Jersey Color (Maize v. Yellow)

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March 7th, 2011 at 8:36 PM
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Jersey Color (Maize v. Yellow)

During the MSU game the graphic popped up at one point identifying the teams on the screen -- Michigan State in "Green"; Michigan in "Yellow."  I grumbled to no one in particular that it should read maize.  Except....in truth we're not maize anymore.  Definitely not with the basketball jerseys. 

Our basketball jerseys are what I would term "Highlighter Marker Yellow."  They make a school bus look gold.  They are not maize-y in the least. 

I'll come right out and say that I prefer the old school shade, a more gold-tinted color.  I realize that bright yellow pops out a little more in the contrast, but I think it looks more ordinary, somehow.  More like a lot of other teams' colors (e.g. WVU).

Here's the other thing.  The lettering on Crisler's court is in a gold-ish shade.  (I'm talking about the text at the ends under the baskets and the giant block M at center.)  So you have a court that is navy and gold, and then a team running across the floor that is highlighter marker yellow.

Does anyone else notice/care?

[To be clear: this did not detract from my enjoyment of a deliriously satisfying win, and does not top my list of Michigan sports concerns -- but still]

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March 7th, 2011 at 8:43 PM | Meh. (Score:1)
Hard Gay
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Michigan's maize has changed over time, from the Adidas Sun shade we have now to almost a marigold color bordering on orange.

For what it's worth, I'm a fan of the Sun shade we have now.  

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March 7th, 2011 at 9:22 PM | Holy crap, props for your (Score:1)
unWavering
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Holy crap, props for your avatar.... I forgot about that guy

March 7th, 2011 at 9:53 PM | You forgot (Score:1)
Blazefire
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about Hardgay? He's a buffet of manliness!

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March 7th, 2011 at 11:43 PM | Inn your sig line (Score:1)
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You said sooner. Heh heh heh

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March 7th, 2011 at 8:39 PM | posted from iPhone (Score:1)
The Barwis Effect
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I don't mind the color of the uniforms myself.

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March 7th, 2011 at 8:43 PM | It's true that the shade has (Score:1)
jmblue
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It's true that the shade has changed over the years, but it's not true to say it isn't maize.  Maize is yellow.  It's supposed to be the color of corn, as its name suggests.  If anything, our current shade is truer to the definition of maize than the old yellow-orange shade.  Look how dictionary.com defines "maize":

 http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/maize

March 8th, 2011 at 12:22 AM | Exactly (Score:1)
Alton
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Exactly right.  The "highlighter yellow" is the closest thing to true maize that Michigan has worn in the last 50 years.  Maize is bright yellow, and has no gold in it.  The historically inaccurate part of our uniforms is the blue--the original blue selected by the university was more of an azure blue.

Remember what Bob Ufer used to say:  "A beautiful day for football--a maize sun in a blue sky."

 

March 7th, 2011 at 8:40 PM | Don't care. (Score:1)
OMG Shirtless
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Don't care.

I put up a tough front, but deep down I just want to be held.

March 7th, 2011 at 9:55 PM | Then don't comment. (Score:1)
Michiganian for Life
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Then don't comment.

March 7th, 2011 at 10:00 PM | All I did was answer his question. (Score:1)
OMG Shirtless
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Does anyone else notice/care?

He asked if we care. I answered his question.  I don't care.

I put up a tough front, but deep down I just want to be held.

March 8th, 2011 at 12:33 AM | I believe (Score:1)
Waveman
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maize is a grain.

March 7th, 2011 at 8:41 PM | The problem (Score:1)
BlastBeat88
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with the old gold-tinted yellow is that it threatens to become piss-yellow. Plus then we look like Minnesota in blue. Because they are made of piss, not because of their school colors.

I'm a fan of the brighter maize, but I'm not a fan of the stripe that Adidas added to the football uniforms. But I'm willing to take it rather than having to prevent Nike from going psycho on our logo and colors.

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March 7th, 2011 at 8:44 PM | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ (Score:1)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maize_(color)

 

#FBEC5D

 

 

Maize (#FBEC5D)

Maize n Brew

March 7th, 2011 at 8:49 PM | Even though wikipedia lists (Score:1)
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Even though wikipedia lists color coordinates, it also mentions that "In public usage, maize can be applied to a variety of shades, ranging from light yellow to a dark shade that borders on orange, since the color of maize may vary."  Like said here, there is no one color of corn, and there is no one color of maize.

March 8th, 2011 at 9:56 AM | from mgoblog CSS: a:link (Score:1)
토린
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from mgoblog CSS:

a:link {
color: yellow;
text-decoration: none;
}

March 7th, 2011 at 8:45 PM | I'll take any yellow (Score:1)
fitty88
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that' kicking Spartan green!

March 7th, 2011 at 8:46 PM | You can still buy shirts (Score:1)
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with the old color, but it will cost you.  They call them "vintage" and charge more for them.

It's tough being Blue in Columbus!!!

March 7th, 2011 at 10:22 PM | The trendy cousin of the WalMart Wolverine..... (Score:1)
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...is the vintage/hipster wolverine.  Their favorite posts are ones in which Brian quotes the Smiths and they ironically like the state of Ohio.

March 8th, 2011 at 12:25 AM | The hipster culture has come (Score:1)
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The hipster culture has come to MGoBoard as well.  Tell-tale signs are complaining about how the board was so much cooler four years ago, complaining about the riff-raff that have allegedly subverted the natural order of the site, or just complaining in general.

Abort, Retry, Fail?

March 7th, 2011 at 8:46 PM | The color Maize is whatever (Score:1)
david from wyoming
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The color Maize is whatever color associated with the University of Michigan. I own Maize Out shirts from hockey and football that are in different shades from a Michigan hat that I own. Even wearing two different colors at once, both of them are Maize.

Also, my ex never once understood this.

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March 7th, 2011 at 8:50 PM | . (Score:1)
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"Also, my ex never once understood this."

Definitely sounds like ex material to me!

I do not mean to pry, but you don't by any chance happen to have six fingers on your right hand?

March 7th, 2011 at 8:51 PM | One of the CBS announcers said M was in gold unis (Score:1)
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anyone else catch that on sat?

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March 7th, 2011 at 9:21 PM | Ugh (Score:1)
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I missed that.  As someone who grew up in South Bend, the sheer mention of gold makes me cringe.  

March 7th, 2011 at 8:51 PM | It's like corn grown by a (Score:1)
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It's like corn grown by a nuclear reactor. It's a lot shinier,  but it's still corn.

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March 7th, 2011 at 8:54 PM | Highlighter Marker Yellow? (Score:1)
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Highlighter Marker Yellow?  Are you sure you aren't talking about Oregon?  If anything our old gold shade of yellow looked MORE like West Virginia.  I think our current shade of maize is damn near perfect.

March 7th, 2011 at 9:05 PM | Highlighter Yellow (Score:1)
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Brilliant!

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March 7th, 2011 at 9:10 PM | now compare the helmet color and jersey color (Score:1)
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They look fine to me

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March 7th, 2011 at 9:23 PM | As far as I know, the shade (Score:1)
jmblue
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As far as I know, the shade of maize on that helmet is basically what we've always had.  I don't remember it ever being darker than that.  I don't think we ever used a shade as dark as that yellow-orange you see on some sweatshirts and old pennants.

March 8th, 2011 at 1:05 AM | You don't remember long enough... (Score:1)
Section 1
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Billy Taylor; possibly 1970:

Rob Lytle, and his well-worn Senior helmet: 

 

 

March 8th, 2011 at 1:42 AM | I think that's due to the (Score:1)
jmblue
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I think that's due to the lighting, not a color change.

March 7th, 2011 at 9:00 PM | Personally (Score:1)
Blazefire
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I think the current Maize color is kickin'. I love it. I also think that it doesn't much matter. The alma mater says "Yellow and Blue", so...  eh.

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March 7th, 2011 at 9:02 PM | Personally (Score:1)
TRSaunders
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I love the current shade... I'm a huge fan of the "Maize" alternate uniforms we have now, although my favorites are the Blue away unis

Posted from my Dell Venue Pro

Brilliant!

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March 7th, 2011 at 9:50 PM | As long as it's never the (Score:1)
jethro34
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As long as it's never the color of the Saints alternate jersey I'm fan.  That's too much like that church school in northern Indiana.

March 7th, 2011 at 9:52 PM | This generally doesn't bother (Score:1)
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This generally doesn't bother me, but since its been brought up, the one thing that does bother me is the wings on our hockey helmets no longer match our "maize" jerseys, and for some reason it bothers me, that is all.

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March 8th, 2011 at 12:50 AM | That is one of my pet peeves (Score:1)
boogereater2
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That is one of my pet peeves

March 7th, 2011 at 9:57 PM | Maize = (Score:1)
FlyRy4
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A bold, arrogant yellow.  Yes please!

