When word filtered out a few months ago that some of this season's Thursday night NFL games would feature color-on-color uniform matchups, it seemed like a good thing. The league's longstanding rule requiring one team to wear colored jerseys while the other wears white is an antiquated protocol from the days of black-and-white television. With color-on-color games becoming more common in other sports and leagues, including college football, college basketball and the NBA, the time felt right for the NFL to join the party.
Unfortunately, the NFL couldn't do this the easy way, by having teams wear their standard colored jerseys.