During the height of the NFL's Color Rush uniform extravaganza on Thursday Night Football, the Chicago Bears played it safe with their uniform choices. During the two games the team appeared on TNF against the Green Bay Packers, Chicago wore their navy jerseys with navy pants with the Packers wearing white jerseys with white pants. As far as Color Rush games went, the combination for both teams was rather tame.

The Bears unveiled new orange jerseys for this upcoming season on Friday morning. Similar in look and style to the orange jerseys the team wore just a few years ago, the only major change was the previous uniform provided during that stretch was Reebox with Nike sitting as the NFL's jersey maker this time around. After the jerseys were revealed, a small tidbit came out on the team having previously been asked to wear all-orange for their Color Rush appearances in the past.

According to Patrick Finley of the Chicago Sun-Times, team chairman George McCaskey said the team was approached to wear the uniforms but opted not to go with the all-orange look in the past.

“We just decided it was too much,” McCaskey said, via Finley.

Chicago will wear the orange jerseys twice this season, once against the Miami Dolphins on the road in Week 6 and again in Week 11 against the Minnesota Vikings at home. The team also plans on wearing their Monsters of the Midway throwbacks for one game this season.

Chicago originally wore an orange jersey with navy pants beginning in the 1930s. Previous to that season it had worn navy jerseys with vertical orange stripes. In 1932 the team began putting numbers on the front of the jersey and transition to an orange jersey with navy numbers trimmed in white with black stripes on the arm. The team wore the jersey sporadically throughout that decade and, according to ChicagoBears.com, "the jersey was 'so loud' that stories are told about crowds in New York booing the jersey."

The Bears brought back those 1930s jerseys for a Thanksgiving game against the Dallas Cowboys in 2004 before debuting a new orange jersey that looked like their traditional home navy jerseys and away white jerseys. The team wore those orange jerseys a handful of times throughout the mid-2000s before the NFL made the switch from Reebox to Nike. In 2012 the Bears got rid of the orange jerseys, making way for their Monsters of the Midway throwback jerseys that debuted that fall. Since that season the team has worn those throwbacks in two games a season. The Monsters jerseys were a darker navy blue with blocked dark orange numbers worn with a plain navy helmet with a grey facemask.

Many fans wanted the Bears to wear an all-orange uniform during the NFL's Color Rush promotion but it is clear the organization thought all that orange was going to be a little too much to handle.