Blue Jackets third jersey will roll to the guitar bite, apparently
By C.L. Kohuss
Another NHL third jersey was announced today, this time by the Columbus Blue Jackets, who seem to want to channel a little bit of rock n’ roll.
If you’re a fan of hockey and you’ve been paying even the slightest of attention throughout these slow news days of summer, you might have noticed that plenty of NHL teams are bringing back the third jersey, which was halted during the 2017-18 season because Adidas only has like four people working for it.
Just a few days back, the Winnipeg Jets revealed their creativity when they slapped the Quiggley Wiggly font to the front and called it a year, while the Anaheim Ducks went out of their way to sock us in the childhood.
But if you thought that was the end of all the fun before the season kicks off in a couple of weeks, the Columbus Blue Jackets are here to stand up and be counted. Like, literally.
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If it looks familiar, that’s due to a couple of reasons. The first being that Columbus has actually worn this jersey in a similar fashion before. The second is that a group of super old dudes (AC/DC) who are awesome at playing the same three chords every song also used the cannon. And when we say they used it, we mean the Blue Jackets might as well have taken their album cover into Photoshop and done a bit of eraser-tools/paint bucket doodling.
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To be sure, the logo is iconic to Columbus and it represents them well, so why not? There’s the historical aspect that dates to the Civil War, where cannons were of course basically giant murder straws with adults shooting at each other from across the table every 19 seconds, and the name Blue Jackets is a reference to the Union soldiers of the period. Also, they get shot out of the playoffs about as quickly every year by the Washington Capitals and Pittsburgh Penguins, so there’s that.