Uniformz Doom At Hand?
An eagle-eyed user caught this: the M-Den is now listing something hardly different from the doomiform the Free Press published and Dave Brandon laughed at:
That looks official what with its number and the Adidas logo and looking all like a thing that exists in the world. You still can't buy one (it errors out when you click on the monstrosity) but I think it's official enough to say that Michigan is going to look very, very stupid when they take the field against Notre Dame.
(new scoreboards new scoreboards new scoreboards not a cesspool of filth and corruption so deep Sepp Blatter is impressed deep breaths)
Cool shirt for tossing a football around while tailgating? Yes.
Official jersey for the game? No....no.
Could be worse considering we don't have anything else in which to throwback, I keep telling myself...
They are not super bad, but I would like to see a few things changed. I wish the block M looked more like the block M; lose the stitching. Also, I think the stripes should stop at the shoulders and not go down the whole arm. Obviously I would prefer our regular uniforms, but it could be worse; for instance an Arby's logo in the corner.
i think they are alright. i'd buy one if i got tickets to the game. i dont like the mosaic tile Block M or number.
they are not very good, but with pants and the helemt, I may like them!
I'm in the minority, but I like them (for one game).
I could do without the webbing in the Block M though.
The helmets and pants will (presumably?) be the same. I still think we will look better, as a team, than the poor bastards that have to trot out wearing these...things:
This is just godawful horrible.
Sorta soccer-ish in appearance.
......and hideous.
That was the first thing that I thought when I first saw them. I am not a fan. I think that ND game is big enough and would prefer to see the normal home uniform.
Thank you. I couldn't put my finger on why these uniforms didn't feel right to me but you've answered the question. They are soccer uniforms.
They are just ugly. Don't blame soccer.
More like Rugby.
Beat ND. Seriously are we expected to like the throwback jerseys? If we liked them wouldn't the team have kept them all these years? Throwbacks are supposed to celebrate the history of the team, not their historical sense of fashion.
But then how can these be explained?
beauty
--> 
stupidity
awesome -->
hideous
To be fair the current Canucks jersey looks pretty sweet with a color scheme that is very pacific-northwestey
Yeah, they went back to their original color scheme from the logo with just a stick. They do look pretty nice, I agree.
But nothing will ever top those Canuck jerseys with the V stripes. Those were awful.
those instantly make my top five most ugly jersey list ever. Funny this made it to the manufacturer before someone stepped in front of it. The jersey is ugly enough without the holiday theme.
YES YES this is the first image that popped into my mind when i saw the jersey on the front page. i see i was not the only one.
meanwhile, these things are an abomination. kinda like this guy:
Police Appreciation Night with the Quad City Mallards:
pajamas!
We make a line of Kids pajama's that have this as the shirt and sell them for big bucks.
Well, DB's evil scheme worked. I find I can live with this better than the Maize (YELLOW!) jerseys that were trotted out.
Side note: You realize that not only Maize = Yellow, but historically Michigan's shade of Maize was actually brighter than the current shade.
Historically from when? I've been watching Michigan football since the 60's and the shade has gotten more hiliter yellow over the years. And yes Yellow = Maize, but Maize is a specific shade of Yellow.
http://michigantoday.umich.edu/96/Fall96/mta13f96.html
"Maize" is a lot closer to the "hilighter yellow" you're complaining about than the ugly gold is.
Brighter is better and more historically accurate (there IS a history before the '50s, believe it or not). I'm on your lawn and not moving.
Personally, I think all throwbacks look stupid, so this one is fine with me.
the Denver Broncos throwbacks a couple years ago (vs. New England, IIRC) were ugly as fuck.
is fuck ugly !
Go Blue !
Maybe they confused our football jerseys with futball jerseys?
matching Zubaz pants
Denard will rock this uniform, I guaruntee it.
The block M looks stupid, and the rest looks like a soccer uniform.
looks like a cool soccer jerzey...
Where do those even come from. All blue with the block M I could handle
Why would it be in the "Big Chill" section of MDen?
They would just rename the Page. Site Design Laziness at its Finest
Glad to know that Brian reads the MGoBoard. Knowing that he probably read one of my posts in the past makes my heart jump a little, just like when I met Mila Kunis in Santa Monica.
Mila Kunis?
FWIW, there was a rumor floating around yesterday that there is a presser scheduled for this Friday night to unveil the throwbacks, which might explain MDen jumping the gun on putting it on the site today.
...Twitterfeed confirms Fri, 8 pm announcement.
chengelis Michigan will unveil its uniform for night game vs ND at 8 pm Friday. Announcement will be live-streamed on MGoBlue.com
Plus, there's this:
the MDen feels the same way as 100% of the rest of us and are just pulling a vicious elaborate prank. They'd better be or they'll be stuck with truckloads of unsold craptastic jerseys.
FWIW, Scout (paywall board, Tom Beaver) says an official announcement will be coming down from the athletic department on Friday night, sooo the timing of this going up on the MGo website makes that rumor seem a little more credible...
Maybe it's just me, or it's just the photo, but they look like overalls.
Everyone is acting like they are changing our jersey to this full time. It is one game, it will be fun. Big Chill was awesome despite the goofy jerseys, yes/no?
Show me one alternate jersey idea/design/whatever that any other team has trotted out that people unanimously liked.
Maybe the fact that so many fans in so many places loathe their throwbacks means that they should never have been worn in the first place.
All throwbacks are is another ploy by which athletic departments separate fans from their wallets and common sense. I wouldn't wear that faux UM "throwback" jersey if it was given to me for free.
I would use it to mop up dog vomit and oil spills though.
and don't buy one. There, problem solved, now quit complaining.
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