Another Peek At Bolts Jersey
Thursday · Nov 6 · 2008 | 11:13 PM PSTRemember last week when I mentioned that some unreleased replica third jerseys were being hocked on ebay? Well some of you were just cavalier enough to hand over your money for them.
One reader bought the new Tampa Bay Lightning third jersey and sent in some pictures and I have to tell you I am mighty impressed.
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I love that they kept the armpit stripes. That's been a staple of Lightning sweaters since 1991 when Phil Esposito introduced the very first one. And if you haven't heard me tell the story of why those stripes are there, it's a good one.
Espo, who founded the Bolts way back when, wanted a unique element to his team's new jerseys — something that made them special. These underarm stripes are only ever seen on two occasions: either when a Lightning player scores a goal or when he's taking the Stanley Cup on a lap around the ice.
Every time I see those stripes, I get instinctively happy. I've been conditioned.
Reader Comments (23)
I'm stunned that those were real. I was tempted to buy a Phoenix one for them looking sweet, but I just figured it was some sort of scam. Wow.
I see that guy seems to have had those removed from eBay now, though. Hah.
I hope tampa bay doesn't have Bowflex's ( Bowflexes?) strapped to their backs. I mean, they shamelessly promote Less than Grade B horror movies, so why not? Pretty soon, Tampa Bay will be telling us that women should be able to vote.
Psheesh. That'll be the day.
my question, is does it have that despicable butt logo we saw in the last leak?
A goal celebration or raising the cup huh? So we'll never get to see those stripes I guess.
I think the Lightning will be the only team to pull off the slanted wordmark look. im still afraid of what the Senators are gonna pull when they unveil theirs.
Those are NOT the same stripes. The ones on there now, are those ugly ass ones that the new Buffalo thirds have - and those are fucking retarded. They ruined the jersey.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2004/06/07/sports/08nhl2.l.jpg
"either when a Lightning player scores a goal or when he's taking the Stanley Cup on a lap around the ice."
no wonder I never noticed it before.
the jersey is amazing, but it would be so much better with a logo
I got a little cavalier as well and bought new Sabres third....65 dollars shipped, can't beat it.
http://s262.photobucket.com/albums/ii117/SabreNotSlugs/?action=view¤t=DSC01001.jpg
@Koho & @David: I am not a Lightning apologist by any means, but how soon we have forgotten the 2003-2004 season...
Gee Wade, tell us how you really feel.
Charlie, got mine on the way too! Thanks for the tip!
Wade Little, The stripes on this jersey and the one you posted are the exact same- narrow white blue white, with a black background. Chris is talking about the striping on the underarm gusset, not the piping.
And I have noticed them before at a Hurricanes game- a lighting player got checked awkwardly into the boards. Goal or Cup aren't the only ways to see them...
Not a fan of the armpit stripes (Sorry Chris) but overall this jersey isn't too shabby. I wouldn't mind seeing the team change it's name to the Tampa Bay Bolts.
yea the pipiing is eh. however it could be worse.
The Tampa Bay Lightning completely dropped the ball with this jersey. You all have no idea how much I HATE (and I mean HATE) the friggin' BOLTS across the front. It literally to me ruined what could've been a great jersey. First, it's the ugly lettering font. Second, a five-year-old kid could've designed this piece of crap by writing a nickname across it. And third, had the primary logo been put on the front and the secondary logo on the shoulders, this would've been 100% better. What is it with NHL teams now? They decide to hire kids to design these things? First Dallas' was imaginative. Rumored that Ottawa will have SENS on theirs, not Tampa Bay with this. Unbelievable.
Honestly, aside from the lamesauce "Bolts" across the chest, that's a pretty nice jersey. Put a real logo on there, maybe a new secondary of some sort, and you've got a winner. Excellent colors and striping.
i still would like to know how the guy selling these jerseys got them...these look like the jerseys that reebok is going to put out...i mean it looks like the guy stole them from reebok then just sold them...i thought about gettin one but thought they would be fake and really shitty...i guess i was wrong...
Oopsie, bad grammar in my previous post... I meant to say "First Dallas' was UNimaginative" and "...NOW Tampa Bay with this."
They're not as eye rapingly hideous as Atlanta's thirds, but that dosen't say much.
If only if only.... anyways I think that Tampa got the jersey right, it is clean and everything! imo "Bolts" isn't the end of the world for the jersey, but I do agree that a secondary logo would be MUCH better if done correctly.
"either when a Lightning player scores a goal or when he's taking the Stanley Cup on a lap around the ice."
no wonder I never noticed it before.
http://www.visittampabay.com/images/db/static/Lightning%201%20lo.jpg
new to hockey?
Nobody calls them the "Bolts" except in Tampa Bay, so that's stupid. Also, the narrow stripes at the hem are reflected nowhere else on the jersey, with big fat wide stripes on the sleeves and the dopey narrow piping around the pits, which looks stupid. Also, the font is stupid. Also having some word go diagonally down the jersey has been done to death, so it is also stupid. Having no actual BOLT on the front of the thing is stupid. Having no lace at the collar on an otherwise retro jersey is stupid. And even though I like all shades of blue, the actual Lightning blue is darker than this one, which is stupid.
Other than that, these things are sharp! Sign me up to drop a quarter grand on one tomorrow
is that the new sharks jersey behind the armpit shot?