When the Seahawks debut their 1990s era throwback uniforms on Sunday, it will be the culmination of more than a year’s worth of work from people throughout the organization.
But even with so much planning involved, there was still plenty to be done in the final days leading up to the game to make sure players look and feel their best on Sunday, and to get Lumen Field looking a bit like the Kingdome thanks to the throwback markings that were painted on the field this week.
When the NFL removed the one-helmet rule back in the summer of 2021, effective for the 2022 season, it removed the biggest hurdle for the Seahawks to do a throwback uniform. By the 2022 offseason, the Seahawks were on the path towards throwbacks for this season, working with Nike on a design for the uniforms, and sending an old helmet that belonged to Cortez Kennedy to Peter Mauhar, the president of Gemini Racing in Wisconsin and the person with whom the Seahawks had already worked in the past to get the paint color right on their current helmets so that Gemini could get the color just right for the new helmets.