Why nfl throwback uniforms

No, definitely not. But at least when teams wear those it gets people talking on social media. Deal with it. Anyways, back to my point. Look good, feel good, feel good, play good? The deep balls seem to fly a little bit farther, the speedy players run a little faster, and the big blocks feel even bigger. Everything looks better in the throwback uniforms. Under the lights? Those throwback uniforms might as well hold superpowers. The team's silver helmets, blue jerseys, silver pants of the Steve Largent era is an underrated uniform in the pantheon of NFL throwbacks.

Do the right thing, Seahawks, and bring these back. The Broncos' current uniforms are among the NFL's worst-ever. Due to that, we suggest they throw it back to two of their former looks. First, the John Elway-era blue helmets and orange jerseys — among the best NFL uniforms ever — and the crazy horse helmets that the team sported from Milwaukee Bucks.

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The bloated numbers and supersized sleeve stripes give this Giants uniform more than sufficient qualifications for the "worst" distinction, but the awful "NY" outline helmet logo provided a quality victory defeat? The franchise quickly realized this mistake, scrapping that helmet after one season Moving to a lighter shade of green in , the Jets harkened back to their days in between the Joe Namath look and the franchise's reversion to it.

New York's first seasons with the "JETS" helmet logo — with the sublime jet component anchoring it on the helmet — featured a darker green, but in the late s, the team moved to its optimal green tint. The Jets broke out green pants on the road for the first time in These, and the green numbers and sleeve stripes, stood out for this era and earn the pick here. These grandfathered-in threads are the runaway victors for worst in Jets history.

Used when the team was the New York Titans from , these hideous uniforms made a brief comeback four times from Again, Brett Favre was caught in bad-uniform crosshairs, with one of this franchise's ill-fated throwback decisions coming during the quarterback's Jets cameo. It's a shame the Raiders have broken out the silver numbers only a few times. The team used them on select occasions — in , '64 and '70 — and dusted them off for one throwback weekend in The Raiders have excellent standard home and away uniforms, but these slick, silver-numbered away kits — with the silver pants, which were not a part of the team's silver-numbered color rush uniform from — jump out so much they pull off a shocking upset here.

In the Super Bowl era, the Raiders do not have a bad uniform. In the pre-Super Bowl period, they do, having used gold and black from So these throwback helmets, worn twice during the AFL throwback season of , not quite measuring up to the standard pirate logo will have to suffice. This being a team's worst modern uniform is quite the compliment.

Switching to the Kelly Green scheme in , Randall Cunningham's rookie year, the Eagles stayed committed to it for just 11 seasons — which bookended the quarterback's Philly run. Both the home and away uniforms would qualify for consideration, but the green-on-grays were one of the best looks in a stacked uniform period.

The Eagles have recognized this, having worn them as throwbacks on several occasions. Not as bad as a couple of ultra-throwbacks on this list, the Eagles' uniforms of are the runaway modern-years winner for worst Philadelphia design. The team used them only once since , in a September game.

Although acknowledging NFL history is important, especially for one of the league's oldest franchises, once was enough for these. Already setting themselves apart by refusing to place a decal on both sides of their helmet, the Steelers in pushed their fashion-rebel ways to a new level by shifting to the italicized number font they use today. The pick here is Steelers Classic, used during the dynasty years and through the mids. Pittsburgh's vintage road unis should not be discounted, as they were among the best away-from-home designs, but the franchise's non-italicized black-on-gold attire — even if there is a bit of an overlap with the Iowa Hawkeyes — was an iconic look for decades.

One of the better decisions in recent Steelers history: moving to a different throwback and scrapping the annual bumblebee game.

Pittsburgh went to the bumblebee well a staggering six times from Even in the uniforms' first life, they only received one season before getting canceled. While the socks-jersey synchronization must be applauded, subjecting five s Steelers teams to this fashion fate was borderline inhumane. Hopefully this is not too edgy, but the franchise's update on 49ers Classic has proven superior to the actual version the team wore during its s dynasty. These gold helmets and pants jump out more than the blander gold components of the unis Joe Montana donned.

The 49ers smartly realized, as a few teams have in recent years, their transition away from their classic look in was ill-advised. In the vintage helmet logo and less complicated fonts returned to San Francisco's equipment room. But it was touch and go there for a while. The 49ers forced Steve Young and Jerry Rice to finish their storied tenures in these, changing their classic design to a trendier scheme in The look bottomed out from The franchise literally named for the Gold Rush abandoned gold clothing for road games, going with a white-on-white concept away from Candlestick Park in those seasons.

Yes, the 49ers won a Super Bowl in using mostly throwback white-on-white away from Candlestick Park down the stretch that season; that does not make it OK. The Seahawks achieved far less when they were in the AFC, but they looked sharper. These vintage white-on-grays — equipped with the wraparound Seahawk on the sleeves — were the franchise's outside-of-Washington uniform design for its first 26 seasons. However, the sleeve's Seahawk only existed from , so that's the pick.

The simple blue numbers work, and the blue facemasks complement the gray helmet well. If you're looking for shade directed at the Seahawks' neon green design, this is the wrong place. That is in no way as troubling as what the franchise did in The Seahawks deserve credit for recognizing their mistake in , but for 10 seasons the team subjected the masses to this ugly shade of blue. And their home attire spared no one, with it blanketing Seahawks players for most of Matt Hasselbeck's tenure.

The offseason brought borderline uniform tragedies in multiple cities — Seattle and Buffalo — and it produced consequences. These Seahawks blues are also unfortunately part of Super Bowl lore.

Bucco Bruce became an unfair scapegoat for Tampa Bay futility. The Bills and Seahawks changing their schemes was a dark time, but seeing two of the NFL's orange bastions — the Bucs and Broncos — abandon classic uniforms was worse. The logo, orange facemasks and socks make this an all-time NFL look. And it was not all bad for Bucco Bruce. In between the Bucs' start and 14 straight losing seasons in their final creamsicle years, they qualified for the NFC title game.

Tom Brady wants to wear these before he retires, giving the Bucs a key decision to make once the NFL relaxes its unnecessarily strict one-helmet policy. A tough call between Jameis Winston's former away uniform and the Bucs' all-red color rush goes to the one fans were subjected to more often.

This alarm clock font is bad enough, but the Bucs once stood out when they took the field. These all-white uniforms are off-putting and uninspired. While it can be said here the Bucs picked the wrong throwback uniform to revisit in , their recent Super Bowl conquest notwithstanding, their Derrick Brooks-Ronde Barber color scheme at least represents a step up from what they were wearing. The Titans never had a shot here, with the debate being Oilers blue-on-white vs.

Oilers white-on-blue. The Astrodome was for a time a unique NFL venue, giving the home blues the edge. These marvelous light blue kits, equipped with the red facemasks and the vintage Oiler logo, shined for more than two decades. The Titans unfortunately stayed with their original scheme for nearly 20 years.

A steep decline from the Oilers' colors at the time, the combination of this less appealing darker blue and the shoulder stripe from a bygone era was one of the NFL's worst looks in its day. While the Music City Miracle and the Titans' lone Super Bowl appearance came in these uniforms, that does not obscure their low-level place in the NFL fashion hierarchy.

These uniforms lasted just two seasons, , and the franchise had ditched them by the time it reached Super Bowl VII a year later. Washington should have thought twice about that. These red-on-yellows — complete with a far superior helmet — could have become a classic NFL uniform that lived on for decades. These, and their near-equally fantastic white-on-yellows from this time period, deserved a better fate.

Washington has not worn this home uniform since, eliminating it in , though its road counterpart made a one-off appearance in Not much of a competition here.