Yesterday, the New England Patriots finally announced that they will again be wearing their popular “Pat Patriot” throwback uniforms for the 2024 NFL season.
While NFL rules permit teams to wear alternates (either helmets or jerseys or both) up to three times, New England will be wearing them twice this year.
They announced the throwback “schedule” by creating an old-school eight-bit video game graphic:
As you can see, the Pats will sport the retro uniforms in Week 6 (October 13th) against the Houston Texans, and again in Week 13 (December 1st) versus the Colts. The latter should have an old AFC East feel (prior to the NFL re-aligining into four divisions per conference, the Colts played in the AFC East).
The Patriots were one of the first teams to take advantage of the NFL lifting the “one shell rule” back in 2022, when the reintroduced the popular throwbacks. That season, the Pats wore their throwbacks in Week 5 against the Detroit Lions, crushing them 29-0. They wore them a second time in 2022, this time a Thursday Night affair, and losing in them to the Buffalo Bills by a tally of 24-10.
In 2023, New England again wore the throwbacks twice, losing in Week 2 to the Miami Dolphins by a score of 24-17, and again in Week 13, losing a sloppy game to the LA Chargers 6-0.
With a 1-3 record in the throwbacks the past two seasons, the Patriots hope to level that to 3-3 following the 2024 season.
Now, if we can just convince the team to wear the silver pants with the blue jerseys…
That’s twice too many times for me.
But I know these are loved by many, and they aren’t horrible looking, really. So at least the Pats v Colts game will look like an old timey game sort of.
I love them. Much better than wearing all blue junk.
I know many people do, and I’m not a Pats fan nor am I of the age group that would pine for these out of sheer nostalgia, so I accept them because odds are I will barely see them in action, and they make other people happy.
If I’m not being such a grump, I actually like the jersey and pants combo. I just am so not into the Pat patriot logo (and I am into the all blue look what can I say?)
Want to see these vs. the Jets so bad!
What a waste wearing these versus the Texans!
PS-totally ok with NE returning to being a red team. YMMV
Wish teams that wear throwbacks, would schedule against teams that have throwbacks also. Kind of nostalgic if you aske me :)
the Patriots are a red team. Navy Blue and Silver is too much like everybody else. Pat the Patriot helmets are much better than flying Elvis.
Agree on them being a red team. I think their best option is using something very very similar to the throwback red tops, paired with a silver helmet and silver pants. I suggest using the modern logo as the main logo still, and just bring back the Pat Patriot logo and throwback uniforms once a year.
Agree completely! They should at least have a red alternative so they can go Silver/Red/Silver for a few games (would link the 2 eras of unis nicely), and see how it feels on the field – and if it works, can then do the old switcheroo and promote the alt to primary status.
(And banging the drum again for a throwback period of a couple of weeks around thanksgiving where we can get all these throwbacks on the field together. I still have fond memories of that 75 year celebration when they all happened at the same time. That felt special. Throwbacks today are so run of the mill and there is one team or another doing them on any week, it has completely eroded any feeling of being special.)
My thoughts exactly on throwbacks (and on the awesome 75th season). I’d prefer just standard home and away every other week during the year, and then let everyone roll out throwback (or fauxback) uniforms on Thanksgiving weekend.
Love this look. So much better than their current uniforms, but since they won 6 Super Bowls with the Flying Elvis, they’ll never go back permanently.
I’d like to see them wear the road version of the throwback. Oh, Brady did that so they can’t? Ok. I just wanted to highlight their asinine excuse for going mono blue all the time. Though I really would like to see the road version.
It’s a waste to wear those beauties vs. those garbage new Texans unis
Agreed – but almost worth it for the cheek of the 8-bit retro graphic for a uni that was launched a couple of months ago!
From a uni-watcher stranded on a desert island of “clean, minimalist” mono-colored yoga pants, those throwback pant stripes are a magnificent oasis and a much-needed beacon of hope in an otherwise boring and homogeneous wasteland.
Pat > Elvis
wish the league would pick two weeks that everyone would wear their throwbacks.
Patriots fan since year 1 and I grew up with the team wearing those fantastic uniforms. I’d like to see them come up with a white throwback to pair with the red pants to recreate the late 1970s look.
The convincing needs to be to return to Pat Patriot as the primary uniform, not to wear silver pants with blue jerseys. They already don’t wear the unis that won 6 Super Bowls. Why not wear a great uniform instead? The road uni should be white jersey and red pants by the way.