Walking Down Bad Uniform Lane

ESPN.com's Uni Watch column today has a story about uniform concepts that never saw the light of day as they got shelved before they became official. Some of them are God-awful but some of them are way better than the eventual uniform. Anyways, the column brought up something that we have long since forgotten about, probably because it was such an awful idea that we (and we're guessing a lot of you) forgot on purpose because it was so bad. That is the announcement in 1991 that the logo on the 49ers helmet was going to go from the SF in the red oval to just a goofy type treatment of the numbers. It was awful. So awful, it lasted like a day before Eddie D And Carmen Policy issued a mea culpa and banished the thing before it ever became official.

The column also mentioned that in 1993, the Giants considered changing the black lettering on their unis to orange. Iyick on that too-- that season was painful enough without having to endure all that orange. Unfortunately, those awful alternate jerseys from 2001 were not stopped before they stained the memory of that season.

No mention of anything that the A's worked on before shelving, probably because somehow all their awful ideas came became real. Actually, that multi-uniform concept from the 70’s was kind of cool.