A week after West Point’s football team debuted a custom football uniform full of subtle symbols for the upcoming Army-Navy game, the Midshipmen have fired back.

U.S. Naval Academy officials unveiled the team’s 2025 game uniform Tuesday, which — like West Point’s — embraces a post-colonial theme, as both services celebrate their 250th anniversary this year.

The Navy uniform is based on the original six frigates of the U.S. Navy, which includes the still-active USS Constitution. The uniform includes a blue uniform with details that reference the historic ships, and a custom-painted copper-colored helmet.

“The USS Constitution and the five other frigates of the original U.S. Navy were each copper-clad before launching,” the school said in a release. “When coppered in the summer of 1797, C

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