OT: Pistons release new jersey

Love it.

Add me to the "love it" group. I think it looks great.

It's decent, but I'd like it more if it said STONES on the front.

These are sweet. I love "Motor City" on the uni, without changing what's a great, basic color scheme. Nice work.

Nice. Way better than "El Heat".

Seems kind of like a throw back idea when teams used to do things like this back in the ABA days or whatever. I like it. Don't mind the darker blue (a darker blue is always nice IMO). Not bad for an alt jersey, especially seeing as it still actually looks like a Pistons jersey, it's not an alternative jersey that looks like it belongs to a different team.

Not that bad.

Remember the light blue/green (teal) ones with the horse in the logo when Grant Hill was here?

Damn that's dope! The "motor city" is what does it. Glad the colors/ piping are understated.

It's only a matter of time before the red becomes maize. 

I was kind of "meh" when I saw it in the photo above, but it looks better when worn:

 

Not as bad as i thought when i saw the twitter reaction.

Auburn Hills is also nicknamed the motor city?  Who'd a known.

"Hockey Town" would have been better.

These are fantastic.

And I really wish this "alternate uniform" nonsense would die already.  Alternate for what?  In case their normal uniforms are at the cleanors?  Or it's casual friday?  Maybe because they clash witht the opposing teams colors?

Call me old-fashioned but "away" jerseys are alternate enough for me.

As an old man (42) hater of uniformz in college, I really couldn't care less about the pros doing it.  Pro-teams don't typically have the 100+ year tradition of college teams like Michigan. (Admittedly, older MLB teams and original 6 NHL franchises do.)  College, however, is different and tradition is a much bigger part of the team’s identity.  

Pro franchises are also, by definition, money making enterprises and the players are in on the deal.  The whole purpose of the alternate uniform is to sell jerseys.   In the pros, it is just a business finding another product to market. To me, it is very different when the Athletic Department cranks out uniformz like hotcakes to find another (and another, and another) way to make money off of a number 16 jersey while Denard is told that he can't have jelly on his bagel.  Uniformz in college are just another way that the NCAA is trying to act like a professional league without cutting the players in on the deal. 

As already noted in other comments, the NBA, NHL and MLB play tons of games.  Changing it up every now and again isn't the same as Michigan wearing uniformz for 30% of its games. 

I actually liked the black Lions jerseys of a few years ago.  I also don't recall any outcry about the Wings wearing throw-backs for the Winter Classic a few years ago.  (I also think the Wings could do a black jersey like their practice unis.)  While I always appreciated that the Tigers don't have an alternative jersey like a lot of teams, I wouldn't go nuts if they broke one out.  It would just be more revenue that Mr. I can use to sign more players.

Just one man's opinion.

/GOML

Heard about these from Piston Powered. Really cool. Nice to see an alt jersey that doesn't suck and actually adds something.

Hopefully they do more of this sort of thing. The Pistons have a lot of awesome old unis.

 

 

I love how everyone is so happy with these, but if that was ANY Michigan sports program uni - it would be hideous, breaking tradition, irrational, "Brandon just trying to make money..." Ext ext ext ext. Kind of funny to see the irony in most of your posts.

Guess I'm just a youngster who doesn't "get it" when it comes to ALTERNATES.

I'd buy one.

I like them

 

The design is really bland, and the jersey template the Pistons use (particularly the collar) looks silly, but as a concept, I like it. It's the NBA. It could be a lot worse.