When Sporting Kansas City celebrates Retro Night on Sunday, the players will be rocking jerseys that adequately honor the club’s history. The Wizards logo is branded to the front, and the famous — or infamous — rainbow pattern covers the sleeves.
In its initial three seasons of Major League Soccer, the Wiz and Wizards jerseys had some variation of the rainbow or Life Saver or Charlie Brown look, whatever you preferred to call it. And as popular as the retro look might be today, it wasn’t exactly that way in the late 1990s, when the players wore them.