[AlbertaOiler72]

Originally Posted by Sainters7

Yeah, lately, because owners see the few teams in pro/college sports who had that as a tradition, and try to copy it by providing fans with free knockoff T's, cheapening the whole thing. The C of Red was one of the original pro sports teams to do this, even Winnipeg's white out was born as a response to the C of Red during a Flames/Jets playoff series in the 80s. So yes, it was innovative when Calgary did it. Which of course leads to copycat owners like Katz trying to create a bush league, forced version of it.

Extra try-hard points to Katz for trying to do this when he knows their traditional rivals - also in the playoffs this year - have a long-standing ORGANIC (so, different than 98% of the teams that do it) tradition of doing this. He's so cheesy. Blue/orange/copper Mile, getting fans to wear the same colour shirts in the playoffs...you're not Calgary, get your own playoff traditions and stop trying to copy us.

whats "organic" about everyone being a 200 dollar jersey from 2004?