in all red (with white helmets) and the Jets in all green (with white helmets). The game was unwatchable for anyone with red/green colorblindness, due to the particular shades of red and green being seen as the the same tint by those viewers.
Honorable mention: the Dec. 17, 2015 game between the St. Louis Rams and Tampa Bay Buccaneers was another color rush game...only it looked like bottles of mustard playing bottles of ketchup.
Mmmmm. mustard and ketchup!
But yeah, the NFL didn't think that one through.
I'm glad the NFL ditched the color rush thing. The beauty of most uniforms is how the team's colors all interact with each other. Color rush games looked like Atari 2600 sprites.
You should have included the athletic Bilbao ketchup kit
Yeah that was bad.
The 90s MLB uniforms were a special "turn ahead the clock" promo (in contrast to the NFL doing their 75th anniversary throwbacks a few years earlier...the first time that throwbacks really became a thing in North American sports).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_Ahead_the_Clock
Interesting fact: a lot of "throwback" NFL jerseys became the teams "new" colors. The LA Rams had white (from 1964-1972) or yellow (1948-1963, 1973-1999) horns on their helmets before changing to gold after they won their first Super Bowl (after moving to St. Louis in 1995); after they moved back to LA in 2016, they changed back to wearing either white or yellow horns as part of their regular uniforms. The LA Chargers started out in the AFL in 1960 with light blue jerseys and white helmets, then getting to a medium blue jersey and navy helmet look in 1974, then to all navy in 1985. They wore their original AFL uniforms for a few games in the 1994 75th Anniversary season and the fans loved them, so they started wearing those uniforms more often starting in 2000 before returning to a "modernized" light blue jersey/white helmet look in 2007. I'm an NFL uniforms nerd :P (My favorite all-time NFL uniforms are the 2004 Cincinnati Bengals...not because they're my favorite team or anything...)
Yes, I'm fully aware which promotion they're from. It was also a test to see how fans would react to such designs with the hopes of implementing them. Obviously they were abysmal and they never saw light again.
As for the 'throwback jerseys' - I hate them. Near enough all of them ... evolution is a thing for a reason!
Sometimes, fans just love the old unis. Or the rebrands were just kinda ugly. The Bills went back to their late-70s look and those are a lot better than their 90s look. Same goes for the OG Pat The Patriot vs. Flying Elvis or the Gay Creamsicle Pirate vs. Ugly Buccaneers jerseys :P
Whereas the Bengals and Broncos should burn their inaugural season unis from everyone's memories.
I don't mind if they update a classic look (like the Padres did just now, that's pretty sweet).
But to bring back something exactly like it was 50 years ago seems counter-intuitive.
And yes - I agree with your assessment of the Bengals/Broncos jerseys.
I would've been disappointed if the trumpet jerseys were not on here. My wife actually likes those abominations.
Well, if she has an original one - it's worth some serious dollars!
Keep up the videos. I learned a lot with this one!
Thanks man, will do.
dont know why the sixers jersey is bad, its totally just the same jersey just without the words PHILA and with stars...
I could give the Sixers jersey a pass I guess.
Islanders fan here, personally I really like the new alternate jersey we wear, I actually own one and a lot of people love them. I actually own a fisherman jersey as well, and I actually kinda like them in a retro sorta way. By far the worst jerseys we ever had were the black and gray ones, and the black Brooklyn Nets inspired jerseys.
I got panned for saying that, but real fans like yourself agree that the silver/black thing and the Brooklyn Nets inspired jerseys were terrible. Statistically and from a fan point of view - just terrible. Thanks bro.
I like the pelicans one
Each to their own I guess. There's certainly worse ones in that collection!
When you got to Man United, I thought you were going to say about that grey kit they wore in the 90s again Southampton, and they let 3 goals in, in the first half and Sir Alex made them change to their blue and white strip for the second half because quote "they couldn't see each other".
The grey kit was infamous because of the reason you specified. It was unlucky and players claimed they couldn't see each other.
Why they released a grey kit last season was beyond me?! Did they learn nothing?!
I like most of the Adidas Manchester United kits. But the grey and this seasons pink one (as well as the one in the video) are in the wall of shame.
1:22 that’s the only time I’m gonna see my beloved villa on the channel
Probably, yeah.
Ninh Ly also you could have put fiorentina nazi jersey on the list
Yeah, apparently they ended up banning those?!
You have a horrible taste in jersey designs and the Miami Heat jerseys were fab favorites so they even replicated them the next year with slight changes
Nope. Because why would you dress your basketball team in the style of a 1980's TV show ... which had nothing to do with Basketball?
1:17 JORGE CAMPOS!
