Nike Elite 51 Chiefs Uniform Tweak

Kansas City Chiefs.

This is the 29th 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.

Now that we’re in the home stretch of this whole project, we can get started on what I (used to) call the ‘White-Shoe Division’: the AFC West. The Kansas City Chiefs are one of the few teams who've literally kept within arm’s length of their uniforms, only adding minute changes in their 52-year history such as adding small striping to the sleeve cuffs, changing shoe colors from black to red to white, sock stripe size changes, etc. Of the top of my head, the four biggest changes that they've done is: 1) changed their name from the Dallas Texans to the Kansas City Chiefs in 1963; 2) added red pants to their uni-rotation in 1968; 3) added the AFL Lamar Hunt patch in 2007 (which then became a perma-memorial); 4) a change that happened this year (2012): the moving of the cuff stripes to the sleeve caps. Not a big fan of that look, personally. What I did here was move the stripes back to their proper location on the cuffs. I also changed the stripe on the red pants to match the stripes on the red jerseys and socks. If all of the stripes match on the white uni elements for KC, then why can’t the stripes on the red elements match? I know that the actual pant stripe is supposed to be exactly the same on both the white and red pants (red/yellow/red), but it doesn't make for a good effect on the red pants, IMO. 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.