Brave-Bird 08

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.

I just don't like Seattle's new color scheme and the way they are applying it. The hues in the green and blue are too similar, one needs to be lighter and one darker for better contrast. The lighter color in the key-line is confusing -- is it going to be used a lot? A little? In this case it's an entire base for a sweater, and it just clashes like crazy with the badge colors. Still snagging a cap with the whale logo on it though.

Commanders are definitely the worst offenders. At least with the Eagles, Texans, Vikings & Cowboys there's some white in the helmet.

What makes the Broncos white helmet good is the D logo -- it combines really well with the helmet stripe to provide perfect color balance. It's just a damn good helmet. The white horse is also insulated by the orange D. Trying to put the mostly-white demon horse logo on a white shell would make them look like a high school/college team doing some last-minute shell x decal mixing, which is the worst.

Netherlands, or FC Cincinnati?

Yeah. I understand why it was despised, objectively. But personally love it. Gives Columbus Crew vibes.