[abbaZaba]

does anyone else have a love of throwback uniforms like I do? This has been a great beginning to the season, what with my Steelers wearing their throwbacks last week:



and the Eagles wearing their sweet throwbacks this week:

I didn't get the Eagles game on TV today so I was kind of mad I missed them in action but from the highlights I saw, they looked sick

then to my surprise, the Redskins game comes on and they are wearing some nice looking throwbacks too:



and the Jets are gonna be wearing some throwbacks later in the year from when they were originally the New York Titans:


say what you want about ugliness of some throwbacks but I shall hear none of it. any throwbacks/old skool jerseys are great, especially when Pitt wears their throwbacks from their golden era:


I also get giddy when the Bills wear their throwbacks. They wore them last year but I'm not sure they are gonna wear them again this year:

[Jawbone54]

I'm a sucker for the throwbacks too. I wish that at least one week during the season, every team would don a throwback jersey. I just don't know what a team like Carolina would do.

My Cowboys' throwback isn't the best, but still cool.

[Oisín]

I had to look up what the hell a throwback uniform is, ’cause being a luddite Yurpean, I couldn’t see anything about those uniforms up there that made them anything but just ‘uniforms’.

Now that Wikipedia has informed me what makes them ‘throwback’ as well, I can honestly say that I still don’t see the difference. A uniform is a uniform is a uniform.

But I do love uniforms (as long as I don’t have to wear them), so I guess I’ll agree with abbaZabba’s sentiments, anyway.

[Jawbone54]

A lot of it is nostalgia.

Kind of like when football kits didn't have advertisements plastered all over the front of them.



vs.

[abbaZaba]

oh, I forgot about the Buccaneers:


sexy

while they are still good looking, I think those cowboys throwbacks are just OK.

[abbaZaba]

oh and forgot about the Boston Patriots:



and every since I was a little kid I always had an affinity for old skool Houston Astros stuff:


but nothing tickles me better than looking at old skool Pirates gear:

I would kill someone for a hat like that

[Dork.]

I likt the old Unis myself, although all I can think of when the Bills wear their throwbacks is O.J. knifing through the backfield.



But in 1999, Major League Baseball took it a step further, and made a special set of jerseys that were "throw-forward" jerseys, meant to be futuristic. The Mets got the special pleasure of wearing the ugliest unis, ever.



Were the Philly uniforms today really throwbacks, though? I was watching the games with my dad, and he could not remember any Eagles team that wasn't primarily green, like the Jets.

By the way, there's a guy who writes for ESPN about uniforms, and blogs about them here.

[abbaZaba]

yes I love that blog. that's where I got most of the pictures I posted.

and yeah, the Eagles were once silver and yellow, in 1934.

just too bad that the throwbacks they wore today were not longsleeved

[Jawbone54]

Originally Posted by Dork. 

I likt the old Unis myself, although all I can think of when the Bills wear their throwbacks is O.J. knifing through the backfield.

Heh heh...

[abbaZaba]

here's a site with the "Turn Ahead The Clock" night jerseys

[alligator]

Obviously, in the future we all wear the same clothes. You know, those tight silver suits. I suppose all teams would look the same then, just a different solid color.

[KeriVit]

Thanks for the patsies uni. I have a Bruschi jersey in that.