2024 NFL Changes

[PurpleHayes]

To the NFL doofuses (doofi?) approving this white uniform nonsense trend:

 

[Sec19Row53]

1 hour ago, VDizzle12 said:

Just another example of a team designing a helmet as a standalone item and completely ignoring the rest of the uniform set. 

 

It looks fine by itself, but makes absolutely no sense with the Packers white jerseys and pants. 

 

A green facemask, yellow stripe and a yellow stroke around the G-logo would have made these actually tolerable and actually pretty decent. 

Alternate take - these are the stripes/stickers that they already have, so it's easy?

[MrAstrodome]

Blame the color rush when Throwback Thursday was right there. Blame the colorblind game that unleashed the blank white socks upon us because of necessity.

[GFB]

Maybe I’m wrong, but this feels like the NFL forcing the Packers hand for the Brazil game that they’re selling as Eagles in all black and Packers in all white to avoid the stadium’s “no green” policy. 

 

You’d imagine if this helmet was the Packers idea, they’d put a little more effort into getting new decals instead of recycling the regular ones… but if it’s the NFL’s idea and the Packers aren’t exactly happy about it, half-assing it as a way of objecting to the idea would make sense.

 

I wouldn’t believe this if it was any team other than the Packers, but they’re the team that refused to update to any Nike template for a decade. Suddenly they’re hopping on the alternate helmet train out of the blue? It doesn’t add up.

 

EDIT:
Nevermind, saw the tweet that said they were debuting them in October… no excuses now.

[fouhy12]

Re: the Brazil game. The notice about the color green was always about what fans should be wearing when they're in public around the arena. GUD has Philly in midnight green for that game. 

[Aardvark]

White helmets for the Eagles actually makes sense

 

[SportsFan12]

To the many people who seem to think green isn't allowed for the Brazil game:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2024/06/14/packers-eagles-wear-green-brazil-fact-check/74098113007/

 

I don't understand how so many saw the rumors but missed the league saying they aren't true.

[fouhy12]

Wait, you're telling me anonymous twitter accounts that get paid by the impression and steal reports from journalists but intentionally take them out of context AREN'T a good source of information???

[ruttep]

The only source I saw about the green in Brazil stuff was GUD. And as said above, they still have the Eagles in midnight green for that game

[rfraser85]

1 hour ago, Sec19Row53 said:

Alternate take - these are the stripes/stickers that they already have, so it's easy?

 

I'm sure it's easier to get just one set of decals for a season, but if it's that much more difficult to order one set with a yellow stripe, that's the least of the problems.

[tBBP]

Circling back to the Brazil game...even if there was a hint of a rumor, or chance of controversy, about wearing green in the game, why on the green earth would the league schedule two teams THAT WEAR GREEN to play in such a game?

 

The logic ain't logicking with that one...

[VikWings]

17 hours ago, NH4 said:

 

Packers all but confirm the white helmets

 

Yawn another white helmet. So unnecessary and seems beneath the Packers, doesn't fit their aesthetic at all either. Needs a yellow center stripe badly.

 

I feel like (hope) this icy white thing with matching helmets is just a trend in the NFL.

 

These, the Jaguars and the Cowboys (with current star) seem the most boring and pointless and I feel will have the shortest shelf life*. I don't think Denver's need to exist either but at least they were designed with the navy alt in mind.

 

(*As far as non-white or throwback alts go, I feel the Bears, Eagles and Saints don't belong either.)

[MCM0313]

4 hours ago, Sec19Row53 said:

I wasn't doubting you.

I was telling you you were wrong. The picture you posted featured Roman Gabriel at QB for the Eagles. It didn't have the NFL 50 patch on the shoulder. It had the Washington team wearing its Indian head logo. None of those occurred in the 60s.

The Indigenous Persons didn’t start wearing their Indigenous Profile logo until…1971, I wanna say? 1970 they wore the yellow helmets that were designed specifically for Lombardi, but he had to go and die of lung cancer on them before that set ever saw the field (very selfish of him, that was). 
 

