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Color Rush

Postby Oly » Tue Sep 13, 2016 7:22 pm

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Re: Color Rush

Postby I-5 » Tue Sep 13, 2016 9:56 pm

Uuuuugggggggly


Note: I wonder if anyone has tested what bright green uniforms will look like against green field turf....the Seahawks may have an advantage being INVISIBLE except for their helmets floating in the air...
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Re: Color Rush

Postby RiverDog » Wed Sep 14, 2016 3:36 am

I've heard that there's a lot of complaints from people that are legitimately color blind to the color rush games.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap300000 ... -rush-game

Perhaps they'll unite and force the ever sensitive, politically correct NFL to come to their senses and end this madness. I personally won't watch it unless it involves the Seahawks.
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Re: Color Rush

Postby burrrton » Wed Sep 14, 2016 9:44 am

I wonder if anyone has tested what bright green uniforms will look like against green field turf


Yes:

http://www.dailyemerald.com/wp-content/ ... l_.014.jpg

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FTR, I kinda like them. But then I also kinda liked the green jerseys back in 2009(?) so you know what kind of taste I have... :)

Yeah, many will have a fit about how 'ugly' they are (including some here), but if you're looking to do something radical/hip/whatever as this "color crush" push is meant to do, they're a hell of a lot better than the dull all black or all white unis, and a good deal better than the yellow and red ones I see for other teams.

I'd have preferred a more radical version of our Blue Man Group unis, but since that didn't happen, this seems next best.
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Re: Color Rush

Postby I-5 » Wed Sep 14, 2016 11:03 am

Thanks for the example, burrrton. However, our green color is MUCH uglier, though.
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Re: Color Rush

Postby burrrton » Wed Sep 14, 2016 11:13 am

I-5 wrote:Thanks for the example, burrrton. However, our green color is MUCH uglier, though.


Bah!
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Re: Color Rush

Postby c_hawkbob » Wed Sep 14, 2016 1:20 pm

I-5 wrote:Thanks for the example, burrrton. However, our green color is MUCH uglier, though.


I agree. Our color green works as an accent but is hideous as a primary color.
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Re: Color Rush

Postby Zorn76 » Wed Sep 14, 2016 3:22 pm

I'll be wishing I was color blind when they wear these dreaded things.
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Re: Color Rush

Postby savvyman » Wed Sep 14, 2016 4:13 pm

If they could go with the blue color for pants it would help.
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Re: Color Rush

Postby HumanCockroach » Wed Sep 14, 2016 5:54 pm

Who in the world tunes into an NFL game to see hip/radical or different uniforms? That's what arena ball and minor league baseball is for....

( and I suppose the Jaguar's)
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Re: Color Rush

Postby RiverDog » Wed Sep 14, 2016 8:03 pm

HumanCockroach wrote:Who in the world tunes into an NFL game to see hip/radical or different uniforms? That's what arena ball and minor league baseball is for....

( and I suppose the Jaguar's)


The Thursday night game ratings came in below expectations, so this is one way the league is trying to boost viewership. Personally I think they ought to have strippers as part of the sideline shots if their goal was to boost viewership.
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Re: Color Rush

Postby Oly » Thu Sep 15, 2016 8:30 am

HumanCockroach wrote:Who in the world tunes into an NFL game to see hip/radical or different uniforms? That's what arena ball and minor league baseball is for....

( and I suppose the Jaguar's)


It's not about ratings, it's about merchandise sales to young people. Same as the shirts in basketball.

Personally, I still wish we would have stayed with the silver helmets and the original, more authentic Seahawk logo, but I guess that's why I'm not in advertising.
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Re: Color Rush

Postby RiverDog » Thu Sep 15, 2016 5:48 pm

Oly wrote:It's not about ratings, it's about merchandise sales to young people. Same as the shirts in basketball.

Personally, I still wish we would have stayed with the silver helmets and the original, more authentic Seahawk logo, but I guess that's why I'm not in advertising.


LOL! Me, too, Oly, except that I hated that stoned seagull. The current emblem is far better.
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Re: Color Rush

Postby burrrton » Thu Sep 15, 2016 7:53 pm

I love the Jets' Color Rush uniforms, aka their normal uniforms.
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Re: Color Rush

Postby obiken » Thu Sep 15, 2016 7:56 pm

Not the Duck motif, and I am Duck alum. I think the lime is ugly!!
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Re: Color Rush

Postby burrrton » Thu Sep 15, 2016 8:04 pm

Here's the final word on the matter proving once and for all that I'm right:

http://www.snacktimefantasy.com/nfl-art ... anked-1-32
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Re: Color Rush

Postby NorthHawk » Thu Sep 15, 2016 10:05 pm

What's Seattle's obsession with radioactive snot green?
That color might be good for minor league teams, but it detracts from the focus of the game.
Just stick with the grey jerseys.
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Re: Color Rush

