# Steelers vs. Packers - throwback Super Bowl = throwback uniforms? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 30, 2011, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steelers-vs-packers-throwback-super-bowl-throwback-uniforms/569476 "2011-01-30T02:36:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2011, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steelers-vs-packers-throwback-super-bowl-throwback-uniforms/569476/1 "2011-01-30T02:36:30Z")
Just wondering if this has been discussed, or if the throwback uniforms are only for the regular season. Also, are the Steelers wearing their white or black jerseys? I believe the AFC is visitor this year, so they will be forced to wear whatever Green Bay tells them to wear. If Green Bay gets first choice, odds are they will wear Green, which will put the Steelers in white. That would be ok with me! The Steelers have worn their whites in their last 2 SB wins. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2011, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steelers-vs-packers-throwback-super-bowl-throwback-uniforms/569476/2 "2011-01-30T02:45:04Z")
I recall reading that there is some NFL rule that throwback jerseys are for regular season only. I don’t see why they couldn’t be used in the Super Bowl though. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2011, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steelers-vs-packers-throwback-super-bowl-throwback-uniforms/569476/3 "2011-01-30T03:31:53Z")
> [@Stink Fish Pot](#): > > …they will be forced to wear whatever Green Bay tells them to wear… Coconut bras, black tutus and yellow Wellies? Seriously, though, Green Bay’s ugly brown and blue gettup is hideous. The Steelers’ regular black helmets date back to the first Super Bowl-winning dynasty, and the Yellow ones don’t look as good. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2011, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steelers-vs-packers-throwback-super-bowl-throwback-uniforms/569476/4 "2011-01-30T04:57:26Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > Coconut bras, black tutus and yellow Wellies? that’s not a good look for anybody. :eek: > [@garygnu](#): > > Seriously, though, Green Bay’s ugly brown and blue gettup is hideous. The Steelers’ regular black helmets date back to the first Super Bowl-winning dynasty, and the Yellow ones don’t look as good. Was that the one with the numbers in a big circle on the chest? I liked that jersey. Didn’t understand the color combination, though. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2011, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steelers-vs-packers-throwback-super-bowl-throwback-uniforms/569476/5 "2011-01-30T17:07:16Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > Coconut bras, black tutus and yellow Wellies? > [@Stink Fish Pot](#): > > that’s not a good look for anybody. :eek: Sorry, I’ll go change now…☹ ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2011, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steelers-vs-packers-throwback-super-bowl-throwback-uniforms/569476/6 "2011-01-30T19:12:16Z")
OK, now I’ve got a mental image of a rodent skeleton in a hood, cowl, tutu, and coconut bra. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Mince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mince)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2011, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steelers-vs-packers-throwback-super-bowl-throwback-uniforms/569476/7 "2011-01-31T01:59:29Z")
If you’re going to do a “throw-back” Super Bowl, really do it. Wool uniforms; helmets are leather–and optional; high-top cleats; the goal posts are located at the goal line, not the end line; play the game in a baseball park; if the field isn’t wet, choppy and muddy, make it so; nothing but slash-marks in the end-zone; tickets cost less than a Happy Meal and concessions cost less than a candy bar. I would pay to watch that Super Bowl if only on television. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2011, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steelers-vs-packers-throwback-super-bowl-throwback-uniforms/569476/8 "2011-01-31T02:05:10Z")
> [@Mince](#): > > I would pay to watch that Super Bowl if only on television. If they took your proposal seriously, you’d have to listen to it on the radio. I doubt the throwback uniform thing would happen, but I like the idea. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2011, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steelers-vs-packers-throwback-super-bowl-throwback-uniforms/569476/9 "2011-01-31T02:17:22Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > If they took your proposal seriously, you’d have to listen to it on the radio. No, a small, snowy black & white TV would suffice. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2011, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steelers-vs-packers-throwback-super-bowl-throwback-uniforms/569476/10 "2011-01-31T03:08:04Z")
How is this a throwback Super Bowl? Did the Packers and Steelers ever play in a Championship Game before? The first time the Steelers won a title was in 1972, after the Packers’ run with Lombardi. You could go back to late 60s (for the Packers) and 1970s era uniforms for the Steelers, but anything earlier than that is misleading. The Steelers have been so good recently that many forget they were sort of a league whipping boy for much of early NFL history. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2011, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steelers-vs-packers-throwback-super-bowl-throwback-uniforms/569476/11 "2011-01-31T04:02:36Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > How is this a throwback Super Bowl? Did the Packers and Steelers ever play in a Championship Game before? Nope. We’ve played the Vikings, the Cowboys (three times), the Rams, the Seahawks and the Cardinals. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2011, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steelers-vs-packers-throwback-super-bowl-throwback-uniforms/569476/12 "2011-01-31T04:07:01Z")
