Jeff said:

Team colors Pacific Blue, Navy Blue, Neon Green, White

Thanks for clearing that up!

Aside from the game at Jacksonville last year, where the Jags wore white as the home team, and the Seahawks wore blue jerseys and white pants, has Seattle ever gone with that combo? What about white jerseys/blue pants?

came across this comment searching for Seahawks-related items in Uniwatch… the blue/blue home and the white/white looks resulted from the players themselves. they didn’t like the official blue/white home and white/blue road combo, so they lobbied for permission to wear the all-color combo and won. for a few years they wore the ‘official’ combo in the preseason, but even that practice was abandoned in 2006.

the players just don’t like the unmatching jersey/pant look. in general i agree with most of the readers here that unitards are ugly, but not with my Seahawks. the all-one-color look works much better with their gear.

still waiting for a throwback day for the Hawks too.

Michael Robinson only wore one of the weird Schutt helmets because he had to — the whole Penn State team wore them last year (along with this year).

I remember watching whatever college all-star game Robinson played in last year (it was either the Shrine or th game is played in Chase Park in Phoenix) and he had gone back to his old Schutt Air helmet for that game instead of the DNA helmet he wore during the season.

Buckeye Mike said:

Ok, I’m watching my Browns, and Sotver just hit a FG. well, when they showed him, I noticed he has a very small helmet on. Has anyone noticed this? I looked quick, and he hasn’t always wore it. I went and looked, Our kicker, Dawson wears as close to a regular helmet as a kicker can. I don’t remember him wearing one in Cleveland, but i can’t find any pics. anyone else see this or know of anyone like this?

Those are the Schutt helmets, they’re weird because they’re short and wide. The most famous one I can think of is probably former Penn State QB Michael Robinson. They look really goofy, but I guess they’re comfortable

Stover used to wear a regular Riddell VSR-4 helmet; now he wears one of the Adams helmets that Brian linked in post #27.

By the way, Bike actually developed that helmet in the late 1990s (I think it was introduced in 1998 or 1999) but was forced to sell them off to Adams when their production plant couldn’t keep up with orders. Now you only see the Adams helmets on NFL kickers, some linemen (Warren Sapp comes to mind), and Arena league (primarly Arena II) teams.

As long as their punt returner can catch the damn ball, I suspect they’ll take their chances with whatever Palmer wants to do with his sleeve.

Now that I’ve vented, a uni note would be Ike Taylor’s multilayered socks.

Buckeye Mike said:

Ok, I’m watching my Browns, and Sotver just hit a FG. well, when they showed him, I noticed he has a very small helmet on. Has anyone noticed this? I looked quick, and he hasn’t always wore it. I went and looked, Our kicker, Dawson wears as close to a regular helmet as a kicker can. I don’t remember him wearing one in Cleveland, but i can’t find any pics. anyone else see this or know of anyone like this?

Those are the Schutt helmets, they’re weird because they’re short and wide. The most famous one I can think of is probably former Penn State QB Michael Robinson. They look really goofy, but I guess they’re comfortable

That’s not one of the new Schutt helmets. The new helmets are the DNA and are clearly reconizable by the diamond shaped ear holes and V-shaped top vents. Seatle’s Grant Wistrom wears it . I had one two years ago in HS they are pretty comfortable. The odd shape was designed to deflect helmet to helmet collisions so that they are only glancing blows. The inside pads are the same that are used in paratrooper helmets as well as the padding used on MLB stadium fences. The facemasks look weird and spreadout because of a wider range of vision in the front

I used to have this style facemask on my helmet, which all the better players wanted. One took it off and tried to put it on his size M Riddell helmet, but it didn’t nearly fit. It only fit on the XL Schutt AIR.

:-)