NFL Uniforms Interesting Facts

[gothedistance]

This is a thread for the purpose of what the title says, interesting facts. Facts that are well known or not as known.  Everything related to uniforms/jerseys in the NFL. I'll start things off.

 

6 teams do not retire jersey numbers; The Cowboys, Falcons, Jaguars, Raiders, Ravens, and Texans. The Ravens haven't retired a number even though Ray Lewis and Ed Reed have made the HOF. The Jaguars seem to be waiting on Tony Boselli to make the HOF. This year, 2021, the Giants will retire Eli Manning's number, 10. The Chicago Bears and New York Giants have the most retired numbers of all teams, with 14 numbers each.

 

With the Packers having an all green throwback, they join many teams who have worn a monochrome color look. Green Bay hasn't worn all solid colors since the 1950s.  The Eagles were the first team to wear monochrome colors, all green, in the Super Bowl era, during the 1997 season. In 2001 the Saints wore all black. Then in 2002 the mono-colors became a trend. 3 teams have not done monochrome colors; the Cowboys, Giants, and Raiders.

 

Every team has worn a third jersey outside of league wide promotions such as the NFL 75th anniversary in the 1994 season,  AFL 50th anniversary in the 2009 season, NFL Color Rush Thursday night games from 2015-2017,  or Thanksgiving day games, with the exception of the Kansas City Chiefs. 

 

These are it for now. I have more that I can save for afterwards. Feel free to share something you have in mind.

 

 

[Michael Bolton]

I've been to over a dozen Falcons games and it never dawned on me that they don't have any retired number banners. Huh.

 

Also the Giants are retiring Michael Strahan's number as well this year.

 

Great thread idea.

[dont care]

9 hours ago, gothedistance said:

This is a thread for the purpose of what the title says, interesting facts. Facts that are well known or not as known.  Everything related to uniforms/jerseys in the NFL. I'll start things off.

 

6 teams do not retire jersey numbers; The Cowboys, Falcons, Jaguars, Raiders, Ravens, and Texans. The Ravens haven't retired a number even though Ray Lewis and Ed Reed have made the HOF. The Jaguars seem to be waiting on Tony Boselli to make the HOF. This year, 2021, the Giants will retire Eli Manning's number, 10. The Chicago Bears and New York Giants have the most retired numbers of all teams, with 14 numbers each.

 

With the Packers having an all green throwback, they join many teams who have worn a monochrome color look. Green Bay hasn't worn all solid colors since the 1950s.  The Eagles were the first team to wear monochrome colors, all green, in the Super Bowl era, during the 1997 season. In 2001 the Saints wore all black. Then in 2002 the mono-colors became a trend. 3 teams have not done monochrome colors; the Cowboys, Giants, and Raiders.

 

Every team has worn a third jersey outside of league wide promotions such as the NFL 75th anniversary in the 1994 season,  AFL 50th anniversary in the 2009 season, or Thanksgiving day games, with the exception of the Kansas City Chiefs. 

 

These are it for now. I have more that I can save for afterwards. Feel free to share something you have in mind.

 

 

What do you mean the chiefs have never worn an alternate uniform, they have worn their Dallas Texans uniforms plenty of times when not an anniversary year or what ever.

[WSU151]

On 9/3/2021 at 11:45 PM, dont care said:

What do you mean the chiefs have never worn an alternate uniform, they have worn their Dallas Texans uniforms plenty of times when not an anniversary year or what ever.

 

When’s the last time the Chiefs wore the Dallas Texans uniform?

[dont care]

3 hours ago, WSU151 said:

 

When’s the last time the Chiefs wore the Dallas Texans uniform?

2009 admittedly long time but not an anniversary year.

[WSU151]

11 minutes ago, dont care said:

2009 admittedly long time but not an anniversary year.

It was the AFL anniversary and franchise’s 50th year.

 

When did the Chiefs wear the Dallas Texans jerseys before 2009?

[dont care]

6 hours ago, WSU151 said:

It was the AFL anniversary and franchise’s 50th year.

 

When did the Chiefs wear the Dallas Texans jerseys before 2009?

They also wore a version of it in 2019. They wore it for the Super Bowl iv 

[jamesizzo]

1 hour ago, dont care said:

They also wore a version of it in 2019. They wore it for the Super Bowl iv 

But they never reached the Super Bowl as the Dallas Texans. How do you consider the throwback they wore in 2019 to be a Dallas Texans throwback?

[sky1324]

The only difference between their normal jerseys and the 2019 "throwbacks" is a gray facemask. The OP is still true, however - the Chiefs have never worn a third jersey outside of anniversary throwbacks.

[AgentColon2]

On 9/3/2021 at 2:31 PM, gothedistance said:

 

The Eagles were the first team to wear monochrome colors, all green, in the Super Bowl era, during the 1997 season. 

