![]() Some teams have two different white jerseys, for example, or two different blue jerseys, or whatever, and the chart doesn’t distinguish between them. I’m sure you can find your own examples of interesting things lurking in the chart. While most teams have at least two different non-white jerseys represented (the Broncos have four: orange, navy, yellow, and brown), the charts for some teams, like the Steelers and Kansas City, feature nothing but the team’s primary color and white: And you can also see how the Bills abandoned their classic royal blue for navy for nine years, and then switched back to royal:Ħ. Similarly, what’s that one yellow cell in the Eagles’ chart? It’s from that one time they wore the 1934 throwbacks:ĥ. For example, remember how Washington used to routinely wear white at home, just like the Cowboys? Their chart makes it easy to see when they did that, and when they stopped:Ĥ. You can see certain historical protocols and events play out in the color distribution. But the chart indicates that their shade of blue changed quite a bit over the past 21 seasons:ģ. Many fans, for example, probably think that the Lions just wear Honolulu blue, period. ![]() This makes it easy to see how certain teams have changed their primary team colors over the years. As you can see in the Dolphins’ chart, the team’s different shades of aqua over the years were taken into account - a nice detail. If you had asked me which team had the fewest colored-jersey games over the past 21 seasons, I would have said, “Duh, the Cowboys.” But the correct answer, according to the data, is the Dolphins, who played 63 colored-jersey games over the past 21 seasons, compared to the Cowboys’ 67:Ģ. Here are a bunch of things that jumped out at me:ġ. I’ll have more to say about Reinhard in a bit, but first let’s explore this wonderful graphic he’s created. As you can see at the bottom, it was designed by a guy named Anthony Reinhard, who created it by using game-by-game jersey info from the mighty Gridiron Uniform Database. It’s an engrossing and very satisfying example of data visualization. So the top-left cell is the team’s first game in 1999, and the bottom-right cell is the team’s final game of last season. For each team shown, each horizontal row has 16 cells, representing that team’s 16 games in a given season, and each vertical column has 21 cells, representing every season from 1999 through 2019. The remarkable chart shown above tracks each NFL team’s jersey color over every game for the past 21 seasons.
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