Every Team's Best/Worst Uniforms

What’s every NFL team’s best and worst uniform in franchise history? - The Athletic

Guess I'm in the minority. I actually like the bumblebee.

Pittsburgh Steelers


Najee Harris in 2024.Justin Berl / Getty Images
Best: ‘Throwback’ home jerseys (2018-present)
The Steelers’ normal home jerseys are good (black with italicized white numbers). But their “throwbacks” are even better. Inspired by the 1979 jerseys, they feature block letters for the numbers. If you’re not a Steelers fan, you might not even notice the difference. But Pittsburghers love them to the point that there’s been a social media push to bring them back full time.


Ben Roethlisberger in 2012.Justin K. Aller / Getty Images
Bad, but not the worst: Bumblebees (2012-2016)
Who could forget? The black and gold striped jerseys, which were inspired by the 1934 uniforms, will go down as one of the weirdest jerseys of all time.


Calvin Austin III in 2025.Joe Sargent / Getty Images
Worst: 1933 throwbacks (2025)
The concept comes from the 1933 jerseys and Pittsburgh’s city crest. The vertical black and yellow stripes look like a soccer jersey, and why are the numbers in the front white and the numbers in the back black? Especially with the yellow helmet, it’s an odd look. — Mike DeFabo

 

I like it, too.

 

I like the retro seal of Pittsburgh jerseys they did last season more than the original ones they had in 94 for the NFL's 75th. The originals looked like Walmart knockoff jerseys with heat applied graphics.

Got to say I like the 79 throwback home jersey with the big block numbers and clean look. Not a fN of the bumblebee but with time they get better

 

Favorite: Yellow Helmets, Black Jersey and White Pants.... 00's alternate jersey when we were an elite, badass team
Least Favorite: The alternate jerseys worn last season vs Packers on SNF

Honorable mention: 70's traditional, block numbers

 

Block numbers of the 70’s best

I don’t like bumblebee

Color rush ugly worst

City logo throwback made them look like prisoners

But I’m old set in my ways and don’t like change

There is nothing wrong with rabbit ears and aluminum foil

 

You sound like my Boomer dad with his old school cable boxes and high-as-hell cable TV bills. He could cut his monthly bill in half by using the Spectrum app, but refuses.

Streaming technology, Roku, etc... is the best thing since sliced bread and far superior to cable and satellite TV. Definitely better than using antennas for broadcast TV on old cathode ray tube TV.

BTW- I stayed at an ARBnb about 10 years ago with a big, old floor style CRT TV.... that was popular in 70's and 80's. It was pretty cool, nostalgiac. It had HBO and basic cable available to view.

 

I took the most crap from friends over the Bumblebee and I agreed.

That would be me. I still have cable and I have streaming channels. My problem is you can't jump back and forth with the streaming as easy as cable. I can go back and forth for sports when one has ads on. Takes like 5 seconds. Can't do that with streaming. I can have HBO, Showtime, MGM, etc. all lined up at bottom of TV and jump back and forth in a few seconds. And yes I do pay an arm and a leg.

 

I took the most crap from friends when the Steelers wore the bumblebee and I agreed with it. I always hope they were not watching us when I saw what uniforms we were wearing.

As for me, black jersey's with gold pants = badass.

 

I love that throwback with Najee. That grey facemask needs to stay.

 

Oh yeah? You whippersnappers laughed at vinyl records and now they can't make them fast enough for you.

People your age will start getting mocked as over-the-hill and useless soon enough my friend!

 

This

Some things don’t need to be changed just to sell jerseys

I have one jersey as does my wife and both are authentic 70’s throwbacks

 

I never bought a lot of albums but recently I saw a list of the top 100 albums of all time and was surprised how many I have in very good condition

I haven’t had a turntable in 30 years but I’m thinking of buying one when I finish my man cave hopefully soon

 

The weird part is that I moved on to CDs for the ease of use and I got sick of always having to clean albums but I could never stop from hearing the occasional pop of the needle.

I love the CD format, but I do miss albums to a certain degree. I also no longer own a turntable, but I don't know if I want to deal with that all over again.

 

My nephew in law had a fancy Bluetooth turntable and some moveable JBL or Bose speaker and it actually sounds good

That got me thinking the wires were turning me off

 

The regular and 70’s block number jerseys are fine

the bumblebees and color rush were ok when Ben and AB were lighting everyone up (made up for the uniforms)

i actually like the 1962 uniform with the yellow helmet

 

I love that picture

 

I always like the gray face masks. Made the steelers look more intimidating

 

any Uniform they wear is the best.And any other teams is the worst

 

Agree with almost everything here.

I don't mind the color rush (but the normal are better).

The Steelers "suffer" from having excellent normal jerseys. So alternates pretty much always look worse.

It's like this is the reason they went to the new numbers. So at least they could have an alternate jersey that is good.

 

I'd like to see the all white uniforms they wore in the early 70s.

 

I still have my old turntable from when I was a teen. It didn't get a lot of use because I was using 8-tracks, then cassettes, and later CDs, so I just kept it , and added it to each stereo I got, and it still work great.

 

I don't even remember those, what year was this??

 

This, this ,this. Are normal is so cool it's hard to make it better