Adidas Gear Embarrassment
Alright, I'm not normally one to bash Adidas. I have actually supported Adidas where others have screamed ZOMG BRING BACK NIKE!!!11 but after seeing some of the "new" gear for 2011, I have officially abandoned Adidas.
For example, this hat looks like it was designed by a mom and pop souvenir shop in a small town for a high school with 200 students or a Meijer product:
And in white, with the mesh back:
Seriously? This is getting horrible. I understand the contract aspect, money and everything else but their apparel design is really going downhill.
Starter brand with the velcro back?
I want maize back.
the bright yellow sucks. we are not oregon.
the irony of this statement is delightful, seeing as oregon is nike's bitch, and had we stayed on with nike, we probably would've been subjected to the revolving door of crap unis that oregon has.
That's just not true. Oregon asks for that. It's not like Oregon is sitting there saying, "Please Nike! Don't make us change jerseys again!"
I liked Nike a little more than I like the Adidas stuff, but not enough to get worked up about it.
Oregon only asks for it because they and Nike are basically one and the same. Phil Knight is the chairman of Nike. Phil Knight is the Oregon AD. He has pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into the school.. You really think Oregon is asking specifically for those unis? Of course not! They want the money, and as part of the deal, they're Nike's bitch!
plus having infinite jersey's choices is oregon's "thing" that their known for.At oregon the seniors decide what there going to wear every week and people see wierd combonations of green, yellow and whatever else nike throws at them and they know that it's oregon just like people see the winged helmet and know that its michigan.
I think you're exactly right with your last line. Oregon can't out-tradition USC or Washington, but they can do their own thing and get famous for that. It makes Oregon a topic for discussion that they otherwise wouldn't get.
Honestly, if not for Nike/ Phil Knight, what's the difference between Oregon and any of the other Pacific Northwest teams? Not to mention that they've parlayed that publicity and their Nike relationship into recruiting.
I was hoping to see three misuses of the word(s) they're/there/their.
Phil Knight is actually not Oregon's Athletic Director, that would be Rob Mullens:
http://www.goducks.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=500&ATCLID=885642
Knight's (and Nike's) influence over the program is quite substantial, though.
I think he was using "AD" as athletic department, not athletic director.
functionally, he is the athletic director though. it's well known that all decisions must go through him.
Though Michigan was the original nike school (yes, I know connection with Oregon, but Michigan really blew up Nike branding), I don't think that Michigan ever really followed the Nike trends ... sort of like Penn State. As material changed, so did the Jerseys, but some schools - like Michigan - generally didn't cave into what Nike was trying to push. I don't think that it was ever a threat.
Personally, I think Adidas is a fine company. I hate their stuff in comparison with Nike's. No question. Nike simply looks sharper - and at the end of the day, that is what it comes down to ... the look. Nike stuff looks better. It just does. The materials ultimately balance out.
thank you for actually using the word irony correctly. it's a rarity these days.
disagree though. the oregon craziness had already started when we were still with nike and it didn't affect us.
I would like to proudly say "Maize and Blue" again. Now I tremble in fear that someone will actually call me out about the fact that we wear Chartreuse Yellow.
And Nike has a color called "Victory Maize." I wonder who that is named after.
its named after our maize. they trademarked the exact color back when we were with them. as a result, adidas came up with a very similar shade called "sun". if you buy custom shoes from miadidas (like i did), then you can have different parts painted sun. its awesome.
I thought the
/s
was evident there
Apparently, it's called varsity maize, which I thought I was going to be called out on (probably should have been). It still works though since we have "The Victors," "The Yellow and Blue" and "Varsity."
(Too bad I can't neg myself anymore)
I would never wear either of these, but then again, there's a lot of Nike garbage out there I wouldn't touch either.
When it comes to hats, there's only one worth wearing anyway...
I agree, if you're not wearing new era hats these days you're gonna be looking like a lame. Take you curved bill hat BS and go back to the 90's
Call me old fashioned but I can't stand flat billed hats. Now, that doesn't mean I like the adidas designs either; those are terrible and should be burned. However, just because a hat has a curved brim doesn't mean it sucks. Take the flat brimmed New Balance example above, add a curved bill and I would wear the shit out of it.
