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Kings Win 5-3; RP Is Sweet, Not Salty

Ron said:
To me, owning an automobile just means constantly having automotive repairs.

Pain.
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Just drive a ****** car like me and you'll never feel bad!

Hell, if it weren't for the drought being semi-over, I may have gone 8 months without a free car wash thanks to the rain!


Quattro said:
No, he's not. The gold unis are fun on rare occasions but we would be the laughing stock of the league (again) if we wore those full time.

My biggest problem with them was it was really difficult to tell the players apart or read their names. Must drive the announcers crazy. The purple unis are cool but the gold are a clown show.
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I love em but I can understand why some don't. I just like the idea of a third jersey we wear at least 1/4-1/8 of the year for some color because while the black and whites are sleek it's just blah to see 100+ games a year!
 
Quattro said:
No, he's not. The gold unis are fun on rare occasions but we would be the laughing stock of the league (again) if we wore those full time.

My biggest problem with them was it was really difficult to tell the players apart or read their names. Must drive the announcers crazy. The purple unis are cool but the gold are a clown show.
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Guess you don't like Nashville's unis either.

The golds were not only serviceable but definitive for the first 22 seasons of the team's existence. No one ever called them "a clown show" or laughed at the Kings because they wore gold.

The numbers can be adjusted for the modern game and just about everyone agrees today that sans serif is much more readable than serif names on jerseys, but the serif mode was popular in all sports in the 1970s when names were being added to jerseys wholesale.

And above all, the home plate and chevy logos have nothing on those crowns. Not a ******* thing.

Back to the future. Embrace it. Live it. Love it.
 
Ron said:
Guess you don't like Nashville's unis either.

The golds were not only serviceable but definitive for the first 22 seasons of the team's existence. No one ever called them "a clown show" or laughed at the Kings because they wore gold.

The numbers can be adjusted for the modern game and just about everyone agrees today that sans serif is much more readable than serif names on jerseys, but the serif mode was popular in all sports in the 1970s when names were being added to jerseys wholesale.

And above all, the home plate and chevy logos have nothing on those crowns. Not a ******* thing.

Back to the future. Embrace it. Live it. Love it.
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Ron just brought it!!!!

I have a strong attachment to the forum blue and gold and I find that people who hate them are Gretzky people and people who like to *****.
 
TheSentinel said:
I think it needs proper stitching for you RP :sarcasm:
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:laugh:

Brad Doty said:
Just drive a ****** car like me and you'll never feel bad!

Hell, if it weren't for the drought being semi-over, I may have gone 8 months without a free car wash thanks to the rain!

I love em but I can understand why some don't. I just like the idea of a third jersey we wear at least 1/4-1/8 of the year for some color because while the black and whites are sleek it's just blah to see 100+ games a year!
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This. This right here. We're big time folks!
 
Greatest of all time...

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I'm slowly amassing a modern Chevy logo collection.
 
Ron said:
No one ever called them "a clown show" or laughed at the Kings because they wore gold.
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I call BS. You may not have heard it, or wanted to hear it, or thought it was valid, but I GUARANTEE there were people who laughed at the classic Kings gold unis, and called them "clown shows" and worse. Not just "Gretzky people". Yes, they were mostly fans of other teams, but don't try to pretend that because many fans have fond memories, that the old unis are somehow untouchable and uncritiqueable hockey-wide.

Frankly, my problem isn't even as much the gold sweaters. It's the gold sweaters AND the gold pants. THAT look is abominable. Put some Forum blue pants with it, or even black, and it's not the garish horror that the 1967 ensemble comes off as.
 
I'm gonna nitpick it because I nitpick everything. Don't like the lower stripes and shoulder stripes. Wish the pant stripe was filled in (solid grey). Wish the center logo was the Chevy logo with the newer crown instead of the older one.

Great mockup though. Really well done and Bastian is very talented.
 
HansH said:
I call BS. You may not have heard it, or wanted to hear it, or thought it was valid, but I GUARANTEE there were people who laughed at the classic Kings gold unis, and called them "clown shows" and worse. Not just "Gretzky people". Yes, they were mostly fans of other teams, but don't try to pretend that because many fans have fond memories, that the old unis are somehow untouchable and uncritiqueable hockey-wide.

Frankly, my problem isn't even as much the gold sweaters. It's the gold sweaters AND the gold pants. THAT look is abominable. Put some Forum blue pants with it, or even black, and it's not the garish horror that the 1967 ensemble comes off as.
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You guarantee it, eh?

Come up with some examples. I dare you. I double-dare you. I triple-dare you.

The Forum itself was decked out in purple and gold seating. Both the Kings and Lakers wore the yellow at home (during many years of their existence; the Kings began wearing the forum blue at home in accordance to home teams wearing dark unis in the late '60s.)

It was truly spectacular to watch the team's unis match the decor in the forum when you attended games in the 1970s. You felt like you were attending something special. The Kings never seemed to lose for me when I attended their games...it was truly awesome experience.

