We knew the Kelly Green uniforms were coming back, but Jeffrey Lurie made the news official on Tuesday at the NFL meetings:

Fan reaction to Kelly Green typically falls somewhere between neutral to favorable. You don’t find a lot of people who are anti-Kelly Green, because there really isn’t much of a take for that. There’s a position shared by a younger portion of fans, like sub-40, who think Kelly Green was the era of Buddy Ryan and loser football and WIP uncles and whatnot, but on the other hand, that’s the color Randall Cunningham and Seth Joyner and other franchise legends wore.

To that point, I wrote this about Kelly Green back in 2019:

Not sure why, but something about the Kelly Green just screams “loser” to me, like it harkens back to a time when the Eagles were mediocre, that chunk of 15 years when Ray Rhodes, Marion Campbell, Buddy Ryan, and Richie Kotite combined to bring the city of Philadelphia a whopping two playoff wins.

But when I think about it further, you did have some franchise studs who wore the color. Reggie White wore it. Harold Carmichael and Jaws wore it en route to the Super Bowl. Maybe it would cool to do some Kelly in 2020 as a way to honor those guys, similar to the way the Eagles rolled out the throwbacks for the 2010 opener against the Packers as a way to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1960 World Championship. I personally think it would be kind of cool to see Fletcher Cox wearing the same uniform that Reggie once wore.

The 2010 Kelly Green throw back was a one-off special occasion, which is why you didn’t see those jerseys again. This time, with the NFL changing the one-helmet rule to allow more diverse uniform combinations, it opened the door for the Eagles “doing it the right way,” as Jeffrey Lurie said this time last year.