Brave-Bird 08

I have to say, Arizona's road uniform as looked much better than I anticipated. The one thing I feared was that the shiny material would make the silver sometimes appear as white depending on lighting, but that hasn't been the case in most times I have seen highlights. It's a really nice modern iteration of a classic look -- almost how soccer teams like to re-imagine (well, kind of have to out of necessity) their iconic kit conventions, Arizona did a nice job, in hindsight, of giving us a re-imagined version of their classic look, instead of simply reverting. The choice to keep the grey facemask to bring the combo together was contrarian, but thoughtful. Can't say as many nice words about the home.

Heat at home is unwatchable. Gracious, what was the NBA thinking?

Not entirely against Georgia Tech's helmet decision for tonight. Those uniforms have grown on me a lot (mainly because so many players wear cut-off pants that the issue with the truncated pant stripe isn't as noticeable). The material Adidas used for the numbers and center stripe on the pants does a nice job of finally giving us dazzle gold instead of a flat mustardy look -- ditto with the nice finish on the decals. I know it's a bit unbalanced of a uniform with the gold pants, but they're going to look great.

So, if the Saints hadn't introduced that terrible high school team helmet, we would have a really good throwback vs throwback matchup on Sunday against Atlanta. Just mind-numbingly dumb uniform decisions made by half this league on a weekly basis.

So, I am interested in the quotes we got in The Athletic player poll related to uniform rules. I have assumed this entire time the trend in the "leggings" look in the NFL was a result of the league not having a mandate to wear team socks. Yet, now we are learning it's because the league has a mandate that the player's legs have to be covered? First off...why? College teams with short socks look fine, in fact the only team I can think of that has socks as part of the uniform is Michigan. If the league is that interested in the player's legs being covered, for reasons I don't understand, why aren't we wearing team colored or even team detailed socks that look pro style? Again, this is all the damn Saints fault. They started this junk. FTS.

Vote for worst of the day: Titans-Jaguars. 1) A black helmet/black jersey + white pants/white socks looks like somebody was filling out a concept on a template and didn't get to anything below the belt (especially because JAX doesn't have any details on the pants). It looks SO BAD, I am genuinely amazed that a professional sports franchise would wear it without multiple people being like, "Hey, this looks goofy af." 2) What makes it look even weirder is Tennessee has blue socks, as the road team. So the road team has colored socks with white pants, but the home team has white socks with the white pants. Man, if one of us could go back 10 years in a time machine and post on these boards what would happen with the NFL and pants/socks, people would have believed it to be an April Fool's joke. *gulp* it is very real, and between this trend and the NBA in-season tournament courts, I am kind of convinced humans are devolving as a species right now. Like, we are getting dumber.

These are my favorite NFL uniforms of all time. They were a modern update of a previous look that made it better -- the tiger stripes were cleaned up and more defined compared to the previous version. But, at least with this change, Cincinnati didn't try to remake the wheel like so many other teams in that era were starting to do. I really respect that. During the Reebok piping craze that came during this modernization wave, the Bengals "update" in 2004 (?) was welcomed by some because every one else was doing it. Keeping up with the Joneses. But they never ever should have changed from these. The full body tiger logo was the cherry on top.

Whispers: Falcons-Cardinals is a good uniform matchup today. Seriously, these teams used to blend in to eachother when both were in Reebok templates. Glad there’s clear distinction now.

At least this means nobody will have to see it unless they are going out of the way to watch that game.

The Jets white-over-black uniform isn't bad, in fact I really like it. It's just annoying that a white top and alternate pant has become a de-facto primary home uniform. I mean, yes, the alternate throwback helmet -- especially on that shell -- looks amazing, and the retro logo is far superior to the generic one they have had the last few seasons. But, there's nothing remotely interesting about their throwback uniform from the neck down. It's very boring. I would take the stylized Jets modern jersey and pants any day of the week if they just more traditional combinations regularly.

