Dallas Cowboys: Cowboys' Uniforms Look Different on Thursday Against the Saints

Kristi Scales, a junior reporter for the Dallas Cowboys radio network, recently answered questions about the team. Here are some highlights.

On the choice of the Cowboys uniform on Thursday:

BalanceWhen the Saints and Cowboys are on the field Thursday night at AT & T Stadium, they will be black and the Cowboys blank as part of the Nike Color Rush program. It will only be the third time the Cowboys wear their Color Rush uniforms. But how do the teams and the NFL decide if and when the Color Rush uniforms will be worn? This is no longer mandatory for Thursday night, so why do the Cowboys wear Color Rush this week instead of Thanksgiving Day.

Mike McCord, Director of Cowboys Equipment, provides the answers and also explains the behind-the-scenes logistics of the league and teams regarding the choice of colors and colors in games.

"The Nike Color Rush program was launched four years ago and originally for teams playing on Thursday," said McCord at the Cowboys website, 5PointsBlue.com. "So, if you played at Thursday Night Football, it was then that you started wearing your Color Rush uniform." The program was expanded to more games three seasons ago in 2016, the year we had worn Color Rush.

"This year, the league office is changing the rules a bit, teams are allowed to wear their colors up to twice a season, it's actually an alternative jersey, that's why." some teams wear them on days other than Thursday, it may be Sunday, Monday, even a Saturday or Thursday, but each team decides when they want to wear them for home games. "

So why did the Cowboys decide to wear Color Rush for the second consecutive week of consecutive games on Thursday?

"We always tried to do something around Thanksgiving and, in this case, we had another match on Thursday after the traditional Thanksgiving Day match, so we decided to set it on Thursday night, with a match in the hours of great listening and the only game in town, "noted McCord. "We wanted to make sure we had this visibility.

"Whites work for us because we traditionally wear white shirts for all of our home games, we wanted to stay in this mode and wear white clothes inspired by Nike's Color Rush pattern. have tried to declare the jersey So, if the teams wear black at home, they will wear black as a base color or a dark color that is already integrated into their uniform. white and so many dark teams so teams do not overlap, you need teams with contrasting colors. "

The decision to wear Color Rush at the 13th week was a decision to be finalized this summer.

"Like all other uniform designations, each team declares during the summer what uniform it will wear for each of its home games," explained McCord. "Generally, as staff members of the equipment, we must turn our designation into a league office by July 1. At the end of July, the league tells us what each chose to represent his colors at home.

"The visiting team must match the local team's name in opposite colors, so if we designate the Cowboys as our all-white Color Rush, the visitor must wear non-white colors." this year's game, the saints will wear their black because we wear all white. "

For more information from Mike McCord on Color Rush uniforms, click here on the 5PointsBlue story: http://www.5pointsblue.com/breaking-the-cowboys-color-rush-uniforms/

On what players think about color uniforms:

Balance: The Cowboys will be wearing their Color Rush uniforms at the Saints-friendly Thursday Night Football.

Cowboys have the habit of wearing white shirts during home games. So, what is the point of wearing Nike Color Rush jerseys all white? The Cowboys will wear their Color Rush uniforms this week when they greet angry Saints who have 10-1. And Mike McCord, director of equipment for the Cowboys, said the players were excited for Color Rush.

"Players love it," said McCord at 5PointsBlue, Cowboys' official website. "In fact, on Monday at noon, the players saw us in the equipment room as we were putting on the pads' jerseys for the first time this week, and the guys are excited to be able to wear them. "Good guys always love white pants, that's why we've incorporated the white pants into our blue jersey for a game earlier this year."

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