The Miami Dolphins have started filling in their 2026 uniform calendar, and two familiar looks are officially back on the schedule.
Miami confirmed it will wear its all-white throwbacks on December 13 against Chicago and bring back its Rivalries uniforms on January 3 against Buffalo. That leaves one alternate still to be officially announced, even if there’s already a strong hint about when the aqua throwbacks might show up.
For Dolphins fans, the throwback games have become their own kind of event. When Miami breaks out the Larry Csonka-era look, the whole presentation changes with it - '70s-style merchandise, stadium signage, and social graphics all leaning into the old-school feel of a franchise that once sat atop the football world.
The all-white throwbacks are the rarer of the two retro looks. They were first introduced in 2019 and have been worn only five times, with Miami winning twice in them.
The last time they appeared was on Thanksgiving night at Green Bay in 2024. They were not used at all in 2022 or 2025, with the latter absence likely tied to the launch of the Rivalries uniforms.
Fan attachment to the throwback look has only grown since the aqua retros returned in 2015. Some supporters have gone so far as to build entire social accounts and fan groups around pushing the team to make the old look permanent. Their complaints usually land on the same themes: pride, history, and a dislike for the modern uniforms and logo that have been in place since 2013.
One comment captured that frustration bluntly: "For the record: the original Dolphins uniforms are not throwbacks; they are the only Dolphins uniforms that the fans recognize and support," one such comment reads. "The current iteration of uniforms is ugly and mismatched, and the logo looks more like a smelt than a Dolphin.
Please give us back the original uniforms and stop referring to them as throwbacks and giving them to us once or twice a year. It’s bad enough that the team hasn’t won a playoff game in 25 years; you could at least give us back the uniforms we know and love."
Miami’s other newly confirmed alternate is the Rivalries uniform, the all-black look it unveiled last season in a 27-21 win against the New York Jets on Monday Night.
Those Rivalries uniforms are part of a broader NFL-Nike rollout that began in 2025, with alternate division-specific looks inspired by the cities rather than the teams. The AFC East and NFC West got theirs last season, and the AFC South and NFC North are set to debut new designs in 2026.
Because the uniforms are intended for divisional matchups, Buffalo is the opponent on the schedule for Miami’s Rivalries appearance.
There’s also a separate clue pointing toward the Dolphins’ aqua throwbacks. A few days before Miami revealed its own uniform dates, the Jets posted their home-game uniform schedule for MetLife Stadium.
In that graphic, they used their modern primary logo for every opponent except Miami on October 25, where they used their throwback logo. That has led many to believe the Dolphins will counter with their aqua throwbacks, since the Jets said they’ll wear their own all-white throwback uniforms that day.
The aqua retro set is the one that started the whole throwback tradition for Miami. It debuted on Monday Night Football against the New York Giants in 2015 and has been worn once or twice every season since. In those appearances, the Dolphins have gone 10-6 while wearing them.
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