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You see the problem here is that this design is only gets you to 9.5 when they want to TURN IT UP TO 11.

After the curtain has been pulled back over the last several years as to how the league manages itself I would never use the nfl and the word intellectual in the same statement. The nfl should just stick to their core competency which is intellectually dishonest property like military cosplay merchandise and corporatized empty phrases like inspire change. Leave the numerals to the professional archeologists and stick to sprots.

When are nike and these schools gonna learn that adding proprietary elements to classic uniforms rarely results in long term adoption. The only exception I can think of is the steelers. I am honestly surprised it lasted this long.

The Tale of the Terrible Little Man Who Refused to Sell the Team

Well that is also the same helmet model and mask of one of their top players wears, who just happened to be part of the unveiling. Could just be a coincidence that they chose to outfit him in the black set or it's all staged to protect the w.

Bengals are sooooo close to having their best and most classic uniform combo but the clownfish patterned pants just ruin it for me.

utes already went that route and went back to stripes for a reason...

I think to some of the old timers (including me) there's an overall aesthetic where after ww2 as the league matured into the tv era the nfl really differentiated its uniforms from college which may have evoked the image of the sunday uniform as professional business attire as opposed to other amateur outfits that did not have such clean aesthetic. I'm off on a bit of a tangent here but the cardinals are one of the oldest franchises in the league and what I am saying is that they do not have to do the over the top storytelling and have every single element embellished like the abomination the rams have put on the field. A nice clean and classic uniform for the cards would be very effective.

That's why I said basis. The best thing on this uniform is the white primary, striping patterns, and incorporation of black trim that enhances the overall uniform. No need for the bird if it's on the helmet. Also could try get creative with the flag or scrap it. TV numbers are now optional so I challenge someone on this board to use this uniform as inspiration for a modernized concept.

Best cards uniform that they should use as a basis for a redesign.

I had the exact same thought so it's pretty much confirmed that this is a german flag-inspired uniform.

Judging by those graphics WTF used an in house designer (ie someone's kid) and an online uniform builder. It all makes sense now.

There was a game about a decade ago where demarcus ware wore the alt silver pants with the white jersey while the rest of the team wore silver green...also you can go back to the '94 double stars where they wore white over silver which looked ok but much more like a road uniform. Obviously the compromise would be go back to the mid/late 70's where the helmet had more blue tint in the silver and the pants had less blue/green.

Statistically speaking he was the best offensive football player of his generation, one of the few that deserve the goat title.

Unpopular opinion alert: The current helmet logo is a superior helmet logo to the D and uniforms are modern classics because they are the 1st and the best of that late 90's paneled design. Are they dated? Probably. Was the orange crush/robin blue dated in the mid 90's? Yes.

I have to disagree about your statement regarding the reebok era as reebok's manufacturer, ripon produced a wide swath of templates/cuts that often looked very non-uniform within the same team. As a matter of fact the titans (and bengals) were one of the most egregious offenders of wide ranging variations of jerseys on field. Nike came in and really streamlined things to achieve a more consistent on field aesthetic.

I am still quite surprised that this throwback red was not used with matching red pants as a dark color rush as opposed to those hideous black sets they wore. While not as good as the throwback it would have looked interesting (think tosu all red) for one game a season.

I don't think so. Given the history of bigotry in ownership and the horrendous track of the current regime the entire franchise has no belonging in the modern nfl. Send them to the history books where they can live alongside the Pottsville Maroons and Dayton Triangles.

Missed opportunity to dissolve the franchise imho.

It was just a placeholder helmet for the press photo. I think a fair amount of people conflate the jax/car expansion round where all the bidding cities had logos and prototype uniforms to be the norm when new franchises are awarded/announced and that was really the exception.

Agreed. The failure on having white pants directly tie into the orange or black jerseys is a huge and obvious miss and downgrade this from a smashing success to a solid improvement.

You would be amazed how the opportunity to do something new drives perpetual optimism among the masses despite overwhelming past evidence to the contrary that bad faith actors and poor decision makers never change.

#36 for the 9ers was wearing black sleeves, socks, and cleats last night. While black is a trim color with the throwback alt, I think that's the most egregious deviation from the standard uniform rules that I've seen in quite some time.

I think the previous primary bolt logo might have been adopted off a merch specific interpretation of the helmet bolt. For quite some time I only remember seeing that bolt forced into an arc on hats and car stickers (which may explain the horrible curvature) but somehow kept creeping into other applications. The new one is much more representative of the helmet bolt being presented as a primary logo.

I would like to see more of that but I think you need a darker color at the bottom of the sock to give a bit of a natural break/contrast against the white bottom. The dolphins did something like that when they launched the cruise ship redesign. The lions attempted gray/silver socks with their blue road pants and it just looked a bit off with gray touching white.