Yep.
In the defence of SF Paris, Pink is a very noble colour in some places and pink being referred as a "Girl's colour" it takes special bravery to wear pink and make pink look badass rather than players soft. Remember Bret Hart anyone?
Can u do a video on wrestling like school wrestling not wwe
You mean this one? th-cam.com/video/OwUEPby3Bko/w-d-xo.html
Ninh Ly my bad didn’t see that
Wasn't it Man U who had a kit that was so bad that they had to change at half time because it was too similar to their opponents?
It was their 'unlucky' grey shirt in the mid 90's - they hadn't won many games wearing it. The actual reason was that they couldn't see each other on the pitch, so Sir Alex made them change to a white kit at half time.
You bring up the brooklyn jerseys, but not the fisherman in an ugly Jersey video? Never thought I'd see the day.
As mentioned at the end of the video ... quite like the fisherman jersey.
@@NinhLyUK omg I didn't even notice lol I feel like an idiot now
No worries bro. I grew up in an era where they wore those, so to me it was perfectly normal to see them play in 'fish sticks'.
"So, who bought it? Oh, oh, these guys"...shows two pictures with a combined total of one person wearing the jersey being criticized.
It's ... a .... joke.
Somebody needs to lighten the hell up ....
@peterhoz Indeed!
Around 2010 the Montreal Canadiens wore a throwback jersey to the 1920s that had like a million little stripes and the gloves and pants they wore were brown that jersey was terrible
Ah yes, the multicoloured barberpole thing. That was bad. And brown makes it doubly worse.
Actually, studies have demonstrated that SEEING the color pink reduces aggression, which is why many prisons have switched to pink jump suits, and why the University of Colorado used to have the visiting team's locker room painted entirely pink in their football stadium . . . and why that was eventually made against the rules in their conference. So wearing mostly or all pink uniforms actually makes the other team softer/weaker. I suspect the way so many sports teams have embraced "wearing pink for breast cancer awareness" has as much to do with this fact as it does with a desire to fight cancer. {8^))
I was very disappointed to not see the Vancouver Canucks Flying V Jersey. That is the worst of all time.
That was bad for sure. i didn't want to put too many hockey jerseys in there though.
True.
For number 2 i'd basically add every other single NHL alternate jerseys from the late 90's and early 2000's. There's the bull logo jersey for Dallas Stars, the Pooh bear logo for Boston Bruins, the mustard Nashville Predators jersey, oil drop Edmonton Oilers jersey, stormy sea Tampa Bay Lightning jersey, and the list goes on...
I must admit, the 90's didn't fare too well for hockey.
There were quite a few bad ones, some of which you've stated.
I must have brain farted when Nashville's mustard jersey didn't make the top 10.
I like the 90s MLB jerseys with the logos. I’m not American but they seem really iconic.
I think they were a one day promotion, but they never caught on.
I see them in movies a lot
I don’t even think that all pink jerseys look bad
All of the pink jerseys in this video look sick
Each to their own I guess.
Big disagree on the Miami vice and the pink lightning bolt team, the vapor wave aesthetic is cool af.
Each to their own I guess.
But what does an 80's TV show have to do with basketball?
The answer: nothing.
Those superhero themed Rugby jerseys are the worst for me.
Some of them aren't too bad. Some of them are just terrible.
In fairness to those 90s baseball jerseys, they were not the regular jerseys for any of the teams, but were worn for a one-day promotional event called "turn ahead the clock night." They were supposed to be "futuristic" uniforms. You're right to say they were all terrible, but they were not worn more than once. It started as a special promotional event in 1998 for the Seattle Mariners and their opponent that night, the Kansas City Royals. Then the following year, MLB had every team do it for one night. A few of them looked OK, the rest were awful. That promotion never happened again. In general, the 90s were a pretty good decade for baseball uniform design, with a return to the traditional button-up style of jerseys after the 70s and 80s-era pullovers and double-knits. That promotion was the big exception.
Apparently so, yeah. I think if they took off in popularity, they would have worn it more than one time.
Disagree with a lot of these takes, but I just want to add a bit. 1) The Earned jerseys are all homages to the past or the city or something. If you read up, they all mean something that I fell connects very well with each of the cities. They aren't just some cobbled together mess. 2) Those MLB jerseys you showed were basically SUPPOSED to look ridiculous. They were all from a promotion that was a throwforward instead of a throwback. They were intentionally ridiculously "futuristic" (or retro-futuristic, to us anyways) as a couple game pronation, hence why they are so radically different (hell, the Mariners whole color scheme was different, which I think is pretty funny given their colors are literally oceans colors. What else would the "Mariners" be?) So, yeah, they suck. But that was the idea.
