The AZ Cardinals are red and white unless you count the black on the cardinal helmet emblem.
I don’t think they’ve ever worn the “alternate” grey jerseys.
Coupled with the problem you mention is the one of spending the relatively large sum it takes to own one of these jerseys with the player’s name on it, just as that player is sidelined with a season-ending injury, gets traded, or becomes the team laughing-stock.
I wonder how many Titans fans are in the process of burning their Pacman Jones jersey.
It might be a fun study for someone to do to see the average span of time it takes between a player’s jersey becoming The Hot Item and that player’s being jettisoned from the team for whatever reason.
Also to locate the rabid fan who has the most named jerseys in his (or her) closet that he/she is now ashamed to wear.
How many such items do you have to buy before you move on to some other souvenir gimmick?
The black is considered part of their team colors. From 1996-2004, their team colors were red, white, and either blue or dark blue. A third color (either black or blue) has been a part of their official team colors since 1963 (when they were the St. Louis Cards).
Free agency is also a factor. I wanted to get a 49er Adrian Peterson jersey a few years ago, but I waited for him to resign, but he didn’t. Now I’m saving up for a nice Ronnie Lott throwback.
pulykamell, like I said, they don’t wear them in games, they just sell 'em to chumps.
This is absolutely fascinating! Thanks again.
A friend of mine went to the UCLA-USC football game last year and told me that people are wearing OJ Simpson throwback jerseys. Not just #32 'SC jerseys that could be Marcus Allen. They actually say Simpson on the back.
Classy!
Just a guess, not sure if it was mentioned, but 2 colors look better than a single color, assuming the 2 colors are chosen properly.
In many cases, one of the colors is either black or white, either of which go fairly well with any other color, until you get to yellow and white, or violet and black, or navy and black, i.e., two very light or two very dark colors.
Then there are the complimentary colors like blue-orange, yellow-purple, red-green, when, unless the individual hues are real oddballs like maybe pink with lime green, or sky blue and light orange, the two colors work well together.
But there are some hideous two-color combinations, at least to my eyes. It’s almost like somebody said, “Let’s go for garish.”
The Washington Redskins colors are, of course, burgundy and gold. Recently though, the Skins have been wearing a lot of white too. Some people [del]cowgirl fans[/del] will say it is red and yellow, but I’ll have to disagree with the red. Their helmets are a dark metallic burgundy color which has some depth to it. So I’ll let the yellow pass, but not “red,” it’s burgundy. However, for the first time in team history about two years ago we started to wear white tops and bottoms which each have the burgundy and gold stripes. While I do like the look if that uniform combo, they wore it too often the last couple of years. I wish they would cut it down to one or two times a year.
as for the jersey being out of date thing, just sit on them for 10 years and they will be throwbacks.
I bought a Greg Lloyd authentic jersey in 1995, and of course a couple of years later he was released. I can now wear it again though and get compliments from Steelers fans.
The tradition of one team wearing white and the other a non-white color dates back to when the game was broadcast on TV in black and white. If you look at really old newsreel footage of football games with both teams are in “colored” jerseys and it is typically impossible to tell which team is which. In the 50’s when the college and pro game became popular on television the practice of having a “white” side became standard. The arrows on the yard line numbers (pointing toward the closer end zone) were another invention to make the game more TV friendly.
I see your senario, and I raise you one. It’s from baseball, but it fits in nicely.
I remember one game last year, or year before last, Atlanta Braves and Milwaukee Brewers were playing each other. – Or rather, the Atlanta team was playing the ‘’‘Milwaukee’’’ Braves for the special ‘turn back the clock’ game.
As a Result, as best I can tell, Atlanta played played in the Atlanta away Jersey, and the Millwaukee Braves played in the Atlanta home Jersey. The Atlanta away jersey has “Atlanta” at a slight angle, above a tomahawk. The Atlanta home jersey has “Braves” at a slight angle, above a tomahwak.
Real confusing until I finally figured out what was going on.
I will however chime in that US sports teams have two colors for home and away colors.