Clowniforms

So Nike has officially released their "new" Hyper Elite basketball uniforms for their top schools to wear during special occasion games this season.

Even though Michigan had a uniform exactly like this (and quickly got rid of it due to its sheer ugliness), Nike decided to go ahead and make them again anyway.

Our old version from the Jamal Crawford era:

Ohio State will be wearing theirs against us during the February 5th home game. Theirs look like so:

Other teams to wear them include Texas, Gonzaga (who wore them against Butler), Marquette, Duke, North Carolina, Villanova, Kentucky, USC and Georgetown.

And to think we complained about Adidas so much...

Per Darren Rovell's Twitter, here they are. The midriff stripe is kinda cool IMO...

What it says in the title. Nike was awarded the NFL uniform contract in 2010 and they're debuting all the new gear today. There aren't going to be too many crazy changes due to some NFL rules about how often you can redesign your jerseys... but there might be some crazy concepts or "throwbacks" that debut, I don't know the NFL rules about that.

http://espn.go.com/espn/page2/index?id=7769089

Uniwatch is there and tweeting some pictures. @uniwatch or the link above.

EDIT: Wow, the hype machine was on today. For most teams, no changes:

Mgouser MASChicago posted this in another thread.

http://www.mden.com/shopping/product.cgi?BG120+1522

We're wearing the away jerseys for the Sugar bowl... but no! Not our "normal" away jerseys. Not Last year's away jerseys that we wore for much of this year (trim piping). Not the bumblebee awful-forms from the Michigan State game.... but a combination of them!

I personally don't like the Block M on the left chest. Or the shoulder stripes. The undershirt-as-uniform sleeves is a trend that I've found very interesting recently... but I dunno if the Blue Sleeve is as good as if it were a white sleeve, maize outline of a blue M (modern analog to the Thomas picture below). What is it with adidas and making us have stripes? In general I'd say these are OK, nothing earth shattering, and for a change not bad.

Those are the replicas you can buy.