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Watch the Canes ruin these white Whalers jerseys by wearing green helmets because reasons.

10 minutes ago, ManillaToad said:

 

You know we're in a grim situation when this is one of the best uniform matchups of the week

Good matchup criteria these days:

- One team in white, one team in color

- Pants color =/= sock color

And yet it feels like the majority of games these days don't even meet this criteria.

38 minutes ago, kaleb_girod said:

The Lions stupid white pants bug me as much as the Saints do. The silver/gray and blue pants have the same striping pattern, but the white pants are just solid. Same with the Saints white pants being solid (I know the black ones are as well and it bugs me just as much).

 

The Seahawks have been looking really nice though with their navy and gray combo. Props to them for making a good uniform decision there.

Where did the white pants even come from?? They just seemed to show up randomly in 2021 for their Week 2 game against the Packers. From what I could tell on GUD that was the very first time they've ever worn all white. Absolutely ridiculous that this was allowed to happen.

Just now, sudden said:

 

For those confused, it's this combo:

Teams whose uniforms could be modern classics if they only wore the correct combos (spoiler alert, it's literally half the league):

- Cardinals (can you try any other combo besides all one color?)

- Panthers (you do not need black pants)

- Lions (why did you ever introduce those white pants?)

- Texans (either all-white or navy leggings on the road. exhilarating.)

- Jaguars (please also add literally any design element besides the logo on the chest)

- Dolphins (the throwbacks are still better, but these are decent uniforms)

- Vikings (purple socks at home please)

- Patriots (silver. pants. that is all.)

- Saints (such wasted potential here.)

- Jets (all black uniform parts and accessories have to go)

- Eagles (white leggings in the Super Bowl was embarrassing)

- Seahawks (all navy has been a staple of this uniform since the beginning and looks pretty good, but the all white look they started last year has to go)

The majority of the NFL's uniform designs aren't bad at all -- when executed properly, they look amazing. But the death of properly worn socks and the rise of color rush and leggings has led to a monumental drop in aesthetic quality in the NFL.

On 11/2/2023 at 3:37 PM, fouhy12 said:

 

I've always liked the late 90s version of that white jersey with red numbers and red socks

16 minutes ago, fouhy12 said:

 

 

Nostalgia aside, Cooperalls are objectively dangerous and (in my opinion) look terrible. In other words, par for the course for this franchise.

Also, the Whalers nostalgia money grab continues!

6 minutes ago, fouhy12 said:

Can someone tell me why the Cowboys keep wearing the French flag as their helmet stripe once a season? Is there some connection there from the franchise or something? 

They did in 1976 for America's bicentennial. The only reason they do it nowadays is because they think they're "aMeRiCa'S tEaM"

Halifax Mooseheads -- junior team in the QMJHL

30 minutes ago, Around the Horn said:

The Lafreniere breakout is here

Nice to see him finally put it all together under a new coach

 

What a rollercoaster of a game. I spent a lot of the third period screaming obscenities at the refs after one of the most baffling disallowed goals I've ever seen at the end of the second. I'm so happy for Laf, he's had a lot of criticism thus far in his career.

2 minutes ago, kaleb_girod said:

Same thing with the throwbacks. They ruin it with the monochrome white “leggings”. Red socks with that uniform would look 100x better.

Yeah, that's why I'm not enamored with the throwbacks the same way the rest of the fanbase is. It's the only time that the 49ers degenerate into legging madness.

Appreciation post for Ravens/Browns. This game was gorgeous.

9 hours ago, DCarp1231 said:

I suppose one could make the argument for the Titans. I wish the sword didn’t widen towards the sleeve end. There’s many things wrong with the current set, but the striping isn’t one of the them.

I just noticed that there's a navy side panel on that jersey. It's so unnecessary, please remove it.

3 hours ago, ManillaToad said:

Do you think the rest of the defense bullies 29 for not being icy

 

Considering he's All-Pro Talanoa Hufanga, and he had a pick today, I don't think so. But yeah, I don't like the majority of the team wearing white socks on the road. Props to the O line for all wearing the proper red socks though.

