Carolingian Steamroller

I can understand people down ranking the Bears because of the orange alternate. That said, this is still the best in football to me:

If someone gets a hat trick, all fans in attendance get suspiciously free "pizza."

When it comes evaluating a uniform change, think of it this way. You turn on the TV. Team X is wearing the new uniforms. You flip the channel and when you flip back the team is wearing the previous uniforms. Are you happy or sad?

Maybe in a Coke.

Welp, I'm going to bed.

Sure you can do it retroactively. You could do anything you like going forward. I would just say up to this point the Vikings have not had grey/silver as a color.

It looks like at some point they were trending towards a full 1966 throwback but cut it short. Literally, the bottom of the sleeve striping got cut off. I wonder why they didn't opt for just this? You'd still get the Avalanche-style peak but the stripes would show more clearly. And if you wanted to throw in a classic white/orange/white helmet stripe and a white facemask, well I wouldn't complain.

I'm very opposed to any white socks, white pants, color jersey combination (Pat Patriot throwbacks included). I've gotten used to the leotards in team colors so it doesn't bother me.

The pants and socks color are the same in every example shown except the white jersey/orange pants combo.

When it comes to grey facemasks, that was just the original color of the material from the manufacturer, kind of like how we don't count the silver from the chinstrap buckles. That changed when the first colored masks became available and teams could opt to move away from factory grey. The Cardinals in 2023 are the first instance I've seen of a team trying to retroactively add that facemask color to their overall scheme (admittedly they switched the facemask color to silver from grey to pull that off).

The shade of blue seems much much brighter.

Having digested the Lions for a few hours, here are my thoughts: The home uniform is nice. I feel strongly the Lions should wear silver numbers. I thought it was a major bonus in their previous set. It invokes the 1930's set which is the best look they've ever had. So going back to white feels like a step back even though so much about this home design really works. The stripeless pants (white, blue, black) make me sad. They aren't aesthetically bad per se but I don't see the reason to worry about making sure the stripes all match. They don't match across every on the home uniform, so just put the appropriate stripes on every element. The black should not have come back. I don't why it's back and if bringing it back is why the blue pants have no stripes it definitely shouldn't be back. The new facemask is fine. I will miss the silver ones though. The Northwestern stripes being gone kinda bugs me. The Detroit Lions have had Northwestern stripes in some form or another since 1961 and its a little sad to see them go even if the overall look is very nice. Overall, I think this is pretty good but I'm going miss the previous set.

I don’t disagree with much of this. New set is nice but the old way fit my personal preferences better

My bold take, every successive Lions uniform since 2009 hasn’t been as good as the one before it.

Still bothers me.

Just make the numbers on the blue jersey silver so I can stop thinking about it.

The white jersey has blue numbers with blue dominant stripes while the blue jersey has white numbers with silver dominant stripes. No don't like the look of that.

I think we're just going to get some white/silver inserted into the negative spaces of the Northwestern stripes and maybe a block style number.

I'd love something like this. A helmet with a single bar facemask, famously invented by the Browns.

Mind you in a city 7 am could easily be END of someone's work day as opposed to the beginning and lighting up is probably better than chugging a tall boy or sipping from a flask and stale booze smell bothers me a lot more than weed in public. My only issue on gambling ads is how it's changed the way people talk about sports. I hear a lot more about odds and covering in casual conversation and less about the outcome of the game or the individual performances in themselves. For the record, I feel the same way about fantasy spots. It's a weird hang up to me.

Am I daft, or do those pants have a sheen to them?

George Halas wasn't just the founder of the Bears. He was one of the original 1920 NFL franchisees. In a lot of ways, he helped lay the foundations of the entire League. The Bears' facility in the Northern suburbs is named Halas Hall.