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  1. This is going to be an unpopular opinion... This is by no means a good uniform, is basically the definition of pointless, and it's a shame they chose this over an 80's throwback BUT... I'm so tired of their played out current primary uniform that if they wore this alternate with the white socks like this... I'd probably prefer it to this...
  2. If alternate helmets must be worn with alternate jerseys, the Broncos would be much better off wearing this helmet with the navy blue jerseys.
  3. Pretty pointless. Especially considering they could’ve done a bright blue helmet for a throwback. An 80’s Broncos throwback is about the only one still missing from this offseason bonanza.
  4. This is it exactly. The Seahawks switched to this current uniform at the exact moment they became one of the NFL's "it" franchises. That gave it a lot more steam than it otherwise would've gotten on it's own merits. Which is not to say you can't just honestly like this uniform. I don't, and have made that clear, but I'm not going to try to tell someone why they do or don't find something visually appealing. (I'm feeling especially sensitive after being told a handful of times in this very thread that I only like something because of nostalgia, which is an annoying crock.) Maybe you just feel like it's a good example of modern design, or that it's aged well... if you do, good on ya. But I think there's a bunch of elements that would normally be thought of as overly gimmicky (tiny tacked on patterns on the helmet and numbers, chest stripes, wing/feather/whatever motif embedded in the stripes), and the reason they've "aged well", at least in the eyes of the normie fans, is that they've been a part of a whole lot of wins. If this uniform had ushered in a lousy team, it would probably be on it's way out by now.
  5. Yeah, I remembered that... I just think the other version would look nicer.
  6. It's really nice, obviously, but I would've liked it better with the TV numbers on the shoulder and full stripes on the sleeves.
  7. I'm pretty sure there's a few things that are stopping them.
  8. The late spring/early summer of 1976, I was 11 (yes, I’m f’n old, allright?) and my dad took me and my brother on a road trip from Columbus to Canton, OH. To the pro Football Hall of Fame. We got there about lunchtime, so before going in we stopped at a local McDonalds to eat. Being in the neighborhood of the HOF, it had an NFL theme, which included all the teams’ old fashioned felt pennants. Being a football obsessed little nerd, I was well familiar with all 26 teams, but hanging there on the wall were two extra pennants, which was the first time I even had a hint that teams were being added, or even that teams could be added. The Buccaneers’ one seemed cool, but the Seahawk one was enthralling to me… couldn’t stop looking at it. First off, they had THREE colors in addition to white, which seemed daring at the time, and two of those colors were blue and green, which felt vaguely illegal. And that dour looking bird, which turned into a horizontal stripe? I was just staring at it, slack jawed. Having picked out the Vikings as a favorite team and already suffered thru three painful Superbowl losses, it was too late for me to jump to another team, but right then I knew I has a second favorite, just based on the colors and helmet logo. I know now that the California Golden Seals were wearing those colors in the late 60’s and the Vancouver Canucks in the early 70’s (I think the Hartford Whalers switched to blue and green about the same time as the Seahawks started) but I was unfamiliar with any of those teams at the time, so in my mind the Seahawks’ first color scheme was unique, original, and amazing. I still see it that way. Anytime I see a team in those colors, I immediately feel a connection to that team. When the Seahawks switched to that frankly terrible dull slate blue and nasty slime green, I was sorely disappointed. When they used that ugly uniform to usher in the monochrome era to the NFL, I turned on them… at that point they were more or less dead to me. And when the dropped the (at least unique) dull slate blue for the band-wagon navy blue, kept the nasty green and the dopey monochrome, not to mention added on an annoying coach, d-bag QB, and a pack of total jackasses on defense, I went to full on hating them. Sometimes its hard for me to even remember this is the same team with that once had the fabulous color scheme and amazing helmet. So, yeah, I’m kind of happy to see this throwback. TLDR – Royal blue and Kelly green are quite possibly the greatest color scheme in sports, and all combinations of dull slate blue, average navy blue, and baby puke green suck. Oh… IMO, as usual.
  9. Personally, I'm a bigger fan of the original Seahawks uniform, (Cue the crying, "wwaaahhhh, that team was even worse!) As I stated earlier, I think the helmet logo reappearing on the sleeve is a clever reuse of the stripe, but ultimately kinda clunky and redundant, like every time the helmet logo repeats on the jersey. The slightly thinner pants stripe here are a little less visually jarring, and match up with the road jersey sleeves. And I'm always a sucker for matching sleeve stripes/sock stripes on home uniforms. Plus a gray mask to annoy grumpy posters for the win. And teams can always throwback to the first uniforms just because they are first uniforms.
  10. Well, yes, opinions vary. However this one seems to be fairly unpopular.
  11. Except for the fact that they look really nice, making all the rest of that stuff just fuzzy headed noise that isn’t really worth thinking about.
  12. I guess I'm interested in uniforms from a visual standpoint, and don't really care about the team's record when wearing it. I can see why the normie fans would get bent out of shape by a team wearing a uniform they played terrible in, but that's not my problem... I'm just here for the fabric. This "but that team was terrible" attitude is what's keeping us from seeing a Steelers batwing uniform.
