Blazers Introduce ‘Rip City’ Uniforms

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• Eboy Posted: Aug.18 at 9:33 am
  Love ‘em, almost as much as the commenting rules that are in the submit comment box.

• Bryan Posted: Aug.18 at 9:33 am
  Those are actually pretty sweet.

• Jukai Posted: Aug.18 at 9:35 am
  Damn… like ‘em a lot

• andrew Posted: Aug.18 at 9:39 am
  Why is portland rip city?

• larrylegend Posted: Aug.18 at 9:41 am
  red uniform looks good, timeless…bring back the old uniforms, nj!

• sixersforlife_85 Posted: Aug.18 at 9:53 am
  Are these to be worn through every game this season? Or are they just for a select couple of ‘tribute’ nights during the season?

• Maurice Posted: Aug.18 at 9:55 am
  are they talking about richard hamilton hometown coatsville????

• Torrance Posted: Aug.18 at 9:59 am
  Yeah, why rip city?

• Hisham Posted: Aug.18 at 10:00 am
  H.O.T. spells hot

• Hisham Posted: Aug.18 at 10:05 am
  why is portland rip city? why is houston clutch city? they just are!

• Z Posted: Aug.18 at 10:06 am
  like the vertical blazers one a lot. rip city is kinda corny. imagine LA putting lake show on their jersey or the yanks going with bronx bombers. not cool.

• Hisham Posted: Aug.18 at 10:07 am
  side note: I still like the regular jerseys better. Those are just timeless and beautiful

• jumpman3224 Posted: Aug.18 at 10:17 am
  The red ones are sick. Would love to get the Roy one.

• The Real Thing Posted: Aug.18 at 10:17 am
  A few months ago, I saw a guy wearing a Rudy Fernandez throwback jersey in the style of that red one, and instantly thought of how awesome it would be to see Rudy and other Blazers wearing them in an actual game. At the press conference, the Blazers had Terry Porter sporting the red jersey, and legendary play-by-play announcer Bill Schonely sported the “rip city” one.

• The Real Thing Posted: Aug.18 at 10:18 am
  Also, here’s where the term Rip City came from (from Wikipedia): “The term was coined by the team’s legendary play-by-play announcer Bill Schonely during a game against the Los Angeles Lakers in the Blazers’ first season.[12] In a recurring segment on Comcast SportsNet Northwest, Schonely explained that a three-point play by Blazers’ player Jim Barnett caused the net on the basket to rip. Schonely exclaimed “Rip City!” at the sight, and a member of his broadcasting team urged him to run with that as a rallying cry for the young team”

• phdwannabe Posted: Aug.18 at 10:18 am
  wikipedia is your friend.
  ” The term was coined by the team’s legendary play-by-play announcer Bill Schonely during a game against the Los Angeles Lakers in the Blazers’ first season. In a recurring segment on Comcast SportsNet Northwest, Schonely explained that a three-point play by Blazers’ player Jim Barnett caused the net on the basket to rip. Schonely exclaimed “Rip City!” at the sight, and a member of his broadcasting team urged him to run with that as a rallying cry for the young team.”

• The Real Thing Posted: Aug.18 at 10:19 am
  For those wondering where the term Rip City came from: “The term was coined by the team’s legendary play-by-play announcer Bill Schonely during a game against the Los Angeles Lakers in the Blazers’ first season.[12] In a recurring segment on Comcast SportsNet Northwest, Schonely explained that a three-point play by Blazers’ player Jim Barnett caused the net on the basket to rip. Schonely exclaimed “Rip City!” at the sight, and a member of his broadcasting team urged him to run with that as a rallying cry for the young team”

• phdwannabe Posted: Aug.18 at 10:19 am
  you, mr Real Thing, must be a great mind.

• wayno Posted: Aug.18 at 10:40 am
  The white one looks a little strange, but I LOVE the red, that thing is sick.

• BETCATS Posted: Aug.18 at 10:47 am
  Eboy = laaaate

• Z Posted: Aug.18 at 11:01 am
  kinda disappointed with the explanation. its so random. i thought it was something that actually had to do with portland or the blazers.

• TADOne Posted: Aug.18 at 11:11 am
  Cha-ching!

