MCM0313

11 minutes ago, MCM0313 said:

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

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. 

2 hours ago, Cujo said:

Broncos uniform rumors are ramping up again today.. 

 

 

 

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

4 minutes ago, Silver_Star said:

 

Done. What do you all think now? Green background looks decent or does it need to be sort of light?

I mean, that’s their shade. 

8 hours ago, WSU151 said:

 

They had dark endzones through 97; I don't think they had the helmet in them in the mid-90s. I'll see if I can find a picture.

 

 Once the Meadowlands/Giants Stadium took out the astroturf then the Jets started going with unfilled endzones I think...but that was with the 98-2018 wordmark. 

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. 

11 hours ago, WSU151 said:

 

Jets endzones were colored dark green in the 80s/90s

 

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?

13 minutes ago, Cujo said:

 

I wanna say the 95-99 St. Louis Rams used "Rams" with the arch and their primary, and just plain "Rams" without the arch as their script.

 

The 80s-90s GIANTS even used a plain Impact-type font for their script. Then flipped GIANTS to their script when they went to NY in 2000. So it was never used as both at the same time like the Jets.

Right! How could I forget the Giants’ red end zones with blue team name and white outlines from SB XXI? Simple font without the italics or outlines. That was in their end zones. 
 

Related, the Jets’ end zones in the ‘80s and ‘90s were disappointingly plain. They just left the field its natural green color rather than painting it and then slapped the logo down in white, IIRC. Hopefully this time around they exercise a bit more creativity with their end zone designs.  

22 hours ago, MDGP said:

 

I believe you're thinking of the NBA.

2 hours ago, dont care said:

No that’s the NBA, NFL has no such rule

Glad to see I was mistaken! I guess I kind of thought there was at least an informal prohibition on that sort of thing across the Big 4. (Except NYI in 1997, obviously. The Fisherman was reviled.)

5 hours ago, Cujo said:

 

The only thing that bugged me about this logo was it dubbed as the Jets' primary logo and script logo.

Having thought more about this…has this been true of any other NFL logo of the Super Bowl era? Maybe the Rams at some point in the ‘90s - or was the helmet always the primary pre-2000? I guess the Big Blue Wrecking Crew-era Giants, but then when they switched to the ny logo, they had the good sense to retain the underlined logo as their wordmark. 

24 minutes ago, Cujo said:

 

The only thing that bugged me about this logo was it dubbed as the Jets' primary logo and script logo.

You mean at the same time? As in, primary and wordmark were identical?

15 minutes ago, thisguyphelps said:

Don't like it, doesn't have the vibe of the 80s vers. 

I think the script will be identical to the old one. The primary logo probably won’t - isn’t there something in NFL bylaws that prohibits returning to an old logo, unaltered? - but the script almost certainly will. 
 

My guess would be that the logo will become the script inside of an oval, which they’ve used in various ways over the course of the past year. 

22 hours ago, Survival79 said:

 

"We're not mad, we're just disappointed."

 

I mean…

1 hour ago, Cujo said:

 

Do I need to pull the "Do you know who the hell I am" card on this guy?

 

Also, dropping a single meme >>> a twenty paragraph take on how if the SB59 logo were a person you'd marry it.

You’ve been here longer than me, yes. I’m not a newcomer though. And I think “good but not great” was the most common opinion of that logo - though, if I see anyone down on one knee in these parts, I will immediately tell you. 

On 2/8/2024 at 6:40 PM, The_Admiral said:

 

Inside the NBA on HGTV with Chip and Joanna Gaines, the Property Brothers, and also Charles Barkley

Turrible, turrible. 

9 hours ago, Cujo said:

 

 

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But still better than the SB45-55 templates

 

Naw. Not barfworthy at all.
 

Also…you’re a smart guy under all the snark. I wish you would give us fewer memes and reaction GIFs, and more of your actual thoughts and analysis. You can do better. 

43 minutes ago, ruttep said:

 

That looks wayyy too traditional to fit with their main brand. I bet that's just a limited edition jersey that's going on sale soon.

