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They've always been lax about helmet rules for outdoor games.

I'm not sure neon green is a Christmas color, though. Christmas green has to be kelly green or darker (I'd say the ideal Christmas green is a forest green closer to what the Packers wear). So to me, your hypothetical scenario would just feature year after year of two horrible monochrome looks against one another. Sorry man, I don't see it. That doesn't exactly fill me with holiday spirit.

The Week 11 Texans field featured a navy blue end zone on one side and a red end zone on the other. Has that ever happened before, where a team gets to paint both end zones in their colors but chooses different colors for each side?

No dog flag is an absolute crime. That being said, I have to agree with @Germanshepherd on this one. The third flag, with what I assume to be a river, would be very unique and a welcome sight.

Just as I thought: The Vegas jersey looked bland and uninspiring on its own with a random person wearing it, but it looks great with the full grey gear. Seattle looks amazing as well. This should be a great-looking game in January.

I'd put it on all-white -- they're facing the Cowboys in their Thanksgiving throwbacks

Pretty sure the NFL banned red vs green matchups after colorblind viewers complained about the Bills/Jets color rush game:

Again, what is with the reveal featuring models wearing a jersey that's several sizes too large? Show us what it looks like on a player! My opinion of these jerseys can change dramatically once I see how it'll look on the ice with full equipment.

Could not agree less. Thanksgiving has a throwback feel to it. While the Cardinals have been around forever, they (a) have been irrelevant for most of it, arguably even more so than the Lions. and (b) only wear mono uniform combos. Until that changes, they should not be given any special event or primetime games.

Good. Don't know why they ever moved away from that tradition. It's wayy to outdated to wear on a regular basis, but Thanksgiving is one of the best days of the football year to break out a throwback.

I understand what you're trying to say and I can see what you mean by a sea of different colors preferred by different fans. On the other hand, I don't think the teams you listed are comparable to Carolina's situation. Those teams at least put the same logo on both uniforms and when you look at the set, you can clearly tell that the two jerseys were designed in tandem. Besides the colors and the number font, nothing about Carolina's jerseys match. And I just don't think that's sustainable in the NHL. This isn't even about the quality of their jerseys -- if a team was doing this with three different traditional looks, I'd call them out too.

The Vikings really went from Bud Grant's uniformity to an all purple color rush on Thanksgiving last year where Justin Jefferson selfishly wearing black socks actually marginally improved the look.

Curious to know what this would mean

Side note, when watching the Jon Bois History of the Minnesota Vikings documentary, one of the first few things he mentions about Bud Grant's coaching tenure is that to promote a sense of unity, he always made his players wear their purple socks the same (correct) way. We need that in today's NFL.

They appear to be the same design as the original red pants with a change in material

But if you're worried about the traditional Thanksgiving vibe, the evening game should feature teams in throwback uniforms. This year, the 49ers understood the assignment. The Seahawks very much did not.

what does any of this mean

According to GUD, first time the red pants are being worn since 2010. That's 13 years, multiple templates, and one manufacturer ago.

I think it's hard to defend that jersey when (a) the jersey's gold is slightly off from the helmet's gold, although that may just be differences in material, and (b) it was worn with black stripeless leggings.

It's not just the Whalers alternate, though (Honestly, I didn't even need to put the Whalers in the original post to make my point). My point was how alternate jerseys can muddle up the team brand. I consider the Hurricanes to be the ultimate cautionary tale in that. Yes, the Canucks have had three distinct brands and color schemes over the course of their history, but since switching to Reebok jerseys in 2007, they've stuck consistently with blue/green, the orca logo, and Agency font as their look. Notice how little the jerseys change from 2007 onward. The Hurricanes? Take a look at that again. Since 2007, the last time the Canucks primary jerseys changed in any meaningful way, the Canes have had the following: - The original Reebok uniforms (the originals but with shoulder yoke outlines). There was the warning flag alternate, but it never challenged the main brand. - The strangely traditional 2013 rebrand featuring different striping on the home and away jerseys (not really a problem, plenty of teams do that), including the warning flag alternate as a holdover from the previous era - They keep the 2013 road uniform heading into the Adidas era in 2017, but introduce an updated version of the original home uniform - The next year in 2018, they introduce the black hurricane flag jersey and immediately wear them in the playoffs - The year after in 2019, they dump the 2013 road uniform and introduce the diagonal "Canes" uniform. This brings them to three different chest logos on three different jerseys. They finally stay consistently inconsistent from 2019-2022, wearing the black alts in the playoffs each year. - In 2022, they promote the black jersey to primary status, mothballing the red jersey and re-introducing the original red jersey as an alternate. Now, neither primary jersey features their official logo. They then wear the throwback red as their home jersey in the playoffs, kicking off speculation that they'll end this madness and return to the original look the next year. - 2023: Nope! Throwbacks are thrown out the window for the red jersey that was the original Adidas home jersey. Black jersey remains the primary. Impossible to tell what they'll wear in the playoffs. Do you see what I'm talking about? Jerseys and logos have just been yanked around in every direction for the last few years. When someone asks you what the Hurricanes jersey looks like, what do you say? Their main look is never consistent. That's what happens when a team mismanages their alternate jersey situation. And it would be 1000x worse for the Canucks if said alternate is a completely different color and brand. TL;DR: The Whalers cosplay isn't the main issue here. It's that the Hurricanes can't maintain a consistent brand. Edit: Didn't see your edit before I typed this out. I don't think it's as simple as gathering a collection of looks that all "feel" like the same brand. I think mismatch looks need time to gel together to create a strong brand. Brand hierarchy is still important. There are brands that were able to stay consistently inconsistent that are now looked back upon fondly, such as the Screagle Caps, the RoboPenguins, and the 2000s Sens. But the key here is that after an initial switch from alternate to primary, the jerseys weren't yanked around any further, and alternates weren't shuffled in and out at random. And all three of these inconsistencies were fixed down the line: The Caps and Pens rebranded completely, and the Senators rebranded to something similar, but not identical to their home jersey during that era.

I was trying to make a point about how Carolina's brand has been muddled by all these different jersey designs. Are they a primarily black team? Are they a primarily red team? Is their primary logo supposed to be the hurricane, the flags, or the ripoff Rangers diagonal script? Are they looking to the past for inspiration with the throwback jerseys and the Whalers cosplay, or are they moving into the future by trying out red helmets, making the black alt the primary, and updating the original red jersey? As far as I can tell, the Hurricanes can't decide what they want to be, and I feel like the Canucks are in danger of being in a similar situation if they keep pushing the Black Skate as anything more than a one-off throwback.

I think the Hurricanes take the cake in that regard... And that's just in the past two seasons.

The striping pattern that should be on the Flames' Blasty uniforms if they insist on using it as an alternate.

I'm disgusted. This could have been a double throwback matchup against the Niners in their 94 whites. Instead the puke green is going to upset my turkey-filled stomach on Thursday night. I will continue to maintain that the worst decision in the history of NFL aesthetics was to start the Color Rush program.

This is better than I expected (I expected black leggings)