DENVER—
Fans at Invesco field SUnday couldn't believe their eyes.Not because the Bronco's were 5-0, and beat thr favored Patriots.
But because the team was wearing brown and yellow throwback uniforms, with knee-high, striped socks.
The uniforms were replicas of the ones the team wore in it's first season, 1960. The throwbacks were used to commemerate the 50th anniversary of the AFL.
They uniforms have a history. They were so disliked, and the team played so badly in them, that they were publicly burned a year later.
Legend has it, that the uniforms were actually bought used, so the original owners could save money.
And when the NFL introduced the retro jerseys this summer, the first one they made was for Jay Cutler, who was shipped out of town.
With so much talk about the uniforms, we called the fashion police. Actually, the fashion design department at the Art Institute of Colorado.
"it's bold, it's fun. It's catchy, and those are all good things," Department Chair Rosalind Greenfell decided. "You could say it's corny and crazy, or you could say it's fashion history repeating itself because in the past men have worn striped socks like this."
She was talking WAY in the past.
"If you go back to the 1600 when men wore short britches."
Greenfell says the yellow and brown collors didn't exactly clash, since they're both earth tones. But admitted she did like the blue and orange better.
