Bruce Allen on McNabb extension, Haynesworth and uniforms

[Monkeydad]

I don't like plain. stripe-less pants for NFL teams...make them look collegiate or less.

A big design thing to me is consistency with striping throughout the uniform. The Skins do it right, look at the sleeve and pant striping.

An example of a team that does it wrong is Dallas. None of the stripes or even colors match the other parts of the uniform, it's like they were designed by different people instead of together as a set. The Giants do the inconsistent striping too. These teams take the uniformity out of the uniforms.

[los panda]

i agree with you there buster. dallas' colors don't even match. if i had to go w stripes, i'd def go w the ones you displayed (nothing like that new age garbage the vikings, jaguars, etc. use)

how do you feel about the solid burgundy socks?

[Monkeydad]

Solid socks are fine, I didn't touch the socks other than changing the gold shade on the striped ones.

[tryfuhl]

I miss the candy canes that Portis and Taylor wore and subsequently got fined for

[los panda]

Originally Posted by tryfuhl

I miss the candy canes that Portis and Taylor wore and subsequently got fined for

hah yeah those were eye catching. was that the same time sean did his facemask w all those pieces of white tape?

remember when lavar went w the plastic facemask? so ugly...

[Monkeydad]

No to the black shoes.

[los panda]

solid white shoes are as nice as you can get. that's why i said the black shoes are "neat"

[Monkeydad]

Yes I'm updating the pants thread.



D.C. Sports Bog - Redskins alumni will help decide team's uniforms

Could be 2011. Who knows:

Redskins alumni will help decide team's uniforms


Bruce Allen and ESPN 980's Kevin Sheehan combined to create quite a furor a few months ago when they discussed the Redskins possibly wearing gold pants and burgundy tops at home games in 2010. The team soon started selling a t-shirt featuring gold pants. The speculation was off and running.

So when Sheehan had Allen on the radio again Wednesday morning, he returned to the topic, asking Allen about that previous hint.

"You took it as a hint, you understood it a certain way," Allen said with good humor. "I said we're very proud of our team colors of burgundy and gold, and we will be wearing our Redskins uniforms. You took that to mean something, and then I got 400 e-mails myself on that. We're gonna discuss our uniforms with our alumni later, after the preseason, and we'll see what we wear. We will be wearing our team colors, I promise you. Our jerseys have burgundy and gold, they're special colors, [and] we'll see what happens."

Allen said the Redskins would not have an alternate uniform this season. He declined to say whether the team would wear dark or white colors at home. He said the team's helmets would stay the same. And he said he liked the fact that so many people were fascinated by this issue.

"It's wonderful, and as we spend more and more time with the alumni, believe me, they have some specific ideas of concepts we should do," Allen said. "And we really are gonna listen to our alumni quite a bit this year."

By Dan Steinberg | August 11, 2010; 1:49 PM ET

My prediction - white jerseys with existing burgundy pants, burgundy jerseys with GOLD pants. They've already worn the white/burgundy combo vs. Buffalo last Friday.


Now in FedEx Field's official team store...

[MTK]

I'd like to see them stick with the classic white jerseys and burgundy pants at home. I liked that they went back to the striped socks last week too.

[jdlea]

Speaking of striped socks, what did people think of Denver's vertical stripes on those hideous throwbacks they wore last year?

I liked the idea of vertical stripes because of the way Jabar Gaffney wore them...he twisted them so the stripes weren't straight:


Personally, I thought that was awesome!

[Monkeydad]

I loved them, when worn properly.

You can see the twisted ones in there:




My favorite of the throwbacks were the Oilers light blue, Bills and Patriots.

The Bills' curent uniforms are a complete mess, they should return to the old standing buffalo white helmet full time. The Patriots need Pat back, Flying Elvis was always ugly. I also thought the Vikings throwback last year was a big upgrade, even with the mismatched purple helmet. If they'd take that striping design with the current metallic purple....perfection. Their current one is a piping mess.



Sadly, the Oilers are gone forever. I always loved all of their uniforms.

[Monkeydad]

This year's throwbacks: Packers, Bears, Eagles, Colts.

[Monkeydad]

Cardinals will be ugly against us in 3 weeks.


Word From the Birds Blog

[ArtMonkDrillz]

Originally Posted by Buster

Cardinals will be ugly against us in 3 weeks.


Word From the Birds Blog

Great quote from the comments section of that article: "The third jersey does look cool, but any word as to when the Falcons are going to want them back?"

[Monkeydad]

Hopefully: