there is a difference between what the team wears now and what it wore in 2004ish.  While I don't think that they need to go back to the orangish-yellowish-brownish substance sported by Desmond above, just "yellow" would do.  We should not have to wear sunglasses to watch a Michigan game but at the same time, maize.... eh, no my favorite either.  The John Navarre era, that is when the colors were on the money (unlike many passes).

It is interesting to see how dramatic the color differences are and the fact I hadn't really noticed that much.  

Feels like another government conspiracy.  Semiserious questions from me.

1. Did Nike or Adidas have anything to do with the change or was it an internal conspiracy by a coach or AD?

2. If we looked at a 1920 jersey and compare it to a 1950 jersey are the maizes different?   Have they always been changing or is it a recent trend? 

3. How come nobody ever talks about the blue changing?   For a few years during the Bo era I thought our colors were black and maize.

I'm surprised ND waited this long to schedule us for a night game again.  It's been almost 22 years since that stupid ass ref measured for a Michigan first down by using an index card under the lights. 

we also need to keep in mind how misleading photos are.  I recall someone showing two different pictures of Jim Harbaugh in action a while back, both from the same game; in one he looked like a Michigan player, in the other he looked like he was wearing a Delaware uniform with shades of West Virginia. 

The Maize has "drifted" a bit though, but not as bad as Sparty's green!  I had the pleasure of taking in the B1G championship game and I swear to god you couldn't find two MSU fans sporting the same shade of green in the entire venue.

is a fruitless enterprise. Everybody's unique combo of computer, monitor and browser is going to render supposedly identical color formulations differently.

For offset printing—which is what the Pantone Matching System was originally created for—consistency and uniformity is far more achievable since printers and designers have identically printed color guides to refer to (as long as they replace the color guides before they've started to fade, that is).

As someone who's thinking about driving to South Bend next year, playing them at Night would be pretty awesome. Then I can redo UTL pre-gaming again except in enemy territory

While I'm not as worried about the Notre Dame game as most on here, I'm not crazy about adding another night game away from home. It always seems like it's a way of getting that extra homefield advantage.

Or may be Notre Dame just wants to give a bigger early stage for Denard's Heisman campaign? 

Personally, I kind of dig the bright yellow.

It should also be noted that there is a fair amount of creep in the university colors over the years.  Here is a link to a nice Michigan Today article about it:

http://michigantoday.umich.edu/96/Fall96/mta13f96.html

...I think it's incumbent upon Monsanto to develop a new GMO variety of corn seed which produces ears of corn that match M football's modern "electric yellow" maize. At that point, maize will, once again, be maize.

My personal preference is the electric yellow. But, I don't dislike the "traditional" maize either.

I'm looking forward to the basketball uniforms, in particular, no longer approaching the stage of incurring blindness.  So, so bright.  So, so unnecessary.

Also, I feel like I post this every time there's a thread about night games...

There is NO prohibition from the Big 10 regarding night games in November.  There are issues with TV contracts and such which make it unlikely, but there is no hard-set rule against it.

See:  http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/12592/november-night-games-not…

But this amused me to no end in the MVictors link:

...is different from the 1995-NIKE-Amani-Toomer-#18-Cheryl-Tiegs-Fish-Net-large-mesh-Coolio-video-replica-jersey

I have one of those (yes, it's #18), and it's amazing how much bigger the mesh was in that day.  I have a #6 that's even bigger.  It's morphed over the years from an early season hot game day jersey to, as I've gotten older, a winter wear something under it jersey, because really, no one wants to see or give that much exposure after you're 25.  Though it looks great on the right woman.

...of Maize and Blue and Michigan, check out this Michigan Today article from 1996.

I don't care if it is ND, Air Force, Iowa or EMU.  We absoultely should have 1 home night game a year.  The atmosphere will be electric regardless of the opponent.  I really hope Brandon doesn't weasel out and consider a road night game as a suitable replacement. 

I know some people prefer the old school maize, but I like the bright yellow that they use now.

And I, for one, welcome our new maize overlords.

It reminds me of how Ohio State's pants slowly went from grey to a silver to an off-white-ish color. Started to become an eye sore. Over the last two years, though, they've gone back to more grey which is how it should be. Definitely will be an improvement for Michigan to go back to more maize. Question: do you guys like the move from Nike to Adidas for Michigan?

IMHO the blue should be very dark, like the original blue on the outside of the stadium.  The official maize color looks too orange to me.  I don't want us to be Cal or West Virginia.

Lighting makes a huge difference though.  Witness the gap between the blue stripes on our Sugar Bowl uniforms (looked almost royal blue) and the blue on the helmets (very dark).  Same problem always plagues the Minnesota Vikings, whose purple jerseys looked much bluer than their helmets under the Metrodome lights.  AOTS people, weigh in here.

The first thing we need to do is figure out which version of what picture from which season we will use as the standard traditional uniform to which we must remain true.

Only then can we agree on how things have always been and always should be.

The blue has also changed to a near-purple color.  I think our jerseys have gone from incredible to cheesy:

In fact we should probably color swab the Charles Woodson pic and make it the official colors, because it is perfect.  That blue is the perfect shade.