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Throwback jerseys

Posted by Mike Reiss, Globe Staff May 18, 2009 07:00 AM

One follow-up note on the Patriots' plans to wear throwback jerseys in four games during the 2009 season:

Some have asked if the 1963 jerseys will be the red ones or the white ones.

It turns out the answer is both.

In the two home games -- against Buffalo (Sept. 14) and Tennessee (Oct. 18) -- the Patriots will wear red.

In the two road games -- against Denver (Oct. 11) and Miami (Dec. 6) -- the Patriots will wear white.

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14 comments so far...
  1. THANK YOU FOR YOUR INSIGHT AND WISDOM. I LOVE THE RED ONES.

    Posted by SKIP TAYLOR III May 18, 09 08:18 AM
  1. awesome ! wellcome back Pat Patriot and wellcome back to the best uniforms the Pats have ever had

    Posted by henry May 18, 09 08:51 AM
  1. Mike, will the Patriots definately wear white during the game in Miami, or is that just assumed because it's a road game? Miami usually opts to wear white at home due to the heat and sun, so unless the NFL disallows that option during throwback week, the Patriots may end up wearing their red jerseys in Miami. Playing down there on December 6 would seem to remove some of the heat factor as well.

    Posted by Dan May 18, 09 09:30 AM
  1. Hi Mike just wondering if you will get a chance to watch any of the mini camp this week. If you do could you see if any of the rookies are mixed in with the starters and how they do? thanks Mike. keep the patriots news coming.I check in 3 or 4 times a day at least.

    Posted by paul in me May 18, 09 10:53 AM
  1. Love the red's, aw yea!

    Posted by RJ May 18, 09 11:54 AM
  1. CANT WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SOUNDS FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


    yeeeeeeeee HAAAAAAW

    Posted by Wade May 18, 09 12:03 PM
  1. Wish they would go back to them for good

    Posted by zagnut May 18, 09 01:16 PM
  1. Hi Mike : do you know if the Patriots will play every year from now some games with Pat Patriot and the throwback unis ? i would love it

    Pat Patriot is the best logo ever in my opinion

    ps = any chance, if we will go in the play-offs, tol play too with the old unis ?

    Posted by Sairus May 18, 09 01:36 PM
  1. Are the throwbacks really and full replicas of the 1963 uniforms? I ask because the Pat Patriot on the helmets of the throwbacks looks like the late 60s onward Pat Patriot and not the Pat Patriot of 1963.

    The Pat Patriot logo from 1963 was noticeably different than the one most people are familiar with. See:
    http://www.conigliofamily.com/images/LetterheadPatriotsClip.jpg

    Posted by PatsFan May 18, 09 01:54 PM
  1. Those old Pat Patriot uniforms are indelibly associated in mind with the futility, incompetence, ineptness and failure of the Patriots for most of the period they were worn. I couldn't care if I never saw them ever again

    Posted by The Minuteman May 18, 09 05:29 PM
  1. I don't know why they didn't keep the red jerseys with the new logo. Now THAT would be cool. The lighter blues they first had when they switched logos were cool too, but these new navy blues are too common and boring. Love to see an alternate third jersey in red instead of boring silver!

    Posted by jaxpatriot May 18, 09 11:03 PM
  1. Mike: One of the things that I would like to see, and I even wrote he NFL about it is to see the officials for the games wearing the orange striped jeresys for the throwback games.

    The one thing they cant do for these games is move the goal posts back onto the goal lines. Those were the good old days when players would bounce into those goal posts.

    I was at all of those games in the beginning at the old Braves Field, sitting in the end zone for $2.50 a ticket. I could wlrite a book about some of the great old stories from those days.

    Posted by Mike Allen May 19, 09 01:15 AM
  1. i hope the silver ones will not return: i was not a fan of them

    Pat Patriot and the red uniforms are my favourite ones

    finally they are back- Pat Patriot is much more a better logo then Flying Elvis

    Posted by henry May 19, 09 02:17 AM
  1. Yeah. On TV the "silver" jerseys look like dirty white uniforms that didn't get bleached enough the last time they were washed.

    Posted by PatsFan May 19, 09 09:34 AM
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