After blowing their uniform update the last time, the Cleveland Browns have elected to start over. This year, the Browns will wear their full dark brown color rush uniforms for all their home games until they can unveil their new duds in 2020.
Cleveland last changed their uniforms in 2015 and it was a complete disaster. The 3-D numbers pointed the wrong way, down instead of up, and “Cleveland” across the chest make it look like a college uniform. That’s fine if you’re Oklahoma State. Less so if you’re a professional NFL team.
The fans asked and the Browns listened. https://t.co/jhmFHxpxIT
— News 5 Cleveland (@WEWS) September 4, 2019
There’s one uniform combination, all orange, that they’ve never worn in a game at all because it’s too hideous. In 2017, they went all white at home for the most part. The only reason they aren’t the worst uniforms in the NFL is because the Tampa Bay Buccaneers exist.
But there is hope. Team Co-Owner Dee Haslam took the blame on herself back in 2018, saying that she and husband Jimmy, just had no clue what they were doing during the last redesign. Considering how the team was run before they hired John Dorsey as general manager, that checks out.
“I think we’re much better equipped at it now to make better decisions,” Haslam told reporters at the 2018 league meetings.
Equipped enough to to just pretty much scrap them a year early, apparently. Cleveland was 3-0 in their color rush uniforms last season.
Antonio Brown picks a helmet
If this were a newspaper, he’s where I would yell, “Stop the presses!” Antonio Brown has found a new helmet he likes and he likes it so much he’s letting the company that makes it pay him to wear it.
The helmet in question is the Xenith Shadow and the folks at Xenith have been blowing up sports email inboxes today celebrating it.
There’s even a video.
So leave it A.B. to turn a complete farce into a bulge in his bank account. I don’t think that $54,000 fine from the Raiders seems too steep now, considering what Xenith is probably paying him.
