By John Turney
Much of the design of the Ravens' uniforms remained the same, with only the number trim tweaked while keeping the font the same. The basics of purple, black and white jerseys mixed with pants of the same three colors has been around, some of them since the beginning of the franchise, or agt least when the Browns moved to Baltimore in 1996 and changed their name and colors.
However, new helmets were added to the mix, a purple lid with gold facemask and a black on black alternate helmet with their alternate logo.
Apparently, they are calling the black-one-black "Darkness," with the all-black helmet to top it off.
Okay, fine. Whatever.
Here, you can see the different trim on the numbers and little feathers around the collars of the purple, white and black jerseys—
Our take is there is nothing wrong with these, nothing wrong with an update, but you kind of get this feeling when you see them:
Per the Ravens, the purple over white and white over purple will be the usual and the secondary purple "Purple Rising" and the all-black "Darkness" will be the alternates.
And here is a shot where you can see one of the bigger differences, the pants striping. Let's just be grateful there is stiping, and this is workable, as part of the update/modernization.
Our take is there is nothing wrong with these, nothing wrong with an update, but you kind of get this feeling when you see them:
As we said, nothing bad here, liked them before and like them now. The tweaks maybe update them a bit, so maybe take a B to a B+ or maybe a B+ to an A-, something like that. Maybe you think differently, but we'll see how much the mix-and-match and if they wear all 12 possible iterations. That will be the make-or-break for these kits. Some of them are very good. Others, well, not so good, yeah we are talking to you purple over black and black over purple!
God I hate all these stupid uniform refresh articles. Not just here, but in general. Ever notice how little of the new uniform they actually show? It’s always at some stupid angle. Rarely do you get a straight-on side view of the helmet. It’s like they’re intentionally trying NOT to show you the whole thing.
ReplyDeleteI appreciate that the Ravens created their own identity in Baltimore. Though I’d have preferred the Colts name and colors stay in Baltimore and Indianapolis had created a franchise from the ground up with new name, colors and logo. Would be curious to see some ideas for original Indianapolis designs.
ReplyDeleteThat said, have never been a fan of the Ravens logos and color scheme. Just doesn’t work for me, even though it’s not bad.
" I’d have preferred the Colts name and colors stay in Baltimore.".....no doubt everyone that reads this board is sick of hearing it, but I will NEVER accept the Indy theft if the Colts.....whatever else can be said by Cleveland fans about Modell, at least he had the decency to leave the name, history and colors in that city......the "shield" forever disgraced itself by allowing that rich history to be stolen Indy......(I know, I know....."get over it already....it's been 42 years as I write this.....)
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