> [@Stink Fish Pot](#): > > Was that the one with the numbers in a big circle on the chest? I liked that jersey. Didn’t understand the color combination, though. Yes, [those](http://www.packerschronicle.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/2010PackersThrowbackAlternate1.jpg) were the throwbacks which the Packers wore this year (I believe they only wore them once). Blue and gold were, in fact, the Packers’ uniform colors until Vince Lombardi changed them to green and gold early in his tenure with the Packers (very late 1950s). The dark brown helmet is meant to evoke a leather helmet; the khaki pants are meant to evoke the old canvas football pants which were worn in the early days. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2011, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steelers-vs-packers-throwback-super-bowl-throwback-uniforms/569476/13 "2011-01-31T04:14:15Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > You could go back to late 60s (for the Packers) and 1970s era uniforms for the Steelers, but anything earlier than that is misleading. Those uniforms wouldn’t look drastically different from the current uniforms: Packers - The helmet logo was slightly different back then (though still very similar to the modern one) - Gray facemasks rather than green - The stripes on their pants were narrower - The jersey collar was solid (it’s now striped) - The stripes on the jersey sleeves were different (a pattern actually very similar to what the Steelers still wear today) - They had that same pattern of stripes on their socks (as opposed to solid green). In short, compare this picture of [Bart Starr](http://www.grandcentralsports.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/nfl_u_bstarr_300.jpg) in uniform, to this picture of [Aaron Rodgers](http://usspost.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Aaron-Rodgers.jpg). Steelers - The “font” used on their jersey numbers and names were different (a blockier style) - Gray facemasks rather than black (for the Steelers’ first two Super Bowls; by Super Bowl XIII, they’d gone to black facemasks) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2011, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steelers-vs-packers-throwback-super-bowl-throwback-uniforms/569476/14 "2011-01-31T04:14:30Z")
> [@Mince](#): > > If you’re going to do a “throw-back” Super Bowl, really do it. Wool uniforms; helmets are leather–and optional; high-top cleats; the goal posts are located at the goal line, not the end line; play the game in a baseball park; if the field isn’t wet, choppy and muddy, make it so; nothing but slash-marks in the end-zone; tickets cost less than a Happy Meal and concessions cost less than a candy bar. I would pay to watch that Super Bowl if only on television. Don’t go back before 1970 because then you won’t have an AFL team. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2011, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steelers-vs-packers-throwback-super-bowl-throwback-uniforms/569476/15 "2011-01-31T04:23:50Z")
Missed the edit window… Steelers comparison: [Steelers sideline at Super Bowl X](http://cache1.asset-cache.net/xc/81446306.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=77BFBA49EF8789215ABF3343C02EA5489AA4CFF051453CB0F1EDCA00C7130743C4A17F7E02ACE9D5) [Steelers huddle from within the past couple of years](http://howtowatchsports.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/steelers.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2011, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steelers-vs-packers-throwback-super-bowl-throwback-uniforms/569476/16 "2011-01-31T04:25:03Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Don’t go back before 1970 because then you won’t have an AFL team. Make that 1960. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Intelligently\_Designed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intelligently_designed/32/20957_2.png) [@Intelligently\_Designed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intelligently_Designed)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2011, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steelers-vs-packers-throwback-super-bowl-throwback-uniforms/569476/17 "2011-02-01T01:11:46Z")
Since the OP’s question has not yet been answered, [the Packers will wear green and the Steelers white](http://content.usatoday.com/communities/thehuddle/post/2011/01/packers-will-wear-green-jerseys-as-home-team-in-super-bowl/1) in Sunday’s game. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2011, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steelers-vs-packers-throwback-super-bowl-throwback-uniforms/569476/18 "2011-02-01T01:19:36Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Make that 1960. 🙂 The Steelers were an NFL team prior to the merger. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2011, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steelers-vs-packers-throwback-super-bowl-throwback-uniforms/569476/19 "2011-02-01T02:55:58Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > The Steelers were an NFL team prior to the merger. Indeed, but the point of “no AFL before 1970” was what I was correcting. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2011, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steelers-vs-packers-throwback-super-bowl-throwback-uniforms/569476/20 "2011-02-01T03:30:22Z")
And if the Steelers and the Packers are playing each other before 1970, “you won’t have an AFL team”. Because you have two NFL teams. I never said that AFL teams didn’t exist before 1970. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steelers-vs-packers-throwback-super-bowl-throwback-uniforms/569476.md?page=2)