7/26/2023 0 Comments Bills color rushThe idea behind the campaign was to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the league's first-ever TV game shown in color. You can decide for yourself.The NFL's "Color Rush" campaign is turning into a nightmare for color-blind people. Now that we’ve told the story, here’s the raw data. Wins are not a pants stat, but if I was the equipment manager or whoever makes the call, the blue pants would end up in a donation bin somewhere. The Bills tend to wear these for prominently featured matchups. The biggest win in the blue-on-blue was Thanksgiving in 2019. Sometimes (incorrectly) referred to as the “Smurfs,” this uniform combination has been rare. Blue jersey, blue pantsĤ3 percent win percentage (3-4) since 2017 It’s the list of literally every big loss of Sean McDermott’s career. Now back to those big or important losses we talked about at the beginning of the article Wild Card 2017, Wild Card 2019, Titans 2020, “Hail Murray,” AFC Championship Game 2020, and the Titans 2021. Buffalo wore these uniforms to beat the Patriots on Monday Night Football in 2020 and claim their position as the new Kings of the AFC East, but that’s their only notable win with the pairing. The least aesthetically pleasing entry for the Bills are the white-on-blue uniforms, and they reflect the inverse of the “look good, play good” mantra. White jersey, blue pantsĤ7 percent win percentage (9-10) since 2017 But this pairing is stained by a loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers in Week 1 of 2021 and the regular-season loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in 2020. When you see pictures of #JoshAllenJumpingOverThing s, he was wearing white-on-white against the Chiefs and back in 2018 against the Minnesota Vikings. The clean look made even cleaner by the recent change to white facemasks, Buffalo wore this combination in their win over the Kansas City Chiefs earlier this year. White jersey, white pantsĦ1 percent win percentage (13-8) since 2017 They wore this pairing during both of their playoff wins in 2020 and they have more wins wearing these than any other combination. They haven’t lost in a meaningful game wearing this combination since September of 2019 when they lost to Tom Brady’s New England Patriots. My favorite look, the blue-on-white is also the most successful uni combo the team can wear on a regular basis. Blue jersey, white pantsĦ5 percent win percentage (15-8) since 2017 The game against the Colts was the first time a team wore Color Rush jerseys on a Sunday. Two important wins have come wearing the reds the Snowvertime victory over the Indianapolis Colts on their way to the 2017 playoffs and their 2020 Sunday night win over the Pittsburgh Steelers. Buffalo has only lost once wearing their red-on-red ensemble. Here is their winning percentage sorted best to worst since the start of 2017: Color Rush Uniforms (Red jersey, red pants)Ĩ0 percent win percentage (4-1) since 2017īet you didn’t see that coming! I didn’t. But there’s something that threw me off I didn’t account for. All their losses in 2020 were wearing blue pants. While he and I both readily acknowledge this is correlational data and not causal, the numbers are very difficult to argue here.īuffalo’s record is much better when they wear white pants. I couldn’t find the information anywhere, so I collected it myself from the Sean McDermott era, and I have to say, my friend is right. “Go find the team’s record in blue pants. Over the bye week, a friend challenged me to search up the answer to a question that had been nagging him: That’s right: Those white jerseys with blue pants. Picture them standing there at the end of the game, sad. Think of a big game the Buffalo Bills lost.
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