Cowboys Uniforms

Okay Don Y, how do you get a thong on Rosanne Barr?  You take the "i" out of ice and the "f" out of way.  Answer?  there is no f'n way!!!! HAAAA, HAAAA, LOLOLOL.

CBBlue, Your avatar says it all.  We're taking up the ying yang by the theives and molesters of our wallets...........oil companies.

Ok, now to get down with this uni thing.  Throw back jerseys...ok......throwback helmets......got to go.  Have to keep the silver helmets....Want to change things up, do like other teams, college and pro are doing.....go a dark blue that looks almost black.  I like that.  That's hip. 

Go Cowboys!!!  Stomp the NFL.

 Although I've been a lifetime fan of the Cowboys, I don't really dig their merchandise. There's only one hat that they make that I want, the one with the "D" on it. It is simple and classic. A friend of mine bought me a leather Dallas jacket for my birthday, while it must have cost a pretty penny, I wore it once or twice before it was stolen. It would've looked cooler in the style of a high school letterman's jacket.

I haven't been able to find that "D" hat in stores, I just see it on the sidelines occasionally. I did see it when they played here in Tokyo a few years back, but they wanted like $60 for it, so I decided to wait, and I haven't seen it since.

The Cowboys have the best uniforms in the NFL, but since you asked.....

The current silver helmets are perfection.

I love the blue jerseys...I wouldn't mind if they wore those for every game.I think their performance in those has more to do with playing on the road than the color of the uniform. I like the white block numbers with the surrounding white pinstripe. I wish the home whites were the same style as the road blues...I don't care for the current blue numbers. I know it's petty...but you asked.

I don't care much for the throwbacks...the uniforms are OK, but I hate the white helmets. I liked the "Double Star" uniforms of the 90's. They were blue and white and they still wore the silver helmet with them.

I'd never thought about a grey (or silver) uniform with blue trim like SavvyMOJO suggested...that might be interesting once or twice a year. Think of the money Jerry could make with a new uniform...

Here is the uniform history that I found on wikipedia.

Uniform History<o:p> </o:p>

When the Dallas Cowboys franchise debuted in 1960, the team's uniform included a white helmet adorned with a simple blue star and a blue-white-blue stripe down the center crown. The team donned blue jerseys with white sleeves and a small blue star on each shoulder for home games and the negative opposite for away games. Their socks also had two horizontal white stripes overlapping the blue.<o:p> </o:p>

In 1964 thru 1965, the Cowboys opted for a more simpler look (and essentially the team's current uniform) by changing their jersey/socks to one solid color with three horizontal blue stripes on the sleeves. The star-shouldered jerseys were replaced with shoulder "TV" numbers. The pants and helmet were changed from white to silver and a white border was added to the blue star.<o:p> </o:p>

In 1966, the team narrowed the stripes to two per sleeve/sock and the following year in 1967, the white border was moved farther into the blue star and was now a white pinstripe. The logo and this version of the uniform has seen little change to the present day.<o:p> </o:p>

The only notable changes in the last 40 years were:<o:p> </o:p>

from 1970-1973 when the "TV" numbers were moved from the shoulders to the sleeves above the stripes <o:p> </o:p>

from 1981-1988 the pants featured a white uniform number in an elliptical blue circle worn near the hip. <o:p> </o:p>

the removal of the indented serifs on the front and back jersey numbers in the early 80's (seen currently on the throwback jersey) <o:p> </o:p>

from 1981-1994 the dark jerseys sported numbers that were gray with white borders and a blue pinstripe. The stripes on the sleeves and socks also used the same gray with white border scheme (sans navy pinstripe). <o:p> </o:p>

the 1996 addition of the word "Cowboys" in the center of the neckline which lasted until 1998 on the white jersey but currently remains on the blue jersey. <o:p> </o:p>

During the 1976 season, the blue-white-blue stripe on the crown of the helmets were temporarily changed to red-white-blue to commemorate the <st1:country-region w:st="on"> <st1:place w:st="on"> United States</st1:place> </st1:country-region> ' bicentennial anniversary.<o:p> </o:p>

In 1994, the NFL celebrated their 75th Anniversary and the Dallas Cowboys celebrated their back-to-back Super Bowl titles by unveiling the white "Double-Star" jersey on Thanksgiving Day. This jersey was used for special occasions and was worn throughout the 1994-1995 playoffs.<o:p> </o:p>

During the 1995 season, the team wore the navy "Double-Star" jersey for games at <st1:state w:st="on"> Washington</st1:state> and <st1:city w:st="on"> <st1:place w:st="on"> Philadelphia</st1:place> </st1:city> . This jersey was not seen again until the NFL's Classic Throwback Weekend on Thanksgiving Day 2001-2003<o:p> </o:p>

In 2004, the Cowboys resurrected their original 1960-1963 uniform. This now serves as the team's alternate or "3rd jersey" and usually worn only on special occasions such as the annual Thanksgiving Day game.<o:p> </o:p>

The Cowboys were the first NFL team to primarily wear their white jersey at home, as it was an unofficial rule that teams wear their colored jersey at home. This tradition started in the 1960s by Tex Schramm, who wanted fans to see a variety of opponents' colors at home games.  Since then, a number of other teams have worn their white uniforms at home, including the Redskins" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Redskins">Washington Redskins and Dolphins" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Dolphins">Miami Dolphins.<o:p> </o:p>

Throughout the years, the Cowboys' blue jersey has been popularly viewed to be "jinxed" because the team often seemed to lose when they wore them. This curse purportedly became popular after the team lost Super Bowl V, when they were forced to wear their colored jersey because they were the designated home team.  Since then, the rules were changed to allow the Super Bowl home team to pick their choice of jersey. Most of the time, Dallas will wear their blue jersey when they visit Washington, Miami, or one of the handful of other teams that traditionally wear their white jersey at home during the first half of the season due to the hot climates in their respective cities. Occasionally opposing teams will wear their white jerseys at home to try to invoke the curse, as when the Eagles" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Eagles">Philadelphia Eagles hosted the Cowboys in the 1980 NFC Championship Game.  Although <st1:city w:st="on"> <st1:place w:st="on"> Dallas</st1:place> </st1:city> has made several tweaks to their blue jerseys over the years, Schramm said he did not believe in the curse