I'd tell the NFL to f-off. What are they going to do about it, move the Super Bowl somewhere else in two and a half months?
The irony here - c'mon Patriots fans, you'll see it - is incredible.
Sure it is. R-G is what bit them this time, but basically anytime you mess with branding colors there needs to be a basic set of 'hey, let's look at this from a bunch of different angles' steps you run through, specifically to avoid hitting any negative edge cases without needing to remember all of them.
Focus group: There's a bit of a problem here with your new marketing push. All we can see is green
Yes, I agree. My point was that any idiot should have thought of this even without testing. Maybe it's just me, but it's the first thing I thought of when I saw the uniforms, and I don't have anyone in my life who is color blind (or at least talks about it).
Color blindness truthers are the worst kind of truthers.
Actually, this makes a lot of sense.
Apparently, the NFL doesn't understand how color perception works. Now the people with blue-yellow color blindness are going to have trouble. They should've at least made the numbers black for one of the jerseys in order to distinguish them better.
I'm not trying to knock your vision here, but as you know, color-blindness (as well as color perception itself) can vary in both degree and range. Some people have more trouble dissociating between red and green than others, even if some others may have problems with more colors.
According to this site, the NFL has lucked out for the next game. Blue-yellow color blindness is a misnomer. Blue-green color blindness would be a more accurate description.
Yep, and different tests are widely disparate in their evaluations. When I take the Farnsworth test or other color arrangement tests, I come out as 100% normal. On the Ishihara/random dot style tests, I'm between mildly and moderately red-green impaired. I was 29 years old before I ever had any inkling that I was partially color blind, though in retrospect it makes sense.
This is probably the most interesting thing about this controversy that nobody really seems to be digging into. Sure, it sucks for the fans and the NFL should have done their homework and nixed the idea, but the biggest thing to me is that, if the teams are anything like the general population, just about two players on the field at any given time would have had red-green colorblindness. Imagine playing a high-speed, high-stakes game like professional football and not being able to tell immediately which players are on your team and which are on the other team. I haven't seen any stories come out about players in the game who are colorblind, but it would be very interesting to see.
To be fair, they never said they don't believe in it. They just don't "include" it.
I imagine that those players are going to keep quiet about it, for the simple fact that it's incredibly damaging to their employment prospects (assuming color blindness hasn't already caused them not to make it in the league to begin with).
I know, right? It's like when women complain about being objectified when they're the ones wearing clothes that make them look hot. Or gay people demanding rights when all they have to do is act normal and we won't even know they are gay.
Knowing you, I'll bet three consecutive "+1" posts to that is both annoying and irritating.
I think you're overreacting to the colorblinds' "bitching" which is more of a bemusing observation. I think this is mostly just funny to both colorblind and color-sighted folks everywhere. Sure some people were probably mildly annoyed when they couldn't tell the teams apart, but I don't think anyone is crying discrimination, rather just calling out the NFL for being stupid and incompetent. It's just funny, and the jerseys are ugly regardless, and it's all just an attempt to sell more merchandise and make money.
I award two random idiot emoji's for this post.
Three random idiots and one bird flipper guy for this one.
I am saddened, but not surprised, that the concept of parody eludes you.
So close ....
I am saddened, but not surprised, that the concept of English eludes you.
