Top 5 Worst Sports Uniforms

There are lots of bad sports uniforms, the Anaheim Mighty Ducks and San Diego Padres of the 80s come to mind. But these are our Top 5 Worst Sports Uniforms of all time. The real victims are the athletes, and to them, we pay tribute.

5. Milwaukee Admirals.

Granted, this is an obscure choice, given they are a minor league hockey team, but this uniform looks straight out of a 1970s kitchen from hell.

You don't know if you want to use it to set a picnic on, or play hockey. It's amazing that some executives thought this was a good choice for a jersey, and one can only imagine that some fashion school dropout designed this on a cocaine and acid binge.

4. Old School Pittsburgh Pirates.

It was the jerseys or pants that made this uniform bad, so much as the birthday cake-shaped hat that sat atop the players' domes of this once-mediocre franchise. Although they probably should have kept them, given their continuous 17 losing seasons and counting.

I loved players who had Afros that bunched up and bulged out the sides. Even great players like Roberto Clemente looked silly, despite feats of greatness.

Arrrgh.

3. Old School Denver Nuggets.

Somewhere a drag queen is singing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" dressed like Dorothy Gail in a smoky Denver nightclub, and beneath her blue checkered dress is likely a throwback Denver Nuggets Jersey.

The rainbow with the city skyline looks like it belongs not so much in the Mile High City but in the city Jefferson Starship claimed was built on rock and roll.


2. 1976 Chicago White Sox.

Who wears short-shorts? The 1976 Chicago White Sox.

These poor saps had to slip into these plum smugglers, looking more like English school boys or a beer league softball team. I can only imagine how the players felt walking onto the field in these dopey uniforms.

The ill-fated shorts were only used once, during the first half of a double header on August 8th, 1976. Opposing Kansas City Royal John Mayberry exclaimed “You guys are the sweetest team we’ve seen yet.”

They sure were.

1. Tampa Gay Buccaneers... er... Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Tampa hasn't had the sexiest history in the NFL, with more than it's fair share of crappy teams and losing seasons. What could only have added insult to further injury were these creamsicle-colored uniforms with what is clearly the most swishy swashbuckler that ever graced a sports uniform.

Look at the logo: A pirate who clearly just left the Tampa Pride Parade, with earring, thinly groomed mustache, and giant, dramatic feather in cap, seeming to blow in the warm bay breeze as he gives you a jaunty wink. The knife clenched in his teeth only makes the other feminine apects seem more feminine.