Normally, when a team comes out with the new jersey, my reaction is "Hey, that looks cool!" Generally, teams pay talented design people to make cool-looking things and they do a good job because they are good at their jobs. Today I woke up and saw the Clippers' new uniforms and I vomited until my spleen came out of my mouth. Here, look at these practice uniforms:
The new Clippers uniforms. pic.twitter.com/xGMFtDJpPX
— Arash Markazi (@ArashMarkazi) June 18, 2015
Wait... those aren't the practice uniforms? Those are the real uniforms? They're gonna wear those in games? On TV?
APPARENTLY SO. And they are real!
@sportslogosnet even the uniforms are hideous pic.twitter.com/y35aMHAi31
— CHRIS I HAZARD (@CYBR_HAZARD) June 18, 2015
The logos were clearly designed on the only design app ever developed for the Moto Razr:
Clippers new logo looks like a losing game of Snake inside a basketball https://t.co/6X0xKkkjAj
— devin kharpertian (@uuords) June 18, 2015
Hmmmmm... pic.twitter.com/E2VFKP60IP
— EA SPORTS NBA LIVE (@EASPORTSNBA) June 18, 2015
The Clippers' old uniforms were everything nice about uniforms:
The script is elegant. With the cursive and the slanted wordmark over an offset number, it's reminiscent of a lot of classic baseball uniforms, like the Cardinals or Braves. They're pretty. Everything goes together, nothing clashes.
There is nothing good about the new uniforms. They're supposed to look dynamic, but instead they look like they were designed by somebody who drives a Pontiac Aztek. Every aspect of them is clunky. The red-white-and-blue color scheme, perhaps the most aesthetically pleasing part of the old uniforms, is an afterthought -- the home uni relegates colors to the underlines of the enormous, block-lettered logo, and the road uni only features blue on the outside of the big square logo. The side-by-side logo and uniform numbers on the road uniform is a new, nontraditional look. Now we know why most teams don't use it!
Take it away, Twitter:
CLIPPERS LOGO LOOK LIKE MADDEN CREATE-A-TEAM PRESET LOGO #GARBAGE
— Petrović (@YungMondi) June 18, 2015
The new Clippers logo is garbage
— RZB (@RZB94) June 18, 2015
The new Clippers logo is garbage
— dyl (@_DylANderson_) June 18, 2015
the new Clippers unis are complete garbage...their old ones were perfect and looked 100x better
— Zach Bitner (@zach_bitner) June 18, 2015
Clippers jerseys garbage
— Kevin McHenry (@Mchenry_15) June 18, 2015
The new Clippers logo is straight garbage
— Derek Kudjer (@koojababy) June 18, 2015
Hahahahaha clippers new logo is so garbage.
— Derek Dodson (@DerekDots) June 18, 2015
Yooo the new LA clippers logo is garbage
— Marshall Daring (@___MOED) June 18, 2015
The new Clippers logo is garbage
— Jeffrey S. Folger (@FolgersCoffee88) June 18, 2015
Clippers new logo garbage
— Joe V. (@CollegeSucks_) June 18, 2015
Clippers new logo is garbage
— Davíd (@LittleDavieee) June 18, 2015
New Clippers logo is garbage lol
— Robin Sookraj (@Robby_Buckets) June 18, 2015
Clippers new logo is garbage
— Pto_Cracks (@Pto_craxx) June 18, 2015
Clippers new logo is garbage !!!!
— LBJ fan since day 1 (@DMT_RWTW) June 18, 2015
These new clippers jerseys hot garbage
— q (@BackflipGod) June 18, 2015
The new clippers logo is garbage
— . (@bratttttyb) June 18, 2015
Yo the clippers new logo is garbage
— Rook (@JaredGambell13) June 18, 2015
#Clippers new logo is hot garbage.
— Mike Sullivan (@sullstice) June 18, 2015
The clippers new logo is garbage
— ♦️ε♦️ (@_cliffnotez) June 18, 2015
The clippers new logo is garbage
— ♦️ε♦️ (@_cliffnotez) June 18, 2015
That Clippers logo is absolute garbage.
— Quan (@AFoulToGive) June 18, 2015
Clippers new uniforms are hot garbage
— SCHLIM REAPER (@SchlimDunk) June 17, 2015
★★★
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