![]() ![]() The marine blue and bronze eagle gave them a unique and stylish look.” ![]() Red, white, and blue are so common and overused the Caps just look like yet another team that wears it. “They look good and stand out from the rest of the league. “The old marine blue, black, and bronze colors should return,” one fan wrote. “The original red-white-n-blue will always be my favorite Caps jersey because I associate it with my childhood,” said one respondent.Īnother fan noted, “Gotta be Rockin’ the Red! I might wear the Third Jersey out and about but at the game, it has to be red.”īlue polled poorly (12.1 percent), which might explain why the new Third and Stadium Series jerseys had the lowest rating among all Capitals’ specialty jerseys in the Ovechkin Era.įew people, 91 (2.8 percent) to be exact, preferred to return to black and bronze, but the ones who did were very passionate about it. The Capitals’ Screaming Eagle (28.8 percent) narrowly edged out the Weagle logo (28.5 percent) and the Capitals wordmark (27.7 percent).Ĩ0.9 percent of voters chose red - a staggering 2,640 people out of 3,264. When we polled Capitals fans on what their favorite team logo was, we ended up essentially with a three-way tie for first. Usually, a sports franchise has a logo that everyone identifies with and loves more than all the others. There is no clear consensus on what fans’ favorite Capitals logo is. Maybe a change would make sense after the Ovi Era ends?” It’s time to do something fresh and new.”Īnother fan wrote that “there are so many memories I have associated with current jerseys that I would miss them overall if they went away. “The primary logo is boring now, especially since it’s just a modernized version of the original logo from 1974,” one voter commented. ![]() The Screaming Eagle was also perhaps a bigger hit than ownership realized when it sidelined the design in 2007. The close’ish vote suggests that while the current designs are well-liked, they are becoming stale. The Capitals’ Reverse Retro jersey is so popular, KP8 Design, recently imagined what the Capitals jerseys might look like next year if the team sidelined its Capitals wordmark logo and returned to the Screaming Eagle full time.ĥ7.7 percent of Capitals fans preferred to keep the current home and away jerseys the way they were while 42.3 percent of fans wanted the Screaming Eagle to come back full time. “These should be way more heavily featured if not made the new permanent home jerseys.”įans prefer the current home and away jersey designs over the Screaming Eagle, but not by much. “Reverse retro is a 11/10,” one reader commented. Out of the 3,290 polled, 61.6 percent either already owned or desired to buy the Reverse Retro jersey – 19 percent more than the Third Jersey. That small minority of haters (9 percent) drove the Reverse Retro’s average rating back down near the pack.ĭrilling down even further, Capitals fans overwhelmingly desired to have the Reverse Retro jersey in their closet over the Capitals’ third. The RR jersey received 5’s from 45 percent of Capitals fans - the most of all jerseys - but also received the most 1’s (10 percent). What we also learned was that the Screaming Eagle made readers feel strong things on both ends of the spectrum. Please note: The Capitals’ two blue designs finished in the bottom two. 27 ahead of the blue thirds, which surprisingly finished fourth. The Capitals’ Reverse Retro design was the highest-rated alternate sweater, garnering a 3.88 average rating and finishing. In short: people love the Screaming Eagle. That excitement eventually translated into jersey sales as the Caps had the top-selling Reverse Retro design in the NHL and the league’s online store sold out of Alex Ovechkin authentic jerseys in minutes.īut how did that sweater compare to the Capitals’ recently released blue Third Jerseys ( debuted January 26) that sold well too? And how did the Reverse Retro stack up against all other major specialty jerseys during the Ovechkin Era? We asked our readers to rate those sweaters on a scale of 1 to 5 where 5 meant Love It and 1 was Not A Fan. Over the last six months, RMNB’s reporting of the Capitals’ Reverse Retro jersey generated big traffic. ![]()
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