On Monday Night… #Saints color rush is back 🔥#NOvsLV | @EAMaddenNFL pic.twitter.com/OYzCCtLlKA
— New Orleans Saints (@Saints) September 18, 2020
“Color Rush” fans, rejoice: the New Orleans Saints announced that they will be wearing their popular alternate jerseys in their upcoming Monday night game with the Las Vegas Raiders, the first time the gold-on-white kits will be used in 2020.
Commonly ranked high among the best uniforms across the NFL landscape, the only complaint we have for these alternates is asking why they haven’t been upgraded to full-time status yet. When you have something so crisp and so clean, why not promote it?
The Saints are attuned to the broad appeal these uniforms attract, having worn them as often as the NFL would allow them in 2019 (teams may wear alternate uniforms three times each year). They even appealed the league office so they could wear the alternates again in the playoffs against the Minnesota Vikings, but the NFL wouldn’t sign off on it.
New Orleans won its Week 1 game wearing the black-on-black combo, but here are their win-loss records in each permutation from the 2019 season:
- “Color Rush” alternates: 3-0 (1.000)
- White jerseys, white pants: 5-1 (.833)
- Black jerseys, black pants: 5-2 (.714)
- Black jerseys, gold pants: 0-1 (.000)
And for the extra-superstitious: we’ve put together the total numbers for every combination used in the Sean Payton era, all the way back to 2006 (and let’s not forget the unique gold jerseys worn in a 2002 loss to the Minnesota Vikings, which Cameron Jordan wants to dust off):
- White jerseys, white pants: 5-1 (.833)
- “Color Rush” alternates: 6-2 (.750)
- “Black and Gold” throwbacks: 2-1 (.667)
- Black jerseys, gold pants: 23-13 (.639)
- Black jerseys, black pants: 42-27 (.609)
- White jerseys, black pants: 38-25 (.603)
- White jerseys, gold pants: 31-24 (.564)
