Seattle Seahawks announce return of ‘Kingdome-era’ throwbacks

SEATTLE — After a protracted wait, the Seattle Seahawks‘ throwback uniforms have lastly returned.

On Wednesday, the group launched images of the Kingdome-era threads that may make their return this season. It wasn’t an unveiling as a lot because it was a reintroduction. The previous look that includes royal blue tops, apple inexperienced accents, silver pants, silver helmets and the unique Seahawks brand was as soon as worn by Corridor of Famers like Steve Largent and Cortez Kennedy.

Extra photos of the Seahawks’ throwbacks, through the group’s web site. pic.twitter.com/Ge73cG633E

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Apart from the brand new Nike supplies and extra trendy match, it is just about the identical factor the Seahawks wore from 1983 till 2001, after they switched to a darker shade of blue with matching helmets. They then switched to their present uniforms in 2012, when Nike redesigned them.

One new contact within the throwbacks is a Kingdome patch contained in the neckline, an homage to the Seahawks’ unique stadium. They performed there from their inaugural season in 1976 till 1999. The photograph launch was at 8:32 a.m., the identical time of day the Kingdome was demolished in 2000.

“I’ve at all times been an enormous fan of those jerseys simply seeing photos across the constructing, so to place this on is fairly cool,” quarterback Geno Smith mentioned, through the team’s website. “I believe followers are going to like it, they actually will. It is cool that they are bringing it again, and it is cool that we get to be the group that brings them again. Hopefully the followers will like it, and we’ll go on the market and kick loads of butt in these items.”

Followers had been clamoring for years for the Seahawks to convey again their traditional look. The holdup was the NFL’s rule that prohibited using a number of helmet shells. That wasn’t a difficulty for groups whose present helmets have the identical base shade as their throwbacks, as they may merely swap out the decals and/or facemasks. The Seahawks’ present helmets are navy blue, which basically precluded their throwbacks till the NFL did away with the one-helmet rule in 2021 (it did not go into impact till 2022).

Groups are nonetheless solely allowed to put on 4 jerseys per season. That meant the Seahawks needed to nix one among their alternates. They determined to maintain the motion inexperienced jerseys over their wolf grays, which they’d worn every so often as an alternate since 2012. In response to the Seahawks’ web site, coach Pete Carroll helped break the tie in favor of holding motion inexperienced, which the group known as the NFL’s best-selling color-rush jersey.

For now, not less than, the throwbacks solely embody the house blue jerseys and never the street whites. The Seahawks beforehand introduced they’re going to put on them in Week 8, after they host the Cleveland Browns at Lumen Discipline.