September 23rd, 2021 at 8:26 PM ^
I’m good, thanks.
September 23rd, 2021 at 8:28 PM ^
Maize pants and drop the jersey sleeve stripes.
Keep the white pants for once a year (minus the stripes).
Maybe one all blue and one all white game a year and then the traditional blue on maize and white on maize for the rest.
And can we please do it where both us and OSU wear our color uniforms for The Game?
September 23rd, 2021 at 9:46 PM ^
Color vs. color for the Michigan - OSU game would be an authentic throwback. That is how they used to do it, until black and white TV in the mid-50's caused teams to go to whites for the visitors.
September 23rd, 2021 at 10:04 PM ^
I 100% favor color vs color for OSU.
September 24th, 2021 at 1:47 AM ^
I love the all whites with the thick stripes but yes on color vs color for OSU. I'd actually like the opposite of what you said. Maize pants for one road game a year.
September 24th, 2021 at 11:16 AM ^
When you refer to our color uniforms for the game, are you suggesting single color unis, similar to the NFL color rush?
I know osu has done all black, white, and gray. Have they ever done all red?
Or do you just mean home vs home unis?
September 24th, 2021 at 11:53 AM ^
No. Not at all. No way.
Their home uniforms. Our home uniforms. Classic, excellent, highly contrasting. On the field at the same time.
It will look terrific.
September 23rd, 2021 at 8:32 PM ^
How did you get 1,002,883 Mgoblog points?
September 23rd, 2021 at 8:45 PM ^
First rule of mgoblog?
September 24th, 2021 at 1:52 AM ^
The first rule is not complaining about points, IMO anyway. Nothing wrong with genuinely asking. My guess is his username checks out and that helped out the blog and they awarded him for it.
September 24th, 2021 at 4:50 AM ^
I was genuinely asking. I’m aware of a couple people who were awarded 1,000,000 bonus points over the years.
To address the topic… I like the maize pants and I especially like blue pants.
September 24th, 2021 at 10:09 AM ^
He was the first to break the news about Ferris Bueller on the Internet when he overheard Simone in Econ:
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September 24th, 2021 at 2:48 PM ^
Man, if I helped someone and they rewarded me with functionally useless fake internet points I’d be pissed off lol
September 23rd, 2021 at 9:52 PM ^
The info about his points has been MGoArchived and might take some research.
September 23rd, 2021 at 8:33 PM ^
"This is the reason we haven’t had a meaningful win on the road in the Harbaugh era."
Counterpoint: Maize pants were the source of our Pac12 road woes earlier in the century. (I'm half serious. When I see a white jersey and maize pants, I think of all the lousy road losses over the years. I don't think of Penn State in '97 or Remy Hamilton and ND a few years earlier. Maybe I should ...)
I'm not a huge fan of our white road uniforms, but maize pants have never done anything for me. I've mentioned this in other posts. I don't think yellow / maize / gold and white look good together. Cal, West Virginia, and Iowa have the same issue.
September 23rd, 2021 at 9:05 PM ^
I like Blue pants on road. Wonder why thats not a thing.
September 23rd, 2021 at 9:49 PM ^
Me too. It's worth a look.
We did blue pants at home (and it looked great), let's try them on the road.
September 23rd, 2021 at 10:54 PM ^
I think blue pants with the white jersey would look really sharp.
September 23rd, 2021 at 10:28 PM ^
Agree. I love the maize pants with the blue tops, but with white tops, it always looked like we had incontinence issues.
Anyway, I think the white pants are kind of classy, honestly.
September 24th, 2021 at 8:25 AM ^
I don’t think the color of our pants has any effect on the outcome of any game we ha e played in the history of the program
September 24th, 2021 at 8:40 AM ^
Blasphemy! Can't you be just a little superstitious?
September 24th, 2021 at 9:14 AM ^
He’s not superstitious, but he’s a little 'stitious.
September 24th, 2021 at 11:04 AM ^
Not only that, The white jersey's with the Maize pants brought the whole "Meatchicken" moniker.
I think the whole Foghorn Leghorn look has bee done to death... White Jerseys with white pants looks sharp, throw in the blue pants a couple of times I think that'll be a sharp combo as well.
September 23rd, 2021 at 8:38 PM ^
Last time we wore them we got trucked at Penn State.
The current color of maize doesn't look great with the white jersey.
I like the white pants quite a bit.
But...
It *is* our classic road uniform. I'm good with using them on rotation. White pants a couple times a year, maize on occasion. Variety is fine on the road uniform. I definitely want to keep the white pants, but they don't need to be every game.
September 23rd, 2021 at 10:31 PM ^
For real. It's been irritating since we switched back to Nike. The maize they gave us when we switched back reminds me more of West Virginia or Iowa than what we used to have. This shade absolutely stood out the best.
September 23rd, 2021 at 10:49 PM ^
Yeah, but Nike was a huge step up from the Adidas highlighter yellow we had before. Adidas ruined the maize and Nike mostly brought it back. It's not perfect -- and I hate how Nike creates the same t-shirt designs for every damn school -- but Adidas was far worse.
September 24th, 2021 at 8:01 AM ^
The whites have undergone quite a few changes over the years but nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing, has looked even close to as good, or as right, as what Tuman is wearing in that poster. That was the peak right there. It's all downhill since. The white pants look good, but they don't look right.
September 24th, 2021 at 9:22 AM ^
The current Nike maize isn’t bad. My preferred maize is the 90s maize we wore that is kind of our “default” maize color. There’s a problem there, though: the maize worn by the football team did not match the maize worn by every other team, including basketball and hockey. This was most notable when Nike started issuing non-dazzle maize jerseys for the hockey team, because those jerseys contrasted significantly with the football-spec maize on the hockey helmets.
Nike’s effort (which is really Michigan’s effort that began before the Nike contract) was to create a standard maize that would work for all uniforms. The 90s football maize was, I suppose, considered too light for use as a primary uniform color in other sports. I’m not sure I agree with that, but there it is.
Regarding the Adidas highlighter color: actually, I like it on tv, looked close to what I would expect maize to look like. But the first time I saw it on the hockey jerseys in person, it was… unsettling.
September 24th, 2021 at 11:00 AM ^
Yes, our maize during the Woodson-Griese-Brady era was best. Our maize now has a slight orange hue to it that makes look like a dirty yellow.
But it’s a tough color to get right because there is a lot of nuance. Too dark and you get a mustard look, too light and you have canary or highlighter yellow, or too much orange and you get the Iowa gold.
September 24th, 2021 at 12:57 PM ^
I see three different shades of maize there. Am I the only one, or am I crazy or seeing an optical illusion. I don't like the shade on Tuman.
September 23rd, 2021 at 10:37 PM ^
Compared to:
September 24th, 2021 at 10:29 AM ^
I'd prefer this over white/maize or white/white:
September 25th, 2021 at 4:25 AM ^
I really like how you emphasized the word “is” in that post
It added *PIZAZZ*
September 23rd, 2021 at 8:38 PM ^
I want them to make a modernized version of the away jersey from 97-05. The one with the stacked maize and blue stripe with a block m on the sleeve.
You will note these were the jerseys we wore during our last Big Ten Championship season, our last National Championship season, and the exact ones we wore the last time we won in Columbus.
In recent years Nike has made modernized versions of Purdue's and UNC's similarly sleeved jerseys from the 90s, with the UNC one being Jordan branded. Make it happen.
September 23rd, 2021 at 9:50 PM ^
We beat Alabama in those things. Bring them back!
September 24th, 2021 at 1:53 AM ^
Bring back Tom Brady too.
September 24th, 2021 at 10:59 AM ^
Yes, Doesn't Tom get to take a COVID year redshirt? He could play for us on Saturdays and Tampa on Sundays.
September 23rd, 2021 at 8:42 PM ^
The all white disco fever unis are the superior away look by a mile. Makes the best helmet in the history of the world stand out. I went to Harbaugh‘s first game @ Utah in SLC and I’ve been smitten by the simple pairing ever since. (Insert “lost that game too” comment here.)
September 23rd, 2021 at 10:18 PM ^
RUDDDDDOCK!!!
September 24th, 2021 at 9:53 AM ^
Yeah that’s a sharp look. The all blues are the best overall but I also like the all white road unis
September 23rd, 2021 at 8:44 PM ^
Totally agree 1000% Comrade.
September 23rd, 2021 at 8:53 PM ^
No.
And no, it's not.
September 23rd, 2021 at 8:59 PM ^
I’m somewhat indifferent about road uni’s. I always forget that we wear white pants with stripes every year until our first road game, I always assume we wear maize pants.
however, I had the weirdest thought the other day that what we scheduled Delaware one year (probably because they just played Rutgers) and everyone on the field was wearing the same helmet. What an nightmare for the QB. Maybe we intentionally never schedule for that reason, as I know we played Delaware State once.
September 23rd, 2021 at 9:07 PM ^
I think Michigan should take a European soccer approach (hear me out) where the home uniform always stays the same, but the away uniform switches up frequently. White on maize? Sure. White on white? Yes? White on blue? Let's get it. With all types of throwbacks and jordan-equivalent pro combats in between.
That being said, I do like the competitive advantage maize jerseys would provide at home during the hot summer Saturdays in early September, forcing opponents to wear their darks, and wearing blue pants for night maize out games for better qb vision.
September 24th, 2021 at 10:06 AM ^
The soccer clubs usually feature three uniforms - home, away and an alternate. The home and away operate much like you think it would with traditional light and dark shirts and/or shorts. But there's usually some feature added every year (different colored collar or background pattern) on the traditional home/aways. The alternate will have a different color altogether and the only thing that is consistent with the home/away are the sponsors and the shield. A few years ago, Liverpool won Champions League with an orange kit. IIRC, they played so well in orange that they started using it for EPL matches.
September 23rd, 2021 at 9:02 PM ^
Yes, Maize pants on the road and always. Home and away.
September 23rd, 2021 at 9:03 PM ^
Penn State blew the doors off Michigan the last time we wore Maize pants on the road IIRC
September 23rd, 2021 at 9:55 PM ^
And the white pants have never won a road game in Columbus. Not once.
The maize pants have won many.