debo0775

They were SO CLOSE to having a great set. That home red uniform completely ruins it.

4 minutes ago, LA Fakers+ LA Snippers said:

A) Your telling me a casual fan wouldn’t identify the Browns, who have one of the most iconic helmets in football, and literally wear their name as their primary color???

Without seeing a helmet, I’d wager that <50% of fans would ID the Browns.

With a helmet? 90+%
 

Which is precisely the argument for one helmet.

Just now, colortv said:

 

I would add:

 

Pittsburgh

LA Rams(Blue/Yellow)

Raiders

Browns/Bengals

Philadelphia

Washington

New Orleans

 

 

 

Pittsburgh and LV is a miss on my part. I guess NO, too.

LAR - No. Recent color swap and similarity to Chargers over the past 2 decades.

Bengals - maybe.

Browns - nope. Their colors and name are in conflict. Casual fans wouldn’t ID them.

Philly - good point - take NYJ off of my list.

Washington - too similar to KC and AZ

The call out on the Browns - “casual fans wouldn’t ID them” - is the barometer I think. The helmet is definitive. The colors are not in the case of most (which is probably an argument for crappy color chimes, but that’s another argument...)

7 minutes ago, debo0775 said:

 

But they often aren’t the visual identifier like helmets are.

Elaborating, there are a handful of teams that I think can lay claim to their colors being their visual ID:

Baltimore

Miami

Jacksonville

Tampa Bay

Minnesota

Seattle

Green Bay

NYJ

SF

Those teams are unmistakably identified by their colors. Maybe another couple of teams could be added. Beyond that, there‘s mostly a muddled mess of Blue/White, Blue/Silver, Blue/Red, Red/White teams (not to mention Chicago and Denver with remarkably similar colors).

The NFL is also defined largely by its brand rather than its players (save the superstars). Removing the helmet as the visual identifier for a club would dramatically alter how we consume the NFL in viewership and in public persona.

4 minutes ago, colortv said:

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Sure, helmets are an iconic signature of football, no ones disputing that.

 

What I'm saying is, I don't see how a team using it's primary colors dilutes the brand...the primary colors are by definition the brand.

But they often aren’t the visual identifier like helmets are.

I honestly love custom masks. I think it's really stupid that the NFL banned them. Honestly, what does it benefit them to ban these masks?

Uniformity, and it's safer for the players. Added mass = greater moment = more probable incidence of injury.

The Maryland Pride uni's, in all of their incarnations, are all awesome and actually incorporate the schools colors in a creative and unique way. Kudos to Under Armour.... unlike nikes retarded addition of any color into oregons ridiculous uni's. Dear america, just because its nike doesnt make it gods gift to the world. Silver is an ugly color

Those uniforms could have been a ton better if they flipped the motif on the shoulders so that the upper body better resembled the Maryland flag.

Still not my favorite uniform, but it could have been really, really cool with that one tweak.

I like grey facemasks on a lot of teams that don't currently have grey facemasks.