ORLANDO, Fla. — New uniforms are coming to Broncos Nation in 2024.
For the primary time since 1997, the Broncos will reveal a brand new uniform set, President Damani Leech introduced Monday.
“It has been an amazing course of throughout the group between employees and possession, notably [Owner] Carrie [Walton Penner], who has actually pushed this course of,” Leech stated Monday on the NFL Annual Assembly. “[There has been] participant involvement and fan involvement. We’re actually excited to lastly transfer in that route.”
Leech stated the Broncos’ brand and workforce colours will stay the identical however that the uniform will bear “a full redesign.” Leech additionally confirmed the uniform will likely be revealed “someday within the subsequent weeks.”
The Broncos initially teased the information by way of a brief social media video, which featured threads illustrated on the mane of the Broncos’ brand and “coming quickly” in white letters.
Denver has had six totally different uniforms in franchise historical past, with the newest change coming in 1997. The latest iteration will function nods to the Broncos’ house state, in accordance with Proprietor & CEO Greg Penner.
“[I’m] actually excited,” Penner stated Monday. “It is time for a change, and we expect we’ll have one thing that honors Broncos Nation and our followers will likely be happy [that it includes] parts of Colorado. It was an fascinating course of that Carrie was deeply concerned with, I used to be, [Head] Coach [Sean Payton], coaches, a few of our gamers. So we received quite a lot of suggestions — additionally from the followers. I believe now we have one thing … they’re going to be enthusiastic about.”
Leech stated the design for the uniform got here after a sequence of conversations about what was necessary to the workforce and the fan base.
“[It was about] desirous to evolve and be new and totally different, but in addition being respectful of our historical past and traditions and understanding our environment,” Leech stated. “I believe from a geographic standpoint, there [will] be nods to that. I believe individuals will likely be actually enthusiastic about it.”
Leech stated the method started almost instantly after he was employed in August of 2022, because the workforce despatched surveys to followers after which met with Nike in January of 2023. Leech and Walton Penner had been each a part of a Broncos contingent that traveled to Beaverton, Oregon in 2023 as a part of the design course of.
“It is fairly a prolonged course of,” Leech stated. “It begins with quite a lot of surveying your followers, [and then] Nike takes you thru type of a design, imaginative and prescient and course of of what is necessary to you and what are you making an attempt to perform. On a scale of 1 to 10, how a lot change are you searching for? [It’s] a bunch of various issues, and you then type of begin iterating from a design standpoint. Then you need to transfer into manufacturing, as a result of is that this one thing that may really be constructed?
“I believe I got here into it considering, ‘Oh, this will likely be easy. This will likely be fast and simple.’ However when you get into it, you perceive manufacturing, manufacturing and design takes some time.”