I get all the new-look NFL uniform designs.

I really do.

They’re really cool. The kids love them. And, even more importantly from the teams’ and league’s perspective, they love to buy the jerseys. They can’t wait to put them on.

But, the NFL is massive and there is plenty of room for everybody’s favorites, and, as such, don’t forget the traditional unis. The old people — such as me — like them just as much as the young people love theirs, and more and more, it seems, some of the teams do, too.

With that, then, the latest team in that camp is the Browns’ former division rivals, the Tennessee Titans. The Titans went back to the future with their new uniforms, which are almost identical to the powder-blue ones they wore way back in the day when the franchise was known as the Houston “Luv ya, blue” Oilers. Somewhere, Bum Phillips, who “kicked in the wrong door” in that wonderful Kardiac Kids season of 1980, as then Browns head coach Sam Rutigliano so famously pointed out, is smiling, and so is Perrysburg, Ohio native Jerry Glanville, now almost 85 years young and still coaching football as the defensive coordinator of the San Antonio Toros of the Continental Football League, and likely also still leaving tickets at the pass window on gamedays for Elvis Presley.

I am looking forward to Oct. 25 when the Browns, in their longtime classic-look uniforms, play the Titans in Nashville. Interestingly enough, three weeks later, on Nov. 15, the Browns host Houston’s current team, the Texans, at Huntington Bank Field, located on the footprint of old Cleveland Stadium, where the original Browns played the Oilers in those original powder-blues all those years.

Steve King