What Color Of Green Is The Eagles Helmets

Owner Jeffrey Lurie said this week that the Kelly dark-green jerseys will be as shut in colour and style as possible to the Eagles' classic 1980s await.

PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Eagles are throwing their old schoolhouse fans a bone in the 2023 flavor.

Team owner Jeffrey Lurie announced this week that the Birds will bring back their classic Kelly green jerseys and matching helmets for a few games in 2023. Lurie said the jerseys will be equally close as possible in manner to the classic 1980s blueprint, according to NBC Sports Philadelphia.

"I'm here to denote that get-go in the 2023 season, we're going to take the Kelly dark-green, classic Eagles bailiwick of jersey and matching helmet and do information technology the right manner," Lurie told numerous news outlets at the NFL owners meetings in Florida Tuesday. "It'due south what our fans have wanted, it'south what we've wanted and nosotros're going to be able to introduce that for that season."

For years, the just thing preventing the Eagles from bringing back their old, classic jerseys was a NFL policy that did not allow teams to use two different colored helmets, citing condom issues. The league wanted to ensure players were fitted correctly for one helmet to maximize concussion prophylactic, and was hesitant to let a 2d helmet.

The league changed that policy in 2021, apparently deciding it had enough resources to ensure that 2 helmet models could be fitted correctly to each thespian.

NBC Sports Philadelphia reports that Lurie had been hesitant to let the team to wear Kelly green prior to the NFL's change in policy, because the helmets' color scheme did non match. Using total-helmet decals was an option he was non interested in.

Now that they have the green light from the league, the Eagles will work with Nike to endeavor to match the new jerseys with the classic 1980s look, a process that takes time. Nike volition take to add a new color palate to its jersey materials to get the color exactly correct.

That'southward why the Kelly dark-green look won't exist prepare for the 2022 season, Lurie said.

"Information technology's going to be equally identical as what existed as possible," he said.

While they're waiting for Nike to find that perfect shade of green, the Eagles will not neglect the alternate bailiwick of jersey look in 2022. The team will switch to a black helmet/black jersey philharmonic this season.

They will also keep pushing the league to eventually allow three different helmets per player, which would allow them to have Kelly green and black, Lurie said.

"What we're going to do for this season is to have a black helmet because we have a black jersey," Lurie said. "And our players love wearing black and they love all blackness."