Postby Hawk Sista » Sat Sep 17, 2016 11:04 am

I don't think they are ugly at all. It's not the same color as the 2009 game against the Bears... At least it seems different. The problem that day was the whole thing didn't match. I think it's fun! I wouldn't want those unis all the time, but I think it's a fun gimmick.
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Re: Color Rush

Postby monkey » Sat Sep 17, 2016 12:44 pm

I just want them to FINALLY wear their throwbacks...I miss the 80's era jerseys, (the home ones especially, the away ones weren't as great actually), which were then and always will be the single coolest uni's of all time.
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Re: Color Rush

Postby RiverDog » Sun Sep 18, 2016 3:19 am

monkey wrote:I just want them to FINALLY wear their throwbacks...I miss the 80's era jerseys, (the home ones especially, the away ones weren't as great actually), which were then and always will be the single coolest uni's of all time.


Except for the stoned seagull. That was almost as silly of an emblem for a football team as Tampa Bay's winking pirate.
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Re: Color Rush

Postby c_hawkbob » Sun Sep 18, 2016 5:16 am

RiverDog wrote:Except for the stoned seagull. That was almost as silly of an emblem for a football team as Tampa Bay's winking pirate.


"Stoned seagull"? That's what you saw? I saw a totem pole. Didn't like the switch to modernize it either, kinda lost it's regional integrity.

Of course, I liked Tampa Bay's Errol Flynn pirate too, it was much less silly than that gaudy banner (no pirate flag ever looked like that) they use now. Their color scheme was their problem.

To each their own eh?
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Re: Color Rush

Postby Hawk Sista » Sun Sep 18, 2016 11:03 am

I did like the more authentic totem pole logo too. But I do like this iteration of our uniforms the best. I really like wolf greys. I wouldn't be opposed to a throwback day at all, but really.... It's whatever the players feel the best in.

I think Tampa should change their logo to the pirate from Captain Phillips. ;)
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Re: Color Rush

Postby Oly » Sun Sep 18, 2016 11:48 am

c_hawkbob wrote:"Stoned seagull"? That's what you saw? I saw a totem pole. Didn't like the switch to modernize it either, kinda lost it's regional integrity.


When we had the totem pole Hawk, it made the Seahawks the only professional sports team to honor Native Americans properly, IMO. It was based on an actual mask (Sista, btw, I love the avatar!) and stayed true to the local indigenous tribes. Now, it feels like just another NFL logo, which are starting to all look stylized in the exact same way. I liked the variety in the teams of yesteryear, which didn't seem like they were all trying to follow the same template.
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Re: Color Rush

Postby HumanCockroach » Sun Sep 18, 2016 11:58 am

Always wondered why Tampa didn't work something out with Captain Morgan's rum... The original Pirate was certainly no less ridiculous than a pirate with a leg in the air.. Advertising opportunity missed..

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Re: Color Rush

Postby Seahawks4Ever » Sun Sep 18, 2016 1:24 pm

Sista, are you sure you didn't mean Captain Obvious???
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Re: Color Rush

Postby c_hawkbob » Sun Sep 18, 2016 4:23 pm

Captain Phillips was a pirate movie ...
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Re: Color Rush

Postby Vegaseahawk » Mon Sep 19, 2016 5:22 pm

I've heard River refer to the Stoned Seagull logo before. I think its hilarious. That said, I would absolutely love to see a game in throwback unis from '76
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Re: Color Rush

Postby RiverDog » Mon Sep 19, 2016 5:38 pm

c_hawkbob wrote:"Stoned seagull"? That's what you saw? I saw a totem pole. Didn't like the switch to modernize it either, kinda lost it's regional integrity.

Of course, I liked Tampa Bay's Errol Flynn pirate too, it was much less silly than that gaudy banner (no pirate flag ever looked like that) they use now. Their color scheme was their problem.

To each their own eh?


Sorry, Cbob. I'm from eastern Washington, so totem poles aren't in my genes. That emblem looked like it should have been on the cover of a Cheech and Chong album. The best thing they did to our scheme was to get that brain dead, dilated eyeball, rat-with-wings seagull off our helmets. It was no coincidence that we started winning shortly after we finally came to our senses and designed a little more serious looking logo.

The winking pirate of Tampa Bay's was silly. You and I have both played football, so please tell me how many football players that you ever saw wink much less wink with a knife in their teeth.
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Re: Color Rush

Postby Vegaseahawk » Tue Sep 20, 2016 4:11 pm

The winking pirate of Tampa Bay's was silly. You and I have both played football, so please tell me how many football players that you ever saw wink much less wink with a knife in their teeth


Maybe he wasn't winking. Maybe he got traded from Oakland & lost his eye patch.
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