The NFL Color Rush is a promotion done in conjunction with National Football League (NFL) and Nike that promotes so-called "color vs color" matches with teams in match-specific uniforms that are essentially one color solid with alternating colored accents, especially airing on Thursday Night Football . Although promoted as color vs. color, some games have one team wearing traditional white uniforms, either by choice or by necessity. The uniforms are not counted against each team in connection with their permissible uniform distribution. The game has received mixed responses from fans, with some praising the NFL for changing their game in uniform, while others criticize promotions for some tacky uniforms.
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History of color vs color matching
Initial years
In the early days of the NFL through World War II, it was not uncommon to see teams wearing team colored uniforms against each other, often wearing only a second jersey if the uniforms were too similar. After the arrival of the rival All-America Football Conference where each team has a team-colored jersey and white jersey, the NFL team began to add the white jersey as a neutral color to avoid any color clashes. Again, this is only used if teams like Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers (the last before Vince Lombardi's arrival) play each other and have similar jersey colors. In addition, the NFL team was not asked to add a white jersey.
It would not be the AAFC (partly combined to the NFL in 1950) that would change the status quo, but the adoption of mainstream television. Due to technical limitations of TV, programming can only be broadcast in black and white, making it difficult for fans to differentiate their teams. Due to necessity, starting with the 1957 NFL season, all teams were required to have a team-colored jersey and white jersey, with home-teded colored uniforms and worn-out white T-shirts. This led to teams like the Chicago Bears, the Detroit Lions, the Green Bay Packers, and the Los Angeles Rams (no one had a white jersey for the 1956 season) to add a contrasting white jersey. In the case of the Rams, it also forced the team to drop their gold jersey, as it was considered "too light" to wear against a team wearing a white T-shirt, replaced with a blue T-shirt. Other teams, such as the Cleveland Browns, who wore white clothing as their main home uniforms were also no longer allowed to wear the shirts at home.
For the 1964 NFL season, the league allowed the home side to decide which jersey to wear at home, which prompted many teams to wear their white shirts at home so fans could see the colors of the visitors. With blackout policies not allowing home-based games to air in the home market until 1973, this also means that fans do not attend live games sometimes only see darker team uniforms on TV, depending on which television they watch may still be black and white. Despite changes to this rule and widespread adoption of color television in the late 1960s, the white/color rule generally remained in effect for the NFL even as college football loosened its jersey rule in 2009.
Worldwide promotion
The NFL began allowing exceptions as part of a worldwide promotion, beginning with a 75 year league anniversary in 1994. For the first time, the NFL allowed teams to wear throwback uniforms and in some cases allowed color vs. color as long as the colors did not collide with each other.
The color vs color match will continue for the time in the early 2000s, mostly on Thanksgiving matches. In 2002, the league allowed an alternative uniform with some T-shirts allowed to be worn against colored jersey if it was light enough. Examples include gray jerseys worn by the New England Patriots in the 2000s and Seattle Seahawks today, as well as one-off gold alternatives by New Orleans Saints being imposed against Minnesota Vikings in 2002.
In 2009, the NFL celebrated what would be the 50th season of the American Football League by allowing each of the original eight AFL teams to wear the AFL-era dull uniform. One of the teams, the Kansas City Chief, was given special permission by the NFL to allow the Dallas Cowboys to visit to wear their early 1960s setbacks against the Chiefs (wearing the decline of their predecessor Dallas Texans) in "The Game that Never Was". 2009 is also the transition year of digital television in the United States, which makes the remaining black-and-white television sets in the United States completely obsolete.
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Initial launch
For the 2012 NFL season, Nike replaces Reebok as a league uniform supplier. Since Nike has been a longtime supplier of the Oregon Ducks football team and using Duck as a team to start the trend college football teams radically change their uniforms on a regular basis, some speculate that the NFL will follow college football tracks, or at least one team to be " Oregon of the NFL ". Seattle Seahawks, Minnesota Vikings, Cleveland Browns, Jacksonville Jaguars, Miami Dolphins, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and Detroit Lions are the only teams to completely redesign their uniforms since Nike took over, but none of them became "Oregon of the NFL" with Brown, Dolphins, and Vikings choosing a more traditional style. This was subsequently subdued in 2013 when the NFL outlawed alternative helmets out of concerns of concussions.