Agreed, I stick with the low profile "Franchise" style hats with a curved bill. That's the way to go. How are curved bills "90's"?
If anything, I think the flat billed hats are a bit outdated. Also, I'm confused what a "lame" looks like.
Flat-billed is what all the cool kids are wearing these days.
Every day in class there are at least one or two wearing one. If they weren't so overplayed I would think they were cooler.
I like something in the middle of flat and curved like an acrombie trucker hat worm by a frat bro.
Those hats were played out back in 2005.
their pants hanging half way off their a**. Copying thug life years later doesn't make it cool. It makes you a wannabe.
Uh, you do realize you can just roll the bill and make it curved, right? At least they're not CREASED bills... Those looked terrible. The look where you creased the bill into thirds was pretty popular when I was in little league in the early 80s, though.
Well the flat billed ones are much stiffer and come with a bit bigger bill. It's not just the same hat and one is curved and one isn't, there are structural differences between the two.
That is not a "flat billed hat." It is a 59Fifty hat. It is the same exact product that the MLB uses. You can leave the brim flat like you see in the picture, or curve it like Eric Gagne. Next time you watch a baseball game, pay attention to the curves in the hats. Same product as above.
IMO, 59Fifty is the only way to go. Best quality you can get in a hat.
The 3930 (batting practice) hats are the most comfortable hats I've ever worn. If they could go back to the 2005 days before New Era began their infatuation with white lines everywhere on those hats I would be a happy man.
I see an awesome New Era 5950 hat, but for some reason you see a running shoe?
The hat pictured above is a New Era model 59/50, not "New Balance". That is the same model worn by MLB, and when worn at the proper size, it has a curved bill.
The "flat bill" caps that you see are more often than not, the 59/50, but the kids buy them a few sizes too big in order to keep the bill flat.
As a former baseball player (H.S. & College) and baseball purist, I hate that flat look also.
Don't get me started on the pajama pants the players wear these days...(rolls eyes)
Dude, wearing any kind of baseball cap indoors is lame. It's very middle-schoolish. Caps are for keeping the sun off your face. Otherwise, just comb your hair already.
Thanks grandpa
I would never wear either of these, but then again, there's a lot of Nike garbage out there I wouldn't touch either.
This. Adidas hasn't exactly cornered the market on hats that I think are ugly. In fact, if you go look at Nike hats at the official MSU store, you'll find a lot of hats that are at least as ugly as these (and that's before you consider the logo on them). Apparently some people buy them though, or else all these companies wouldn't be putting them out.
Nike did have some pretty bad Michigan hats. I won one at an alumni football watch at a bar and it was terrible. Blue with a bright yellow stitched M on front, which was fine. What killed it was the enormous stitched swoosh on the bill of the cap. It was almost as wide as the entire bill and very garish. They killed a perfectly good hat with that.
Just bought one of these to replace the one that ended up somewhere in Lake Erie. I liked my other one better, it seemed to sleek back a little more.
they make that hat with an actual block-M that is even better
I guess it's cool that you can get a Bo-style, skinny-M, structured, flat-billed cap, but can someone explain to me why New Era caps always cost 50% more than their Nike/Adidas equivalents?
I might hazard to guess that up until a couple years ago, they were still made in the US. But the one I just bought was made in China and the price hasn't gone down. It might also be that they are made out of wool instead of cotton or whatever the other hats are made of.
I can not agree more that this is the only hat a Michigan man needs to wear:
I would buy and wear those if they brought them back, it actually looks similar to the hat Mattison was wearing during spring practices.
They've made newer versions that are fitted and more comfortable, but I can't part with the classic look.
Adidas needs to consider less is more
Adidas needs to consider less is more
The Irony in your double post made me laugh.
They insist on highlighter yellow and not MAIZE! Its frustrating, the hats do look terrible also though. The adidas era has been filled mostly with pain so far, maybe thats why I don't like it so much.