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Different (but very similar) pictures.

I agree with this. The logos since 2010 have felt more befitting to the grandiosity and stature of the event. The first few years were maybe a bit boring with the templated Lombardi trophy + host stadium format, but they’ve steadily gotten better as they’ve added more color/local flavor. I think this year’s logo was probably the best ever, with next year’s seeming like it will follow in a similar format.

I wouldn’t go quite that far myself—all of those helmets set an extremely low bar—but I do agree that the helmet would be a downgrade. The worst I could say about it though is it just strikes me as sort of Eagles-lite.

I can’t lie, I don’t hate this. I definitely don’t love it, but I do think it would be an upgrade, if ever so slight. *ducks*

I think the Cardinals could afford to have a sort of “desert gray” facemask, maybe a similar shade to USC: It would appeal to the look of a desert cardinal (native to the Southwest, including Arizona), while keeping the team in a traditional aesthetic.

I was referring in the most general sense to the set up of black/black/ (yellow/purple) /black for the main home uniforms. The Falcons have never in their history worn black/black/red/black, so they don’t really apply. That’s before considering that they aren’t even in the same division, or even the same conference. I’m not sure how the Patriots & Cowboys are related, beyond both having blue & silver. I think it’s pretty obvious that the Patriots’ red help set them apart though. Again, they’re in different conferences, as well. If I’m not mistaken, the Bengals original uniforms were literally inspired by the Browns, so I’m not sure what you were going for there. I think the bengal stripe motif does well to set Cincinnati apart in the modern day despite that. I really like both of the Ravens combos that were originally posted, and would honestly be totally fine if they were the main home & away combos. I was just pointing out that they have a similar setup to their literal arch-rival, which maybe they’d want to avoid.

My only issue with this is that they would look like the purple version of the Steelers if they did that.

This is @nate.sweitz’s NFL Redesign series: One of my favorites on the history of these boards, as well.

I take back my earlier comment about a black alternate possibly working. That is definitely legit too, because it all lines up: the random squares design, the segmented & pointy numbers… Carbon fiber camo like that feels so early 2010’s, I’m honestly shocked to see they seem to be going with it.

I hope there are gold pants too, though I can’t say I’m optimistic. I always liked the gold pants for Washington, at least as an alternate option.

This is probably a hot take around here, but I honestly think a black alternate like this could work really well for Washington, if executed properly (which I admit is a big if). The color scheme is really works for it. Unfortunately, although I really like the burgundy numbers on the black base, it could potentially run into some legibility issues. The gold outline might help, though. What really scares me, though, is the white jersey, seemingly restricted to burgundy & black with no gold to be seen. All I can hope for at this point is that jersey isn’t the primary away option, and is just an alternate, like that mockup has it.

It’s funny how opinions are different; I think those changes make them look more like the “Cowboys” than the actual uniforms do…

I never said that Houston would or even should (in any sort of objective sense) get the Oilers back. I was simply suggesting what I would do from purely an aesthetic standpoint. It really was not that deep.

This is fair. My issue is more with the use of the sword inspiration from the beginning, I guess, and then the extension of it with the new redesign only exacerbated it. This is a fair point, too. Not to rehash the Oilers discussion, but my personal solution would be to make the Titans navy & athletic gold (harkening back to the New York Titans, recovering a color scheme that the Rams & Chargers both discarded, and connecting to the Nashville Predators). Meanwhile, Houston could have the Oilers back, and go back to light blue & red.