  13. Between the bad lighting of those old trash baggy-roof domes and the pre-HD televisions, a lot of people remember those old 80's and 90's uniforms as being darker/duller than the often were. The Viking message boards are full of people complaining about the new Vikings throwback because they aren't "the old darker purple", but if you look at the actual game jerseys from that time in person, and compare them to the current jerseys, the colors aren't that different... certainly not as different as they appear in old videos (or in peoples memories). Back then the Vikings helmets were definitely darker and bluer, but in person the jerseys were not much different from the current purple. Maybe not exactly the same, but closer than most people are probably picturing. The Seahawks' 80's and 90's uniforms are suffering from the same phenomenon, I'm sure.
  14. Well, yes, that is just my opinion. That’s why I wrote IMO. I’m definitely not claiming any of it as fact. I just really love that particular color scheme and I always have. Hartford Whalers, original Timber Wolves, Vancouver Canucks. All look amazing. But I’m going to take issue with the “nostalgia” business. A few pages back I was told that same basic thing about my excitement over the Vikings throwback. I think I speak for more than a few of us who get tired of being told that our opinions are based on nostalgia or hatred of anything new or just liking it cause it’s old, or whatever else gets trotted out as a way of dismissing someone else’s opinion. (I’m not saying you’re necessarily doing that here but it’s close enough to that particular put down that it makes me think of it.) Honestly, unlike the Vikings’ spectacular throwback, I’m not even that crazy about the Seahawks overall design, which I think is a bit clunky. The pants stripes are awkward and I’m not a fan of the sleeve logo. I never really need to see the same logo repeated on both the helmet and the jersey. So it isn’t nostalgia for that design, it’s just the colors which are flat out beautiful. Because they are. Also, I think you might get some arguments about how strong the current Seahawks brand is. Five or six years ago yes, but now a lot of people are feeling like it’s really showing its age. There’s a reason people are going crazy for this throwback, and it can’t just be dismissed as nostalgia.
  15. Oh, sure. Nike has a good template, but no one wants to use it. Makes sense.
  16. Yeah, I remembered that you liked the throwback colors, I was just reacting to others coming in to say the new colors worked. Surprised me.
  17. And once again UA pulls off the shoulder loops about 100 times better than Nike.
  18. I'm not sure why anybody would advocate for a uniform that combines the throwback template with the current colors. IMO, the current colors are pretty bad. That dull navy blue and that ugly slime green? No thanks. And the throwback colors are the best thing about the older uniforms. Royal blue and kelly green are gorgeous together. The colors are the best thing about the throwback.
  19. This really does look like something a mid-level college team would do. Out nowhere black helmet, cheesy monochrome, pointless textured fabric… it feels like they raided Arizona State’s idea book. Embarrassing.
  20. I think you’ve been posting on these boards long enough to know that anytime you suggest the “real” reason for someone else’s opinion you’re going to ruffle some feathers. So, for the record, no… your suspicion is wrong. It has zero to do with wanting “change for change’s sake”. It has to do with feeling like the throwback uniform is blatantly more visually appealing. And also… no, wait… there is no also. That was it.
  21. Yeah, there's a two year wait from the time you declare your intention to redesign until that uniform can be worn, but in this case they'd just be taking two uniforms they're already wearing and flipping the status of which is the primary. I dunno, maybe that's still the rule, but I don't remember that happening when the Broncos made their orange alternate into their primary. Did the Broncos have to petition the NFL in 2009 to make that switch in 2011? And I'm pretty sure the Rams made that decision to make their throwback into their primary in 2018, when they were planning on changing their whole look 2 years later. For that matter, the Rams flipped the status of the alternate uniform (the white) and their primary road (the bone) one year into their redesign, so it wouldn't even have been possible to give 2 years warning. It's all pretty confusing.
  22. Hmmm... I don't know. Why would it be 2? I guess my thinking is, the current uniform is well past the 5 year mark, so there's no barrier there. And we've seen teams flip a throwback to a primary (the Rams did it) and an alternate to a primary (both the Falcons and Broncos did it) with no more warning than an off-season decision to do so. I might be forgetting some other rule, but my thinking is if this look proves to be especially popular they could decide during this off-season to make it their primary. Although how that would work with a road uniform I have no idea.
  23. Doesn’t have to be 5 years. They’ve been wearing their current uniforms since’13. They can switch to this as soon as next year. I’ve generally been happy with what the Vikings have been wearing since they dumped the side panel mess. As far as modern designs go it’s pretty cohesive. But for whatever reason it’s seemed to get a little tired looking to me in the past couple of years. Maybe it’s the random monochrome outings, maybe the dopey color rush look, definitely the matching socks have hurt. I dunno, I used to love it but recently I’ve been open to a change. This throwback feels like a breath of fresh air. The modern helmet finish and brighter looking Nike fabric kicks the whole look up just enough that it doesn’t feel like a clunky tribute uniform, at least not to me. Stick the updated horn on the helmet and this is pretty much the perfect home uniform for the Vikings IMO.
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