I can't exactly see the rationale of immediately ditching the knickers. My goodness! I, nor my crew, am going to be thrilled with the prospects of donning those black pants in Week 0! More especially if it's a day game on some archaic hot astroturf. That is why I would think that TASO will exercise the better judgement of allowing a choice between the black pants and our existing knickers.
If they want to keep white pants in some form, they could easily adopt the white pants currently used by the NFL. But in this bad economy of ours, we could do so much more and help so many more people by sticking to the status quo. The pants are undeniably nice, but let's give everyone the choice of whether they want to wear them or not!