MCM0313

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...

Yeah, forgot that Toronto did that too. The bad thing about that whole post-90s backlash was that teams actually tried to look good, and unique, in the 1990s, and in getting away from that style, many teams also stopped trying, it seemed.

First one feels more weird than the second. The big-shoulder-logo Pats and the midnight-green Eagles coexisted for several years. Also, has the Eagles' shade of "green" gradually changed over the years? It doesn't look teal here. Could just be the lighting, I guess. Also-also: nice facemask, Bruschi!

As I mentioned before, I feel like lightning bolts look better against a dark background, as if against the night sky. I like the Chargers' current color scheme but think they could do better with the uniforms.

Actually, I'm okay with the logo - it does look like a rocket launching - but I feel like their uniforms are lazy and don't try. And then when they do try, we get BFBS and the unnecessary addition of grey to the color scheme. In fact, the various iterations of their current uniforms have never really impressed me, even back in the Yao days when they first unveiled them.

That was a very solid look, and I say that as an OSU alum and fan who is disinclined to like navy and yellow. The helmet is their best ever IMO (lightning looks best against a dark background), and the pants look much better in white than in yellow. Navy beats royal for me, too. If they could only have found a way to work some powder blue into this set it could have been an all-time classic. That said, I don't think this is really an unpopular opinion on these boards.

Those Nuggets unis were pretty good. They just never really did anything with them as far as alternates go.

The Jazz' double-blue unis looked pretty good and appropriate (jazz music is, after all, based on the blues), but it always bugged me that they featured purple pretty prominently in their logo but didn't have any on their uniforms, not even as trim. Purple-and-light-blue would've looked better than double blue, IMO.

Not to mention Jerry Rice wearing #19.

It's actually kind of impressive...he was 44 his last season.

Moon was actually pretty much still in his prime when he went to Minnesota in '94. Bud Adams was just breaking up his team, as he had said he would do if they didn't make a Super Bowl run. Now, Moon in Seattle and (better yet) Kansas City...those are examples of an old, past-his-prime QB hanging on.

Apologies if someone else has posted this already, but this is a classic rare: last year of one set vs. first year of the other. Enjoy Falcons-Seahawks in December 2002:

Randall Cunningham in not just a Cowboys jersey, but a blue Cowboys jersey:

Probably. I don't think those get much love around here.

Wow. What a great photo of a great-looking game.

That logo is legitimately frightening. They're already not using what they're actually named after (an animal) in their branding; why not take it a step further and actually adopt a non-cartoonish devil...no, that would be awful.

Oh, I didn't realize that. Thanks for the clarification.

I don't think Horace Grant was washed up when he went to the Magic. Didn't he actually play a big part in getting them to the Finals against Houston in '95?

I hate the Steelers, but I also think they look better with their current number font than they did with the old one. Although the old one did give the whole set an old-time intimidation factor, calling to mind the Steel Curtain defense of the '70s.

Sadly, it seems the 1997-2002 Falcons set never met the spear-helmet Redskins or the "look how 2000s we are" Bills.

This game was for the birds! Dirty Birds in their last season against bird-head Ravens, 2002:

Not as rare as you might think- these sets coexisted for three years and were in the same division for two of those years, so they met at least four times. Still, Dirty Birds vs New Millennium Rams seems like a clash of two different eras, even as '90s stars Terrance Mathis and Aeneas Williams battle it out for a pass.

Dirty Birds vs. Angry Dolphins, 1998:

Falcons vs. Jets, 1998, in a battle of two of the NFL's best teams that year. 44-year-old QB Steve DeBerg is being sacked by the New York defense in a game the Jets won 28-3; his presence in the photo arguably makes it even rarer and more stark a contrast between old and new (although, the Jets' unis were based on throwbacks and the Falcons were in just the second year of those road uniforms, so ymmv).