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August 18, 2008
If you have not heard, your Cleveland Browns will be changing up their uniform a bit tonight.
The Browns’ official site reports that the team will be wearing brown pants for the first time in team history as they take on the defending champion New York Football Giants. But unlike the white pants that the team typically wears, the brown version will have nary a stripe on them. No color of any kind – just brown.
In an era where teams roll out alternate jerseys to boost apparel sales, this obviously is not one of said decisions as most fans will not be purchasing brown football pants to wear to games this season. The orange pants of a few years back bring back haunting memories as it is, which can be seen in the picture above. While the team typically wears the white pants, it appears this will continue aside from tonight’s match-up.
Reportedly, an online poll will be available following the game, asking fans what they think of the new look. While I am personally curious to see what this “look” will look like, UniWatch blog is none too thrilled with the team yet to even take the field. The UPS man in the picture should say it all. Plus, we all know how Rick feels about alternate jerseys. I can’t wait to see what the rest of the Browns world has to say.
Brown out [ClevelandBrowns.com]
Special Delivery[UniWatch Blog]
11 Comments
I was wondering where the hell Madden 09 got the idea that the Browns wore Brown pants as their default jersey! I thought it was just poor research, but no, it’s poor fashion advice. For the record, at least in the world of Wii, the brown pants/white tops look is AWFUL.
I’m going to reserve judgment until I see them.
I’m thinking brown pants/brown jerseys might look kinda cool.
I don’t mind the uni tinkering, might actually find a cool combination.
And yes, I liked the orange pants. I’d bring back the Eric Metcalf orange shoes if I could.
But I totally agree, don’t mess with the helmet.
brown pants + orange jersey = greatest uniform ever.
judging from the snippet you see on clevelandbrowns.com, i get the feeling that it might not as bad as you think. i think it might give off a kinda faux-retro look much like the giants blue helmet/white jersey/grey pants, which i actually like. i like where they’ve gone with the uniform for the past few years, switching back to the grey face mask, using a duller orange for the helmet, and from what i can tell, using a slightly darker brown.
and that dude bryan who fills in for paul lukas on uniwatchblog is a salty dog anyways. of course he went for the browns/poo joke, it’s too easy. hes got nothing on former uniwatch “intern” and cleveland’s own Vince Grzegorek
It’ll be better than the all orange disaster.
Also, the article title “brown out” on browns.com made me laugh a little bit.
Kidd- The problem with the orange jerseys, is how they go with the helmet. Way too much orange, especially on tv during close-ups.
I don’t mind change. I grew up loving the Browns. I agree with not touching the helmets, but keeping the same boring white on white uniforms and just changing the stripe config kinda sucks. I have always wanted to see them break out a brown pant. The only thing is I want to see some sort of striping on them.
Being a Mount Union grad, I’ve spent many a year watching their annual date on TV in December for the Pee Wee National Championship, and this is making me a bit apprehensive. Mount Union went to solid-purple pants a few years ago, and it’s not a good look. And purple is more pallatable than brown, IMHO.
Awful. Simply awful.
They’re truly terrible.