NIKE NFL Uniforms

[TSHARE18]

I tweeted the owners son today ... and begged that whatever changes they have in store, to keep the helmet as it is. I love their helmets.

Yea me too. Im sure I can live with whatever they come up with as long as it doesnt have spots or mess with the helmet. I really hope the dont get rid of teal either. The whole stadium has teal seats so I cant imagine having a team play in a stadium with teal seats without having teal in the uniform.

[Riatt]

49ers white jersey

I always found it odd how there is no gold on any of the 49er's jerseys now. Looks out of place with the gold helmet and pants.

[Claystation360]

I like the improvements to the Jaguars current uniforms

Yes I agree when you hear players refer to them as

"Oregon on Steroids" it's not very reassuring. Im still not happy were moving away from Teal and that the 2013 set just doesn't look retarded like Seattle's set I'm hoping for the best.

[waltere]

The ONLY team who came out of today looking better are the Chiefs. That simple striping tweak on their sleeves means it's a bit less cluttered & more visually pleasing around there now. Everyone else is either a complete lateral move, or a step backwards, especially those teams with the Eric Dickerson collar effect going on. Even Nike's pet project the Seahawks just came out looking like Hasbro 90s chic (thanks IceCap ).

A bad start.

[Dounner]

Where are all the white jerseys or the road uniforms. You figure Nike would do a better job of showing all the different uniform combos for every team. Very weak unveiling!

[Legend]

Further proof that there is no change for the eagles. The same exact cut for Vick.

Vick today

Vick last season

Vick 4 years ago:

[Dexter Morgan]

How the sleeves should of been done.

[Legend]

I also love the team colored cleats. That is awesome.

I find it hilarious that the phrase assclown Lukas invented, black for blacks sake, never applied to the many teams that wore black shoes as their color for shoe? Wouldn't that be the same, no black in the color scheme but in the cleats! Oh my!

Now maybe Roger and his buttpirate crew will stay off fining players for every little uni miscue they can.

Also food for thought, Nike, just like Reebok, isn't forcing teams to do anything. See several teams that didn't change. They provided an new jersey, and teams decided to use it. Stop blaming Nike for every damn thing you hate.

PS- Yes, Nike like other companies are made somewhere else and by questionable labor at times, but at least Nike is an American company unlike Reebok and Adidas. May not matter for some people, but I like that. A company founded and headquarted in the US.

[ONUV]

from a titans board

osted this before, but on one of his call in shows someone called in and said the same thing about the dark blue/white combo. Surprisingly Munch said not only did he heartily agree but that was one of the first thing he asked about after he got the job; he wanted to return to the tradition. He said that they were under contractual obligation to use the throwbacks for thee years as the team's alternate. He assured that at the very least the dark blue/white combo would be the alternate starting this year. The decision to change the columbia blue from alternate to primary was a business decision to try and generate sales of jerseys; after selling a lot of jerseys the first few years, sales had tapered off quite a bit.

[BrandMooreArt]

49ers white jersey

I always found it odd how there is no gold on any of the 49er's jerseys now. Looks out of place with the gold helmet and pants.

i dont mind there not being any gold. but i hate those stripes. running the stripes at an awkward angle off the sleeve is such a horrible idea i cant believe it made it on the field, let alone copied and exaggerated by Nike (sleeve area seems smaller than RBK). i see what they were going for, to make the stripes level, to make them look like the old 80's jersey. but it just dosent work. sleeve stripes really dont work on modern uniforms anyway, that was a nice graphic element years ago but the design is dead. the problem (jersey cut) has changed but the solutions havent, they're just ramming a square peg through a round hole. Steelers, Packers, Etc arnt perfect but its the best you can do with the modern jersey i think (actually what Oklahoma State did i think is the best. dont force a stripe, make it into a different shoulder graphic element). 49ers i give credit for trying something different, to try to make it better, but like i said, no way that should have ever made the field. if not for those awful stripes, they would probably be my favorite NFL uniform.

[infrared41]

What I've seen so far seems to confirm what a lot of us were saying from the start; there weren't going to be mass, radical changes. Nike really botched the Seahawks uniforms, but other than that, all the hand-wringing over Nike was really just much ado about nothing. I think some of the minor changes Nike made actually turned out pretty well. (Chiefs sleeves, Redskins cleats) Hopefully, all the other teams will see how badly Seattle's new look turned out and they will politely tell Nike thanks, but no thanks when it comes to any "re-imagining" of their current looks. (In my opinion, the Seahawks have taken the Chargers place as the uniform with the most wasted potential in the NFL.)

[RyanMcD29]

Not as bad as people were anticipating (Seattle's jerseys aside), but I am in the camp that's in agreement that Nike somehow made the Jets' sleeves worse. I thought going to a new template would at least have the stripes go all away around, but instead it looks even worse than before. Also, they better match all the greens up by the time they hit the field

[TreFiftiSS]

Will the Redskins have the gold pants this coming season?

