UPDATE 1:10 p.m. June 15: Countering what their equipment director previously said, the Cowboys said they won't wear the navy blue uniforms at home any more often than they have been.

Plan is for Cowboys to wear their navy blue uniforms three times this season. That's the same number as last year. — Brandon George (@DMN_George) June 15, 2017

Plan is for Cowboys to wear their navy blue uniforms 3 times this season (preseason at LA Rams, at NY Giants & vs. Chargers on Thanksgiving) — Brandon George (@DMN_George) June 15, 2017

ORIGINAL STORY FOLLOWS

The Dallas Cowboys are in the vast minority when it comes to uniform choices. They're among just a few teams that opt to wear white jerseys at home, saving their navy outfits mostly for road games.

But it sounds like that may slightly change soon, according to Cowboys equipment director Mike McCord. He recently told Fox Sports that the Cowboys could start wearing their navy uniforms for big home games, like those with a national TV audience, a couple times a year. The Cowboys already wear their navy uniforms at home on Thanksgiving.

"We'll incorporate navy a little bit more. You've already seen the last couple of years where we started wearing navy at home on Thanksgiving, and that's all kind of in relation to the Color Rush uniform," McCord said. "We've had some success wearing that uniform at home, so I think we'll see a little more of it."

So what's with the choice to wear white at home most of the time? McCord said Cowboys owner Jerry Jones thinks it's become as synonymous with the Cowboys are the New York Yankees' uniforms are in MLB.

"Over the years, the away jersey has had the tendency of changing. That's because Mr. Jones has always thought of our home uniform as the Yankee pinstripes of baseball," McCord told Fox Sports. "You just don't want to change a whole lot of what that home uniform is, so it's stayed pretty generic and vanilla with just the white jerseys: one color royal number, simple sleeve stripe, and everything else has stayed pretty basic."

But the white home jerseys originally started as a home-field advantage ploy back when the Cowboys played outside.

"Originally, the white at home started with the heat, especially at Texas Stadium," McCord said. "As hot as it could be for our late-August, early-September games, I think the heat was a big factor, and one of those things was making the other teams wear darker jerseys on the road, as well as standing in the sun on the sidelines in the old stadium was a huge factor in that. So any time you're wearing darker colors, it tends to retain the heat. So that was a big part of why the Cowboys wore white jerseys at home."