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PITTSBURGH — Playing in a city known for its ketchup, the Pittsburgh Steelers have looked more like the condiment’s counterpart as of late.
“I think we’ll have enough mustard,” Steelers veteran Cam Heyward said about wearing the team’s new 1933 throwback uniforms against the Green Bay Packers on Sunday night.
Other Steelers players have toyed with adding other yellow splashes to their uniforms during practice this week. The team’s primetime threads will include gold helmets and gold jerseys with black stripes, the City of Pittsburgh crest on the left collarbone and large white block numbers outlined in black on the front. Beige pants complete the get-up.
Cornerback Darius Slay offered his thoughts on it during a recent appearance on Richard Sherman’s podcast. Slay said the uniform makes them “look like we’re incarcerated. We’re in the jailhouse.”
“If I don’t feel good, I don’t play good, so I’m gonna have to figure it out,” Slay said. “Because that might be a little bit too much yellow. But we’re gonna do what we do, though.”
Heyward, outside linebacker T.J. Watt, offensive tackle Broderick Jones and safety Juan Thornhill ran around in gold cleats on Friday. Receiver DK Metcalf and safety Jabrill Peppers wore long-sleeved undershirts that were the same color. The former added shoelaces and the latter tights to match the theme.
But how much gold is too much gold? Nearly dripping from head to toe, Thornhill found out during practice on Thursday.
I just wanted to mess around and throw all the gold on,” Thornhill said afterward. “It looked a little crazy. I looked like a highlighter out there, but I was just trying to have fun with it.”
Metcalf wasn’t a fan of the look.
Juan Thornhill’s all-gold #Steelers practice uniform: Good look or does it look like a mustard bottle Halloween costume? You decide 🎤 pic.twitter.com/Biref1Z9be
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“He needs his ass whooped,” Metcalf said jokingly. “Juan (didn’t) need to do that. He was like, ‘(I’m) just testing it out.’ And he knew it was gonna be ugly.”
“Nothing Juan puts on looks good to me,” defensive back Jalen Ramsey quipped.
Thornhill did have one teammate in his corner, though.
“As long as you look good, you feel good, you’re gonna play good. That’s all that matters,” Peppers said.
In an effort to “honor the uniform,” Heyward said he probably won’t add much more color than needed when he suits up to chase Jordan Love around. Heyward added that, in terms of previous throwbacks, he preferred wearing the team’s block-numbered iteration over the distinctive “Bumblebee” threads, originally worn in 1934 and brought back from 2012-16. He’s always been a fan of the Steelers’ “Batman” jersey, which the team dressed in from 1966-68.
“I really don’t think it’ll look too similar to how we used to back in the day, but I think it’ll give us a little bit of different swag,” Jones said.
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