Brave-Bird 08

A certain terrible human being ruined red ball caps for me. For the Braves, I would actually like to see a cap that incorporates yellow into a tri-color. It could be as subtle as a yellow squatchee on a BP cap that is otherwise in the conventional navy blue base and red brim (maybe trim the brim with yellow too).

Yeah, I am kind of bummed Chattanooga is moving to adidas per its move to MLSNP, because their Hummel kits were all excellent.

It's the armpit squares. Why are there armpit squares? (My theory, and i am being 100% serious, is that they decided they wanted to retain a piece of the old uniforms so they slid the shoulder yokes -- which in the Nike era were so thin they could almost be described as stripes -- down under the armpit so that they could place the new kewl sword design thingy on the shoulders. And someone at Nike explained that and somebody representing the Titans was like OH HECK YEAH THIS IS GENIUS) The result? Armpit squares.

You guys know how whenever you read about sports uniform history there's these little anecdotes here or there about how certain uniform elements came to be? For example, Vince Dooley picked the oval G and silver britches at UGA. Paul Brown literally brought the Bengals helmets with him to Cincinnati, from Cleveland. The Rams horns were hand-painted on a few helmets, looked good, eventually became standard. Point is, for decades, if not a century, sports uniforms were designed and built for sports teams, by the sports people affiliated with the sports teams. In any case, there were usually only a few people making decisions on how the team uniform would look. That Phillies "City Connect" shows how far away we are from that. It's the same with the nonsesne Nike has done with the NFL, the NBA, and now baseball. There's layers upon layers of marketing people and just straight up MONEY PEOPLE who have no reverence for what makes a good sports uniform and are only concerned about 1) selling MORE 2) infiltrating new demographics to SELL MORE. That's how we are getting junk like this. They're getting handed a checklist of mandates for a new uniform to hit the shelves based off lifeless market research and spitting out whatever checks those boxes, regardless of whether it resembles anything worthy of these franchises or not. I feel the same way about the WASHINGTON road jerseys. In what scenario did that change take place other than someone just saying, "based on our research, we need a road jersey that isn't similar to the home jersey because the road jersey isn't selling and that is our hypothesis as to why." When in reality, road jerseys just don't sell as well as home jerseys, and certainly just slapping a generic WalMart font on your road jersey to check the box of "have it be different!" isn't going to help it sell more. But these people are THIS disconnected from the final product. It's all numbers, checklists, over-generalized market research intended to attempt to get attention from people who don't pay attention to baseball. And in the process, you're annoying your fans who actually like baseball. Makes the term "City Connect" seem rather ironic. These people can't be more disconnected. That Phillies jersey is a complete piece of junk

Sound point, but to be entirely accurate I searched "who is Inter Miami's kit sponsor 2024" and then left it at that.

The worst part about the new Inter Miami kit is that the sponsor mark, which takes up all the oxygen, is too minimalist and looks too much like a sports logo. I had to Google what it is. Royal Carribean? Would have had no idea. That kind of defeats the purpose.

We could be getting a perfect matchup of silver and blue vs gold and red, but Detroit has to be dumb

It's infuriating. I even kind of liked the ridiculous monument font from the original -- definitely looked like a Minor League team, but hey, they kind of were! The Nationals really need to have the curly W at the core of their branding and home, road, alternate that can be worn both home and away, and then sure -- have a fourth jersey that is like the new pullover, especially because a fauxback style like that is fun for them considering there's a huge gap in their history where styles from that era (70s and 80s) were never realized.

The new Washington pullover is fun, especially if it's going to be paired with the W caps they have worn at home the last few seasons. But I CANNOT EMPHASIZE ENOUGH how BIZARRE AND UNFORGIVABLE that road uniform is I'm at a loss for words. Looks like something somebody who just decided they wanted to get into jersey design earlier today would have thought up and posted on the concept boards. Since this franchise moved to D.C. it has been incapable of sitting down and thoughtfully assessing its brand, it always feels like they have one foot in Door A and one in Door B, and with this change they stuck a toe in Door F. The entire brand is discombobulated, but at least previously the uniform pieces themselves looked really good. Nobody who should have the credentials to sign off on uniforms in pro sports should have given a thumbs up to that poor excuse of a road jersey. This makes the Utah Jazz neon rebrand look good. NOBODY is going to buy that off the shelves!

I keep forgetting that is Utah's primary colorway, and on the off chance I am reminded (partially because they try now to show it that much), I chortle. WHAT a mistake that rebrand was.