• orteezy Posted: Aug.18 at 11:12 am
  the last blazer jersey i got was rasheeed. been wainting to get rudy or roy. mos def gonna be rockin one of these at the rose garden this year. RRRRRRIPP CITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• Tarzan Cooper Posted: Aug.18 at 11:38 am
  meh, kinda corny

• dale Posted: Aug.18 at 12:19 pm
  sorry, love the ‘rip city’ concept, but that belongs to the fans, not the franchise. their heart is in the right place, but it’s corny to appropriate rip city on the official jersey. too studied, too self-conscious… trying too hard. i’m gonna be really pissed if this is a merchandising gimmick and the team doesn’t actually wear the jerseys, except on a “tribute” night, like the other commenter said. i really like the red one with the vertical stripe though.

• The D Train Posted: Aug.18 at 12:47 pm
  I actually almost purchased a Bill Walton jersey in the kick-arse red style a few years back for 300 bones one very, very drunken night. Luckily even in my state of total inebriation, I thought better of it at the last minute. That would have been absolutely TERRRRRIBLE! p.s. am I the only nut-job out there that totally misses B-Dubb and Snapper going at it on the old NBC telecasts? B-Dubb’s sense of hyperbole and over-the-top, mid-stream changes of heart are legendary in my mind.

• dirty frank Posted: Aug.18 at 1:10 pm
  You are not alone D Train. Bring back crazy Walt and the Snapper!

• Brad Long Posted: Aug.18 at 1:24 pm
  Looks like I’m the minority here but I like the Rip City jersey. I think by being able to put the nickname on the jersey it kind of symbolizes how close knit the city of Portland is with the Blazers. And haven’t the New York Knickerbockers been putting their “Knick”name on their jerseys for decades?

• garett Posted: Aug.18 at 2:19 pm
  I loved Bill Walton on colour. Literally. He needs to come back to doing more games, when possible, and with Snapper Jones. Reading “Breaks of the Game”, appreciating where the crazy hippie was coming from more now and what he once meant to the game. Also, he says random stuff like this: “”You look at Vladimir Radmanovic, this guy is cut from stone. As if Michelangelo was reading and a lightening bolt flashed before him.”

• Joey E. Posted: Aug.18 at 2:40 pm
  looks like a WNBA jersey.
  red throwback is awesome of course

• ShoeNut Posted: Aug.18 at 2:41 pm
  I’m feelin’ those uniforms. Nice retro look.

• Josh D Posted: Aug.18 at 3:10 pm
  NICE! R they actually gonna wear these all the time,cos u don’t wear a jersey all year round wih a nickname on it, u just don’t

• Zee! Posted: Aug.18 at 3:11 pm
  In tribute to the now defunt hip hop show, they should make a RAP CITY jersey and have Joe claire and Prince Dejour sport them.

• 6marjon Posted: Aug.18 at 3:56 pm
  lookin good

• LeoneL Posted: Aug.18 at 4:39 pm
  Motor City Pistons unis coming soon.

• LeoneL Posted: Aug.18 at 4:40 pm
  Or how about a Big Apple Knicks? On second thought…

• vmcb Posted: Aug.18 at 5:18 pm
  I want a Rudy jersey in Red. Or Roy. I love the Blazers.

• vic21 Posted: Aug.18 at 5:41 pm
  Totally corny. Ideal for Portland.

• The D Train Posted: Aug.18 at 5:51 pm
  actually kind of disappointed that the white jersey doesnt say Ripped City, as that would seem more apropos for my Portland city brethren.

• Old School Baller Posted: Aug.18 at 5:53 pm
  These jerseys are phat. But if they are gonna carry names like “Rip City” the Blazers had better bring it. If you can’t play, you can’t bring extra attention to yourself . . . that’s the code of the streets.

• BossTerry Posted: Aug.18 at 6:50 pm
  Being in Portland, I dont have the reason why or how we got the “Rip City” tag, but the last time the team was this good (played pistons and bulls in finals) there was a song made called- rip city, rap city. Song was performed by Kersey,Buck Williams, Porter, C. Robinson, and I think Clyde was even on it.. Some radio promotion thing.

• BossTerry Posted: Aug.18 at 7:06 pm
  The whole Rip City thing just kinda stuck. Also this is where the “BEAT L.A.” signs and chants started.. I think Duckworth was on the tape too, and a little disappointed that Slam has not mentioned him, even in the noize section since he died last summer. @vic- um, yeah Portland is corny so u should definitely NOT visit or move here..

• Blinguo Posted: Aug.18 at 7:22 pm
  Rip city one could use more work with the color placement and design but no worse than the other new versions of on court jerseys these days. And at least more of an idea than using pinstripes again.
  -
  Jim Barnett? “2 for 1!”

