oldschoolvikings

Way too easy.

No, actually the pants stripe, socks, and sleeve stripe spacing mark these as an earlier version than the 80s/90s uniforms.

For me, as long as these didn’t turn out to be a complete disaster I was probably going to see them as an update. I’ve been so tired of seeing the last uniform and I can’t pretend I’m not happy just to see it gone. I’d say the jerseys and pants are at least minor upgrades. The triangle nonsense is stupid, the white helmet is pointless, the sock combinations are terrible, and the helmet stripe is laughably ridiculous. But the number font is an improvement and I think I kinda like the sleeves. The Lions did better, the Jets did much better, and I’m guessing the Texans will crap the bed.

I'm not necessarily saying that gray facemasks should count as a team color, I just think you'd be unwise not to consider that idea that a team might decide to claim it as an excuse to add gray to the uniform. The colts built an entire black uniform (poorly) by changing the Nike swooshes on the white jersey only to black. Speaking of the Colts, in an awesome troll job, they made "Facemask Gray" one of their official colors... I like to fantasize specifically to mess with the people on the site who cry like babies every time there's a gray mask when there's no other gray in the color scheme (here you go, whiners... "Facemask Gray" as an official color). I don't want to see this supposed Vikings' alt, because it will suck, but I have no doubt that NFL teams will gladly break any "rules" they want and bend the language to make it happen. As usual.

Last shot of the video is throwback socks.

Why don’t they?

Nostrodomus, apparently.

No, I'm not. You're wrong here in thinking every instance of striping within the uniform has to slavishly match every other instance. How about this... the stripes on the blue jersey match the stripes on the blue pants. The stripes on the white jersey match the stripes on the white pants. And the stripes on the silver helmet match the stripes on the silver pants. Round of applause, take a bow, high fives all around, end of story.

I disagree to begin with. Striped pants are better than non-striped pants 10 out of 10 times. But the solution is easy. Just never wear mono-looks. The Lions blue jersey-silver pants is amazing. The white jersey-silver pants is also amazing. Everything else is a miss.

My guess (not my hope) is the silver pants will have a stripe that matches the helmet, but all the other pants, blue white, and probably black, will be without stripes.

Assuming the black jerseys get worn with the blue helmets and pants this will be the least offensive black alt in the NFL. Still sucks but better than all black head to toe.

Why should you hate it?

Here you go...