Stop the Alternate Jersey Madness!

Many of you already know my disdain for the Bears' Orange alternate jersey. But this week, money-grabbing is hitting a new low with two incredibly stupid decisions for teams to bust out some new threads.

Firstly, Florida State has announced that it will throw one of the best uniforms in college football out the window for its game on October 21st, and will don an all-black alternate, essentially turning the Seminoles into Willie Beaman's Miami Sharks from "Any Given Sunday." I guess this would make Bobby Bowden Al Pacino. The Tallahassee Democrat reports that the jersey will honor the school's relationship with the Seminole Tribe, which sounds nice in a newspaper. However, it also mentions that the jersey was designed by Nike and was Nike's idea, which means it will likely look terrible/ridiculous.
I'm guessing a ridiculous "Authentic Native American culture"-type costume.

Secondly, the Buffalo Sabres changed their logo and jersey, and colors. Upon introducing the new logo, Buffalo also introduced an alternate sweater that is essentially a throwback of the jersey the Sabres wore untill 1996. The alternate was brought back, and the colors were changed largely as a result of fans feeling a disconnect between the Sabres of today and yesteryear.

If you're going to commission an alternate that is the old uniform, why not just bring back the old uniform? Why make separate jerseys featuring a logo that looks like a toupee with devil horns? Ahhhh ye$. I under$tand.

Go $eminoles. Go $abres.