Hawks, Wings Unveil Winter Classic Jerseys

by gallagher on Oct 26, 2008 9:46 PM CDT

By Sean Gallagher

As I discussed briefly in the latest printed edition of Game Time, the Red Wings and Blackhawks, who will compete in the Jan. 1 Winter Classic outdoors at Wrigley Field, unveiled their one-time use jerseys for the event yesterday.

Yes, you read that right: these are one-time use jerseys. Not throwback jerseys. Not third jerseys. Ug. Sometimes the Great NHL Cash Grab disgusts me.

Anyway, in my article, I'd hoped that the jerseys would be so damn fugly that no poor fan would be conned into spending their cash on a gimmick like a 'one-time use' jersey. Well, here they are:

Kane and Toews. Chelios

Personally, I think the Hawks will sell more than the Red Wings, but I really think that two years later if you wear either of these things to a game, everyone is gonna think you got ripped off by someone on Ebay.

Chicago is already taking pre-orders now, but they want to call you to tell you how much they are. We suggest you hang on to your hat if you want one; just getting lettering done is an $80 charge.

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you guessed right. both are terrible

by Dooks on Oct 26, 2008 10:39 PM CDT reply actions

Christ Almighty… another stinkin’ Bettman gimmick. Vince McMahaon has nothing on Bettman when it comes to shameless gimmickry…

That Detroit POS is fugly, and having Cheli-Assbag wear it makes it uglier still.

by Brian Weidler on Oct 26, 2008 10:40 PM CDT reply actions

The Hawks jersey is pretty retro-based, I think. Was never a huge fan of that jersey when they’d used it before, but its not awful.

The Wings jersey… yikes.

by pdub on Oct 26, 2008 10:59 PM CDT reply actions

That’s pretty awful. You would think that the (fuck) Detroit jersey would have a vacant, burning house or something like that…

by JGB on Oct 26, 2008 11:43 PM CDT reply actions

The big D…that stands for douchenozzle, right?

by Brad Lee on Oct 27, 2008 12:37 AM CDT reply actions

why are two high school sophomores doing the blacks hawks one and someone’s grand dad doing the detroit one?

by Childhood Trauma on Oct 27, 2008 9:28 AM CDT reply actions

CT wrote:

why are two high school sophomores doing the blacks hawks one…

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I don’t care who you are, that’s funny right there…

Kane and Toews do look like auditions for High School Musical IV, don’t they?

by Game Time Prospect Department on Oct 27, 2008 10:16 AM CDT reply actions

Yikes, indeed!

The Hawks one is only slightly less nauseating than the “Big D”, but that really is damning with faint praise.

Thanks for reminding me of how much I hate Chelios’ guts.
He ain’t played for awhile.

by brian on Oct 27, 2008 11:58 AM CDT reply actions

i can’t wait to see a bunch of dumbass redwings fans walking around with those on. Those are about the ugliest, classless, walmart-special jerseys I have ever seen. Fuck detroit!

by NaJaKwa on Oct 27, 2008 1:18 PM CDT reply actions

Apparently the Detroit jersey is a throwback also.

by pdub on Oct 27, 2008 1:38 PM CDT reply actions

Wasn’t Chelios playing back when all the games were outside? They used frozen cowpies then instead of pucks and sticks for sticks. And he was old as shit then too.

by Pagan on Oct 27, 2008 5:48 PM CDT reply actions

Actually the Hawks jersies look pretty good better than those soft blue ones the Penguins had last year. What the F is that for Detriot? They couldn’t think of anything and since ol’Little Ceasers guy also owns the Tigers they steal their logo?

by Chris D. on Oct 27, 2008 8:30 PM CDT reply actions