Logos and Uniforms of The New York Giants - Uniforms - 2000-04

2000-04

For the 2000 season, the team introduced new designs for both home and away uniforms. While the home version was modeled on its predecessor from the early 1960s, the away design combined elements of the previous four decades of Giants away uniforms.

The home design had several subtle differences over its early 1960s forerunners:

• The royal blue in the home jersey was darkened slightly to a shade known as dark royal blue
• The helmet closely matched its precursor (down to the front-mounted and back-mounted double player block numbers on either side of the central red stripe and the front-mounted and back-mounted single player block number on the central red stripe), but added a metallic appearance. The gray facemask. Furthermore, the white lowercase "ny" logo on the helmets was more rounded and vertically elongated
• The "TV numbers" featured on the sides of the jersey's sleeves migrated to the top of the shoulders
• As with the 1994 throwbacks, the black belts and cleats did not return, replaced instead by a gray belt and white cleats
• A red triangle containing the NFL shield was placed at the tip of the collar's "V".

The white road jersey had less to do with the 1960s variants and more with the 1980s and 1990s designs, but had the number switched from blue to red, accented with blue trim, and player names appeared in blue.

The home and design featured gray pants with gray belts, with the pant legs adorned with a single thick red stripe directly bordered by two blue stripes of equal thickness.

The road pants, gray as well, featured a different design: three thinner, non-contiguous stripes of red/blue/red, similar to the style worn from the late 1950s through 1961. The team's current road uniform closely resembles the 1961 version. These road pants are on rare occasions worn with the home blue jersey, most recently for the team's October 25, 2010 game at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

At least as early as the middle of the 2011 season some Giants players have worn these road pants with a different striping: on the newer pants the three non-contiguous red/blue/red stipes are considerably thicker and more widely spaced, with white between the three colored stripes.

Finally, blue socks accompanied the home uniforms and red socks returned for the away uniforms. For the 2002 season, the away socks again became blue and would remain that way until the end of the 2004 season.

In 2002, the Giants and all other NFL franchises replaced the NFL shield with the "NFL Equipment" logo.