Dec 21st, 2021 Chicago Bears game helmets - look familiar?
December 20th, 2021 at 8:58 PM ^
Third time this seasons they’ve worn those.
December 20th, 2021 at 8:58 PM ^
They started wearing those uniforms 2 or 3 years ago which are throwback uniforms based on their 1936 uniforms.
December 20th, 2021 at 11:26 PM ^
Wait a minute, that coach that is high and to the right in the gray suit is clearly photoshopped in! His head is gigantic and the shadow on the right side of his face is all wrong for that outdoor shot.
They had photoshop in 1936?! Someone has some ‘splainin’ to do!
December 21st, 2021 at 1:37 AM ^
Yep! The photo shops where cut and paste were literal commands.
December 21st, 2021 at 2:11 AM ^
Naw, that's just vampire Chris Collinsworth with his gigantic head and sad, little baby shoulders.
December 21st, 2021 at 8:30 AM ^
I thought the guy in front of him was a nerdy Mike Ditka.
December 21st, 2021 at 12:02 PM ^
And Anthony Hopkins on the far left?
December 21st, 2021 at 9:18 AM ^
This is such a classic old time picture. One of the tip offs is that the coaches are close in size and shape to the players!
December 20th, 2021 at 9:00 PM ^
Yeah, there's a similarity, but they aren't celebrating UM because of some alumni in the area.
December 20th, 2021 at 9:00 PM ^
They wore these in 2019. Nice article on Chicago helmets here:
https://www.helmethistory.com/chicago.html
Michigan helmet was based on a Spailding design. Fun fact, MSU wore winged helmets until they joined the Big Ten in 1948.
Bentley library article on helmet here
https://bentley.umich.edu/athdept/football/helmet/mhelmet.htm
December 20th, 2021 at 9:00 PM ^
I think the bears wear these at least once a season. Hopefully this doesnt burst your bubble, but we werent the only ones to wear three stripes on the helmet nor were we the first…
December 20th, 2021 at 9:05 PM ^
Princeton wears the 3 striped helmets. They wore it before Michigan. Crisler brought the winged helmet from Princeton to Michigan.
So does University of Delaware. Delaware even has the same color-scheme as Michigan. If the two played each other, the average fan would have real trouble figuring out which team is UM (until UM starts to crush Delaware after the first few minutes of the game.)
#GoBlue
December 20th, 2021 at 10:55 PM ^
They wore it before Michigan. Crisler brought the winged helmet from Princeton to Michigan.
To clarify: Crisler introduced the design at Princeton, and then brought it with him to Michigan.
December 20th, 2021 at 11:00 PM ^
IIRC, U-D has our helmet due to someone who came from our program and adopted it there. And the colors are not identical— their blue is a bit lighter and their yellow more orangy than our maize. If you saw them together you would totally tell the difference.
December 20th, 2021 at 11:20 PM ^
I think it's somewhat common in the HS ranks. I think Breaston wore the winged helmet in HS back in the day if I remember right.
December 21st, 2021 at 1:28 AM ^
I believe Tubby Raymond brought it to Delaware from Michigan. I also believe that he agreed that if Michigan every played Delaware, they wouldn’t use the winged helmet.
December 21st, 2021 at 6:51 AM ^
actually Delaware's Blue is an odd shade, ours is much darker but helmet design is very similar
December 20th, 2021 at 9:29 PM ^
It's not super significant, but I'm genuinely curious why the OP chose to date his post twice. One of them, by the way, the SUBJ Line, is tomorrow's date. The other date, in the post body, is correctly today's date.
So weird! But interesting too!
December 20th, 2021 at 10:10 PM ^
Strange things are afoot at the Circle K dude
December 20th, 2021 at 10:43 PM ^
Why is this post post-dated?
December 20th, 2021 at 10:49 PM ^
Changing subjects but still talking pro football & Michigan, can anyone remind me what game over the weekend featured a double pass like Michigan's?
The announcers went moderately crazy about how brilliant it was, and what great idea, and "OMG, I've never seen anything like it!"
Pro football announcers probably watch little college football, so few would have seen Michigan's earlier version, but I would have thought it was unusual enough and in a big enough game that it made highlight reels where those announcers could have seen it.
December 20th, 2021 at 11:44 PM ^
It was the Jets. Theirs was a bit unique because the backwards pass was the second pass and it went halfway across the field. I'm not even sure it was really planned ahead of time.
December 21st, 2021 at 2:16 AM ^
Looks like a fancy alteration of the hook and lateral. Odd to do that when you're up 7 in the 2Q on 3&15 though. But hey, it worked.
December 21st, 2021 at 6:53 AM ^
that WASN'T like Michigan's halfback pass
December 20th, 2021 at 10:56 PM ^
Are you posting from Europe or Asia? Here in North America it's still December 20.
December 21st, 2021 at 10:35 AM ^
Chicago first wore those helmets in the 1931 season. Michigan first wore the winged helmets in the 1938 season. Crisler brought the winged helmet design from his previous stop at Princeton, we technically copied Princeton. And in fact, msu actually had a winged helmet design before both Princeton and Michigan, although theirs did not have stripes.
December 21st, 2021 at 10:42 AM ^
Similar wing look but the fronts are completely different. I'm not going to lie, though. I was doing stuff on my computer and had the game on to my left. I kept thinking I was seeing Michigan in my peripherals because of the crispy white jerseys, the blue pants and the wings on the helmets.