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October 21, 2014When the actual football team is 3-3, you have to dig down pretty deep to disparage. Nevertheless, the Cleveland Browns are ranked dead last in a recent listing of all uniforms in the NFL as done, in slideshow form, by FOX Sports.
This team hasn’t won anything in decades yet this uniform is out there every Sunday. Granted, you can’t do a lot with brown, and it’s hard to give a team named after a surname a helmet logo, but this has been the ugliest thing going on in sports for decades.
Roughly a year ago, Paul Lukas (ESPN.com’s resident uniform expert) ranked the Browns 16th due to the mutual love-hate that exists throughout the league. This ranking was in lockstep with his 2012 list that discussed the potential for modernization.
Somewhere in the Nike offices, there’s probably a high-ranking executive whose entire job is to persuade the Browns to adopt a helmet logo and an alternate jersey. “Vice President for Browns Modernization” or some such (good luck with that). The team’s plain-Jane look tends to be polarizing — some folks love it, some hate it — but the truth lies somewhere in between. Docked a few notches for not wearing their brown jerseys even once last season.
While it wasn’t exactly a crystal ball, it’s widely expected that the Browns will adopt some form of “modernization” in 2015, though team owner Jimmy Haslam has been on record saying that the helmet will indeed go untouched. Sorry, FOX Sports guy.
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I already had posted the Oregon State uniforms above.
Why would you guys eed to click through the slide show? You don’t know what the unis look like?
Would have been nice if all CLE pro sports teams were the same color….oh well
College is all about recruiting man. Pull up any intro of a new uni to a team and everyone is yelling and screaming like they won the lottery.
Cleveland is a city, not a high school
just to see what wretched uniforms he had in his top10 and such.
I blame B/R for making it impossible for sites to simply make lists on a single page.
Yeah, that’s the kind of stuff Pittsburgh does.
The Fox article also has the Bills uniform at 24…They lost all credibility.
The traditional uni’s should stay. Mixing it up once in a while is fine. I’d like to see what a reverse colors helmet, brown with orange/white center stripe, would look like.
We NEED the orange pants back.
Understandable. But I wouldn’t want folks disqualifying the awesomeness of orange pants for us just because we have yet to be smart enough to stick with them. I’d be ok with the Cowboys being considered, but only if they stop having clashing silvers and blues going on.
Just bring back the orange pants. Please. No helmet logo, brown / white jerseys, and orange pants. Sure, make it shiny and fresh, but nothing beats the dark brown jersey with the orange pants. Orange. Pants. Please.
Browns uniforms are fine. They’re not quite as good as the old unis from the 80’s with the orange pants. Those were the best in football.
Virtually 100% of the people who don’t like the uniforms are from places other than Cleveland and are not Browns fans, so who cares?
We hate you FOX Sports, please die.
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You do know they get paid big money to wear that crap right?