The throwbacks, the alternate road uniforms, the "Friday" uniforms in baseball, batting practice jerseys, the color rush and all the other eyesores exist for one and only one reason: to move merchandise. They're not designed to look good or be appealing, when the hardcore idiot fans already own a home jersey and a road jersey you need something new and different to sell them. They're not going away until they stop selling and as long as the morons keep buying them the leagues will keep inventing new ones. We're probably not too far away from the day when an NFL team has 16 new uniforms every season, 8 unique road and 8 unique home designs.