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Nike Elite 51 Cardinals Uniform Tweak

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Arizona Cardinals.

This is the 13th of many uploads for this Nike/NFL tweaking project. For those unfamiliar, the idea is to take each team's current uniform and "tweak" it, but stay in the general range of the current designs. This includes doing things such as: putting aside the striped compression sleeves that I usually add to a uniform that contains stripes on the "sleeves" of the jersey; not just blowing the current uniform up and starting from scratch; not just simply going with a throwback uniform as the solution; and various other new methods that I can't think of at the moment. Every team will be wearing my tweaked version of the Nike Speed Machine uniform. All Nike/NFL uniform tweaks are done with a combination of MS Paint and GIMP.

Here’s a little bit of a backstory: the Cardinals were actually the team that led me to doing this whole project. I was eagerly awaiting the hi-resolution graphics to go live on the Gridiron Uniform Database (which is where this template originated), and when I got my hands on the first two teams (Saints and Cardinals from the Hall of Fame game), I toyed around with the Cardinals uniform just for kicks, well before this project was even a twinkle in my eye. When I got the result on the left (the original maintained the T.V. numbers on the shoulders), I just sorta left it be, and moved on to the Saints. When I was looking at the two uniforms side-by-side, that’s when I got the idea for this whole series of tweaks. Fitting that the Cardinals are the ones who inspired me to do this project (I know, I’ve used that word a lot here), because it was actually their hideous black uniforms that they unveiled in June? 2010 that actually got me into doing the uniform tweaks, revisions, and concepts that I repeatedly saw on Uni Watch months prior. I remember it clearly: the Cardinals (who actually get their name from the color of red, not the mascot) completing the systematic collapse and destruction of their once-classy uniforms by going Black For Black’s Sake (or “BFBS” for short). It made me mad to the point that I grabbed a couple of uniform graphics from Chris Creamer’s site (sportslogos.net), and put them in MS Paint (which I still use to this day in conjunction with GIMP), just to say “THIS is how the uniforms should look”. Those first three uniforms were those worn by the Broncos, Saints, and the Cardinals. I guess to sum it up, I HATE the Arizona Blacks uniform, but at the same time, I’m very thankful that they came out with it, because it basically got me to where I’m at today. But enough chit-chat, let’s get into the details of the Cardinals uni you’re looking at right now. What I did here was eliminate the side panels from both the home and road jerseys, as well as created a more consistent shape for the pant stripe. I moved the T.V. numbers to the sleeves, and the black line you see on the sleeves is actually a contrast seam pipe (see: Syracuse football uniforms that have been in use since 2010). The shoulders on the white jersey are still cardinal red, as I like the look of contrast shoulders on some football uniforms. Everything else stays the same. Home uniform is on the left, road uniform is on the right.

The template and original artwork that these modifications (tweaks) are generated from comes with the permission of the original artist, Bill Schaefer, at GridironUniforms.com.
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