Stull you can bore your friends withat your Super Bowl party. Much has been borrowed from Uni Watch.
This will be the first Super Bowl featuring two teams whose primary colors are both red.
This will be the first Super Bowl featuring two teams whose primary colors are both red.
Twitter-er @ryno_82 pointed out this uni-history page that was posted on the Chiefs’ website in 2008. It includes the following: “[Chiefs owner Lamar] Hunt’s inspiration for the interlocking ‘KC’ design was the ‘SF’ inside of an oval on San Francisco’s helmets.”
While watching SF/GB I noticed SF CB Richard Sherman’s towel wasn’t tucked into his pants like most other players, and made a mental note to look into the oddity. Others noticed as well, and Uni Watch covered the details: Sherman has a loop sewn onto his pants. He’s had the same loop for most of his career, though in Seattle the loop was sewn higher than it is currently in SF. s hadinto
14 NFL cities have both hosted a Super Bowl and had a team play in the Super Bowl: Dolphins Jets Colts Chargers Raiders Buccaneers Falcons Saints Cowboys Giants Vikings 49ers Cardinals Rams.
14 other cities have had teams play in the Super Bowl: Bills Patriots Titans Bengals Ravens Steelers Broncos Chiefs Panthers Eagles Redskins Bears Packers Seahawks.
Three cities have hosted a Super Bowl, but their team has never been in the Super Bowl: Texans, Lions, Jaguars.
One city’s team has done neither: the Browns.
The Chiefs are one of three NFL teams that have blank nose bumpers (the others are New Orleans and Washington). I haven’t yet had time to research how long it’s been since we had a blank-bumpered Super Bowl team, but I’m assuming it’s been quite a while.
Both teams wear block letters, the first time since the Saints/Colts Super Bowl. Unless the NFL lets the 49ers wear their drop-shadow numbered throwbacks.
The Rams wore their throwbacks in last year’s Super Bowl, so why wouldn’t the Niners be allowed to wear theirs? The Rams’ throwbacks had become their primary colored uniform and were no longer an alternate design.
The Niners wore throwbacks in Super Bowl XXIX, so why wouldn’t they be allowed to wear throwbacks this time around? The 49ers had worn those earlier throwbacks for much of the 1994 season as part of the NFL’s 75th-anniversary program, and the team had requested and received permission from the league to wear them throughout the postseason.
Well, why can’t they request permission again? That’s apparently what they’re doing, but it’s not clear whether the league will approve the request. Remember, they reportedly turned down the Saints’ request to wear their mono-white alternates during the Wild Card round.
What would be the rationale for turning down such a request? One consideration would be whether they have enough of those throwback jerseys in the retail pipeline (so, once again, we see the merch tail wagging the on-field dog). And then there are the league’s longstanding concerns about brand integrity, blah-blah-blah. Like most people, I think most of this is pretty silly. On the other hand, I’m glad that the NFL hasn’t turned into a revolving carousel of alternates, like the NBA or college football.
AFC & NFC Championship Game trivia: all four teams had letters of the alphabet in their helmet logos. All four starting quarterbacks wore double-digit numbers. That had never happened before in the Super Bowl era.
The only time all four Super Bowl semifinalists had letters in their helmet logos was 1984-85 (49ers, Bears, Dolphins, Steelers), but the Bears started Steve Fuller, wearing No. 4, in the NFC title game. (The other quarterbacks were Joe Montana [No. 16], Dan Marino [No. 13], and Mark Malone [No. 16].)
The last time all four starting QBs wore double-digit numbers was 1990-91: Jeff Hostetler (No. 15), Montana, Jim Kelly (No. 12) and Jay Schroeder (No. 13). Before that it happened in 1981-82 (Montana, Danny White (No. 11), Ken Anderson (No. 14) and Dan Fouts (No. 14), and fairly regularly prior to that. But those years all featured at least one team that didn’t have letters as part of its helmet logo.
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