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Rob DemovskyJul 24, 2025, 12:07 PM ET
- Rob Demovsky is an NFL newsman astatine ESPN and covers the Green Bay Packers. He has covered the Packers since 1997 and joined ESPN successful 2013. Demovsky is simply a two-time Wisconsin Sportswriter of the Year arsenic selected by the NSSA.
GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Why did the Green Bay Packers take 1923 for their latest alternate/throwback azygous and helmet?
According to squad historiographer Cliff Christl, it was "as large a twelvemonth arsenic there's been successful Packer history." The navy-blue jerseys with acheronian golden numbers and acheronian bluish stripes, which were unveiled Thursday, correspond the archetypal twelvemonth the Packers became a publically owned team. Their archetypal play of shot was 1919, but the 1923 banal merchantability raised $5,000 to support the squad afloat.
"If that had not occurred there's nary mode the Green Bay Packers would beryllium present contiguous if they had been owned by an idiosyncratic owner," Christl said. "There's conscionable nary mode they could person survived each the roadblocks and near-death experiences the squad had for years. It enactment immoderate wealth successful the slope for the archetypal time."
The Packers chose 1923 arsenic their caller alternate/throwback jersey due to the fact that that was the archetypal twelvemonth they became a publically owned team.
Team historiographer Cliff Christl said it could beryllium argued that was the astir important twelvemonth due to the fact that selling banal saved the team. pic.twitter.com/qicfXkJDSo
The uniforms were re-created from black-and-white photographs and with the assistance of articles written astatine the clip successful the Green Bay Press-Gazette, which said successful September 1923: "The Bay eleven resplendent successful their caller jerseys, acheronian bluish with golden striped arms, making an imposing appearance."
The throwback helmets were manus painted to look similar the aged leather helmets from the 1920s.
And an up adjacent look astatine the helmets, which were hand-painted. pic.twitter.com/3Hnv61SiXg
— Rob Demovsky (@RobDemovsky) July 24, 2025The Packers did not denote erstwhile they volition debut the caller look but to accidental it volition beryllium astatine a location crippled this season.
