Sabres will stop using hated third jersey after this season
The Buffalo Sabres are going to shelve their yellow third jersey after the 2014-15 season.
During an appearance on WGR radio in Buffalo on Thursday, Sabres team president Ted Black announced what might be the best development of the 2014-15 for the team: They will be shelving their yellow third jersey, which has been loathed by pretty much everybody from the moment it was unveiled, after the 2014-15 season.
Said Black, via Mike Harrington of the Buffalo News, "we didn't anticipate the amount of third-jersey fatigue in the market."
The problem wasn't jersey fatigue.
Fans love jerseys. They want to buy more jerseys. They will buy pretty much any jersey a team gives them the opportunity to buy. If it's good. And this one wasn't. It stinks. It might not be as bad as the now infamous Buffaslug look, but it is definitely not a good one.
Really, the only way to describe it is this paragraph from Harrington's story on the jersey being retired.
It was Black, of course, who unintentionally christened the gold sweaters when he responded to the immediate backlash prior to last season by saying, "If it's a turd burger I'll have to put it on a bun and eat it."The name stuck, and it likely will forever.
Black also said that the team will not have a third jersey next season and may wait until the team's 50th anniversary season in 2020 before bringing one back.
Hopefully the next one won't be a turd burger.
