The UFL is a new professional football league that will begin play in 2009 with four team playing six games each. The teams will be located in San Francisco, Orlando, Las Vegas, and New York.
This week the UFL is unveiling its team names and team uniforms, and to perfectly honest so far they seem to be a miss. The Las Vegas team will be called the Locomotives, an homage to that town’s history of being a railroad destination. The California team will be called the California Redwoods, due to the famous trees of Northern California.
While neither of these names really rolls of the tongue the California name seems superior to the Las Vegas one. The real miss here for the new league are the uniform color schemes.
Take a look at the UFL logo to the right, and you shall see the basic color scheme for both teams. The Las Vegas Franchise’s uniforms will be dominated by the blue UFL color, while the California Redwoods will be dominated by the green contained within the UFL logo.
With two teams and uniforms left to announce it seems safe to assume that the other two UFL teams will have similar uniform schemes that make little to no sense.
When we think about a locomotive sky blue is not the color that comes immediately to mind, and when we think of the California Redwood tree a near neon green in not the color envisioned in the brain.
For a new league trying to establish an identity both of these uniforms seem to be clear misses.
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