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Uniform Color Combinations That Haven't Been Used (2 Viewers)

At first thought...

Maroon and White (not the same as red and white)

Maroon and Light Blue

Orange and Gray

Brown and Yellow

Black and White

Black and Gray

Red and Green

Purple and Blue

 
How about those colors that Louisville used in the final four? Sort of a bright orangish/red. Would that be burnt bittersweet?

 
I brought this up because I can see Nike trying to sell some crazy uniform ideas to NFL teams since they'll replace Reebok as the official uniform providers this year.

 
'3nOut said:
At first thought...Maroon and White (not the same as red and white)Maroon and Light BlueOrange and GrayBrown and Yellow Black and WhiteBlack and GrayRed and GreenPurple and Blue
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Red and Green. I can see a Christmas weekend schedule involving this. Maybe orange and black for Halloween?
 
The only regrettable "what-the-####-were-they-thinking?" color combination is orange/navy. There aughta be a law against that and the other hideous color combinations mentioned above. Even fushia pink/canary yellow is better.

 
'3nOut said:
At first thought...Maroon and White (not the same as red and white)Maroon and Light BlueOrange and GrayBrown and Yellow Black and WhiteBlack and GrayRed and GreenPurple and Blue
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Except for gold, purple and anything or maroon and anything. Vikings and Redskins are pretty much the only two teams to ever wear those colors (also Ravens with purple and black).Orange is pretty open -- Broncos wore it with blue, Bucs wore it with red. Gray is open as well, as only the Raiders have basically worn that (silver & black) and Bucs (red/gray).Brown? Outside of Cleveland, think it's wide open.Black and White are interesting. White is pretty much only paired with Blue, Green or Red, the primary colors, and usually "dark" versions of those colors (for obvious reasons). Black gets more vibrant colors - orange with Cincinnati, gold with the Steelers/Saints, purple with the Ravens, red with the Falcons, teal with the Jags, etc.Green generally stands on its own, going with black or white (think Jets/Eagles) or gold (GB) or silver (Eagles). The Seahawks do blue and green, but I don't think that looks too good. Green is probably untapped, though. If you look at college football, it's mostly the same thing, putting Green with gold or white or silver (Baylor, Marshall, MichSt, USF, etc.). The two notable exceptions are two of the more famous teams: Oregon with green and a neon yellow as opposed to a gold, and Miami with a green/orange/white look. Of course, the NFL Miami team is pretty close to that with a orange/white/dark turquoise look.Simple white+ might be the better look if going for being unique. In the early '60s, the Rams, Cowboys and Chargers also had blue and white before substituting a slightly different other color; only the Colts go blue and white now.The Jets are the only team with green and white, although the Eagles are often close (but usually silver and green).The Cardinals pretty much went from dark red and white to dark red and black. But they're the only team that's really gone red and white.So of the three primary colors, only a few teams pair them with white. On the other hand, black is paired with more colors like light blue (Carolina/Jags), gold (Saints/Steelers), and silver (Raiders) and the other colors listed above.
 
It's also about how you put it together and not just the looks. The Chargers wear similar colors to Notre Dame and Michigan, but their uniforms don't look similar at all.

 
Not many contrasting color schemes have been used.

For Example:

Red/Blue

Red/Green

Pink/Light Blue

Pink/Yellow

Purple/Orange

Brown has also seemingly been neglected as an almost neutral color hasnt been comined with much outside of white or navy.

 
We need someone to use polka dots.

Maybe if the NFL tries a league in Europe again they can have the Bohemian Polka Dots.

 
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'Run It Up said:
Not many contrasting color schemes have been used.For Example:Red/BlueRed/GreenPink/Light BluePink/YellowPurple/OrangeBrown has also seemingly been neglected as an almost neutral color hasnt been comined with much outside of white or navy.
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Agreed generally, but red/blue is the most common scheme out there. Pats, Giants, Bills, Texans all sporting that look (and arguably Titans, too).
 
I think the NFL should try what baseball and basketball did - Camo. You know, to honor invisible people.

 
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I used to design sports uniforms as a hobby. I wish I had saved some of my pen-and-ink drawings from back then ... I had a lot of cool concepts with the folowing:

Burnt Orange & Silver (burnt orange = U of Texas orange, not Bengals or old-school Buccaneers)

Purple & Orange (a dark purple)

Purple with Silver trim (a reverse of Kansas State's scheme)

Kelly Green (80s Jets) with Navy and Yellow trim

Navy Blue with Red & Silver trim

Kelly Green with Red trim was just OK. Forest Green (Packers) with Burgundy trim was $$$

Columbia Blue (80s Houston Oilers) with Burgundy trim was also nice. The reverse worked, too -- Burgundy with Columbia Blue trim

Columbia Blue is actually pretty versatile -- it can work with Kelly Green, Forest Green (Tulane), Purple, Old Gold (shiny gold, like UCLA helmets), Silver, Yellow (USFL Oakland Invaders), even Brown.

I used to do a lot of three-part color schemes, too, such as Red/Navy/Yellow, Black/Columbia Blue/Burgundy, Red/Orange/Yellow (probably better on paper than on a uniform), and Black/Red/Yellow.

Always thought a flat Gray would look good on a football uniform, until I saw Oklahoma State try it this year. Not a fan of Gray with a bright color like Orange. Gray woud probably be fine as a team's main color, though, with very thin trim in a dark color like Black or Navy Blue.

 
'Chase Stuart said:
'Run It Up said:
Not many contrasting color schemes have been used.For Example:Red/BlueRed/GreenPink/Light BluePink/YellowPurple/OrangeBrown has also seemingly been neglected as an almost neutral color hasnt been comined with much outside of white or navy.
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Agreed generally, but red/blue is the most common scheme out there. Pats, Giants, Bills, Texans all sporting that look (and arguably Titans, too).
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I would say that the Texans of this listed are the only ones to actually wear these combinations, they alternate through all the colors but never at the same time, except for the texans (their red unis are sick).
 
Random thoughts.

Weren't the original bronco colors Brown and Yellow? In other sports, this combo was best done by the Padres.

Can't think of any NFL red/green but those were the original New Jersey Devils colors.

USFL was good for some color combos not as commonly used - Gold and Red (Philly/Baltimore Stars and Birmingham Stallions), Purple and Orange (Pittsburgh Maulers), Michigan Panthers (Maroon and Gold with, I believe, some light blue accents), I think The Jacksonville Bulls were Silver and either Maroon or Brown.

And then you get into stuff like the CFL (Edmonton rocking Green and Yellow - and the crazy combos when they had U.S. teams), UFL, and XFL and all kinds of stuff shows up.

-QG

 
Maroon (claret) and light blue is a famous color combination in English soccer. A few years ago, three of the twenty Premier League clubs wore these colors (Aston Villa, West Ham United and Burnley). For whatever reason, it's not used in the US at all. I can't even think of a college program that uses them.

 
i think they shuold use mirror technology to make uniforms that effectively are cloacking devices and make the players almost invisible to the opposition so that the d is forced to run around very quiety listening for crunching of feet on teh grass and then tackle the noises they hear and it would be great because you would probably get a lot of unccessary roughness penalties when they tackled defenseless receivers and basicall you would keep going half the distance to the goal and as ed hocchuli used the screen time to have a flex down with lou farigno who would be in the third row section d and in the end the invisible team would probably win by a lot take that to the bank but always bet farigno in a flex off

 
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