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Are we sure that's not just 2K getting the details wrong? Not like that hasn't happened many times before with sports games.

The template is a huge upgrade from UA's previous one, but those uniforms look almost exactly the same as Indiana's.

Looks like something Ed Hardy would put on a t-shirt.

Just as an aside, Nike made a different one for the Seahawks later on in the '90s that was also pretty nice.

This is some pathetic history revisionism from the Chargers:

The way the ball is cut off so we can barely see any of it is going to bother me forever. It's a shame, because otherwise, this is a great update of the classics. Much better than the last time they tried to do that.

The whole Syracuse-Illinois thing wouldn't be an issue at all if the team calling themselves the Orange didn't insist on prioritizing navy instead.

For me... Bucs: Decent uniform, never liked the logo, and I agree on liking the pewter. Seahawks: Love them, but it just dawned on me that the pants stripes don't go with anything else in the uniform and now I can't unsee it. Titans (Oilers): One of my favorite uniforms ever in any sport. But it doesn't sit right with me for the Titans to be the ones wearing it. Jets: I appreciate the attention to detail, using the proper font and even making sure the TV numbers are just as huge as they were back then. I prefer the updated version with black trim, but I can understand why they'd choose the uniforms worn by the New York Sack Exchange rather than the ones worn by Rich Kotite's 1-15 team. Vikings: I didn't like this uniform very much when it was current, and time hasn't made it better.

I'd add the Niners too, since the throwbacks they wore for their last Super Bowl win had some significant differences from their usual look.

I've always liked the overall design, but I wish they had kept slate blue in the color scheme.

I'd argue that the NFL does have some incentive here. Being able to sell proper Houston Oilers merchandise would be a license to print money. I think the bottleneck here is just the Titans themselves.

Ironically, they wore Oilers throwbacks for that game. I don't see the point in reopening old wounds. The franchise's only success and fan support in Tennessee has come as the Titans. The relocation was extremely controversial and not the type of thing any team in their right mind would want to remind everyone of every time they watch them play. The Oilers brand should either be sold back to Houston or left dormant.

That's a stretch. There's a pretty big difference between Honolulu Blue and royal blue.

I've been hating the super-stretchy material since the day Adidas first introduced it. It hasn't gotten any better in the past decade. I just liked the ribbon stripes as an element that was uniquely theirs. Much like NC State, Mississippi State's uniforms have been pretty dull and uninspiring outside of that one shortlived era no matter who the manufacturer is.

"Pigskins" is the type of name that a single-A baseball team would use for a promotional night. It's unbecoming of an NFL franchise. And don't even get me started on the people who want the Washington Football Team non-name back. Commanders is a decent name. Probably not the greatest name they could have come up with, but also not the problem. It's the logos and uniforms that need a do-over more than the name.

I don't like the helmet very much (a blue helmet would have been better), but the rest of the uniform is nice.

I'm guessing they were probably trying to avoid having silver/grey team icons as much as possible because the graphics themselves were already silver/grey, hence the inverted Raiders and Lions icons. Not sure why the Cowboys weren't given the same treatment.

Another Adidas downgrade. Although really, they should have never ditched these.

This merchandise feels like it's straight out of 2005, like when Swishahouse was relevant.

The color change (and Lakers-ripoff logo) already happened in San Diego a couple years before the team moved. It had nothing to do with the Olympics, just Sterling having awful taste on top of all his other terrible qualities.

The Hawks and Rockets already coexisted with red and gold for a few decades, so it's not like that couldn't possibly happen again.

As sad as it is, those are their only other memorable uniforms and they're a blatant ripoff of an NFL team - and one of the Panthers' division rivals, at that.

Their only good templates are the cheap ones they give to lower-level schools and schools that are leaving them for another manufacturer. The super-stretchy material they've been pushing on all their other clients for the last 14(?) years has never looked good and will never look good no matter how many minor tweaks they make around the margins. As far as primary looks go, they just downgraded NC State and Kansas this offseason. Last year, they turned Georgia Tech's uniforms into an eyesore with mismatched shades of gold. A couple years ago, they made pointless changes to Texas A&M by removing the racing stripes and making the number font uglier for no reason. Even when Adidas comes up with a solid look, it only lasts a couple years and gets replaced with something worse. They might not be as bad as they were in the 2010s, but they're still pretty bad. College football is in desperate need of more brands to compete with them, Nike and UA.

NC State's uniforms have historically been so boring regardless of manufacturer. At some point, it has to be the athletic department's fault for wanting to look bland. That's why I always defended the outgoing uniforms with the different take on Northwestern stripes (even the slashes never bothered me). It's the only time ever, or at least in recent memory, that a neutral fan could turn on a game and know right away that NC State was playing. The new look returns to the historical norm of making them blend into the background. Not exactly an ideal branding move for a perennial .500ish program with no major accomplishments.

In-Season Tournament rings, Erneh!