Jul 5th 2008 8:08AM by JJ Cooper (author feed)
Filed under: Titans, AFC South, Nashville
The Tennessee Titans are returning to their roots.
After nine years wearing dark blue jerseys at home to go with a white road uniform, the Titans will switch to light blue this year, the is reporting. It’s the same color that the Titans wore when they arrived in Tennessee as the Tennessee Oilers back in 1997 (as Eddie George shows here), and it’s the same colors that Earl Campbell made famous with the Love Ya’ Blue Houston Oilers of the late 1970s.
Tennessee won’t completely get rid of the dark blue, but they’ll now be an alternate uniform that they’ll wear for one game a year.
Like most uniform changes, this one is more about marketing than anything else–now the Vince Young or Keith Bulluck jersey you bought a couple of years ago is now clearly out of date–and the Titans hope you’ll now go out to get a new powder blue jersey. But if they are going to make a change, going back to the light blue is a good call.
