bigboi Posted August 9, 2017 Report Share Posted August 9, 2017 Walkthru: Tracking the Bengals 2017 uniform changes Jim Owczarski, jowczarski@enquirer.com Published 9:09 a.m. ET Aug. 1, 2017 | Updated 9:11 a.m. ET Aug. 1, 2017 The collar on the black jersey is now entirely orange, and the collar will be black on the orange and white alternate jerseys. The cut of the jerseys is different, too, this season, but that is the case for every team in the league. The 50th season patch is not considered a uniform change. For those wondering why the club maybe didn’t introduce a “throwback” jersey for the 50th season, it’s not as simple as just bringing in a new look for a year. First, it would be considered an "alternate" jersey, so the orange jersey would have to be eliminated. Then, for any team to introduce a new uniform there needs to be a two-year advance notice given to the league and manufacturer. And, once that change is made, it has to stick for the next five years and is the only change that can be made. So, for instance, the Bengals would have had to start the planning process for a uniform change in 2017 with notice in 2015. And then no jersey or part of the home or away uniforms could change at all again until 2022. An exception to all this is the all-white “color rush” uniforms, which will be back in 2017 for the Thursday night football games (this was a league-wide initiative with Nike). Though the club has yet to formally announce wearing them, it plays Houston on Thursday, Sept. 14. That jersey will also feature an all-black collar, the lone alternation to that look. The club will once again wear orange helmets with the jerseys. The league and NFLPA do not allow alternate helmets for safety reasons and, unlike other teams that do change logos on their helmets, the Bengals do not use stickers for its striping. The helmets are orange and painted with black stripes. In the offseason, the Philadelphia Eagles considered submitting a rule change proposal to allow for alternate helmets The club will once again wear orange helmets with the jerseys but ultimately tabled that proposal before it could come to a vote in the March owner’s meetings. Bengals unveil new all-white uniforms ICYMI Paul and I are starting up a new weekly feature called “Bengals Xtra” or “BX” for short – in the mold of colleague Jason Williams’ Politics Xtra over on the news side. We kicked it off two weeks ago with a deep dive into the upsides and pitfalls of potential Tyler Eifert and Vontaze Burfict extensions, and this week Paul followed up his excellent profile of the Brown family with the unique pairing at league meetings of Mike Brown and Dallas owner Jerry Jones. Instagram of the day It’s not always super serious in practice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredtoast Posted August 9, 2017 Report Share Posted August 9, 2017 WTF? The story clearly states that there will be no new helmet this year. It even explains why. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleeds Orange Posted August 9, 2017 Report Share Posted August 9, 2017 Those are just collectibles. Last year it was "Ice" helmets and this year it's "Blaze" helmets. http://www.nflshop.com/Blaze/source/bm-nflcom-2017-Blaze-Helmets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigboi Posted August 9, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 9, 2017 well this ideal keeps showing up all tweeter and Facebook and they are starting to sell the replica helmet on eBay and amazon,then again they said no new uniforms last year and we saw what happened,just food for thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredtoast Posted August 9, 2017 Report Share Posted August 9, 2017 20 minutes ago, bigboi said: then again they said no new uniforms last year and we saw what happened,just food for thought. Uh, no. They said they would wear special "color rush" uniforms for the Thursday night game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-GoBengals- Posted August 9, 2017 Report Share Posted August 9, 2017 i assumed at some point, the new helmets they are selling would be part of the color rush thing eventually. they need to get it to the color rush game being after the teams bye week, making it possible to get the helmets painted in time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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