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Stripes would be vastly preferred, though I know teams are too stubborn to add new striped socks at this point, what with them becoming obsolete from players refusing to wear them correctly. At least the plain whites are already in the closet, and Ive more than welcomed them as leotard-breakers any time they’ve been used that way. Plain white socks w/ colored pants>leotard, for me.

The Vikings and Dolphins would benefit immensely from using their white socks (which every team has) with their colored pants, like other teams have at least tried.

86 the giant letters and that’s literally it.

Shockingly the Bucs horrible, horrible unis lasted one year past their expiration date. Meaning that while the Jags and Browns took 3 years at the very most, maybe less, to regret their overhaul, for the Bucs it took them exactly four years to reconsider. I wonder what switch flipped then. Glad it did, in any case. Also, who can believe that we’re going into year 10 of those Vikings unis? They knocked it so hard out of the park that they could wear those for the next 20 years at least and I don’t think a single person would complain. Especially now that they brought back white on white

Ha, I never noticed that they use a red swoosh on the white jersey and a blue swoosh on the white pants that are made to mimic the white jersey exactly. Right next to the same red Northwestern stripes too. Jeez.

Jesus Christ.

Heyooo I didnt have to do the shameless plug this time lol (Its Laviska Shenault with Deandre Hopkins’s head)

Hell yeah, the only yoga pants look that I like. And one of my favorite matchups overall. Between this year and last year, their preseason MO clearly revolves around wearing black pants on natural grass and white pants when on turf, for laundry reasons (which makes sense for preseason rosters, though the Titans also have been doing this fairly consistently throughout the regular season, which is a pretty cheapo measure IMO). Bringing back the running tally to see if they lead the league in combos used again: HoFG: WBB PW1: TBB PW2: TBB

Their practice jerseys do not currently have the NFL logo on the collar, let alone the NFL Equipment logo that did used to be there. Reread my last post. You can see the slightest remnants of the regular jersey beneath the folds. Im not even so sure they didn’t take a retail jersey straight from the pro shop, its so baggy.

Since deranged detective work is the name of the game around here… I can definitely believe that this sliver is the white panel of their regular jersey, and that the piping and other details are obscured by the angle, shadows, and bunching due to this not being a real football player, wearing an untailored jersey straight from the stock room. I can also believe that the details were intentionally obscured to make it appear as a blank canvas without giving any false bread crumbs of what the design to come will actually be, signaling that they are indeed making changes to it for 2024. Why they chose to tease it so brazenly yet so quietly like this is beyond me, though they’ll probably give us more word soon like “people have been asking about our header… you got us! new uniforms coming next year!”

I know, right? There will never not be this assumed level of ineptitude you have to anticipate whenever uniforms come up in the media. There will always be something demonstrably incorrect, or at least an air of naivety you can cut with a knife. It’s like, are you blind?? Do your eyes not see exactly what is going on in front of them?? No, it’s actually just called “being a normal person..” It seems insane to me, but that’s just the nature of a particular manner of fixation, I guess.

Putting words into my mouth to make your own point is bizarre to me, and follows the definition of… Yeah, the Vikings current helmet is a lot better now since they fixed it after it looked awful for the first six years. Doesnt mean I don’t think that matted finishes look incomplete and sub-professional to me (and, in the case of the Commanders, will create color matching issues if applied unscrupulously). I still contend this was the best helmet they ever wore and the colors matched just fine. It just happened to go with the worst jersey they ever wore.

??? Normal gloss helmets have been doing the job for decades ??? I would rather every single team including the Vikings stuck to gloss ??? Do I need to post the wikipedia link for Strawman ???

A lot of people are gonna be eating their words, talking “at least the helmet is okay,” when they wear it with the burgundy jerseys in the sun for the first time and they look like two completely different colors. No tolerance for alternative helmet finishes.

What a game. Especially compared to a year ago.

Jeez, just lifeless. The speckled fades on top of sheer nothingness everywhere else make it look like it’s almost vanishing into thin air. Also, somebody has to mention the fact that sleevecaps were a really really lame trend of the early ‘10s and they should have stayed there (which they managed to do until these showed up). It’s literally to justify the black uniform. It’s in the (invisible to us except through parsing the inconsistent behavior of the teams) rules. Which means the Rams might be subverting the rules by having a grandfathered in bone alternate. (unless they keep wearing blue over bone as the regular season primary. yikes.)

Consider that the one who mentioned it was also me LOL But yeah, I don’t think I’ve missed a single entry in the the NFL news threads in years, and I can’t recall anyone else bringing it up.

Oo, finally a place to rant about this. In 2019, one year after unveiling their current set, the Jaguars adjusted the cut of their sleeve cuff detail so that it would roll under the shoulder pads less and be more visible. I applaud them for it, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen another team in the modern era silently “fix” their uniforms only just enough so that the Shield doesn’t consider it different enough from the retail version to consider it a new jersey. Compare pics for any player who played in both years: There was no announcement for it and, to date, I am the only person I’ve seen even mention it, period. Not even here of all places.

Teal-black-black for the Jags (me likey), and assuming the Browns will go brown pants again, recreating last years preseason week one matchup 1:1 (me meh).

Strange that they advertised the matchup a while back with a mock-up of a burgundy jersey combo that they had never shown prior, but at least now my Jags predictions won’t tank on week one.

They had already announced the upcoming uniform change before the end of the regular regular season. Those wheels were a-turning and they were not stopping.

Well sure, the helmet isolated won’t look too bad when you don’t see how badly that finish doesn’t match the burgundy fabric of the rest of the uniform.

Oh true. Further supports them wearing black earlier than ever in the recent past.

I mean, you can go back to their inaugural season where they didn’t wear black until after wearing white ten times. Last season was the first time they wore black at home during a day game before week 7 (week 6 vs the vikings). They’ve always done this. I also found that they definitely used to wear their alt blues the normal two times per year despite using it in the preseason also. Idk what’s going on now.

Theyre the only two teams who have a significant history of wearing alts in the preseason. Either the Jags got an exception that the Panthers never thought to ask for, or the Panthers *literally* tricked themselves into thinking it counts. Like, who from the league is gonna come down and tell them “hey, uh, we noticed that you guys have stretched three usages of your alternative blue jersey across both the preseason and regular season, and we just just wanna let you know that you actually don’t have to restrict it that way. The preseason doesn’t actually count towards the three uses, guys.” ?