Giants To Wear Color Rush Uniforms Against Cowboys On Monday Night Football

This week’s Monday Night Football matchup between the New York Giants and visiting Dallas Cowboys will have a different look than we’re accustomed to, as it breaks a four-game streak of the teams wearing their home uniforms against one another.

For the Giants, that typically means wearing blue helmets with the lowercase “NY” on the sides, blue jerseys and white pants, which replaced gray pants as their standard home look ahead of the 2019 season.

New York will instead don its Color Rush uniforms on Monday night, which are modeled after what the franchise wore on the road from 1980-99. The white jerseys and pants will be paired with a blue helmet that features a “GIANTS” decal on the sides and a white facemask.

The Giants will not wear their navy blue helmet, which was unveiled this offseason as part of the 1980-99 home throwback uniform, but will instead simply swap the decals and facemask on its lighter blue helmet, just as they have since the Color Rush uniforms were introduced in 2016.

The home throwback uniforms, including the navy blue helmet, will instead be worn against the Chicago Bears on Oct. 2 and Washington Commanders on Dec. 4. MetLife Stadium will also be retrofitted with New York’s end zone design from Super Bowl XXI for those games.

The Cowboys, meanwhile, will wear their navy blue jerseys with silver helmets and gray road pants rather than their white jerseys with bluish-silver pants, which is their go-to look at home and on the road.

The look has been considered unlucky, dating back to when Dallas suffered an excruciating loss to the Cleveland Browns in the 1968 playoffs and three-point loss to the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl V. On the other hand, the Cowboys are 5-3 in Super Bowls in which they wore white jerseys.

That said, Dallas beat New York, 37-18, the last time the two teams wore these exact uniforms in a Monday Night Football matchup on Nov. 4, 2019. The Cowboys have also won two straight games while wearing blue jerseys.

The Giants, meanwhile, wore their Color Rush uniforms against the Cowboys in a 30-10 loss on Dec. 10, 2017, but Dallas wore white pants instead of gray pants that afternoon.

Header photo courtesy of @Giants on Twitter.