Like most people, I was hoping for a non-solid look (red shirts with white shorts and any of our 3 colors on the socks? Or maybe that pattern, but with black shorts?). However, what we got is virtually dead-on to what I expected.

Not that this is a complaint. It’s a good looking shirt. I’d say it looks better than a lot of the home reds we see throughout MLS.

There are so many teams with red as their main color in MLS, though, that it might become our Open Cup/international competition (if we ever get back to CCL play) uniform. I’d be against wearing this in any friendlies with big-name clubs, though, because in those games we should stick to our traditional black look. Those games generate a lot of pictures in places we don’t normally get attention, so we should take those chances to show the world how we normally look.

1. Cat In The Hat
2. The other black shirt (which eventually was worn nearly as often as our actual home jersey at the time…always liked this one myself)
3. The infamous “red” shirt (I think the most use anyone got out of this was Rimando wearing it as his GK jersey several times)
4. Virginia Tech tribute shirt

I can’t shake the thought that there are actually 5, and that I’ve missed one, but I just had 2 cups of strong coffee and might not be thinking straight.