 

 

 

I know you specified Super Bowl era. But I always like to point this one out as the last worn monochrome prior to the resurgence. 1964

[-Akronite-]

On 9/7/2021 at 9:50 AM, AgentColon2 said:

I know you specified Super Bowl era. But I always like to point this one out as the last worn monochrome prior to the resurgence. 1964

 

Dunno if you know, but are the guys in the backfield muddy as hell or do they have stripeless pants?

[Sec19Row53]

48 minutes ago, -Akronite- said:

 

Dunno if you know, but are the guys in the backfield muddy as hell or do they have stripeless pants?

Muddy as hell.

 

I'm almost old enough to have been around for that one.

[gothedistance]

On 9/3/2021 at 11:45 PM, dont care said:

What do you mean the chiefs have never worn an alternate uniform, they have worn their Dallas Texans uniforms plenty of times when not an anniversary year or what ever.

 

Not that I can see. They haven't worn the Dallas Texans throwback other than the 2009 season. The gray facemask KC wore against the Vikings in 2019 is only one part of an older style of uniform, but not the whole thing. The Chiefs have not worn a third jersey outside of games that have something that is a league promotion. Even if you count the NFL Color Rush that the league mandated for a couple years, this is the case.

[gothedistance]

The most WAH (white at home) games in a week are 9 games. They have been done 3 times in league history.

 

1980 week 2

 

Jets at Bills
Falcons at Patriots
Seahawks at Chiefs
Steelers at Colts
Cowboys at Broncos
Raiders at Chargers
Bengals at Dolphins
Washington Football Team at New York Giants
Oilers at Browns

 

2002 week 1

 

Cardinals at Washington Football Team
Ravens at Panthers
Lions at Dolphins
Colts at Jaguars
Chiefs at Browns
Eagles at Titans
Chargers at Bengals
Saints at Buccaneers
Cowboys at Texans

 

2021 week 1

 

Cowboys at Buccaneers
Jaguars at Texans
Jets at Panthers
Vikings at Bengals
Cardinals at Titans
Steelers at Bills
Eagles at Falcons
Packers at Saints (in Jacksonville)
Bears at Rams

 

Second most WAH games in a week, 8, in the 1981 season.

 

1981 week 1

 

Saints at Falcons
Seahawks at Bengals
Colts at Patriots
Dolphins at Cardinals
Cowboys at Washington Football Team
Oilers at Rams
Jets at Bills
Chargers at Browns

 

7 and 6 WAH games in a week or less have happened many times.

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On 9/3/2021 at 2:31 PM, gothedistance said:

6 teams do not retire jersey numbers; The Cowboys, Falcons, Jaguars, Raiders, Ravens, and Texans. The Ravens haven't retired a number even though Ray Lewis and Ed Reed have made the HOF.

 

To be fair, no one has since worn these 1st Ballot HOF players' numbers since they retired: LT Jonathan Ogden (#75), ILB Ray Lewis (#52) & FS Ed Reed (#20). Additionally, 2 surefire future homegrown HOF draftees, 'Hybrid' OLB / DE Terrell Suggs (#55) & RG Marshal Yanda (#73) have not been issued either.

 

Another number unofficially retired long ago is legendary BALTIMORE Colts iconic QB, Johnny Unitas (#19). Albeit when he was still alive, one player was given permission to use those digits by Johnny 'U' himself: QB Scott Mitchell.

 

No one before or since ever had the guts to even ask during a short stint span of six years prior to his death, and of course no one since he passed — no pun intended — has sported said numerals. 

 

One time, I even saw & heard then-active WR Keyshawn Johnson remark that #19 was of such importance to him to the extent that a place like B'more, for instance, could never be a considered destination for him, due to the Ravens' (unofficial) retirement of it, which he cited via directly mentioned reference.

[Ben in LA]

Just think of all the great players from the Raiders and Steelers that SHOULD have their numbers OFFICIALLY retired…

[rainmaker17]

Dallas won't retire numbers but 8, 12 and 22 are pretty much just that.  The 88 thing is weird to me.  It should be right beside the other iconic numbers in "retirement"but has taken on a life of its own.

[IceCap]

On 9/6/2021 at 11:48 AM, WSU151 said:

It was the AFL anniversary and franchise’s 50th year.

 

When did the Chiefs wear the Dallas Texans jerseys before 2009?

So the Chiefs have never worn alternates except the times they wore alternates?

[DCarp1231]

17 hours ago, rainmaker17 said:

Dallas won't retire numbers but 8, 12 and 22 are pretty much just that.  The 88 thing is weird to me.  It should be right beside the other iconic numbers in "retirement"but has taken on a life of its own.

They truthfully should’ve retired 9 after Romo hung up his cleats. Sure, they kept it out of circulation for a couple years only to give it to a guy who they ended up cutting this season.

[dont care]

4 hours ago, DNAsports said:

They truthfully should’ve retired 9 after Romo hung up his cleats. Sure, they kept it out of circulation for a couple years only to give it to a guy who they ended up cutting this season.

Why, what did romo ever do to deserve his number being retired? He led a bunch of 8-8 teams, rarely made the playoffs, when he did he’d get eliminated early other than one year when Dez dropped it.