New Uniform Design Unveiled

The simple truth is that even though Nike does not get everything right, they do have access to the best and brightest design and marketing people

Despite all evidence to the contrary, you mean?Between this and the insipid US National Soccer Team shirt also revealed today, the Nike people who worked on these show that they're not either not really imaginative or they're clueless. Or, in the Bucs' case, they're stuck in 2001. Because these look like XFL uniforms. Look, it's not even about what the uniforms look like so much as what this whole thing represents: a clueless organization that has been - since its inception - the worst one in the National Football League.Think about it: Matt Millen would probably have been the third-best general manager we ever had. Nobody can match the unparalleled record of crap that this organization has foisted on us since 1976. With exactly 12 winning seasons EVER, intermittently spaced among some of the worst, least competitive and outright most craptacular seasons a team has had in the modern era, with horrible personnel decisions, with tone-deaf responses to our concerns and a complete inability to just chart a course toward winning and not worrying about all the extraneous crap, this is the worst franchise of all time. Some of the responses today (here and elsewhere) have been "Who cares? They're our team! You should support them no matter what! Bucs 'til I die" and similar nonsense.Look, we ALL frigging live and die with this team. Some of us have since 0-26. We don't all have to be like you Sunshine Pollys who think the status quo is fine and whatever idiotic idea they come up with next is fine because "they're our team." It's PRECISELY that attitude that lets them continue to churn out complete dreck in the football department. This is yet another demonstration of how utterly clueless these people are. These uniforms aren't good-looking. They're a jumbled mess of colors and swatches and words and symbols and they look really, tremendously bad. They let Nike's kid designers do whatever they wanted to. It might have even been a complete joke ("Let's show them THIS one just as a gag - oh, wait, they LIKED that one?"), we don't know. But whether it's pewter or black or has Jack Bauer countdown numbers or an "enhanced" logo or whatever...it's crap. How about enhancing the offensive line? How about enhancing the quarterback position? How about NOT LETTING A STAPH INFECTION RUN RAMPANT IN YOUR FACILITY? You're doing all this while YOU HAVE A TON OF OTHER THINGS THAT ARE MORE PRESSING.But it's all about bleeding you dry. This is about moving merchandise, plain and simple. Buy new jerseys and t-shirts and hats, folks, because you're just thrilled to have an NFL team and not be Orlando or something. Well, that's not good enough. 38 years of this crap. It has to stop. This is the worst organization in the league by far. And you can say what you want about loyalty and all that nonsense - you're a sheep if what they've given you for almost four decades is good enough for you.