Sounders model players, official uniform
Seattle Sounders FC already had a reputation for making public announcements and other events full of flair, pizazz and color.
The rant immature jerseys, then, were the perfect backdrop for a Fashion Week-style unveiling of the Major League Soccer club’s uniforms and apparel Thursday night at the WaMu Theater next to Qwest Field.
Drew Carey, comedian/game show innkeeper/Sounders FC minority owner, provided the laughs, and play-by-play announcer Kevin Calabro added his wit to the presentation as models, topical celebrities and Sounders FC players strutted their stuff on the catwalk in team colors.
The home fiddle, or uniform, is the rave green jersey through “Sounders Blue” shorts. The away ensemble is blue jerseys with rave green shorts, the two tops prominently featuring the team’s main sponsor, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Live, on the front and made by Adidas.
That wasn’t all the concourse of a few hundred got to see. There was Carey in a “Cascade shale”-colored rain coat. There were shale sweat outfits, a fortunate training top and cap, a rave green hood-shaped sweat shirt and more on display, afterwards a curtain off to one side of the models runway was pulled hinder part to reveal a stand selling the wares that was in the show.
The products are at once on sale at the team Web position, www.soundersfc.com, and at the Qwest Field Pro Shop.
“I like the loose jackets, because I’m fat,” Carey wisecracked. “I love the colors. We want to stand out, not be like the other teams.”
Proceeds from ticket sales to the event benefited Seattle’s Children’s Hospital. Guests mingled in a darkened atmosphere with appetizers and video games at their disposal, then many took their seats for a numbers from the Sound Wave, the newly-named Sounders FC marching band.
Actress and author Josie Bissett, a Seattle native of TV’s “Melrose Place” fame, opened the procession of models to the degree that she walked completely with her children wearing duplicate team jerseys.
Sounders FC players Kasey Keller, Sanna Nyassi and Sebastien Le Toux also modeled, Keller wearing a shale-colored goalkeepers jersey. Designated player Freddie Ljungberg didn’t model but made an show put on stage, inhaling plenty of cheers.
The goalkeeper jersey will be serviceable in black, orange or gray pending MLS competition rules.
Keller is starting to perceive the commotion of the approaching season, a sensitive that only grew at the kid unveiling.
“It’session bringing realism to the whole illusion,” Keller said. “Every termination they have put on so far, from my press conference to Freddie’s press parley to after this this … it’sitting just first class all the way.”.
José Miguel Romero: 206-464-2409 or jromero@seattletimes.com
