Nike Elite 51 Chargers Uniform Tweak

San Diego Chargers.

This is the 32nd (and last) 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.

Chargers in powder blue. What more needs to be said? Yes, I understand that Alex Spanos (owner of the Chargers) really likes the navy, but c’mon! True Bolts = Powder-Blue Bolts! Then a thought came to me: why not split the difference? It works well for the Giants (blue-heavy at home, red-heavy on the road), so there’s no real excuse as to why it wouldn't work for the Chargers. What I did here was make the current alternate home uniform the primary home uniform… as it should be. But that’s not all, as I also removed the background stripe on all of the bolt graphics. I changed the road pant from navy to white, because the navy dancer tights that they currently wear for road games look dumb. The last thing that I did was something that I think will make everyone happy: T.V. numbers on the helmets once again (in the current font, to boot)! 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.