I didn't like the 2002-2011 colors, but I liked the since-2012 colors and the corresponding uniform and helmet designs from the first time I saw them, and until yesterday, I wanted the Seahawks to stay with them. When I went to my first Seahawks home game in 2019 after having been a fan for over 43 years, I made a point of wearing something in the since-2012 colors (my Seahawks-logo cap) to represent the current (Carroll-Schneider) run of success and something in the original colors (my throwback Zorn home jersey) to represent the earlier years.
Until Sunday, I thought the Seahawks had made the right choice with the logo evolution and the move to new uniform designs.
The thing is that until these "throwbacks" came along, I had never thought about how the original-color uniforms might have evolved with time, so I was comparing the since-2012 uniforms with recollections, images, and videos of unforms from the '70s, '80s, and '90s, which would look out-of-place and a little goofy today.
Because I think what first attracted me, then a seven-year-old kid in Maine, to the Seahawks was their uniforms, and because I suffer from major much-more-general-than-just-football '70s and '80s nostalgia, I had wished for some time before it was possible (because of the one-helmet-color-per-team rule that was recently changed) for the the Seahawks to have original-color throwbacks. I was happy when throwbacks were announced, but I didn't want them to be anything more than a special treat once or maybe twice a season.
Now having seen on Sunday what could have been if the Seahawks had kept the original colors but kept updating uniform designs within that original color scheme, I actually prefer the "throwbacks" to the since-2012 colors and wish the Seahawks could go to those original-color, modern-design uniforms we saw Sunday as their regular home-game uniforms. I'd also like them to move to original-colors-on-white away versions.
That was a minor surprise for me from this week.