Jezus_Ghoti

"It's called fashion" is just a meme. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/its-called-fashion-look-it-up The Cardinals' uniforms are mostly trash, but we should not read much into them posting meme text.

This is BS, right? How can the Titans prevent the Texans from using light blue?

The Argos are apparently changing to light blue helmets

Red (or any color) mono jersey-pants-socks with a white helmet is still trash even if they get the striping right.

I am always surprised when people here say they like the red helmet. I think people perhaps just like the idea of more red helmets in the league. Heck, I am on board with that. But in practice it just did not work for the Texans. Maybe it would work with a flatter finish, but to me it clashes very hard with the red jersey. Could possibly work with the blue jerseys?

She gets tons of views on TikTok, but she is not a very good designer imo. Stuff is way too flat and she leans on the crutch of forcing hidden elements in so people think the design is really clever. This one kinda sucks : So does this one: I don't love how negative I am being here. It is great to see a young woman establish a following doing this. We need more of that. She will probably win this Browns contest because of her popularity, and maybe that's fine. I just wish her designs were ... better.

I kinda wonder if this is all just a single pathological liar.

What a disaster the Nike era of NFL uniform design has been. Is there even one iconic new uniform to emerge? I guess maybe the Chargers? But there have been numerous utter disasters and the most well-received uniforms have been returns to looks that pre-existed Nike like the Browns and Bucs. It's pretty pathetic when people are happy because Nike didn't totally ruin the Cardinals.

I don't want to derail this thread, but since it seems like there will be a lull as we await the official uniform unveiling I will push back a little here. In the last few months the Cardinals have been rated as the second-worst team to play for by NFL players, with F scores for their training facilities, food, and treatment of players' families. The owner was just accused of using burner phones to get around the DUI suspension of the ex-GM, and that GM was accused a few months ago of groping a woman in Mexico and then framing and firing a team staffer to take the fall for it. With Dan Snyder selling the Commanders and hopefully going on to rot in hell, the Cardinals are absolutely the most dysfunctional front office in the NFL. It is remarkable they contained leaks of this new uniform.

And with almost all of these, people online claimed it was the team deliberately planting fakes to throw us off the scent. LOL. Yeah, the Jets went to the trouble of designing fake uniforms and staging a fake photoshoot with Sam Darnold just to trick their fans for a whole week before unveiling the real uniforms. Money well spent!

Or maybe it's evolving. We are all hungry for these tidbits. Isn't that why we come here? Gimme those tidbits. Also there is really not a whole lot stopping him from just describing the uniforms to us in more definitive (or even full) detail, but I will let him decide what he's comfortable doing.

Wait, so they are officially adding grey to the color scheme and using this as the opportunity to finally make the facemask not grey?

The draft makes no sense as a uniform reveal location. The pick isn't gonna wear the pants and helmet. At most he will hold up the jersey or put it on. And it would completely overshadow the pick (or vice versa) when you could just make them both big events that get full media coverage.

This is basically what I am imagining based on all the hints. Except maybe more of a maroon, copper, navy blue? In my head is a uniform with some desert cardinal ideas and some gradient-y Arizona sunset ideas. Am I on the right track @TruColor?

Oh this is Photoshop surely. I can't imaging radical new Nike uniforms that retain the same number font and wordmark.

Based on how vague the few people who seem to have actual information about these uniforms are being, this is kind of what I expect.

The ones posted above are at best tolerable. But when they wear white over stripeless white/black with barely a hint of teal or gold anywhere on the uniform... ugh. They aren't as easy to hate on as the Titans or Commanders because there is no single element that can be pointed out as bad. But the overall lack of any design details is just awful. They bore me to death.

We have all seen the maroon and orange stuff. Is one of the new colors blue?

AFC South is a contender for most boring uniform division. All 4 teams are primarily blue (depending on how you define teal). Lots of mono looks. But yeah I think the NFC South would take it if the Panthers commit to all black.

All the Panthers are doing is changing the shade of blue slightly and changing the jersey template so the stripes don't go all the way around? Yikes. Huge whiff by the mothership in posting that article earlier confirming that "new uniforms" are coming. By no reasonable measure does this count as new uniforms.

Shouldn't we all be past this? Every time a bad new uniform leaks (Titans, Jags, Jets, Browns, etc etc etc) people pray it is a smokescreen. No NFL team is spending resources making fake uniforms from scratch just to throw off fans for a couple weeks before the official unveiling lol. Just a ridiculous notion. Leaks are always real. Now in this particular case nothing has actually leaked yet, right? It all seems to trace back to one Reddit user. And we have absolutely seen Reddit users (and forum members here *cough* Teal) invent fake uniform news because they are, well, sociopaths. This case ... still kinda seems like it could be one of those. But Tru - if you have a photo of the new helmet in a factory and new pantone values from an actual trusted source and not some random Reddit guy, then how could this one possibly be a smokescreen?

A lot of uniform things we dissect around here are nothing, but deliberately choosing the red helmets for the background of the first photos taken of your new head coach is very easy to believe as a more of a something than a nothing.

I just can't see this happening. The Adams family is fiercely protective of the luv ya blue. Doubt they ever willingly give it up to the hated Texans. But if navy and yellow did happen, it would not only tie the Titans to other pro teams in their own market, but also sort of tie them to the historic New York Titans. Maybe they could even wrangle a way to wear those throwbacks if we're already going down the path of franchises trading history.

It is going to get awkward in the AFC South if the Texans try to reclaim the old Oilers colors at the same time Titans fans are clamoring for Oilers throwbacks with the new helmet rules.

Is it not quite unusual for a team to give local media a look at an upcoming uniform? Very likely details will leak. I mean ... NFL uniforms usually leak, anyhow. But why invite this?