To me it looks an awful lot like their Color Rush jersey. Maybe brining that back in some form? Or, yeah, just some commemorative something or other. Of course, that design was based on a combination of the ‘50s look and the ‘80s/‘90s look. So this could be commemorating whatever, pretty much. 

16 hours ago, HOOVER said:

Not sure who the guys are behind ProLine Mockups but they're doing the Lord's work:

 

 

I still prefer Green/White/Solid Green socks and White/White/Solid Green socks.

I agree with you. Normally I like sock stripes, but such a simple look is just fine with solid-color socks. Provided that color isn’t all the colors combined (white) or no color at all (black). 

2 minutes ago, LMU said:

They’re really pushing that SpongeBob tie-in, aren’t they?

Spoken like somebody who doesn’t live in a pineapple under the sea…

5 minutes ago, MJWalker45 said:

If the Broncos are actually changing, they should be going with this. 

Yes, they should! Right down to the Ole Miss medium blue helmet. 

6 minutes ago, MJWalker45 said:

With the new Nike design, it's easier to just go with the Sack Exchange uniforms.

I believe so, but I wouldn't be surprised if they went the 1990's route and added black trim to the sleeve stripes, or do what they did with Indianapolis and make the swoosh black.

One downside, they could make the facemasks black, which should only happen on the black uniforms, which will likely have a black helmet as well, unless they ditch it so that they can have the Namath throwbacks later down the line. 

 

Thanks for reminding me of my nostalgia for the Orange Crush Broncos. 

37 minutes ago, PurpleHayes said:

 

Sadly I don't think this is going away any time soon...at least until all the current players who love their 'icy whites' enter their 30s and the new batch of players in their early 20s want to disassociate themselves from the 'grandpas' on the team, and come up with some new uniform trend/atrocity.

Not all players go for the look. Plus, an individual’s preferred fashion can change over time. It’s a fad. 

2 minutes ago, fouhy12 said:

 

 

Chiefs again, huh? Against…who is that, the Vikings?  

59 minutes ago, HOOVER said:

Maybe the fact that they're going with the "Legacy" theme means they'll honor that a bit and not mix & match as much.  We can hope. 

It would be nice if they just followed the other traditional franchises in the league and quit playing Barbie with uniforms.  Green/Green/White and Green/White/White.  You want to mix up socks?  Fine.  But if you leave Green pants out of the mix, I don't see any reason they'd wear the White jerseys with Black pants, being that the Sack Exchange White jerseys have no Black on them.

I don’t think they’ll mix and match too terribly much. I just hope their preferred combos aren’t monochromatic. White over white is fine, but PLEASE keep the socks green, and don’t do any ice cube or chilly emojis. 
 

What’s good in that regard is that the set it is based on always wore green socks and white pants. I believe that, after the mess they’re leaving behind, they will mostly go for simple, traditional looks aside from the black alt. 

5 minutes ago, bushy said:

so basically the Celtics. 

Not a damn thing wrong with looking like the Celtics! (At least their primaries….)

1 minute ago, WSU151 said:

 

The Colts created black helmets just from the use of black swooshes on the home/aways. Apparently any black accent can be that minimal. 

Indiana nights, baby! Perfect for hitting up the local Applebee’s for some mozzarella sticks after the game. 

9 minutes ago, Eszcz21 said:

That was my thought as well. I thought that was part of the reason Washington shoe horned black into the away uniforms.

It can be done tastefully though. The Jets’ 2019-23 set shows this - black facemask, black number outline, not overwhelming at all. Since their upcoming set is just a modernization of a classic style, I don’t foresee a ton of black in the regular home and road sets. I’d say 1990-97 amounts, or even less. 

30 minutes ago, HOOVER said:

And another from Jake Buff:

 

 

 

I love that this mockup doesn’t include white or black socks. I’m cool with it not including green pants too. But it’s just a mockup. You know they will go monochrome at least part of the time. 
 

Still - moving to the plane silhouette full-time is a massive win.