Groundbreaking uniforms for WPS...

Purplegeezer wrote:

athleticjames wrote:"
Umm. You're not excused. How much older is this dude than all of the players?

Does anyone have the editing technology to put a skirt below the face of this guy? That might actually be humorous.

aleppiek wrote:

I prefer this any day to the hideous skirt thingys.

Not bad, actually.

Yeah... Considering they had 3 months to design everything, as opposed to 18-24 most companies usually dedicate...

But that still doesn't explain the need for skorts...

I'm with KFTC: WTF?

The Skorts issue just might be an advertising campaign for Puma to justify the sponsorship of the league. The bottom line in my opinion is whether the players will actually feel comfortable playing in the darn things. I think the average player will wear a Burger King Paper Crown getting off the bus or signing autographs. But on the field is sacred territory. There is a You Tube video of a Danish women's team playing in actual skirts, ala tennis and they didn't seem to mind (so they said on camera). You might attribute that to Seth Blatter who prefers to see beautiful women playing football in tight skirts.

But remember there is no Title IX for the rest of the world and what we would call illegal sexism in this country passes as an inside joke elsewhere in the world. I don't expect to see many skorts on the field as it is an optional piece of gear. It does look a little more formal for say restaurant apparel than regular kits, and if they are used at all, that is where I would expect to see it.

I just thought it was kind of stupid looking, but again that comes from my oh so cosmopolitan, sexually repressed Victorian/Puritanical view of personal expression that the US likes to shove down our throats...