[Stampman]

Other than the collars on some teams, these aren't bad.

yes some teams could have used a tweak or two, and a handful a more major change.

But they could have been so much worse.

And for the record--I like the Seahawks new look.

Call me crazy.

[infrared41]

Not as bad as people were anticipating (Seattle's jerseys aside), but I am in the camp that's in agreement that Nike somehow made the Jets' sleeves worse. I thought going to a new template would at least have the stripes go all away around, but instead it looks even worse than before. Also, they better match all the greens up by the time they hit the field

Nike definitely screwed up it's fair share of small details (some of those collars are ridiculous) but overall, I think we can all agree that it wasn't the disaster it could have been; Seattle being the noted exception. Speaking of the Jets, how in the hell did Nike let three different shades of green on the same jersey slip past QC?

Anyway, I'm relieved that the Packers look didn't change at all.

[Sodboy13]

The ONLY team who came out of today looking better are the Chiefs. That simple striping tweak on their sleeves means it's a bit less cluttered & more visually pleasing around there now.

I think the Bears improved today, too, and via the same move. By bumping the sleeve numbers up to the shoulders, it allows the sleeve stripes to widen out, and the "GSH" to become larger, perhaps to something closer to 1985 proportions. Over the past several years, the stripes and GSH kept getting squished down, with the bottom stripe moved down to the elastic sleeve cuff, and the league founder's initials often getting obscured.

[Billy B]

The ONLY team who came out of today looking better are the Chiefs. That simple striping tweak on their sleeves means it's a bit less cluttered & more visually pleasing around there now.

I think the Bears improved today, too, and via the same move. By bumping the sleeve numbers up to the shoulders, it allows the sleeve stripes to widen out, and the "GSH" to become larger, perhaps to something closer to 1985 proportions. Over the past several years, the stripes and GSH kept getting squished down, with the bottom stripe moved down to the elastic sleeve cuff, and the league founder's initials often getting obscured.

Definitely agree with all of this. I've been hoping for a while that the Bears would move their numbers to the shoulder. It was ridiculous that the shoulders of the jersey were empty while they were pushing one of their stripes to the sleeve cuff. I didn't think the Chiefs had to make that same move, but it looks better now that they did. I always thought of their stripes as solely cuff striping, but their jerseys look better with the striping enlarged onto the sleeves.

[pcgd]

On the Silicone numbers...curious if that means its going to be overseas.

Its much more expensive from what I hear to use environmentally friendly silicone in the US. The china and other asian countries they don't have the same restrictions or its much cheaper.

No matter what, be prepared to not be able to find a player outside of the "main" few player for each team. And if you see a obscure player and want that jersey, pick it up right then and there. Nike is horrible at "chasing" anything. They produce, ship and are done.

[dennisbergan]

FYI according to Jim Thomas, beat writer for the Post-Dispatch, the gold pants are history for the Rams. @jthom1

Only 2 jersey colors for Rams new uniforms (blue and white) and only 2 pants colors (blue and white). The gold pants are gone. History.

What a horrificly stupid decision by the Lambs.

If they should have done anything is s-can those white pants. They look bad with both the white jersey's and and the blue jersey's.

The gold pants were EASILY the best pair of britches for the Rams. Sounds like something Porn Stache Fisher probably did now that he's head coach.

Ohh well. When you are as irrelevant as the Rams are, does it even matter? They'll be in Los Angelas in a few years anyway.

And does anyone really think many teams are going to wearing those "team cleats"? That would be a big "NO". Ain't no way in hell, a bunch of offensive lineman and Peyton Manning are going to be hopping around in orange and navy shoes. The Broncos will be wearing white shoes. The Steelers will be wearing white shoes. The Giants will be wearing black shoes. The Packers will be wearing black shoes. And as many of these players aren't Nike guys anyway (like Manning, for example). So what do they do?

Nike's had all of these "team shoes" in college ball for years. 95% of teams are still wearing either black shoes or white shoes. Why? Its football. That's what football players wear.

Plus, the NFL isn't going to get rid of its uniform rules. Those babies are set in stone. And there is no league more image conscious then the NFL. They don't want to look like those fools in the NBA, who look like are playing in a rec league game with all of their individuality. Hell they fine you if your towel is too long or your socks are the wrong color. Every team will be wearing the same color shoe...just like they have for how many years now? It will be either black or white. The Seahawks players will be able to accent some lime green in there (like they always have). But it will be a black shoe or a white shoe (probably black since that's what they worn for a decade now).

[abluecarrot]

Does this flywire stuff do anything at all? It just seems like the snake oil of today. And are those mesh things on the stomach going to end up being those ridiculous dark splotches that some college teams?