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A while back on my home blog, I suggested that the Seahawks and Bucs wear 1976 throwback unis for the game in Seattle on December 20. I now retract that idea and propose this: TB wears the creamsicle orange, and we wear our lime green. Why?

Frankly, I'm at a point where I just want to piss off the self-appointed fashion police in the national media, and nothing would make their monocles drop into their champagne glasses more quickly than THAT uniform match-up. If it was a snow game? Even better, because that would frak up their little frozen tundra fantasies of old-tyme football. 

What do you think, sirs?

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hahaha i agree

Their just jerseys and we shouldn’t focus so much on the jerseys even though it’d be nice to see the hawks wear their old uniforms once again. But we gotta focus on winning games not jerseys.

by Seahawksfan23 on Sep 30, 2009 8:21 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

If we're going to go all out on the uniforms . . .

then lets really go for it. Lime green jerseys and pants! The crazier the better.

Question: can anyone guess which college football team I cheer for?

by HawksFan on Sep 30, 2009 10:21 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Nitanny Lions.

You’re repressed.

by DJ C-Raig on Sep 30, 2009 10:30 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Oregon!

NEEDS MORE FREEDOM!

by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 30, 2009 11:08 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

The

wrong one.

Mancrushed. Jake Locker for Heisman 2010.

by whiskey chainsaw on Sep 30, 2009 11:50 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

They've been getting stomped.

Not too worried. Josh Johnson looks pretty good but he’s probably just playin until Freeman is ready.

by Hawkmain on Sep 30, 2009 10:29 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

I love...

the old TB “creamsicles.”

I like the lime green, but not the arrangement. I wish the pants had more lime green, perhaps wide the strip on the side and bring it down, as it is it just looks like a high school jersey where the pants and tops don’t match well.

Mancrushed. Jake Locker for Heisman 2010.

by whiskey chainsaw on Sep 30, 2009 10:53 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

That'd help a lot

All was all prepared to hate the uni’s, but after seeing them live I decided they weren’t that bad. My only real complaint with them was the use of white numbers rather than dark blue – it made it almost impossible to identify players from the stands.

I think if they went with blue numbers, brought the green further out on the sleeves so it had less of a “vest” look, and carried a wider green stripe down the pants, they’d look a lot better.

"I'm tired of chasing after my dreams. I'll just find out where they're going, and catch up later." - Hedberg

by jteckmann on Sep 30, 2009 12:04 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

"I was prepared ..."

stupid proofreading.

"I'm tired of chasing after my dreams. I'll just find out where they're going, and catch up later." - Hedberg

by jteckmann on Sep 30, 2009 12:05 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

I agree with the vest look making the jersey bad design.

I like the lime green, but the dark blue around the shoulders and neck does not work. I also think the helmets need to be lime green.

by Wilder. on Sep 30, 2009 12:11 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

I'm totally not a fan of the "vest look"

I’d be happier if the sleeves were green.

Mike Wahle(OG), Walter Jones(LT), Chris Spencer(C), Marcus Trufant(CB), Deion Branch(WR), Sean Locklear(OT), Brandon Mebane(DT), Leroy Hill(LB), Lofa Tatupu(LB), Josh Wilson(CB), Justin Griffith(FB), Matt Hasselbeck (QB)

by ninjasocks on Sep 30, 2009 12:37 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

I like the lime green as an accent.

And I think I’d probably like lime green unis if the pants were green/white/silver. Lime top with navy pants looks a little too arena football for me.

by sammy on Sep 30, 2009 11:02 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

I like the bright green,

but as someone else said, use it sparingly, like the Notre Dame Green, or the Georgia all black. Too much of it, and we seem like an UFL or XFL team.

by LantermanC on Sep 30, 2009 11:09 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Which is why its our alternate.

We’ll only see it once or twice a season.

NEEDS MORE FREEDOM!

by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 30, 2009 11:12 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Ugh.

That game would look like a matchup of Lime vs Orange Popsicles.

by sev79 on Sep 30, 2009 11:24 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

While I love the lime alternates

I would rather see a straight up throwback game when we play the Buccaneers. We are expansion brothers.

by Snowman1025 on Sep 30, 2009 11:29 AM PDT via mobile reply actions   0 recs

I don't think that can happen now

Somewhere in all this uni talk, I’m pretty sure someone posted the NFL’s rule: only one alternate jersey used a maximum of twice during the regular season.

