My Take On The Jerseys

MikeDatTiger said:
This popped up in my twitter feed a little bit ago and thought the people in this thread would like it:
https://twitter.com/Paul5Hart/statuses/475933373043445760

If you click, it's a City fan who has redesigned the MCFC badge based on the NYCFC and Melbourne Heart badge. It's really cool that the badge NCYFC picked is now being used as a template across the City Group. Speaks well to the taste of the fans.
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Actually it is a reworking of the old Man City badges NYCFC is based off of.
 
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Francisco Lopez said:
Why wouldn't they? Yankees own 20% of the team and they're playing in Yankee staduim. It would make sense to have one kit to have navy blue pinstripes. Especially as the home kit.
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Doesn't really matter that they own the team and they're playing in their stadium. The Yanks are the Yanks and the pinstripes say Yankees. Those pinstripes are the same as the Nike swoosh. They won't give them to anyone.
 
Drainyoo said:
Doesn't really matter that they own the team and they're playing in their stadium. The Yanks are the Yanks and the pinstripes say Yankees. Those pinstripes are the same as the Nike swoosh. They won't give them to anyone.
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They don't own pinstripes. I'd say the Yankees have a 20% say on the kit for NYCFC. Minority, not majority. If Mansour wants pinstripes, Mansour will get pinstripes.
 
Adidas did West Brom's kits this year, not a terrible style to copy if we indeed wanted a Yankee-esque pinstripe design. Just imagine the stripes down the sleeve in orange as an accent.

West-Brom-2014-15-pinstipe-home-kit.jpg


I'd prefer not to have pinstripes though.
 
grandsolo said:
They don't own pinstripes. I'd say the Yankees have a 20% say on the kit for NYCFC. Minority, not majority. If Mansour wants pinstripes, Mansour will get pinstripes.
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Of course they don't own the pinstripes, but their home uniform with pinstripes is part of their brand. No other team in baseball has that. When someone says "I'm putting on the pinstripes" they're referring to the Yankees uniform. This is why that uniform is one of the most famous sports uniforms in the world.

I would beat big money that we won't see a white NYCFC kit with pinstripes.
 
Does MLS have jerseys for special occasions?

The NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL all have either one-off game jerseys or special edition jerseys like St Patrick's Day, Veterans Day / Memorial Day / July 4th, etc or throwback jerseys. Does MLS do anything like this?
 
If anyone is operating under the assumption that the Yankees would consider a uni with pinstripes an infringement on their brand...your understanding of branding is misguided. Pinstripes are a general jersey inclusion seen with many MLB teams, but as was previously mentioned, the Yanks are 'pinstripes.' With that said, a fellow NY team with grand ambitions would, if anything, enhance that brand.
 
I don't think the NY Yankees would like NYCFC to have a pinstriped kit, not even the third kit. But they may or may not have veto power on that issue. However, they already rejected one of the badges that NYCFC was going to offer the fans to vote on because the "NYC" monogram too closely resembled the "NY" symbol used by the Yanks on their hats. This was widely reported earlier this year when the badge was unveiled. So, it's pretty clear that the Yankees want to protect their own brand. What isn't clear is the amount of power the Yankees organization has over the kit designs. I'm guessing they have only one stipulation: no pinstripes.
 
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