HailGoldPants

I think you're on to something. I just referred to this set as the "Hail Satan" set in a work chat and it's already caught on. At least two others have since called it that.

I would like to see some additional looks at the orange pants

Navy helmet has a satin finish.

I thought the aim was to have a new stadium in time for the '27 season, after the FedEx lease ends in '26? EDIT: Probably not possible to construct a new stadium by then seeing that it's already 2024. I just had one of those old man moments where I forgot that it's already 2024. I'm still living like it's 2011.

I would even speculate that they wait until moving to the new stadium and roll it all out at once (New name, unis).

Pumped about the return of blue masks. Didn't think the silver was bad, but this is a huge improvement.

I'm hoping that the Browns use this opportunity to update the actual helmet and facemask model used in their primary logo. That facemask in particular hasn't been used in 30+ years.

A few years ago, I too wondered what this would look like, so I threw together a quick mock-up. I felt the same as you though, the powder socks really take away from powder pants:

Here is a quick and dirty:

The stripe pattern of the gold pants used with the last set would totally work with the stripe pattern of the burgundy jersey. They could easily just use that design. I would be afraid that if gold pants were introduced, we'd just get stripe-less gold pants though.

I was cautiously optimistic that maybe they’d wear the black maybe just once, or even not at all, but they are slated for two games.

Was it my imagination, or was there confirmation of the Browns moving to a white facemask next season?

All white for Washington confirmed (for what is hopefully Snyder's last game as team owner).

No, dead serious. This was discussed ad nauseam on the boards a few years back. Unless something changed recently, the stripes on the Bengals helmets have been painted on.

I watched that video someone posted of Riddell employees preparing the various alternate helmets and one guy was applying stripe decals to the new Bengals alt lid. I thought that those would be painted on?