BGM, Actually, Tampa Bay's color scheme is red,black,orange and pewter which is more of a metallic brownish color but definitely not silver, but I see the point you were trying to make.However, by adding black to contrast red and silver would make it more appealing from a marketing standpoint since the color black seems to sell like crazy. I do like the uniqueness of the stripes.....it's artsy and different. thegary, Killer posts (very interesting)
They'de be lookin throwed. Just one question, How come they dont say Houston. Are we not proud of our city?
The players will be in the new uniforms for the first pre-season game. We could've waited until the regular season opener, but somehow the idea of running with the old uniforms on the new floor seemed ... really, really, off. The figure on the rockets.com graphic is just a standard figure the league uses when developing uniform spec sheets. The sheets show the uniforms flat (with all the stitching marks, etc.) and on a figure. He's just some model that lives in New York, that's all. I'm always impressed by the ability of cc.netters to fabricate a conspiracy, though. For the record, the Marketing Department sends no smoke signals about player movement or transactions through advertising or promotional materials. Kind of fun to see everyone going all Zapruder all the time, though. Some of the new graphics you'll start (like this one) are from our new graphic designer. Turns out he was one of the respondents to the opening I posted here on cc.net a ways back. We finally got his computer all hooked up in the new place and we're pretty psyched to have him. Tim
So y'all aren't going to do an unveiling after all? Why do you say "the players will be in the new uniforms for the first preseason game" like nobody will be showing them off prior to that game? And if that's the case, do y'all at least have a hard copy or 12 to use for the games yet?
Of course you could have waited...you guys have the power... But, the point that the players will wear the new unis should be for RELIEF reasons, not because the new unis should be unveiled like if they were a "big suprise." Wearing the old unis would be torture to the fans. And it would anger them, rather get them excited about "seeing the new unis." The old unis were UGLY! Remember? Oh, and one more thing... Please remove this from rockets.com! It's hideous! Looks like the bear is wearing a giant bird-cage!
Does everyone realize how freaking cool that is? Once again Tim, thank you, thank you, thank you for the great work with the Rockets and also for participating on the board. You're a credit to the organization.
You guys are finding too much to complain about, take one more look at the pajamas and count your blessings. These are great looking jerseys; simple, to the point, sharp yet still has a very modern feeling. STuart
tim ,thanks alot ,rockets think you for are new jerseys they are the best .rockets logo is gonna be the best in the league. THE RED FIRE IS BACK IN HOUSTON BABY JUST BELIEVE! OR SHOULD I SAY BELIEVE IT! Thank you ROCKETS . SHOOO THE ROCKETS ARE COMING...
Wow, golly gee, whoopee, cool, they are the balm, soooo fine, like really happening BUT what about the team. What about TALENT, ATTITUDE, CHEMISTRY!!??? PERFORMANCE!!!! If they end up playing like last year, will the uniforms matter!?
Damn, I like the new unis, but the old ones look pretty cool after that pinstriped nightmares, I don't remember them ever looking this cool: Although the pose may have something to do with it....
Go to this thread to lobby for a third jersey with "Houston" on it!!! http://bbs.clutchcity.net/php3/showthread.php?s=&threadid=64971 -- droxford
I don't know if anyone posted this yet but I figured I would post it here instead of starting yet another uni thread. It is from the Chronicle. ClutchCity.net / Special to the Chronicle The Rockets new uniforms. Red's in fashion again Web sales put Rockets' sleek new look before public By JONATHAN FEIGEN Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle Very simple. Very different. And very, very red. The design of the Rockets' new uniforms slipped out on the Internet last week before the team could orchestrate its debut. But with two arcs circling the sleeves to match the new "R" logo, the Rockets did not need a catwalk for the red-and-silver look to prove a radical departure from eight seasons of stripes and a much-criticized cartoon rocket. "I'm very happy with them. I think they're great," Rockets vice president for marketing Tim McDougall said. "We had a couple of goals going in. One was color. Color is the first thing people see and identify when they look at uniforms. We took a lot of care to see what fans identify with. Red was the color people identify when they think of the Rockets. We started with that. The second goal was to have a clean, timeless and unique look to the Rockets' design. I think we've got that." Other features include a fabric specifically designed for the Rockets' uniforms; a harsh, slashing type font; and the use of the team name, rather than "Houston," on the front of the road uniforms. The primary goal, McDougall said, was to settle on a design that would "appeal over a long period of time." "There are different things you can do, some to make people immediately like uniforms but that wear out over time," he said. "We wanted something, a design, to wear for a long time. The most important thing was, `What works best over the long haul?' " If the Rockets got what they wanted in the new look, they lost the chance of debuting the uniforms when an online sporting goods company posted photographs of the jerseys and began taking orders. There had been