The 26 worst uniforms in pro sports

Yellow is not the most becoming color, especially when it comes with a dark blue contrast and odd logo. Yet that's what the Preds continue to rock.

They may have landed the offseason's biggest fish in Zack Greinke, but the unis are still dormant for the Diamondbacks. Maybe it's because their name is too long, but something about the shortened nickname combined with the color scheme screams, "Look away!"

I want to love the Nets' uniforms. I really do. Normally, teams are much better off with simpler uniform designs as opposed to something overly ornate, but man, these things are just so plain. It's like someone accidentally sent the prototypes out as opposed to the actual final design. 

Seemingly taking a page out of Brooklyn's book, the Raptors' new uniforms are just so darn plain. Compared to the wild designs of yesteryear, the latest version just comes across as a bit too blah.

Aside from adding the CFL-esque third jersey that's in the photo here, the Carolina Panthers have pretty much had the same look since the days of Kerry Collins. Now that they have a true franchise QB, no NFL team is in more need of an aesthetic overhaul than the Panthers. 

The Mavs' uniforms are just so boring. For a team with such an outspoken owner who is seemingly on the cutting edge of everything, he sure does outfit his squad with some truly average-at-best threads. Bring back the old M-wearing-a-cowboy-hat logo and go from there. 

Why the Pistons would opt to wear these generic jerseys when the Bad Boys-era jerseys are just sitting there waiting to be brought back is beyond me.

While these aren't nearly as awful as the Mighty Ducks-era, green and purple sweaters that the team rocked in the '90s, they aren't exactly a prize either. There are just too many colors involved here. Black and orange work well for Halloween but not so much for NHL teams. 

Sometimes a franchise will try to bring back an older, more popular look while also trying to give it a more up-to-date modern look, and that often is just a recipe for uniform disaster. All this look does is make me want to go watch old clips of Dan Marino and the Marks Bros. 

Another case of just too much going on here. The shoulders on these jerseys are way too busy, and everything else about this look is immediately forgettable. It's understandable that the team wanted to move on completely from the Michael Vick era, but those old jerseys were some of the best in the NFL. 

It's simply incredible. For the better part of three-plus decades now, the Bengals have looked like something similar to what you see in that photo. Just one big joke that everyone in the NFL except for the Bengals are in on. 

A city as vibrant and colorful as New Orleans deserves better than to have one of its teams rock a look based around navy blue and gold. The alternate red jerseys are a step in the right direction, but they're not nearly enough. 

One of six teams from Florida to crack the worst list, the Lightning's uniform look as if its designer was assigned to rip off the Maple Leafs' look as blatantly as possible but didn't finish before the bell and just had to hand in whatever it had put together. 

Their logo is nicknamed "The Flaming Thumbtack," and that might be the most endearing thing about the Titans' uniforms. 

Much like the Miami Dolphins, the Vikings are another team that should have just stuck with their classic look (to their credit, they bust those out as an alternative jersey every so often) as opposed to trying to update what was already an iconic uniform. 

This color scheme has been burning the retinas of NHL fans for a couple decades now, yet the team doesn't seem concerned in the least. 

Normally, I'm a big fan of green uniforms, but this is overkill. More points deducted for ditching the gold trim they've had in there since the North Stars days. 

The Kings' purple jerseys simply just do not work. They need to scrap those and just use their alternate black jerseys as their away uniforms. Of course, the design of the team's uniforms is only one concern for Sacramento. 

It's never an easy time to be a Browns fan, but it's especially difficult now. The team is all but a joke/mess on and off the field, and now the Browns have the uniforms to match the part. Not a whole lot to like here. Then again, Joe Haden's jersey is currently one of the top sellers in the NFL, so I'm apparently very much in the minority here. 

You know how at weddings you get your choice of chicken or beef but not both? That's what it's like for teams choosing between blue and green as their primary team color. Pick one, because the two cannot occupy the same space at the same time. The Canucks ignored that advice. 

Teams creating a font that is unique to their franchises is always a dicey proposition, and here the Magic failed miserably. Just do NBA fans a solid and go back to wearing the Shaq/Penny-era uniforms full time. 

If anyone with the Cavs franchise is reading this, I'll make you a deal. Ditch the yellow jerseys you see here, and I'll take you off the list. I don't think I can put you on the best list, but I can find room for you on the aesthetically ambivalent list. 

Are we 100 percent sure that DeAndre Jordan saw these new Clippers jerseys before he flip-flopped and returned to L.A.? 

It's an aesthetic tragedy that two of the most marketable athletes in the entire world are saddled wearing uniforms that are reminiscent of the late '90s/early '00s Knicks uniforms with totally unnecessary black trim. The generic font isn't helping matters either. 

The Bucs are certainly a team that is no stranger to hideous uniforms, but this new look makes the Creamsicle-era Buccaneers look like a work of priceless art. Between the peculiar digital-ish number font, the oversized logo on the helmet and the color scheme, a very solid argument could be made for Tampa Bay having the worst uniforms in all of sports.  

Sometimes in life, it's good to take chances. And other times, an NFL team will roll out a half-black, half-gold helmet and expect everyone to just be cool with that. I guess if nothing else, that monstrosity of a helmet distracts from the rest of the uniform that looks like it came from the deleted scenes of an XFL documentary.