2024 NFL Changes

[HOOVER]

10 hours ago, DCarp1231 said:

But then they’d look too much like the Panthers! Oh the humanity!!  

I was told that Silver & Black are the Raiders’ colors and no one else is allowed to use them in football anymore.

[HOOVER]

6 hours ago, Aardvark said:

 

They wore silver pants after that, which I prefer honestly

 

I’ve been clamoring for a return of Silver pants for the Falcons forever.  When I said add Gold, I didn’t mean delete Silver.

 

Black/Red/Silver/Gold

[NOLAPelicans23]

13 hours ago, raysox said:

I think there's a nice area where teams can push uniforms to feel modern enough, be visually interesting, but not overwhelmingly gaudy. The main Falcons uniforms fail this. But the "Darnold Era" set, Chargers, and the Vikings fit into this window. 

I think these were ruined by organizational ineptitude and wearing black too much. I truly feel like this was the best uniform set that the Jets ever wore from a design point of view. I prefer the number font, helmet,  the sleeve stripes, and not having giant white collars compared to the new set. There's just nothing that excites me about the current set. It's just escapism to "ahhh remember when were were a little bit more respectful, but not good enough to ever make a championship?"

 

Again, nostalgia be damned. They had the off color Rex Ryan era uniforms for most of my life. I just think the ones they had previously were cool.

This. Especially with the updated Jet logo would have worked together so well. It would have felt cohesive while being distinct to the Jets. Their current look lacks a sense of energy. It just exist

[ruttep]

14 hours ago, raysox said:

I think there's a nice area where teams can push uniforms to feel modern enough, be visually interesting, but not overwhelmingly gaudy. The main Falcons uniforms fail this. But the "Darnold Era" set, Chargers, and the Vikings fit into this window. 

I think these were ruined by organizational ineptitude and wearing black too much. I truly feel like this was the best uniform set that the Jets ever wore from a design point of view. I prefer the number font, helmet,  the sleeve stripes, and not having giant white collars compared to the new set. There's just nothing that excites me about the current set. It's just escapism to "ahhh remember when were were a little bit more respectful, but not good enough to ever make a championship?"

 

Again, nostalgia be damned. They had the off color Rex Ryan era uniforms for most of my life. I just think the ones they had previously were cool.

 

I disagree. I love the current set because I view it as a cleaned-up version of the Darnold set. It fixes all of the problems I had with the previous set.

 

-Fixes the helmet logo

-Removes black as an accent color

-Removes wordmark above the numbers

-Number font becomes standard block

-Fixes the sleeve stripes

-Fixes the pant stripe

 

The wide collar provides balance with the pant stripe, which is about the same width.

 

You could call it stripped-down and boring, but I see it as the Darnold jersey, but better.

 

And I'm sorry, but I'll never be able to separate that set from this abomination (both the player and the uniform combo):

[raysox]

I mean, you use fixes a ton in your reasoning but I don't necessarily think it was broken, just different than what a football uniform looks like for like 15 or so teams in the league. 

[ruttep]

34 minutes ago, raysox said:

I mean, you use fixes a ton in your reasoning but I don't necessarily think it was broken, just different than what a football uniform looks like for like 15 or so teams in the league. 

 

Just my opinion. Wasn't a fan of the "innovations" that you liked as part of that set.

[MrAstrodome]

Cards/Niners ruined by white yoga pants. Everywhere.

 

Broncos/Raiders looking like a classic.

 

Adams family can chuck dirt for forcing another navy jersey. 

[MJD7]

I'm not often in the "just go back to the throwbacks & call it a day" crowd, but the Jags could really go back to the '90s set as-is, and they'd look beautiful, as was evidenced today. The gold accents are really so necessary to make their set shine. If it were completely up to me, I'd make the gold sleeve stripe taper, much like their main set, & I'd modernize the number font & logo ever so slightly, but as-is, they still looked gorgeous.

