Back in March, Ravens team president Sashi Brown hinted that something special was in the works for Baltimore’s uniforms this season.
“We’re exploring some things with some of the alternative jerseys,” he said during the NFL owners’ meetings in Orlando, Florida. “We have some stuff that’s coming, but if I said too much, my team would shoot me before I got back to the building.”
The reveal came Tuesday, with the Ravens unveiling a “Purple Rising” alternate helmet that features a gold face mask, gold striping on the top of the helmet and the team’s face-on bird logo, also outlined in gold and highlighted with red eyes.
The alternate marks the third helmet design in team history. The first, which featured a flying “B” logo, was used from 1996 to 1998; the second, which uses a profile angle of the bird’s head, has been in use since 1999. Other combinations have also included an all-black alternate uniform that was introduced in 2004, gold pants used during the 2015 season and an all-purple “color rush” uniform with gold numbers.
The Ravens will use the latest helmet for one game this season.
As for the rest of the uniform, the jersey and pants will also be purple, with gold numbers and gold stripes down the side of the pants with both outlined in white. Player reaction to the look was overwhelmingly positive.
“This the one,” wide receiver Zay Flowers said in a team video.
“Bad a–, man,” tight end Mark Andrews added in the same piece.
Though the Ravens have not revealed which game they will wear the uniforms in, they do have five prime-time games this season, including two at M&T Bank Stadium. The first of those home games under the lights is on Sept. 29 against the Buffalo Bills on “Sunday Night Football” and the second is Nov. 7 against the Cincinnati Bengals on “Thursday Night Football.”
