I think they only wore them once, against the Bears, and, a week or so ago, announced that they’d been permanently retired. 
Good to read, I could have sworn I saw them wearing the greenies a second time, but maybe that was a flashback. 
When I was growing up, their blue jerseys and silver helmets were my favorite NFL uniform. The dark blue-green unis they adopted in the 2000s were a big disappointment.
Agreed; the Seahawks have long been one of my secondary teams (behind the Packers, of course). Whenever I play the Hawks on Madden, I always put them in the old unis. 
I thought the Colts has a throwback helmet with little horseshoes on the back instead of big horseshoes on the sides.
Maybe the Ravens throwback could be a “Brown” helmet with a blue horseshoe on it.
I like these Steelers throwback jerseys. http://www.donnan.com/images/Steelers-Hall-3.jpg
Those were pretty interesting; they wore those in '94, for the NFL’s 75th anniversary season. I don’t know when that jersey was originally worn.
Jules Andre: Well, thanks for all that. If you want to flame/troll, we have a forum for that. I don’t always like white pants (Packers, Bucs, Dolphins), I don’t always hate black (Ravens, Raiders), I like distinctive colors/patterns but that doesn’t mean that it’s necessarily attractive, and I can’t believe I’m defending a simple fucking opinion to someone like you. I realize some of it’s contradictory, but it’s hard to explain aesthetic preferences. Generally, yeah, the things you mentioned are true, but there are exceptions and I tried to note them. I don’t know if you read the posts I made in this thread after those first 8, but I acknowledged the fact that my list isn’t perfect even to me, so it’s obviously not going to be perfect to you.
If your “fun read” comment wasn’t sarcastic, maybe I’m wrong and you actually understand the point of this thread. All I wanted to do here was generate a little discussion, and I’m not about to call someone an idiot for their opinions. Also, if it helps, I originally wrote this list alphabetically and then sorted it after it was all done. That may be part of the reason that it’s a little disjointed, and also why you get things like seeing the word “distinctive” used to describe all four teams in post 1 (#32-29) but only six times overall.
I think you need to lighten up. You posted a opinion to inspire discussion and considering the culture here, debate. Now you’re acting all aggrieved because there is criticism and debate. Are these opinions so sacred to you that you feel the need to lash out? Everyone one knows we’re talking about fucking uniforms here, it’s fun to have a strong opinion about them, I suggest you take it in stride and have fun with it. Defend your point, stop attacking other people.
Ah, I see, I just got confused when all the comments were related to the throwbacks/alternate. Just seemed a bit weird to rank them one way and comment on something else.
BTW, if you’re interested in this stuff, take a look at Uni Watch (he has articles on ESPN’s Page 2 as well as his own blog). He has his own personally tastes I don’t always agree with (he hates purple, for example) but it’s good discussion and most of his points are pretty good.
I actually like the new color of the Seahawks jerseys better than the old; but why oh why can’t they just wear white pants? PLEASE End The Pajama Trend.
This isn’t legend. According to the Showtime series focusing on the 10 years of the AFL earlier this year, the Broncos burned those uniforms at the 50 yard line at the first game of the second season.
Those vertical striped socks were cutting edge back then. Now, they don’t really look so bad. Especially compared to the “pajama” look some are referring to. That’s just bad.
Oh, and a comment on the Steelers uniforms.
They need to go back to the block numbers. The uniforms now aren’t as pleasing to the eye, even though the color scheme remained the same.
The slanted numbers (that indeed were cut to match the font of their helmet numbers), just look sloopy, stretched out, and I don’t like it.
They are the New York Yankees, the Montreal Canadians of the NFL. They should be held as a standard bearer with their uni’s. I don’t mind the patch on the front of the jersey. But please go back to the old block numbers!
The reason why the Steelers changed their uniforms in the first place was (drumroll) for money! Rooney looked out over the crowd one day in the mid 90’s and realized that people were still wearing their 20 year old jerseys with Bradshaw, Harris, Lambert, etc on the back. So, he figured that if he’d change the uniforms, big bucks would come his way. He was right. Sort of. The old timers still wear their 70’s jerseys, the cheap bastards.
