FLYNNSanity Posted April 26, 2015 Report Share Posted April 26, 2015 (edited) Poll: Favorite Sabres Jersey Round 1 Pick your three favorite..... Voting for round two will end Tuesday Afternoon Here is some visual help http://www.nhluniforms.com/Sabres/Sabres.html Eliminated after Round 1: 2006-10 Home "Buffaslug" 2006-10 Away "Buffaslug" 2013-15 Alternate "Turdburger" 2010-Present Home 2010-Present Away 1996-06 Away "Goat" Black 2006-07 Alternate "Classic + New Blue" Edited April 27, 2015 by FLYNNSanity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LastPommerFan Posted April 26, 2015 Report Share Posted April 26, 2015 #NeverForget Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weave Posted April 26, 2015 Report Share Posted April 26, 2015 #NeverForget Who? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabres Fan in NS Posted April 26, 2015 Report Share Posted April 26, 2015 POMMINSTEIN!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randall Flagg Posted April 26, 2015 Report Share Posted April 26, 2015 I hope they go back to what they wore until they went to the goatheads. The 3rds for the 40th anniversary were neat too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fire Eater Posted April 26, 2015 Report Share Posted April 26, 2015 Least favorite: Anything with the slug. 2nd least favorite: Goat head Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveSnuggerud Posted April 26, 2015 Report Share Posted April 26, 2015 Why did they get rid of the 40th anniversary thirds? Beautiful, well imagined, historical, cool numbers and name plates. The turdburger is hands down the worst, worse than the slug even. We did look bad ass in the black goat heads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eleven Posted April 26, 2015 Report Share Posted April 26, 2015 Why did they get rid of the 40th anniversary thirds? Beautiful, well imagined, historical, cool numbers and name plates. The turdburger is hands down the worst, worse than the slug even. We did look bad ass in the black goat heads. I believe they can only keep alternates for two years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randall Flagg Posted April 26, 2015 Report Share Posted April 26, 2015 I believe they can only keep alternates for two years.I thought you could keep them as long as you want, but have to use them at least two years. May be wrong though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildCard Posted April 26, 2015 Report Share Posted April 26, 2015 I loved those Red and Black alternates from the Goat Head years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoss Posted April 26, 2015 Report Share Posted April 26, 2015 I believe they can only keep alternates for two years. You can keep an alternate for as long as you want. Teams don't, though. For $$$ reasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polish Connection Posted April 26, 2015 Report Share Posted April 26, 2015 Home/Away is a confusing differentiator as somewhere along the line, the NHL went from Home Whites to Home Darks. Anyone know when that was? I want to pick all versions of the current/classic white jerseys before selecting any dark ones to finish my four votes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom webster Posted April 26, 2015 Report Share Posted April 26, 2015 I know that is accepted practice to lump 1970-1996 as the same classic jersey but anyone that has done any collecting will tell you how those jerseys varied over the years. Ragtag, stitched together mismatched colors, hockey sweaters were never so religiously thought of until recently. The crest, those meant something. The sweaters themselves, not so much. Just my two cents, carry on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoss Posted April 26, 2015 Report Share Posted April 26, 2015 Home/Away is a confusing differentiator as somewhere along the line, the NHL went from Home Whites to Home Darks. Anyone know when that was? I want to pick all versions of the current/classic white jerseys before selecting any dark ones to finish my four votes. They wore dark at home until 1970 then switched to white at home dark on the road. In 2003 they switched back to dark at home. http://www.nhluniforms.com/Sabres/Sabres05.html My favorite is the one they adopted either in 83 or 84. That's when they altered the number font and made the stripes thicker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLYNNSanity Posted April 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 26, 2015 I clarified the poll...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weave Posted April 26, 2015 Report Share Posted April 26, 2015 I only selected one. the classic home whites. The rest are all inferior and not worthy of my vote. and if we're gonna get specific, I want 80-83 home whites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabres Fan in NS Posted April 26, 2015 Report Share Posted April 26, 2015 You all know that you can vote more than once, right? Just like in Chicago, in the good 'ol days. I clarified the poll...... You don't say ... :w00t: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubkev Posted April 26, 2015 Report Share Posted April 26, 2015 I loved those Red and Black alternates from the Goat Head years Second least favorite jersey for me. The turdburger is the only one worse for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BagBoy Posted April 26, 2015 Report Share Posted April 26, 2015 Away goat was black, not red. