Erick, that's great diligence on your part. Very impressive how many of you are giving this stuff this kind of attention.
Edited to add: what's really silly about SGC's take on this, is that the 'buff' you describe is also used here as skin color - which makes complete sense (plus a layer under the red), while red is used to hilight the skin features, as well as to color uniform areas. Seems simple enough. Are they saying (without saying) that if buff wasn't used beneath the red in the uniform, that they would slab it? Then you would have a player with a white face and red cheeks - kind of a creepy look.
I love the card, just don't have the cash at the moment to spend on my personal collection