kpowers said:

Denver looked horrible,but played great..they're 5-0..go figure

A very cool story about Big Ben of the Steelers...

He donated canines to the Detroit Police Dept. Apparently his foundation helps fire and police dept's in every city where they play on the road. Nice.

http://www.freep.com/arti...-9s-to-DPD

SavonOsco said:

Outside of the striped socks, I actually liked Denver's throwback uniforms.

AlexdeParis said:

I loved the whole thing! Sports uniforms have become so boring with all of the muted tones- bring back the color!

Moonbeam said:

the horror has begun

kpowers said:

I've always loved bright colors. I have a bright yellow car and lots of yellow, orange and green clothing, and even used to dye my hair all sorts of bright colors.

I say it's about time some of these teams shared my sensibilities!

I was surprised the bengals went into Baltimore and
won in the fashion they did. Holding that offense
to 7 points with the way they had been playing this season.
Looks like it may be a three team race in the AFC north
this year.

phunkdaddy said:

Bengals finally have talent on defense and are playing with heart. Dumbass head-hunting play by Ray Lewis - expect a big fine for that shit.

Jamarcus Russell and all these throwback uniforms =

uPtoWnNY said:

How about my boy Ced Benson?

Moonbeam said:

God No..My team, the Suck-a-neers, are wearing their creamsicle uniforms once this year.I thought they were gone forever,even though i have a Doug Williams throwback..I can't wear it.

Moonbeam said:

Hell no! Keep that shit out of the NFL.

SavonOsco said:

You're crazy. Those uniforms were the shit. I have a throwback
Doug Williams. Those were my favorite uniforms next to the steelers
uniforms.I also dig the Rams old uniforms of the 70's and 80's.

phunkdaddy said:

Naw not crazy. I dug them jerseys when i was a kid,but as i got older, I got tired of it and that winking Pirate..I was elated when they changed colors and uniforms.If they only wore the Black 3rd jerseys once in a while..Maybe it's fitting they wear them once more this year since they're playing like the first years bucs..might as well look like them.

phunkdaddy said:

Dude, don't even compare those old Bucs unis to the classic black & gold Steelers. That creamsicle shit shouldn't be allowed on a football field. Whoever thought a winking pirate would look good on a football helmet should be shot. Bucs and Rams made the best uniform changes. Bengals are the worst. They should have stuck with the late-80s look.

SavonOsco said:

I thought they were cool with the Pirate and the sword
going across the helmet. I think Hampton University
modeled their helmets after those. The fact that they were
losing all those games in them had more to do with the fact
the owner wanted to screw Doug Williams and not pay him.
That's when they started losing. They are losing now because
obviously they are rebuilding with young players. The problem
with Gruden was his infatuation of stocking veteran qb's instead
of bringing in young talent to replace an aging roster.

Hey phunk, how about Big Ben's new toy Mike Wallace yesterday?

uPtoWnNY said:

Yeah dude had 7 catches for 102 yards in the loss
to the bengals and caught his first td yesterday. I was hoping he'd be our DeSean Jackson and he has delivered somewhat. He still makes the occasional
rookie mistake by not running his route properly but he
tends to overcome by making big plays on third down. He
seems to get it unlike Sweed who is still dropping passes.

I can stand throwback jerseys about once every three years.

No more throw-up uniforms

RodeoSchro said:

The NFL has been doing this every year since 1995

http://en.wikipedia.org/w...all_League

Throwbacks were introduced in the NFL in their 75th anniversary season of 1994. The designs varied widely in their accuracy:

While no attempt was made to simulate obsolete leather helmets which were phased out in the 1950s, teams simulating uniforms from the era of leather headgear simply removed all decals and striping from their regular hard-shell helmets.

A rule imposed by the AFL-NFL merger in 1970 adopted the AFL's policy of all jerseys displaying the player's last name on the back side. This practice was not part of the NFL officially until after the merger, but in order to keep consistency with current rules, the names were placed on the back side of all throwback jerseys.

In most instances the fonts and typestyles used were only approximate matches at best.

The Arizona Cardinals, Chicago Bears and Pittsburgh Steelers wore reproductions of uniforms that pre-dated large numerals on the front of jerseys, so instead smaller numerals were worn on the right shoulder.

The Dallas Cowboys and Buffalo Bills received some criticism for their portrayal of their throwbacks. The Cowboys wore their early 1960s uniforms with their current helmet, while the Bills wore their then-current uniforms with the old "standing buffalo" logo in white on their red helmets, in place of the current blue "charging buffalo" logo. Later that season, the Cowboys used the "double-star" uniform, which could be considered an updated version of the 1960s jerseys. Both teams have since adopted these throwbacks more accurately as alternates, with Dallas now using the original, plain star helmet and Buffalo using the original red "standing buffalo" helmet on white background, as well as wearing the O. J. Simpson-era jerseys as opposed to the Jim Kelly/Marv Levy-era jerseys. The New York Jets also received similar criticism for using their throwback logo on their then-current green helmets; when they adopted the throwback design full-time in 1998, they also went back to their original-style white helmets. The Bills and Cowboys did the same when they adopted their retro unis.

The Miami Dolphins, New Orleans Saints, Seattle Seahawks, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Indianapolis Colts and Cleveland Browns hadn't had major uniform redesigns up to that point or only made subtle changes, as the Seahawks and Buccaneers had joined the league just 18 years earlier. The Seahawks and Buccaneers have also since redesigned their uniforms in 2002 and 1997, respectively, while the Dolphins made some minor updates in 1997 and the Saints in 2000.

