Why Teams in White Super Bowl Jerseys Hold an Advantage

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Why Teams in White Super Bowl Jerseys Hold an Advantage
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Wearing white seems to bring good luck to teams in the Super Bowl — so who's sporting the white unis this year?

in Glendale, Ariz. That leaves the AFC champion Kansas City Chiefs with their white jerseys.

For the most part, NFL teams wear a darker jersey at home and road teams wear a white one. When it comes to the Super Bowl, the record suggests that a white jersey is the way to go.Through 56 editions of the Super Bowl, the team that wore white jerseys lifted the Lombardi Trophy a resounding 36 times.

It was mostly an insignificant factor through the first four decades of the Super Bowl, but teams wearing white started a staggering stretch beginning with Super Bowl XXXIX. win over the Eagles on Feb. 6, 2005, kicked off a six-game winning streak for teams wearing white. TheBay Packers bucked the trend in Super Bowl XLV with a win over the Pittsburgh Steelers before teams in white jerseys strung together another six-game winning streak from 2012 to 2017.

That streak came to a halt when the Eagles got revenge on the Patriots in Super Bowl LII. White-jersey teams and other-color-jersey teams alternated as champions until the Bucs and Rams earned their titles in white.

Since then, only three squads have won the Super Bowl while wearing a colorful jersey: the Packers , Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs .VIII: Dolphins 24, Vikings 7XVIII: Raiders 38, Washington 9XXV: Giants 20, Bills 19XXXVI: Patriots 20, Rams 17LII:

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