Why the ‘new’ Detroit Lions jerseys are a huge miss

DETROIT – Comic story. I used to be out doing a narrative on the brand new Lions jerseys Thursday and one man mentioned they might have been leaked on-line. I Googled it and some issues popped up. Seems, what he and others thought had been the brand new jerseys weren’t.

However, oddly sufficient, among the photographs that appeared turned out to be those that the Lions confirmed Thursday. On the time, although, I instantly dismissed them, pondering, “They’d NEVER return to those.”

Oh, how incorrect I used to be.

The present uniforms are merely the very best I’ve seen in my lifetime from my hometown workforce. For so long as I can keep in mind, I’ve checked out groups with cool uniforms — the Cowboys, Chargers, Dolphins, Raiders — and thought, how laborious is it to take an ideal colour scheme and doubtlessly a superb emblem and put all of it collectively?

And whereas they’re not good, to me, the present jerseys at all times popped. The fashionable look of the identify and quantity and fonts shot them as much as being among the greatest within the league, for my part.

Possibly it’s as a result of I affiliate the previous uniforms with the previous Lions, and the brand new uniforms with all the brand new success. However I simply can’t consider what number of commenters on social media love these “new” jerseys. They went from smooth to stodgy with these huge block numbers.

Are you telling me you’ll be able to’t see the identify LONG the place it ought to learn GOFF?

This was such a easy replace. In case you mixed the 2 — you’d have one thing all people can love.

My ideas?

• Preserve the colour change to true Honolulu Blue.

• Make the present letters and numbers white and preserve the grey define.

• Preserve the brand new sleeve stripes.

For the explanations said above, I by no means even owned a Lions jersey till final 12 months once I received a #58 Penei Sewell jersey. I deal with higher than my children. And now, they’ve gone and made it out of date.

I mentioned all of it week: Simply don’t screw it up. And so they did.

Higher make that new helmet fairly, fairly, fairly good.