>What’s more embarassing:
1. Having the nation watch your brand new sod field wash away on Monday Night Football?
2. Losing a chance to play for the BCS Championship because you were upset by a 28-point underdog rival?
3. Getting waived the day after your bobblehead night? or
4. Having your company’s star client unhappy with your product?
Something you won’t hear in the Reebok ad campaign: “In this jersey…I promise to fill my skates with sweat.” The RBK EDGE jersey system – new and improved, moisture-repellent material – has gone the way of the synthetic NBA ball.

There had been rumblings that players league-wide had not embraced the jersey material. Players said the jerseys were indeed staying dry, but the moisture was seeping inward, making gloves and skates fill with sweat and ice. This gave equipment managers an extra headache because they had to buy more gloves, more skates and more glove drying trees. The sweatband budget tripled too.

Seats near the dressing room runway at last night’s Pens-Coyotes game confirmed what we suspected we were seeing on HD broadcasts. The Pens uniforms have changed. The Pens are wearing jerseys made with different material. Counting the pre-season uniforms, the Penguins are five games into their third set of jerseys.

Reebok very quietly offered to replace the jerseys with modified versions of the EDGE to individual players that requested a change. Teams were given the option on what players to swap out and the Pens have swapped the entire team set

So, what material is being used now? AirKnit – the same material that had been used for the last ten years.