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March 7th, 2011 at 10:07 PM | Nike/Adidas (Score:1)
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I think Nike patended their Maize color, and Adidas came up with their own shade.  I don't mind the Adidas yellow basketball jerseys, but the Fab Five's were better.

March 7th, 2011 at 10:08 PM | WVU (Score:1)
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Actually I think the only thing seperating our maize from WVU's gold is that our's is lighter and brighter. I for one like it. Darker blue with a more electric yellow is fine with me, and I think it's a more contemporary look. Graphic designers, weigh in please

March 7th, 2011 at 10:19 PM | Love... (Score:1)
umfan
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Love our current Maize jerseys. I don't care what shade of maize they are I still call them Maize.

UMfan. GO BLUE

March 7th, 2011 at 10:32 PM | Some examples (Score:1)
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A lot of good comments here.  And I may have been off about WVU's colors.

I found some of the pictures from pages like this interesting:

10 best RBs

10 best LBs

I was surprised how yellow a lot of the 90s football jerseys looked.

I also was struck by the fact that, over the years, our shade of maize has been all over the map.

March 7th, 2011 at 11:54 PM | I think some of the (Score:1)
jmblue
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I think some of the difference you see in those photos is due to the lighting.  When it's overcast, our maize appears darker, such as in this photo here.  Look at Denard's jersey number, in particular:

.    

March 8th, 2011 at 12:41 AM | Anthony Thomas (Score:1)
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Those pants are my vote for the best maize... but I concur with others, as long as we're not at either the WVU or Oregon end of the spectrum, I don't have a big issue...

I do have a preference, though for the away jersey Thomas is wearing... can we lose the yellow piping on our away unis in FB?

March 7th, 2011 at 10:39 PM | i know this is random (Score:1)
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and maybe a little off topic but what about an alternative helmet, yellow with blue wings? i think it would look sweet, but tradition is tradition. 

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March 7th, 2011 at 10:42 PM | You and your free-wheeling (Score:1)
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You and your free-wheeling ideas belong at Oregon sir.

March 7th, 2011 at 10:44 PM | Spring Game (Score:1)
Schembo
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Maybe during the spring game...if it was on April 1st

March 7th, 2011 at 11:26 PM | Close (Score:1)
Ernis
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Let's just call it "Fancy yellow"

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March 7th, 2011 at 11:27 PM | Some guy asked me the other (Score:1)
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Some guy asked me the other day what EXACTLY does MAIZE mean? My response "A bold, arrogant shade of yellow"

 

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March 7th, 2011 at 11:51 PM | Yellow Highlighter is (Score:1)
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the classic.  Yellow to 11 forever.  Now about the Blue--definitely says leaders, best, champion of the west.  I'm thinking its Royal Blue (EDIT...BAD CHOICE).  Anybody?

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March 8th, 2011 at 12:06 AM | Whew, it's about time someone (Score:1)
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Whew, it's about time someone complained about the "new Maize" and how it's an "awful highlighter yellow."  It had been an entire month since we had this debate!

 

/s

EDIT: The maize around the "M" clearly is not the gold that the OP speaks of.  If you're going to complain for the sake of complaining, atleast try to be factual.

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March 8th, 2011 at 12:47 AM | court (Score:1)
mgolf4
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I'm glad you posted this picture. Does anyone else like the symbol to the upper left of the hoop better than the one in the center of the court? It is very hard to see in this, but it is a maize block M with a blue filled in circle around it with a white outline. I like the simplicity of our court but I kind of wish the the one from the sign was in the center of the court. Any thoughts? I will see if I can find picture of it.

 

It is close to this without the "Student Made" : http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://mobileapps.its.umich.edu/images/U-M_Mobile_Student_Made_Logo.png&imgrefurl=http://mobileapps.its.umich.edu/dev/identity&usg=__XeuKMQhMsELdqoFl_y-kUb2FYp8=&h=137&w=139&sz=5&hl=en&start=107&zoom=1&tbnid=_I2b6Z42Uaip-M:&tbnh=109&tbnw=111&ei=pbR1TbCEA4mWtweksZ2fBg&prev=/images%3Fq%3Duniversity%2Bof%2Bmichigan%2Blogos%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1280%26bih%3D675%26tbs%3Disch:10,3320&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=680&vpy=473&dur=682&hovh=109&hovw=111&tx=72&ty=49&oei=ObR1TYKaLYaglAewhMGtCQ&page=7&ndsp=18&ved=1t:429,r:15,s:107&biw=1280&bih=675

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