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Bathysphere

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  1. In a world of alternate helmets and teams bastardizing their own color schemes, the white Bengal makes the most sense out of all of them and really doesn’t look too horrendous as a one-off. The issue is we live in a world of alternate helmets and teams bastardizing own their color schemes.
  2. The Titans pick their pantaloons from game to game almost entirely based on the playing surface. Presumably it would have all to do with easing the load on the equipment crew, since the dark trousers don’t stain as heavily, and they simply get their white slacks in when there’s no dirt involved. Here’s a by-game breakdown of which knickers they wore the past couple of seasons based on whether they played on natural grass or turf (their home stadium has natural grass, hence why the navy gets most of the spotlight). 2022 Grass: 2 navy Turf: 2 white 2021 Grass: 10 navy, 2 columbia Turf: 4 white, 2 navy 2020 Grass: 11 navy, 1 columbia, 1 white Turf: 3 white, 1 navy 2019 Grass: 12 navy, 4 columbia Turf: 3 navy, 1 white Basically, they almost universally refuse to let their white garment which covers the area from the bottom of the waist to the top of their knees get all dirtied up with grass, but still want to get some use out of them so they just bust them out whenever they’re on turf, which is a hilarious method with regard to establishing a visual identity.
  3. Exactly. The navy blue helmets were clearly made to go with the uniform that uses a marginally lighter shade of royal than on the color rush.
  4. This place is gonna go up in flames when Washington finally wears the burgundy jersey and they do it with white pants and white socks.
  5. If I’d somehow managed to not have paid any attention to the uniform developments of the Panthers over the last five years I’d be much happier as a person.
  6. IcEd OuT fOr ThE wEsT cOaSt IcE cUbE eMoJi Chargers please save us by wearing yellow pants a third time in a row. HoF: WBB PW1: TBB PW2: TBB PW3: WBB W1: TWW W2: WBW W3: WWW
  7. Ah, yes, the one that only I like. Id take orange socks with it of course, even though they’re such a weird lighter shade of orange than the helmet. Anything but the nemos. People will complain about no orange below the belt, but it bothers me more that the super bowl look has no black down there except for the thin outlines that make no zoological sense. At least this look follows the established striping motif from across the rest of the uniform. EDIT: I think the wrong page was posted, so I found the correct one. Really cool that they added socks to the possible combos list.
  8. I dunno maybe he’s talking about the Jags all-black or something.
  9. It feels silly that they’d go after Gay specifically when 90% of the league is constantly violating these rules now. Though, it does appear in this pic that he actually cut them that high with scissors, which makes it even funnier that he’s mad. Boohoo they won’t let me chop up my yellow performance pants that were designed in a literal laboratory to offer the least restrictive range of motion possible. Im only on the field for like five plays a game so no one should even notice wahh. Meanwhile, Jalen Ramsey is probably gonna walk free for wearing yellow socks with his yellow pants when every other player on the team, including usual offenders, was wearing blue.
  10. I never felt myself getting behind ‘PYPs’ because it felt kinda silly looking at a uniform and saying “yup, that’s a Pip.” I do think though that Ive found a good enough explanation for why those elements looked objectively bad and have gone down as a forgettable era: First, these things make a uniform look odd because they *contour* the players who are wearing them. Having big contrasting panels on the sides and shoulders and little lines running down the sides plays tricks on your mind to make the players look like they’re shaped differently than they’re supposed to, which creates an uncanny valley when comparing them to more classic designs. This is the technical reason why the first one looks like a dignified football player and the other looks like a fool. It’s because he’s shaped weird by the panels and it makes the brain upset. The other reason is the visual jumble that panels and piping create, which is distinct from the sheer messiness that plagued 2010s uniforms. The body of the jersey was seen in the 90s and 00s as uncharted territory waiting to be taken over. Yet putting panels on the sides has never looked good because players will always be obscuring them slightly as long as their arms are near their sides (which they always are when they’re just standing). And piping seems like another cool way to add color to the body until you realize that it’s always gonna be so thin that it mostly dissappears from your visual field when viewing it from so many feet away. Both of these elements end up being nonvisible while still being “there,” which confuses the eye and is very discordant look at. This is why the Titans look is unsalavagable, why the Falcons set still gets roasted, and why the Broncos and Cardinals are freaking maniacs. Their current uniforms are, quite literally, bad for the eyes.
  11. They literally cannot be assed to wear them. Honestly it’s a more than proper throwback since in ‘97, the stripes were optional too since so many players would cut their sleeves off above them.
  12. Wow, did not expect that. First time they've worn something other than all-white for the home opener since 2018, and the first time its been white over black since 2008. I wondered if they would do something different since the same matchup was the home opener two years ago, but I hardly expected they would even wear this ever again. Their combo selection just gets more and more psycho ever since they switched the primary back to teal. HoF: WBB PW1: TBB PW2: TBB PW3: WBB W1: TWW W2: WBW
  13. There was a far simpler time where this was considered the worst uniform of all time and we all just agreed to pretend like it never happened and moved on.
  14. Gotta wonder if half the purpose of the Patriots mythical silver pants is to beat the heat on an occasion like this.
  15. Sure, but isn’t it just weird that literally every single time they’ve played against the Lions when the red throwback was available they’ve worn it? That more than 40% of the games in which they’ve ever worn the red throwback are against the Lions (not counting the AFL legacy games they didn’t get to choose)? Yeah yeah, the teams don’t choose their unis based on any sort of weird little rules that we come up with around here, and the first two were thanksgiving, but the third is just a boggling fixation on putting it against one team that you have no history with.
  16. I can understand not wanting to rehash memories of a super bowl where they got trounced, but against the Lions for the third time since throwbacks even became a thing? That’s :censored:ing ridiculous. I’ll never understand what it is about these teams picking the same teams to wear alts against over and over, especially uncommon nonconference opponents. Wonder if the Lions will counter with their throwbacks for a THIRD TIME.
  17. Who could’ve guessed? It’s literally the TBD matchup. EDIT: Ah I really thought they were going white on white Im glad they’ve gotten back to Wednesday reveals after going with a ‘two days before kickoff’ strategy last season. HoF: WBB PW1: TBB PW2: TBB PW3: WBB W1: TWW
  18. Ha, never knew the Dolphins tried orange socks. I’ve been thinking for awhile that the Bills would be perfect if they went back to using red socks like that. They’ll always look sort of incomplete if either the helmet, socks, or both arent red. Screw it, the Texans could use red socks full-time with both of their primary looks too. They would look remiscent of the Texas flag, similar to the French national team looking like theirs.
  19. I cant really think of too many examples of this, though I do recall this one which Im still not sure that I didn’t just dream.
  20. One is a classic, while the other is “inconsistent.” The Houston Oilers have done immeasurable damage to how we assess striping schemes.
  21. I cant quite get behind this jersey because the yellow trimmings are so thin that they get devoured by the white. I don’t think they’ve ever topped themselves in terms of yellow presentation when it comes to their current look.
  22. This thread will be dead until week one, so no one will catch me photo-dumping the best of the preseason. They don’t “count” cause there were no stakes, though there were a lot of excellent ones, especially between teams that never see each other. Those ‘9ers stripes
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