oxbo1690 Posted April 6, 2012 Report Share Posted April 6, 2012 This jersey is the ugliest thing in existence and I would love to see if there is any other info about this shirt out there. More for history's sake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brandon Posted April 6, 2012 Report Share Posted April 6, 2012 Wow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IIHFjerseycollector Posted April 6, 2012 Report Share Posted April 6, 2012 ive read around that theres 1 lurking around somewhere.. other than that mike keenan hated them. likely all there is was the prototype. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sungod661 Posted April 6, 2012 Report Share Posted April 6, 2012 I have wrote about this jersey in the past, there is at least one around in the hobby which was sold online in 2000. A good question is where are the rest? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawksFanInDC Posted April 6, 2012 Report Share Posted April 6, 2012 I know that Keenan hated them so much he refused to let the team wear them. I have never seen one so if you can find it probably worth a ton of money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IIHFjerseycollector Posted April 6, 2012 Report Share Posted April 6, 2012 did he hate them when they were made and sitting in the player stals ? or was he shown the design beforehand and told the blues to go F themselves? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawksFanInDC Posted April 6, 2012 Report Share Posted April 6, 2012 did he hate them when they were made and sitting in the player stals ? or was he shown the design beforehand and told the blues to go F themselves? I think when he was shown the prototype. I have never seen one customized. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oxbo1690 Posted April 6, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2012 God I would love to see that prototype. It would go for a fortune. Like BK jersey x10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brilliant! Posted April 6, 2012 Report Share Posted April 6, 2012 Word has it that the only one left is hanging in the NHL main office in Manhattan as a reminder of what line should never ever be crossed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
00xtremeninja Posted April 6, 2012 Report Share Posted April 6, 2012 soooo, someone in manhattan needs to break in and go steal it for the good of the community! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IIHFjerseycollector Posted April 6, 2012 Report Share Posted April 6, 2012 or someone needs to email someone there who is willing to take some real life pics of it.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brilliant! Posted April 6, 2012 Report Share Posted April 6, 2012 Just to be clear, that's only a rumor I've heard. I have no idea if it's true or not as I, nor anyone I know, has ever been within the corporate offices of the NHL. It is a pretty cool story though if true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnus X-1 Posted April 7, 2012 Report Share Posted April 7, 2012 It's a shame I can't poke out my mind's eye. I'll be stuck with a garish image until I die. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMadHat Posted April 7, 2012 Report Share Posted April 7, 2012 Beautiful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oxbo1690 Posted April 7, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2012 I have wrote about this jersey in the past, there is at least one around in the hobby which was sold online in 2000. A good question is where are the rest? Any links to your writing or other information on it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffB Posted April 7, 2012 Report Share Posted April 7, 2012 Here's what I wrote about it on my blog. Bonus jersey: You just knew no review of Curious, Weird and Ugly™ jerseys would not be complete without a mention of the proposed St. Louis Blues unused Alternate jerseys, which were supposed to join the initial five alternates which debuted in the 1995-96 season. A step beyond anything seen before, these jerseys, which would have been considered loud and garish in a roller hockey league, were approved by both the NHL and the Blues, and scheduled to debut in Gretzky's first game in St. Louis (which would have seen Gretzky wear two of the worst jerseys of all time in the same season), were rejected by then Blues coach Mike Keenan. While I am no fan of Keenan's, one has to give him credit for taking a stand against these monstrosities before they were allowed on the ice. Apparently one example of this jersey exists and we recall reading that it was, at one time, hanging in either the Blues or the NHL offices as a reminder of what not to do ever again. Perhaps someone has a link to this story or a better memory of it and can forward it to me. This is the one and only photo of this jersey on the internet. We'd like to have the opportunity to see if the back was supposed to be a copy of the front, or if it were perhaps simplified to accommodate the player's name and number. We also would have loved to have seen the proposed fonts for the names and numbers to have been used on this jersey and can only imagine the possible horrors the designers had in mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IIHFjerseycollector Posted April 7, 2012 Report Share Posted April 7, 2012 someone somewhere has to know something more about this jersey than what we have here.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madflava Posted April 8, 2012 Report Share Posted April 8, 2012 I hope sungod can find info on the article about the story of the jersey being sold in 2000. I'm curious if someone has this jersey in their closet somewhere. If it is out in the wild, it could be as rare as an authentic Hamilton Tigers jersey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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