With so many teams using gold as a primary color it looks like flags on every play with all the gloves, shoes, towels etc. all flashing around on the screen. And having a gold line to gain on screen just adds to the visual confusion.

If they made the penalty flags and line to gain some non-uniform color it would greatly improve the viewing experience.

Safety orange? Hot Pink? Neon green?

List of teams using essentially same color as penalty flags:

Wash Minn Pitt LAR LAC KC GB

That’s nearly 25% of the league and it means a majority of the games have one of these teams in action. Seems like a very logical and simple way to improve the viewing experience. Hopefully this gains some traction.

  • sqigglygibberish@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    A lot of the time the flag itself isn’t visible on tv anyway, and we get a giant yellow “FLAG” box on the screen when they get thrown too.

    You also have to consider why they are yellow, and the point being visibility on field and live. Our eyes see green then yellow light the best, and obviously the field is green. Bright green would be harder to see than yellow due to lack of contrast (even if there are fewer conflicting garments most of what you see is green), and if you go into orange you don’t solve the problem (browns, bengals, bears, dolphins, broncos, bucs). Red is harder to see at a distance and even worse color wise.

    You could maybe do pink but it’s impacted by the red dynamic and still isn’t going to be as visible against the field as yellow even if it stands out the most from players and accessories.

    There’s a reason tennis balls are yellow-green (though not as often on grass so they benefit more against blue and clay), soccer uses high vis yellow frequently, and lacrosse uses yellow balls in certain levels - it’s just the easiest thing to see.