Thank you for your comments. To answer your points ...
- You're entitled to your opinion of course, but as mentioned in my top comment - I'm entitled to mine. I don't mind people disagreeing with me, but this is a largely subjective video.
- I am fully aware of the meaning behind the city jerseys. My qualm is that the links are tenuous and it's merely a marketing ploy/excuse to peddle more jerseys. Miami's jerseys were based from 'Miami Vice', but what's a TV show have to do with basketball? Minnesota's jerseys are inspired by Prince. What's Prince got to do with basketball? If you still think that this is to reflect the culture of these respective cities, you might as well put Donald Trump on the front of Knicks jerseys. Besides, no team needs 6 jerseys per season - do they?
- I don't think the MLB jerseys were 'supposed' to look ridiculous. I believe that they were testing the market for an overhaul of the look of baseball jerseys. This isn't the first time a sport has done this (see hockey). The fact that the fans hated them, meant that these jerseys never saw light of day again. And for good reason.
4:40 The jersey make people who wear that look like colossal titan in Japanese series 'Attack on Titan'
Kind of, yeah.
Major League Baseball in the United States toyed with pastel uniforms during the late '70s and '80s. They were horrible. Also during this time the Chicago White Sox actually wore a uniform with shorts. Yes, I said shorts. You have to see them to believe it.
That Pittsburgh Steelers striped jersey is the best one in the NFL, hands down. But most of the rest of those are bad.
The bumblebees jersey? No way. The Steelers color rush jerseys however were beautiful.
And yes, the rest were bad.
@@NinhLyUK The bumblebee jersey is the best. If I were a Steelers fan, I'd buy one. The yellow and black stripes look sharp.
Each to their own I guess.
Who said the old raptors jerseys were bad?
Vince Carter made the jerseys look good
A lot of people, but I thought they were great.
I had successfully blocked out 90s baseball uniforms until now...
I did too until i did the research for this video!
The Miami Vice jerseys is one of the most loved jerseys in the NBA.
The wacky MLB jerseys were part of a "Turn Ahead the Clock" gimmick in 1999, and were supposed emulate what jerseys might look like in 2021. It was a failure.
Yep, they definitely were a fail.
This guy has no idea what he’s talking about, personally as a Celtics fan I think a lot of the earned jerseys are fire but the Celtics one is ugly af
Read the top comment.
Ninh Ly I did. You have horrible taste and opinions.
I honestly like loud jerseys, especially those goalie kits. They're ugly, yeah, but I think they're fun and unique. Sports could always use more of a sense of fun.
Probably the reason why my all-time favourite jersey is the Coyotes' original jersey.
The Coyotes original jerseys were sweet! I'm glad they brought them back for this season, albeit temporarily.
Resume of the video: we paid a freelancer to say a thing you like is dogshit because the google/facebook duopoly ate the whole digital ad market and now harvesting hate clicks is the only viable busines model for online media
I honestly wish that was the case ... because then I would have been actually paid something.
4:44 those shirts look absolutely disgusting 👎🤮 they deserve to be thrown in the bin or even burnt.
Exactly.
While I do think the 90s MLB jerseys are bad, I do like how they stand out. The reason I like them is because almost all of the current team uniforms look the same and look very bland.
I suppose you're right. I think they were just a little too ahead of their time.
Bland and boring uniforms? It wouldn't be baseball without them! :P
The worst jersey ever belongs to Colorado Caribous in the 1970s. They had a jersey in witch there were tassels on the jersey. What were they thinking?!
I saw that one, but I wasn't sure if it was fact or not.
@@NinhLyUK I think there are photos of games where they played with that. Although I could be wrong.
Eetu Heikurinen They played the entire season in them although they shortened the fringe some as it got in the way.
To be fair I liked the majority of Sports Jerseys shown here. Sports Jerseys aren't only used for performance anymore. Especially the NBA Jerseys looked really cool and aren't always plain and boring.
It's always going to be a subjective video, and as explained in the top comment - people are always going to have preferences and disagree.
My take on the NBA jerseys is that they are poorly designed and the links as to why they designed them that way are tenuous at best.
With the NBA jerseys, in the beginning of the season, each team was given a “city edition” jersey. Two teams would play and the winner of that game would gain a “reward” Jersey, given the fact that each team doesn’t have one.
So that brings the total number of jerseys that a team can have to ... 6, 7, 8 or jerseys? Ridiculous.
Baseball in the 90s one was apart of a thing back then where they tried to predict what the jerseys looked like in the future
Yes it was. And they sucked.