Disappointing to see the Ravens & Seahawks both all-white below the jersey. The worst thing about this trend is when both teams do it at the same time on the same field. Also, the Falcons did a feature story about DBs recently where they modeled the players wearing the white pants and white socks with the black jersey. I fear it's only a matter of time before they jump on this senseless bandwagon. It's funny to me how it really must be that most people just don't notice these things? Today I was running some errands about an hour before kickoff and the radio crew (who is the same for every pregame show) said, "the Falcons are going with the all-black look today" and something to the effect of "oh man, what do you think of that?" and "Jerry Glanville would be proud!" ... all as if black on black hasn't been their primary home look since the rebrand (not to mention the fact Glanville's teams wore silver pants)?? They even used Back in Black by ACDC as the bumper music. Like, it was if they just saw the uniform post from the team with no recollection of what they wore before and thought it was noteworthy.

What makes me mad is even as a Falcons fan, I think if the Saints wore the right shade of gold and color combinations between jerseys and pants they would have one of the best looks in the NFL. But, they insist on wearing plain uniforms and colorless combos. It's actually quite hysterical.

I can't get over the ESPN feature story giving gas to this debacle. Not just a horrible idea, but the execution is egregious. I thought when I first saw these pop up on my IG that they were really bad fan concepts. It's also condescending to fans, engaged and casual, to suggest score bugs or other smaller indicators are enough to signify a tournament game is happening. They went as loud as possible without thinking of the consequences. This is just comical. I mean, look at that Pelicans court. Look at the Indy one?! If anything, this is just going to put more of a spotlight on how the City program has destroyed the identity of the NBA's teams. The worst part is the giant trophy logos in the keys and at mid-court. This is so bad it makes the World Cup 2026 branding look good.

Falcons-Titans will be such an aesthetic anomaly, though I don't think it will look particularly bad. Patriots might have finally come to their senses? They look pure class with those pants, hope they become the norm rather than the exception.

Sigh, one can day dream about what a 1989 Falcons throwback would look vs the Titans in that game.

MLS needs to upon up some DP slots for some graphic designers

Them and the Jaguars and Browns uniforms were equally bad. Nike had too many new elements they wanted to show off and threw them all at once at the Bucs, Jags and Browns redos (after doing a pretty darn good job with Seattle). Often I see the argument made defending Nike, saying at the end of the day these teams have the final say in what they wear. But man, go back and look, all three of those teams got hit with the same weird style tropes. The cheap triangular inserts as a way of adding color, the contrasting stitching on the seams and collars, the ridiculously bad attempts at adding detail to the helmets, the weird plastic material on the Jags shoulders that none of us to this day understand what the purpose was, or what it was supposed to be. Clunky, multi-stroke number fonts. Giant word marks in Cleveland's case. The list goes on.

I don't mind the all-white Browns uniform vs the 49ers. I know it's not a true throwback, but the all-white look is a call back to the AAFC that the 49ers were also members of.

I never appreciated either of these uniforms as a kid. This is what last night's Bengals-Cardinals game should have looked like. Even if back in 2003, Cincinnati wore black pants on the road (they had them but wore them at home only), this would have looked great. Cincinnati's current road set just looks wrong b/c there isn't enough orange in the jersey, then the road socks are just plain white, it looks completely off. Arizona? They looked like a high school team that ordered a "blackout" uniform halfway through the season as a treat for having a team GPA above 3.0, or something like that.

I mean, white pants with the same stripe as the helmet makes that an incredible uniform. Maybe not conventionally what we think of for the Broncos, but it would be great. The white horse + the color in the logo complementing the helmet stripe really makes that helmet a winner. The jersey is a winner. Only thing dragging it down is the dumb monochrome crap.

Hahaha.

Was chatting with some friends this morning. I think the NBA could fix this uniform mess by adopting the same uniform rotation system as soccer. Each team can have a core home look, then change the clash every two seasons. I know this pitch would die instantly because “why have two jerseys when we can have four!” But the uniform system in the NBA is *too noisy* right now, and the year-to-year frequency of changes + teams propensity to wear a city jersey in national TV slots has run team identities into the ground. I don’t see the soccer world complaining about its uniform rotation. It would be wise if the NBA, especially being a global league, got in lockstep with the footie world — it might learn a thing or two.

Wait, wait, WAIT The NFL is fining players for not wearing socks, when most of them no longer wear socks?

I said "oh hell yeah" on all of them.

The football shape > the oval. Wish the Packers never changed it.