The Tampa Bay Buccaneers unveiled new uniforms back in 2012, and since the reaction has been mixed among local and national media pundits.
Everyone in the city knows the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have hideous jerseys, and apparently the national media and audiences agree. In an article written by Tadd Haislop of Sporting News ranking all of the uniforms in the NFL, the Buccaneers came in 26th out of 32.
The Buccaneers were ranked only above the New England Patriots, Cleveland Browns, Jacksonville Jaguars, Carolina Panthers, the Arizona Cardinals, and the Houston Texans. In all reality, they probably deserved to be behind the Panthers, Texans, Patriots, and Jaguars as their uniforms featuring the alarm clock numbers are a disaster.
"“These uniforms are bad, but at least they’re unique. The Bucs have some of the best helmets ins the NFL, with the chrome facemasks looking great against the pewter helmets and red logo” (Haislop via Sporting News)."
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As Haislop points out, the Buccaneers have a quite unique color pallet and they blend it well with the helmet, but what in the world did they do to the jerseys? Also, why did they change the uniforms, as the red uniforms from the 2000s are about as pure as a uniform gets.
Haislop then makes an interesting observation about the orange in the uniforms, featured as an accent stripe on the uniforms:
"“The team also needs to do one of two things with the creamsicle: Either lose it from the color scheme completely, or go all-in with new creamsicle uniforms” (Haislop via Sporting News)."
In agreeance there, the Buccaneers need to go back to the old school Bucco logo with the white and creamsicle uniforms from the early years of the franchise’s existence. For now, the Buccaneers remain near the very bottom of the league in uniform design, and quite frankly, their play since getting a new look has matched.
Hopefully the Buccaneers have plans to redo the jerseys soon as the only time numbers like the ones found on their jerseys should be seen are when looking at an alarm clock first thing in the morning. For now our eyes burn and we pray.