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I’m sure the Barrys will have striped pants and no sleeve wordmark, but I just have a feeling they aren’t the main thing.

I’m just glad you didn’t say the gradient helmet. You’ve been a constructive contributor here and I would hate to see you perma-banned.

My requests would be simple: pants - white with teal jersey, teal with black jersey, either white or teal with white jersey. socks - black always

I also noted that as a possibility. The plain throwbacks are cool, but the Barry look is better IMO.

Well done, Broncos, you magnificent bastards. Not on the actual uniforms most likely, but on this nice little prank. They have already said they’re staying with Honolulu blue and silver, so if it’s a black uniform, it’s just an alt. Less than ideal to be sure, but honestly, probably better than that absolute garbage whiteout crap they kept pushing last year, and that wasn’t even an alt. I’m more intrigued by what looks like their Barry Sanders-era logo. Are they adding a ‘90s throwback in place of the plain Thanksgiving set? Simplifying their current logo to be more like its more distant ancestors? Just trying to hype some nostalgia in advance of the reveal?

I wish they had said something along the lines of “no, you little buttwagon, we won’t give you plain white socks, especially with white pants, because that looks like hot garbage and we want our uniform set to look good, and frankly you should be ashamed of yourself for even asking” but I suspect that might’ve been construed as poor customer service.

Really? One of the articles (mothership maybe?) specifically said the Jets would NOT have a third helmet this year.

Please, just once in the preseason and then never again. I wonder if Buhlahkay there wants to go to war? For what it’s worth, the brief, largely buried ESPN article has about two thousand likes. Most people (unlike Buhlahkay there) really enjoyed the combinations shown. I’m not on Twitter (which I refuse to call X). Could any of you go on there and refute his stupid request? Pretty please? Maybe something like “they’re the New York Jets, not the New York Ass”?

That’s a gorgeous, shiny finish on the helmet. I would still prefer the old robin’s egg blue, but that’s super nice. Not sure what to think of the shiny silver facemask. The grey ones they wore pre-Elway definitely weren’t shiny, and the white ones they wore after that definitely weren’t silver.

Remember last year’s draft? Every team had an original logo that looked hand-designed. Very cool, but I believe all were one-offs. This is probably just the Lions’ iteration for this year’s draft.

I never cared for how those were purple in the front and black in the back, and they’re very late-nineties/early-aughts, vaguely industrial-looking uniforms - but they have a heck of a lot more personality than the junk they’ve been wearing for the past decade-plus (however long it’s been since they dropped purple, really).

Those are surprisingly good for a once-a-year uniform.

I think that’s just an unavoidable part of that helmet model, short of painting the logo on, in which case the logo would have to be moved back.

It had promise but was poorly executed. Kind of like the Falcons’ current set.

When it comes to me and you…

The neo-Namaths looked fantastic in 1998, when they were first brought back. In 2002 (I think, @TruColor?) they darkened and muddied their shade of green, and the set was never the same. It’s a shame because the green pants that they introduced after the color change would’ve looked great before. Then Nike came along and infamously had a lot of trouble matching shades of green, with the Eagles unable to wear their standard home set for a half-season, and the Jets (probably even worse) somehow sporting multiple shades of muddy dark green on the same jersey. With the color element ruined (and that 1998 forest green had been fantastic!), it became a lot easier to notice the drawbacks to that set: logo that was somehow boring, unrepresentative of the team name, and too busy all at once; generic uniform design that basically aped that of the Colts; and one of seemingly a billion sets with white lids (one of three in their own division). Fact is, all the Jets’ uniform sets have been too plain for my liking, save the 2019-23 set, which was ruined by a lack of consistency across uniform elements, and a design that tried to do too much, and the team constantly wearing combos that weren’t designed to be worn together. If you’re gonna have plain threads, you need a distinctive logo and color scheme. These new-old uniforms are simple but designed and executed better, and the new-old logo is arguably one of the most distinctive in NFL history. Fact is, the Jets didn’t NEED to change in 1998. Bill Parcells took over in 1997 and said the Namath-era set was what a football team should look like (I suspect he was salty that he hadn’t gotten to coach the white-lidded Patriots), and the organization modernized that set to suit his liking. They looked fine from 1990-97, but that look was made stale by the numerous bad moments that accompanied it: losing in Week 18 to miss the playoffs in 1993; utterly collapsing down the stretch in 1994 (a collapse precipitated by Marino’s fake spike); and the embarrassment of having the bottom fall out under Kotite in 1995-96. Something had to change and Parcells had an idea, so they took it and ran with it.

I am under the impression that they aren’t allowed to wear the black pants and socks except with the rest of that alternate set. Even if I’m wrong, I think they stick to classic combos at least 2/3 of the time.

Naw.

It means they will resemble bull-scheiss. (Hopefully not though.)

The leaked uniform doesn’t look particularly bold to me. Part of me is still hoping that they have an alt helmet with bull horns in the front that extend along to the sides.

That’s not a bad combo. Shades of Denver but replace orange with red. Or the ‘90s Bills but replace blue with red and red with navy.

If they slapped some purple stripes on the white socks - or even replicated their jersey stripes there - and made their facemask either purple or white - the current look would be pert near perfect. Their insistence on frequently wearing plain white socks - ESPECIALLY with their purple jerseys - knocks them down 5-10 spots in the uni rankings in my book.

I hope white socks are kept to an absolute minimum. I don’t think they will mind wearing green socks with the Legacy White - they did last year and had really good games compared to the rest of the season. What was it - beat the defending divisional champs despite losing their QB, beat the defending NFC champs, came very close against the defending Super Bowl champs? And in their other games they sucked. I hope that infuses the green-white-white-green with a winning feel. I don’t get the love for the Titans of New York look. I’ve always found those uniforms ugly. A proper Namath-era throwback would give this team all it needs.

You forgot to include green over white, which will hopefully be worn far more than mono-green. But what a fantastic look. Bold logo, traditional striping, and they’re actually embracing the green.

The black actually worked well in my opinion. They didn’t go overboard and do BFBS. They also used it consistently throughout the set - as a trim color. Had the most recent set been more consistent in using black trim on the white and green jerseys, then the black-heavy elements wouldn’t have been so out-of-place IMO - maybe they shouldn’t have had black pants, for example, at all (and I would prefer the color be trim-only), but they wouldn’t have been so egregious had the stripes on the green and white jerseys and pants been given black trim. I believe black should be almost always just a trim color for them, but it looks sharper when they apply it consistently to increase contrast than it does in just green and white IMO. (Obviously the white-helmet sets stand well on their own, without any black.) Also…I know it isn’t the same meaning of the word, but…jet black is a color, right? So that makes it seem appropriate to include a small amount of it in the team’s scheme.