Brave-Bird 08

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

If the Lions wear blue pants that is going to look amazing

the 2002 Bills redesign had some major CFL feel to it, not sure why. 12 year old me thought they were awesome... ...he was wrong

The City Connects all look mailed in, just like all the crap NBA alternates we have been getting every year. Nike is slowly dissolving the uniform integrity of sports

I love the Eagles kelly green, but always found those jerseys boring. I'll always be a sucker for the funky sleeve striped jerseys in the darker green.

HOWLING

Nike absolutely blows

It is probably either announcing they are wearing red helmets for the 2023 season Or it is absolutely nothing, which wouldn't surprise me either.

Ooh man, let the speculation begin

Such a great point as well, and unfortunately I think a lot of the marketing research stuff actually dumbs down what teams do, because there's a natural disconnect between them and how a sports uniform should look

My ONLY opinion that gives benefit of the doubt to manufacturers is that it's easier to create designs that look great in a graphics design program, while doing it in an actual real-world application can get complicated. But even this sentiment can easily be argued by the fact Maryland had those crazy airbrushed helmets, jerseys from Nike and UA in the past have been pretty detailed. But it does seem like lately, with Nike especially, they are going for simple and easy to apply designs (Jets boring triangles, Falcons triangle side panels, Cardinals basically recycling what the Lions did a few years back, etc) But, if we ever saw anything like the Jaguars, Buccaneers or Browns uniforms from Nike's first round of having their hands on the NFL, people on these boards would have gasped at how bad they were -- even as concepts, which usually get more of a thumbs up for good work, even if they're crazy. It is mind boggling that more of us didn't actually get jobs working in these areas, I even tried for a long time and couldn't get in anywhere. Right now somebody at Nike who really loves drop shadows, text on stripes and gradients has too loud of a voice and too many people scratching their back...

I know what the Texans should do

My only request for the Falcons is that they wear the throwbacks 3 times, don't wear the gradient, and keep the all-black and all-white looks to one or two times a piece.

if the sleeve has to be rolled up for the core of the concept to show its face, the concept sucks