Article: There’s Nothing Controversial About the Leaked City Connect Jerseys

[Alex Mayes]

If the leaked jerseys are real, color me unimpressed. 

Last week, Sam Kennedy described the new City Connect uniforms as “controversial” in an interview on "The Fenway Rundown" podcast. If the leaks from late on Wednesday night are to be believed, then the new City Connect jerseys are...fine. 

The Green Monster colorway is excellent. That is a classic color and just as closely associated with the team as the color red. It makes sense that the second round of City Connect jerseys will play off of that. We’ve only seen the front of the jersey, but the back has a lot of heavy lifting to do. It will need to be impressive if the jerseys are going to make fans go, "Oh man, that’s really cool." like the Nationals did with their cherry blossom jerseys.

I get that the font on the front mimics the hand-painted letters and numbers featured on the scoreboard. It’s just that it’s pretty bland looking for a jersey that’s supposed to get fans excited. If the back is bracketed in some way to look like the individual number slots in the scoreboard, that would be pretty neat and something that would make the jerseys unique. It makes me wonder if the Red Sox are going to break with tradition and have a home jersey with names on the back this season. They’ve already adopted their red jerseys on the road and left the names off the backs, so it could stand to reason that they could be a bit bold with these and put names on a home jersey. We’ll have to see.

I’ve loved the yellow jerseys since I first saw them and would like to add a couple more into my jersey rotation in the near future. I think for these possible Green Monster ones, though, I’ll be more inclined to just pick up one of a player who is going to be here for a while instead of adding multiple green jerseys to my closet. My mind will likely change once the jersey is confirmed and we start seeing them on the field. I was expecting something controversial. Instead we got something perfectly fine.

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[smokedogg1982]

They need some red on them. If they put a red number and red sox on the sleeve I will like them a lot more