Brave-Bird 08

2001 was peak NFL to me. Everyone had a really nice home and away. I even really liked the Patriots uniform back then. 

It says on the Texans landing page for the reveal that the alternate is the "first City Edition" in the NFL. It actually says that. Could be a case of their production team just lazily throwing words around, but could be an indicator of how talks with Nike have gone and lead me to believe what I suspect is going to be a shift towards some very unconventional alternates (I try to block it from my brain, but the Commanders black uniform very much fits this mold, as did the Falcons gradient which was reminiscent of the Hawks)

Glaring issue is that there's white trim in the stripe on the red pants, but not in the sleeve stripe or the helmet horn it's married to. 

Again...it's little attention-to-detail things that always feel like get through the cracks during these redesigns. How did anyone look at that entire uniform and not immediately say "wait, hold on, we need the center stripe on the horn to be white on the jersey and helmet." 

It hurts my head. 

Alright, I've got to say, after seeing them on players and not the retail version/retail render leak, these are really nice. 

- home uniform is classy as hell, it really lets that great primary logo do the work, which I appreciate. 

- road is rather meh, I just think the colorway is dull b/c the numbers are now dark blue instead of red

- you can tell that the red helmet is really the core focus of this redesign, and they kind of worked backwards from there. It's freaking great. I just don't like the all-red uniform, it's really loud. 

- the H-Town alternate isn't the game changer I think we envisioned it, in fact I am pretty bored with it 

Why wouldn't the Texans use the opportunity to enrich an alternate in the light blue instead of just using it as trim? That alternate is a major disappointment, especially because the numerals are red but the H is blue, so it's going to look disjointed. 

They look like a college team. The number font is a downgrade. Oof.

I don't know if this clicked for anyone else, but it also appears very obvious that the notch that everyone is comparing to the Chargers lightning bolt is from the jaw line in the logo. 

Like, I don't even really see mountains represented in that sleeve cap design. It's a very awkward, directionless concoction of layered geometric shapes. 

I'm sorry, but the design element aspects of this entire uniform is hot garbage, amateurish and unfinished looking. The only redeeming quality is that, yes, if they wore them in the combinations presented on the team store models, they'll look good from a stadium seat or on TV at a glance. 

But if 10 CCSLers were given the same general prompt the Nike team was, 10 of us would knock it out of the park compared to what we got. 

3 minutes ago, Bruhammydude said:

Crazy just how much they look like a recolored Chargers from this angle:

Why not just fill in the whole sleeve cap? Now it just looks like a lightning bolt.

These are the worst pant stripes in the NFL. They look like they're wearing flag football flags around their waste

Now that I have let the Broncos set sit for a minute: 

- the pants design just doesn't look right. It's not really emphasized in much of what they officially released from the reveal production, but it's going to stick out as one of the worst parts once we see them in action

- the disconnect when it comes to combinations is wild to me, it feels like when high schoolers go on recruiting visits and just throw random unis on for photoshoots. Why in the world is white-navy-navy a combo that you are unveiling as a primary? 

- the more I look at the sleeve cap, the more I dislike it. The puzzle pieces don't fit together, if that makes sense. 

And the helmet decal on the shell looks cheap. These unis aren't good. The number font change is a downgrade, the triangle motif is so silly. 

This is a mess, honestly. 

I mean, that Giants throwback came from the same source that got the Broncos uniforms 100% accurate. 

Ugh, this is the beginning of the end. The flood gates have been opened. Toothpaste is out of the tube. 

This league will be unrecognizable in a few more seasons. 

1 minute ago, DCarp1231 said:

Here’s to hoping Denver gets bullied into removing the helmet stripe before week 1.

considering how they are plopped on, and the make of some helmets, I would not be surprised if those "stripes" fall off helmets during games. 

Also, the pant stripes have kind of been hidden a bit in a lot of the presentations we've seen so far ... but they are really going to bother me and drag this uniform down once we start seeing them in games

I finally got a good look at the helmet sticker and ... 

...like ... how? why? 

1 minute ago, bowld said:

Now why couldn't they have just made a white , orange and blue version of these throwbacks?? 100x better than what we got

because those don't "go hard " -- only uniforms that look like unitards do. 

The most offensive part of all of this is that they modeled the home uniform with white pants + white "socks" 

The white helmet would go best with the white jersey, it looks terrible paired with the navy -- which would look best with the main helmet. 

This is where the NFL's dumb uniform rules make this worse, because the alternate garments don't really mesh but otherwise have to be worn together. 

Jerseys are fine, I find the sleeve cap design a bit disorienting -- not to mention it's eerily similar to the Jets new logo design that JUST got re-introduced as their primary logo. The helmet sticker is horrendous. 

Major meh. 

Everyone give this baby one last good look (always loved it and will never apologize for it, just didn't mold well onto modern templates)

2 minutes ago, Kirill_The_Thrill97 said:

CTESPN's alleged leak of a new Vikings alternate...

the "icy whites" circle jerk around this jersey is going to make me want to return my internet with receipt in hand

The Broncos are now owned by the Walmart czar, are we really surprised they are about to look like their uniforms came from there?

Uniswag is part of the problem. They hype up the worst s--- 

Whenever they do those uniform rankings it's always the worst uniforms of that week

12 minutes ago, sluggish_edgeboy said:

The leaked Texans primary is interesting as I can't see anyone being happy with it. Not in a condescending way or that it's so horrid, but there have been so many different routes people have wanted the Texans to go, and this won't satisfy anyone.

 

More red to stand out from the rest of the division? No, even less of it.

 

Lighter blue to lean into Oilers sentiment? Not either.

 

More modern and unique? Barely.

 

Did you think the current was fine (honestly valid take)? Well now it's gone.

 

Unless you think the new number font is great or think that redundant sleeve logos is the best thing to exist, then it's just a step back in every way. I don't think it's terrible, but it's got nothing going for it other than "could maybe be worse?"

This post deserves an award. Spot on. If that really is the Texans new jersey suite, it's not accomplishing anything. 

I just realized how that Broncos font is definitely built off of Agency, and there I was last night making a joke that one of the teams would unveil their unis with Agency and then deleted it b/c I was afraid I would speak it into existence...

Is nobody going to consider that these "leaks" are presenting jerseys that aren't on the new NFL template? 

I know Nike still uses the old template for retail, so maybe these are legit, but it's kind of odd seeing this exact template for the first time. 

Interesting tidbit but on the Lions Instagram the graphic story they have posted for the alternate says the uniform is a call-back to what they wore in the "late 90s, early 2000s." 

Not shocked, but disappointed the team wouldn't be able to tell a tighter, more attentive narrative, because nothing about it calls back to the late 90s at all. 

Man, oh man. It's so good. This is a distinct enhancement on what I think overall most would say is the way they should look. The striping is a home run (the line widths even are really friendly with the logo's). I think I'll need to see the alternate outside of a uniquely lit presentation environment, where often things can be made to look a bit more dramatic and better than they will look on a field. 

But this is not only great for Detroit, I am already sitting here hoping the Falcons follow their lead and take a similar approach with a new set that has more staying power. Well done, Lions.