I agree that this seems to be the key of why the Titans redesign was so disappointing. Objectively speaking, I don’t think it’s a terrible uniform either, at worst it’s pretty boring with so much navy and gray. I don’t mind the number font, though, and even the sword motif isn’t anywhere near Bucs alarm-clock-numbers or Jags two-tone-helmet bad. However, It’s pretty impossible to separate the redesign from the knowledge that the Titans could have owned columbia blue. It’s one of my personal favorite colors, and one the Titans could have really made their own. It’s part of why the Chargers redesign was so beloved, that they finally embraced the powder blue (and gold) that made them unique, simplifying down to the core of their brand. Instead, the Titans elevated a boring double-silver that was nowhere to be seen in the previous color palette to essentially secondary colors, and columbia blue is barely visible on either of the primary jerseys. As I said at the start, it’s just disappointing, more than anything. I think the reason that the Rams (used to) work along with the Bengals where the Titans don’t is that the Rams and Bengals more directly and obviously represent their mascot, where “Titans” is more of an abstract concept that is difficult to design for, and one that doesn’t seem to be directly tied to swords in the public conscience. For Rutgers it makes more sense, since knights are more directly tied to swords. If the Titans leaned more into a Greek pattern motif, a la Michigan State, I would have probably enjoyed that. That’s part of why I like the number font, since it resembles Greek stenciling. Similarly, if the primary logo truly was originally inspired by Prometheus (the Titan who gave humans fire), that could have been interesting to delve further into as well. In essence, I think there were a lot of directions they could have gone that more clearly referenced the Greek Titans, but instead they embraced “swords,” which is a pretty uninspired choice, to me.

I think navy numbers look better on an orange Bears jersey than white numbers do.

The jerseys with the navy stripes on them are the Spring Training jerseys from 2015: I have no idea about the Rawlings variants without stripes, maybe they just didn’t have enough of the regular Majestic ones. Fun fact about that jersey: I believe they were worn once or twice in the regular season, prompted by Torii Hunter in order to turn around a losing streak at the time. I believe he did something similar during his first stint with the team in the early 2000’s.

These are all great examples, Browns-Bengals might take the cake as not only being a matchup between two less-than-stellar uniforms, but also being an absolute eyesore to watch. It perfectly exemplifies my point in the 2021 NFL Matchups thread about the need for contrast. Jaguars-Titans is another great example of that; even though those particular combos are among each team’s best, the teal and the light blue just clash in a way that makes it tough to watch. Just out of curiosity, was that Bengals-Bucs game in the preseason? I don’t recall ever seeing them pair the white pants with the red jersey during that era, especially with the red “stripe.”

I’ve had a similar concept for the Jets, I think it would be a nice solution. Maybe you could try making the white stripe on the sleeve proportionally smaller and/or make the “spike” a little bigger, so it somewhat resembles the 80’s jet logo:

Yeah, the main reason the ASG gold worked where the Twins’ current shade doesn’t is that the the ASG gold was a significantly lighter shade, and didn’t muddle with the red as much. This is an old comparison I made: Regardless, I’ve resigned that the gold was a failed experiment for the Twins. Go back to either of the pinstripe eras (preferably the 60’s) or try something completely new, it doesn’t matter. The gold just needs to go away.

All of the concepts have been great so far, I just have one suggestion for Texas: I don't think the orange looks "burnt" enough. I think that's been a criticism of the uniforms in real life as well lately, but I'd be curious to see you try a different shade for the Longhorns.

I feel like their current uniform is about halfway there. They’ve got the split blue & red striping, but the red brim on the cap would be an immediate improvement. I honestly don’t mind the current Western font either, I just wish they’d go back to it on the home, or even go back to the 80’s script. The current script is just as lifeless as can be.

@BBTV Fair enough. My point of that was to say that the actual colors of the uniforms and the designs of the jerseys mostly aren’t bad, I’d even say they’re visually appealing, especially the Titans’ columbia blue against the Jags’ gold. @throwuascenario put it nicely, pointing out that not only are the colors more bland in Rams-Cardinals (dishwater gray vs. black), but both uniforms are about as poorly designed as it gets. Those Broncos-Browns and Browns-Bucs games are definitely contenders, though.

I honestly didn’t hate any of these (colorblind issues notwithstanding), definitely not as much as Rams-Cardinals. If you give contrasting pants to any of those teams, I think they’re actually pretty nice color-vs.-color matchups.

This might have been discussed before, but @BBTV’s Best and Worst thread got me thinking, what are some of the worst uniform matchups of all-time in the NFL? I’m genuinely curious if anything can beat this: Comment below if you have an idea.