The Packers Have Worn a Ton of Uniforms in the Last 30 Years

I think a lot about the Packers’ uniforms. I love them, obviously, and I think everybody else should, too.

Not everybody does, though, and one of the most common criticisms I see of the Packers’ look is that it’s plain. It doesn't change. They don’t have interesting alternate uniforms.

I get that, to an extent. But I also wonder if people are really paying attention. Because if you look at the past 30 years of Packers football, they’ve worn a lot of different uniforms. Just look at what Aaron Rodgers and Brett Favre have worn during their respective careers and you’ll see.

Let’s start with Rodgers. He’s worn three different non-throwback uniforms during his time in Green Bay: the home greens, the road whites, and the all-white alternate uniforms.

But he’s also had the pleasure of wearing four different throwback uniforms: the 2011 yellow circle with both a brown and yellow helmet (which I’m counting as two uniforms), the 2015 throwbacks, and the 2021 throwbacks.

Brett Fave has a similar selection of uniforms. You, of course, know him for wearing the Packers’ standard home and road sets.

But don’t forget that he played prior to the Packers tweaking their uniforms in the mid-90s and wore the much more stripey home and road uniforms you remember from their 1996 Super Bowl run.

Favre also got to wear the rare home/road throwback combo when the Packers’ rolled out this set for NFL’s 75th anniversary season in 1994.

It’s not all golden for Favre, though. He also suffered the ignominy of wearing two throwback uniforms during Thanksgiving trips to Detroit in 2001 and 2003. The 2001 uniform, pictured on the left below, is my pick for the worst look in Packer history.

Just to recap, that’s seven different throwbacks, an alternate, and two different versions of the home and road uniforms — and that’s just spanning the Favre/Rodgers era. Sure they don’t have all the marketing gimmicks and gewgaws that a lot of more modern uniforms have, but there’s a good bit of variety there,