Brave-Bird 08

whatever drugs you took on Friday, how's the come-down? (real talk though, the smaller front numbers and star arrangement has potential)

In terms of "inspiration," it is obvious at this point that Nike has a suite, if you will, or new design elements that it builds and signs off on for possible production agnostic of whether or not it has been assigned to a specific team or project. Then, Nike informs the client about all the possible "innovations" like perforated numbers, or the colored stitching the Browns used a few years ago, or the gradient for the Falcons, etc. From our perspectives, we would think you design around the team, but it's unfortunately the other way around -- the team picks from a pot of features that Nike can create. It is then on Nike and the client's marketing folks to concoct some type of speak or justification for it. In the Cardinals case, there's conveniently some paneling with holes in it that became the "inspiration" for the design (sounds silly and is probably B.S.) In the Falcons' case, it was very convenient that the triangle stripe -- a common and stale design element -- just so happened to exist in the Falcons logo, so it was a no-brainer. But that stripe has existed in Nike uniforms for the Jaguars (in two different iterations), Buccaneers, and Jets already -- Nike seems only capable of these cheap triangular inserts when they need to make something look sleek. In an ideal world, all of the projects would start with the team identity and work out into elements, but that just isn't what has been happening in the NFL. The only time I believe it did was with Seattle, and there's a reason why their uniforms stand out as an outlier compared to the absolutely bizarre choices other teams made when they went to Nike willing to act as a canvas as opposed to mandating a specific look.

I would forgive FOX for abetting the downfall of democracy if it would dump that scorebug by tomorrow morning. It's not even a score "bug," it's a score infestation. What in the actual what were they thinking???

I agree about Utah. Take the contrasting sleeve caps away and make the Ute-stripe consistent, and you've got a modern classic.

the more grass stains that can cover up the weird grey rectangles on the pants, the better

Florida not having an orange-orange-white & and an orange-blue-orange game makes me sad. Never really cared for any of the other combinations, especially throwing in the alternate helmets, but they gotta rock the orange jerseys and pants at least a few times

Minnesota vs. Arizona looked terrible. If what we saw from the Panthers and MIN/ARZ is any indicator, the NFL is going to look worse this season than ever. The washed out white leggings look apparently taking over the league. It just looks so hilariously bad, and I am actually kind of shocked that the NFL hasn't legislated against it.

NFL needs to crack down on this type of stuff. What ever happened to the days when refs would make players tuck their jerseys in?

The Packers need to update off the mesh jerseys, if they went to the new template all they would need to do is go with a solid collar and make the sleeve stripes bigger in scale, which would be welcomed anyways.

Unnecessary. They already are wearing the throwbacks 3 times, so there will be 5 home games to either wear black-white, black-black or all-white at home. Black over white is the only combination in my opinion that looks good. The red pants have the problem of the side stripe being black, which defeats the entire purpose of the "stoop" stripe design. Might explain why we haven't seen them. As far as I understood what happened, the red pants were photoshopped for the Nike press release but weren't ever produced.

Totally agree @oldschoolvikings Even just a change from the black helmet to purple, and this works

Scene: Old helmet logo calls the marketing office: "Listen...I just need you to find 11,780 votes...which is one more than we have...because frankly, we won."

Marlins park in its first iteration was a joke. The home run sculpture looked like a Lisa Frank backpack and the lime green walls on TV were impossible to look at. Also, the brand was just as bad. The most colorful jersey was the orange one, which was mostly orange and black, which is fit for the Orioles -- not a Miami team. The new brand is great, their uniforms are just terrible and need to be replaced with something more vibrant.

Uhhhhhh, scroll back a few pages.

Delaware State should not be able to get away with blatantly ripping off the Hornets. It's beyond obvious.

"Nah these go hard !"

That helmet really is beautiful, not going to lie. The fact the horse is white and the color orientation between the logo and helmet stripe are agreeable, it's nice. Just would prefer the Broncos to look like the old Broncos, but this is not the worst of the alternates -- not close, in my opinion.

Saints, take notes.

It appears MLS and adidas have entered "city connect" territory. This is going to go well...

Cardinals are a lot easier on the eyes than they used to be, but still, white pants with this jersey would look great. The big wordmark is not bothersome (again, I think my brain is just fine with that style b/c we see it with plenty of colleges). The new helmet is really nice, I LOVE the finish of the logo. I am going to laugh so hard if they "relent" and wear white pants with the red jersey, but screw it up by going with white socks too. That'll happen at least once this season, I guarantee it.

Glad Purdue went to this. While the cow catcher detail was a neat idea, the application with the funky material on the jersey just didn't work (plus it reminded me of the random plastic wrap stuff the Jaguars had on their Nike-fied uniforms).

I will never forgive the Titans for retiring that uniform.

I know they're in the past now, but holy hell those Jaguars uniforms were straight out of an EA Sports Madden franchise relocation identity option that you couldn't edit. Just an unmitigated disaster.

I agree. It's one of those things that made so much logical sense when the all-white alternates were released in 2016 that we all just kept waiting for it to happen, but when they actually wore them on the field I, at least, was like "oh man, this actually looks ridiculous and washed out." Plus, once my brain goes to zebra, I can't unsee zebra.

Is it though? The custom Cincinnati pattern is cool for graphics, stadium decorations, etc., but the way it was applied on the jersey with those weird, short collarbone stripes looked odd and clunky. These are really nice. I get that people on these boards pay enough attention to detail that little things like the way the logo is stitched on the collar front, the side panels apparently indicating these are cheap, etc., but the average fan won't notice anything other than the overall look and feel. And the overall look and feel is good. The logo, wordmark and numerals are so distinctly Cincinnati that they don't need anything else going on. The problem with their past uniforms is that they were way overdesigned: In every case above there's been WONKY design elements distracting from the fact their marks are distinct enough on their own -- it is unlike if a team with a standard color scheme just wears block numbers and stripes and *needs* a logo somewhere to be identified. When I see that font and the solid white numerals on black, I know it's Cincinnati immediately. Letting that be the case and letting red just exist in the sleeve cuff + logo/wordmarks is a case of finally letting their brand breathe and stand on its own, and that's clearly the intention of the new uniform.