Jeffrey Lurie is finally getting his wish to bring back the Philadelphia Eagles’ “Kelly green” uniforms that the team used up until the 1990s.
But Lurie, the Eagles chairman and CEO, will have to wait until 2023 before the Eagles can unveil them as an alternate uniform.
“If you all remember the (19)90s and the ’80s with Randall (Cunningham) and Reggie (White) and Jerome (Brown) and Seth (Joyner) and Clyde (Simmons) and everybody,” Lurie said Tuesday at the NFL owners’ meetings in West Palm Beach, Florida. “It’s going to be that uniform, and it’s going to be identical to what existed as possible.
“I can’t wait.”
Lurie said the last roadblock to allowing teams to use second helmets was cleared in June 2021. The NFL ruled then that teams will be allowed to wear alternate uniforms with second helmets in 2022.
But Lurie said it will end up taking two years to make the Kelly green helmets to match the Kelly green jerseys. That process began last year.
“We wanted to do it the right way,” Lurie…