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Nothing. 1) with the bigger covid rosters, teams that retired a lot of numbers had issues 2) young WRs don't want to wear "old guy" numbers in the 80s, even if they're available. Neither of those is the fault of the numbering system... which has already been expanded to give more options to WRs, TEs, and LBs.

Garbage.

yes, but there’s a troll on these forums that swoops in with silly generalizations and derails all these discussions.

Zach Ertz has been one of the most popular players on the team and biggest sellers for around 7 years give or take. I'd expect they'd have plenty of stock of 86 (though he's likely to get traded by the draft). Yeah that's most likely a photoshop, but it's still weird that would happen. I wonder if it's been that way forever.

Not sure if this is something or not, but the Eagles black jerseys are shown on their site without TV numbers. The green and white have them. https://store.philadelphiaeagles.com/mens-philadelphia-eagles-zach-ertz-nike-black-alternate-game-jersey/p-23326864913882+z-883-856968152?_ref=p-DLP:m-GRID:i-r10c1:po-31 EDIT: It's inconsistent - some black jerseys have them, others don't. Still, they don't need to photoshop these so I'm not sure how an error would be made.

gray can only be neutral if everyone uses it. When the first team switched from gray to color, the facemask ceased being just "equipment" and started being an intentional design choice. As is the case with everything, not just design, speaking in absolutes is stupid. Some teams look better with gray, others don't. IMO, gray is the wrong choice for the Cardinals while they're wearing this uniform. They lost the ability to use "tradition" as a crutch once they switched to the piped-and-paneled mess of a costume they've been wearing for the last decade. If/when they overcorrect and become the red version of the Jags, then they can go with a gray mask.

It also has a big red stripe down the middle, which ties in nicely with the facemask. A red mask wouldn't look right on the plain white helmet that the AZ Cardinals have. EDIT: referring to the Louisville Cardinals photo.

Well @Justpassingby seems like the reason you don't want anyone to "even bother asking" is because there's nothing happening... at least not within the "next 10 days." But thanks for sharing your inside knowledge.

Apparently, the Eagles have never had a QB wear #1.

Jalen Hurts switching from #2 to #1. Major upgrade. Joe Flacco will wear #7.

... and they've dealt with mismatched numbers for even longer. Those get sillier looking every year, which is a shame, because the rest of the uniform is solid - even if the sleeves are just a showcase for the swoosh.

One day to go...

The new number rule proposal is terrible. At that point, just get rid of all number rules except for eligible / not-eligible. And even that isn't really required since the referees count who's lined up where. The league already looks like a bullshirt high school or college league, what with it's relaxed sock rules, no pants-length rule, and players wearing oversized undershirts that hang down to their knees. Just go all the way and let them wear whatever number they want. Part of me wonders why I care what number a player wears, and maybe it's just because I'm so used to knowing what position someone was by just looking at their number and even though formations are pretty chaotic, I could at least make sense of it that way. Once you get rid of the number rules, it's just 22 seemingly-random guys on a field wearing t-shirts, biker shorts, and messed-up socks.

You're pulling examples from teams that were created way before marketing and merchandising were anything like where they are now. I'm not sure any rebrand comparisons from before maybe the late 90s would be relevant. That being said, I don't think there should be an issue if they were the Washington Wolves. The Minnesota Timberwolves brand isn't nearly large enough to be infringed on by a team in another sport with different colors using a derivative of their nickname. Washington Lakers would be an issue though.

I don't care about whether there's an "official" nickname or not, but as others have mentioned, the technology currently doesn't support it (at least in North American sports) since there's so much automation that just pulls from the "nickname" field and give you "Eagles vs Football Team", when it would look better as "Eagles vs Washington". Not an insurmountable hurdle, but there's going to be some awkward times (like there already are.) How does it work for the MLS teams that have non-North-American-traditional names?

It also makes it easier for him to sell the team. I'm not sure there's much more driving into the ground that he can do with 80% that he can't do with what he already has..

They retired it (pretty soon after he retired), which is very strange because they never retired Ron Jaworski's, who while not as good, reached the same ceiling. They retired Brian Dawkins in 2012, and I think the owner didn't want to hurt McNabb's fragile feelings so they did him in 2013. Also weird is that they've held Randall Cunningham's 12 out of circulation since he left after '95, but it's not retired and there's no plans to retire it.

Wonder if Joe Flacco thinks he's still big-time enough to ask Donovan McNabb to unretire #5 for him. Hoping he's not a big of enough dick to even ask.

He's stepping down as CEO and becoming "executive chairman". He'll still be involved, but maybe the change makes him compliant with NFL rules?

What's "dated" about them? They'd fit in fine with the rest of the NFL uniforms if they were on the Nike template and shown with smaller shoulder pads.

I'd say the Bucs are an exception to that 'rule' (at least with their pre-Nike pewter pants that didn't appear nearly black.)

Just looked up his stats on Baseball Reference and noticed that he wasn't a first-ballot HOF guy (only 71% on first ballot). That's insane. He was a player that was way better than just whatever his stats showed. Similar in some ways to Dale Murphy, who IMO should also have been a 1st-ballot HOFer.

Wentz can still run, even after his knee injury (some of these highlights are post ACL). Check out 1:49. There was a time that he looked like a sure-fire HOF player (unfortunately, a pretty short time.) (have to watch on YouTube - won't play embedded, thanks NFL!)

I mean in general, not specific to his team. Yeah a couple of those are off limits with the colts.

I don't think he's an awkward looking guy at all - I think he looks like your prototypical QB, and should be wearing 7, 11, 12, 14, 14, 16, 17, or 18. Maybe even 9 or 8. Just not 2.