I started collecting baseball and football trading cards in the 1970s and got my first subscription to Sports Illustrated on November 22 1982. Those were the days before I had access to cable sports shows, so these outlets were my only access to seeing the various arrays of colors donned by sports teams everywhere. Most of the time all that I could see was black-and-white images in the local newspaper. Magazines and cards were how I knew who Warren Moon of the Edmonton Eskimos was. Back then I wondered why he (clad in green and gold) was wearing a weird Packers outfit.
NFL Uniforms: Which teams should switch to their Throwbacks, Color Rush or do nothing?
