Jersey Fail
Add last night to the list of complaints against Adidas. Burke, Morgan, and Stauskas all tore their jerseys during the game, to the extent that Burke and Morgan actually needed replacements. I didn't actually notice Stauskas's jersey tear, but it's mentioned in the recap. My wife did notice that Morgan's replacement jersey was torn in the final minutes, so that's at least 4 torn jerseys in one game. Ridiculous.
Has something like this ever happened before? I know it was a physical game and all, but I never even saw how the jerseys got torn. Did anyone else? Or is Adidas trying out paper jerseys?
January 18th, 2013 at 8:54 AM ^
was gettin' after the boys.
January 18th, 2013 at 8:55 AM ^
It all makes sense now!
January 18th, 2013 at 8:59 AM ^
When UM's contract is up I hope we switch to anything but them. Not only have we seen bad football and bball unis, but the fan gear sucks too. Bring back Nike.
January 18th, 2013 at 8:56 AM ^
Shit happens. Jerseys tear. No Adidas jerseys had this happen before last night.
The real fail in my opinion is not carrying a second jersey with each player's actual number on it. Strange to carry randon extra jerseys but no actual back ups.
January 18th, 2013 at 9:01 AM ^
I thought the exact same thing. I pictured them opening up a box of jerseys before the game and the team manager saving "Robinison....here's your #1......ok...here's your trey......does anybody have #3 again? No? Ok....back in the box.....Who has #4?"
I flashed back to Middle School BBall......
January 18th, 2013 at 9:15 AM ^
McGary's jersey tore last game or the game before that as well. I'm guessing this isn't an anomaly.
January 18th, 2013 at 10:13 AM ^
And Caris LaVert, they didn't even have enough spare jerseys for him.
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130118/SPORTS0201/301180386/After-…
January 18th, 2013 at 8:57 AM ^
Nope, this has never happened before in the HISTORY of any Michigan athletics
January 18th, 2013 at 9:01 AM ^
Your name and tag-line is extremely disturbing.
January 18th, 2013 at 9:06 AM ^
What? how? My name is Pedot. Regardless, how does that make my relevant post in response to this guy's idiotic post regarding ripped jersey's 'offtopic'? One might find your 'solo dolo' name, which refers to smoking an illicit substance disturbing. Please keep things PC.
January 18th, 2013 at 9:17 AM ^
FYI don't bitch about getting negged. The points don't count and I didn't neg you anyway. But your name is PedoWolverine and your tag line talks about stealing all the booooiiiizzz. Seems reasonable enough to make that assumption. Am I right Mr. Sandusky??
Btw solo dolo doesn't necessarily mean anything about smoking bud NTTAWWT. I was on my Cudi kick at the time
January 18th, 2013 at 9:23 AM ^
i know. still annoyed that a seemingly relevant post regarding a famously ripped jersey at the university of michigan would be tagged 'offtopic' in this thread. anyways, just as 'solo dolo' doesn't necessarily mean anything about smoking bud, 'pedo' isn't necessarily about being a pedofile...so it's a learning experience for both of us.
January 18th, 2013 at 9:19 AM ^
Pedo could be short for something other than Pedot. Google it if you aren't currently at work.
January 18th, 2013 at 9:26 AM ^
Bullshit. For some reason you think that making sophomoric allusions to child molesting is humorous. Why do you think child molesting is funny?
January 18th, 2013 at 9:33 AM ^
....who is making any jokes about that? You seriously need to be more open-minded. Just because my parents come from Poland, and named me something that, in English, is construed VERY differently, doesn't mean I'm making some joke about a very serious offense.
January 18th, 2013 at 9:36 AM ^
You could at least change the tag at the bottom.
January 18th, 2013 at 9:48 AM ^
Or add a fucking T to your name since it's supposedly has one.
January 18th, 2013 at 10:14 AM ^
You seriously need to get in touch with reality if you think that we're all so gullible that we'll credulously swallow your horsecrap about being born of Polish parents and your name being "Pedot."
Your dumbass tagline in combination with your account name makes it abundantly clear that you think pedophilia is somehow a subject for humor.
