Today marks a day where everyone can get dressed up and let their creativity (or inner slut) shine through! The Steelers broke out their Halloween costumes a little early on Sunday with their 1934 throwback uniforms. No matter what your pose, it's difficult to look "hardcore" while effectively looking like a bumble bee. As my man pointed out, Pittsburgh is a notoriously un-fashionable city and even hit #3 on the GQ list of worst-dressed cities back in 2011; so these uniforms should really be no surprise. But bad fashion doesn't equal bad football, and the Steelers kicked the Redskins' butt 27-12 in week 8.
Last post I commented on the Seattle Seahawks' new jerseys and I've noticed that lots of teams are wearing "throwback uniforms" each year, so it piqued my interest in the trend of retro uniforms in the NFL. To Wikipedia! It turns out the throwback uniforms started with Major League Baseball and got picked up by the NFL in 1991 in special retail collections. NFL teams started wearing replicas of past uniforms in 1994 to mark the 75th anniversary of the organization. Even back in 1994, the Steelers clearly had the ugliest throwback jersey of them all. It's time for the Rooneys to hire a stylist.
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