If you’d like to read more on the Seattle uni & logo history: • Read how the Seahawks were almost named the ‘Sockeyes’. 1976: The Seahawks enter the league in 1976 as an expansion team. Again, don’t vote so much for who you think will actually win tomorrow, but rather which uniform you like better: We’ll be back next week with our minor league Conference Championships and our final round of bowl games, although for you real die-hard UWFFL fans there are four international games you can vote on today at uwfantasyfootballleague.com. With everybody going nuts over Omaha, it’s time to give them some consideration! Jan 12, 2017 - Explore Juliann Mendoza's board "Seahawks helmet" on Pinterest. At home, the team dons a blue jersey with white numbering. Socks: a snoozer, plain navy worn with all combinations. … Ooooohhhh — check out the sweet sweet stirrups of the Fort Scott Greyhounds (Sully again). Also, I want to wish a “Happy Birthday” to Leo Strawn, Jr. (who has been working on a future post with me — ONE of these weekends I’ll get to it Leo, I promise!). The Seahawks underwent a radical uniform redesign in 2002 as they prepared to move back to the NFC West and into their new outdoor stadium. Wing Bowl Friday morning in an Eagles helmet car, about Oklahoma City’s prospects for a future NFL franchise, http://mickelyantz.com/HawksWebPics/1994Throwback.jpg, http://m.flickr.com/photos/20391451@N03/5627704009/lightbox/, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr5HZWk1cN8&feature=youtube_gdata_player, http://www.uni-watch.com/2012/08/27/theres-no-service-like-wire-service-vol-40/, http://farm9.static.flickr.com/8425/7535297086_56bc5d58c2_o.jpg, http://colorlines.com/archives/2014/01/the_one_thing_native_americans_dont_call_themselves.html, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F9O8q7dqwI&feature=youtube_gdata_player. Those things on the Seahawks’ units are “feathers”? As with the original silver Seahawk helmet, the logo wrapped around to the back of the helmet on either side, but was separate in the middle. The collar and sleeve edge stripes feature the same stripe combo as found on the white jersey. The original Seattle road jerseys were white with blue numbers, while the striping sequence on the sleeves below the TV numbers was green-white-blue-white-green. Sleeve stripes have a thin white/medium green/medium white/medium green/thin white combo. That comes from Bob Woolard. The masks are generic gray. … Did you know that Dodger Stadium once hosted ski jumping? Shawn says, “I can’t ever remember any of the uniform combinations in Bears history having a stripe.” Anyone know anything more? People on here have said they were not blank though so I think there is a pretty good chance they have always had the logo. They ditched the orange jersey for 80-81, wearing black on the road. I love the Seahawks home jersey (and weirdly enough their Grey), its just the way the grey, neon green and navy work together (I think I like the grey one simply because the neon green stands out more on it than it does the white jersey). We’re not getting an NFL team in OKC, especially as long as Jerry Jones is alive. They’re at least smarter than that. The striping sequence on the sides of the regular blue pants was navy-green-navy. It’s not my favorite uniform but its definitely the best modern look (then again there are only handful of modern teams), and in my top 10. Hopefully, the Giants will have the good sense to ditch the Sunday only restriction on their orange-billed caps. There are several tournement weekend where you play a game on Sat and Sunday. Bad move for the prospective OKC NFL team to use “Roughnecks” in my opinion. I had always heard they were blank – at least for the preseason and early games in 1976. who’d a thunk it? The socks were white, and topped with blue-white-green-white-green-white-blue stripes, with the blue stripes being much wider and thicker than the others. I think the Phil Knight bobblehead day is fucking pathetic. Here at the UWFFL we thought we’d too get in on the action by presenting a UWFFL-esque Super Bowl uniform matchup to vote on. All the numbers were white, trimmed with navy blue. Born in 1976, the Seattle Seahawks have more or less maintained consistent uniform schemes in their 35-year history. They are: navy/navy, navy/gray (once), white/white, white/navy (which will be the Super Bowl XLVIII combination), and gray/gray. I always liked the Seahawks’ gunmetal-blue jerseys. Exactly, Phil! Big (huge) thanks to Timmy Brulia (and Rob Holecko) for the great Seahawks uniform history. The Seahawks originally wore a silver helmet with a gray facemask. The blue TV numbers on the sleeves were moved to the shoulders, and the sleeve stripes were replaced by the same Seahawk head logo featured on the helmet. http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2014/01/30/3226211/redskins-roster-republican-advisers-matters/. If you like it, I’d love if you could spread it around — Twitter, Uni Watch, anywhere your powerful social media arm is willing to reach!” … Here’s a good piece on the decreasing size of NFL shoulder pads (thanks, Paul). I remember it was a good luck jersey as they made a serious run at the NL West crown, even sweeping the Dodgers in LA in late September wearing the orange . Gray pants also have the navy stripe adorned with 12 gray feathers. But if the game was decided like all of our UWFFL matchups by the uniforms they were wearing, which team would you vote for? The numbers (front, back, shoulders) are block gunmetal blue with navy outline. And now, I’ll turn the rest of this over to Tim: Seattle Seahawks Uniform History Overlooked in the neon green hubbub are the equally new navy pants, with gunmetal/lime/gunmetal stripes, certainly the first time such a color combo was used in an NFL game. Well, other than the Bucs, everyone had been in the league for some time, and everyone KNEW they had logos. Moot, though, I guess, since nobody wears sleeves long enough to have that today. Whatever you think of the issue, it’s a beautiful and powerful bit of filmmaking. Says Caldwell Bailey, ” It was apparently given out as a party favor by by a sewing machine magnate of the late 19th century, so things come a little full circle in terms of relationship to unis, textiles, etc.” It was on Slate originally. 2002 … The Seahawks wore a jersey other than blue or white for the first—and so far only—time on September 27, 2009, in a 25-19 loss to the visiting Chicago Bears at what was then called Qwest Field. The only thing I don’t understand (and I’ll admit I haven’t looked as in-depth at this as others) why so specifically the Seahawks? The sleeve stripes are three separated stripes, with the outer stripes in green and the center stripe in blue. Now you do (h/t @AthleticBiz). So when we traveled, after a game we would literally dump all our stuff back into the equipment back, throw it on the bus, and it wouldnt get washed until we got back home. To me this makes sense. The jerseys and pants are supposed to be interchangeable, with a possible four combinations, but three combos see the light of the gridiron; white/white, white/gunmetal and gunmetal/gunmetal. These lime green creations—or nightmares—had the traditional navy blue sleeves with the Seahawk head logo.