oldschoolvikings

So if I'm reading this right, Nike has their own color "library" and are hesitant to provide custom colors? That sure explains a lot. (If I had to guess, I'd bet that Nike's color library has, like, three greens, but for some reason two dozen dark grays?) For some reason, I find that annoying. In a perfect world, the needs of the client should come way before the convenience of the supplier.

I think the Lions current look has potential. They just took it two or three steps too far, which is pretty standard procedure during the Nike era. The dark gray adds zero. The only place it even shows up on the primary uniforms is in the number outlines, which muddies the borders. It’s obvious it was only tacked on a an annoying excuse to foist those horrible dull gray color rush monstrosities on the world. Nike has such a weird boner for dark gray. Step one is dropping that useless color from all applications. Next are the sleeve word marks and WCF patch. Clutter that helps nothing. (As a side note… as a two decade resident of Detroit, I can assure you that absolutely no one has fond memories of William Clay Ford as the Lions owner.). Drop those useless elements from the sleeves and let those Northwestern stripes do their job. Do the above, wear blue over silver at home, mix in the top notch throwback, alternate silver and blue pants on the road, find a white sock with the road jersey’s sleeve stripe to wear with the blue pants, only wear those stupid white practice pants during practice… then I could live with this look indefinitely, personally.

Philadelphia vs. Houston Indianapolis vs. New England Green Bay vs. Detroit LA Chargers vs. Atlanta Buffalo vs. NY Jets Minnesota vs. Washington Carolina vs. Cincinnati Las Vegas vs. Jacksonville Miami vs. Chicago Seattle vs. Arizona LA Rams vs. Tampa Bay Tennessee vs. Kansas City Baltimore vs. New Orleans

Mustache envy on full effect.

I love the elf at midfield. In fact, I love everything about the elf in pretty much all situations. If he existed IRL I’d let him move in and give him the guest room permanently. *beep* gray face mask *beep*

Dammit!!! Abort... abort!!

Pleased to meet you.

Not nearly as terrible as it would’ve been with both teams in white pants with white socks IMO. In fact, this doesn’t bother me at all. Both teams are contrasting the pants with a different color sock, which is the number one priority. This combination is Atlanta’s only decent looking one, and for once Carolina isn’t wearing some stupid mix.

Vikings are 6-1. Didn't see that coming.

Oh, I'm sure there are a lot of players who think those all gray rags are cool. It seems like most of the ugly uniforms decisions made these days are player driven.

The Broncos uniforms are pretty awful on a regular basis. Mismatching the side panels that are tired and dumb anyway can only make them slightly worse. There are worse uniforms in the NFL but this one has been around so long it’s really worn out it’s welcome.

Guilty pleasure...

Why do gray facemasks look so impossibly good on orange helmets? It just says "football."

My guess is the Panthers haven’t dropped the tv numbers because that would be considered a uniform change and they aren’t interested in resetting that 5 year clock for something that small.

Especially that gray facemask, amiright?

This is assuming they're still married to that blue-green color. IMO, tho, this wold be a Dolphins situation, where the throwback is significantly nicer than the primary.

Oklahoma State is an OSU. Oregon State is an OSU. Ohio State is THE OSU.

Baltimore vs. Tampa Bay Denver vs. Jacksonville Miami vs. Detroit Carolina vs. Atlanta Arizona vs. Minnesota Chicago vs. Dallas Las Vegas vs. New Orleans Pittsburgh vs. Philadelphia New England vs. NY Jets Tennessee vs. Houston NY Giants vs. Seattle Washington vs. Indianapolis San Francisco vs. LA Rams Green Bay vs. Buffalo Cincinnati vs. Cleveland

Something that flew under the radar... Here are images from Ohio State's first few games this year (not counting the black uniform game); And here are a handful of images from Saturday's game against Iowa... If you're like me, and totally obsessed with the socks worn with football uniforms (and baseball uniforms, too, but that's another story...) you noticed this right away. Looks pretty amazing, in my humble opinion.

Patriots go bottom ten to top ten.

Actually if I was running baseball they’d start a week later and end the season at least two weeks earlier. And I’d accomplish that by shaving about 20 games off the boring-ass regular season.

Sorry to be the one that actually speaks this out but… If Clemson wins out (very possible)… And Ohio State wins out (very possible)… And Alabama and Georgia win the rest of their regular season games and meet in the SEC championship (very possible)… And Alabama beats an undefeated Georgia in that game (ummm… somewhat possible)… Then the four playoff teams will most likely be… Georgia, Alabama, Ohio State, and Clemson.

That’s an odd take, to me. In my grumpy old man view of uniforms, the only reason to put numbers on the shoulders, in fact the only reason any team ever put their numbers on the shoulders, is the the sleeves were occupied with stripes or logos. In my mind, if there’s nothing happening on a jersey from the side view other than TV numbers, they should always go on the sleeve. Shoulder numbers are just an unfortunate compromise we’ve made to the shrinking jersey.

Im not sure I’ve ever met any Astros fan. Don’t care.