It seems a forgone conclusion the Cincinnati Bengals will usher in a jersey redesign in the near future as the Joe Burrow era gets underway.
Franchise legend Boomer Esiason is right with fans who want it sooner than later.
Appearing on the “Boomer and Gio” show, Esiason said he’d really like the Bengals to tone it down:
“…too much stuff going on, too much orange, too many things happening on that uniform. … they need to like, I want to say, tone it down. It’s hard to tone down tiger stripes but you can. I just think the jerseys over the last 15 years have not been all that great looking.
Boomer pointed to orange and black jersey designs such as the ones deployed by Oklahoma State as an example of it done well. And while he likes the current iconic orange helmet, it doesn’t sound like he’d mind a white variant to go with the white color rush jerseys.
It’s hard to disagree with Boomer here. The Bengals could learn a lot from the mistakes the Rams just made during their redesigned jerseys. We’ve long argued dialing it back and going for a more basic look similar to the design of the color rush jerseys is the way to go.
