While last week’s schedule featured nearly every team in the league in their standard home or road uniforms, Week 12 of the 2024-25 NFL season will see several teams breaking out alternate or throwback uniforms.
That includes the Indianapolis Colts, who will wear their “Indiana Nights” alternate uniforms during Sunday’s game against the Detroit Lions. This marks just the second appearance for the threads, which debuted last season in a 39-38 loss to the Cleveland Browns.
The uniforms feature a black helmet with the Colts’ iconic horseshoe logo on the sides, heather blue jerseys with their secondary logo on the chest and two stripes that run horizontally across the shoulders and matching heather blue pants.
Elsewhere, the Carolina Panthers will wear their black alternate helmets for the third time this season when they take on the Kansas City Chiefs, pairing them with their all-black Color Rush uniforms rather than their Process blue alternate jerseys like they have twice this season.
Carolina is 2-0 in all-black uniforms since the black helmets were introduced, including victories over the Atlanta Falcons in 2022 and 2023, but just 1-1 this season in the black helmets, falling to the Falcons in Week 6 before beating the New York Giants in Germany in Week 10.
In addition to the uniforms, the Panthers painted the turf at Bank of America Stadium with a vintage-inspired design. While it displays their current primary logo at midfield, they’ve added their 1997-2011 wordmark to the end zones.
The Chicago Bears will break out their 1936 throwback uniforms, which were introduced in 2019 as part of their 100th season celebration, when they host the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday afternoon.
The Bears are 5-2 in the uniforms, which feature navy blue helmets with a modified wing design, white jerseys with alternating navy blue and orange stripes on the sleeves and shoulders, navy blue pants and striped socks.
Chicago won’t be the only team wearing white at home on Sunday, as the Miami Dolphins will do so for the second week in a row when they host the New England Patriots, who will counter with their navy blue home jerseys and silver pants.
The Patriots have seen an increased usage of their silver pants this season, though they were added to their current uniform set in 2022. That includes two home and two road games, with New England going 1-3 in those contests.
Speaking of silver – or, in this instance, gray – pants, the Seattle Seahawks will wear their Wolf gray pants with their navy blue helmets (ignore the graphic) and jerseys when they take on the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday afternoon.
This will actually be their fourth time in gray pants this season if you include two games where they wore their 1990s-era throwback uniforms, but just the second time in Wolf gray pants, joining their 34-14 win at the Atlanta Falcons in Week 7.
Lastly, the Los Angeles Chargers – who dropped their royal blue Color Rush uniforms from the rotation this season – will wear their navy blue Color Rush uniforms for the first and only time this year during their Monday Night Football matchup with the Baltimore Ravens.
The Chargers are 0-5 in the navy blue Color Rush uniforms, which feature single-color lightning bolts on the shoulders and down the sides of the pants. They also swap the powder blue and gold decals and gold facemask on their standard white helmets for navy blue and gold decals and a navy blue facemask.
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