Gothamite

What the hell is up with that spike on his shoulder? It’s no longer a graceful curve but an awkward mess. Instead of one crisp point like on the pants, it has an awkward two-point terminus. Looks like the nail file that comes with clippers. Damn, Nike’s templates can’t even support a Nike design.

Those sleeve stripes, though. Ugh. I also hate the italic numbers. Really discordant with the rest of the uniform.

Other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?

Yes. There are two one-helmet rules that consistently get conflated. The first one-helmet rule requires teams to have one helmet for their home, road, and alternate uniforms. The only exception was as part of a throwback uniform. The second one-helmet rule removed the throwback exception in the name of player safety and restricted teams to one color shell for every game. They are related but not the same.

Remember when the NFL used to mandate the amount of white sock players used to show? Let’s not pretend uniform rules (and enforcement) haven’t significantly changed in the past decade-plus.

well, kinda. Before the current rule created to avoid liability, there was a one-helmet rule created to ensure uniform integrity. When the Seahawks came out with their shades-of-gray uniform, they wanted home and road helmets but the NFL refused permission.

Thank you. One has nothing to do with the other.

The TO uniforms were bad. The dark maroonish color was a huge downgrade from their proper red, they didn't need six logos on the uniforms, and the mismatched helmet/pants stripes were a... curious choice.

True enough. And it will probably remain the norm in the NFL. I just think it’s interesting that they have now become optional for teams.

The two don’t really have anything to do with one another.

No. But when the Chargers and Patriots introduce brand new uniforms without TV numbers, we know they’re not always required, as once they were.

I don’t think that TV members are necessarily dead, but we’ve seen that they’re not always required as they once were.

But are they still using the version he made, or their originals?

Yes. Just rarely used. Think it was only ever seen on some stadium signage.

sorry, I know that it’s a real image. I didn’t mean to imply otherwise, it just looks funny to me for some reason. The shape of it, maybe.

It’s pretty over-produced. It was obviously designed after the head logo, which doesn’t match the body proportions. The tummy whiskers are nonsensical, the overly-detailed spot pattern only serves to point out by contrast how silly the packing peanuts on the head look, and the less said about the blue STD glow emanating from its genitals the better. This is a bad logo.

I've always loved the Eagles' full-body logos. But that cap looks badly photoshopped on his head.

That’s true. But in the NFL’s case, only the cheapest level has printed numbers. So I’m pretty confident that they don’t represent “98%” of jersey sales, which was the claim that started this digression.

It's even worse than the "design a body around this head logo" Bengals full-body version. And that one is bad enough.

That's much worse than the original full-body logo. What's up with those stupid tummy whiskers?

Do they? Honest question, I have no idea. Would love to know what the breakdown is between the various levels.

That’s really putting the cart before the horse. Good on teams that don’t fall into that trap. i would disagree that teams don’t rely on helmet sales, since helmets feature prominently on so much merchandise. Helmet design absolutely does impact merch.

“Feelings”?

That is such a gorgeous uniform. The only thing wrong is the curtailed stripes.

That’s worth changing even a non-offensive nickname to.