Color-blind people driven nuts watching red Bills, green Jets uniforms

The Buffalo Bills are wearing all-red jerseys for the first time in franchise history Thursday night. Their opponents, the New York Jets, are green-topped and -bottomed.

Yes, we've talked about Thursday Night Football being occasionally torturous viewing, and that certainly will be the theme next week when the Tennessee Titans and Jacksonville Jaguars meet.

But for some people, this Bills-Jets game is actual madness, and it has nothing to do with the quality of play. Both teams' jerseys, you see, can look the same.

	Michael A. Giarrusso @MichaelG1
8 percent of men, about 13 million Americans, are colorblind, usually red/green. This is torture to us.#BUFvsNYJ pic.twitter.com/N36qxNfntg 5:42 PM - 12 Nov 2015

That's an Associated Press sports editor. Is he working tonight? Will he be fact-checking and editing copy from this game? If so ... wow.

You see, red-green color-blind folks — approximately 8 percent of males, who need only one X-chromosome to be defective — can only differentiate the trim of the pants. Imagine what watching this game would feel like.

	Michael A. Giarrusso @MichaelG1
How the colorblind see #BUFvsNYJ _ we see pants with white and blue trim vs. pants with white trim. pic.twitter.com/faxr8Wjssy 5:47 PM - 12 Nov 2015   Michael A. Giarrusso @MichaelG1 #BUFvsNYJ in black and white was a lot easier for us colorblind to see than tonight. twitter.com/AP_NFL/status/… 5:49 PM - 12 Nov 2015

Turns out, he's not the only sports media member suffering, including Yahoo's Sam Cooper.

 

	Sam Cooper @SamDCooper	3h
	these Bills uniforms are even worse than I could have ever imagined
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	Sam Cooper @SamDCooper
I am actually incapable of watching this game as a colorblind person. every player is on the same team as far as I know.   5:31 PM - 12 Nov 2015   Gregg Rosenthal @greggrosenthal This matchup is a color blind person’s nightmare. Teams are blending together. 5:28 PM - 12 Nov 2015

The NFL has unleashed its "Color Rush" campaign with this game, issuing vibrant versions of each team's jerseys. There will be one "Color Rush" game per week. Which might be all regular people can handle, never mind the color-blind population.

Of course, some people really must be in the Christmas spirit.

 

	Odell Beckham Jr @OBJ_3
These unis are sick. #Swaggy 6:05 PM - 12 Nov 2015