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All Time Worst Dressed
by Alanah McGinley on 08/01/08 at 12:36 PM ET
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According to Maxim.com, the Worst Sports Uniform of all time happens to be a hockey jersey.
The specific hockey jersey won’t surprise anybody, but on that same list of eleven bad clothing choices (why eleven?? who makes a “top-worst-11” list?) one other hockey item shows up that’s a bit more unexpected.
The worst piece of sports clothing in history…
According to Maxim Magazine. And it’s tough to disagree with the flying-V.
Nor should any Canucks fan be offended by the choice. To quote the Vancouver Sports News and Events blog, ”[At] least we won something!”
What SHOULD BE ranked the worst piece of sports clothing in history…
According to me, anyway. Isn’t this Astros abomination even worse than the Canucks atrocity above? I submit that it just might be.
And it even has that same lemon/orange sherbet coloring that so-perfectly defines a bad clothing choice…
The #8 worst item on Maxim’s list
Really?? These pants are actually that scary??
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The 80’s are a time we would all like to forget. Hair bands, ugly mustangs, and ugly uniforms.
Posted by Kevin on 08/01/08 at 01:07 PM ET
I don’t know if it’s just nostalgia, or the fact that Jiri Bubla once wore it, but as I grow older that “V” jersey is slowly moving from “eyesore” into the “fondly remembered” category. It’s still better than the Canucks’ red alts of the 1990s.
As a kid, that Astros jersey was my very, very favorite baseball uniform.
Posted by Greg from Atlanta on 08/01/08 at 01:09 PM ET
I dunno, the Oilers’ and Panthers’ current jerseys look more like polo shirts that valets wear…But I’ve gotta go with the baby food Preds jersey and the old Jokerit Helsinki jerseys as really darn close to the old Flying V…
And yeah, the Astros jersey, the old Denver Nuggets jersey, and the 1980’s Chicago White Sox jersey were worse. Technicolour horizontal stripes on the first two, and a “dorky SOX” that looks bloody campy…those are worse.
Posted by George Malik from South Lyon, MI on 08/01/08 at 01:14 PM ET
What? No Orlando Thunder from the WLAF? What kind of research did the guys at Maxim do?
Posted by Cameron on 08/01/08 at 01:49 PM ET
Anaheim’s Duck jumping through the ice alternate has to be the most embarrasing ever.
Posted by Hockey1919 from Montreal on 08/01/08 at 02:31 PM ET
Anaheim’s Duck jumping through the ice alternate has to be the most embarrasing ever.
its not that bad… however if there was a contest of ‘The worst sports team to be named after an Emilio Estavez movie’ they would most definitely win. 
Posted by LOUiE from Cowtown on 08/01/08 at 07:28 PM ET
Didn’t the Dallas Mavericks wear some god-awful metallic silver monstrosity a couple years ago?
That was terrible.
And those pants are bad, but not all-time-worst level bad.
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 08/02/08 at 11:22 AM ET
Luckily, this list didn’t include the horrifying pink sweaters the now-defunct Las Vegas Thunder of the IHL were forced to wear for the Valentine’s Day games.
I can imagine how fast those guys couldn’t wait for the game to be over to get out of those monstrosities. Can you imagine the smacktalk on the ice between the players?
Posted by SYF from Las Vegas, NV on 08/02/08 at 12:33 PM ET
I agree with Kevin. The 80’s are what we want to forget.
Posted by fairings from Canada on 08/31/08 at 08:31 PM ET
These are just bad tastes of color combination and a lack of good art education. Dressing like a cock or an onion doesn’t matter, the worst pieces at the same time really do catch eyeballs. And probably they intended to appall the opponents with such outrageous bad tastes. LOL.
Posted by sandiegofan on 02/22/09 at 07:58 PM ET
This list didn’t include the horrifying pink sweaters the now-defunct Las Vegas Thunder of the IHL were forced to wear for the Valentine’s Day games.
Posted by clubpenguincheats from ck on 04/04/10 at 08:18 PM ET
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I think the Flyers had a flirtation with ankle-length breezers at one time too.
Posted by Cal on 08/01/08 at 12:59 PM ET