oldschoolvikings 18,568 Posted April 7, 2018 7 hours ago, brycew8 said: 5 hours ago, Ferdinand Cesarano said: This one gets a double credit as one of the worst downgrades. Not only was it bad in its own right, but it started a trend of terrible design, one whose ill effects are still very much with us. So this is a uniform disaster of historic magnitude. That's a pretty good point. It was just an average downgrade for the Broncos, but it caused a snowball of downgrades at all levels of football. In that same vein, I'd nominate this; To this; Not just a bad uniform change, but the first time a team wore monochrome as a full-time, primary uniform combination. The Seahawks' bad decision legitimized the one color uniform, not just for high schools, arena teams, and second rate colleges, but as something even an NFL team could lower themselves to. 10 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LakeShow24 163 Posted April 7, 2018 On 4/6/2018 at 12:22 AM, Tigers6884 said: The one year disaster that was the 1927 Detroit Tigers uniforms. I would like to see the Tigers bring this back. That tiger design looks good for the modern era. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BBTV 21,017 Posted April 7, 2018 6 hours ago, LakeShow24 said: I would like to see the Tigers bring this back. That tiger design looks good for the modern era. Jesus there’s not enough dislike buttons for me to possibly click for this post. I’d break the site with the number of downvotes. 8 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lights Out 4,986 Posted April 7, 2018 From this... ...to this: 14 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Morgan33 4,129 Posted April 7, 2018 22 hours ago, BringBackTheVet said: Yeah that's a popular opinion. One I don't share, mostly because my roomate had one of these and I loved it, especially the numbering. One of the few jerseys like this that I really liked. That's a brave one, I'll give you that . The main issue for me is the amount of red and yellow being delegated to a tertiary colour. I thought the white did a much better job of balancing the colours. I certainly admire the creativity though, and the shoulder patch. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MCM0313 2,820 Posted April 7, 2018 22 hours ago, brycew8 said: I can't believe I'm saying this, because I loved the Orange Crush uniforms and still miss them to this day, but...that was more of a lateral move than a true downgrade. The new look wasn't as aesthetically pleasing to my eyes or many others, but it looked sharp and modern. It still works well enough today too. Now, as for the redesigns it has inspired, yes, a lot of them are awful at worst and totally unnecessary at best. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DG_ThenNowForever 16,776 Posted April 7, 2018 On 4/3/2018 at 6:15 AM, CS85 said: I really liked those Vick-era Falcons unis for the first few months they were around, but they aged so goddamn terribly. The Falcons look was infinitely more superb when they were minimalistic. That is a thing of beauty. They didn't wear their black pants much, but I always thought this was among the best looks in the NFL at the time: 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mafiaman 1,900 Posted April 7, 2018 On 4/5/2018 at 10:56 PM, Bomba Tomba said: The Bills played hockey? That was from the World Junior Tournament in Buffalo a few months ago...just an awful uniform. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BroncoBuff 169 Posted April 7, 2018 The new Browns uniforms are the most ill-conceived uniform upgrade I've ever seen. So horrifying that whenever they pop up on the TV, I scream out loud - like Belushi when Blutto pops up on the slide show screen. With 'Cleveland' and 'Browns' plastered on their pants and jersey - I'm guessing they finally developed an inferiority complex due to their logo-less helmets, and wildly overreacted. With their staph infection, forced hiatus, winless seasons, fruitless drafts and now these things ... they should really fire everybody in the building and start from scratch. (Yes, I colored in the orange pants above, I loved that look.) 9 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Old Gym 45 Posted April 8, 2018 Allow me to take you on a journey from unquestionable perfection to timeless classic to utter unequivocal garbage.... 17 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tigers6884 494 Posted April 8, 2018 32 minutes ago, The Old Gym said: Allow me to take you on a journey from unquestionable perfection to timeless classic to utter unequivocal garbage.... 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mafiaman 1,900 Posted April 8, 2018 8 hours ago, The Old Gym said: ...utter unequivocal garbage.... The original "Trust the Process." What a colossal bust. And those uniforms were so appropriate for that era. