Brave-Bird 08

They have. It seems that facemask color isn't quite considered a static part of the uniform. Because, of course it isn't. Because, the NFL has no idea what it's doing with its uniform standards...it just keeps lopping arbitrary rules on top of arbitrary rules while simultaneously not quite enforcing them. Speaking of, though -- I would like to see Pittsburgh go to grey facemasks. With the nickname "Steelers" it just makes sense, plus it would gel with the grey keyline on the logo. At least go with them when they wear their throwback uniform, which isn't any different other than the number font

Chicago wanted to showcase both of their uniforms to the fans who never get to see them in person. Wasn't a big deal b/c St Louis was in off-white.

WKU has a great helmet logo with the towel (sounds funny to type that, but I am serious). Why go with a Maryland knock off when you have something unique to your brand?

the designation of the "chrome" vs "silver" facemasks doesn't make sense. The Falcons & Cardinals facemasks are more similar, with kind of a satin finish to them that adds some sheen. The Titans definitely don't have a "chrome" facemask, it's a flat grey just like the facemask the Lions just introduced with the new helmet.

When you have to change the jersey only a few weeks after unveiling it, you've got problems. Reminds me of when Florida State adjusted the shade of gold and the road numbers in 2014.

If the Falcons could wear black socks, white-on-white at home would look good enough to happen multiple times. This, however, is an atrocity.

LSU's full shoulder loop experiment was a disaster. The stripe wasn't running under anything, so it just looked like a drape hanging down to their armpits. So unnatural, forced, bad. It's my taste alone, but having shoulder stripes simply crest the shoulder and cut off at the collarbone makes much more sense -- plus gives some breathing room. Of course, it looked like Nike had finally gotten it right with the last template -- unfortunately it was only doable for certain jersey cuts.

If a team could pull off those tapered outer stripes, it would have been Georgia Tech. Would be 10x better than their stripes that just stop for no reason. On Washington though it just looks weird. Don't quite understand their vision here.

PGH isn't even the airport code. I simply don't understand why they went with that.

Major meh. I get the nostalgia for that logo but the random stripes just don't look good.

What's going to suck is if this is paired with the grey alternates, it's going to be a blue lid but grey socks, so it's going to look insanely top heavy.

What bugs me about this helmet rule is the slippery slope. What have we learned from college football over the years? Multiple helmets is not a good thing. Go to The Helmet Project and look at college. Notice something? The majority of CFB teams don't even have a declared primary helmet anymore. Alabama, Michigan, Georgia, Notre Dame -- those do. But dozens of historical programs don't. Like it or not, the NFL has since the 50s not only built a one-helmet standard, but helmets kind of inadvertently became a second logo for teams, mostly in part to how popular things like mini helmets became, how helmet graphics on pennants and shirts became a thing, etc. The helmet in some cases is even more iconic than the logo (Rams, Browns, Steelers, Eagles). Let's not kid ourselves -- the orange Bears helmet from last season was atrocious. It just never looked right. The Lions alternate will certainly fit into that same mold. We're also probably getting a lame "icy white" for Denver? Give me a break. The more teams that participate in this, the more the NFL is going to dilute its brand, but I guess they're more interested in the attention and fire emojis they're going to get from teenagers on Twitter than they are having a visual identity. It's all a slippery slope and I am afraid of where it could lead. The NBA is all the way down that slope, no team has a visual identity anymore. It's a disaster, but they don't care because $. EDIT: wow, for a 33 year old, I feel so old re-reading what I just typed.

Crap, I didn't even think about all-white as an option. That's definitely what they are going to do...

They could bust out plain blue helmets to wear with the throwback, which would be historically accurate. Also, this is an interesting post. https://nflfootballjournal.blogspot.com/2016/06/helmet-oddity-off-silver-color-of.html

Absolutely no reason or justification for the Vegas A's to change their name. 90% of this is just the principal of the thing, it's a legacy franchise with tons of history and a freaking fantastic color scheme. 10% for consideration is you also have the Aces in town, and Raiders, so the "A" sound just kind of fits.

Jacksonville is overdue for this

This is so believable I looked up their IG and Twitter to make sure it wasn't what they actually did

Unless they're white, there's not going to be a surprise. He may just be talking about the fact the previous version was a fully mesh uniform, whereas this one is probably going to be on the new Nike template.

These actually looked decent. They just were way too much of a deviation from what they had before, which is an all-time great uniform. I think they moved away from it b/c at a glance they were too similar to Detroit and Dallas, and then obviously wearing shiny slate head to toe mucked it up. The late 90s/2000s were weird -- everyone was in a race to trade vibrant colors for darker shades

the NFL Network has also been using royal blue as the contrast background color for the Texans and Broncos since the network began and never fixed it, so I wouldn't bet on them being that detailed

Plus it's annoying that Carolina would remedy the shoulder stripe, but not address the fact the TV numbers need to just be removed and that the pants stripe needs to be fixed to terminate at a point. Also, the shoulder loop going all the way around on the old template was 10x better than the way it is on the jersey Chark is wearing

The Texans could just wear white jerseys, navy pants and red socks and that would count for them -- home or away.

If the Nuggets just removed the dumb gradients off the side, these uniforms would be more than worthy of hoisting a trophy tonight

That dog logo is good. I know the designer went kind of crazy with all of the subliminal details, but if you didn't know about them it just is rendered well in general

The NFL could have done "Throwback Thursdays" for TNF and given each team throwbacks for home and away, which would probably create more jersey sales than the Color Rush program did (especially b/c teams had to be forced to wear their already existing road uniforms after the color-on-color failed). But you know, I guess we will leave the logic to the people getting paid the big bucks