Throwback uniforms....

I although won’t buy that kind of throwback, however the more I think about it, it will be kind of fun to watch the Broncos play is brown and yellow. I always poked fun at the jerseys the Jets and Eagles wore in their throwback games. Now it is our turn.

I do like you comment below in that we will get a blast from the past when playing the Pats this year.

I LOVE the throwbacks.

I have had a love – hate thing with the newer “swoosh” uniforms because they have a VERY short “style shelf life”. We’ve had the “new” unis for 12 years and I think that we’re again “out of style”. Can I use “quotation marks” any more?

Anyway, what I’m getting at is that the Broncos need a face lift on the style front. In the mid 1990’s there was rumor that a change was coming. I started to see jackets and t-shirts with a navy blue clor instead of the royal blue that we’d seen for so long. We knew that Denver’s color scheme needed updating. We assumed that we’d see a darkening of the colors and a “tougher” logo. I didn’t expect the swooshiness (made up word) that we went with and was FURIOUS at first. Then we made a Super Bowl run and the new unis became part of our identity. Then colleges and high school started to roll with the swoosh design. “Cool”, I thought, they are copying us. Well, all of those teams that switched to the swoosh unis have switched away from them and gone with a more modern design. Now, instead of darker/tougher/more intimidating uni’s, we’re seeing a move towards simpler, cleaner, and more “old-school” looks.

I, for one, think Denver needs to come up with a hybrid of the 60’s, 80’s, and current unis.

Here’s my required list for unis:
1) We must keep the orange and blue (regardless one one color’s predominance) only because Denver’s become known as Orange & Blue. Plus, in another year or two, we can be the second comming of THE ORANGE CRUSH.
2) Get rid of the swooshes.
3) Lets go with a more simplified helmet design. Our current set up looks like 1998 threw up on it. Not only do we have the new logo, but we have 3 orange stripes over the top (are they supposed to be kinda like a horse’s mane?).
4) Lets go with dark pants on the road like we did back in the day – maybe we go with blue though instead of orange? (Coolest Floyd little photo ever)

5) We need more stripes on the socks – just saying, they’re cool!

So…long post..but fun topic…

What do you guys think? Still undecided on may favorite road unis. This is just my ghetto mock up of what I think we should be doing.

SImple home unis, kept the logo, got rid of the helmet stripes, pant stripes, swooshes, and jersey stripes. Added sock stripes (I mean is any other team synonymous with sock stripes, regardless of horizontal or vertical orientation more than the Broncos?). I kept the 1980’s block lettering/numbering although you can’t see it that well. The jersey is a combo of the 1960 throwback and the 80’s color scheme. The pants are boring, which I like. As far as the road unis go, I think the blue pants/white socks look tough and the simple – all orange number without a border color looks cool to me, so I put the same jersey with orange pants on the last one just to see what it looks like.

For the roadies, I love the darker pants. The first one has the same numbers as in the 80’s just without sleeve stripes. I kept the pants all stripe free. I think my fave (aside from the home unis) is roadie #3.

What do you think?

the first thing I though when I first saw these uniforms………

Hopefully they don’t use the one bar helmets though. That could bring some pain….

Okay, scrap the replica jersey…I just want a pair of replica socks! If I could get some before Fan Fair and have them autographed…

a giant throwback bonfire in the parking lot after the game!