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BBTV 21,017 Posted April 8, 2018 2 hours ago, mafiaman said: The original "Trust the Process." What a colossal bust. And those uniforms were so appropriate for that era. Shawn Bradley and "The Process" should not be mentioned in the same sentence. I vividly remember the whole Bradley era, including the pre-draft talk. Sure, it failed, but the entire franchise was run by incompetent people back then so of course it failed. "The Process", was a very detailed long-term plan that was executed to perfection. The Shawn Bradley era was just idiots trying to win but being to stupid to even break even. Anyway... They upgraded a little after that (though I don't get the hard-on everyone has for the Stackhouse-era set)... ... then went to the original black-gold set (which sucked for lots of reasons) ... then to the true Iverson-era black-white set (which on its own was a good look, in my unpopular opinion) --- then to the polar opposite plain-ass RWB boring A F set --- to perfection --- to even perfecter perfection 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WSU151 10,121 Posted April 8, 2018 to to The sleeveless jerseys in-between were fine, but the new (and now relegated to secondary) pirate logo sucks compared to the late 80s/90s logo. The script Pittsburgh was a great away script. Current jerseys should at least bring back the black/gold/black sleeve striping/placketing. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BBTV 21,017 Posted April 8, 2018 I also like the Pittsburgh script. Here's a suggestion: Drop the P jersey, and either move the PITTSBURGH to the black jersey and put the old script on the gray, or put the script on the black jersey and keep PITTSBURGH as-is on the gray. 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Old Gym 45 Posted April 8, 2018 7 hours ago, BringBackTheVet said: Shawn Bradley and "The Process" should not be mentioned in the same sentence. I vividly remember the whole Bradley era, including the pre-draft talk. Sure, it failed, but the entire franchise was run by incompetent people back then so of course it failed. "The Process", was a very detailed long-term plan that was executed to perfection. The Shawn Bradley era was just idiots trying to win but being to stupid to even break even. Anyway... They upgraded a little after that (though I don't get the hard-on everyone has for the Stackhouse-era set)... ... then went to the original black-gold set (which sucked for lots of reasons) ... then to the true Iverson-era black-white set (which on its own was a good look, in my unpopular opinion) --- then to the polar opposite plain-ass RWB boring A F set --- to perfection --- to even perfecter perfection Yeah that had no resemblance to a “process” at all. It was a complete cluster :censored:. To be perfectly honest, it began on June 18, 1986 when they traded Moses and the #1 pick on the same day. Outside of one ligthining in a bottle season that single day :censored:ed a franchise for 30+ years. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LogoFan 375 Posted April 9, 2018 On 4/7/2018 at 12:18 PM, MCM0313 said: I can't believe I'm saying this, because I loved the Orange Crush uniforms and still miss them to this day, but...that was more of a lateral move than a true downgrade. The new look wasn't as aesthetically pleasing to my eyes or many others, but it looked sharp and modern. It still works well enough today too. Now, as for the redesigns it has inspired, yes, a lot of them are awful at worst and totally unnecessary at best. I hate the Broncos but I loved their new look. It was flashy and bold but they should have kept the jerseys orange. It was a sharp look ahead of its time that should not have been copied but was. Over, and over, and over, and over. UGH. To me, the Browns can't be topped as far as NFL downgrades go, although the post-Kelly Bills unis came really close. Fortunately, they finally fixed them. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
the admiral 29,133 Posted April 9, 2018 The jerseys should have stayed orange and the blue should have been lighter (if not the same light royal, somewhere between that and the midnight blue they have) but the rest of the uniform was an upgrade whose time had come. Love the letters and numbers on those, still not sure how I feel about the horse head. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Brave-Bird 08 1,741 Posted April 9, 2018 There is nothing about the design of the 1997 Broncos uniforms that is bad. The side panels worked, and the white in the helmet logo really balanced everything out. It's one of the most balanced, top-to-bottom uniforms. Unique number font that isn't a chore to read. It was an instantly fresh, but well designed and not overdesigned modern uniform and it's not their fault it became the template for every college football team between then and the mid 2000s. I know this board loves boring classic striped uniforms, but I think the Broncos uniform is a modern classic. 19 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites