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The NFL and Nike unveiled eight new “Rivalries” uniforms for the AFC East and NFC West teams.The uniforms celebrate local traditions and team legacies with unique designs.The uniforms will be worn once during the 2025 season in a divisional rivalry game.<\/p>\n
After four months of anticipation, particularly among those who fancy themselves football fashionistas, the NFL and Nike revealed their new \u201cRivalries\u201d uniforms<\/a> Thursday morning \u2013 kits that make a departure from the fairly conservative looks the league has featured for most of its hundred-plus years of existence.<\/p>\n Effectively cousins to the NBA\u2019s popular “City Edition” uniforms or Major League Baseball\u2019s “City Connect” jerseys, the “Rivalries” unis present looks \u2013 if ones that may not be embraced by traditionalists \u2013 that will make the AFC East and NFC West teams that wear them this season pop for viewers while attempting to celebrate the local ethos of those clubs.<\/p>\n “Everyone loves good rivalries, which have the power to connect and transform athletes, fans, teams and entire communities,” Nike relayed in a press release regarding the uniforms it first teased on the second day of the 2025 NFL draft.<\/p>\n “The 2025 Rivalries uniforms will celebrate storied local traditions and unite fan communities with designs unique to select cities and teams.<\/p>\n “The designs are rooted extensively in the legacies and inspirations true to each team, serving as authentic, competitive expressions of community pride while giving athletes and fans an opportunity to connect like never before.”<\/p>\n NFL UNIFORM POWER RANKS: Which teams are dressed best? Worst?<\/a><\/p>\n The new uniforms for all eight teams \u2013 and they all had direct input into their customized threads \u2013 will be worn once this season during a home game against a division rival (details below). They will then become part of the club\u2019s uniform closet for the next three years.<\/p>\n The league\u2019s other 24 teams will get their own “Rivalries” uniforms in future years, two additional divisions to be added to the rotation annually through the 2028 season.<\/p>\n “Rivalries will bring fresh energy to the field with each new uniform, while providing a platform to amplify the community and hometown pride that is rooted in each NFL fan,” said Taryn Hutt, the NFL\u2019s vice president of club marketing, said in a statement.<\/p>\n The new “Rivalries” jerseys and associated gear and apparel will be available at nike.com<\/a>, NFLshop.com<\/a> and fanatics.com<\/a> starting Sept. 10.<\/p>\n The league will literally look quite different in 2025 as eight teams \u2013 the Bills<\/a>, Browns<\/a>, Steelers<\/a>, Chargers<\/a>, Commanders<\/a>, Packers<\/a>, Saints (a new helmet<\/a> and a new\/old jersey<\/a>) and Buccaneers<\/a> \u2013 previously revealed new throwback and\/or alternate uniform looks earlier this summer.<\/p>\n USA TODAY Sports was granted an early look at the “Rivalries” uniforms, and they certainly demand a ranking of their own, so here goes \u2013 from best to worst:<\/p>\n Did you hear about the haboob (better known as a dust storm) that engulfed Phoenix<\/a> on Tuesday? Apparently it also sand-blasted the Cards\u2019 new uniforms \u2013 to glorious effect<\/a>.<\/p>\n Arizona’s “Rivalries” unis appear pockmarked by sand and feature a reimagined state flag on the shoulder (a callback to the flag also pops off the helmet bumper). The flag, jersey number and pant stripes are outlined with copper trim, an ode to the official metal of Arizona. Literally a gritty look, the official theme of the Cardinals\u2019 Rivalries unis is \u201cBuilt to Last.\u201d<\/p>\n They\u2019re a close second, mainly because \u2013 I think \u2013 going predominantly with “Wolf Grey” for the jerseys and pants might be a slight miss. But a \u201cHigh-Decibel Zone<\/a>\u201d presentation meant to honor the team\u2019s loud, proud, vocal fans is pretty sweet \u2212 Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Heart and Seattle’s other legendary rock bands surely approving. A soundwave pattern ripples across the shoulders and down the pants, appropriate given this team has set off seismometers in Seattle amid playoff touchdowns, like Marshawn Lynch\u2019s epic one in a 2011 wild-card upset of New Orleans.<\/p>\n \u2018Hawks fans are further honored with \u201c12s\u201d embedded throughout the uniform including a cascade of them within the jersey numbers. The \u201cBeetle Green,\u201d aka iridescent green, trim is a nice change from the typical “Action Green” that looks like highlighter ink.<\/p>\n But the coolest element is the helmet, a metallic chrome dome with bluish-green coloring that\u2019s been much better executed than the black-and-gold two-tone crowns the Jaguars wore a few years ago.