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I know its BFBS but this looks incredible Blue/Black/Blue/Black

If the Jets and Lions actually have shiny fabric pants, we are so back.

One of the things I'll never get tired of around here is someone saying an opinion is wrong.

That home blue is gorgeous. May have to pick one up. The away really needs silver pants. maybe I’ll like the helmet better if it’s not so over saturated blue in real life

Honestly how I feel. I do think if they got rid of the word mark on the chest and added blue pants to the black jersey I think the contrast would’ve been better for the blue helmets. Plus no more word marks interfering with the stripes make this a win in my books. 9/10

It looks like the Silver pants might:

Scattered thoughts on the Lions: The color grading is a factor, but the white accents in the stripes really jump off the page. I like the effect, but I can see why other people would prefer the last set's color balance better. You don't realize how much a mediocre custom font drags down a set until it's replaced with block. Big improvement. Striping system is a success. Wish more of the pants had stripes - matching the stripes shouldn't be a problem. If the Bengals can have two sets of white pants then the Lions can have two sets of blue pants. Not sure how to feel about the blue facemasks. The blue being lighter than it was the last time they had them makes it look different. Not sure I would've gone for that glossy of a finish, either. At first I thought the silver pants were shinier, but I think it's just the lighting? Tough to say. Anyway, the reflective shade used on the jerseys looks great. The black uniform is unnecessary, but it's competently designed. I'm not going to bother hating it. I don't get the hate for the chest wordmarks. They're not obnoxiously large or anything - I'd rather they be this size than the tiny EAGLES mark that's debuting this year. I wish the blue jersey had one just to be consistent. And my thoughts on the Texans: There are many things that are obviously bad, but in spite of that, there are a few smaller details that are... just as bad. Why are there three shades of blue? Why is the star subtly different than the one in their primary logo? Why is it on the right of the H when it's on the left of the Texas flag? Why didn't they clean up that blob of red outline under the serif in the top-left corner? I'd be more willing to go along with this direction if it didn't feel like they flubbed the execution.

The problem appears that they wish to wear blue pants both on the road and with the black jersey. But if they use the same stripe pattern as the blue jersey, it would be a silver and white stripe, whereas the new blue helmet uses a silver and black stripe. So their option was to go stripeless. I think the better option would have been to use proper stripes on the blue and white pants and only use black pants with the black jersey, but I don’t necessarily think the blue pants look bad. The white pants are unnecessary.

Final verdict for me: Block numerals and lettering No black on home/road uniforms No more sleeve nonsense interrupting the stripes They went for it on the black uniforms and the revised blue helmet. My biggest problem with all the prior black uniforms for the Lions was that there was never enough blue, and I always feared having a blue lion on a blue helmet would be invisible. By darkening the decals to black-and-silver, they were able to balance the look into something that actually works and is unique. The Blue/Black/Blue/Black alternate is something I hope we see. Nothing specific, but these uniforms showed that the Lions had a clear vision of who they are and what they wanted to look like. They weren’t pushed around by Nike or the NFL. Blue facemask. This is a personal preference and probably unpopular, but the honolulu blue facemask is just too bright/loud for me… It dominates the eye. It’s less noticeable on the simpler masks, but when you get to the more complex lineman masks, it’s WAY too much blue (at the very least, I would like the Lions to bring back the silver masks from the throwbacks and swap them in and out like the Browns did in recent years to keep the looks fresh). The chest wordmarks are too large and unnecessary, but beyond that, the wordmarks being the only italicized thing on the uniform will drive my OCD through the roof. I would have preferred a new wordmark to match this set (especially one that uses an uppercase N). Black pants. Unbalances the alternate uniform and can’t be worn with anything else. White pants. Downgrade from the normal silver pants and are over-worn. The striping pattern is a little too complex and doesn’t translate as well from the home jersey (white numbers w/silver stripes) to the road or alt uniform (blue numbers w/ blue stripes) or helmet. If they just went with the simpler | thin | thick blue | thin | thick blue | thin | stripe scheme (or just added white/silver between the northwestern stripe of the last set) it would applicate a little better across all mediums. Do they also feel a little narrow to anyone else? I prefer the chunky width of the last set. Blue pants. The ideal scenario is two sets of blue pants – one set with the normal home stripe pattern and another to match the alternate blue helmet – but if we have to choose, I’m fine making the trade off of stripes for being able to wear them with everything. All in all, they’re a significant upgrade from the last set and they cleaned up almost all the trouble spots. These new uniforms get a rave review from this Lions fan… (or, 8.9 out of 10)

The Lions were so close to the perfect new uniform set. All they needed to do was ditch BFBS and have only one pants/sock option: silver pants, blue socks. They really didn't need anything else. And I agree with others who've said that while mono-blue wasn't in the official reveal, it'll most likely be the most common home combo, with all white being the most common road combo. I think these uniforms likely join the club of great in a vacuum, but ruined by poor combo choices.

