RetroBuzz in Vancouver

The 1990s were an awful, awful decade for sports jerseys.

While the 1990s represented an all-time low for jerseys in professional hockey, the decade was more like a brief burst of poor judgement for basketball. With the staid, traditionally-clad Bulls ruling the era, and the equally old school Lakers, Knicks and Celtics in a permanent battle for second, most '90s basketball fans managed to not look like idiots. They were also helped by the fact that it would have been almost impossible for basketball jerseys to be less attractive than they were in the 1970s and '80s. (If you need further evidence check out this picture of Bill Walton looking like a sasquatch, and this picture of Reggie Theus looking uncannily like John Oates from Hall & Oates.)

That said, there were some assaults on the eyes that were unleashed on the public during the '90s, particularly by the league's expansion teams. While the Raptors dressed their players in striped children's pyjamas, the Vancouver Grizzlies combined tealmania with a thoroughly misguided attempt to pay tribute to the area's original inhabitants, the Coast Salish peoples, to create a symphony of bad ideas.

Not only did the teal not go with the red and brown accents on the team's logo, but the faux-native accents along the arm and neck holes made the whole thing weirdly busy. Oh, and the players constantly looked like they were having their thigh mauled by a tiny bear.