January 18th, 2013 at 10:26 AM ^
Believes him
January 18th, 2013 at 10:27 AM ^
Feel free to mark redundant
January 18th, 2013 at 1:19 PM ^
it's spelled Paedophile anyway. Not pedophile.
January 18th, 2013 at 2:15 PM ^
Both spellings are accepted.
http://i.word.com/idictionary/Pedophilia
January 18th, 2013 at 9:30 AM ^
Name calling on a message board, how sophisticated of you.
January 18th, 2013 at 9:25 AM ^
Football is a very different and much more physical game than basketball.
January 18th, 2013 at 8:59 AM ^
I heard the teams seamstress Lennay Kekua didn't make the trip to Minny. Hence all the mishaps.
January 18th, 2013 at 2:53 PM ^
She tweeted ahead of time that she was detained due to a freak collision with a water buffalo.
January 18th, 2013 at 9:24 AM ^
I may be wrong, but weren't those jerseys designed to tear if someone grabbed like that?
January 18th, 2013 at 12:19 PM ^
players like AC had many jerseys in reserve. the trend started in the old Big 8 and SEC, and if memory serves, AC was the first michigan play to use them -- Bo was old school on teh topic but saw the need w/AC.
tear-aways were banned shortly there after.
January 18th, 2013 at 11:15 AM ^
Maybe this is asking too much, but I would hope that jersey technology has advanced somewhat in the last 30 years, when players basically wore straight-up polyester mesh. Particularly since uniform manufacturers feature campaigns every year about how this year's jerseys are X% better/drier/faster.
January 18th, 2013 at 12:22 PM ^
was called a tear-away jersey. it was designed to tear away so that you could not tackle guys like AC by grabbing the back of their jerseys, which was the part of AC that most defends saw.
January 18th, 2013 at 9:02 AM ^
to Nike. With many other schools across the country dropping Adidas right now, due to some work environment issues in their factories overseas this would be a perfect time to get out of that contract. First it was the jersey issue a few years back for football against Northwestern, and now basketball? Just please make the switch, we can go back to wearing the real "Maize" as Nike is the only outfitter to have our true color perfected as I belive they copyrighted it?
January 18th, 2013 at 9:11 AM ^
You don't see it that often. If you have 4 jerseys torn in total that means the refs were not doing there jobs. They clearly sucked last night and Minny fans believe the same thing but they were at home.
January 18th, 2013 at 9:34 AM ^
...a suggestion other Nike. Thank goodness.
January 18th, 2013 at 9:16 AM ^
I thought with was going to be about Rutgers.
January 18th, 2013 at 9:20 AM ^
Nah, that kind of Jersey fail isn't thread-worthy.
January 18th, 2013 at 9:19 AM ^
The most famous instance is the game where Jordan's jersey was stolen before a game in Orlando and he wore #12 for a game.
January 18th, 2013 at 9:27 AM ^
for the Fab Five. Those shorts Jordan is wearing are awful. Even worse for the Magic player in the background. My god!
January 18th, 2013 at 9:37 AM ^
Those Bulls & Magic shorts aren't bad. In fact, they are much better than many of the oversized shorts that have becaum popular in recent years but are so big that they look like skirts.
January 18th, 2013 at 10:00 AM ^
When given a choice between seeing hairy man thighs or not seeing them, I choose to not see them. To each their own though....
January 18th, 2013 at 11:34 AM ^
The bulls shorts hit at the knee and thats not bad but those Magic shorts are half way up the thigh and that too short.
January 18th, 2013 at 9:58 AM ^
You weren't a fan of the nutters?
January 18th, 2013 at 9:37 AM ^
Greg Pruitt works for Adidas. Mystery solved
January 18th, 2013 at 9:43 AM ^
Who has time for all these uniform threads?
January 18th, 2013 at 10:00 AM ^
you obviously have time to post in them, so...
January 18th, 2013 at 9:51 AM ^
What was the point in making Burke leave the game? He wasn't bleeding.
January 18th, 2013 at 9:55 AM ^
I have to say I wouldn't mind having an Under Armour contract- I love what they've done with Northwestern this year.
January 18th, 2013 at 10:04 AM ^
Weren't they behind those disasters Maryland wore last year?