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Packers Call All-White Uniforms ‘Dope,’ ‘Fire’

The Green Bay Packers have announced a “Winter Warning” for their Oct. 20 home game against the Houston Texans.

Bill Huber

The Packers' all-white uniform combination is for sale at the Packers Pro Shop.
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GREEN BAY, Wis. – Winter will be coming two months early to Lambeau Field, with the Green Bay Packers wearing white helmets and all-white uniforms for their Oct. 20 home game against the Houston Texans.

The team has dubbed it the “Winter Warning” game.

“Man, cool. They’re cool,” Rashan Gary said. “The uniform is fire. Fire. I just can’t wait to go out there and play good ball in them.”

As described by the team, the uniform will feature “much-anticipated white alternate helmets.” The white helmets will include a white face mask, the traditional Packers “G” logo on the sides and dark green stripes down the middle.

“It’s clean. Clean,” running back Josh Jacobs said. “You can’t really see the details in the helmet from afar but, up close, it’s got little gold flecks and stuff in it. It’s definitely dope.”

The helmets will be paired with the usual white road jerseys as well as white pants and socks. You can check out the look right here.

“I think it’s cool. I think it’s awesome,” coach Matt LaFleur said before Thursday's practice at Packers training camp. “It’s something that I think will bring some juice to the locker room. I think the guys are excited about it. I know we got a little sneak peek about it when they were doing the shoot for it in the spring. I think they really liked them.”

Fans can participate – and not just by whipping out the debit card to buy a jersey (which, of course, is the entire reason to have alternate jerseys).

“To help create a blizzard-like effect in the stadium in honor of Packers fans’ legendary energy during even the harshest of winter conditions, the team is asking game attendees to join in the Winter Warning by wearing white attire.”

Fans at the game will receive a Winter Warning white scarf.

This will be a slick new look for the Packers, though not entirely revolutionary.

White helmets made their debut in 1956, when the Packers wore dark green jerseys, white pants and white helmets for the opener against the Lions. The team used that look for every home game in 1958.

The Packers first wore a white jersey in 1938. However, they’ve only rarely worn white jerseys at home.

The Packers wore white uniforms and pants for home games against Chicago in 2016 and 2017, Seattle in 2018 and Detroit in 2019. They went all-white again for the 2022 game against the Titans.

It might have been cool to see the Packers with white helmets, jerseys and pants in a snowstorm. That’s almost certainly not going to happen, though. The earliest measurable snowfall in Green Bay history was Oct. 9, 1925. The average date for the first measurable snow is Nov. 13; the average date for the first storm with 1 inch of snow is Nov. 23.

Receiver Dontayvion Wicks somehow missed the memo. Showed the look, he said, “We’ve got the white helmets. Yeah, that’s big time.”

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Bill Huber
BILL HUBER

Bill Huber, who has covered the Green Bay Packers since 2008, is the publisher of Packers On SI, a Sports Illustrated channel. E-mail: packwriter2002@yahoo.com History: Huber took over Packer Central in August 2019. Twitter: https://twitter.com/BillHuberNFL Background: Huber graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where he played on the football team, in 1995. He worked in newspapers in Reedsburg, Wisconsin Dells and Shawano before working at The Green Bay News-Chronicle and Green Bay Press-Gazette from 1998 through 2008. With The News-Chronicle, he won several awards for his commentaries and page design. In 2008, he took over as editor of Packer Report Magazine, which was founded by Hall of Fame linebacker Ray Nitschke, and PackerReport.com. In 2019, he took over the new Sports Illustrated site Packer Central, which he has grown into one of the largest sites in the Sports Illustrated Media Group.