Texas A&M’s new alternate uniform is...maroon

Adidas teased Texas A&M Aggies fans on Monday with some brief glimpses of a new uniform, and it was revealed in full today. They’re calling this the “Bright Lights” uniform, and one thing you can say for it: it’s definitely maroon. Maroon helmet, maroon facemask, maroon jersey, maroon pants, maroon socks, maroon cleats. That’s the good news.

The bad news? There’s a lot of black in there too.

As usual, the showpiece of the uniform is the helmet, which is essentially a maroon hybrid of the black helmet they wore in Starkville in 2012 and the chromed-out helmet the team wore in Starkville in 2014. It’s a maroon helmet, which fades to black at the bottom, with a chrome A&M logo. This looks really…