New rule means Eagles can put on kelly inexperienced uniforms twice as usually subsequent season

The NFL annual assembly is underway, and workforce homeowners, GMs, and head coaches have all come collectively to seemingly complain about completely different league guidelines. Whereas many of the proposals are relating to in-game play, one of many early votes that handed was groups being allowed to put on alternate uniforms 4 instances in a season — up from 3 times.

The Eagles set the stage for this years in the past once they lastly acquired the league to approve an additional helmet, permitting them to formally deliver again the kelly inexperienced beauties. It needs to be one of many extra in style strikes that Jeffrey Lurie has ever made, and the outcomes have been magical. So most of the workforce’s most iconic moments the previous couple of seasons have been when the Eagles are sporting the throwbacks.

Like this one:

And this one:

For the reason that return of the kelly greens, the followers have doubled down on their love of the hue, too. On the sport I attended in Cincinnati, Bengals followers audibly couldn’t consider what number of Eagles followers have been in kelly inexperienced over midnight inexperienced.

For the remainder of the NFL, permitting the alternates to be worn extra usually is probably going a cash seize — a approach to promote extra merchandise with a distinct coloration. However for the Eagles, attending to put on these beloved colours twice as usually, means extra probabilities to channel the greatness linked to them.

In fact, the Eagles may additionally do two kelly inexperienced video games and two all-black uniform video games now.