 

Also, this is on the opposite end of the tradition-modernity spectrum, but I'll say it: I think Houston's "H-Town" uniforms looked sweet, in the highlights I saw. The red numbers looked really cool against the navy background, and the "H-Town Blue" provided the necessary amount of pop, especially for players that wore it as an accent for sleeves, gloves, & shoes. I wouldn't want it to be their main home uniform, but I think it's great as a once-or-twice-a-year alternate.

 

Lastly, as expected, I'm not big on the Bengals' orange pants with the black jersey. It's the same reason why I don't love their orange socks, if they're not paired with the orange jersey: everywhere else where there is orange, it's part of a tiger stripe pattern, so the solid bock of orange kind of distracts from that. Also, as @SFGiants58 has mentioned, they haven't quite matched their helmet orange shade to their jersey/pants/socks orange, so I think it's best to keep the use of orange in moderation, besides the alternate jersey.

[CreamSoda]

Denver looks absolutely fantastic.  That shade of blue and orange together is amazing.  
 

Really wish this was the full time look, it’s just such a classic Denver Bronco uniform.  

[Lights Out]

17 hours ago, ruttep said:

And I'm sorry, but I'll never be able to separate that set from this abomination (both the player and the uniform combo):

 

It's the Jets. You can bring up bad players, embarrassing moments and awful teams to associate with every uniform they've ever worn.

[Silver_Star]

On 10/5/2024 at 9:14 PM, HOOVER said:

I’ve been clamoring for a return of Silver pants for the Falcons forever.  When I said add Gold, I didn’t mean delete Silver.

 

Black/Red/Silver/Gold

 

No kid! Too much metallic colors in one. I rather just treat silver with the red helmets and red jerseys. Adding silver now while Carolina has the color (knocked off from the Raiders) is just another Raiders look with black helmets. No need for that.

[Valeria]

I'm someone who loves both throwbacks and new uniforms but I rarely ever find someone who agrees with that. I've seen so many people write off all of the uniform changes off just because the Color Rush not straight up a ripoff of the old Oilers unis and conversely I've seen many people dislike the Color Rush just because of the H-Town Blue color.

I think it the change provided a much needed refresh for the Texans to kickoff their new found status of "The Underdog" team for a new group of NFL fans and they proved just how effective the new design can be to public opinion during the Bills game, but they really just need to do something their home uniforms.

 

While the new number font looks great and the collar splitting into the Texas Flag colors is a cool detail, the uniform is one of the most basic I've seen for any redesign (especially one with so much hype and build up) and the collar design isn't even new, it came from an old fashion jersey.

I'm probably just cherry picking at that point but it was a small thing that urked me about the whole redesign.

[aawagner011]

I find myself surprisingly liking a lot about the new Texans uniforms. They aren’t as wild (at least the standard uniforms) as I originally thought and definitely still look like Houston on TV. However, there are a few quirks that bug me.

 

There’s no cohesion from one set to another. The road white and red alternates follow the same template with the horns. They also share a dot pattern on the numbers. But why does the red alternate helmet and jersey feature a blue and red horn against red (effectively single colored) while the red pants feature navy and white accenting? The road uniform seems to get this right with the blue and red horn against white, while the navy pants include all three colors.

 

While the white and red feature dot numbers and horns, the home navy and Luv Ya Blue alternate have beveled numbers and sleeve logos. The white and red have no collar detail, the home navy has a Texas flag inspired two-color collar, and the Luv Ya Blue has a harshly angled single colored red collar accent (different shape than the standard home collar).

 

If the Texans could have consolidated some of these designs and picked a style instead of going the Commanders route and just saying yes to all options, I’d say it was an effective brand update. Not necessarily better than what they had, but expectations are low with how many trash uniforms we get these days.

[tBBP]

1 hour ago, aawagner011 said:

I find myself surprisingly liking a lot about the new Texans uniforms. They aren’t as wild (at least the standard uniforms) as I originally thought and definitely still look like Houston on TV. However, there are a few quirks that bug me.

