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Timeless looks like Chiefs, Packers, Cowboys, Raiders >>> Constantly changing looks like Bucs, Falcons, Browns, Jaguars
The mismatched silver helmet and "mint" pants drives me nuts.
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The navy star on the helmet is different than the royal blue throughout, too.
They need to pick a single silver and a single blue shade already.
If they did that, they would be great... but there are just these stupid problems.
Timeless looks like Chiefs, Packers, Cowboys, Raiders >>> Constantly changing looks like Bucs, Falcons, Browns, Jaguars
Chargers "tease":
The mismatched silver helmet and "mint" pants drives me nuts.
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The navy star on the helmet is different than the royal blue throughout, too. They need to pick a single silver and a single blue shade already./QUOTE]
Although lighting in a photo can have some effect, this look from the '70s matches the elements much better.
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The mismatched silver helmet and "mint" pants drives me nuts.
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The navy star on the helmet is different than the royal blue throughout, too.
They need to pick a single silver and a single blue shade already.
If they did that, they would be great... but there are just these stupid problems.
Cowboy fan here, there is actually a reason for the different shades on the uniforms. It was for black and white TVs. They worked with a designer to find colors that appeared more silver instead of gray on old black and white television. The different materials required different colors to achieve that. Now its tradition to have the different colors.
Yeah, I am familiar with the original reason for it.
I would ask back then --
If you like the mint green pants as a tradition, why not embrace it fully and match the helmet to them? Why not lean into it? I could appreciate the team riding with that color for its uniqueness and that bit of trivia about their history instead of the gray/silver that numerous other teams (e.g., Patriots, Raiders, Giants) have in their looks.
The "looks better on TV" argument is long since obsolete. Modern screens can represent essentially any color perfectly nowadays. When it was a poor design decision for an obsolete reason, it is time to move away from it. I really do not care if they pick navy/royal blue or gray-silver or mint-silver, just that they pick one set and stick with it.
Pains me as a NY football Giants fan to say, but I like the story behind it and that they've stuck with it out of tradition. I'd be willing to bet that back then they probably didn't have the option of helmets with that color variation. Could be wrong.
I am sure they do now.
No doubt. Imagine the uproar that would come from Cowboys fans if they changed it up now. I'm guessing they'd get killed.
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Again, I respect the tradition, but the one on the right looks so much better.