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I wish players today would say they hate monochrome.

Didn’t John Elway himself supposedly nix wearing those in the regular season?

That’s awesome. Somebody whipped it up and now it’s been used by an NFL team for over sixty years and two colleges for who knows how long. I know Vince wasn’t the first to use proper color blocking. What I was saying was that, after the way the Packers tore through the 1960s, the monochrome looks that were occasionally seen before that disappeared. The Packers themselves had worn mono in the ‘50s. IIRC it didn’t recur for Green Bay until the advent of Color Rush. Of course, the OG low-def color televisions had something to do with it too, I’m sure. Different colors for different parts of the uniforms kept the players from looking like Colorforms and made the action easier to keep track of. Ironically, with today’s hi-def mega-screens, basketball (NBA and college) has gotten so far from its roots that many games are literally black against white uniforms, and it can be hard to tell, at least initially, which team is which. The NFL at least generally sticks to team colors.

It’s hilarious that Vince Lombardi - a coach, not a designer, and colorblind at that - had such a part in standardizing football uniform formats for so long. I have read that he associated it with winning, maybe from his time as an assistant coach in Cleveland, but he apparently preferred the helmet and pants to be the team’s secondary color, effectively ending non-white monochrome looks for more than a quarter of a century. Was he also the one who commissioned the G logo, or was that just a coincidence?

Kinda silly, perhaps, but an infinitely better explanation than the one from the LA Clip Art unveiling.

Right. At least they aren’t black and red! That’s like a quarter of the league right there.

That’s a relief!

As soon as I saw the white jersey I was reminded of the Twins’ current look. Not a bad thing. So with the powder blue and grey backgrounds, is there any reason to believe either of those will eventually be the base for an alternate, or is it just to see what the navy blue script looks like on them? I know the powder blue is a trim color. Is there any grey in the new scheme?

Not a huge fan of the navy, but given the nautical theme it makes sense. Kinda wish they’d gotten rid of black altogether (that is the script color on white and red jerseys, right?), and scripts on blue and red jerseys could use white outlines. All that said? This is a huge leap forward from the various colors of garbage they’ve worn for…what, close to a decade now?

Do any of them look like Hack Wilson or Babe Ruth or Bartolo Colon yet? If not, let’s just keep going.

The Vikings have actually changed their shade of purple several times in their history. For all four of their Super Bowl appearances, it was a very dark, blue-heavy shade. More recent versions have been a bit brighter and more balanced.

I really doubt they would do that. It’s probably “HURR DURR ” stuff.

For what it’s worth, I mean that mainly because of the constant uniform changes and the enormous ads, along with the tendency many teams have to wear completely different color schemes home and road. All three of those things annoy me a lot.

EFF soccer uniforms. Those things put the “ass” in association football, that’s for sure. They are terrible almost to a one - only World Cup looks are halfway-decent in my opinion.

In addition to being BFBS (and one of them being for such a traditional program in Indiana!), these are lazy. They’re bland. They’re formulaic and templated. The numbers, in both cases, are too dark to contrast properly with the idiotic, unnecessary black base. These uniforms look like ass, and I have no idea why anyone thought this was a good idea. The fact that anyone is proud of this, and making social media posts to highlight it, is utterly depressing.

My guess would be a college team. Temple, Rice, Florida Atlantic…probably one of those.

But at least it started!

Since this is a sports-related board, can I say how jealous I am that Russell Brand’s ugly ass got to score (insert Beavis and Butthead laughter) with Katy Perry for several years?

They’re probably donating to the Zoolander Center.

I sure wouldn’t want to see it in sports though.

It’s why monopolies are bad for quality.

Any day now!

Shame that the one pictured is the Marlins’ long-awaited blue shirt. I hope the template has to change, but I also hope they don’t get rid of the blue when it does.

Look, this time last year we were told the Cardinals would be darkening their maroon and adding burnt orange. I say we should take all this with (Milton from “Office Space” voice) biiiiiiiiiig grains of salt and just wait for the actual reveal.

I don’t remember the Dolphins’ throwbacks ever having plain white socks. I remember them having white socks with aqua and orange stripes.