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I agree but I think they are restricted a lot by owners and the NFL.

Contrary to what many fans think, a uniform outfitter like Nike can't just walk in and make design changes without a team's permission. Nike is just a vendor supplying a service to a client, and in this case the client is the NFL, whose team owners are some of America's most conservative businessmen. They're not the sort of people who want their teams to look, for lack of a better term, wacky.

• The NFL has rules that keep a team from changing its uniform design more than once every five years. So many teams that have made recent uni changes aren't yet eligible for a redesign.

• A full-scale makeover, including getting all the product into the retail pipeline, takes time, and Nike's new relationship with the NFL is still very young. So we might see more redesigns next year, or the year after.

-ESPN

There is also rules about a certain amount of years between changing colors and logos. It's going to be a process.

I fail to see how Nike is at fault for people getting their hopes up after some random fan created a ton of jerseys that were clearly fake.

The materials are completely different. Lighter, dry quicker, etc. You're not on the field, so you won't see a major difference.

The same reason its "backwards" on every right shoe.

nm...DilMeister beat me by 83 seconds

It makes sense on a shoe, I just think it looks bad on the shoulder

People will complain about ANYTHING.

That wasn't always Nike's policy. When a few teams had Nike jerseys before Reebok got the exclusive contract that just ended, the Swoosh faced the opposite way.