The Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks were scheduled to meet in Denver in Week 6 with both teams wearing colored uniforms, an uncommon look for an NFL game. Denver planned to wear its Orange Crush throwbacks, while Seattle was set to take the field in royal blue jerseys and silver helmets.
The Broncos’ throwback uniforms revive a look associated with the team’s Orange Crush era. Denver brought them back in 2024, and the source reported that the Week 6 appearance would be the sixth time the team had worn them since their return. It also said the Broncos had won all five previous games in the uniforms.
Seattle’s outfit draws on its 1990s-era colors. The Seahawks wore the royal blue throwbacks in three regular-season games the previous season, before going on to win what the source described as the franchise’s second Super Bowl title. The team was also scheduled to wear the uniforms in Week 7 against the Kansas City Chiefs, but that game would not feature two colored jerseys because Kansas City was expected to wear white.
NFL teams commonly have at least one side wear white, often the visiting team, making the Broncos-Seahawks combination a departure from the usual presentation. Color-on-color games were more common during the league’s Color Rush period from 2015 through 2018. According to the source, the Denver-Seattle contest was set to be only the fourth game since 2021 in which both teams wore colored jerseys without either using a Color Rush uniform.
The previous matchup of that kind cited in the report took place in Week 15 of the 2025 season. The Atlanta Falcons wore black, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers wore their Creamsicle uniforms.
The teams entered the scheduled meeting with different results from Week 5. Denver had a 3-2 record after beating the Los Angeles Chargers, 23-17. Seattle had lost to the San Francisco 49ers, 32-29, the previous Sunday. The source did not provide further details about the teams’ preparations or explain whether the uniform choice had any effect on the game itself.