• nate the great Posted: Aug.18 at 7:23 pm
  ? why is everyone hating the rip city?
  cause its a nickname?
  the blazers are really the trail blazers.
  the knicks were really the knickerbockers.
  i think sporting the rip city jersey every once in awhile would be cool.
  but yeah i miss the jersery’s to the left.

• BossTerry Posted: Aug.18 at 7:43 pm
  Ive said it before, I prefer the retro jerseys over the newer stuff. Only ones that have improved over time are the grizzlies and raptors. I liked the maroon rockets, tan nuggets, etc. and why did they change a lot of the logos? Warriors,Wolves,Hawks,Pistons,etc. etc.

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• Dacre Posted: Aug.18 at 10:23 pm
  It’s all lovely. (hopefully this was neither racist, derogatory or ‘trolling’).
  ^_^

• chintao Posted: Aug.18 at 10:44 pm
  The whites have a kind of Rucker look to them. I can dig that. The Knicks only put Knicks on their jerseys for a very brief time (the 80’s?). For most of their history, “New York” has graced the front of both home and away jerseys.

• Sandy Dover Posted: Aug.18 at 11:23 pm
  I like the “Rip City” uniform, but I wonder if it’s going to be a mainstay uni or just a 2010 exclusive. The design is nice and utilizes some new structure of the jersey that is unlike the regular duds. My only gripe is that the nickname “Rip City” is sort of a Portland nickname for the team, and by putting on the jersey, it kind of creates this “bandwagon” effect for future hangers-on. I don’t know…that seems sort of cheap to me, but other than that, I can’t disagree with the uniform (I just hope this isn’t a way that Portland send some feelers out for a whole new uniform design altogether, because I love the regular threads they’re wearing and have been wearing).
  One more thing…the OG uniforms just had a solid black and solid white stripe down the side, not some chunky white stripe with mini black (and silver?) trim lines down the side. That I don’t like.

• Darksaber Posted: Aug.18 at 11:50 pm
  yuck

• jay Posted: Aug.18 at 11:52 pm
  i assume these will be hardwood classics for the blazers this year..not bad….kinda cool but wont cop!

• Teddy-the-Bear Posted: Aug.18 at 11:58 pm
  Knicks should should rock “Gotham” jerseys.

• Flash Posted: Aug.19 at 4:15 am
  how about ROY CITY?

• Dave Posted: Aug.19 at 6:11 am
  Actually, I think nicknames on jerseys is extra cool.
  For the life of me, I don’t understand why the All Star jerseys don’t have the player’s nicknames on the back rather than their surname. I mean, tha ASG is all about flash and dazzle!
  How f%$king cool would it be to own an East #21 jersey with BIG TICKET on the back? Or a #23 with THE KING or a West #24 with BLACK MAMBA?

• maclovenotwar Posted: Aug.19 at 8:04 am
  Ouch. The Rip City white jersey looks like it was designed by one of the amateur EA Sports Jersey Contest creators. Some issues: the rip city word mark, including the “p” touching the stripe; the regular uniform number font does not fit with the rest of the design; and the best logo in the NBA being dumped up there over the collar trim. Really poor effort, Portland.

• maclovenotwar Posted: Aug.19 at 8:05 am
  The red one is decent, but I agree with Hisham: their normal uniforms are so much better anyway.

• wayno Posted: Aug.19 at 9:15 am
  The Clippers jerseys are going to say “Not the Lakers”…

• Disliked23 Posted: Aug.19 at 10:04 am
  Rip City means everything to true portland fans and nothing to those who aren’t. Say “corny” all you want but I think that in this moment the sentiment is perfect. Fans of this team have been through a lot and I for one love everything that the team is doing to reconnect. Plus even the lamest alternate jersey is still fing cool.

• BossTerry Posted: Aug.19 at 1:57 pm
  lol @ wayno.. Funny you say that flash, people used to say Porterland (after Terry Porter) Or when Z-bo was here it was “Porkland”

• BossTerry Posted: Aug.19 at 11:43 pm
  Well said disliked.. Being the only pro sports team in the area, we take a lot of pride in this team.. In Barkley’s book “I could be wrong, but I doubt it” Chuck even said that Portland has the most supportive fans..

• james young Posted: Oct.15 at 11:27 am
  Why mess with the best jerseys in the game! Rip City rocks, but should not be put on the uniform.