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Green Bay Packers debut ‘1923 Classic’ leather helmets on throwback week. What is their significance?
The Packers debuted 1923-style throwback uniforms in Week 9 vs. the Panthers, featuring brown leather helmets with U.S. and Irish flags.
The Green Bay Packers debuted their throwback uniforms in Week 9 in the game against the Carolina Panthers on Sunday. As part of the uniform, the Packers wore a brown-colored leather helmet that resembled the 1923 helmet, and it had flags of the United States and Ireland on it.
The uniform, named "1923 Classic" on the Packers' official website, features the leather-colored hand-painted helmets with the flags of Ireland and the United States. Earlier, the Packers had said that the uniforms will be a combination of "navy uniforms" as the Packers wore them "before wearing green, the Packers wore navy uniforms."
The team said that the uniform, along with the leather-colored helmet, is a homage to the 1923 uniform the team wore. Along with the helmets, it also features numbers printed in gold blocks along with three gold stripes - similar to the 1923-24 season long-sleeve sweaters wore by the team.
However, there are slight changes to the original in Sunday's uniform.
Fans Gush Over Packers' New Helmets
The Green Bay Packers fans were hugely impressed with the helmets worn by their team on Sunday. A host of reactions praising them surfaced on social media during the game.
"Ok whoever designed these leather looking helmets the Packers are wearing today needs a raise!! Coolest shit I’ve ever seen!" one user wrote.
“Just saw this throwback helmet. The Green Bay Packers are wearing today it's fire,” wrote one.
“Loving those @packers throwback helmets,” said another.
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“Love the throwback uniforms for the @packers and the helmets at as @MarquesEversoll would say “chef’s kiss”. Now, enough messing around, let Jordan cook. If seen enough of the run game,” wrote another.
"Digging the new Green Bay Packers' "leather" helmets," said one.
The Packers next play the Super Bowl winners, Philadelphia Eagles on November 11.
