Writing about 20 underrated sports uniforms from college football, NFL, MLB, NHL, and NBA. One uniform at a time.

Bad teams with good uniforms, here comes maybe the saddest/best example in North American sports. The Browns started out with white helmets when the franchise began and later switched to orange for the 1950 season. The uniforms they wore then aren’t that different to what the team would wear for decades, except there was a brief period where they put player numbers on each side of the helmet.

All white road uniforms and white pants with a brown jersey was the template for years upon years. Then, in 1975 the team made one of their brief uniform changes by introducing orange pants. They’d wear orange pants for all games until 1984 when they dropped the look completely.

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When the team was stolen and then resurrected for the 1999 season things stayed the same. White pants only. However, a year after debuting an orange jersey, the franchise brought back the orange pants in 2003 wearing them a handful of times but mostly with the white jerseys.

They stopped the orange pants again from 2005-14 but ever since the 2015 season they’ve been a part of the Browns’ rotation. It’s the orange pants with the brown jerseys that looks fantastic. Complete with their brown socks it’s one of the best, and most underrated, looks in the NFL.