 

There’s no cohesion from one set to another. The road white and red alternates follow the same template with the horns. They also share a dot pattern on the numbers. But why does the red alternate helmet and jersey feature a blue and red horn against red (effectively single colored) while the red pants feature navy and white accenting? The road uniform seems to get this right with the blue and red horn against white, while the navy pants include all three colors.

 

While the white and red feature dot numbers and horns, the home navy and Luv Ya Blue alternate have beveled numbers and sleeve logos. The white and red have no collar detail, the home navy has a Texas flag inspired two-color collar, and the Luv Ya Blue has a harshly angled single colored red collar accent (different shape than the standard home collar).

 

If the Texans could have consolidated some of these designs and picked a style instead of going the Commanders route and just saying yes to all options, I’d say it was an effective brand update. Not necessarily better than what they had, but expectations are low with how many trash uniforms we get these days.

 

This is what happens when one sets out to create a set of uniforms to appease everyone in a fanbase...which is exactly what Cal McNair said he the Texans wanted to do from the outset of this rebranding process.

 

McNair missed the same lesson as Snyder et. al (and to a degree Kroenke et. al) with the WTF set—different designs for each individual uniform set isn't a great idea—but Mac n'em went double extra overboard with it, resulting in, well, what they have now....

[Dynasty]

Why do people keep calling that color "Luv Ya Blue?" I have never heard that name used outside of this community.

[Cujo]

55 minutes ago, Dynasty said:

Why do people keep calling that color "Luv Ya Blue?" I have never heard that name used outside of this community.

 

Tell us you were born in the 2000s without telling us you were born in the 2000s

[Silver_Star]

8 hours ago, Dynasty said:

Why do people keep calling that color "Luv Ya Blue?" I have never heard that name used outside of this community.

 

Go back and watch the YouTube videos of the original Houston Oilers. Go to Austin, Texas and look for Ron Olivera. He was and probably still is a Houston football diehard fan. He will tell you, Luv Ya Blue has always been a 1970's thing in Houston, Texas when the Oilers was actually getting better when Bum Phillips brought in better players.

That blue has always been the theme for Houston sports teams. The Rockets use it in the navy blue and red in 1996 when they had Barkley on the team, etc.

So son, before you ask this question, go look up Houston Oilers in the years of 1975-1993 and you will see why the nickname is Houston lore!

[WSU151]

8 hours ago, Dynasty said:

Why do people keep calling that color "Luv Ya Blue?" I have never heard that name used outside of this community.

 

Not to pile on - but just to emphasize it's not only a CCSLC thing, check the inside collar. 

 

[McCall]

9 hours ago, Dynasty said:

Why do people keep calling that color "Luv Ya Blue?" I have never heard that name used outside of this community.

[gosioux76]

On 10/6/2024 at 11:31 AM, raysox said:

I mean, you use fixes a ton in your reasoning but I don't necessarily think it was broken, just different than what a football uniform looks like for like 15 or so teams in the league. 

 

I liked the general direction of the Darnold look when the Jets introduced it. After around 20 years in the 60s-era look, the latter half in mismatched greens, I welcomed a return to something more representative to the 80s-90s green helmet look. Because it edged close to that era, I never considered it a bad look. But that set also represent a lot of missed opportunities, the biggest being the strange choice of a wordmark with a clipart football. That set would've looked much better had they just adopted the '80s wordmark, as they have this season, making the set a more modernized version of the original. 

 

And as others mentioned, the odd shoulder striping and the unnecessary, but predictable, use of black continued to distance it from its '80s inspiration. 

 

So I was pleased to see the team ultimately just go back to the old, nostalgic look than trying to further tweak its modernization. Why mess around when the simplicity of the old look more than does the job. 

 

On 10/6/2024 at 3:26 PM, MrAstrodome said:

Cards/Niners ruined by white yoga pants. Everywhere.

 

The Cardinals, in my opinion, are the only team in the NFL that can and should own white as a primary color. It's the monochrome red that ruins the look. Absent that, it's a better example of a team that sought to modernize a classic look. It's not perfect, but they did it better than the Jets.