Padres to bring back brown and yellow uniforms next season
For the first time since 1984, the San Diego Padres will wear brown and yellow uniforms. The club unveiled three new jerseys to celebrate the upcoming season, and one of them was a brown throwback.
Those jerseys will only be worn during Friday home games, though, so you’ll have limited opportunities to see the Padres sport their old colors.
For some time now, fans have rallied the Padres to bring back these colors. The team’s current uniforms are fairly nondescript. The brown and yellow uniforms were the most memorable in team history. They are a throwback to the club’s inception and a reminder of some of the most prominent players in franchise history.
While this reintroduction of the colors appears to be temporary, there’s hope they’ll take on a more prominent role moving forward, according to Dennis Lin of the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Padres president and CEO Mike Dee said the club “toyed” with making brown and yellow the primary home colors. He added that both the home and the road uniforms, which remained unchanged, will be reassessed after next season. The new home whites, in fact, are for the 2016 season only; they will mark the first time in MLB history that a team hosting the All-Star Game has worn a commemorative jersey.
Brown and yellow, Dee suggested, might become a more dominant theme in 2017.
“We think it’s a major part of our DNA,” Dee said. “To have it be a permanent part of our home portfolio, we thought was important.”
Rejoice, Padres fans. It might just happen!
As team CEO Mike Dee said, the club also introduced a new home white jersey commemorating the All-Star game, which will be held at Petco Park. They also unveiled camouflage jerseys that will be worn on Sundays.
It’s the brown and yellow uniforms that have the fans buzzing, though. They’ve wanted the Padres to bring back these colors for quite some time, and now they’ve finally gotten their wish.
Now, the Padres just need to take it a step further and make the change permanent. It’s what everybody wants!
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