The unis are classics and I for one haven't heard one negative comment in all the years I've been watching the team. So you got that guarantee standing out there all by its lonesome, go ahead and scour the Internet for an example.

I quadruple-dare you.
 
Ron said:
You guarantee it, eh?

Come up with some examples. I dare you. I double-dare you. I triple-dare you.

The Forum itself was decked out in purple and gold seating. Both the Kings and Lakers wore the yellow at home (during many years of their existence; the Kings began wearing the forum blue at home in accordance to home teams wearing dark unis in the late '60s.)

It was truly spectacular to watch the team's unis match the decor in the forum when you attended games in the 1970s. You felt like you were attending something special. The Kings never seemed to lose for me when I attended their games...it was truly awesome experience.
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well, actually orange was one side, and gold (yellow) the other.
 
Quattro said:
No, he's not. The gold unis are fun on rare occasions but we would be the laughing stock of the league (again) if we wore those full time.

My biggest problem with them was it was really difficult to tell the players apart or read their names. Must drive the announcers crazy. The purple unis are cool but the gold are a clown show.
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The Flames should have worn their red jerseys. The game was kinda tough to watch with white playing yellow.

And yes, this is a major drawback to Nashville's yellow jerseys as their dark set. The yellow jersey itself is fine, but with the opposition always wearing white, it's just hard to watch.

and I could read the names just fine on the gold jerseys.
 
Butch 19 said:
The Flames should have worn their red jerseys. The game was kinda tough to watch with white playing yellow.

And yes, this is a major drawback to Nashville's yellow jerseys as their dark set. The yellow jersey itself is fine, but with the opposition always wearing white, it's just hard to watch.

and I could read the names just fine on the gold jerseys.
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I don't understand the NHL allowing yellow at home. They should approve yellow/gold only as a replacement for white jerseys. But then that runs afoul of their rule that the road term generally wears white on the road (obviously there are exceptions case in point the recent kings sharks game where they switched colors).

They should just go back to white (gold/yellow) jerseys at home.

Meanwhile, maybe I will campaign that detroit and Pittsburgh wear their dark uniforms for the last two legends games.
 
Ron said:
You guarantee it, eh?

Come up with some examples. I dare you. I double-dare you. I triple-dare you.
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http://www.weeklyvisitor.com/top15v6/alcreed/alcreed.html
The Los Angeles Kings were among the first expansion teams in the NHL, and sort of responsible for the massive influx of teams based in the Southern US in the decades following their debut. Also, for half of their existence, they wore some of the goofiest looking jerseys the league had ever seen. The idea behind the jerseys for the six new expansion teams was to use colours never seen before in the league. So, while the Philadelphia Flyers went with Orange, and the Minnesota North Stars went with Green, the Kings thought, "HAY! LET'S USE PURPLE." I think these jerseys look like pajamas. (While the Jersey design changed slightly in the 1980's, the basic idea was the same, therefore I made no differentiation).
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And that was a simple search.

Plus, common sense says that people who were fans of teams other than the Kings weren't as entranced by team loyalty, and have different filters through which to look at the gold unis.

I'm not saying they weren't special, and that no one should like them. I'm just saying your personal gold-colored filters aren't universal, as you seem to be insisting.
 
HansH said:
http://www.weeklyvisitor.com/top15v6/alcreed/alcreed.html


And that was a simple search.

Plus, common sense says that people who were fans of teams other than the Kings weren't as entranced by team loyalty, and have different filters through which to look at the gold unis.

I'm not saying they weren't special, and that no one should like them. I'm just saying your personal gold-colored filters aren't universal, as you seem to be insisting.
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Hans brings it everyday :laugh:
 
HansH said:
http://www.weeklyvisitor.com/top15v6/alcreed/alcreed.html


And that was a simple search.

Plus, common sense says that people who were fans of teams other than the Kings weren't as entranced by team loyalty, and have different filters through which to look at the gold unis.

I'm not saying they weren't special, and that no one should like them. I'm just saying your personal gold-colored filters aren't universal, as you seem to be insisting.
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Quattro said:
Hans brings it everyday :laugh:
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You two and that blogger simply have no taste.
 
Ron said:
You two and that blogger simply have no taste.
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Add me to the no-taste list then. Purple is a great color, whereas yellow is not. It is the color of pee, of mustard, of cowardice, of insanity...

I don't like the old crowns, either. They're a product of the 70's - too flaccid and baroque.

There's my narcissistic design statement of the day.
 
I don't know what it was about the Kings when they switched to black/silver/white, but it sure seemed like not only did they get better on the ice as a result of getting Gretzky, but they also got a hell of a lot tougher in those colors.

A big reason for that has to be the addition of Marty McSorley, one of the most popular Kings of all-time. Then you add Ken Baumgartner and Jay Miller, and then you add more grit in years thereafter with the likes of Granato, Rychel, etc. Those names really did change the perception of the team and forged an identity, whereas the Forum Blue & Gold era where they were more like loveable losers like the Clippers.
 
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