The only acceptable Saints black pants look

37 minutes ago, BBTV said:

 

I give an exception if it's dark color pants.  BC used to look really nice with their gold-white-maroon outfit.  But definitely no white - and no other exceptions.  Same goes for yellow and any other light-colored helmet.

 

 

Fair, as long as "dark-colored" doesn't include black.

7 minutes ago, the admiral said:

I know I'm being Unfair to LeBron, but a lot of the NBA uniform weirdness we have now lies right at the feet of the mid-2000s Cavaliers, who, rather than using LeBron to elevate the team's brand for the long term, went for short-term gains by creating as many LeBron jerseys to sell as they could with the CavFanatic mashups. I don't think the NFL has fallen to point-and-click recolors yet, but they will.

I feel like the five-year rule is the only thing preventing the NFL from slipping into true uniform anarchy

This one's my favorite

Way off topic but I went to see the San Diego Gulls tonight and I was shocked how much I liked the look of what is essentially a recolored Reebok Flames jersey

Idk the light blue just popped. I guess my point here is that an ugly modern uniform template can really be improved by vibrant color scheme, but using the darker, muted colors of the 2000s made those Reebok designs flop.

59 minutes ago, VikWings said:

 

For real. If you must have white pants (they didn't) you can't even put stripes on them? It's like the players said "we wanna wear all icy white" and they just ran to Dick's.

 

Or are stripeless pants cool now and I missed it? Who other than FSU, Notre Dame, Penn St.  and Michigan (and even they put stripes on the white ones and you can argue the navy ones suck) pulls off stripeless pants? (And none are NFL teams) And honestly they probably only do cause it's always been that way. And in FSU/ND/Michigan's case the gold/maize color is able to stand out on its own.

 

Ravens black pants look like crap, Saints white and black pants look like crap. I'm sure I'm forgetting others.

 

Waiting for them to wear them with the blue jerseys that feature no white at all. You know that day is coming and it's gonna be mismatched Rams bad.

-The Cardinals' red stripeless pants are horrible.

-The Jaguars can pull it off depending on their jersey/sock choice. The Commies also wear contrasting socks with their burgundy and white stripeless pants from time to time, but their jerseys are so bad that it doesn't matter, they still look terrible (this year they've done all white a whole bunch of times and it does not work)

1 hour ago, Lights Out said:

 

I don't think they're lying about this. See: Jacksonville, Arizona, Miami, Atlanta - not to mention a lot of what they've done in other sports recently. If anything, they've gone too far with being reductive.

 

But if the team doesn't want that approach, they have to try something else, like those ugly Commanders uniforms that Dan Snyder's wife insisted on.

Owners designing the uniforms with their personal preferences is bad enough. Now we have the owner's spouse (otherwise not involved with the team) being the primary designer? Thank goodness the Snyders are gone.

1 hour ago, Lights Out said:

 

They don't use Nike's pants.

Speaking of not using Nike as much as other teams, where do the Packers get their uniform from? And why are they still allowed to keep their (at this point) over a decade out-of-date template?

12 hours ago, Cujo said:

 

The absolute worst offenders

 

Their white jersey combos are even worse because there's no gold anywhere on the uniform to match the helmet (there's a tiny gold outline around the numbers, but it makes no difference):

38 minutes ago, DCarp1231 said:

Most NFL teams would benefit from UCLA style striping or just solid color uniforms.

Which teams, in your opinion, are fine as is?

23 minutes ago, MCM0313 said:

Eh, several redesigns have been quite simple. Vikings and Dolphins both look semi-traditional. Jaguars are too simple for their own good. Lions don’t look overly busy, they just refuse to wear the right combinations. Same for Jets. 

With the Lions I'm still wondering how they were ever allowed to wear white pants. They literally don't match with anything, they're just plain white. No design or thought put into them.