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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.

Bears’ navy is the same as Texans’ (which, we will see if that stays). All the other navy-dominant teams use different shades. Good eyes.

It does a solid job of looking old (and Vikings did live long ago, after all), but I’m not sure how well it can fit with their brand. I also feel like it would set a dangerous precedent IRL, but in this universe you’re in control, not The Swoosh.

This has actually gotten to the point where I can’t tell from photos which team is which in most games. It seems like at least 50% of games are black against white. Yuck.

Thank you! I’ve used that site for uniform info before. Didn’t realize they also had a thorough field database.

Fwiw, my Broncos’ solution: Ditch navy, don’t bring back royal blue either. Make your secondary color as close as you can get to the shade of the 1980s-1996 helmets. Ole Miss uses Pantone 307 for their medium-blue helmets; given those likely have a similar origin story to the Orange Crush lids, I would guess the color is almost identical to that of Denver’s pre-1997 helmets. This time, though, don’t have the mismatch between helmet and trim. Have numbers and stripes in Pantone 307. Maybe even an alt. The logo should be some hybrid between the Robohorse and the D. The white helmet should be ditched, and a 1997 navy blue throwback should be added (in the 1997 shade of navy too, which isn’t the 2023 one). Bada bing, bada boom! Problem solved.

The top pic is probably the best we can hope for. It’s pretty good too, aside from the one stupid white helmet.

I mean, that’s their shade.

I found aerial footage from ‘97 on YouTube. The end zones were still green with white logos but near as I can tell that was it. They hadn’t embiggened the logo within the end zone to accommodate for the elements that had been dropped; it looked small and lonely, and the overall look of the end zone was less cromulent than it had been the previous decade.

Ah! My mistake. Must’ve been an inaccuracy within the game I played a lot. Did they continue to also have the helmet and the conference logo in the end zone all the way up through 1997?