Snakebites wrote:It's all about the nostalgia cycle.
Gen Z folks remember the Teal jerseys as their FIRST Piston jersey. Whereas millennials like me are old enough to remember the pre-teal era and thus don't have a particular nostalgia for what, outside of Grant Hill, was a pretty uninspired era.
I suppose. I was 12 years old in 1996 when the teal initially debuted and probably in the demographic it was targeted for at the time and it is not something I feel any particular nostalgia for. The Gen Z guys I guess I get not having any real memories of the current set being associated with anything other than the failures of the 2010s but I don't get why they jump straight to the teal era stuff. I always figured it was because it seems to pop up here and there in pop culture/rap videos/etc.
I just see the Pistons social media getting flooded with requests for it and the Gores management regime is so inept, it makes me afraid they might bring it back full time. Outside of those 5 regrettable teal years, the Pistons have had their current look essentially since the start of the Bad Boys era in 1980 (40 years!) so I would have to hope that they are smart enough not to change anything.
BJK1 wrote:I’m a Gen X guy, and I wasn’t a fan of the teal era (I think they unveiled those uniforms the summer that Allan Houston left), but still liked some usage of the horse. In fact, when they initially went back to the red, white, and blue at the start of the “Goin to Work” era, they actually had the horse logo on the shorts. Those were cool. For some reason, they went away from that.
That I could agree with. I wouldn't be opposed to some kind of cleaned up flaming horse ball or flaming tailpipes logo being used a secondary logo (not at center court though.) It is certainly more imaginative than the various "DP" monograms they've used for the last 15 years.
