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VIDEO: Evolution Of The Burgundy & Gold

Here’s an interesting video from NFL Films that gives the background of the Washington Redskins’ team colors and uniforms.

Here’s some tidbits from the piece, which is entitled “The Evolution of Colors:”

- The Redskins’ colors of burgundy and gold were chosen by the team’s first owner, George Preston Marshall.

- The colors are “regal,” yet “colorful and vibrant” enough to be different, which was important to Marshall, according to one historian.

- Marshall introduced the first graphic logos to jerseys in the early 1930s, and moved the logo to the shoulders by the mid 1930s.

- Other than minor modernizations, the Redskins haven’t changed their current uniforms’ look in three decades.

Here’s renderings of the Redskins’ uniforms through the years:

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