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Bingo. Throw out red pants and white socks. That’s it.

I believe, per @TruColor and his amazing website, that the Eagles, Jets, and Seahawks all used the same shade of green prior to their respective rebrandings. As in, like, the PMS shade in their media guides would have been the same. So any difference in helmet color would be due to a different manufacturer (but didn’t Riddell supply the whole league then?) or a helmet that had to be, for whatever reason, painted (or re-painted) in-house. By the time the 1990s rolled around, I want to say they would all have been wearing PMS 349? At least 340-something. But with different jersey manufacturers, and different material for stripes (screen printing?) than for base jersey/base pants, they wouldn’t necessarily have looked the same in all applications. And, certainly, each manufacturer may have had its own approximation of kelly green, and if the team didn’t like it, their only choice was to switch manufacturers, which I’m guessing could be costly and time-consuming.

Right, but they can only have two helmets, so one alt set would have to be a fauxback. I say, keep the royal blue fauxback with the white helmet, and dump the current navy alt for a 1988-2006 throwback with a navy helmet.

They need to dump that navy alt anyway, and replace it with a 1994 throwback. It’s the only Chargers team to ever play in a Super Bowl, and almost a quarter of them are dead. They need to pay tribute to them while there are still this many left.

Tampa’s red jersey that they avoid for some reason would also have worked just fine.

I’d like to see the Broncos make that look no longer a throwback.

Wait, when did the Hurricanes wear yellow?

It’s weird: he went from a purple and yellow school to a purple and yellow pro team, yet he seems to have a problem with purple.

That emoji is so played out by now. I wish teams would give it a rest.

So these fairly restrained black jerseys mean no more of the absolute travesty that went to the Final Four, correct? Because those were hideous.

I have realized that I care far more about contrast between pants and socks than between pants and jerseys.

Specifically because they’re unpopular with the players and that gives them an excuse to once more stop wearing them? Crazy thing is, what the Panthers wore today was voted the most popular uniform combo in the league not too terribly long ago. I’m sure the fans still like it. The blue socks really pop against the black pants.

Carolina brought the old black-black-blue from the prime Newton years out of mothballs! I wish they’d played Dallas tighter…as it is, they may not wear them again for another five years or however long it had been.

The Texans virtually never contrast their pants with their socks when they are wearing white jerseys. But if the Dolphins stick to white pants and aqua socks with their aqua jerseys, that will be enough to make the matchup look decent.

That should not be allowed. A team should dress like a team. By the way…are the Dolphins planning to wear their regular aqua jerseys at all this year? I see they’re going to wear the throwback aquas on Christmas Eve against Dallas (which should look fantastic), but when will they wear the regular ones? I’m sick of them in all-white.

I wish there were a turquoise alt. Or, heck, just switch the road grey for turquoise. Other than that, it’s fantastic. The black alt is probably my favorite of the bunch.

Only time I’ve ever been to the Grand Canyon, it snowed enough that I couldn’t see to the bottom. I was kinda bummed about that.

Particularly because they can’t decide en masse that they want icy socks.

What, no turducken patch with it?!

I thought the same thing Sunday. The black socks balanced out the whole thing nicely.

I like that combo a lot.

I like their orange jersey, and it has historical precedent, doesn’t it? I feel like they wore orange at some point in the early years. But the orange helmet is absolutely wrong. The navy wishbone-C with a white outline against an orange helmet doesn’t translate well at all.

I like the Panthers’ black pants when they are worn with blue socks. I pretty much agree with the rest of your statement. Teams need to enforce sock uniformity again.

Wow. I didn’t know it started that long ago. I remember thinking at the time that it was a pretty cool thing, mashing up the color schemes and logos of different eras. It worked for the Cavs because they have had so many different styles in their history. Honestly, if it had remained true to the original spirit (stylistic mashups from a team’s history), it wouldn’t have been that bad for the league as a whole. Then teams started wearing non-team colors, then the City Connect goofiness started.

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