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Bombers had nice proposed unis but a weak logo, Houndogs had weak logo and mediocre unis, Stallions had good unis and mediocre logo (which definitely looks like what the Broncos adopted in '97, so maybe it would've looked better and more original in '95 than today). The Panthers have the strongest look of these five proposals, and I'd say the Jags and Stallions would be tied for second. The two that were ultimately chosen definitely make sense from a visual perspective.

This, to me, is much weaker than the logos that the Jags and Panthers eventually adopted.

Bet they sell some rock-solid life insurance there...

Well, it would still have been Rams in white and Pats in blue (I know, that never actually happened with those sets so no pics), but yeah...it would have looked like the classic it was.

Haven't seen it in awhile, but I think the background was a bit more subdued. This was...I want to say December 1995 or January 1996. I had a laser background for some individual photos earlier, in '92 I think, but that was pre-bowl cut.

Not crazy at all! The Pats ended the '93 season on a hot streak just as I was gaining interest in football. That, plus their young star QB, plus their logo, plus the fact that I had played a year of flag football in '92 for a team called the Patriots (when I went back in '94 they had become the Cowboys though), led to the Pats being my first favorite NFL team. I rooted for them during their 1994 playoff season, in which Bledsoe set a new record for single-season pass attempts IIRC, and then during their Super Bowl loss to Green Bay. I remember trying to find NES games where I could play as the Pats. I borrowed John Elway's Quarterback from a friend but didn't like the generic red-vs.-blue gameplay or the lack of team and player names. I rented Tecmo Super Bowl and was amazed that it had all 28 teams AND their helmets AND real players! Then I got Madden '95 for Game Gear and my family got a computer for which I got Football Pro, then FBPro '95, then '96, and enjoyed playing with the uniform editors and play editors. To complete the '90s-ness, I also had a Patriots Starter jacket, in which my bowl cut and I were professionally photographed sitting back-to-back with my next-door neighbor and flag football teammate in his Cowboys Starter jacket.

Freaking love the "'Murica" pants stripe on those. It's like a non-sucky version of the Sixers' star-spangled unis from the same era.

If you're referring to the darker shade of grey, the White Sox also have a darker shade than most, I believe.

How's this: I would love to see the Royals return to light blue road uniforms instead of grey. I'd also like to see the Diamondbacks and/or Rays come up with their own take(s) on the ol' light-blue-roads look.

I like seeing the A's wearing yellow shirts and wish they'd break out a road alt that also has yellow pants like their '70s look (even though I'm pretty sure that would be against current MLB rules).

Wow, that was the same offseason? I wish the Dolphins would make better decisions, because they have the best color scheme in the NFL in my opinion and I'd like to see them in the playoffs regularly.

This is both a photo of Daunte Culpepper in a "wrong" uniform and an apt metaphor for his career after that knee injury:

Poor Culpepper. Things just fell apart for him so quickly.

At least they can adopt these as throwbacks even with the one-helmet rule. Haven't seen any evidence that they want to, but at least it's possible.

Wow, I stand corrected. I was sure that AZ's makeover happened in '04, but I was wrong.

No, it would have been from 2003. The Cards debuted their new look in 2004.

I would've thought they would be in the Nash/Novitzki look by then.

Heck, he looks sore in this picture.

Yeah, same here. I guess it's because those were the uniforms he wore when I first became aware of him, and for several years after. Ditto Biggio.

Oh, right. For some reason I thought you meant all three even though you said two. D'oh!

I think the Bagwell uniform is pretty appropriate.

This may be unpopular, but I never liked that look for Toronto.

Yes, they do.

Yikes, I forgot he'd even played for the Astros!

I'd make a Larry Andersen crack, except I'm a Reds fan, so I've seen plenty of similar trades just within the past few years...