Drunkard Posted March 12, 2015 Report Share Posted March 12, 2015 Absolutely not. We have to be smart enough as a fan base to recognize that we cannot give them any leeway because they WILL screw it up. It's this or nothing. Anything else and they will surely screw it up. This is funny, sad, and true all at the same time. Winter classics without the winter classic patch or flat out original jerseys. No gray cuffs, capes, slugs, pit stains, excess piping, or unnecessary gray lines all over the logo. Someone needs to just slap their hands and say NO! like you would with a toddler heading towards the light socket with a fork. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LGR4GM Posted March 12, 2015 Report Share Posted March 12, 2015 looks a hell of a lot better than this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoss Posted March 12, 2015 Report Share Posted March 12, 2015 If we want the old ones back why not start a petition? Sure petitions hardly work, but it might get it on their radar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randall Flagg Posted March 12, 2015 Report Share Posted March 12, 2015 looks a hell of a lot better than this I can't even fathom why they thought gray pits was a good idea. Just awful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpandean Posted March 12, 2015 Report Share Posted March 12, 2015 looks a hell of a lot better than this I would say that it looks a little better than that jersey. The biggest (weirdest) problem is this: I can't even fathom why they thought gray pits was a good idea. Just awful. Besides that, a lighter blue would be a little better (though Patty's looks darker than I remember), reversing the waist striping would be a little better (too much gold) and replacing the two-piece blue-silver stripes with solid blue would be a little better. The silver ... whatever you would call those curved things on the side of the torso ... are less noticeable on the whites, but those could go. I know that others hate the silver-lined logo, but it has never bothered me. All (pits and yellow center waist stripe, aside) small things that would improve the jersey marginally. The blue is a much bigger problem on the home jerseys. I prefer a couple of things on the current one: the laces (always a fan), the contrasting collar and the fact that the stripes are stitched on rather than sublimated (at least, I believe both of those are true, respectively.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darksabre Posted March 12, 2015 Report Share Posted March 12, 2015 looks a hell of a lot better than this I don't hate these. Really. The gray bothers me but I'm not opposed to tweaking designs over time to generationalize the jerseys. Most teams do that. I take issue with overdoing those design tweaks. And that's what I see with the current jerseys. Too many little details. They take away from the cohesiveness of the basic formula. In a nutshell, they over did it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvelo Posted March 12, 2015 Report Share Posted March 12, 2015 (edited) I can't even fathom why they thought gray pits was a good idea. Just awful. what were they thinking? Yellow pit stains would've been better. :sick: Edited March 12, 2015 by 716 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spndnchz Posted March 12, 2015 Report Share Posted March 12, 2015 GR's White tweeted that the Icethetics site has said that the Sabres will have *no* third jersey next year. https://twitter.com/JeremyWGR/status/575628973197017088 Does that pave the way for a new 3rd? No new 3rd's until 2020. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildCard Posted March 12, 2015 Report Share Posted March 12, 2015 No new 3rd's until 2020.League policy for changing our jersey so many times? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LGR4GM Posted March 12, 2015 Report Share Posted March 12, 2015 League policy for changing our jersey so many times? 50th anniversary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildCard Posted March 12, 2015 Report Share Posted March 12, 2015 50th anniversary.Ahh gotcha. Hopefully we get the originals in 2020 as our primaries then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LGR4GM Posted March 12, 2015 Report Share Posted March 12, 2015 (edited) Ahh gotcha. Hopefully we get the originals in 2020 as our primaries then I hope that is the case. Ted said that they probably wouldn't push a new 3rd jersey on the fans until then because of 3rd jersey fatigue. Basically he thinks they have changed them so many times that fans don't want to purchase them... of course the turdburger jersey was so horrible that also didn't help. Edited March 12, 2015 by Ligerovich 4GM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doohickie Posted March 12, 2015 Report Share Posted March 12, 2015 It kind of bothers me that the 3rd jerseys are more about revenue than about what the team looks like in them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabills Posted March 12, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2015 It kind of bothers me that the 3rd jerseys are more about revenue than about what the team looks like in them. To be fair, they sell better when they look better. I have to imagine the royal blues outsold the turdburgers by a couple orders of magnitude. