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  1. Best chrome helmet in the NCAA = prettiest waitress at Denny’s
  2. Interesting. Do they then have 3 helmets?
  3. Teams can only have one alternate shell. I believe you can swap out logos on the same color shell, creating more looks. The Cowboys did just that.
  4. Admit it... you said this just to get under everyone's skin. This... Will NEVER not look better than this...
  5. Interesting fact I heard today about that Lions alt helmet logo. Apparently, the Lion will be flipped so he's always facing forward, but the stripes will not. On both sides, the blue will be to the left of the gray.
  6. Correct. It's a play on an old Ford Mustang logo... both the car and the football team being Ford products...
  7. And yet, surprisingly, not as ugly as the one its replacing. Actually, no one had to say it. Honestly.
  8. I mentioned a page or so back that its been mentioned here in Detroit that this helmet was designed with next year’s rebrand in mind. Let the wreckless speculation begin.
  9. I like that logo as a stand alone, but I feel like it fits awkwardly on a helmet. And does every new helmet have to have some kind of unique finish? At some point (and we may already be there) unique becomes commonplace and you realize it wasn’t as cool as you thought.
  10. I would agree that an overhaul isn’t necessary. However, that’s what they’re doing.
  11. The helmet being discussed on local Detroit radio just now. Supposedly it’s being talked about in conjunction with a “complete overhaul” coming next year. It sounds like making guesses about what it might look like based on the current uniform are kind of useless. Instead, once we see it, it might carry some clues as to what next year’s changes will look like.
  12. Right. They have those stupid stripeless white pants which are technically alternates. They could just pull a Panthers and call the all white their Color Rush. The point is, the NFL's "rules" about alternates jerseys, throwbacks, Color Rush, and alternate helmets are so vaguely written and poorly enforced that a team can just play around with the language a bit and do whatever they want. Once these floodgates were opened this was always what was going to happen.
  13. Well, technically, the Seahawks went monochrome in week 2 of 2002, which was the first regular season home game in their dreary early 2000's uniform. The Bills went monochrome in week 4, which was their second home game in their terrible early 2000's monstrosities. In week one they wore navy over white. So i my irrational mind, they saw the Seahawks do it and followed suit. Week one, 2002... Week 2, 2002... Week 4, 2002... So, I stand by it... Seahawks were first.
  14. Interesting. I just went to GID and played that game myself, Specifically, given the opportunity who would I change first? Personally, I only came up with only 2 NFL teams who are currently wearing uniforms who I instantly think are obviously worse than the Seahawks (since the Cardinals just jettisoned their nightmares) . That's the Commanders and the Titans, two absolutely horrific uniforms in every combination. There are another 8 uniforms that give me pause as to whether or not I'd change them before Seattle. With 5 of those - the Ravens, Panthers, Saints, Eagles, and Jets - it's more a case of bad alternates and bad combination decisions, than it is that they are just bad uniforms. I'd put them in the same category as the Seahawks. If they avoid the monochrome and get rid of their awful alts, they'd all be at least passable, some even good. 3 others -the Falcons, Rams, and Broncos - all have fairly bad uniforms but get extra credit from me for (recently) (mostly) making good decisions about their combos, avoiding monochrome and, well... bone. So maybe it was a bit strong of me to say the Seahawks are bottom 5. It's more like they're just wallowing in the sludge with a handful of other teams, one step above Washington and Tennessee, which is nothing to be proud of. I think I always give Seattle extra demerits in my head because they always seem to be at the forefront of these bad trends. First NFL team to consistently wear monochrome, first with sublimated patterns on the numbers, first to substitute another color for road white, now the first to (apparently) wear 5 jerseys. You would probably tell me that if Seattle hadn't done these things first, some other team would have anyway. I guess that's true. Still... screw them for even opening the door. As always, all the above is only my opinion, of course.
  15. When I say the gray is useless, I'm speaking specifically about the gray jersey. The gray pants are pretty much the only pants they need, and one of the only ways this dumpster fire of a uniform set can be tolerable. They need to get a rebrand underway ASAP, but in the meantime can pull their current look out of the bottom 5 by wearing only gray pants with the navy and white jerseys. And wearing the throwback as often as the rules allow.
  16. The gray serves no purpose... it really is just useless. It just looks like a dirty version of the white uniform. The neon green uniform is impressively ugly. I don't think that's even really an insult. I'm sure even the Seahawks consider it ugly. It's supposed to be ugly in an in-your-face way... that's the whole point. If the Seahawks wore the neon green jersey over white pants, it might even be ugly in a fun way. Think the old Orlando Thunder uniform, which was an awesome guilty pleasure. As it is, when they wear it over the navy pants, it's just a dopey, ugly, 16 year old's version of a cool uniform, and the neon green monochrome is a nauseating assault. The Seahawks need to punt on this whole era. Russell Wilson and the legion of boom are gone, and I'm pretty sure Pete Carroll's gum has long since run out of flavor. Move on.
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