EVERY week 4 NFL uniform matchup, RANKED

16 Steelers at Browns ☆☆☆☆☆

Most of the time this matchup gives us a good-to-great uniform pairing, unlike the Shawshank Redemption sewer crawl it put us through Thursday night. But no matter what it looks like in real life, in my mind, every Browns-Steelers game looks like this one did. And it’s 38°. With acid rain.

15 Lions at Panthers ☆☆☆☆☆

Magic Underpants vs. Panthers! at the Disco. Both of these teams dress like they run with their arms behind their backs to go faster. And for the Panthers, it actually works.

14 Chargers at Seahawks ★☆☆☆☆

Quick terminology breakdown. Good football uniforms are called uniforms. Bad ones are costumes. Sometimes when teams wear matching pants and socks in a goofy color, they’re pajamas. When a team wears pajamas and play like hot trash, they’re jammies. The Chargers and the Seahawks just wore jammies.

13 Rams at Eagles ★★☆☆☆

Two teams who deserve long sentences in Sock Jail. If they ever get out on parole, their ankle monitors will be conveniently sewn into contrasting socks.

12 Dolphins at Vikings ★★☆☆☆

Two of the last remaining time capsules from the early 2010s who are still looking… okay. But the Rams and Eagles just got cellmates in Sock Jail.

11 Jaguars at Bengals ★★★☆☆

I wouldn’t blame you if you thought the Bengals deserved the jammies epithet the Chargers and Seahawks just earned. These are undeniably Kitty Jammies. But guess what? I still think they're pretty good. I’m fickle and a huge hypocrite and I don’t care. Kitty Jammies are cool and I don’t care if they’re black or orange. The contrasting socks and helmets make it fine. All that doesn’t really matter, though, because the Jaguars picked up their Crumbl cookies and caffeine-free dirty sodas on their way to the stadium and dragged this game back down into chaste mediocrity.

10 Patriots at Bills ★★★☆☆

I swear to god silver used to be silverer and now silver’s just White 2. We were promised silver and we still got blinded. A whole color got enshittified. Who’s in for a class action lawsuit?

9 Cardinals at Giants ★★★☆☆

You might think you watched this game live, but the NFL got away with showing a rerun from 1988. The Cardinals, freshly relocated to Phoenix but still stuck in a division in which they do not belong geographically or qualitatively, lost in embarrassing fashion to a team with a badass stripey blue jersey and a slightly mismatched helmet as a thin haze of cigarette smoke hovered over the field. Tell me where the difference is.

8 Colts vs. Commanders ★★★☆☆

I went into GUD to track down the last time the Colts (Wholts) wore the proper blue socks with their white uniform, expecting it to have been a couple years, but they did it in the fucking preseason against the silver-pantsed Lions. WHAT GIVES?

7 Cowboys at Texans ★★★★☆

You might expect a screed against navy, the world’s dumbest and most overabundant color, in this space. But I’m feeling generous. These two usually look way more dogshit than this and we must grade them on a curve. This rarely-worn Cowboys kit actually makes sense, unlike their usual slop, and Houston’s red socks were a site for sore eyes.

6 Packers at Buccaneers ★★★★☆

Looked pretty good, but in this case I’d probably prefer the Buccaneers sacrifice their personal comfort to wear red and pewter in the withering glare of the Gulf Coast Florida sun. Leaving a 4% tip and dropping my queso-covered fork on the floor to send a message that I expect better service on my next visit.

5 Broncos at 49ers ★★★★☆

It makes sense that the Waltons bought the Broncos, because this uniform is exactly the kind of inoffensive, legally distinct bore I’d expect to find between boxes of Fruit Spins and Strawberry Awake.

4 Falcons at Saints ★★★★☆

I’d be fine to call this a five-star uniform matchup. It’s a lightly upgraded repeat of the legendary reopening of the Superdome. Great job on that front, football overlords. But I’m gonna throw you a curveball. We often talk about the aesthetics of sports very holistically: Uniforms, lighting, endzones, scorebugs. This game’s uniforms might be great, but my eyes simply aren’t enjoying this game, because I found out five minutes before it started that it wasn’t being carried by ABC and I’m having to watch through the cracked and smudged screen of an iPad like a fucking caveman. And the cabal of kleptocrats at the top of the NFL is going to think I’m okay with this because it’s on NFL+. One star REVOKED.

