Louisville’s latest jerseys are another big Adidas miss
When Under Armour outfitted South Florida in outlandish board-shorts style jerseys during the 2013 Big East tournament, the look didn’t generate much buzz since the low-profile Bulls only wore them one day before getting eliminated.
Little did anyone realize the cheap board shorts look would return 18 months later on a vastly more high-profile team.
Photos of Louisville’s new Adidas jerseys popped up on social media Thursday, and the look features a similar thick stripe across the shorts as the uniforms South Florida wore. The shorts are bad enough that one clever Cardinals fan astutely compared them to “swimming trunks you buy at an out-of-town Target when you forget the hotel has a pool.”
Bad as the shorts are — and they’re awful — they’re not the worst jersey Adidas has dumped on Louisville in recent years.
By far the biggest eyesore was the sleeved Zubaz-print look the Cardinals wore during the 2013 NCAA tournament on the way to the national championship. Then there was the iridescent infrared look Louisville sported the previous year as it advanced to the Final Four, a jersey I actually grew to like but most people seemed to despise.
The “Red Stripe” jersey doesn’t seem likely to grow more tolerable after multiple viewings. It’s a good look if you’re trying to recruit Will Smith out of Bel Air Academy in the early 90s. It’s a bad look if you’re trying to land prospects who weren’t even born when the Fresh Prince of Bel Air premiered.
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Jeff Eisenberg is the editor of The Dagger on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at [email protected] or follow him on Twitter!