So the takeaways here were: 90s designers sucked when it came to jersey designs, and if you haven’t made the NBA playoffs, then you would be able to skip the god awful earned jersey thing.. seems like those were the main points in a nutshell.. lol!
Correct on both points!
The Miami jerseys are sick. So are the Wolves’ prince jerseys
Each to their own I guess?
Carlton FC’s Yellow Jersey.
They’re called the fucking navy blues
Carlton does what Carlton does.
One video doesn't do justice to how many bad jerseys are out there considering how many sports teams there are.
Completely agree. There are some complete howlers out there.
Islanders' Fishsticks were so bad they were awesome.
True dat.
I like the Islanders' fisherman jerseys as well! We're one of the few and when you put the team on the list, I thought for sure you would mention them. Worst NFL jerseys are the Denver Broncos Yellow and Brown ones IMO.
The yellow and brown Broncos jerseys are pretty terrible, but there are far worse out there.
But bring back the fisherman!
What made those Yellow and Brown uni's even worse were those vertical striped socks! A Bronco GM of the 1960's said in an NFL film that when he became GM the team put all but a few of those vertical striped socks in a bonfire.
You forgot about the white Sox jerseys where they're wearing shorts
Ah, but that's shorts - not jerseys.
Colombian ladies cycling team? Are you sure it wasn't the Brazillian team?😄
No, they were definitely Colombian. If they were Brazilian ladies, they'd be mostly naked.
How do you have the nerve to call the Raptors earned jerseys bad? They're heat🔥🔥
They're exactly the same as the other ones. Now if they have TORONTO on the front, that'd be way better.
PS: Raptors fan since 1995.
Vancouver Canucks jerseys in the early 80's induced a couple of seizures, for sure.
Bit late with my comment but the worst one ever will always be the Colorado Caribous.
Yeah, those ones really sucked.
I think the 90s may have the first time goalies could wear anything that wasn't just green (other colours were pretty rare). Anything made by Ribero for the early 90s in English Football deserves an honorable mention. Burnley, Coventry and Norwich had... 'Interesting' kits.
Yeah, those ones were definitely 'interesting'.
I would include the Seahawks’ bright neon green color rush jerseys... just awful.
They were loud, for sure.
Collingwood Magpies / Hawthorn Hawks 1995 pre-season jerseys are sights to behold
Those 90s MLB Jerseys are just the future jerseys teams wore in 1999. Fun concept, but it shows how badly these have aged and how unlikely it is to see them in 2027.
Yes exactly! Some people on here have a bug bear about that, but I agree with you.
Liverpool green and white Bristol Rovers inspired abomination needs to be on this list
Liverpool has made some nasty kits over the years. But next seasons' upcoming ones are sweet.
What about the Miami dolphins orange jerseys those things burn my eyes
It's a little bad, but I don't think it's as bad as some of the others?
In Aussie rules football the worst guernsey (jersey) of all time was worn by the Brisbane Bears (1987 - 1991).
www.lions.com.au/staticfile/AFL%20Tenant/BrisbaneLions/Images/Web8.png
I think the Hawthorn 'Diamonds' Guernsey was worse?
@@NinhLyUK yeash! How did I miss that. Plaid diamond patterns should never be worn unless reclining in a Chesterfield, smoking cigars and drinking cognac.
@@philipandrew1626 Pretty much, yeah!
the raptors jerseys are one of if not the best if all time
I think so.
I went to art school and can confirm that the Islanders "Fisherman" logo is pure gold.
As a graphic designer, I totally agree! Bring back the fisherman!
You could have mentioned some AFL jerseys. There’ve been some shockers over the years.
The only one that comes to mind is Hawthorn's diamond shaped guernseys. Those were terrible.
Ninh Ly Fair point. I know that Port Adelaide has had a few, and North Melbourne (who are white with vertical blue stripes) went orange at one point. Most of the time though the horrid jerseys are made for special events like charity matches or “clashes”, so they differ from a lot of those suggested in the video in that the bad jerseys were substitutes rather than replacements.
It’s an interesting topic though. I enjoyed the video.
Thanks man, I appreciate that!
Yeah some of the special jerseys or 'clash' jerseys tend to be completely off the wall. PA Power also have some bad ones I completely forgot about those?!
Honestly it just sounds like you don't like when colors change
I got no problem with teams changing colours. I do have a problem with badly designed crap.
Honorable mention- Harlequins. Jesus. Jeeesus
Yes, I've never liked the Quins jerseys.
The raptors one is legendary and also most of the earned jerseys are good
Yeah, I love the Raps one. But the earned jerseys in my opinion are poorly designed and the links as to why they designed them that way are tenuous at best ... again, in my opinion.