<\/p>\n Nike\u2019s hype video will make \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d fans wonder if the Bills will be now playing north of the Wall (they do have a new stadium under construction after all, but unclear if it\u2019s rising in Westeros).<\/p>\n As for the uniforms, they\u2019re quite iced out \u2013 similar to the Vikings\u2019 \u201cWinter Warrior\u201d look<\/a>, complete with silver numbers and helmet logo. Buffalo\u2019s “Rivalries” duds carry a “Cold Front<\/a>\u201d lable, and fans will be thrilled to see \u201cBills Mafia\u201d stitched inside the collar. But the coolest detail is the silvery, texturized charging buffalo logo on the sleeve.<\/p>\n 4. New England Patriots<\/p>\n If the Bills are north of the Wall, then the Pats seem based somewhere near the Iron Islands. Their \u201cNor\u2019Easter\u201d uniforms<\/a> feature a sharp \u201cStorm Blue\u201d jersey \u201cinspired by the New England fog.\u201d The shoulder and tapered pants striping boast reflective silver material \u201cdesigned to represent beams of light shining off the lighthouse connected to Gillette Stadium.\u201d Also unveiled, a new \u201cNE\u201d logo appearing on the jersey’s sleeves.<\/p>\n The collar is busy but not in a bad way, encompassed by six red stars representing each state in New England. \u201cWe Are All Patriots,\u201d which owner Robert Kraft declared after the team\u2019s first Super Bowl win in 2002 \u2013 just five months after 9\/11 \u2013 is written inside of it. Solid.<\/p>\n 5. San Francisco 49ers<\/p>\n They clearly want you to know their fan base is known as the \u201cFaithful,\u201d the word written in gold script above the jersey numbers while \u201cFaithful to the Bay\u201d rings the collar’s interior. The red jersey numbers are presented in a slick \u201csaloon font\u201d and trimmed in a vibrant gold the team has never really featured aside from its helmets.<\/p>\n Given how the team has incorporated a cream color into its overall palette recently \u2013 noticeably on its website and social accounts \u2013 it is a bit disappointing the Niners went with a primarily black uniform. But this \u201cFor the Faithful\u201d version is the team\u2019s best homage yet to the California gold rush for which it\u2019s named.<\/p>\n 6. New York Jets<\/p>\n Sadly, its best aspect \u2013 \u201cGotham City Football Club<\/a>\u201d written in Gothic font and topped by the Jets\u2019 plane logo \u2013 rests inside the neckline. The colors (\u201cEmpire Green,\u201d black and gray) are meant to serve as a callback to Hall of Fame QB Joe Namath, who led the NYJ to their only Super Bowl nearly 57 years ago. The helmet, which has a stripe down the centerline, looks nice, but the Gothic jersey nubmers are shaky. The graphics on the sleeves and chest logo are a whiff, evoking a manhole cover … though the Jets often wind up in the gutter.<\/p>\n We\u2019ll continue to wish this team would go whole hog on intimidating military airframes or, if Gotham is going to be the theme, give us something more Batman-adjacent. Alas.<\/p>\n Nike can be forgiven given a team that\u2019s played in Cleveland, L.A. (twice), Anaheim and St. Louis doesn\u2019t have especially deep roots. So the Rams\u2019 \u201cMidnight Mode<\/a>\u201d really just renders them yet another squad with a nearly black (midnight blue) alternate, though the sleeves do a better job showcasing the team\u2019s iconic horns. \u201cRams House\u201d is stitched inside the collar \u2013 even though SoFi Stadium is notoriously often overrun by visiting teams\u2019 fans. The dark helmet does somewhat recall the ones worn by the “Greatest Show on Turf” teams led by Hall of Fame QB Kurt Warner in STL.<\/p>\n Feels like we\u2019re reverting to the 1990s \u2013 it was a better time, right? \u2013 with more teams wanting a black-ish version uniform in their closet. Miami\u2019s \u201cDark Waters<\/a>\u201d unis are meant to convey speed and South Florida\u2019s night life in what\u2019s officially a \u201cdark pitch-blue\u201d uniform with hits of \u201cTurbo Green,\u201d and the club\u2019s standard aqua and orange. Meh, we\u2019re not fooled. Missed opportunity not pivot to something closer to a \u201cMiami Vice\u201d feel.<\/p>\n When will the ‘Rivalries’ uniforms be worn in 2025?<\/p>\n \u25b6 Arizona Cardinals:\u00a0Sept. 25 vs. Seattle Seahawks<\/p>\n \u25b6 Buffalo Bills:\u00a0Oct. 5 vs. New England Patriots<\/p>\n \u25b6 Los Angeles Rams:\u00a0Nov. 16 vs. Seattle Seahawks<\/p>\n \u25b6 Miami Dolphins:\u00a0Sept. 29 vs. New York Jets<\/p>\n \u25b6 New England Patriots:\u00a0Nov. 13 vs. New York Jets<\/p>\n \u25b6 New York Jets:\u00a0Dec. 7 vs. Miami Dolphins<\/p>\n \u25b6 San Francisco 49ers:\u00a0Jan. 4, 2026 vs. Seattle Seahawks<\/p>\n \u25b6 Seattle Seahawks:\u00a0Dec. 18 vs. Los Angeles Rams<\/p>\n