The Bengals unveiled their white tiger helmets in 2022, quickly establishing them as a major fan favorite. In 2023, the team wants the chance to wear the helmets with more than just their alternate jerseys.Cincinnati sent a letter to the NFL petitioning the league to change its uniform policy to allow the team to wear the white tiger helmets with the team's new white stripes uniform, which is not one of the alternate uniforms. Last year, the Bengals wore the white tiger helmets only with the color rush jerseys.Though it certainly could be a coincidence, the timing of the team's letter to the league appeared to have coincided with a mockup look done by a fan online, putting the Thomas Fletcher Jersey white tiger helmet on the alternate white jersey.MORE: The team's Twitter account saw the uniform combination, and wrote back their approval of the look.Oooo that would be cool Cincinnati Bengals (@Bengals) Not 24 hours later, the team had posted to Instagram an image of the letter addre sed to the league's operations office petitioning the NFL to consider changing its uniform policy and allowing the Bengals to wear the white alternates with the white tiger helmets.From atBengals Instagram Jake Liscow (@JakeLiscow) There are some slight but distinct differences between the Bengals' color rush jerseys and their Aaron Parker Jersey white jerseys.Here's a look at the color rush jerseys with the white tiger helmet: Getty Images And here's the white jerseys with the standard helmet: C.J. Henderson Jersey (Getty Images) The most notable difference comes in the shoulders. The color rush jersey features black more as the primary color with white accents, while the standard white alternate jersey has the colors reversed. There is also an orange outline around the numbers on the standard jersey and "BENGALS" spelled out in orange, whereas the color rush has no orange outline and it features just the Bengals' block B logo.Cincinnati has two other jersey colors: black and orange. Neither seem like strong candidates to be paired with the white tiger helmets.If you believe in the phrase looks can kill, then it certainly makes even more sense why Cincinnati would want to pair the white tiger helmets with the white alternates. The Bengals went 2-0 last year with the white helmets, beating the Dolphins and Steelers, and have gone a sterling 8-2 when wearing the white jerseys with white pants and black socks. Those two combined could make for quite the dynamic pairing both in style and performance.MORE: The league's uniform policy currently states that though teams are allowed to have two different helmets, only one can be used Pat Elflein Jersey with the team's regular jerseys. The other had to be limited to alternate, cla sic, or color rush jerseys.The rule change had been made in 2022, marking the first season teams were permitted to have an alternate helmet. , these were other parameters set for the alternate helmets:Clubs needed alternate color helmets for all playersThe helmets had to be the same make, model and size as the primary player helmetAlternate Brian Burns Jersey color helmets should be available for players at the start of training camp and should be fitted when primary helmets are fittedAlternate helmets must be worn in practice at a minimum during the week of the game in which they'd be usedIf the helmets are the same as the standard ones used by the team, just with a different color scheme, there should certainly be little reason for the NFL to deny the Bengals' request. Given the increasing loosening of uniform rules in recent years regardle s, allowing more flexibility with the helmets has always felt more like a natural next step.