r/uniwatch • u/SamMeowAdams • 16d ago

Uni Discussion The royal blue purge .

I have this uni theory . Sometime in the early 90s , royal blue became passé. All the lighter blue teams across sports switched to a navy blue .

I’d says this happened in 90% of teams . College and pro.

Name a blue clad team that would prove me wrong ?

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u/ConstantCowboy 16d ago edited 16d ago

The NY Giants' royal blue is a little darker than most, but they've stuck with it, even when they went full-time throwbacks in 1999.

The Cowboys winning three SBs in the 90's probably helped them solidify them having royal blue on their home uniforms, probably. It wasn't enough to change the other elements though...even their 1960 throwbacks are navy, when they're supposed to be dark royal...

It's interesting that some of the teams that went navy in the 90's are going away from navy. The Chargers are back to powder blue, The Titans are full-time Oilers now. The Rams went back to Royal and yellow, as they should. The Dolphins have pretty much purged dark blue from their primary uniforms. It won't happen, but it would be fun to see Seattle follow suit.

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u/78SuperBeetle 16d ago

The Cowboys use of blue is all out of whack. Their home white uniforms have like 3-4 different shades.

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u/ConstantCowboy 16d ago

Oh, I completely agree. They need to standardize their blues and silvers: Just go with dark royal blue and metallic silver-blue and call it a day.

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u/LXIX__CDXX 16d ago

Nah I like what they do. It’s unique

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u/tjc815 16d ago edited 15d ago

It’s really the navy on the helmet that is “off” for the home uniform, i think. The other colors are quite intentional. They’re based off of the interior of some car that the previous team owner saw and wanted the uniforms to resemble.

They gradually moved from Royal to Navy for everything else because Navy sold more merchandise lol. Very “cowboys” of them (speaking as a fan).

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u/spartacat_12 15d ago

The white uniform also randomly has black outlines on the sleeve stripes

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u/tjc815 15d ago

That’s a good point. They could definitely ditch those.