That's a massive mistake from the Mets. But, you know, it is the Mets, so I am not surprised.

Right, but the 94 "throwbacks" were throwbacks to 1955 with gold helmets. It was a fauxback.

Plus, they need to make the alternates true throwbacks by wearing plain red shells. There would be a greater first-glance differentiation between the primary uniform and alternates. Don't know why they didn't follow through with that, but they are throwing back to a pseudo-throwback when one tweak would make it an actual throwback.

damnit, the Lions new primary uniforms are going to have plain blue pants and blue socks, aren't they?

I'm in the camp that the "legacy" uniform is boring. The helmet is great, but just standard stripes and block numbers are as dull as it gets. To me, the proper New York Jets uniform is the Testaverde/Curtis Martin era uniform -- callback to the classic with a darker shade of green. They really just needed to figure out the striping application.

If this is true, the NFL teams that have quickly moved on from a Nike-lead redesign are: Buccaneers Jaguars Browns Lions Jets (rumored) Titans (rumored, badly needed) And my guess is the Falcons explore this for next offseason, while the Commanders under new ownership without question probably will). If you're Nike, how are you not seen as an objective failure at this point? Everything you're cooking in the kitchen is getting sent back.

I'll always see the Belichick/Brady Patriots uniforms as the "NFL Europe Meta"

Can't echo this enough. I personally think the Falcons current uniforms are good, for what they are trying to be: cutting edge, but simplistic in design. And I understand that the 2003-Present logo is kind of the mark of the Blank estate, so as long as they own the team it's likely to not change (could be wrong about that, but it's a stamp that signifies to the shift from the Rankin Smith era to the Blank era). But me and my friends gobble up the throwback gear and never are wearing the contemporary stuff. I have one of the Nike gradient jerseys and honestly it pairs pretty nice with black jeans and black shoes. Other than that, my Falcons hats, shirts, coffee mugs, heck, even my mini-helmet I keep at my work desk is from the 90s. If the original logo could just be slightly adjusted to where the bird's face doesn't look like it has a petrified expression, I think going back to it would get an overwhelmingly positive reaction from fans. It looks more like a sports logo. The current logo just reeks of both catering to youth and the early 2000s when graphic design in sports went a bit *too far* thanks to digital rendering. And in a league where there's too many teams electing to wear all-black, why not be the NFC team with red helmets and jerseys? The Chiefs are the only team in the league that wears red + red (unless Houston is going to change that in a few months here). With the two-helmet rule, Atlanta could have a red-red-white home // red-white-white road // black-black-white alternate, toss in some grey pants as an option, and bam, you not only have made every fan happy (because the fanbase can't agree on which era to go back to), but we'll have a design that doesn't spoil after a few seasons like the past two have.

The Titans need new uniforms more than any of the others mentioned. I'm all for it.

My wish: white shirt with primary logo in standard colorway. My fear: Peach base from head to toe.

Carp. you really think that concept is awful? I think it looks incredible. But yeah, I would re-iterate. Anybody can get behind a keyboard and get the internet riled up over stuff like this, and Reddit with its anonymity is probably the worst source you can use without corroboration. Same as the Broncos rumors, I think it's all people just looking for dopamine hits by breaking the internet knowing this is the time of year people are sitting around speculating about these things. I actually think it's extremely unlikely a paralegal, even without an NDA, would be willing to compromise their position by leaking something like that -- especially admitting they work with Nike. Seems really strange.

My biggest pet-peeve with the Buccaneers, since they are actually wearing red tonight, is that the orange stroke on the numerals is too similar to the red and makes it look like the numbers are just pewter-red-white instead. They should widen that stroke, change the shade of orange, or even drop the pirate ship logos from the sleeves and add a stripe sequence where the orange pops a bit. Just a shame that the color is part of the scheme, but really gets drowned out by all the pewter and red.

With all of the blue in the Rams uniform, the all-blue for Detroit is just unacceptable. Grey pants would make this game so much easier to look at. There really needs to be a branch of the NFL that governs uniform matchups from the top, down.

Houston's problem is the *way* it wears its uniforms, not the uniforms themselves. Unfortunately it's almost a guarantee that we will get monochrome dark, white and alternates with the redesign and they will be digging more into diluting their look than anything else. The color blocking -- sigh, that is barely a thing these days -- on the original uniform was so great.

It's unbelievable to me that this was an NFL uniform.