Next up in our YCS correspondence posts series...

Dear New England Patriots,

Kindly don't wear those obnoxious silver jerseys ever again.

I know alternate jerseys are all the rage, what with the team's ability to wear a shirt twice a season and charge the fans a fortune for it, but come on.

Admittedly, it's just a jersey, and it's a team I don't root for, and yes, it's a small thing to be bothered by, but it's the principle of this jersey that bugs me every time I see it on TV. It exists for no other reason than to be a total money grab, and a poorly-executed money grab at that. Are the Pats' white jerseys that similar in appearance to your opponent's (today, Buffalo's awful-for-a-different-reason navy home jersey) that you needed to break out the silver to more easily differentiate yourself? Nope.

Is it a throwback to commemorate a historic moment in the team's history, like Philly is doing this year? Wrong again.

Is it even an attempt to gain a competitive advantage? Some teams employ the "George Costanza Law of Competitive Thermodynamics" and wear white this time of year whenever possible, the thinking being the players will be a few degrees cooler than their opposition in heat-absorbing dark jerseys. Not here though. You were playing in Buffalo, NY and the white jerseys would have actually fared better following that theory.

Even aesthetically, it's crap. It just looks like the equipment manager used cheap generic laundry detergent and left your Sunday (or Monday, Saturday, or Thursday I suppose) Best looking like a crappier, dingier version of your road whites. At the very least if you've got a chubby for alternates, bring back Pat Patriot, and retire this uncreative mess to the hand-me-downs and charities where this could be more useful.

Sincerely,
Me (and probably some other people...somewhere)