NFL 2022 Changes

[sky1324]

That should be part of the cost of having a league-wide manufacturing deal. If you're taking up exclusivity and responsibility for supplying all 32 teams, you should be able to match what the teams have, not the other way around. I understand not supplying every color for high school or college teams or for off-field gear and whatnot but there's no reason Nike be able to meet the teams' demands.

[GriffinM6]

Jets win again wearing black pants. We're never gonna see this team look like itself again this season, aren't we?

[walkerws]

53 minutes ago, CDCLT said:

That should be part of the cost of having a league-wide manufacturing deal. If you're taking up exclusivity and responsibility for supplying all 32 teams, you should be able to match what the teams have, not the other way around. I understand not supplying every color for high school or college teams or for off-field gear and whatnot but there's no reason Nike be able to meet the teams' demands.

Don’t forget, sometimes old manufacturers own the copyright so they have a lot of match work to do

[AstroCreep]

36 minutes ago, GriffinM6 said:

Jets win again wearing black pants. We're never gonna see this team look like itself again this season, aren't we?

Gang Green

[Sec19Row53]

23 minutes ago, walkerws said:

Don’t forget, sometimes old manufacturers own the copyright so they have a lot of match work to do

The team would own their colors, not a manufacturer, wouldn't they?

[ManillaToad]

1 hour ago, GriffinM6 said:

Jets win again wearing black pants. We're never gonna see this team look like itself again this season, aren't we?

 

At least the Buffalo Blueberries lost

[HOOVER]

On 11/6/2022 at 5:31 PM, oldschoolvikings said:

I can certainly see where you’re coming from on the T shirt - polos- hats and jackets perspective.  I guess my focus is pretty much solely on the on field colors.  In Detroit, at Walmart,  Target, what have you, you see about a dozen different versions of Honolulu blue, and no one gives it much thought.  But you’d think the game uniform can be customized to a particular color, and the manufacturer could take the effort to get it right. 

For the Detroit Lions, yes.  And they do. 

For the Stetson Hatters?  For a small town high school?   No.

[HOOVER]

On 11/6/2022 at 6:05 PM, CDCLT said:

That should be part of the cost of having a league-wide manufacturing deal. If you're taking up exclusivity and responsibility for supplying all 32 teams, you should be able to match what the teams have, not the other way around. I understand not supplying every color for high school or college teams or for off-field gear and whatnot but there's no reason Nike be able to meet the teams' demands.

 

Can you name a current team that has a color Nike isn't accurately reproducing?  

[sky1324]

17 minutes ago, Volt said:

 

Can you name a current team that has a color Nike isn't accurately reproducing?  

Any team with metallic pants.

[Cujo]

Can we all agree on this?

 

Stafford logo. Barry unis.

 

[oldschoolvikings]

1 hour ago, Volt said:

 

Can you name a current team that has a color Nike isn't accurately reproducing?  

 

Well, I would argue the Buccaneers' pewter isn't what it should be.

[HOOVER]

1 hour ago, CDCLT said:

Any team with metallic pants.

That's a difference in fabric.

 

Not color.

 

These two things...they are not the same.

[HOOVER]

12 minutes ago, oldschoolvikings said:

 

Well, I would argue the Buccaneers' pewter isn't what it should be.

 

It is definitely more Charcoal than the Bronze-ish tint it used to be.   I'm not sure if that's by design but I would assume so; it's very close, if not the same, to the "Pewter" they used in their last design, so they may have made the intentional choice to carry it over.

[sky1324]

1 hour ago, Volt said:

That's a difference in fabric.

 

Not color.

 

These two things...they are not the same.

The Eagles' midnight green is noticeably a different color post-Nike.

[FiddySicks]

2 hours ago, Volt said:

 

It is definitely more Charcoal than the Bronze-ish tint it used to be.   I'm not sure if that's by design but I would assume so; it's very close, if not the same, to the "Pewter" they used in their last design, so they may have made the intentional choice to carry it over.

I seem to remember there being talk about them going darker because Nike either couldn’t or didn’t want to produce that particular color, and it ended up just being easier to darken the shade of pewter on the helmets to better match. They changed the shade when Nike turned them into the Alarm Clock Skallywags, and up until then they were just wearing the same old Reebok pants they had in storage with the Nike logo slapped on. When they first unveiled every NFL team’s Nike uniforms for 2012, they had the Bucs in white pants, even. Apparently they couldn’t do it in 2020 either so the pewter is still darker, and still just looks slightly off to me. You get so used to seeing something that it always stands out when it’s slightly modified. 

[MJWalker45]

On 11/6/2022 at 6:22 PM, insert name said:

Gang Green

Gangrene black 

[DCarp1231]

9 hours ago, CDCLT said:

The Eagles' midnight green is noticeably a different color post-Nike.

And it’s better

[tBBP]

9 hours ago, FiddySicks said:

I seem to remember there being talk about them going darker because Nike either couldn’t or didn’t want to produce that particular color, and it ended up just being easier to darken the shade of pewter on the helmets to better match. They changed the shade when Nike turned them into the Alarm Clock Skallywags, and up until then they were just wearing the same old Reebok pants they had in storage with the Nike logo slapped on. When they first unveiled every NFL team’s Nike uniforms for 2012, they had the Bucs in white pants, even. Apparently they couldn’t do it in 2020 either so the pewter is still darker, and still just looks slightly off to me. You get so used to seeing something that it always stands out when it’s slightly modified. 

 

I remember that, too. I think the pewter hue back then wad a custom mix (much like the former Seahawks slate blue color)--not that that should have been an issue with a company that prides itself on "innovation technology"--but okay. That's why Tampa "kept their former pant fabrication"--only to morph into the Alarm Clocks barely a year or two later. 

 

Speaking of that, I went back and found that press release from the 2012 unveiling, only because I remember the hackneyed way in which Nike used to write those things and...this is what they wrote about Tampa's:

 

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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have chosen to take full innovation in the Nike Elite 51 jersey including Flywire technology to reduce weight and provide a lockdown fit over the pads. Although the Bucs have kept their former pant fabrication as well as overall traditional design aesthetic, the Nike Elite 51 jersey is completely engineered from the inside out. The new jersey focuses on creating a system where the baselayer, padding, and jersey work in concert with each other. A few of the new innovations include increasing sleeve articulation for better range of motion and integrating new four-way stretch fabrication to provide a streamlined shrink-wrap fit. 

 

Original press release here.

 

Recall the days when they used to copy-paste these descriptions across teams? (Lest we bring up the "iconic jaws of Husky Stadium" bullcorn again. ) But check out how they slid in--and then slid past--the reference to Tampa's pants while hyping up the parts of the uniform (the jersey) Tampa did take on.

[Indigo]

12 hours ago, Cujo said:

Can we all agree on this?

 

Stafford logo. Barry unis.

 

IDK...  it kinda veers into Cowboys territrory, and it kinda looks generic paint-by-numbers 90's football team. I'd rather them keep the Northwestern stripes on the helmets and pants like they have now, just to add a little character to these.

[Indigo]

10 hours ago, CDCLT said:

The Eagles' midnight green is noticeably a different color post-Nike.

 

1 hour ago, DCarp1231 said:

And it’s better

 

This is dark green.

 

This is dark teal.