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The OK:

• The jerseys are not terrible. Definite upgrade over the previous set.
•  Orange over white, white over orange, and all white combos are solid. (Fix the damned socks!)
• White over blue wouldn't be the worst thing ever.
• Blue jerseys over white with the primary helmet might look OK.
• The number font isn't bad. Not great, but not terrible.
• I like the finish on the blue helmet.
• I'm probably in the minority, but I'm OK with the 5280 on the helmets. The references to altitude should have stopped there, but Nike just can't help themselves.

The Bad and all stupid:

• The alternate helmet looks like someone bought a blank helmet at Dick's Sporting Goods, threw a couple Broncos decals on it, and added some of that reflective safety tape stuff as a stripe. 
• Was the helmet stripe supposed to remind me of the turn signals on my motorcycle?
• The dumb helmet stripe is the dumbest helmet stripe in the history of dumb helmet stripes and that's really saying something.
• The good things about the jerseys are ruined by the stupid "dissipating" triangles on the numbers.
• The "mountains" on the jersey sleeves look way better up close than they do from a distance. They should take up more space.
• As plenty of people have already said, the blue sets look a lot more like Boise State, UTEP, or UVA than they do like an NFL team.
• Someone should file a lawsuit over that monochrome orange disaster. Probably the blue one too.
• There are 2.5 decent combos (Cited above in OK) in the entire set. The rest are garbage.
• As is usually the case these days, there are too many monochrome combos.
• The pants stripes are idiotic. We get it, Colorado has mountains. Anyone who doesn't know that isn't going to suddenly figure it out because they saw some dumbass stripes on a pair of football pants.

Overall grade: D. There are some good elements here. Unfortunately, none of them work very well together.

12 minutes ago, CS85 said:

 

Between weed, painkillers, and HGH, they'll be plenty high for both road and home games next season.

 

edit:  Oh, and cocaine!

6 minutes ago, Echo said:

If they're gonna go with that helmet bumper they might as well go all the way and install an actual altimeter in there so we know how high they are for road games as well.

Unfortunately, we can only award the POTD once per day. You should have waited until tomorrow to post this.

23 minutes ago, Echo said:

48 minutes ago, nuordr said:

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These are awful. How are we even supposed to know how high above sea level we are when they're wearing those things?

Let's make it official.

The Majestic XII have spoken.

4 minutes ago, DCarp1231 said:

This dude is blind as hell, apparently.

 

Needs his fashion advice license revoked.

 

 

That guy has terrible taste in uniforms. His takes were so bad that I had to stop following him.

1 minute ago, kimball said:

 

Oh man, I am excited! ARENA FOOTBALL IS BACK BABY!

Outstanding.

I'm nominating this for Post of the Day.

And just like that, the new uniforms were made obsolete.

Nowhere near as bad as I thought they'd be. I like the jerseys.

39 minutes ago, FinsUp1214 said:

I’ve said it before here, but the Broncos’ outgoing uniforms are one of the very few that you can honestly say changed the aesthetics of thier respective sport’s uniforms.

And those changes were not for the better. It was a horrible uniform when it debuted and it remains a horrible uniform today. But I did like the colors.

This is almost as bad of an omen as "embrace the past, look to the future" is.

I'm not optimistic.

49 minutes ago, HOOVER said:

How does your douchebag reply to my comment prove they aren't?

This board is super enjoyable...except when the few contrarian pricks aren't chiming in to on other people's opinions. 

 

If you don't agree with someone's opinion or statement, you can use the react buttons or you can offer an opposing opinion in a respectful way.  You don't have to be an :censored:, though I know it makes you feel better (in a really pathetic, lonely way).

33 minutes ago, McCall said:

It's not an opinion when you specifically said that Bills fans were lobbying for them. That's a statement of observation you made, which implies factually information that you are now calling an opinion when called out on it. Maybe instead of falsely calling people "douchebags", you might want to A. Check your ego as you clearly were applying your personal opinion to those of another team's fanbase to make it seem like they agreed with you, and B. Learn what the word "opinion" means.

 

You've both had your say now let's go to neutral corners and let it go.

2 hours ago, HOOVER said:

Lots of Bills fans lobbying for a return the Jim Kelly-era uniforms.

With the new helmet rules, there is no reason the Bills can't do their 80s Giants with a red helmet uniforms as a throwback or alternate.

2 hours ago, BBTV said:

 

LOL Brady Anderson / Rafael Palmeiro.  There was a lot of juice in that lineup.

 

I'd love some stat guru to find if there's ever been a one-year-wonder season like Anderson had, which was just coincidentally during the juice era.  I forget exactly what a standard deviation is, but that season had to be multiple SDs from his norm.

Just a little...

Most HRs Brady Anderson hit in a season from 1988 to 1995: 21 in 1992

Brady Anderson HRs in 1996: 50

Most HRs Brady Anderson hit in a season from 1997 to 2002: 24 in 1999.

It sure looks like he decided to try steroids for one season, didn't like the side effects or something, and went back to normal.

1 hour ago, GFB said:

Do people not realize the current stripe is made to look like an actual bronco mane?

People may not realize it because it looks nothing like a horse's mane. I always thought the terrible helmet stripes were just one of the terrible features of a terrible uniform that's been terrible since the day it was unveiled. Terribly speaking.

2 hours ago, Fowler2 said:

I have violated all the terms of this board. Please ban me. 

1 hour ago, Fowler2 said:

This a dupe account

Thanks for saving us the paperwork and making it easy, moron.

2 minutes ago, HOOVER said:

You know, the old saying, “The Browns are gonna Browns.”  
 

If this is the new helmet and the jersey leaks are real, this will be an all-time “shot yourselves in the foot” move by the Donkeys.  Laughingstock stuff.

I take offense to that, good sir. No one out Browns the Browns.

2 minutes ago, HOOVER said:

The Broncos are the new Browns.  

How do you figure?

31 minutes ago, Cujo said:

Broncos leaked helmet -- Big yikes.

 

There's no way this is what Broncos the are doing. But the triangles match up with the what we saw on the jersey leak.

 

I'm guessing that stripe probably wasn't designed to look like the turn signals on my motorcycle, but here we are.

5 minutes ago, Chi-Tex_Kidd said:

I feel like when Michael leaves the office and their stuck with Will Ferrell yelling at cake and then Jim and Dwight look at each other and say “uh oh” and me and the collective of this board is Jim and Dwight.

I've never watched the Office. Would you mind explaining your post using references that I might understand?

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It's official: College football is adding the two-minute warning. (It won't be an additional TV timeout)

That's about as likely as Vanderbilt winning the SEC next season.

1 hour ago, BBTV said:

While I'm not in the XII, these are collectively the POTD.  Well done.

Nominating and seconding is open to anyone. The M-XII just confirms the process.

2 hours ago, Cujo said:

 

A nod to the past? I see a slight resemblance 

 

If the Broncos pulled off a reasonable facsimile of those throwback jerseys, I could live with it. Here's hoping they didn't do a halfway decent jersey only to royally screw up the helmets and pants.

1 hour ago, Sodboy13 said:

Texans: Oh good God who cares. Yeah this was focus-grouped straight into a toilet.

Precisely. We will, however,  have more music in the mornings, so there's that, I guess.

1 minute ago, BBTV said:

 

Pluralzz

Needs more Zs.