Have I ever mentioned how hideous I think Oilers jerseys and colours are? My designer side cringes every time. Good hue of blue, but that shade of orange looks so awful with it.
The logo still looks like a grade 3's construction paper glue project to me as well. It works, it's easily recognizable, but such an eyesore. I might be more indifferent towards the team if it had even an iota of aesthetic appeal. But I get the equivalent of a puking sensation in my brain looking at the unis. A cheap plastic toy-looking palette, like if Hot Wheels had a team jersey. Just makes it all the more difficult to take them seriously on top of the quadrillion other reasons.
I'm quite thankful in retrospect to have been raised into fandom of the one western Canadian team (not counting the Jets) with an appealing colour scheme. Our current primaries are pretty bad with the black piping and C, but the colours, logo, and original jersey are just excellent. The Canucks' branding is almost equally as terrible. Colours makes me think they're supposed to be seaweed.
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