NEW YORK – What could possibly bring a player from each of the league’s 32 teams to the Big Apple for a Tuesday event in April that also is scheduled to have NFL commissioner Roger Goodell in attendance?
It’s the event a lot of fans have been waiting for – and yes, some even clamoring for – especially those in Seahawks Nation. With Nike taking over as the supplier to the league, after Reebok’s 10-year deal with the NFL expired over the weekend, the new uniforms for each team will be unveiled Tuesday in New York.
Nike, the league and the individual teams have been clandestine and then some when it comes to keeping the details of just what to expect under wraps. But whenever the innovative, swoosh-driven company from Beaverton, Ore., gets involved you can bet we’re talking about a whole different uni-verse from what the Seahawks have been wearing the past 10 seasons.
Thurmond dubs the duds “new age,” adding, “It’s transitioning from where we are as an organization and where the league is going.”
The Seahawks’ new look will first be seen by the public on the 6-foot-3, 232-pound frame of
As for just how much the uniform has been changed and the color scheme tweaked, you’ll have to wait until Tuesday.
But Thurmond knows a thing, or three, about the way Nike does things because he wore their innovative apparel while playing for the Ducks.
“They change the uniforms (at Oregon) every two years, so I got my opportunity to wear a couple different ones,” Thurmond said. “Since we’re at their backdoor, just with the Nike connection, I think (Seahawks chairman) Paul Allen wanted an upgrade as far as the jerseys are concerned. I think the Nike team did a great job.
“With Nike, it’s always going to be something different. It’s not going to be something traditional that everyone is used to seeing.”
Neither Nike nor the NFL ever do anything in a small way, so Tuesday’s event should be worth seeing.