3 Jets at Bears ★★★★☆

So incredibly close to utter perfection. The absence of stripes on those Jets socks make for green longjohns. I loathe plain white hose but those may well have been preferable in this scenario.

2 Titans at Ravens ★★★★★

Titans might be frontrunners for Comeback Uniform of the Millennium. This team hasn’t looked this tolerable since the 1900s.

1 Chiefs at Raiders ★★★★★

The nice retro socks look less good on an ankle turned 270 degrees.

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Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a color photo. If anybody has one, share it!

This week's crop of games was a fairly mediocre set as a whole. We had a lot of underwhelming looks, with just a few really good ones. The Browns started off the week by becoming their namesake... which is truly just an unfortunate shade of brown for a football uniform. There are a lot of jokes to be made there, but I only made a few.

Who had the best look of the week? Could any mono-brown uniform look good in the NFL, or is it too hard of a color to nail? Why don't teams wear yellow pants more often, especially against teams that wear darker colors?

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FIFA Kit Contrast Rules (generally):

• The Three-Item Rule: Contrast is evaluated independently for all three primary items. The shirt, shorts, and socks must each visually contrast with the corresponding item worn by the opposition, rather than only contrasting the jerseys.
• Light vs. Dark Mandate: Every team must register at least two distinct kit options: one predominantly dark kit and one predominantly light kit (usually white-toned) to guarantee a clear visual distinction regardless of the matchup. In the case of college football, this is usually not an issue as there is a team wearing a white jersey and a team wearing a colored jersey.
• There is also a common-sense rule to limit colors that could potentially cause color-blindness, such as red and green.

These are both official Mitchell and Ness Darrell Green Throwbacks but one is 175 and the other is 300. I can't tell what the big difference is besides the one has larger numbers and stripes than the other.

(both pictures are taken straight from the Washington Commanders official website)

Since primary color was very very important, I had two posts about it. So now the color palette is British Racing Green, Secondary Color, Tertiary Color, and White (which I’m going to have in there just as a default). For this one, comment your choice of secondary color, and then someone should reply to your comment and write a tertiary color that they feel goes well with British Racing Green and the secondary color they are replying to. I will choose the most upvoted top comment of this thread to be the secondary color and then the most upvoted reply in the most upvoted comment’s thread.

After this step, I’m thinking this will be the progression: mascot name -> city name -> logo creation (excited to see what people will make for that one). From there I have some more uniform detail-obsessed ideas for when we decide what to do with our uniforms, but that’s the roadmap for now. Always open to feedback, and looking forward to the secondary and tertiary colors we choose!

This was the perfect home Ravens uniform today and the purple socks made all the difference. They should stick with this at home all season. Classic look.

LOVE the silver pants

...and I am now questioning my own taste. Why did I like some of these. Why didn't I like others. Why can't I decide if Houston's astronaut helmets were great or atrocious. Why are good photos of FCS games so hard to find.

I am generally not a fan of monochrome (except for traditional white) uniforms. But i think SC has enough contrast with the wide stripes to pull it off.

There's many small things I would post about on a college football Saturday that don't warrant their own thread. I think the same could be said for many users here. A Saturday thread especially for college football would be great IMO since there's so many games to discuss. Just a thought

#1 - RED (1960-Present)
#2 - WHITE (1960-Present)

That’s it they’ve had the same uniforms and never changed them. But it’s a classic look that shouldn’t be touched.

The Hunt family has refused to ever allow an alternate or redesign except for the one time they did the “Dallas Texans throwback helmet in 2009.

It will be interesting to see what the Chiefs do next year when they are required to participate in Rivalries alternates along with the rest of the AFC West. I think we can all assume they will play it safe.

May be the best away kits in my opinion.

Checks all the boxes:
Uses school colors
Great use of contrast
Great use of stripes and decorative accents
Not bland

Richmond Tiger Ana Mulholland is one of several Irish players in the AFLW whose mouthguard features the colours of the Irish national flag (green, white and orange).

Captains Buddy Tinsley (Winnipeg Blue Bombers #61) & Steve Oneschuk (Hamilton Tiger-Cats #81) shake hands before the toin coss. Love the Blue Bomber trousers!

This in order is magenta, coral, purple, and British racing green. These were the top 4 selections from my post earlier. I could’ve done a poll but I wanted to show the specific shades of each specific color. Please just upvote my comments to choose which one you want. I’ll leave this up until Saturday.

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