Michigan taking bids from Nike and Adidas
it appears it's down to Nike and Adidas.
http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2015/05/15/report-michigan-taking-bids-from…
Go nike go
There is a mythology going around that somehow our "maize" used to be golden mustardy yellow, ala Iowa's color.
If you look at the old unis in the Michigan museum, you will see that they are pretty much the same bright light yellow that we are familiar with today.
There was a recent video of Durkin, I believe, wearing a shirt with Michigan maize in it standing in front of Tom Harmon's 1940 uni. The "maize" tint on his shirt was essentially the same color as the maize on Harmon's uni.
The first time I laid eyes on a Michigan uni in person was way back in 1982. I remember even then thinking "Man, that yellow is really bright."
Our maize has never been a golden mustard yellow. We never have, and never will have, Iowa's/Minnesota's/Cal's/USC's/Navy's color of yellow.
I can vouch for another 12 additional years before that. And I doubt they somehow "switched" to bright yellow the day I showed up.
Our "maize" has always been bright yellow. Addidas may have taken it a bit too far on the fluorescent yellow continuum, but when it reverts back to proper form it will still be bright yellow, not golden/mustard yellow.
Those "my blue shorts are slipping down and showing my maize underwear" basketball unis were hilariously stupid looking.
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You can't own a color.
unless the Michigan athletic department has the balls and the common sense to refuse any apparel maker's ideas for clowniforms. Michigan wasn't legally obligated to wear the bumblebee unis made by Adidas; it was David Brandon's decision, ultimately. If he hadn't been the complete marketing slappy that he is, he would have recognized without even having to think about it hard that there was no intrinsic, grass-roots demand—NONE—for alternate uniforms either on the part of the athletes or fans. Every fucking one of the alternate unis and helmets was a top-down decision mandated by Brandon's idiotic "if it ain't broke, break it!" philosophy, a philosophy which was driven entirely and only by the idea of goosing apparel sales to fans.
As fans we can hold allegiance to whatever company we want. To me it should be about what the student athletes want assuming the contracts are in the same ballpark. If nike offers X amount less per year, assuming the two are close, than Michigan should go with Nike. That simple
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So it's basically Nike? I can't imagine Adidas has anything in their deck that hasn't been shown already in some form or another in the past couples of years.
Nike refuses to produce a single pair of sneakers in this country, while paying foreign workers 48 to 69 cents per hour. The average customs value is 5.27 per pair, while they retail for $60 to $200 and more.
They exploit 330,000 Vietnamese workers, mostly young women, who have no legal rights.
But some people think their stuff loks cooler, so there's that.
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i realised i was walking in front of jim hackett on state street. he was on the phone, but i couldn't resist... "nike, not addidas!"
he smiled, nodded, and, chuckling, said to the person with whom he was on the phone with, "some guy is yelling at me, haha"
August 24th, 2015 at 1:13 PM ^
do i get a free lunch or something