1. Maybe the Lions should have their own thread at this point? 2. Do the pants have a little sheen to them? Or is it the same drab flat gray? Some of the pics make it look like they may be at least slightly metallic.

Oof. That makes if even worse. If it's just started now, then it sounds like they're ripping off Cleveland. But, if you're going to keep changing hashtags every year, eventually you're going to run out.

Yes the huge WCF and Lions Wordmark going through the stripes are what I saw when I was 10 years old, when I saw Barry Sanders juking and jiving through defenses like butter.. God forbid something fresh and clean is superior to the darker blue and those silver uniforms

I fear the Jets and Lions may have jumpstarted a “what’s old is new again” uniform renaissance. I suppose I’ll just have to give in and accept the inevitable Dolphins modern classics at any moment.

What a dork. 80 year old playing Snoop Dogg cosplay

That makes little sense to me. Inconsistency in terms of the colors of the stripes? I don't see a huge issue with that. Teams have interchanged with them before (even the Lions themselves), plus the striping is all the same in design. I'll take different colored stripes (if the design is consistent) over no stripes at all.

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

As long as the Lions stick to silver/blue/silver/blue, silver/white/silver/blue, and silver/white/blue/white, these uniforms are an improvement. But I fear we're going to see a lot of mono-blue and mono-white, and it'll barely be different than last year. There's just no valid reason to not have stripes on the pants, and there's no valid reason for Detroit to wear monochrome. Also, the blue/black/blue/black uniform looks good, but it feels like a 2012 Carolina Panthers concept.

Some people have noticed that the H logo looks similar to the rangers city connect logo.

Is the hat that crooked, or is this logo as unbalanced as I feared it was when I first saw the helmet leak? This is going to be a disaster.

You're wrong here because you simplified the problem. It's the 2nd/3rd/4th added pants colors that create the problem. As you said, Silver/Blue/Silver/Blue works perfect - as does Silver/White/Silver/Blue. Now start mixing & matching (which I hate, btw). - If you have stripes on the Blue pants, they don't match the Silver helmet or White jersey. If you do decide to put stripes on the Blue pants, then they either have to match the Primary jersey stripes or the Alternate jersey stripes, or you lose a combination. So you make them solid and you can wear them with the Home, Away, or Alternate jerseys. - If you have stripes on the White pants, they should match the Away jersey. But then, technically, they don't match the helmet. And if you want to, for some reason, wear them with the Blue or Black jerseys, you have mismatched stripes. So, I see why they went solid on the White, Blue and Black pants. Not that I love it, but I get it. In an ideal world, they wouldn't have Blue or White pants and they wouldn't have a Black uniform, but given the design challenge, this is the solution.

Yeah, that’s the “catch phrase” this season.

If ever there was a more meme-able photo... ...I know we can't blame Nike (entirely) for uniform design—but I CAN blame Nike for all this recent epidemic of "uniform nicknames". That's all them right there. (And even MLS picked up on the vibe.) It started in the NBA with the City Edition stuff, then continued with renaming the home/away/alt uniforms, then it carried over into the W with the "Heritage/Elite/Rebel" nicknames (H.E.R.—haha, how clever), and now it done crossed into the NFL. It'll be hitting the MLB diamonds soon enough. The common denominator [MLS notwithstanding]? The swoosh. Anyway, the new Lions home and away are very nice. They'd be even nicer if they wore silver pants with white jerseys more often than not (which is to say, at all). I'm not at all moved by the alternates.

Is there any precedent for that in the modern era (team name change just because they didn't like it, not because of outside pressure)? I'm surprised and also not surprised that they don't have this figured out already. They couldn't really pay 10s to 00s of thousands to anyone to start working on an identity before they knew they had a team, because it could be a waste and possibly set people up for a big let down if it leaked. This is generally a once-in-a-franchise's-lifetime decision. It's probably better that they're taking the WFT strategy than potentially flubbing it up (granted, WFT completely flubbed it, but hopefully these guys are a little more competent.)