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpandean Posted March 12, 2015 Report Share Posted March 12, 2015 To be fair, they sell better when they look better. I have to imagine the royal blues outsold the turdburgers by a couple orders of magnitude. You would think so, but as I have mentioned before, when talking with one of the big three from the last ownership group (TG/LQ/DD), I was surprised to learn that the slug jersey was one of the best sellers outside of the Buffalo market. He said that it was a fashion item. :huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darksabre Posted March 12, 2015 Report Share Posted March 12, 2015 You would think so, but as I have mentioned before, when talking with one of the big three from the last ownership group (TG/LQ/DD), I was surprised to learn that the slug jersey was one of the best sellers outside of the Buffalo market. He said that it was a fashion item. :huh: I think he just didn't understand that people from Buffalo don't always live in Buffalo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabills Posted March 12, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2015 You would think so, but as I have mentioned before, when talking with one of the big three from the last ownership group (TG/LQ/DD), I was surprised to learn that the slug jersey was one of the best sellers outside of the Buffalo market. He said that it was a fashion item. :huh: I think he just didn't understand that people from Buffalo don't always live in Buffalo. Yeah. And I'm not surprised the slug sold well; people were pumped to go back to blue and gold, even if it was at the expense of...that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpandean Posted March 12, 2015 Report Share Posted March 12, 2015 I think he just didn't understand that people from Buffalo don't always live in Buffalo. Maybe, but he implied that it was in big fashion, non-hockey areas, and the type of volume that he was talking about wasn't just due to displaced Buffalo fans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darksabre Posted March 12, 2015 Report Share Posted March 12, 2015 Maybe, but he implied that it was in big fashion, non-hockey areas, and the type of volume that he was talking about wasn't just due to displaced Buffalo fans. It just doesn't make sense. What does "fashion" even mean? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doohickie Posted March 12, 2015 Report Share Posted March 12, 2015 To be fair, they sell better when they look better. I have to imagine the royal blues outsold the turdburgers by a couple orders of magnitude. Of course, they might look better if the team was better. I really have no problem with the current 3rds (well, except for the gray, but that's relatively minor). If the Sabres were fighting for home ice advantage I think the "turdburger" would be more popular. Instead it will be linked with one of the darkest times in the team's history. Who wants that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trettioåtta Posted March 12, 2015 Report Share Posted March 12, 2015 The Sabres also won a president's cup in the slug. That will have boosted sales. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PASabreFan Posted March 12, 2015 Report Share Posted March 12, 2015 I wonder what it would Take to get them to wear Tokyo Katana jerseys as the thirds. This logo? http://twoeightnine.spreadshirt.com/taro-tsujimoto-A14733740/customize/color/17 I think it would be awesome... in 2020. Coming on the heels of our first Cup, it would show the hockey world we still don't take ourselves that seriously. Orrrrr... in the same vein, a monstrous, mutated buffalo, something to give Mothra or Godzilla a run for its money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpandean Posted March 12, 2015 Report Share Posted March 12, 2015 It just doesn't make sense. What does "fashion" even mean? It means that their market research showed that people were buying them without any affiliation with the team to wear out and look cool (or something like that.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darksabre Posted March 13, 2015 Report Share Posted March 13, 2015 It means that their market research showed that people were buying them without any affiliation with the team to wear out and look cool (or something like that.) In like some weird alternate reality? Not in this one, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North Buffalo Posted March 13, 2015 Report Share Posted March 13, 2015 With all due respect, I really liked the one's with Buffalo scrolled across the front, put a(one) Sabre there instead of a swoosh and I think it would work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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