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I know the red helmet is popular but I LOVED this look.

Awkward sex where one party has a nagging back injury and the other threw out their knee earlier that day.

Mizzou in mono black is a good fit for them too.

See, I loved that look and still think it's superior. The huge block numbers hold it back in my opinion which is why I favor swapping them out for the current rounded numbers. I don't think the color swap has worked so well for the Bears. The sleeve stripes are quite fine. It works on the navy jersey because the orange and white blend together to create a glowing affect. However, that same blending of orange and white when you do the color swap works against the orange jersey because the white outlining blends into the jersey color making the stripes look very, VERY thin indeed. (Ditto for the "C" on the helmet.) That's why I like a thematic connection. The Bears have a jersey with three identical outlined stripes (navy) and one with three alternating solid stripes (white) so have one with three identical solid stripes is the logical missing piece. It's a bonus that it also happens to be a historical design.

That every orange jersey in the NFL currently uses white numbers and some other white element like pants or helmets really hammers home my belief that the Bears should try to replicate their 1930's orange jerseys by wearing blue numbers.

This is a thing I'm a little tired of. I see just as many complaints on here about the social media or marketing of the uniform as the uniform itself. At a low setting, its just "old man yells at cloud." Tedious but tolerable. When its really cranked up I feel there's a sense of gatekeeping. Those posts aren't meant to hype up the people who look at practice photos to figure out whether a team is wearing throwbacks or who check beat reporter twitter for pregame warm ups to figure out the color undershirt a team is wearing that day. They're trying to get engagement from people who aren't keyed in and that's fine. At this point I'm more annoyed at the people on the board complaining about "icy whites" than the club social media teams much less the all white uniforms themselves.

This is a thread for obsessing over those exact details:

Against the Cardinals. Good choice. Should make for nice contrast even with Arizona in mono-red.

Bears went mono navy this January and while most players wore the white socks, a few seemed to miss the memo and went with navy socks, and I have to admit, I prefer it that way because the Bears socks have the same stripes as the sleeves:

That's just my opinion. I happen to think the blue over blue (where you can see the elements shift from yellow to white and back to yellow) and the bone over bone with blue socks (where we get a continuous yellow/white pattern from knee to the shoulder) look good. Again. This is my personal opinion. The combinations I don't like is the bone over yellow and the bone over blue which don't mesh well because they were never intended to be worn together.

Well to be honest, I'm not desperate for a Rams redo myself. I can see what this was supposed to look like and I think it's turned out better than it seemed in spring 2020. For example, the two original primary looks, when worn as intended, are quite good. And this has worked out quite well indeed.

Another small detail on the helmet is how the horns are pushed outward from the centerline and curl back more pronounced from roots. Compare that to the old horns which would interfere with the flex panel on the front of the helmet. Naturally this isn't an issue if you go old school and just paint the horns on.

Standard helmets for the Bears in practice today. Would expect traditional navy over white Sunday. https://www.instagram.com/p/C0h8LWmsu2b/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== Compare with 2022 when they wore the throwback helmet stripes in practice. https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci0QwWzMlir/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

France has actually used two shades of blue for the tricolor for decades. Hasn't stopped people singing La Marseillasie.

No I meant an all white/navy very of the 70's-90's uniform with the team continuing to wear the throwbacks at home. Imagine the mustard color rush uniform but with gold swapped out for white on the jersey/pants and helmet (plus white facemask).

I also think that in 2020, had the Rams trotted out a road jersey that was a copy of the royal throwback but with white and navy only and changed nothing else about what they wore in 2019, this board would've exploded with applause.

Inconsistent striping isn't a deal breaker in itself. The gold stripe was always more or less fixed as was the blue sleeve. What shifted was the present or lack of a white stripe on the sleeve after the gold. I think by 2019, the set up the rams had settled into of white/navy on the road and 70's-90's at home had turned out pretty well. A couple of tweaks like removing gold could've kept that dynamic intact. I genuinely miss the white horns paired with a white facemask.

With three home games remaining for the Bears, they're likely to wear their 1936 throwback for one of them and I would say there's a strong possibility of that game being this weekend against the Lions. We'll know for sure if the stripes change on the helmets for practice this week.

Cowboys should be metallic blue, not true silver. Like the old gumball helmets. I don't think they're far off now. I think they had it down more or less in the 90's.

Do you have an article to share about that? Or at least more details? Sounds like a really interesting story.

Seeing these Seahawks uniforms is like running into your first crush after a long time and seeing he/she/they still have it.

I'm talking about the blue bolt outlined in yellow compared to the yellow bolt outlined in blue. It's unique to the Los Angeles era of the Chargers. The powder blue was really a San Diego thing. I think if you paired that helmet and jersey with white pants, that could really mark the break with the San Diego era.

There's an argument to be made that this look for the Chargers is the true LA Chargers.

A different stripe (or even no stripe) and we're all singing a different tune on here.

Yep, this is most probable. Interestingly, in the early 60's, when the Cowboys were wearing those white helmets and contrasting sleeves, the Washington football team wore some gold pants on the road.