I don’t get to watch much football these days, since I have to work most Saturdays and Sundays, but I did catch parts of the Seattle at Carolina (during lunch break) and San Diego at New Orleans games. And noticed in both games that the home teams were wearing their white uniforms, which are usually only worn on the road (Cowboys excepted, of course). Any special reason they did this?
PS I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m getting sick of all that pink they’re wearing. Shoes, gloves, armbands, towels, yardage markers … Yeah I know it’s for a good cause, but it’s discordant and distracting. Do it once maybe, but not every game, please.
Absolutely agree. It’d be better if it was a regular pink, rather than the retina-burning florescent shade they use now. And while it’d be great if they focused on making a big deal of it for one game, they do it for ALL of October. It’s ridiculous.
The home team is given the choice of whether they’d like to wear dark or white; IIRC, they need to announce which jerseys they’re choosing during the week before the game (so their opponent knows which jerseys to pack for the trip).
Most teams do choose to wear their dark jerseys at home, though some (like the Cowboys) are exceptions. Some teams, like the Redskins, choose white for home games against the Cowboys, since that forces the Cowboys into their dark jerseys (at least in the past, there was some superstition around the Cowboys that the dark jerseys were bad luck).
The Dolphins (among other southern teams) tend to wear white at home in hotter weather, theorizing that the white jerseys are a little cooler when it’s sunny and 90+ degrees. As it was only in the 50s in Charlotte yesterday, that’s probably not why the Panthers went with white. And, as the Saints play in a dome, that wasn’t their reason, either – I might guess that, at 0-4, they tried to do something different (yes, I know that jersey color is a meaningless superstition 
) to shake things up.
As all of the teams sell pink team gear, marketed towards women, I suspect it’s become a marketing gimmick, as well.
Think you were thinking one thing and typing another. “Dark” is the standard NFL home jersey (green for Packers, navy blue for Bears, lighter blue for Giants, etc.). The Cowboys are notable for hardly ever wearing their “home” dark jersey…apparently something of a superstition.
ETA: Notice you edited that… 
It’s done for every game in October as a Breast Cancer Awareness Month thing. I’m not a fan either.
Of course it is.
In general, I think dark jerseys are an advantage. The football tends to be more camouflaged against a dark jersey vs a white jersey.
I remember the MNF game back in 04 of Raiders-Broncos in Denver. Lots of snow, to the point where you could barely see some of the Raiders in white but could easily pick up all the Broncos in bright orange.
I remember a Packers game in the 80s when the Packers wore white at home against the then division foe Tampa Bay. The story was that the Packers were looking to exploit Vinnie Testaverde’s color blindness, hoping that he wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between white and creamsicle. Pretty sure the Bucs won that game and it likely was the last time the Packers wore white at home.
Yeah…noticed a small, but very important, typo upon further review. 