Why Did the Pittsburgh Penguins Start Wearing Black and Gold? 

And then bolt for more cash somewhere else at first opportunity

Like Howard Cosell said, "when you play Pittsburgh, you play the whole city."

@@cmdrfunk That's only the Pirates. Even with free agency, many Steelers and Pens have played exclusively for those teams. Kinda indicates how broken baseball really is.

Dylan Wilber I love the Penguins

Annoying even back then

Bryant Steury yes.

The Boston Butthurts.

@@MrsPaul Boston Boo Hooins

That’s why we had to keep changing the shade of gold on the logo

With the robo penguin logo

Matt Eagle those jerseys have proven to be bad luck

the light blue third jersey they wore back around 2012 is the best jersey in their history imo

Check out nhluniforms.com for the history of the Penguins and all the NHL teams uniforms.

@Akbar Lebowitz In addition to the halftime of Super Bowl XIV early in 1980 on CBS, I also seem to remember a live segment on the S.B. pregame show from a popular hangout in Pittsburgh they had one of the players on the Penguins display the new uniform colors in front of the camera? ? ?

popeye sailor D.C is the closest to having that. All of their teams except for the Redskins and D.C United wear red, white and blue.

Some cities try to use same colors LA had same colors with kings rams and Lakers.

In Hartford, the Whalers wore blue and green, the double A team is blue and green, the USL team is blue and green and the Wolf Pack had a brief stint as the CT Whale which was also blue and green

Montreal used to do that, with the Habs, Expos and Alouettes sporting red, white and blue. With the Impact FC being black and blue though, that ruins the streak a little

I read about the Islanders, who changed their logo in the mid-90's to that Fisherman. During the next season, they tried to switch back to their original logo because, well, absolutely every NYI fans hated it, but the league prevented them from doing so mid-season. So instead, they introduced "third" jerseys that were basically the same as the Fisherman's ones, but with their classic logo on them. Then dropped the Fisherman do good the following year

@DJVexillum In addition to the Pitts. Penguins changing uniform designs in the middle of the season, the Chicago White Sox were allowed to start wearing the new black, white and gray uniforms during their last weeks at the original Comiskey Park in September 1990 replacing the previous blue, white and red uniforms.

Tampa is a lighter shade of blue

That's one of the points that Stan Savran makes in the video, though Tampa didn't come into existence until over a decade after the Penguins made the switch, so it's not the best analogy. A better one would be the Capitals coming into the league with the same red-dominated red/white/blue colours as Montreal.

@@jamestrexler6329 I know I was a pens fan since Reagan was in office

I've seen tons of people complaining about Tampa going blue and white. I definitely miss the black on their jersey, especially since that's what they had when they won the Cup

At first,I did. Even more when their alternate "Bolts" jersey was a rip-off of the Kings. Honestly,they should have at least worn black pants and helmets ,and add more black to the jerseys (you can't really see the black trim on the numbers from far away

Wish we had a basketball team as well to complete the circle

anvil8478 no u

@Atheos B. Sapien yes

No but he was a penguins tv announcer for like 25 years

Well, that's what happens when you play with only 5 other teams

@@Jake_Broer they made cup finals after expansion too...

Giovanni Stanisci OMG 🤣

They were awesome!!

mnull2891 I like em

@@dylanvogel4503 The navy blue was uninspiring, sure, but the powder blue was an amazing and unique look. Personally I really love the blue and white era, though I agree that the switch was a fantastic move.

You mean Vegas gold.

@Stelios Kontos that's football but yeah exactly, same idea.

@Stelios Kontos Try some math with that...6=6 but 5>3 thanks for playing

@Stelios Kontos ok. I'll put like I'm taking to a 4th grader. The Steelers and Patriots have both won 6 Superbowls but the Penguins have won 5 Stanley Cups while the Bruins have won 3. Thus 5 is more than 3

@Stelios Kontos easy, years don't matter, only how many! How long did it take NE to win it's first SB? (the answer is 41 years) . don't act like they've been doing this forever. Any Steeler fan will tell you about the rough history (and a lot of the 80's) that stunk

mike collins .......but horrible marathon hosts

Bruin's original colors were brown and yellow-gold.

actually the Pittsburgh Pirates (hockey) were the original Black and Gold. Bruins were Brown and yellow

@Stelios Kontos But Pittsburgh had the color scheme first (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_Pirates_(NHL) )so they should go back to brown and then complain. Plus " You play for Pittsburgh, you play for the city of Pittsburgh, we’re all in this together! "

St Patrick originally wore red not green

Me too...

me too

Son, y'all been sniffin' them chemtrails.