Black helmets, color rush uniforms for Monday Night Football ⚜️#Saints
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Let’s start with the good news. The New Orleans Saints are wearing their fan-favorite “Color Rush” alternate jerseys in Monday night’s game with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, which are always a welcome sight — the gold detailing and black trim stand out well on the white uniforms, making for one of the best looks you’ll find around the NFL.
Now the bad news, which we already knew about: the Saints are also wearing their alternate black helmets for this game, using the same lids-uniforms combo that they debuted in Week 4’s game with the Minnesota Vikings earlier this year.
Look, on their own each element works well. The black helmets are a nice departure from the usual gold buckets, with a stripe of gold fleur-de-lis running down the middle separating them from other, less-inspired black helmets being worn around the league. But there’s no continuity between them and the “Color Rush” uniforms. The two pieces clash against each other and they both suffer for it.
But the Saints are committed to this bit, so we’ll just have to let it run its course. It’s just disappointing when they could have easily paired the black helmets with the throwback uniforms used a few weeks ago in a more appealing match. That’s a missed opportunity.
If you’re curious, here are the records the Saints have achieved in each of their different uniform combinations over their last 286 games (including the playoffs):
- “Black and Gold” throwbacks: 3-1 (.750)
- White jerseys, white pants: 9-4 (.692)
- Black jerseys, gold pants: 24-15 (.615)
- White jerseys, black pants: 42-27 (.609)
- “Color Rush” alternates: 9-6 (.600)
- White jerseys, gold pants: 37-25 (.597)
- Black jerseys, black pants: 48-36 (.571)
