![]() ![]() ![]() There are plenty of problems with Washington’s overall visual template, but the alternates are an acceptable way of throwing back to an older era. Photo via Aaron Doster-USA TODAY Sports 21. Perhaps that could be the blueprint for a future redesign. “Clean” is an overused term to describe sports uniforms, but the all-white Color Rush fits that adjective as well as any design. Their orange alternate is a nice change of pace, even if it falls victim to the same flaws as the home and away. ![]() They badly need something better designed than the outdated, cartoonish look they have going now. Cincinnati BengalsĬincinnati continues to wear uniforms that look ripe for a redesign. It isn’t particularly bad-looking, outside of the weirdo shoulder stripes and problematic pants striping, but mono-black wasn’t a good idea and the uniform feels out of place to begin with. The Jets added black to their color scheme for no other reason than to produce an alternate. This, folks, is what you call “black for black’s sake” (BFBS). Photo via Raj Mehta-USA TODAY Sports Photo via Gregory Shamus/Getty Images 23. They’re ranked higher than Tampa both because of the throwback and because the all-gray alts are designed in the same fashion as the home and aways. I respect the effort at an inverse-colored alternate, but the Lions should be fine sticking with their Honolulu blue. The all-gray is a rough one - the helmets look out of sync with the gray jerseys and pants, and any uniform that is completely gray is doomed for failure. The throwbacks are what they’ve been for most of the decade, and that’s fine. Buccaneers Color Rush is pictured furthest from the left. Still, Tampa’s new uniforms are a massive upgrade, as much as I wanted to see the creamsicles return. White pants, more than anything else, would solve some problems. It has heavy red and white accents instead of black and orange outlines like the home and away, hurting Tampa’s effort at a consistent visual identity. But the Bucs’ all-pewter alternate doesn’t make a ton of sense. Tampa Bay BuccaneersĪs with all the new sets, this comes with the caveat that we haven’t seen it on the field and thus can’t fully evaluate it. Photo via Jeff Hanisch-USA TODAY Sports Photo via Jeffrey Phelps/AP 25. I’d rather see their regular home and away set, which is one of the best in the league. Their throwbacks are fine for their purposes - honor the team’s history, and add another uniform to change it up - but they don’t look particularly good on the field. The Packers’ all-white Color Rush unis are essentially their regular white jersey with white pants. Photo via Ron Chenoy-USA TODAY Sports Photo via Isaiah J. It’s time for a major shift in Denver, perhaps to something closer to what they wore when John Elway was younger. Their blue alternates are just as poorly-designed and outdated as their home and away uniforms have always been. As it stands, they look like traffic cones, despite the glorious classic logo on the helmet. If the Broncos wore white pants with their all-orange Color Rush, they’d rise quickly in this list. Browns Color Rush is pictured furthest from the right. They’d have been better served with an orange alternate in the style of their home and away uniforms. It’s slightly different from their all-brown uniform last year, with fewer stripes, but it remains mono-turd with no white to be found. That doesn’t make their all-brown Color Rush set any better, however. While brown and orange will never be a particularly good color scheme, the Browns will wear what they should be wearing. The Browns’ new set is a massive upgrade on what they previously wore. A team with different versions of pants, but the same jersey, does not count toward their alternates - so as much as you might like the Titans wearing light blue pants with their navy jerseys, that doesn’t count toward their alternates. We’ll take each as a whole, so if a team wore both a Color Rush set and a throwback uniform, they both count equally to the ranking. Today, let’s rank the alternate uniform sets. If we’re lucky, more teams will make like the Seahawks and play around with their combinations. The great Uni Watch imagined these scenarios back in 2017. Imagine the Broncos with their throwback “D” logo and white pants, or the Bills with white pants for their red uniform. Fans have put out ideas for mix-and-match uniforms, similar to what the Seahawks did. Solid-color, mono uniforms are often bad ideas anyway. It doesn’t make much sense for some teams to have multiple versions of one color uniform - looking at you, Texans, Browns, Ravens, Cardinals, and others. For now, the prevalence of Color Rush uniforms dilutes the quality of many alternates around the league. ![]()
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