NFL uniform matchups that only happened in preseason

[TornadoGTS]

1 hour ago, gothedistance said:

 

I don't think the Bills made the Cowboys wear blue. Dallas was in white for both games, and Buffalo blue. The only time it was BUF in white and DAL in blue was a game in the early 1980s if I'm not mistaken.

 

This photo is from AP, kinda small but you definitely see red helmets/red socks on the white uniforms, so I think Gridiron Uniforms got that one right,

 

[gothedistance]

6 hours ago, TornadoGTS said:

 

This photo is from AP, kinda small but you definitely see red helmets/red socks on the white uniforms, so I think Gridiron Uniforms got that one right,

 

 

I tried to find photos for the two games in 1995. There aren't that many for the preseason games for BUF and DAL.

 

I saw this photo before. But I didn't remember the team and players on the field. Who was the home team for that game in Toronto?

 

When they meet in 2023, I want the Bills to wear their whites, whether the throwbacks or regular whites, so that the Cowboys wear their navy blue. Buffalo is one of the teams that I want to come off the list of teams who haven't made Dallas wear the blue jersey, that came in 1996, at their stadium yet.

[TornadoGTS]

21 hours ago, gothedistance said:

 

I tried to find photos for the two games in 1995. There aren't that many for the preseason games for BUF and DAL.

 

I saw this photo before. But I didn't remember the team and players on the field. Who was the home team for that game in Toronto?

 

When they meet in 2023, I want the Bills to wear their whites, whether the throwbacks or regular whites, so that the Cowboys wear their navy blue. Buffalo is one of the teams that I want to come off the list of teams who haven't made Dallas wear the blue jersey, that came in 1996, at their stadium yet.

 

Yeah a quick search didn't net much, but here's a photo from the first game (July 29th) confirming the double stars..

 

 

As for home designation, looking at some different sites, it seems to list Dallas as the home team for the Toronto game

[Old School Fool]

GUD digs really deep for evidence before putting it on their site. Here's the confirmation of the Cowboys 1995 Preseason games with actual pictures sourced from newspapers.

 

http://gud-updates.blogspot.com/2015/06/1995-dallas-cowboys.html

[gothedistance]

Dolphins aqua (1997-2012 uniform) vs 49ers white (1996-2008 uniform)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All other times they played each other in their uniforms from the 1990s, it was the Dolphins in white tops and 49ers in red tops.

[gothedistance]

With the return of the Cowboys throwback uniform, I post this.

 

 

 

Texans vs Cowboys in 2005.

[Sykotyk]

On 2/27/2022 at 1:27 PM, Echo said:

Weird that Dallas and Buffalo played each other twice in the same pre-season.  I don't remember that happening.   Anyone know why some teams had a 5th pre-season game that year?

Way back when, the NFL had a lot of preseason games outside the US and teams that participated got an extra preseason game. This was also a time when a lot of NFL teams played in baseball stadiums and preseason games would be at neutral sites or nearby college venues. 

[JerseyJimmy]

On 5/12/2022 at 12:36 AM, gothedistance said:

Dolphins aqua (1997-2012 uniform) vs 49ers white (1996-2008 uniform)

 

All other times they played each other in their uniforms from the 1990s, it was the Dolphins in white tops and 49ers in red tops.

 

yes. YES. DROP SHADOWS. DROP SHADOWS. DROP SHADOWS.

[ramsjetsthunder]

On 7/21/2022 at 10:33 PM, gothedistance said:

With the return of the Cowboys throwback uniform, I post this.

 

 

 

Texans vs Cowboys in 2005.

 

Who the heck wears a throwback in the preseason?

[tBBP]

On 8/29/2022 at 7:26 PM, ramsjetsthunder said:

 

Who the heck wears a throwback in the preseason?

 

 

Them.

 

(That was from the 2009 Hall of Fame Game aka the AJ Trapasso fake punt game.)

[ramsjetsthunder]

On 9/2/2022 at 9:13 AM, tBBP said:

 

 

Them.

 

(That was from the 2009 Hall of Fame Game aka the AJ Trapasso fake punt game.)

 

Ah, the HOF Game. That makes sense I suppose

[gothedistance]

On 9/2/2022 at 10:13 AM, tBBP said:

 

 

Them.

