Color Blind NFL Fans Are Mad About Tonight's Bills-Jets Game

"Color Rush" uniforms are only practical when you can differentiate between green and red.

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Tonight the NFL is debuting some new uniforms which are great if you like color, and terrible if your eyes blend them together. Up to eight percent of men with Northern European ancestry have red-green color blindness (compared to 0.5 percent of women), which means tonight sucks for those fans because they can't differentiate between the Bills and Jets, and the game likely looks like a primetime scrimmage (which has us wondering about the players). This obviously has fans one out of every 12.5 fans agitated, and several took to Twitter to express their displeasure with the NFL for failing to foresee this:

Thanks @NFL for thinking of the color blind people tonight. Looks like one large group tackling each other

— Michael Doyle (@coachdoyle44) November 13, 2015

This matchup is a color blind person’s nightmare. Teams are blending together.

— Gregg Rosenthal (@greggrosenthal) November 13, 2015

If you are colorblind like me this @NFL game is going to be hard to follow. @buffalobills vs @nyjets

— Lawrence Tynes (@lt4kicks) November 13, 2015

I hate the Bills and Jets uniforms. I'm red and green colorblind so it looks like everyone is on the same team

— Clayton Mayfield (@Cmayf23) November 13, 2015

I feel bad for the red/green colorblind people trying to watch this game... 1/7 men have it pic.twitter.com/pcsww3EtSy

— Tyler Phillips (@typhilli) November 13, 2015

This game is hell on a colorblind guy.

— Matt Miller (@nfldraftscout) November 13, 2015

Sorry folks, being colorblind means a massive headache from TNF. No second half tweets from me.

— Matt Miller (@nfldraftscout) November 13, 2015

@BenVolin do you know what kind of hell this is for a colorblind person. I might as well listen to it on the radio

— david barile (@barile20) November 13, 2015

Great night to watch football if you're like me - red/green color blind.

— Vic Lombardi (@VicLombardi) November 13, 2015

Thanks @NFL ! Every colorblind guy is struggling to watch the game. Can't tell the teams apart. White helmets with solid red and green uni's

— Steve Sitterly (@stevesteelerfan) November 13, 2015

As for the actual game itself, don't worry color blind people, it sucks for everyone. Direct your social media outrage at the Jets for that.

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