So let's start talking about 3rd kits

The reasons you see a lot of white kits are A) they are pretty much guaranteed to not conflict with the other team’s kit (assuming it’s colored) and B) white is classic.

I hate the cyan, even more than I hated the electricity. They are GIMMICK colors. It would be one thing if either of them were actually in our color palette, but they’re not. They’re not a nod to the past, or anything. They are shocking just for the purpose of being shocking.

That’s bush league. Our Club should be above that.

We have three colors- the bright rave green, the classic blue, and the charcoal grey. That should be where our kits come from. A throwback or retro-influenced kit is cool, too, but a true throwback should just be for a single game/event, IMO.

Portland’s 3rd kit is terrific. It’s classy.

White might strike one as boring but the touches- using the old-school font for Alaska, this new retro logo with the heavy influence of their old logo- those are great touches.

I would love to see our kits rarely, if ever, change. You want to build an international brand? The Yankees are everywhere- I’ve seen Yankees stuff in backwater southern China and Peru, Thailand and Germany.

And they haven’t changed their unis in any significant way in decades. They are classic and recognizable.

We have the color. Let’s make our kits classic, cool, and quit trying to grab attention for our kit color choices and start grabbing attention through continued and massive success on the field.

look at that! it’s even adidas!

I made this as what I thought would be interpreted as an obvious fake “leaked pic” of the 3rd kits. haha, love that you posted it on here

It would alienate me as someone who thinks that would look god awful.

Did you steal that design from Edmonds Woodway High School?

The same yacht jokes are less than they were.

hit “post” before entering my statement…
isn’t the entire objective of even existing in the first place to “make people happy”? What higher calling is there when it comes to sports?

Other than gifting a win in the Apple Cup every year? Boom!

Or U of Portland – Keller

But seriously, the thing I think here that would make the idea magical for the fans is the design submission AND the voting. It would truly be the Fan’s Kit, then. Designed by fans, chosen by fans, and — heh — carrying the name in some tiny discreet stitching or decal of one lucky fan.

Retro isn’t running away with anything as it is currently not getting 50 percent of the vote and the other three options could quite easily be seen as “proof” that something other than retro is preferable.

It’s the literal definition of begging the question. And that’s fine so far as it goes, but you can’t pretend as though you don’t understand what people are talking about when they call you out on it.