always wearing white? They wear white at home and on the road. Don't NFL rules say that home teams must wear dark jerseys and white on the road? I mean...every other team in the league wears dark at home and white on the road with maybe a couple of exceptions per year.
So how come the Cowgirls get away with this? Is there a special rule for them?
from wikipedia
There was a time, in the 70s/80s, when it was a "big deal" if a host team MADE the Cowboys wear their blues because there was either lore, or maybe a stat, that said they didn't fare as well when not wearing the whites. Not such a big deal anymore.
In 1964, Tex Schramm started the tradition of the Cowboys wearing their white jersey at home, contrary to an unofficial rule that teams should wear colored jerseys at home. Schramm did this because he wanted fans to see a variety of opponents' colors at home games.[11] Since then, a number of other teams have worn their white uniforms at home, including the Washington Redskins and Miami Dolphins.
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.[12] However, the roots of the curse likely date back earlier to the end of the 1968 season when the blue-shirted Cowboys were upset badly by the Cleveland Browns in the divisional playoffs. That turned out to be Don Meredith's final game as a Cowboy. Dallas's lone victory in a conference championship or Super Bowl wearing the blue jerseys was in the 1978 NFC Championship game against the Los Angeles Rams.
Since the 1970 NFL-AFL merger, league 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 jerseys when they visit Washington, Philadelphia (sometimes), Miami, or one of the handful of other teams that traditionally wear their white jerseys at home during the first half of the season due to the hot climates in their respective cities or other means. Occasionally opposing teams will wear their white jerseys at home to try to invoke the curse.[13] As when the Philadelphia Eagles hosted the Cowboys in the 1980 NFC Championship Game,[14] and their November 4, 2007 meeting. The Washington Redskins, after wearing white exclusively in the '80s and '90s, including the 1982 NFC Championship Game (having gone 3–0 in them during the regular season, during CBS' pregame show, Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder actually invoked the blue jerseys in picking Dallas to win the game[15]), have since in the 2000s occasionally reverted to using their burgundy jerseys for second-half home games, but would still wear white against the Cowboys; in 2005 (on Monday Night Football) and 2012 (on Thanksgiving), the Cowboys wore their blue blue throwbacks at home against the Redskins, and lost both of those games as well. Various other teams, be it an NFC East rival or teams not from the same division as the Dallas Cowboys, followed suit in the 1980s. A couple other division rivals such as the New York Giants and the Cardinals (formerly in their time as their existence in St. Louis) have purposely worn white at home against the Cowboys in the past. The New York Giants for portions of the 1980s, carried from head coach Ray Perkins to Bill Parcells, wore white at home against the Cowboys but after a period of time stopped. The now Arizona Cardinals, back when they were in St. Louis, were one of the first teams to try doing this trick when the Cowboys visited the Cardinals at Busch Stadium. The Carolina Panthers, who came into existence in 1995, used to attempt the gimmick (regardless of whether the purpose of beating the early season heat was to be had) until 2006. One of the more recent examples of the "curse" happened in 2008 when the 1–4 St. Louis Rams chose to wear their white uniforms at home, forcing the Cowboys to wear road blue uniforms. The Rams would upset the Cowboys 34–14. It was the first time the Rams wore white at home since (moving to St. Louis) their existence in Los Angeles where they also used to do the same on some occasion against Dallas. On October 16, 2011, the Cowboys wore their road blue jerseys against the New England Patriots for the first time since December 27, 2009, against the Redskins; the Patriots defeated the Cowboys 20–16. The Cowboys wore the road blue jerseys in both the 2003 and 2011 visits to New England at Gillette Stadium. The Patriots wore silver (which is a light color and treated as a white jersey) in 2003 and white in the 2011 meeting against Dallas. Bill Belichick, head coach of the New England Patriots, made the decision to wear white against the Cowboys. He was on the New York Giants coaching staff for some of those years in the 1980s when the Giants bought into the curse.[16][17]
Although Dallas has made several tweaks to their blue jerseys over the years, Schramm said he did not believe in the curse.[18] Since the league began allowing teams to use an alternate jersey, the Cowboys' alternates have been primarily blue versions of past jerseys and the Cowboys have generally had success when wearing these blue alternates.
Source: wikipedia
However... Can you at least match all the blue in your color scheme?
The logo and helmet stripe is navy. The blue jerseys are navy. The throwbacks are navy. The practice jersey is navy.
Yet the numbers on the white jerseys are royal along with the royal socks.
Not to mention the silver helmet does not match the "blueish silver" pants on the road. Yet the home pants are the same silver as the helmet. Such a mess
In the mid 60's teams began to switch to white at home, including the Giants in 1967. The Los Angeles Rams and Cleveland Browns went two or three years wearing nothing but white jerseys during that era.
White at Home in the NFL - ( New Window )
This was also the first game in the current uniform style with grey pants and ny on helmet.
They switched to the current navy in the late '70s
Pretty clever actually
And I believe at one time teams only had colored jerseys, but once games were being broadcast on TV they had to go to white jerseys so you could tell the teams apart on black and white TVs.
If I ran the Giants, I would wear whites at home against Dallas. Dallas plays close to every game in their whites. While the idea of a jinxed blue jersey is absurd, I do think it makes it a little bit harder on Dallas, specifically with Romo. QBs have to make decisions so quickly and a lot of it is on instinct, and so I'm sure it would give Romo (or any Dallas QB) a slight pause to recalibrate his muscle-memory to look for receivers in the colored jerseys and not the white jerseys.
That slight confusion or hesitation could make a difference-- if only for one play-- which could change the dynamic of the game.
In any event.. fuck that team.
Anyway, I never cared for the "helmets that dont match the jersey" theme. Example (what the Broncos are doing with the orange jerseys and navy blue helmets) ...looks stupid