leaks of the designs throughout the summer. However, most were either prototypes for commercial photo shoots -- with thin rather than the widening stripes around the arms -- or images for computer games. Several previous glimpses of the uniforms appeared in violation of signed non-disclosure agreements and were quickly removed from Web sites. Small sections of the uniforms seen on billboards around Houston, on the Rockets' Web site and on posters distributed by the Chronicle were artistic renditions never intended for wear by the players. The Rockets are waiting for Reebok to supply a set of uniforms in order to unveil them but tentatively have planned an event for next week to show off team merchandise. "I guess I could buy a couple and launch it that way," McDougall said. "It's frustrating to some extent. We'd love to have gotten it earlier in the summer. But ... the most important thing is to get it right for the long haul. I'll make that trade-off any day. We'll launch sometime when we get the uniforms in house a little over a week from now." Last week's online unveiling of the uniforms did not include the shorts. "The shorts have the same color patterns," McDougall said. "The arcing pattern is repeated on the side of the shorts, but smaller of course, and the logo is on the side of a leg, edged to the front a little bit." The decision to use the word "Rockets" rather than "Houston" on the road jersey -- a feature hotly debated before it was adopted when the Rockets last revised their uniforms in 1995 -- will help with branding the team. "We've looked at it," McDougall said. "It's been that way for a while. We will have `Houston' on the warmups as the team comes out. A lot of teams use the city name on the road but not all teams. Some good examples to follow -- the Bulls, Celtics and Lakers, for example -- are three fairly storied franchises and have remained top sellers as players come and go. "We're very proud of Houston, but at the same time we decided, `Let's keep the team name up front.' We think it's the way to brand the team correctly." McDougall said much of the delay in designing and producing the uniforms was the byproduct of the fabric he said was specifically designed for the Rockets. "The problem with red is the fabric always bleeds," McDougall said. "We had issues with that. If we were going with red, we could backtrack to a fabric that was not the ultimate in performance. We took a lot of time to come up with a fabric with the best performance and best appearance with a lot of shine, also non-bleed. From a playability standpoint and appearance standpoint, we created, working with Reebok, a fabric just for this uniform. "We spent a lot of time on (the font). We really settled on the `R' icon first and wanted a letter font with that. We didn't want something too out there (that was) too tricky. That could wear out on you. We wanted something stylized, too." The style was largely created by Eiko Ishioka, an Oscar winner for costume design on Bram Stoker's Dracula in 1992. It was then honed by Rockets, Reebok and NBA officials. "What struck her most about basketball is it's a very vertical sport," McDougall said. "She wanted to capture that with something for athletes that are sleek and strong and (that reflected) the sport's upward motion and used the arcs. With the name of the team, Rockets, it's a ... really good fit." Now all the Rockets have to do is get a few uniforms of their very own. http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/sports/bk/bkn/2111735
At first I thought the jerseys were "ok". Now I've seen a picture (from NBA Live) with the Shorts and they really bring the jersey out. If I knew how to post pics right, I'd put it up but it's prolly already up in one of the hundred of pages in here.
Hi there. I'd like to say hi to everyone. I'm the new Rox designer that Tim mentioned a while back. Had it not been for CC.net, I would never have found out about the design position. I'm probably one of the few that can honestly say that I got a job thanks to the internet. So big thanks to the forums. The tip jar will definitely get a small chunk of my first paycheck. I just want to say that this is probably the best-run fan site on the web. Big ups to Clutch and Co for their tireless work. The fans on the BBS are as mad passionate about the Rox as I am. Hopefully it will show up in the work I do. I'm still learning the ins and outs of working for an NBA org, but you'll start to see my work soon. So... Where do I fit in with CC.net? I can't provide trade info, free bobble heads, or underground routes to Toyota Center or anything like that. But I can take some of the questions usually directed at Tim and answer them to the best of my ability (within reason, of course!). He's a great guy to work for and I'm amazed that he finds the time to visit the forums and answer questions. How many pro team execs do you know of that do that? Anyhoo, continue to post Q's and concerns about your Rox. It's gonna be a fun season. blu
Hmm. No, I never said we wouldn't do an unveiling after all. We're tentatively planning that for Tuesday. I'm going to want to actually hold one in my hands before we firm that up. I was really just answering the question about what the players will wear in the pre-season. Since there have been so many leaks, the event will most likely be targeted at the media. We'll also plan on showing a lot of the merchandise that we've had developed for the store. I've already got dibs on one of the hats that has Houston Rockets in raised Chinese letters on a red background. And we've been promised by the league that we'll have uniforms in hand by the end of this week. Tim
