They’re baaaaack.
The Houston Texans will be wearing their “H-Town Blue” uniforms, which they actually refer to as their Color Rush Uniforms, for their Christmas Day game against the Baltimore Ravens.
The team confirmed the uniforms via social media today.
Christmas candy blue 💧 pic.twitter.com/H5UOfKICTv
— Houston Texans (@HoustonTexans) December 23, 2024
This is the first time I’ve ever heard them referenced as “Christmas candy blue,” however.
Depending upon your sartorial fancies, this is either a fantastic Christmas present, or a lump of coal in your proverbial stocking.
I wasn’t a fan of these uniforms when they were introduced — if you’re going to go “H-Town Blue,” then come up with something like this. (Ok, Ok, yes, we all know the Adams’ family would get pretty litigious if you did.)
But this uniform always felt like it wasn’t necessary in the least. The Texans already have a dark navy uniform, yet this is somehow worse.
The red numbers are difficult to read, and the light “H-Town Blue” outlines and accents don’t really help with the visibility. “H-TOWN” as a chest wordmark feels more like high school or college than NFL.
I guess the best thing we can say about this uniform is that there are no “horn/stripes” on the sleeve caps. But it’s a really…really… dark blue — so dark that it almost looks black.
But the uniform definitely has some fans, and the players apparently love them. I know the uniform wasn’t designed for me.
So if you find yourself with nothing else on TV, and you stream Netflix, well, then this could be your entertainment for your late Christmas afternoon.
The Ravens won’t help the look of this game either, as they are planning to wear black helmets, pants and socks, so you’re essentially going to have two teams with black or almost black helmets, pants and socks, with only the Ravens white jerseys to break up the dark matter.
But they will have that candy cane logo patch!
Your thoughts?
The Xhitter post makes them look blue, but the actual game photos make them look really really dark gray.
I can tell you it’s dangerous to want your team to change a below average uniform because there’s a very good chance they make an even worse choice for the new threads as the Texans have done here. Looking at you too Atlanta…
I dunno, I think that’s just the law of averages at play. Look at the Jets, Jags, and Cardinals. While only one of those teams’ new unis are truly gorgeous, the others are solidly middle of the pack by NFL standards.
Dude, this is exactly what I kept telling everyone. We had a perfectly good uniform for 23 years and they took that uniform set and made it worse. I mean, the old set wasn’t flashy but it was (IMO) good, clean, and it was becoming as recognizable as a 23 year old team can be. The only positive thing I can really say about the new set is that they didn’t f*** up the PRIMARY home/road uniforms as bad as I feared they would, but they’re all worse versions of their predecessors, ESPECIALLY the alternates.
***Forgot to add***
Do you know how many times I had to explain to my family that the team playing on Christmas was Houston and they were not wearing black?
Why didn’t they just make it black so they’d have a lot less explaining to do?
How did they get by without the crazy “V” neckline that showed everyone else’s chest script down to their navel? LOL
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I actually would have preferred the mono-red to this. At least that would have been christmas colors.
I wanted to like this uniform because I like several of the elements *conceptually*, but I think the execution was poor and it doesn’t work in real life. Frankly, I think that goes for the redesign as a whole.
With tongue in cheek, we’re calling these “H-town Blue” but there’s almost none of it on the uniform. How sad that this team can’t (or won’t) feature the color they want to use, in deference to a rival team that is currently in last place in the division and has what I consider to be among the worst uniforms in professional sports.
This will be a horror to watch. Worst uniform set in the current NFL, even more gruesome than the Titans or the Falcons and that says a lot. Happy I do not have Netflix. Will watch some old movies instead. By the way, if this H-Town thing is in a hue of blue I will need to have my eyes checked. Looks totally BFBS.
These are disgusting!
Not a fan of these uniforms. Good points made in the article. I can’t pinpoint exactly why but I don’t like the “H” logo that goes on the helmets. NFL needs to keep it simpler. Maintain the integrity of their primary identities in uniforms. This feels gimmicky.
Absolutely UNESSECARY. IGLY DISGUSTING PITIFUL BS