When the team debuted in 1966, the Falcons wore red helmets with a black falcon crest logo.

) For seven seasons, the AL team wore dark blue stockings and had no official nickname.

Special pennants bearing the No. 3 were distributed to everyone at the track to honor Earnhardt, and the Childress team wore blank uniforms out of respect, something which disappeared quickly and was soon replaced by the previous GM Goodwrench Service Plus uniforms.

During the 1995 season, the team wore the navy " Double-Star " jersey for games at Washington and Philadelphia and permanently switched to solid color socks ( royal blue for the white uniform, and navy blue for the dark uniform ).

While the team didn't wear the throwback uniform exactly on Thanksgiving Day in those two years, Dallas wore them on a date around Thanksgiving for those two years.

The team went back to wearing this uniform at home on Thanksgiving Day in 2009 while their opponent was the Oakland Raiders who wore their AFL Legacy Weekend throwbacks.

This created a rare game in which neither team wore a white jersey and the first time the Cowboys wore the alternative uniform as a visiting team.

Throughout the years, the Cowboys ' blue jersey has been popularly viewed to be " jinxed " because the team often seemed to lose when they wore them.

In 1998, the team wore blue pants with their white jerseys along with grey socks but dropped that combination after the season.

In 1994, every NFL team wore throwback jerseys, and the Lions ' were similar to the jerseys used during their 1935 championship season.

The team wore solid blue socks along with black shoes.

In 2002 the team wore a patch commemorating their inaugural season.

At this press conference, Weaver elaborated that different people had taken different liberties with the Jaguars ' image over the years, singling out the ' All Black ' look which the team wore for every prime-time home game from 2003 to 2007 as a point of regret.

The team wore black armbands for the last four games in 1978 in memory of Jack " Jocko " Nelson, an assistant coach who died during the season.

In 1985 the team wore a 25 years patch on their jerseys.

In 1989, they wore a " 40 for 60 " patch honoring the 1969 NFL championship team.

During the 1981 – 82 seasons ( Bum Phillips ' first two seasons as coach ), the team wore white jerseys with black pants at home, but reverted back to the black jerseys and white pants for 1983.

Because of the metallic gold's bright color, the gold jerseys were considered the " light " jersey in the game, so the Vikings wore their purple home jerseys as the " dark " colored team.

As the Titans of New York, the team wore blue and gold uniforms similar to that of Notre Dame's.

In 1969, the team wore two helmet versions: Kelly green with white wings in road games, and white with kelly green wings at home.

For example, in 1997, against the San Francisco 49ers, the team wore midnight green jerseys and pants for the first of only two occasions in team history.

According to the original press release from Colangelo's group ( which remained posted on the team website during the first few seasons ) the chosen team colors were Arizona turquoise, copper, black and purple.

The team normally wears silver pants with their black jerseys, and white pants with their white jerseys.

The team introduced an alternate jersey in 2002 that is blue with black shoulder stripes.

The Panthers have worn the light blue jersey a few times on the road when the home team has chosen to wear white due to the heat, as the light blue uniforms are more comfortable in the heat than black.

The Cleveland Browns ' team colors were brown, orange and white, then they changed to white, black and orange, and their helmets were solid orange with a white dorsal stripe over the crest.

The Bengals ' team colors were orange, black, and white, and their helmets were a similar shade of orange, with the only variations being the word " Bengals " in block letters on either side of the helmet and no stripe on the helmet.

Although the team kept black jerseys, white jerseys, and white pants, they were now trimmed with orange and black tiger stripes.

The team also introduced orange helmets with black tiger stripes.

The team also started rotating black pants and debuted an alternate orange jersey.

Earnhardt's team was re-christened as the No. 29 team, with the same sponsor but with a new look ( a reversed color scheme-white with black numerals and a black stripe on the bottom ) for the following races at Rockingham and Las Vegas.

In 2003, the team added black trim to their logo and the jerseys.

For 2008, the team dropped the black alternate jerseys in favor of a throwback uniform to commemorate the franchise's 75th anniversary.

The university's colours of gold and black were officially adopted in 1887, after the rugby team led the debate about the college colours for the football jerseys.

To do so, the representative of the team lays a green card marked with a black " T " on the desk of the timekeeper.

* 1947 – Larry Doby signs a contract with the Cleveland Indians baseball team, becoming the first black player in the American League.

The team introduced an alternate black jersey in 2002.

During that same year, the team also started to wear black pants, with either the white or the teal jersey.

Prior to the 2012 season, new Jaguars owner Shahid Khan announced that the team would once again use a black jersey, something they had not done since 2007.

One of the potential helmet designs Brown rejected was a striped motif that was similar to the helmets adopted by the team in 1981 and which is still in use to this day ; however, that design featured yellow stripes on a turquoise helmet which were more uniform in width.

At first, the team had planned to wear silver helmets at home and blue helmets on the road, but since NFL rules forbid the use of multiple helmets, the team held the fan poll to decide which color helmet would be worn.

Also, many Dolphin players wore a slightly different helmet decal than the rest ... starting with the final regular season game of the 1973 season ( and continuing throughout the playoffs ) many players, mostly linemen, wore the decal that the team would adopt in 1974 ( with the mascot dolphin leaping through the sun ), while others wore helmets with the 1969-1973 decal ( with the mascot dolphin halfway through the sun ).

Also in 2009, the team honored former Quarterback Steve McNair, by placing a small navy blue disc on the back of their helmets, inside of the navy blue disk, a white number 9 ( 9 was the number McNair wore during his time with the Oilers / Titans ).

The team also wore small red hearts with the initials " BNC " on their helmets.

The piece features a depiction of Washington and holds replica football helmets from every high school football team in the state.

Riders wear different coloured helmets, traditionally red and blue denote home team riders, and white and yellow / black quartered colours denote visiting riders.

In 1997, the Pittsburgh Steelers ( an American Football team ) switched to rounded numbers on the jersey to match the number font ( Futura Condensed ) on their helmets.

This has been Pro Bowl tradition since the switch to team specific helmets, which started with the January 1979 game.

Throughout the 1970s until 1982, Topps did not have the rights to reproduce the actual team logos on the helmets and uniforms of the players ; curiously, these could be found on the Fleer sets of the same era, but Fleer could not name specific player names.

The team wore a 1920's-style uniform ( in navy blue with a yellow circle on the front with a navy number, and brown helmets to signify the leather helemets from the era ) on December 5, 2010 against the San Francisco 49ers.

In a refinement of the underwater effect developed for Stingray, Meddings ' team devised a disconcerting effect – a double-walled visor for the alien space helmets, which could be gradually filled from the bottom up with green-dyed water.

On June 1 of the same year, the Cleveland Indians and Philadelphia Athletics became the first teams to test helmets as a team and did so with leather and polo helmets respectively.