Since 2013, the NFL’s throwback uniforms have been tainted. A rule that limited teams to a single helmet style hampered some franchises’ ability to take the field looking like a slice of 1967.
Gone was Pat Patriot and the Broncos’ full Orange Crush kit. Buccaneer Bruce was kept on the bench instead of sailing the high seas of a Tampa Bay Super Bowl season. The Bills could pay homage to their teams of the 1960s thanks to their white helmet base but couldn’t throw it back to the red-helmet days of Marv Levy and four straight AFC championships.
The Packers’ ugly brown helmets… well, OK, that was probably a good idea to scrap those.
