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)
That's a pretty cynical way of looking at it.
Look at baseball. There's plenty of franchises that have successfully used throwbacks to honor teams and players of the past. The Angels and Dodgers are doing a great job this season with season-long throwback games for specific reasons. The Twins have decided to honor Harmon Killebrew by wearing their 60's throwbacks at home for the rest of the season. The MLB's Negro League tribute games are always interesting.
If Michigan put together a design you liked, maybe you'd feel differently. Personally, when done right, throwback uniforms are pretty great. Always cool to see something old-school come back, like the really great '89 unis the basketball team wore two years ago to honor the championship team. Or the current home hockey jerseys.
Using throwbacks to honor teams and players of the past is the official excuse given when teams try to separate fans from their wallets and common sense. Honoring the past sounds much better to fans than putting something new in the gift shops that fans that already own a regular jersey might buy. Even if the jersey looks cool.
FWIW this frequently covers when teams redesign their regular jerseys and logos as well, gotta give the fan that has it all something new to buy.
If that's true, why didn't Michigan sell anything related to the '89 throwbacks two years ago?
And, really, don't like it, don't buy it. I for one will enjoy a good throwback uniform every now and then. (Not that this is a good throwback.)
Hmm, okay, I guess not every single throwback ever is in order to sell more jerseys. But most of them are, especially this one. The picture leak came when MDen was getting ready to sell it, QED.
And I'm not against all throwbacks, just fake throwbacks the team never actually wore. But I realize the usual reason behind teams using them, public announcements aside.
that would constitute desecration of an authentic Michigan product? That is tantamount to a full MGoBlog neg-gang-bang, if not something else courtmarshall-ish.
is the way the people marketing this are willing to straight up lie. What, exactly, is "throwback" about a uniform that looks nothing like any jersey Michigan has ever worn?
Count me among the unimpressed. If players these days really need flashy, non-traditional uniforms to get up for a game, they should go to oregon. And they should stay off my lawn!
It should be a replica of something we actually wore.
These suck. It would be okay to wear stupid looking jerseys if the team had ever worn that style before.
This jersey actually does incorporate some elements from very early Michigan football uniforms. MVictors had a post examining this:
Incorporate some elements? WTF.
Rosanne Barr "incorporates some elements" from Beyonce, but that aint getting it done.
So I'm probably only noticing this because I'm a big fan of Adidas, but that's not the proper Adidas logo. That's the logo for their "Originals" collegcion, whereas usually sports apparel gets the "Performance" logo which is the three stripes in that upward ramp looking thing.
I'm not exactly sure what that all means, just that Adidas typically doesn't use this logo on sports jerseys anymore.
I think they had that original logo on the Big Chill jersey also.
They had the Performance logo on them
Okay I see that on the replicas. I guess it might have just been the actual game jerseys worn by the team:
Gotcha. Yeah I see that disparity now too. Well that sucks. I guess that means these really could be the jerseys.
Probably still gonna get it anyway. It would be fun to wear this obnoxious thing in South Bend visiting friends after we trounce them
I believe someone on here mentioned on here a few months back that adidas was going to use the clover instead of the performance logo, but I might me mistaken.
I don't know who, but some hater follows you around and votes down every comment you post with a flamebait. The rest of us usually vote you back on, but still you have a stalker. Update your profile.
Traditionally, posters who have pictures in their signature get downvoted compulsively.
I've noticed that with "posted from Iphone" responses. Those I just leave alone. Surprised A.T.H.F. doesn't get a pass.
and a night game against ND would have been too awesome.
We can't have that.
But one thing I notice from the illustration to finished product is the change in the stripes. In the illustration I though they were more of a 1:1.5 ratio (ie 1.5 stripe of blue for every stripe of maize). Not so-- these are straight up 1:1, barber shop era from the 20's. Red Grange would probably love 'em.
And none of us are Red Grange.
So that's what it tastes like to throw up in one's own mouth. Good to know.
Are these supposed to be a "throwback" to jerseys Michigan used to wear? Or are we supposed to throw them back at Dave Brandon beause they're so ugly?
Michigan's current jersey is more of a throwback than this rugby jersey.
Of all the things to possibly bitch about a football program, people decide to throw a fit over a uniform they will wear for ONE game. It's mind boggling to me.....
I understand that this issue is relatively unimportant [as compared to the VERY important topics we usually discuss] but these jerseys are a mistake that did not have to be made.
MDen has removed the jersey from the site.
I am DB.
I could only hide my identity for so long; but now, I must give up the ghost.
I must say though, that I am dissapointed that there is no unanimous support for my jersey design. That is a marked disconnect from my hire of Brady Hoke. Weird.
Anyways, Go Blue!
I wonder what the feel of long-sleved jersies over pads would be? That seems the wierdest?
And I want to make this the official slogan of M football.
Michigan: " not a cesspool of filth and corruption so deep Sepp Blatter is impressed"
Has lost his mind.
What color blind fool picked this?
I think they might be acceptable if the striping was only on the shoulder - like 3 maize stripes - but the rest of the sleeve was blue.
3 stripes would be similar to the helmet at least (assuming Adidas could get the colors right...)
That makes my eyes hurt alot less. Much obliged.
That I could live with.
If you are going to make a Fauxback, er throwback, uni that matches nothing we ever wore, then make a decent one.
Much better without the crackle (which would have been a good fit if we wore acid wash jeans with the jersey. I generally think that adidas does a great job with the simplicity of Originals (their "throwback" line of shoes and clothing). The jersey they put together for us is possible the worst thing I've ever seen a local team wear (with the exception of the teal, flaming horse head pistons jersey).
...what about lowering the stripes to where they traditionally go on football uniforms -- the bottom of the sleeve.
Nice work getting rid of the sleeve stripes.
Could you do me a couple of more favors? How about eliminating the stripes on the shoulders. And then deleting the letter M from the front. With all the extra space why don't you enlarge and center the number.
I'd be curious to see how it would look with those alterations.
...care. Sell a ton. Plow the proceeds into the department budget to support the non-revenue sports (including the extra revenue needed for Men's and Women's LAX).
These aren't actual throwbacks, right? Meaning there is no team uniform that used this exact look?
If they were simply taking elements from former jerseys and trying to come up with a throwback looking jersey, they, unsurprisingly, overdid it. There's just too much going on with that jersey. I could live with it if the stripes didn't go all the way from the neck to the end of the sleeves. Would have preferred either stripes from the neck to the edge of the shoulders with solid blue on the sleeves, or the opposite with stripes on the sleeve, but the entire torso a solid blue.
I strongly dislike non-throwback throwbacks. I know a lot of people didn't like the Big Chill jerseys, but they were based on the actual jersey that the hockey team wore from 1945 to 1948. The only thing that was different with the basic design was that the shoulder stripes were maize, blue and white whereas the uniforms they were based on had a red stripe instead of the white. This jersey isn't based on anything that Michigan has taken the field on. When the prospect of throwbacks was initially put out there I thought it would be cool to go with a late-50s/early-60s design, which would have only required that they remove the names on the back, remove the TV numbers on the sleeves and put a number on the helmet. Easy, simple, and not hideous.
That is Denver Nuggets 80's awesome.
Honesly are people going to buy these?
At what point did ugly become an aesthetic?
geek chic began it's reign with the NBA press conference and NFL draft outfits. Bowties, clashing colors, too-small jackets and thick framed lenseless glasses? Athletes are starting to dress more and more like PeeWee Herman these days.
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