NFL Uni Review- The NFC North: Detroit Lions

Another elite uni that was picked at and picked at and picked at until it became a joke. When this uni was at it's peak, it was a the Raiders of the NFC. Silver and Hawaiian blue vs. the silver and black of the Raiders. The lion logo on the helmet was simple and well designed and intimidating! There was no need to do the new update to the logo. When you take a great logo and do adjustments like the Lions did, you are saying you just handed this off to a designer who knows nothing about sports, let alone design. It's like when UPS "redesigned" their logo. They took a classic, well designed logo and ruined it. Just as the Vikings added black to the horn on the helmet to give the illusion of dimension, the lions added the cuts and detail so as to make it fiercer. IT WAS ALREADY FIERCE! Of course the first thing the Lions did was the cliche colored facemask and white cleats. Then they really lost their minds. They started to add black. First some black accents and then an all out black assault. Eventually they took away the great original stripes on the jersey sleeves and replaced them with a giant middle stripe and two thin ones (and of course they had to have black in there!). They added black to the stripes on the pants, outlined the logo on the helmet in black and worst of all, they slapped a black facemask on the helmet. And to top it all off, they abandoned the beautiful Hawaiian blue for a generic electric royal blue that looks like s#$t. This once proud uni is almost as bad as the Vikings' current uni. In fact, I'd have to say it's a tie between the two.