When people talk about the NFL being a trendy league, they’re usually referring to the on-field, schematic practicalities of the game, but when you get right down to it, it can apply to just about any facet of the business.
Right down to what we just witnessed this past week, during which something like half a dozen teams all just so happened to unveil new ‘alternate’ helmets that they would be wearing—almost all of them black, except for the Cincinnati Bengals, whose helmets already featured prominent black stripes over an orange base. Those black stripes will now be against a white base on their alternate helmets.