I’ve heard conflicting stuff on the throwbacks – I’ve read that a team has to wait 10 years before bringing them back, and that ours aren’t old enough yet. But then I’ve heard other people say that the original expansion uniforms (big numbers, stripes instead of Hawk on the sleeve) technically pass the 10 year limit.

"I'm tired of chasing after my dreams. I'll just find out where they're going, and catch up later." - Hedberg

by jteckmann on Sep 30, 2009 11:57 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Im down with this.

Also, in the spirit of 76’, both teams get permission to field players from each original team for special teams.

The only way to make this worse to watch would be seeing AARP members sprinting down the field at each other.

by TheWes on Sep 30, 2009 11:53 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Anyone see this at Deadspin today?

http://deadspin.com/5371250/the-best-or-worst-personalized-jerseys-of-the-year/gallery/

Interestingly, we have a couple unis on the list, including the classic “Hellraiser” jersey, heheh.

Mancrushed. Jake Locker for Heisman 2010.

by whiskey chainsaw on Sep 30, 2009 12:11 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Stinky Pujols. Loved it.

JM just wants the neon colors because otherwise there’ll be no game highlights whatsoever.

by Groundhog on Sep 30, 2009 4:13 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

The Lime green is ok

But I would rather see (and I am sure Seahawk nation does too) the uniforms before the seahawks current style. The silver helmet with the old logo etc. why don’t they ever wear those?

by GTsmookie on Sep 30, 2009 12:30 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Hey, aren't those creamcicles are back when they had Steve Young?

They are so old they’re now back in style, aren’t they?

Early prospect watch: RB C.J. Spiller, QB Jevan Snead, OT Ciron Black, DT Gerald McCoy, S Eric Berry, DT Ndamukong Suh, CB Ras-I Dowling 6'2, 200, RB Jonathan Dwyer

by Misfit74 on Sep 30, 2009 12:38 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

I'm a fan of unique.

While I attended one of the many institutions in this fine country nicknamed The Wildcats, I would have vastly preferred if they continued to threaten opponents as The Fighting Methodists, although that may have precluded my matriculation. Apparently Methodists aren’t allowed to fight. Only the Irish.

I like the lime green. It’s different, it’s interesting, and it’s not just a slightly different variation of the same color worn by at least four other teams (but probably more).

by abender20 on Sep 30, 2009 2:10 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Burleson and Branch

Both said they wanted to wear throwbacks.

by DJ C-Raig on Sep 30, 2009 3:24 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Something tells me

Branch doesn’t have a ton of pull around the clubhouse these days.

Mike Wahle(OG), Walter Jones(LT), Chris Spencer(C), Marcus Trufant(CB), Deion Branch(WR), Sean Locklear(OT), Brandon Mebane(DT), Leroy Hill(LB), Lofa Tatupu(LB), Josh Wilson(CB), Justin Griffith(FB), Matt Hasselbeck (QB)

by ninjasocks on Sep 30, 2009 3:41 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Balderdash

Mora lets Branch stock the medicine cabinet as he sees fit.

by DJ C-Raig on Sep 30, 2009 5:25 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

I don't like lime green - I DO like lime green uniforms.

I can’t quite figure out why, but I really enjoy the splash, or full on dunk, of hyper-intense color for the uniforms. Whether it’s lime green or neon green, count me in! In fact, I wish there was less dark blue. In my imagination I see a mostly lime green/white combo for the torso and legs, with the dark blue helmets (can an alternate uni change helmets?), dark blue piping down the legs and dark blue numbers. Something important to me in a football uniform is how it looks in inclement weather. When soaking wet, and covered in mud and blood, how does it look? I think white and light colors do a better job looking dirty – a big plus for football uniforms.

A big part of why I like exorbitant colors on our uniform is the disgusted, put-down attitude they inspire in announcers, the national media and opponents. I get very defensive and focused when people are dogging the Seahawks. There’s a good quote from the movie Good Will Hunting that mirrors the way I feel when others are attacking the ’Hawks:

Will: He used to just put a belt, a stick, and a wrench on the kitchen table and say, “Choose.”
Sean: Well, I gotta go with the belt there.
Will: I used to go with the wrench.
Sean: Why?
Will: Cause fuck him, that’ why.

To me, picking the over-the-top lime green uni’s is like picking the wrench. Why? Because fuck ‘em, that’s why.

GO ’HAWKS!!

by John Edwards on Sep 30, 2009 4:49 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

I Like It

that would be so funny if it actually happened. I could care less about what the media thinks, I like the neon green jerseys.

by IndySeahawksFan3 on Sep 30, 2009 5:49 PM PDT via mobile reply actions   0 recs

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