I think there is pants striping. Look at the reflection on the right side of the Cal McNair picture. You can see a horizontal red stripe and a thin white stripe. Seems similar to the Rams' yellow pants design.
I've got quite a few hats that are from teams I'm not a fan of but they look nice; purple D-Backs throwback, Missoula PowderHeads seafoam green, teal Cuyahoga Community College Triceratops, pink Pensacola Blue Wahoos. The only jersey I own because it looks nice and is my favorite hockey jersey of all time is this bad boy right here...
This is just a ridiculous statement. Football helmets have chinstraps too. The facemask is a focal point of the thing that fans identify most with a football team. Clearly there's a difference between these two helmets (You can come to your own conclusion on which one looks better):
If you're going to darken the blue, you've gotta lighten the red slightly. Otherwise, you'd run into the same problem the Charlotte Knights did with their former brand.
When teams use the color fill spots sparingly or just use the main color, the template looks fine, but when they use the contrasting back it looks terrible. That Colombia shirt compared to the Spain home is a clear example of this.
Not a thrift store, but I found this at Dick's on clearance today for $17. I *think* it's a replica, but I could be wrong. The wordmark is double knitted and heat applied, while the NOB and number are faux stitch heat applied. I assume it's a replica too because there's no swinging friar on the sleeve.
If the expectation is that this stuff is fixed by opening day, I wonder if they're just going to use the old template for on-field uniforms and sell the crappy one to fans for 2024 only. They have to still have plenty of that in the factory inventory I'd imagine.
This is very promising. Hopefully fans can hold out for a year from buying new jerseys and they revert to the previous templates or a better version in 2025.