<p>Embarrassed by his teams pitiful play at home this year, Patrick Kerney hopes new red jerseys will help the Atlanta Falcons change their luck Sunday.</p><p>Kerney rejects any notion that superstition has contributed to Atlantas 0-5 record at the Georgia Dome, but the fifth-year defensive end will take whatever he can get to prevent another loss.</p><p>Ill wear red from head to toe if it gets us a win, Kerney said.</p><p>He wont have to.</p><p>The Falcons (2-8) will still wear black helmets, white pants and black shoes this week against Tennessee (8-2) and when Carolina visits on Dec. 7. They will wear red jerseys in the Dome for the first time since it opened in 1992.</p><p>NFL teams began selling alternate-color jerseys at retail sites before the 2001 season. The league allowed clubs to choose one home game at which they could wear either throwback uniforms from past years or alternate jerseys.</p><p>Though fans could buy red jerseys with Michael Vicks No. 7, Warrick Dunns No. 28, T.J. Ducketts No. 45 and Keith Brookings No. 56, the team decided not to take the NFL up on its game-day offer.</p><p>The Falcons unveiled a new logo and uniforms that featured heavier use of red this past spring, but jerseys and pants were not predominantly red.</p><p>Uniform combinations this year have been black-on-white, white-on-black, white-on-white and black-on-black. The team has sold authentic and replica red alternate jerseys at retail outlets since early summer, but the players have never worn them.</p><p>We added red to our logo and to both the home and away jerseys, executive vice president Dick Sullivan said Tuesday night. I know when we brought it out fans thought it was great.</p><p>Sullivan indicated the team hasnt even considered changing back to the red jerseys permanently.</p><p>When we did all the research, the black was the preferred jersey, he said. At one point, though, the red outsold the black 2-to-1.</p><p>Atlanta wore red helmets and black jerseys from its inaugural 1966 season through 1970. Though they kept the red helmets for their first 24 years, the Falcons wore red jerseys at home games from 1971 through 1989.</p><p>The team decided in November 1989 to switched to black helmets and black jerseys for the following season. Jerry Glanville is often credited with convincing late owner Rankin Smith Sr. to make the change from red helmets and red jerseys, but the former maverick coach was hired two months after the NFL authorized the switch.</p>
