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Off-Ramp

When it comes to sports uniforms, Los Angeles has room for improvement

The new design for the Los Angeles Clippers
The new logo design for the Los Angeles Clippers

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Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John is sharing selections from the Off-Ramp vault to help you explore this imperfect paradise.

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When it comes to sports uniforms, Los Angeles has room for improvement

This week, ESPN released a definitive list of the best dressed cities, based on their sports teams' uniforms.

It scores the uniforms of every team in the every city with more than two teams, and averages them out. Rounding out the top three this year is Boston, then Pittsburgh, then Chicago… you have to scroll all the way down to 11 before you’ll find Los Angeles. 

The list and research is the work of

, he runs ESPN’s Uni-Watch and has one of the most unique jobs in the world: sports uniform design critic. He blames the Clippers, and their often panned uniform redesign: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMxC-c6sV8M