NFL 2018 changes

[panthers_2012 1,158]

3 minutes ago, DNAsports said:

Time to throw all the black pants in the dumpster behind M&T Bank Stadium. These need to stay around for good.

I'll help ya... 

In all seriousness, I really like the purple pants.

[Dnice 137]

Agreeing with most here, it's a nice surprise.

[Chromatic 1,398]

Purple looks great. I’d honestly even rather they bring back the khakis than the black yoga pants again though.

[Around the Horn 812]

Did anyone catch the Ravens hat that Steve Smith was holding in the pre game show? It looked like it had the old logo with the spread wings on it.

[Gupti 1,758]

57 minutes ago, Cosmic said:

The Jags have a real Jekyll and Hyde thing going on with the teal. They know fans like the teal. They had MFing teal hamburger buns last year at the stadium. Yet, their two primary uniforms have hardly any teal colors at all.

 

They didn’t feature any noticeable teal on their aways throughly the 2000s either. Weaver even distinctly mentioned when it came to the 2009 set that they wanted to “keep teal in Jacksonville.” Weird.

 

 

They really haven’t had a good away uniform since the 90s. Probably the only thing I’ll miss about the 2013 redesign was seeing more teal on the road. Teal road numbers should never not be a Jaguars thing.

[Chromatic 1,398]

I know this isn’t technically “uniforms”, but the diagonal, cut-off top of the end zone at Paul Brown stadium is really bugging me for some reason.

[oldschoolvikings 10,361]

 

[Webfooter 862]

The purple pants really work for them.  It's such an underused color in a league full of reds and blues.

[Placebo 293]

7 minutes ago, oldschoolvikings said:

 

I am a fan.

[Cosmic 5,615]

I think the pants would be better with gold replacing the white stripe (and possibly swapping the black and gold stripes) to better match the jersey numbers.

 

But stripes on Ravens pants! You had me at stripes.

[BJ Sands 3,298]

Wish they had a thin gold stripe between the black and white to tie in with the numbers. But not bad. 

[insert name 3,972]

I'm loving the pants the more I watch this game but with the way they're playing now, I fear they'll use the "bad luck" excuse and ditch them. 

[RealSkillsAbraham 191]

Oh my god I love those so much!!!!!

[joey joe joe jr. shabadoo 620]

4 hours ago, bowld said:

WTF are my Ravens doing....

 

They are definitely new. Striping looks to be Black/White/Black

 

Losing. But looking damn good doing it. No more yoga tights

[C-Squared 2,463]

I especially love this Ravens look with Weddle's long white sleeves... does this finally successfully break the "helmet-jersey-non-white-pants 3-color" rule?

[DouglasQuaid 538]

4 minutes ago, C-Squared said:

does this finally successfully break the "helmet-jersey-non-white-pants 3-color" rule?

[Kramerica Industries 1,417]

Ravens purple pants are completely unbalanced with the rest of the set. With very few exceptions* (the Steelers being perhaps the only one that comes to mind immediately), when it comes to the white away jerseys, having the helmet, jersey, and pants all being different colors usually doesn't work for me and this is just another case of that*. If the helmets were purple, that would be a different story. But the problem with the black pants, other than not having stripes (all stripe-less pants are terrible but that's a different discussion), the problem with them is having the socks blend in with them. That's not the fault of the pants, that's the fault of the socks.

 

Ravens away set should be simple:

 

Primary away -> white jersey/white pants/black socks

Alternate away -> white jersey/black pants/white socks 

 

That they pair black socks with the black pants regardless is unfortunate. 

 

*When it comes to home jerseys, this doesn't seem to bother me as much. Take the Ravens for instance - if they wore black pants as their primary with the purple jerseys, it wouldn't look as good because their purple is a dark shade. If they wore a brighter shade, maybe, but even then I'm not feeling it. The Bengals have always worn orange/black/white at home as well and, when it comes to the pattern, if not the actual design, I've always liked it as well (though, in their case, I think orange pants would be a fascinating look). With white jerseys, I dunno, maybe it's because there's a more jarring contrast design, I can't be sure, but I'm just not as big on those.

[threesox84 62]

30 minutes ago, DouglasQuaid said:

It follows the helmet-must-match-or-be-darker-than-the-pants rule. (HMMOBDTTP rule, for short.)

[Sodboy13 4,119]

These look really nice, though I think they might be better if the striping was white-black-white. I'd really like to see these paired with the black jerseys.

[Danny the Sheeb 217]

Not 100% on board, but they're better than the black butts.

 

Hopefully, this doesn't lead to them deciding to bring back the gold pants...