Brave-Bird 08

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

sorry, I am bored with these

Don't underestimate the gaudiness of scorebugs, especially if we are going to be seeing this on FOX. FOX already has a full side-to-side banner for college basketball that is the most unnecessarily busy scorebug I have ever seen, and we still have 3 years before kickoff. Who knows how annoying scorebugs and just overall screen overlays during sports broadcasts will be by then? (for example, I can just see live betting lines and what not taking up a side bar or something)

See, this is phenomenal. It's still a shift in direction from what we have gotten in the past, but it's actually applicable, scalable as a concept and refined. We got the sketch-on-napkin version of this, which is just so pathetic.

No instance of applying the clip art is worth interest. There is also nothing memorable about each city being assigned a color scheme. Atlanta's is blue and green? Like, meh, okay. Means nothing to me. I've already seen usage of the blob lettering where I literally cannot tell what it says. Entire thing is a disaster

This is correct.

the potential to fuse elements of Canada, USA and Mexico into a logo was what had me excited about this. HOLY F--- MY EXPECTATIONS WERE LOW BUT WHAT IN THE ABSOLUTE TARNATION IS THIS

all sorts of random fonts get used for merch, I would not read too much into that

omg it is the Old Bay font. No freaking way

"sparsely used" Helmet: grey crown stripe, facemask, unnecessary key lines on logo Jersey: entire shoulder is one shade of grey or the other Pants: only details are two shades of grey Plus, the Titans are victim to Nike's color incorporation where the red is only sprinkled in on the maker's mark. I don't see Houston moving away from using a lot of red, it's very much color 1A or 1B for them and it would be odd for them to demote it to a tertiary color.

Not if the Texans aren't also adding two different shades of grey

Just adding some yellow piping and trim to the logos would go a long way in making the Rays more interesting. Also, can the jersey with the sunshine blast on it.

This opens a can of worms for me -- what sports teams have a more iconic road look than home? Similar to the 1980s Braves, who had a really nice white/red/blue home, but the powder blues were so iconic that you really don't see recalls of the home version of that set ever.

The funny thing is I still see fans that call them WFT, and a lot of people mention them as Washington and never use the nickname. It was an absolute travesty the way they rebranded. I have no idea how they were lead to that nickname, but it's so stale. Feels like the branding for one of these XFL or USFL teams. Call me crazy, but if the new owners want to rebrand, going back to Washington Football Team is such a better play than giving them another nickname. They likely won't. My guess is we will get more traditional looking uniforms at some point, but they'll keep the name. But, Commanders is never going to stick.

Warthogs is a terrible nickname.

I do too. There is nothing of value in just making a worse version of an existing design. Especially because the "crown" on the sleeves just looks like a baseball diamond with second base highlighted. There's so many other things they could have done -- I saw a concept on IG of a navy blue and peach design and it was glorious. Nike really is mailing in a ton of stuff lately.