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  1. Last week I left a post in the current "UFL Branding and Uniform News thread" that read as follows;

     

    The USFL returned with some really nice branding a few years ago.  All nice updated nods to the original 80s looks.  One helmet, one pair of pants, two jerseys.  No monochrome, no leotard pants and socks combos.  Nicely done all around. The XFL’s comeback arrived with some really terrible uniforms, to no one’s surprise.  Ugly monochrome, gimmicky crap everywhere.  I’m also not surprised this merger has made the former USFL teams go more in the direction of the nasty XFL styles.  Disappointing but not surprising.  
     

    I’m thinking about a concept series where the designs go in the opposite direction… the XFL teams take on the old USFL feel.  

     

    So, yeah, I got right on that. The XFL 2.0 uniforms from the past year were a complete disaster, while the USFL 2.0 uniforms were largely good. Now, after the merger, the Michigan Panthers and the Birmingham Stallions are probably still the best uniforms post merger (Memphis was the worst USFL uniform, making it just an average UFL uniform), but all have been taken down a notch with bad color matching, dumb pants stripes and monochrome becoming (no doubt) the go-to choice. The UFL's version of the XFL holdovers are terrible across the board. So I thought, wouldn't it have been nice if the XFL teams had adopted  the USFL style with this merger? And, based on the USFL 2.0's two year run, that "USFL style" is as follows;

     

    • One helmet, one dark jersey, one white jersey, one pair of pants, one pair of socks. (I think the Stallions were the only exception, as I believe they had both white and gold pants, but I'm rectifying that here.)
    • No non-white monochrome combinations.
    • Socks that contrast in color from the pants.
    • And while not an absolute rule, there was definitely a trend towards more traditional stripes on the jerseys and pants.

     

    Anyway, I'm posting all 8 in one big dump. Enjoy!  (Or hate, it's up to you.)

  2. 33 minutes ago, Dynasty said:

     

     

    Anyway, with Kirk Cousins to Atlanta, I have no clue where the Bears are going to ship Justin Fields because it's clear that nobody wants him. There's no way they'll draft Caleb Williams and keep Fields on the roster, right?


    Nobody wants him for a second or third.  Or a fourth probably.  Bears need to lower their asking price.  

  3. The USFL returned with some really nice branding a few years ago.  All nice updated nods to the original 80s looks.  One helmet, one pair of pants, two jerseys.  No monochrome, no leotard pants and socks combos.  Nicely done all around. The XFL’s comeback arrived with some really terrible uniforms, to no one’s surprise.  Ugly monochrome, gimmicky crap everywhere.  I’m also not surprised this merger has made the former USFL teams go more in the direction of the nasty XFL styles.  Disappointing but not surprising.  
     

    I’m thinking about a concept series where the designs go in the opposite direction… the XFL teams take on the old USFL feel.  

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  4. 1 hour ago, HOOVER said:


    My wife’s family are all diehard Hoosiers.  I can’t even watch the teams because of how bad the adidas looks are.  
     

    Praying they flip to Nike.  
     

    And yea…Crimson & Cream.

     

    Anybody else remember the 1983 version of the Indiana Hoosiers (coached by Sam Wyche) when the replaced all the white in the uniform with a pasty yellow cream color?

     

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    Cream facemasks, and even cream road jerseys.  Super hard to find pics of it.

     

     

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  5. I'm a fan of all of these...

     

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    As long as the pants are Yellow, gold, silver, or some other light color, I think it's an enjoyable little quirk, in small doses. Those Charger and Breaker uniforms especially are two of my favorites.

     

     

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  6. Discounting the two pointless mono alts, the Chargers current uniforms are easily top 5.  And on any given day, looking at them alongside the IMO other best uniforms in the NFL (49ers, Bears, Browns, Raiders… discounting alts for all of them, of course) the Chargers might end up at the top of the list.  
     

    With this latest uniform, the Chargers did pretty much exactly what the vast majority of us were hoping.   Some people are just never satisfied I guess.  

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  7. 21 hours ago, MCM0313 said:

     

    Sorry, obligatory anti-UM trolling by an OSU alum. And yes, I’m quite aware what has happened the past three seasons. 


    What, that they cheated?  😜

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  8. 15 hours ago, BBTV said:

     

    But historically, teams with chest logos never put the number low.  It's actually a more recent thing.

     

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    7 hours ago, MNtwins3 said:

    According to the mothership, the 2002 Colorado Rockies alternate white uniform with the chest logo was the first

     

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    7 hours ago, Silent Wind of Doom said:

     

    Huh.  You're right.  I'd forgotten how far back some of those examples go.

     

    I went to the Dressed to the Nines archive and unfortunately it doesn't show alternates and it turns out all of the examples nowadays seem to be alternates.  But, it did show that those who do it nowadays wore them alongside or after wearing wordmarks with front numbers, so perhaps it was just a matter of one team saying "we put the numbers here, so keep doing it" and others following or just a number of people coming to that same conclusion.

     

    27 minutes ago, BBTV said:

     

    As has been confirmed dozens of times by dozens of members, this is generally the case.

     

     

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  9. When the Eagles first changed to their current shade of blue-green they dropped silver from everywhere but the logos.  Then a few years down the line inexplicably added that charcoal gray.  It was a weird decision.  Since there was already silver in the helmet wings and sleeve patch, if they had instead made all the elements that are charcoal the already in use silver, I think the whole look would be much better.  
     

    Im personally very tired of the current Eagles uniforms and would love a return of a bright Kelly green, but since that seem stubbornly married to the drab dark teal , the least they could do is swap out the charcoal for silver (and update that ancient number font). Silver would add some contrast between the dark blue-green and equally dark black.  
     

    The color they refer to as midnight green is so close in value to charcoal… then add in black… it’s all so drab and muddled.  

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  10. I know the Vikings using their current helmet color and finish with their throwbacks wasn’t historically accurate but I don’t really care.  It actually looked better without the dark blue-purple helmet they used the last time they wore throwbacks IMO.

     

     I don’t personally need them to have any alternate helmet but if they are getting one I’m not anxious to see it mess up what I think is a pretty nice look.  But if I understand the “rules” for alternate helmets, they supposedly have to be worn with alternate jerseys.  In the Vikings case that means last year’s new throwback uniforms or that useless color rush uniforms.  No thanks to either scenario. 

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