Omni, you’re right. Thank you. Jules Andre, I apologize. My last post was too reactionary. The opinions I posted to kick this thread off obviously aren’t something I treat as gospel (I’ve already changed my mind a half-dozen times about certain things on my list), and I didn’t need to fly off the handle trying to defend them. I still think opinions are inherently something that cannot be right or wrong, though, and I think that was what I was more upset about. If you had said you prefer the Eagles black shirts, I would have been fine with that, but the insinuation that my dislike of any uniform was somehow wrong just because it was inconsistent irritated me. I love Brad Paisley but that doesn’t mean that I can’t also feel like some Journey every once in a while.
Just to jump on the Anti-Seahawks’ ugly uniforms:
IIRC, the color was not a throwback uniform from the Seahawks. The colors were from the Championship Seattle Sounders soccer team (either '92 or '96, I can’t remember). The decision was made for these colors because since the soccer team won, maybe it would help the Seahawks.
Guess it wasn’t the best decision.
Couple quick notes:
The Giants red jerseys are their throwbacks. Or at least were. Story goes that when Ernie Accorsi was a wee lad, his first exposure to the Giants was in red jerseys. (40s or 50s maybe?) So when he became the Giants GM, he instituted red jersey throwbacks once a year. Now that he’s gone, new GM Jerry Reese has thankfully put a stop to the practice. They are Big Blue, not Big Red.
The Cowboys wear their away colors at home, meaning they wear their away colors usually around 15 times a season. I think they view their home jerseys like other teams view throwbacks: nice to try out once a year, maybe on Thanksgiving.
EDIT: What other teams always wear away colors? Cowboys for sure. The Colts do it too, right? Anyone else?
I believe the Colts now wear their blue unis at home.
The Cardinals used to wear white at home. I think that they started doing so in St. Louis, but it was, in theory, an advantage in Arizona, to make the opponent wear dark in the Arizona sun (at least, they did this until they moved into a dome).
I’m pretty sure that the Dolphins have sometimes chosen to wear white at home, for a similar reason. The Redskins usually elect to wear white at home, as well, though there isn’t usually the weather factor in D.C.
With the Cowboys, a certain level of superstition seems to have grown about their dark uniforms. I know that some teams have elected to wear white at home when playing the Cowboys, in order to force them to wear their blue jerseys.
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Some other teams in warm climates wear white at home early in the season due to heat. i think CAR does this.
Bearflag was right, but to explain a little more, according to various sources I checked while writing my original list (mainly Wikipedia, so make of it what you will), the Cowboys, Redskins, and Dolphins are historically the teams who most prefer to wear white at home.
The Cowboys instituted the policy early on in their history when one of the owners figured that the people that came to see the games in person would rather see different colors every week than Cowboys-blue vs. white. Clever idea, in my opinion. They’ve also held onto the idea of wearing white at home more strongly than any other team…
… which means that some years they may wear blue jerseys only once, when they play at Washington. I don’t remember when or why the Redskins decided to wear white at home, but my dad was a Redskins fan while I was growing up, and I remember being amazed while watching his videotapes how rarely they wore maroon.
The Dolphins started wearing their away jerseys at home in order to force the other team to wear their dark jerseys in the heat and humidity of late summer in Miami. Other teams have since tried this, Arizona and Carolina among them, but they aren’t quite as persistent about it as the Fins.
The Colts wear blue at home. I don’t believe I’ve seen them in white there for years.
Someone can come in and correct me if I’m wrong (and it may be easy), but I seem to remember back in the 70’s, the Steelers were one of the only teams to wear their dark jerseys at home. White was always considered the “home” color, following the tradition of baseball.
I remember this because I always thought it was cool to see the Steelers play in their black jerseys every week.
Dallas is one of the only teams to wear white at home now (except when they wear their throwback jerseys with the stars on their shoulder pads).
Maybe I’m mis-remembering this. I’ll see if I can dig up some photo evidence of this. In the meantime, if anyone can remember what their teams wore at home in the early 70’s, it would help. I have a vague recollection that Cleveland wore white at home during that time, but I honestly can’t remember since almost every team wears their dark unis at home now.
I’ll be back.
ok, a quick search has yielded two results.
Green Bay wore their green jerseys at home
Minnesota wore their purple jerseys at home.
So, it seems as if even back in the early 70’s, the whites were the away jerseys… I’ll do some more digging, but my memory seems to be wrong.
Cleveland did wear white at home in 1973