The Giants today unveiled their new music-inspired City Connect uniforms, which will debut with tonight’s game against Reds. The team collaborated with several Bay Area music artists on the concept, including producer Ghazi Shami. The uniforms include the color purple, in honor of the stage lights of legendary S.F. music venue The Fillmore, and Haight-Ashbury’s posters advertising rock concerts that defined the nation’s counterculture movement. Additionally, it pays tribute to the 1913-17 Giants, who wore violet as a nod to NYU. The glove patch is inspired by warped 1960s gig posters. The chest script is inspired by psychedelic posters (Mike Mazzeo, SBJ). In S.F., Shayna Rubin notes the new uniforms will be worn “for every Tuesday home game as well as on days when a postgame concert at Oracle Park is scheduled.” The new jerseys are “much easier on the eyes than the bright-white and Creamsicle-orange ones the Giants wore for every Tuesday home game beginning in 2021” (S.F. CHRONICLE, 4/8).
TELL ME HOW YOU REALLY FEEL: ESPN.com’s David Schoenfield gives the uniform an “F” grade and writes, "This might be the worst City Connect jersey yet." It looks like some sort of “cheap merchandise hustlers would be selling outside the stadium ... circa 1995.” Schoenfield: “The design team might have spent a whole 10 minutes on it. For a city and a franchise with such a rich history, this is a failure” (ESPN.com, 4/8).