 

(That was from the 2009 Hall of Fame Game aka the AJ Trapasso fake punt game.)

 

There's also this

 

[the admiral]

On 2/27/2022 at 6:45 AM, Old School Fool said:

Cowboys didn't wear their road uniform in the 1995 Preseason and instead wore the white Double Star jersey for the final time but with solid socks.

 

 

 

Oilers at the Alamodome is something that feels like it should have happened more than it did. I've batted around an alternate history where the league stands athwart the Nashville move, as they should have, and the Oilers end up playing some regular-season games there. 

 

  

On 8/5/2022 at 1:44 AM, Sykotyk said:

Way back when, the NFL had a lot of preseason games outside the US and teams that participated got an extra preseason game. This was also a time when a lot of NFL teams played in baseball stadiums and preseason games would be at neutral sites or nearby college venues. 

Didn't the Packers have some preseason games at Camp Randall when they were still splitting with Milwaukee?

 

EDIT: huh! look at that

[TBGKon]

On 8/5/2022 at 2:44 AM, Sykotyk said:

Way back when, the NFL had a lot of preseason games outside the US and teams that participated got an extra preseason game. This was also a time when a lot of NFL teams played in baseball stadiums and preseason games would be at neutral sites or nearby college venues. 

I seem to recall in maybe 1998 that the Buccaneers played the Chiefs at the University of Oklahoma

[chrispw12]

While doing some research I found that the Broncos played the Tennessee Oilers in a pre season game on August 29, 1998 as that would be the only time the modern Broncos uniform faced the classic Oilers uniform

[MrAstrodome]

On 9/6/2022 at 3:24 PM, the admiral said:

 

Oilers at the Alamodome is something that feels like it should have happened more than it did. I've batted around an alternate history where the league stands athwart the Nashville move, as they should have, and the Oilers end up playing some regular-season games there. 

 

 

As a Texans fan with living memory of the Oilers now living in San Antonio, I also wonder at would have happen if the old team, just moved down I-10. They would still be the Oilers for one.  Though I could see them having a black alt because of the Spurs or even switching to black in the turn of the millennium because that era was all about dark colors.  

[chrispw12]

From looking on profootballreference I found on August 3, 1996 the Broncos played three 49ers with the 1996-2008 updated uniform against the classic orange crush Broncos and on August 17, 1995 the Patriots played the Eagles with the kelly green Randall Cunningham era uniform against the flying elvises uniform 

[Echo]

On 9/13/2022 at 11:02 PM, chrispw12 said:

While doing some research I found that the Broncos played the Tennessee Oilers in a pre season game on August 29, 1998 as that would be the only time the modern Broncos uniform faced the classic Oilers uniform

 

I just checked and the Broncos did not play the Oilers/Titans at all in the regular season between 1995 and 2004.  Just that one pre-season game in 1998.  That seems crazy to me.

[TBGKon]

On 9/16/2022 at 8:28 PM, Echo said:

 

I just checked and the Broncos did not play the Oilers/Titans at all in the regular season between 1995 and 2004.  Just that one pre-season game in 1998.  That seems crazy to me.

That does seem odd, but keep in mind from 1999-2001 there were 31 NFL teams and 16 in the AFC.  In fact, here is how the 31 team schedule was made.  Looking at the intraconference part for the AFC it was all based on standings for those years.  Once 2002 came around and the Texans were added the new schedule matrix came out and that may have caused Denver and Tennessee to not cross paths until 2005.

 

https://www.nfl.info/nflmedia/news/1998news/TeamScheduling102898.htm

[CheeseHusker]

On 9/7/2022 at 6:24 AM, the admiral said:

 Didn't the Packers have some preseason games at Camp Randall when they were still splitting with Milwaukee?

 

EDIT: huh! look at that

That was the first time they did it - I want to say it was around 1985 or 1986 because Randy Wright was the QB. If you look closely you can see them wearing the Forrest Gregg era unis with the yellow middle stripe and green number circle on the pants. I think they did it yearly for awhile and then it fizzled out in the 90s when GB stopped playing in Milwaukee, and both teams actually got good after being pretty terrible during the 70s and 80s.