New NFL Unis

ref18 · #1 (**permalink**) Thu Aug 03, 2006, 07:31pm

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Originally Posted by Warrenkicker

This from a guy who is still wearing stirrups.

Just remember while you buy how many new pairs of socks every year at around $5 a piece, I'm still using the same stirrups I started officiating with and I got them from a vetran official for free.

All I have to buy are 99 cent socks and I go through about 5 pairs a year.

I'm happy with the stirrups because they mean more $$$ in my pocket

Warrenkicker · #2 (**permalink**) Fri Aug 04, 2006, 07:30am

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Originally Posted by ref18

Just remember while you buy how many new pairs of socks every year at around $5 a piece, I'm still using the same stirrups I started officiating with and I got them from a vetran official for free.

All I have to buy are 99 cent socks and I go through about 5 pairs a year.

I'm happy with the stirrups because they mean more $$$ in my pocket

Well I don't work that many games, 25-35 a year, but I buy one new pair of socks a year and pass the varsity pair from the previous season down to my subvarsity games. So I buy one pair of $7, current price on Honig's, socks a year while you buy 5 pair of 99 cent socks a year. So between all of that and the exchange rate you are at most $3 ahead of me. I'm all for saving money but I just don't like the look of stirrups that much. I have worked with a guy around here that does have an old pair and he uses the same arguement that you used and that is fine but I don't want to wear them.

grantsrc · #3 (**permalink**) Fri Aug 04, 2006, 07:33am

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200....ap/index.html

OverAndBack · #4 (**permalink**) Fri Aug 04, 2006, 07:37am

I'm hopeul this will last just one season.

It seems strange that something like the officials' uniform would be something anyone would really get up in arms about, but the old look was "timeless," as someone said, and that's a perfect description.

If comfort and usability were the ideas, they could have accomplished that in the same style without making them look like Rollerball rejects.

Texas Aggie · #5 (**permalink**) Fri Aug 04, 2006, 10:14am

Now I am even more confused.

The SI article said they'd wear the knickers for warm weather and those black sweat pants for cold weather. Why??

Nobody gets cold from wearing knickers, especially with under amour or similar tights.

cmathews · #6 (**permalink**) Mon Aug 07, 2006, 09:17am

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Originally Posted by Texas Aggie

Now I am even more confused.

The SI article said they'd wear the knickers for warm weather and those black sweat pants for cold weather. Why??

Nobody gets cold from wearing knickers, especially with under amour or similar tights.

I assume from your name that you haven't worked many games in Wyoming during a mid october blizzard?? If Carhart would come out with a white knicker it would be fine with me for that time of year LOL

Zebra29 · #7 (**permalink**) Tue Aug 08, 2006, 11:45pm

What I don't like is the numbering and the black pocket.

But overall, the thing I didn't like when watching the game the other night was that the officials blended in so that they were harder to pick out, at least on screen.

Perhaps this is part of what they were looking for, since the officials should be noticed as little as possible, but as someone who watches the officials as much as the players, I found it difficult. The officials and the Eagles' players (in white uniforms with black and green) looked somewhat similar to me on screen. Enough so that I did not like it at all.

ABoselli · #8 (**permalink**) Fri Aug 04, 2006, 10:24am

I remember when teams went to colored facemasks instead of gray, shiny material for pants, numbers on the sides of the pants, white shoes, multicolored jerseys with stripes on the sides etc. We all got used to them and now watch NFL Films games from 1980 and realize how different things were style-wise.

I expect there will be some tweaking of the uniform but that the basic design will remain. How many teams have changed uniforms in the last ten years? Bills, Bucs, Giants, Jets, Cowboys (once in a while), 49ers, Rams, Bengals, Chargers, Patriots, Broncos, Seahawks, Cardinals and sometimes the Redkins (all white). Usually, the self proclaimed 'old schoolers' initially squawked but everybody got used to it and went with it. I don't see a difference here.

HLin NC · #9 (**permalink**) Fri Aug 04, 2006, 01:45pm

"They should be riding on a horse at Saratoga," one spectator cracked Thursday while watching the officials oversee a practice session.

After seeing that photo, I'm wishing we could wear black shorts for scrimmages and sub-varsity. We're still in white.

Mark Dexter · #10 (**permalink**) Fri Aug 04, 2006, 05:02pm

I haven't logged on in a while, but had to come back to see what's going on with these new uniforms. I thought maybe they were just for pre-season, but am a bit shocked to see that they'll be used full-time.

I agree with the jockey comment, though!

tjones1 · #11 (**permalink**) Sun Aug 06, 2006, 02:57am

What on earth have they done?!?!? Those look horrible (to say the least)!!!

Texas Aggie · #12 (**permalink**) Sun Aug 06, 2006, 10:23am

I don't think anyone, old school or otherwise, really cared much about teams' uniform changes other than the fans of the particular team -- unless the unis were really outlandish. I'm not a Rams fan, but I didn't like the Rams change a few years ago, since I liked the Rams' uniform. But that wasn't a style thing, rather, the color.

I can deal with the shirt change. If they left everything else alone, that would be fine. Going to sweat pants.