Philly’s dual white-green helmets didn’t last too long…the picture probably dates from 1971-72. 

[FiddySicks]

Yeah this is by far the worst and most pointless alt helmet of them all. 
 

 

Like, if you’re gonna introduce an unnecessary alt, at least put a bit of effort into it. This is just so half assed. 
 

Three different stripe sets on all three uniform elements. That’s unacceptably bad.

 

 

 

Congrats, Packers. For one day, you’re bigger clowns than the Vikings. 

[Sec19Row53]

41 minutes ago, MCM0313 said:

The Indigenous Persons didn’t start wearing their Indigenous Profile logo until…1971, I wanna say? 1970 they wore the yellow helmets that were designed specifically for Lombardi, but he had to go and die of lung cancer on them before that set ever saw the field (very selfish of him, that was). 
 

Philly’s dual white-green helmets didn’t last too long…the picture probably dates from 1971-72. 

1973 - the only year Roman was in Philly 

 

They only had the dual helmets in 1969. They wore white only 1970-73.

[fouhy12]

NFL.com is using the old Jaguars logo throughout. 

[SSmith48]

6 hours ago, NH4 said:

 

No gold on the helmet but on the jersey and pants is a terrible choice

1: I've said it before and I'll say it again: whiteouts are the most overrated trend in modern football. They aren't unique or creative, and they've run their course with everyone "needing" one nowadays. The Packers *could* have made it work for them, but they just went the lazy route that everyone else does (basically a color swap with white).

2: These are extremely boring. Add some Green Bay Gold and a green facemask and these look 10 times better. The way these were design look so out of place compared to the rest of the uniform.

3: The Packers (and Bears) should not be touching alternate helmets outside of a throwback uniform. IMO they are the NFL's equivalent to the Dodgers/Yankees in MLB or Red Wings/Canadiens in the NHL. They do not need anything more than their current rotation because their brand as some of the oldest cornerstone franchises in the league have to be somewhat protected.

 

Not surprised that they ended up here though. I think the NFL is starting to "highly recommend" alternate helmets in some shape or form because they are marketable and can make them money. In response, teams make the laziest looks to simply comply with the league (Broncos, Packers, Jaguars, I'm looking at you).  The fact that so many of the teams are going with white or black helmets, instead of something more unique makes me unreasonably upset. The only teams IMO that have really nailed it so far (outside of throwback helmets) are the Texans (Battle Red), Ravens, Bengals, Lions (new), and maybe the Panthers. Everyone else has phoned it in or didn't go with something that would have been infinite times better.

[tBBP]

51 minutes ago, FiddySicks said:

Yeah this is by far the worst and most pointless alt helmet of them all. 
 

 

Like, if you’re gonna introduce an unnecessary alt, at least put a bit of effort into it. This is just so half assed. 

 

Not saying that it's not unnecessarily pointless, but there's one alt helmet out here now that's even worse and far more pointless:

 

 

Like, literally, there is absolutely zero reason or precedent for this to exist. At least Green Bay can make the dubious tenuous [and yet very real] connection to snow and frozen tundra. Jacksonville can't even do that—and these can only [for now] be worn with their black alternate jerseys. Like, for what, though??

 

Oh—and for additional ocular punishment, somebody mocked this up on Reddit. I predict it becomes reality inside the next five years if not three:

 

 

Like, for what, though??

[WSU151]

I still think this is the most pointless helmet considering the Cowboys have another white helmet

 

 

 

[Dynasty]

In a vacuum, I think most of the teams in the league could make white helmets work for them, as needless as they would be. What really dictates how they look depends on the uniforms worn with them. Is there striping consistency? Is there color balance? Those would ultimately decide the helmet's place within the uniform set.

 

I'm not saying that I'm on board with this trend, but if it's going to be a thing, I would at the very least appreciate teams going the extra mile in making sure that these new helmets tie in well enough with what they already have. And if they do add features to compliment the helmet, just don't be lazy about...?