The 49ers on Tuesday announced their uniform choice for their season finale on the road in Seattle. Instead of going for the traditional road whites, San Francisco is going to wear their all white, 1994 throwback uniforms.
The throwbacks offer a dramatically different look than their traditional road whites. Traditionally the team wears white jerseys with gold pants to go with their gold helmet. Sunday they’ll have the 1994 throwback jersey with the red numbers and black outline to go with the white pants with the red and black piping down the side.
It’s an extremely clean look that garnered a lot of attention when they were announced as part of last season’s uniform set.
Week 17 in Seattle will be the third time San Francisco’s worn these iterations of the uniform, and the first time they’ve done so on the road.
Their first foray into the throwback look last season didn’t go well. They got whacked 39-10 at home against the Rams. The 49ers dusted off the throwbacks again this season in Week 7 against the Panthers. That went dramatically better for San Francisco in a 51-13 rout of Carolina.
It’ll be an opportunity for the 49ers to clinch the No. 1 seed in the NFC in the same uniforms they wore the last time they won the Super Bowl.