The Weird, Wacky and Awesome World of the NFL - General Banter thread V2

jack presley

Those God awful colour rush jerseys are back for Thursday games this year I see (and available to buy if anyone was that stupid).

Knex*

jack presley wrote: »

Those God awful colour rush jerseys are back for Thursday games this year I see (and available to buy if anyone was that stupid).

The Giants one is essentially the Buffalo Bills.

jack presley

At least white doesn't burn your eyes.

Beefy78

I really like the Giants one. I'd been thinking of getting a road jersey but that one is much nicer.

Knex*

Beefy78 wrote: »

I really like the Giants one. I'd been thinking of getting a road jersey but that one is much nicer.

I like it, but it really is just the Bills jersey.

eagle eye

Was just thinking there of two of the regular posters that used to be here for a couple of years. Davyjose was a very good one and Chucky the tree too.

Lionbacker

Knex. wrote: »

The Giants one is essentially the Buffalo Bills.

This seems to be a bit of a theme. Here is the Lions with their new Panthers jersey.
https://twitter.com/Lions/status/775680803682578432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

TOss Sweep

One thing that is wacky and posted this in Pats thread is the Texans Color rush jersey:

TOss Sweep wrote: »

Apparently that white jersey is a color rush jersey

Color Rush:



Regular:



Mad thing is as said above they are selling their blue one online but not the white one:

phatkev

The one the Jets will be wearing Thursday is essential their white kit, but with a brighter shade of green for the numbers shoulders. I assume they have to go white this because of the whole color blind issue last year!

Adamcp898

Link below explains what's happening re: the colour anomalies:

some teams — the Jets (vs. Bills), Browns (vs. Ravens) and Rams (vs. Seahawks) — will wear white so the color matchup doesn't cause such eyesight issues

The Falcons (vs. Buccaneers), Cardinals (vs. 49ers) and Texans (vs. Patriots) will wear white to contrast with their opponents, who have the same primary colors, according to the report. The Colts, Redskins and Lions will not wear their Color Rush uniforms on Thanksgiving.

Bit much that the teams not wearing a colour rush jersey are still going to sell the one they selected.

http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/news/nfl-color-rush-uniforms-thursday-night-football-2016/o6xby1ibvadb1cmlmzbxvvhjq

Knex*

Its all a bit fecking daft, Ted.

jack presley

Adamcp898 wrote: »

Link below explains what's happening re: the colour anomalies:



Bit much that the teams not wearing a colour rush jersey are still going to sell the one they selected.

http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/news/nfl-color-rush-uniforms-thursday-night-football-2016/o6xby1ibvadb1cmlmzbxvvhjq

Oh my God, the Redskins one is awful. It looks like mustard. Thankfully they won't be wearing it on their Thursday game. There's some awful 'colour rush' merchandise in their online shop though.

TOss Sweep

Thing is though if you look at the white jerseys they are New jerseys and nothing they already have. So in essence the NFL and Teams are still selling the color rush jersey they wont be using and will most likely sell the new "white" jersey also giving that team 2 extra jerseys and not the 1. Mad it is.

adrian522

Adamcp898

The more links I click on the more I cringe at this whole colour rush thing. If you want a pointless money making exercise then just do it, no need for all the fake puff around it.

http://www.seahawks.com/ms/uniforms/actiongreen/

raze_them_all_

I love the fact there is red and green because colour blind people are cured from last years debacle

nerd69

Knex. wrote: »

What was your take on Wentz this weekend, Nerd?

Haven't had time to go back and watch the Eagles game yet.

Haven't seen the whole game myself yet as I'm on holidays but he looked very solid big thing for me was that he handled the occasion very well he was not afraid to take shots downfield and he was putting the ball where only the reciever can get it. Very early have any ideawhat he's like and it was against a very poor d but. He looked very promising. (Also it says a lot that on a 4th and 2 pederson trusted wentz to go for it) pretty happy with it particularly considering I didn't want him near the field in his rookie year

ScummyMan

Adamcp898 wrote: »

The more links I click on the more I cringe at this whole colour rush thing. If you want a pointless money making exercise then just do it, no need for all the fake puff around it.

http://www.seahawks.com/ms/uniforms/actiongreen/

To be fair - "one hundred percent of the NFL's proceeds from the sale of Color Rush jerseys will go directly to the NFL Foundation to fund health, safety and wellness programs for youth around the country."

Its not as if it's just a money making exercise for the NFL.

Realt Dearg Sec

ScummyMan wrote: »

To be fair - "one hundred percent of the NFL's proceeds from the sale of Color Rush jerseys will go directly to the NFL Foundation to fund health, safety and wellness programs for youth around the country."

Its not as if it's just a money making exercise for the NFL.

Does that really mean all of the money? I know what you typed, but it's just we've fallen for this sh1t before with the breast cancer "awareness" thing, which was clearly just a wheeze to sell stuff women might want to buy. If it's true, then that's great, but fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me...you can't get fooled again.

poldebruin

Giants one is straight from the eighties - beautiful.
Denver's is awful, day-glo orange jersey, pants and socks.

Realt Dearg Sec

Call me crazy, but this jersey looks suspiciously like an ordinary Bears jersey.

Which is fine. The alternative was probably looking like Ian Paisley Jr. on the 12th.

paulie21

CJ Spiller cut by the Saints

OldMrBrennan83

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Realt Dearg Sec

Patww79 wrote: »

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Well, at least our game won't be an abomination against the will of God. I don't want to be overly dramatic...

eagle eye

paulie21 wrote: »

CJ Spiller cut by the Saints

Yeah, Cadet came back and took his job and played well too.

ScummyMan

paulie21 wrote: »

CJ Spiller cut by the Saints

Wasn't he a first round pick? Some fall from grace

When will Simmon's mailbag come back?:(

thomond2006

Have the Saints gotten much criticism for the crazy amount of dead money on their salary cap?

Knex*

thomond2006 wrote: »

Have the Saints gotten much criticism for the crazy amount of dead money on their salary cap?

Nope. People are too busy laughing at their defence, and being won over by how ridiculous Drew Brees is.

Their cap management has been down right awful. Fair enough, they've been unlucky with injuries and off field incidents, but its still fairly negligent of them to end up this poorly off.

jack presley

$40m or around 25% of the cap as dead money is some mishandling alright.