The New England Patriots, who had just changed their uniforms the year before and had switched from the "Pat the Patriot" logo to the current "Flying Elvis" logo, wore their then-current uniforms with the Pat the Patriot logo on the helmets in place of the Flying Elvis logo.

All the teams were informed that they would be wearing the Throwbacks during Week Three of the season. Some teams continued to wear theirs throughout the season. The San Francisco 49ers wore replicas of their 1955 uniforms in their Super Bowl XXIX victory. The uniforms were well-liked enough that the 49ers brought them back, in slightly modified form, for 1996-1997. In 1998, the gold pants from before were returned, in more modern form. In 2009, they went back to the style that won them four of their five Super Bowls.

Both of the NFL's New York City teams' throwbacks proved so popular with their fans that the teams returned to wearing them full-time soon afterwards: The Jets' replicas of their 1968 uniforms (with a darker shade of green than before), and the Giants' 1961 uniforms, with the lowercase "ny" instead of the underlined uppercase "GIANTS" imposed after moving to East Rutherford, NJ. Both teams have modernized the 1960s decals for their current primary corporate logos.

As a result of the NFL modifying its rules to allow teams to wear alternate jerseys in 2002, throwbacks still make occasional appearances. The Thanksgiving Classic games hosted by the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys have been a showcase of throwbacks in recent years. The Bills, San Diego Chargers and Cowboys traditionally wear their early 1960s throwbacks twice each season.

The Cleveland Browns throwbacks are based on a uniform/helmet combination that first appeared in 1957 when Jim Brown was drafted.(Players Numbers appeared on the side of the helmet that year.) The Browns began wearing their throwbacks in 2006 as part of the team's 60th Anniversary. They only wear them once per season.

Of note, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who drastically changed their uniforms and team colors in 1997, never wore their orange throwbacks from 1997-2008. In 2009, the team will wear throwbacks for the first time in against the Green Bay Packers on November 8 to debut the "Buccaneers' Ring of Honor".

The San Diego Chargers wore their 1960s style powder-blue uniforms with white helmets as alternates from 2002-2006 and in 2007 adopted a modified version as their full-time uniforms, while the San Francisco 49ers began wearing their 1980s-style home red uniforms as throwbacks in 2002 (in 2005 the team redesignated them as alternate uniforms, and the re-redesignating them as full-time home and away uniforms in 2009, with a modified logo), and wore them on the 2007 season opening night, September 10, as a tribute to their late former head coach Bill Walsh. On September 16, 2007, the Pittsburgh Steelers, celebrating their 75th season, wore a variation of their older early '60s uniforms that featured gold helmets with black stripe, black jerseys with gold numbers and stripes, and white pants with black-and-gold side stripes as they hosted Buffalo. They wore them again on Monday Night Football on November 5 against Baltimore. The Steelers enjoyed immense success in both games, winning each handily (26-3 vs. Buffalo, 38-7 vs. Baltimore), in direct contrast to the team's struggles when they wore those jerseys originally. On November 11, 2007, The New York Giants, wore their red uniforms against the division rival Dallas Cowboys. The New York Jets wore their New York Titans replica jerseys twice - once at home against the Philadelphia Eagles, and once against their divisional rivals, the Miami Dolphins.

The Eagles wore their powder blue and yellow throwback jerseys during the home game against the Lions on September 23, 2007. Though the Eagles had a big 56-21 victory, these particular Throwbacks were criticised as being very unattractive. During Sunday Night Football on NBC that week, Keith Olbermann named the Philadelphia Eagles the "Worst Persons in the NFL" for their blue-and-yellow throwback jerseys, citing "Throwbacks? Try throw-ups!". The blue and yellow uniforms, which are the same colors as the flag of the City of Philadelphia, were used by the Eagles, and their predecessors, the defunct Frankford Yellowjackets franchise, until the 1940s when the more familiar pre-Jeffrey Lurie era kelly green was introduced.

For the 2009 season, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the American Football League and the Dallas Cowboys, the Cowboys and the eight charter members of the AFL will wear throwback uniforms from the early 1960s on select "Legacy Weekends." Additionally, the Lions dropped their much criticized black alternates in favor of the popular 1940's ands 1950's throwbacks (plain blue jersey, silver pants and helmets) in 2008.

Chargers have the BEST throwback unis.

phunkdaddy said:

That owner(Culverhouse) was cheap,this owner(Glazer) is just as cheap. 30 mil under the cap and wont get free agents.He's cares about Manchester United(which he owns) more than the Bucs.I might be crazy for being a 30-year Bucs fan,but I'm not crazy to say those uniforms sucked...lol...we'll agree to disagree

uPtoWnNY said:

Fine, every team can keep trudging out the black, gray and blue uniforms and begrudgingly wear white for home games.

Why is it whenever a team beats New England they act as if they won the fucking superbowl?

CarrieLee said:

It's like beating the Yankees, Lakers, Celtics, or Notre Dame. You want to knock off the team that's had a winning tradition for so long. And it's easy to hate the Pats because of their coach.

At least you can take solace in the Dolphins beating the Jets last night. Jets had a chance to seperate themselves from the rest of the division, but their defense played like ass.

uPtoWnNY said:

I guess....

It was nice to see the Jets lose New England played terrible on Sunday, they deserved to lose. The offense was AWFUL!

CarrieLee said:

Give some credit to Denver's defense - they look like the real deal.

Also, Brady's still not there yet, but it's only five games.

uPtoWnNY said:

Denver owned the 2nd half and deserved to win. Had N.E won the coin toss and managed a field goal it would have been a real shitty win.