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sluggermatt15 wrote:
I liked the Broncos orange color rush uniform. It is one of my favorites of the Color Rush. I think if they go to an alternate, why not go back to the yellow and brown?
With the vertically striped mustard and brown socks, why not? Few things strike fear into an opponent than more than to face a lineman filled with rage over having to wear vertically striped socks.
Something that many don't remember is that in 2009 when they brought back those unis, they also had two jerseys with the vertical-striped brown socks to match (the yellow and the white).
Anyone with the slightest concern for history should hope that Denver always keep the striped socks uniforms as a throwback -
if only an optional throwback.
The striped socks have a significant place in AFL history. The Broncos wore the brown and white version in the first-ever AFL game and the only AFL game played that evening when they beat the Patriots at Boston.
Thus began the genesis that changed and improved professional football for the next two decades.
ChrisBabcock wrote:I see the Bengals ditched those hideous rounded numbers and went back to more traditional block numbers.
I only saw them in one highlight today. Looks good from what little I saw.
I was kind of hoping Browns would keep the stripes on their helmets off. I really like that look (air holes over top of some helmets give it even more character). But putting stripes back on for tradition-sake understandable. I think their current unis as a whole (today's TIE game) look real good.
As I said before on this site, I'd really like to see a team (perhaps the next, new expansion) to have the guts to simply have numbers on each side of helmet (with or without stripe over top) like Crimson Tide.
As I said before on this site, I'd really like to see a team (perhaps the next, new expansion) to have the guts to simply have numbers on each side of helmet (with or without stripe over top) like Crimson Tide.
It would have been cool to see the Chargers do that with their last uniform redesign they did about 10-15 years ago.
ChrisBabcock wrote:I see the Bengals ditched those hideous rounded numbers and went back to more traditional block numbers.
Those were their color rush jerseys. I wonder why they wore them today.
Yup, when I woke up and flipped on the pregame shows the first shot of anything I saw was a look at Dalton walking the field in pregame and I wondered the same, "why are they wearing their color rush jerseys?"
