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I think this is a good general breakdown. To put a finer point on it, we have multiple teams right now that use throwbacks from the 1930's that no person alive has memory of. The Patriots use a red jersey, white helmet throwback with a logo that hasn't been the primary look for 30 years. To get back to my 1994 analogy, part of the throwback gimmick has always been seeing uniforms from well before your time. At least five teams that year had uniforms that were at least 50 years old. I don't think the Seahawks are concerned about fans not connecting the throwbacks with the brand. It's part of the deal when you put out a throwback.

It's not the NBA... IT'S 1994 BABY!!

I could maybe see the front striping disappear but the sleeve cap has turned out very well.

Would also add that this has aged far better than I ever expected:

Something always felt off to me about the Disney-era Angels pinstripes. Maybe the weight on the pins looked a little thicker or the spacing was closer. I've looked up some game worn jerseys and they don't use zig-zag pins and they don't seem super close together but something always felt funky to me.

Fun fact: The Seahawks are the only NFL team that has never worn white at home.

1. This is actually a positive for me though not necessarily the contrast itself as the method in which it was done. The Seahawks did something rather remarkable and replicated the old rounded should yoke that you would see on old durene or wool jerseys. But they filled in the sleeve portion not the shoulder section creating a sleeve seem that had a rounded cutout. It was simultaneously retro and modern. 2. It was definitely a little small and something better could have gone there but it doesn't drag down the set for me because so hard to notice. 3. When they used the navy pants in 2009, something felt off to me. I think it was that the stripe pattern had to change for the first time which threw it off. (Not showing the lime green tops because I don't think that's a fair representation). My only real complaint is that because the Seahawks wore solid white on the road (which works thematically) we rarely go the chance to see the slate blue dazzle fabric in the sunlight (Seattle being Seattle and all) and by God did those things glisten when they got their chance.

Just want to add for the record that I've loved EVERY Seahawks uniform since I was a little kid. My dad even poked fun at me for wanted a Seahawks helmet when I was little despite being in a rabidly pro-Bears household (it was the Ditka era so fairly typical). I've long felt that this was a criminally under appreciated idea even though I couldn't tell you whether I thought it was an improvement over the royal and silver. My main complaint being they didn't utilize this look nearly often enough They've had a great logo since word go and deploying that in a wrap around design that uses the whole geometry of the helmet made it an instant classic. They've looked good in every era and for wildly different reasons. Good for them.

Maybe they look like the Lions from a distance but then so do the Cowboys. This is why we have home and away jerseys to provide the contrast. Just looking at old pictures, there was a big difference in the tones of blue (Honolulu is always lighter) and the Seahawks silver was much more of a stainless steel than the silver bullet Lions.

Hard disagree.

I am once again asking for the Red Tails.

The only that's changed is they've opted to wear white socks with the away jersey. Once a year they wear all blue but that's been the case for the past six season.

A. It's just beats, not hip hop. B. You do know that the music is dubbed over in post-production? This stuff is shot in slow motion so to get the footage for a two minute video they players only have to move around a few seconds. Then the production team cuts the clips together and adds whatever music they want. A team can hire John Williams if they want.

Seeing the AOL login design and feeling instant nostalgia for Instant Messenger makes me feel old, then warm and fuzzy, then sad that I'm such an old, easy mark for that.

To clarify, there is a diversity of opinions present. Not every feels that a given throwbacks is blatantly more appealing and while the "They should wear these full time" may seem like a solid group, some people feel differently depending on which team we are discussing. It's just the board format can make it seem like its a wall of comments, especially when not everyone is tracking all the different handles.

Oh, Mike Holmgren.

Needs to be pointed out that the Browns were unique in deploying 3D Block that shaded down and to the left, compared to the 49ers, Eagles, and Ravens who are shaded down and to the right and the Falcons who are shaded straight right.

Red helmet, navy jersey, red pants, navy sock. Do it.

I kinda want the Browns throwback helmet to have a white facemask because the original white lids had no facemask and to my mind it makes sense to keep it all one solid color.

Giants, Cowboys, and Commanders(?) are the only current teams aside from the Cardinals who deploy different templates and of those three, only the Giants have plain solid colored home jerseys. Interesting phenomenon.

Giants have been doing it for a decade and a half.

I'm pretty excited to see the new Cardinals uniforms because its pushing a return to template differentiation between home and away. This is a phenomenon where the home and road uniforms are not just recoloring of each other. Where they two jerseys use an entirely different template. The Rams were on this path too but backslide with the success of their retro white jerseys. I'm talking about how the Vikings used to wear sleeve stripes at home and shoulder loops (UCLA stripes on the road). During the 1960's this was really a thing with up to a third of NFL teams (AFL teams seemed less interested) getting in on this. Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Washington, Minnesota, San Francisco, New York, and of course the Cardinals all got in on the trend at some point.

The jersey stripes are fabric inserts rather than screen printed on like other stripes.

I've never seen the Chicago Flag stripes alluded to in that manner. The proportions are way off to begin with: the outer gold stripes are much wider that the inner section whereas on the flag the blue stripes are much narrower compared to the inner white portion. I think Occam's razor applies just compare the two pictures taken in the same stadium less than a month apart: I think it's far more likely that the 2022 Shamerock series uniforms were intended to evoke Chicago generally and the Bears specifically. While gold is heavily associated with Las Vegas, look at the Prairie style details on the shamrock patch and how the rounded numbers evoke the Bears' rounded numbers in shape and proportion: It resembles the Art Deco styling on the Bulls City Edition around the same time (different company but evoking a similar feeling about the city).