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Gridiron Ernie wrote:Greetings! I'm new here (so far as posting is concerned) however I've many times over the past couple years enjoyed following the often lively back and forth of the learned gentlemen of Lionbackers.com. It (the exchanges) can remind me at times of how the contests of our beloved game tend to go -- sometimes eloquently beautiful (like a long arcing pass-and-catch) sometimes low-down gritty and tug-a-war tough (like two 300 lb linemen dancing). Thanks for the entertainment. And thanks for the education -- the various knowledgable angles your many different (and often differing) voices offer up on any given topic.

Having chimed in here now, I'll stick my timid toe in the water with this initial post and vote. I love tradition (I was born the same year our Leos were born -- and have followed since age 10 -- as it happened around the time we won our first Cup), but I also get a bang out of change. So I had a mixed response (as I sense most of us did) at the whole package as presented. In the end, though the dust hasn't settled, I'm now leaning more toward 'thumbs up' and voted that way.

The one alarming thing for me, and I join the already loud chorus on this, is the different shade of orange for the 'away' uni. At first, me being a hobby picture-painter, I wondered if it was merely a trick of the eye, as I know that how a colour registers to the eye is in part dependant upon what colour it's adjacent to. Orange (for example) will look different in tone beside white than when beside black. But I've begun to worry along with many of you that there's more to it than a trick of the eye. I hope I'm wrong, and that once seen out on the gridiron, in the light of day or under the lights, they will somehow reveal themselves as the burnt orange we would have rightly expected.

You don't tinker with colour without consequences. We're all seeing that. All this, as WestCoast Joe might say, 'IMO'. Cheers! Training camp's a couple weeks away, and if the Lions find their roar again I guess I at least won't really care all that much anymore about aesthetics. But they'll really have to roar, and roar loudly, for lesser concerns to scatter.

TheLionKing wrote:Maybe it's my eyes, but the road uniforms looks red to me.

dtrain wrote:One final comment from a hardcore uni-geek:
I was thrilled to see they finally got rid of the stupid 'yoke' style stitiching around the shoulders (that Reebok introduced in 2004).
It always made the fan versions look a bit odd, and most other CFL teams were smart to avoid this style.
These new jerseys have at least gone back to a more traditional stitch line along the chest and shoulders.

Like i said - hardcore

dtrain wrote:you have a point on those goofy sleeve stripes, it's because the player cut is so tight i guess.
still that yoke thing always really bugged me - good riddance!

Hambone wrote:

dtrain wrote:you have a point on those goofy sleeve stripes, it's because the player cut is so tight i guess.
still that yoke thing always really bugged me - good riddance!

That's because the cut of the player is quite a bit different than the average fan.

.........Definitely the game jersey doesn't fit as comfortably as the replica.

dtrain wrote:I'm betting that these new road uniforms don't last more than a season, maybe two, before they're updated (with more black detailing in them.)

CardiacKid wrote:I wasn't overly thrilled with the away jersey but I managed to get an up close and personal look at one the other day. I am less critical of it now; the orange looks more "football-like" in real light and less creamsicle. The look of jersey fabric, stitching and other very small details when seen in their entirety with the naked eye, make it very apparent it is a jersey and not scrubs.
Faint praise I guess but praise nonetheless.

SammyGreene wrote:

CardiacKid wrote:I wasn't overly thrilled with the away jersey but I managed to get an up close and personal look at one the other day. I am less critical of it now; the orange looks more "football-like" in real light and less creamsicle. The look of jersey fabric, stitching and other very small details when seen in their entirety with the naked eye, make it very apparent it is a jersey and not scrubs.
Faint praise I guess but praise nonetheless.

Did you see it in a store? Was at Richmond Centre yesterday and Jersey City and Sportchek didn't not have any of the new jerseys. The only thing Jersey City had was the new draft hats and they were blowing out the old Reebok Lions merchadise for 70 percent off. Interesting enough the two customers that were in there at the same time were only interested in Lions stuff.

Maybe the league/Lions want to get an exclusive window for early sales but it would have been nice to see the Lions new jerseys prominently displayed in Jersey City's store front window. Instead it was the Toronto Raptors.