Seahawks New Uniforms: Seattle Smart to Pioneer Full Nike Makeover in the NFL

Just about every team in the NFL said, "No thanks," to Nike when offered the opportunity to partake in the sports apparel giant's "Extreme Makeover: Uniform Edition" program.

You know, the one that's produced monstrosities worn by premier players at some of college football's most venerable programs.

Yeah, 31 NFL teams were content to take redesigned collars and belts and/or slightly adjusted lettering and go about their business as they did back when Reebok ruled the gridiron.

And who, pray tell, was the lone ranger here? The one rogue team that handed the fate of its uniforms over to the belligerent brushes up in Beaverton, Ore.?

Why, the Seattle Seahawks, of course!

It certainly makes sense that the Seahawks would be the first team to tempt fate this way, and not simply because they're the only franchise in the Pacific Northwest, where Phil Knight's Hall of Doom is so conveniently located.

(Though that probably didn't help/hurt the situation.)

No, for Pete Carroll's club, the decision appears to be one settled less by cruel calculus and more by common sense.

As in, the Seahawks had never had particularly fashionable jerseys to begin with, so why not see what the Swooshsters had up their sleeves? What did they have to lose if the organization was so devoid of dignity with regard to its collective fashion sense to begin with?

Not that the result was a marked improvement over the past in any way:

Then again, when your official colors are College Navy, Action Green, Wolf Grey and White, it's only natural that you end up with jerseys like this:

And this:

And, on rare (but not rare enough) occasions, this:

Realistically, then, it's not so much that Seattle's new threads are any less of an eyesore so much as the fact that, given their history and relative anonymity, the Seahawks might as well have been the ones to blaze a new trail down the runway for other NFL teams to follow...

Or not.

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