NFL Uniform news...purple pants back with Vikings!

It's about time! For the first time since 1965, the Vikings will don purple pants this season. At one time Minnesota owned the most-colorful uniform in the NFL, a forerunner to stylish outfits introduced many years later, but the Vikes have insisted on a drab white-on-white road garb for almost 40 years...until now.

But hold on...there is also a combination of white-on-white in the new uniform design that will make the Vikings look almost exactly like Northwestern (another team which has inexplicably gone white-on-white instead of the old white-on-purple for away uniforms lately). Hopefully we will see more of the white-on-purple, though I suspect that will depend upon the Vikings winning more games when wearing this combo. Sadly, teams get very superstitious, as the Redksins did last season when junking the classy burgundy pants and going white-on-white when they got hot wearing the latter in the final part of the campaign...