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John KeimJul 9, 2025, 12:16 PM ET
- John Keim covers the Washington Commanders for ESPN. He joined ESPN successful 2013 aft a stint with the Washington Post. He started covering the squad successful 1994 for the Journal Newspapers and aboriginal for the Washington Examiner. He has authored/co-authored 4 books. You tin besides perceive to him connected 'The John Keim Report', which airs connected ESPN Richmond radio.
Washington Commanders proprietor Josh Harris made it wide connected aggregate occasions: He wanted to clasp the franchise's past.
The team's alternate jerseys, unveiled Wednesday, enactment existent to that sentiment.
— Washington Commanders (@Commanders) July 9, 2025The Commanders volition crook to their glory days erstwhile it comes to their alternate look this season, returning their uniforms to their benignant earlier they changed their sanction and redesigned the jerseys for 2022. Washington won 3 Super Bowls -- aft the 1983, 1987 and 1991 seasons -- portion wearing what volition beryllium their 2025 alternates.
Washington volition deterioration the erstwhile burgundy-and-gold look 3 times this season: successful Sunday nighttime games vs. the Seattle Seahawks connected Nov. 2 and vs. the Denver Broncos connected Nov. 30, and successful the regular-season location finale vs. the Dallas Cowboys connected Christmas Day.
Washington bushed Denver successful Super Bowl XXII wearing this look. Quarterback Doug Williams became the archetypal Black backmost to triumph a Super Bowl that season. Williams remains with the enactment arsenic a elder advisor to wide manager Adam Peters. He besides has developed a enslaved with backmost Jayden Daniels.
One squad root said past week that Washington hasn't decided if it volition effort to marque these its imperishable jerseys astatine immoderate constituent successful the future. The squad would person to taxable imperishable alterations to the league for support a twelvemonth successful advance. Teams tin alteration their look each 5 years -- Washington did truthful successful 2022 -- but an ownership alteration provides an exemption (Harris bought the squad successful 2023).
The alternate look begins with the helmet and a instrumentality of a golden stripe down the mediate bordered by 2 achromatic stripes arsenic good arsenic a golden facemask. They had antecedently ditched the stripes aft the 2021 season. The caller W logo volition stay connected some sides of the helmet.
The achromatic jerseys volition person burgundy-and-gold stripes connected the sleeves and a heavy burgundy stripe astir the collar and burgundy numbers outlined successful gold. The players volition besides deterioration burgundy pants with a gold-and-white stripe down the side. For socks, they'll deterioration achromatic with burgundy-and-gold stripes astatine the top.
