NFL 2023 Changes

[LogoFan]

On 5/26/2023 at 1:57 PM, MCM0313 said:

Nike has relegated striped socks to the “uncool” bin, where they reside alongside dazzle fabric and full sleeves. 

 

I'll agree on the "dazzle" fabric and I get why we don't have the full sleeves anymore.  But there's no excuse to rejecting stripes.

This classic is a perfect example.  This uniform is beautiful: nice, traditional design, no wild-ass gradients, piping, panels, stripes etc, no crazy different-for-different's-sake numeral font and the those socks really help no only top off the set but make them unique. 

I hate most of what Nike has done to the NFL.  Sometimes they've delivered but more often than not there crap is an eyesore.

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[Carolingian Steamroller]

51 minutes ago, MCM0313 said:

Nike has relegated striped socks to the “uncool” bin, where they reside alongside dazzle fabric and full sleeves. 

These images contain three of the redesigns Nike has entered over the last 5 years:

[Carolingian Steamroller]

My point is that I don't think that striped socks or pants stripes are inherently doomed in this era.

[aawagner011]

I think the issue is that a majority of players have switched over to wearing compression sleeves instead of real socks. That causes problems with consistency and stripes. Take these two photos that were posted earlier:

 

 

#41 of the Rams and #88 (80?) of the Lions are both wearing compression leggings. You can tell by the seams running up the sides of the legging. Those are not socks.

 

 

Same for all the Commanders above, as well as #45 of the Bears.

 

Perhaps the league could go to Nike and ask if they could develop a compression legging that includes stripes sublimated into the fabric. That could solve the issues and make it enforceable and consistent from player to player. I get why the players prefer the leggings. I’m sure they are much more comfortable. But as of now, it’s a free for all and nothing is enforced.

[burgundy]

1 hour ago, Carolingian Steamroller said:

These images contain three of the redesigns Nike has entered over the last 5 years:

 

I don't think Nike can take any credit for the Browns. They were just reverting to the classic stripes from before Nike's previous disaster. The brown alternates however, are stripeless turd pajamas.

 

 

[MJWalker45]

12 minutes ago, aawagner011 said:

I think the issue is that a majority of players have switched over to wearing compression sleeves instead of real socks. That causes problems with consistency and stripes. Take these two photos that were posted earlier:

 

 

#41 of the Rams and #88 (80?) of the Lions are both wearing compression leggings. You can tell by the seams running up the sides of the legging. Those are not socks.

 

 

Same for all the Commanders above, as well as #45 of the Bears.

 

Perhaps the league could go to Nike and ask if they could develop a compression legging that includes stripes sublimated into the fabric. That could solve the issues and make it enforceable and consistent from player to player. I get why the players prefer the leggings. I’m sure they are much more comfortable. But as of now, it’s a free for all and nothing is enforced.

Adidas did this with some of the leggings MLS goalkeepers are wearing this year, except the stripes are vertical instead of horizontal. 

[ManillaToad]

2 hours ago, Jezus_Ghoti said:

The NFL also seems to have stopped enforcing any kind of rules around socks. That's why I think I'm ready to live in a post-sock world where players just show their legs like in college. 

 

Spare me from seeing all of this:

 

You would still see all this except some guys would just have no socks. You'd just be adding another variable

[HOOVER]

3 hours ago, CS85 said:

Leave the bare legs to the NCAA.  The NFL would look stupid as hell without socks.

They’ll look like they forgot a 1/3 of their uniform.

 

No bare legs in the NFL.  

[dont care]

What about bear legs?

[Carolingian Steamroller]

2 hours ago, dont care said:

What about bear legs?

Sigh. If only...

[DCarp1231]

Got me thinking about that Rams kicker who decided to wear shorts

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11 hours ago, Jezus_Ghoti said:

 

Is it really worse than this?  I'm not so sure anymore. 

 

11 hours ago, MJWalker45 said:

 

Just bring back actual striped socks. 

 

[JustABallCoach]

I like pant stripes, but the ravens are bad example to me. This black pants with stripes were awful. I’m sure you could do a better version, those aren’t it. 

[HOOVER]

1 hour ago, JustABallCoach said:

I like pant stripes, but the ravens are bad example to me. This black pants with stripes were awful. I’m sure you could do a better version, those aren’t it. 

The Ravens should retire the Black pants permanently if they haven’t already.

[dont care]

2 hours ago, HOOVER said:

The Ravens should retire the Black pants permanently if they haven’t already.

Why? And have only white pants?

[SportsFan12]

59 minutes ago, dont care said:

Why? And have only white pants?

They’ve had purple pants for the last five years.

[4_tattoos]

With the exception of the original helmet and sleeve logos, the Ravens' first uniforms sucked in a major way.

 

[WSU151]

2 hours ago, 4_tattoos said:

With the exception of the original helmet and sleeve logos, the Ravens' first uniforms sucked in a major way.

 

 

It’s one of my favorites lol. I liked the black-purple-black look with the serifed numbers. The white stripe was weird. 

[DCarp1231]

[HOOVER]

18 hours ago, dont care said:

Why? And have only white pants?

White pants with the Purple jersey and Purple pants with the White jersey, with the occasional swap of White/White and Purple/Purple to make the players/young fans happy.  That's what they should wear, and only what they should wear, until they do a redesign:

 

That means no more of this:

 

 

 

In most ways, I don't hate the Black over Purple, but with no coordinating helmet/pant stripe, it looks off.  It's one of those rare instances where a solid, stripeless pant would work better.  Or, if they kept it, but updated the helmet to get rid of the 90's pointed shards and gave themselves a traditional 3-stripe, it could be their best look.