Harbaugh says he doesn't see himself ever coaching in the NFL again, says uniform changes "possible"
Harbaugh is out at the American Century Golf Championship and did a couple interviews yesterday. In the first one with a Louisville radio guy that he must know well (they mention they had dinner together the night before) he's asked at the end of the interview if he ever sees himself coaching in the NFL again. Harbaugh says no and that he loves being a coach at Michigan.
https://soundcloud.com/espnlouisville/the-zone-w-j680anderson-jim-harbaugh-coachjim4um-7-22-2016
In the second interview with Brad Galli, he talks about the Nike uniforms:
Michigan's flagship apparel provider, The M-Den, announced the debut for the new Jordan brand jerseys will take place at a private event on August 2. Harbaugh had only positive things to say about the new uniforms.
"They're A-plus, plus, plus. I've seen the jerseys, I've seen the shoes. Everything looks great and can't wait to unveil them and start using them."
As for any wrinkles with the uniforms, Harbaugh said there could "possibly" be something different this year. He also said "we're great with our uniform."
He didn't rule out an alternate jersey, but stood behind Michigan's current scheme as one of the best in sports.
"Our uniform is our uniform and there's no reason to ever change it."
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I only clicked to see how long it would take for someone to mention Oakland because it still makes me laugh. We have a bizarre corollary of Godwin's Law here: as a discussion about Harbaugh grows longer, it becomes increasingly likely that someone will mention a variation of "Oakland is still in play."
Maybe it should be called "Rapoport's Law" after "NFL insider" Ian Rapoport.
So you are saying we are not in play anymore???
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Only an insecure person really feels the need to say a job is secure. So...
Home jerseys should be pretty much unchanged obviously, then keep a white/"amarillo" pants option for the road games. Easy way to give your team a third look while keeping the uniforms clean and classic.
i really don't want this amirillo thing to catch on. Call it maize.
What I don't get is that wasn't Michigan's maize color with Nike already patented the last time they were our apparel company? Isn't this the same color it was back then? Or did they patent a 2nd maize color for Michigan?
Precisely what I was wondering.
They never legally patent Maize for Michigan. This whole amarillo thing is weird.
I'm finding bunch of articles from the adidas era where they state Nike trademarked "Maize" so adidas had to come up with their own color "Sun". Here's one:
Guessing there is a difference between trademark, patent, copyright, etc. Too lazy to look it up though. Still though, did Jordan have to patent "Amarillo" because Nike had trademarked "Maize"? Even though Jordan is apart of the Nike Brand? Did the Maize trademark run out or something and other people are using it now so to be unique Jordan patented a tweaked color? Or is Jordan just patenting what Nike trademarked?
Patents are basically an application to have a trademarked item. Patents can be pending, held, or provisional (poor man's patent). Trademark is what a completed and succesful patent gets you.
I cannot resist trying to correct this misinformation. Patents, trademarks and copyrights are very different types of intellectual property rights. Comments by Chris E at the link may be helpful in understanding the differences. https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1p9g1a/til_nike_tradema…
Patents generally may be obtained for a limited period of years (often 20 years from filing) from a national or regional patent office for novel, non-obvious and useful compositions, processes or articles of manufacture. No one could patent a color as it is not patentable subject matter. There are also design patents, but suffice it to say these to not apply to this discussion either.
A trademark generally covers a name or symbol that is used to identify a product or source of product or services. A party may apply for a trademark on a logo or name for example. There is no time limit on the trademark. Local authorities will decide whether a trademark is sufficiently unique and whether it has been infringed. Jordan has lost a trademark case in China related to the "Jumpman" trademark for example, but the Jumpman trademark remains valid in the US.
It is very difficult to get a trademark on a color alone, but a particular color or color combination may be an element of a trademarked logo or taken together with other features to find a trademark violation due to confusion this may cause for customers as to the source of goods or services. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/12/01/trademark
Copyrights are another type of intellectual property protection that cover artistic expressions for example in a written work or a piece of art.
A party may be able to trademark or copyright a specific shade of yellow in a logo or athletic apparel which is apparently what Nike did. There is a legal question whether this is sufficiently unique that the intellectual property is defensible against infringement. Rather than litigate the matter, which would be costly and time consuming, Adidas used a different shade of yellow in its uniforms for Michigan.
The "Maize" color used by Michigan in its uniforms has varied over the years and may continue to do so.
I think this comment officially made us the nerdiest blog on the internet.
And also, thank you for that information.
Thanks for the very detailed reply, but you left out one important detail. Nike never "copyrighted" the color maize, as the Daily article claimed (nor could it, as there is no such thing as an "original color" and so colors cannot be copyrighted), nor is there any record that Nike, at any time, tried to trademark the color "maize" (which would have been denied, as Nike doesn't use maize in any of its marks). There isn't even such a trademark application, let alone such an award.
The entire issue about "sun" (and now "amarillo") comes from the desire of the manufacturer to be clear in its communication. Maize is not any particular color, but the word is part of Michigan's trademark and the university specifies (and occasionally changes) the shade of yellow that it uses in its trademarked maize block M, signs, letterhead, etc.. The apparel companies don't want to use that shade, necessarily; in fact, they will use slightly different shades for different materials and conditions (like the background colors used) to get a somewhat consistent final shade appearance. They call this desired final shade something other than "maize" to avoid confusion with the official maize shade used by the university. Adidas called theirs "sun" and Nike calls theirs "amarillo."
The U of M has a trademark on "maize and blue" and has successfully defended it against attempts to mimic those colors, even when the mimics avoid the use of the word "maize." Nike could never have successfully enforced a trademark claim on the word "maize" against UM; UM has used that trademark since before Nike existed.
By far the BEST explanation about this...ever!
Thanks for saving me from having to type up a correction to the erroneous post.
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So khaki colored football pants and a white jersey with blue numbers
if we could alternate between white and maize road pants I would be so happy
Agreed. I hope they find a way to keep the white pants.
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What a bizarre statement. Plenty of teams match white pants and jerseys. Alabama is another one. Iowa, on the other hand, matches yellow pants with white jerseys as their road uniform--Eek! We don't want to be like IOWA!! See how crazy that sounds?
The jerseys should stay the same at home. Maybe one alternate a year because the recruits and players like it but I don't want to become Oregon and don't think we need to when Alabama seems to be doing just fine without changing uniforms every game.
Your name is Hunt Michigan so if you aren't talking about the university I suppose you will be fine. It's not like you pulled a Kid Rock and said to a packed house at Pine knob or DTE "that it's to cold to hunt in Michigan" and you "prefere to hunt in Alabama". He really suprised the hell out of a few of my hunting buddies. Oct. and Nov. are too cold to hunt Michigan? Really? Dec. Black Powder maybe but not Oct or Nov..
Imagine if you saw that through a gloryhole
That's what you get for looking through a gloryhole...
Umm, could certainly be worse.