During the annual Packers 'shareholders' meeting in 2015, the team casually mentioned that color vs. color matches will be allowed as an option during the Thursday Night Soccer contest in 2015, while being mandatory by 2016. Initially, this Tim thought would be allowed to wear their normal uniforms against each other or even their alternatives. However, surprisingly, on October 30, 2015, the NFL announced its initial "Color Rush", a series of four Thursday contests in which all eight teams will be wearing a specially designed alternate uniform.
Trial
The initial launch featured Carolina Panthers and Tennessee Titans dressed in their regular alternative uniforms (with panthers debutant "Carolina blue"), while Dallas Cowboys revived their white "Double Star" uniforms from the mid-1990s (when debuting white pants) and then-St. Louis Rams used a yellow version of their 1973-99 setback for his game. The other four teams involved in wearing a new all-round uniform for the game:
- Buffalo Bills made its red all-round debut for the first time in team history, with red, white and blue shoulder lines and blue-and-white-blue trousers. (In a bit of inconsistency, the blue team's bullock "helmet" helmet logo is used instead of the red "bulls standing" that the team uses on their setback uniforms.)
- The Jacksonville Jaguars wore an all-gold uniform, after an accent color on their uniform.
- The New York Jets, wearing kelly green from 1963-1997, wore their current uniforms in a green kelly scheme, with white sleeves usually also green and the middle shoulder line being the green color of the current team hunters./li>
- The Tampa Bay Buccaneers wear a red all-encompassing ensemble.
Full launch
For the 2016 NFL season, it is expected all 32 teams will now participate, with some teams eager to unveil their Color Rush uniforms. Pittsburgh Steelers - one of the more conservative and tradition-bound clubs associated with the uniforms - is the only team that does not participate in the Rush of Color 2015 which expresses their Color Rush uniform style (but does not reveal their own uniform) before leaguewide reveals, confirming that she wore a black uniform with a gold number on Christmas Day against the Baltimore Ravens. The team had planned to wear the Color Rush uniform for Thursday night's only game against the Indianapolis Colts at Lucas Oil Stadium but chose a home game on Christmas against a hated rival and would be wearing their standard street uniform against the Colts. It was later announced that the Thanksgiving game was released from the promotion of Color Rush.
On September 13, 2016, NFL and Nike launched the Color Rush uniform for all 32 teams. The eight teams participating in the previous year's Color Rush will continue their uniforms while the Steelers have announced it. For 2016, Jets, Browns, and Rams will wear their regular white uniforms (see below), while Cardinals, Falcons, and Texans will also wear their regular white uniforms as their opponents wear the Color Rush uniform and their opponents become the home team. The Lions, Colts and Redskins will not wear the Color Rush uniforms at all for 2016 because the Thanksgiving game is excluded and none of the three teams that have a Thursday night game or (in the Steelers case) play on Christmas Day. The 2017 season also featured at least one team, Buffalo Bills, dressed in their Color Rush uniforms on Sunday afternoon (by chance this game occurred during a sea breeze storm that made Bills players more visible than their white counterparts wearing the Indianapolis Colts). The 2017 Pro Bowl also features two teams of all-star conferences each with a solid red and blue color.
Termination
On April 10, 2018, the league announces that Color Rush will be discontinued under the terms of the new Thursday Night Football broadcasting contract . The exact term of discontinuation will be decided at the spring owner's meeting in May; the tentative plan is to allow teams to continue to use their Color Rush uniform as the third standard shirt.
Team by team
If the Color Rush uniform is identical to the existing uniform, "First Use" in the Color Rush game is shown in italics .
Style
Jersey and pants
Uniforms are mainly one color, though uniforms include different color accents for jersey numbers and uniform details. Many uniforms duplicate the details of the team's current line and shoulders, but many do not. Uniform Color Uniform Green Bay Packers have the same pattern of stripes on the sleeves as their regular uniforms, for example. In contrast, New England Patriots Color Rush uniforms mimic the lines of their uniforms in an earlier era. While the NFL team most often wears contrasting color pants, all of the Color Rush uniforms have pants and shirts of the same color.
