Bears | Yes | The NFL's best uni set deserves better. Let's hope they never do this again. |
Bengals | Yes | Cincy's uniform is more like a costume to begin with, so why not? Heck, let's see them go mono-orange while they're at it. |
Bills | No | The Bills routinely went mono-blue with their old uni set. But while their current set includes blue pants, they haven't paired those pants with their blue jerseys. Probably best to leave it that way -- the current uniform is a fairly old-school design that doesn't lend itself well to the mono treatment. |
Broncos | Yes | Denver's uniform was conceived as a superhero costume. If you like the basic template, you probably like the mono-navy look; if you hate the template, the mono effect probably just confirms your feelings. In short: Sure, go for it. |
Browns | Yes | The mono look just doesn't work for the league's most traditional uniform. But the Browns are due to get new uniforms in 2015, and Nike will likely make the new set more mono-friendly, for better or worse. |
Buccaneers | No | The Bucs don't have pewter jerseys or red pants (at least not yet), so the mono look isn't available to them, which is probably for the best. |
Cardinals | Yes | Arizona's basic uniform is laughably bad, so why not go mono? Can't hurt. And hey, it honors the team's 1970s heritage. |
Chargers | No | San Diego hasn't gone mono-navy with their current uni set, but they did once with their prior set, for a 2003 neutral-site game against the Dolphins (there are some highlights here). A Photoshopped image of their current uniform rendered in mono-navy doesn't look half-bad. Look, it's Lightning Bolt Man! But if the Chargers really want to blow people's minds, they should consider -- wait for it -- mono-powder blue. |
Chiefs | Yes | The Chiefs have gone mono-red three times, most recently on Nov. 30, as a tribute to sidelined teammate Eric Berry, who reportedly loves the solid-red look. It's a nice gesture but a garish on-field look. Stick the basics, KC. |
Colts | No | The Colts can't go mono because their wardrobe doesn't currently include blue pants. But it used to. Should they revive the blue britches? Maybe. And if so, should they go mono-blue? Definitely not. |
Cowboys | No | The Cowboys famously have major color problems -- two different shades of blue, three different shades of silver -- so the last thing they should do is attempt to go mono. The jersey and pants probably wouldn't match. Fortunately, their current mix-and-match options don't allow for the mono look anyway. |
Dolphins | Yes | The Dolphins totally own their shade of aqua, but that doesn't mean they should overdo it. It was too much of a good thing when they first went mono-aqua back in 2002, and it didn't look any better when they revived the look this season. |
Eagles | Yes | Philly introduced black pants this season just so they could pair them with their black alternate jerseys and go mono. Yeah, whatever -- mono-black is so played out. But they went mono-green for one game in 1997 and again back in 2002, which is an idea worth revisiting. |
Falcons | Yes | Atlanta hasn't gone mono-black since 2008, and the black pants are no longer included in their uni set, so the mono effect is no longer available to them. Too bad -- much like the Cardinals, the Falcons have a costume-like uniform that actually works quite well in mono. |
49ers | No | The Niners wear gold pants for every game, so they can't go mono. They're due to get a new alternate jersey next season, though -- will it be gold, setting up a mono-gold look? Hope not, but it's a possibility. |
Giants | No | The Giants have two sets of pants -- gray and white -- neither of which can be used to go mono. Just as well -- we wouldn't want Big Blue to look that blue. |
Jaguars | Yes | Don't really understand why a team would want to wear mono-black in the hot Florida sun, but whatever. If you're going to wear the NFL's worst uniform, you may as well take it to its logical extreme. |
Jets | Yes | Green is the favorite color here at Uni Watch HQ. But the Jets brought back the Namath-era look in the late 1990s specifically because it was, you know, the Namath-era look. Doesn't make sense to go mono with it. |
Lions | No | Little-remembered fact: The Lions experimented with blue pants in 1998. Fortunately, they never wore them with their blue jerseys. As it stands now, they have mono immunity, because they wear silver pants for every game. |
Packers | No | Little-remembered fact: The Packers' early uniform history includes several instances of mono-green (and, according to the mighty Gridiron Uniform Database, mono-yellow), but their current wardrobe doesn't allow for either of those looks. Should they try one of them, as a throwback? Sure, if they want, but not as part of their primary uni rotation. |
Panthers | Yes | The league's most dated uniform set (looks sooooo '90s) actually looks better in mono-black. And hey, panthers are black, right? Makes sense. |
Patriots | Yes | When the history of the Brady/Belichick era is written, will anyone remember that the Pats went mono-navy for a few games in 2002? Let's hope not. |
Raiders | No | You can't have the iconic silver and black unless you have, you know, silver and black. Tinkering with that look would be a mono no-no. |
Rams | Yes | This team can look so good when it wants to. But not when it goes mono-blue. |
Ravens | Yes | We're talking some primo mono right here. Ravens (the birds, not the team) are black, and Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" is a very dark poem, so going mono-black totally makes sense. Plus anything that reduces the amount of purple in a uniform earns bonus points. |
Saints | Yes | New Orleans, one of the most colorful, festive cities in America, deserves better than a team clad in mono-black. Pair those black jerseys with the gold pants, people. |
Seahawks | Yes | Not a big fan of the Seahawks' scuba look (they look so much better with some contrast between the jersey and pants), but they've made the mono-navy look their own and have been successful to boot, so there's no fighting it. |
Steelers | No | It's hard to imagine the Steelers abandoning their gold pants as long as the Rooney family still owns the team, but you just know there's someone at Nike pushing them to try black pants "just once" to create a mono-black look. |
Texans | Yes | The Texans are a rarity: They've gone mono with two different colors! For most teams, this would be overkill, but the Texans' uniforms are so characterless that it's hard to dislike anything that jazzes them up. |
Titans | Yes | Another team that's gone mono with two different colors. Team ownership has put the kibosh on the powder blue jersey, so we won't be seeing mono-powder blue again. With navy likely to become the team's primary jersey color in 2015, will we see more mono-navy? Possibly, but the feeling here is that they'd be better off sticking with a more traditional contrasting look. |
Vikings | Yes | Ewwwww. |
Washington | Yes | Washington has pretty much abandoned its burgundy pants, which is just as well, because the mono effect doesn't work for this team. For all the things Dan Snyder has done wrong, let's give him credit for reviving the gold pants -- and hope he sticks with them. |