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PASabreFan Posted April 26, 2015 Report Share Posted April 26, 2015 (edited) Father of the BuffaSlug (and SabreSpace gets a mention!) http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/father-buffaslug-meet-man-designed-buffalo-sabres-most-132535273.html Edited April 26, 2015 by @fakegorbyportwinestain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildCard Posted April 26, 2015 Report Share Posted April 26, 2015 (edited) Father of the BuffaSlug (and SabreSpace gets a mention!) http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/father-buffaslug-meet-man-designed-buffalo-sabres-most-132535273.html DEATH TO THE SLUGOn June 27, 2006, Sabres Report leaked the new Buffalo Sabres logo. At 6:12 p.m. that evening, a poster on the Sabre Space boards spoke for the majority of hockey fans: "What the hell is that?" A few days later, a poster named Don wondered: "Where are the legs? Why are there no Sabres? Why is it wearing a mask? If it's not a mask, then why is that blue strip on its nose? Is that a Breathe-Right strip that football players wear? Why is one horn white and the other yellow? Why does it look like it was inspired by Homer Simpson's sperm?" Edited April 26, 2015 by WildCard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKnowPhysics Posted April 26, 2015 Report Share Posted April 26, 2015 I don't mind the black and red jerseys from the goathead era. They were a good jersey in a time when weird 90's styling was creeping into NHL jerseys. If there's a downside to those for me, it's not the logo, it's the poor trend of removing color from jerseys and and heading to black/white/red that so may teams did. So much black/white in those days. And that's the reason I like the third from that era- the red was a flash of color in an otherwise dreary NHL jersey landscape. In hindsight, I think these jerseys take a little extra flak because they were also the Adelphia corporate colors, but they still hold their place as the uniform of an amazing few years in the franchise. My favorites, though, are the classic home and away and the present home and away. For the classics, they're the genesis of the brand of Buffalo NHL hockey, plus the six-stripe socks were the . They did evolve from 1970-1995 in small ways. The final iteration had lots of great elements was elegant. The modern era isn't perfect -maybe the blue's a little dark and maybe the grey is pointless- but they're a great modern look at the beloved classics. They're the jersey we had really been waiting for after so many years of weird sluggy Reebok-designed dog crap. They're better than a lot of jerseys in the league. The turdburger's the worst for me. It's a trainwreck of questionable and risky design elements. A mostly-gold jersey would have been much, much better with a simpler, classier approach. It'll forever be associated with the worst years of Buffalo hockey. Also terrible is the slug, especially the road white. It came about from ownership accepting the fans suggestion that the franchise return to blue and gold, but then absolutely failing the design phase- opting to go with new Reebok fancy design instead of returning to an elegant classic. The designer of the slug logo has since publicly acknowledged the fact he up. Those terrible jerseys might not have been as terrible if they were centered with the present day logo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PASabreFan Posted April 26, 2015 Report Share Posted April 26, 2015 For posterity sake, who said, "What the hell is that?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKnowPhysics Posted April 26, 2015 Report Share Posted April 26, 2015 For posterity sake, who said, "What the hell is that?" Right in the link: Bmwolf21. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PASabreFan Posted April 26, 2015 Report Share Posted April 26, 2015 (edited) In hindsight, I think these jerseys take a little extra flak because they were also the Adelphia corporate colors, but they still hold their place as the uniform of an amazing few years in the franchise. People may wrongly associate the colors as Adelphia colors. I don't know that Rigas had enough clout to control that decision in 1995 and 1996. He was investing heavily in the team, but of course he didn't own it yet. I am hedging my bets with wishy washy language because I really don't know. It seems to me that criticism of the colors is something that evolved after the Adelphia scandal. It sure took the Sabres long enough to abandon those colors, from the time of Rigas losing the team (2002) to the slug jersey being introduced (2006). The one thing I've never understood is why Quinn/Goli had the team skate out in the old blue and gold at the end of the 2002-2003 season if they didn't intend on going back to that look right away. Edited April 26, 2015 by @fakegorbyportwinestain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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