Shoes and socks
Rush Color Uniforms also have matching colored shoes (not black or white) and matching socks.
Helm
Most team helmets do not change for Color Rush games. The Denver Broncos, the New York Giants and the Los Angeles Rams will wear helmets with old logo versions taped in 2016, while the New York Jets wear helmets of the same logo but with different green colors, in metal, by 2015, with Cardinals do the same for their helmets in 2016. Because the NFL rules dictate that players wear the same helmets throughout the season, only the decals can change, and the shells remain the same color. As a result, although the Broncos Color Rush helmet is similar to a helmet that originated in the early history of the franchise, it is as blue as it is used today.
Opposing team white
If the Color Rush color is too similar to the home team, or if there is a problem with visibility for the color blind viewers, the visiting team will wear their whites. It's not clear how each of these teams will modify their uniform elements for the Color Rush game, if at all. At least one team, the Arizona Cardinals, was given the choice between wearing their traditional white-white uniform or a specially designed white uniform from Nike. The Cardinals chose their traditional white skin, with white socks. In the second week of 2016, the New York Jets wore white masks instead of green, white, solid white socks, not white with green stripes, and white shoes instead of their usual black color in the spirit of the Color Rush program. In the third week, Houston Texans modified their uniforms by wearing solid white socks instead of their blue and white socks. In Week 15, the Rams wore their regular white uniforms but replaced the horns on the helmet from gold to white, marking the first time the team wore white horns on a helmet since the 1972 season; this is also done as a nod to the scary Fours. In the next year in 2017, Rams decided to make white horns as part of their regular uniform, leaving most of their uniforms intact except for pants in the hope of changing the brand completely in the near future.
Reception and controversy
Color blind
The first game between the Bills and the Jets proved to be very problematic, in the red uniform of all the Bills and the Kelly Jets green outfits that were indistinguishable from those who were color-blind. Three other matches managed to avoid controversy. The Bills and Jets will be matched to each other for three consecutive Color Rush games; for the second, Jets wearing all white, while for the third, Bills wearing all white, complete with white face mask.
For 2016, Nike brings doctors from Mount Sinai Hospital to show potential colorblind problems. In addition to red-green, NFL also avoids the Brown-Brown (Browns/Ravens) and yellow-green (Rams/Seahawks) matches, which require one of the teams to wear white uniforms in those games.
Team opt-in
Some traditionally rich teams like the Green Bay Packers and the New York Giants opted to wear the all-white ensemble instead of wearing the color uniforms of all the teams because they did not want to mess up the tradition, even though Packer played at home in their first Color Rush Game and a team that has historical history with an all-green uniform in the early 1950s. (The Packers wearing a white uniform in the Color Rush game also marks the first time the team has been wearing a white uniform at home since a two-match experiment at Lambeau Field in 1989, and only for the second time in the team's 97-year history.) Co-owner John Mara said that Nike initially approached the team about doing the red all-encompassing ensemble (which Mara declined from hand) and then the blue ensemble (which Mara initially approved, but got cold feet at the last minute) before going with the all-white look as a nod to the Bill Parcells era of 1980 -an. Other teams that choose white because of their Color Rush uniforms have traditionally worn whites (such as the Dallas Cowboys) or have been wearing the same color uniform as part of their regular uniforms, such as the New Orleans Saints and Cincinnati Bengals. ; in the latter case, the team wore a white uniform as a nod to the white tiger.
Packers and Giants did not participate in contrast to another traditionally-rich team, Pittsburgh Steelers, who fully accepted the Color Rush program and received positive feedback from their fans for their all-black appearance. The Steelers plan to make their Color Uniforms uniform for their official uniforms for 2017. Other teams such as the Philadelphia Eagles, San Francisco 49ers, and Tennessee Titans go with their existing alternative uniforms for the Color Rush program, as opposed to creating unique uniforms for the game, while Kansas City's chiefs only fit their red shirts with their red pants - the look that the team has been sporting at times in recent seasons. The Chicago Bears wear only their usual blue trousers with white shirts with their blue shirts, see teams that experimented in the early 2000s.
In 2017, the Washington Redskins proposed a rule that would allow the team to opt out of participation of the Color Rush program. The Redskins then withdrew the proposal before going into voting.
References
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