5 'Color Rush' uniforms we want to see next season
Thursday night's game between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and St. Louis Rams will mark the end of the debut season for Nike's polarizing "Color Rush" experiment, which sees NFL teams sport colorful monochromatic uniforms for select Thursday Night Football games.
Whether you think the uniforms below are straight fire or reminiscent of ketchup and mustard, there's a good chance they elicited a strong response in you.
Jameis. Gurley. Tampa Bay Buccaneers. St. Louis Rams. TONIGHT - #ColorRush #TNF pic.twitter.com/UPR8eT8ent
— NFL Network (@nflnetwork) December 17, 2015
The attention garnered by the "Color Rush" program virtually guarantees it will return next season. When it does, here's what we'd like to see:
Packers in green
The Packers are held up as a bastion of traditional uniform values, having made only tiny alterations to their timeless attire since adopting the look in 1959.
What few people realize is that the Packers may have actually invented the "Color Rush" movement when they sported green jerseys and pants in 1950:
(Courtesy: PackersUniforms.blogspot.com)
Expect the Packers to resist being forced to take part in "Color Rush," but if the NFL forces their hand, a revival of the all-green look makes sense.
Raiders in black
Way too many sports teams abuse the color black as a shortcut to "fierce" uniforms. The Raiders invented it.
Like the Packers, the Raiders are highly resistant to change. Heck, they even rejected Nike's supposedly superior jersey fabrics when the company took over as uniform manufacturer in 2011.
The Raiders look scary enough in their typical home uniforms, but black pants could take this uniform over the top:
Seahawks in lime green
The Seahawks were roundly mocked when they introduced lime green alternate jerseys in 2009, but they weren't perennial Super Bowl contenders back then.
Russell Wilson and company could make lime green look much, much better than Seneca Wallace did:
Redskins in yellow
If the Rams can dress like mustard bottles, why not the Redskins?
Burgundy helmets over yellow jerseys (with burgundy numbers) and yellow pants would probably look something like this sharp look, sported by Minnesota in 2012:
49ers in gold
Yeah, the 49ers might look like Oscar statues clad in gold from head to toe, but it couldn't be worse than the drab black uniforms they wore this year:
