October 1st, 2009 at 8:43 PM ^
It's true, Those jerseys are up their with some of those Oregon jerseys, the OMG THOSE ARE UGLIER THAN CAPT. FRONTBUTT jerseys.
October 1st, 2009 at 8:51 PM ^
the 2004 home uni on the Braylon show tonight. It felt very retro.
October 1st, 2009 at 8:52 PM ^
May we never cave to the marketing fools at these apparel companies and stray from our white road unis and especially the plain blue homes.
October 1st, 2009 at 8:53 PM ^
My eyes...they buuuuurn. I feel like ours would be even brighter than the WVU ones...those are more yellow to our maize.
October 1st, 2009 at 9:01 PM ^
Blue and Gold. Those are supposed to be gold uniforms. Maize would suck even more than the gold.
October 1st, 2009 at 8:59 PM ^
We should paint our field Maize (like the Boise St. field) and wear maize jerseys for Camouflage. Change the name of our field from the Big House to the "Field of Maize". Doesn't that just scream tradition?
/sarcasm.
October 2nd, 2009 at 2:07 AM ^
Don't forget night games... blaring RAWK music... Put a couple ads here and there and BAM! Instant success...
October 2nd, 2009 at 1:38 PM ^
the field could alternate between maize and blue every 5 yards. I also saw a very sincere suggestion in the comments of an annarbor.com story that someone would like to see the team run out of a giant winged helmet, while smoke machines spew out maize and blue fog. How about a maize ball? Fucking A that would be xtreme.
October 1st, 2009 at 9:03 PM ^
It's not that bad looking. I think most of the people against the uniforms are the people who don't want to "copy" WVU or Cal. I would be ok with maize jerseys and blue pants.
If the team does get maize jerseys it would also help with the fans participating in maize outs.
October 1st, 2009 at 9:17 PM ^
You defeat your own argument in your first sentence. Saying, "It's not that bad" implies that it is bad, just not as bad as most people think. Why would you want your team in bad looking jerseys, just because they aren't "that bad"?
October 1st, 2009 at 10:19 PM ^
It's not that bad, in my term usage, implies that I wouldn't mind wearing the jerseys. That's a horrible argument to bring up as you can say "it's not that bad" to anything and be OK with it.
It's kinda like turning in an essay. After you get done writing it you read it over and say to yourself, "Not too bad."
October 1st, 2009 at 9:50 PM ^
the fans participating in maize outs."
So would painting the field turf maize, ala Boise State and it's gimmicky blue field. It doesn't mean it's a good idea.
October 2nd, 2009 at 12:39 AM ^
I don't mind the way maize jerseys look, but I wouldn't want to see them during home games.
And your post is a perfect example of negbang abuse. Seriously guys, just because you disagree doesn't mean you neg them.
October 1st, 2009 at 9:15 PM ^
We've established that many people are opposed to the possibility of maize jerseys and we've also seen that many people are indifferent or even in favor of the maize jerseys.
I personally think maize jerseys would be a terrible idea, but if we were to suit up in maize at some point this season, it would by no means effect how I love our wolverines.
Let's put the maize jersey issue to bed and kick the shit out of little brother on Saturday.
October 1st, 2009 at 9:20 PM ^
I don't think anybody else could look as totally cool in that shirt.
I tried one on at Dick's and it was massive fail.
October 1st, 2009 at 9:20 PM ^
The jerseys may look bad, but the matching jerseys and pants look much much worse. WVU looks like they are all wearing leotards or pajamas. Hideous. And what is worse is that this is not the first time - somebody thinks it looks good!!!
October 1st, 2009 at 9:21 PM ^
Amen to the shitkicking. May the shit be kicked by any combination of maize, blue, and white in 2 days.
October 1st, 2009 at 9:25 PM ^
Welcome to the Cornfield....arrrrrrr
October 1st, 2009 at 9:28 PM ^
They should never allow them to change the home uniforms (jerseys or pants). That's completely off limits.
The road uniforms wouldn't be as big of a deal. I could handle it if they wore maize jerseys with white pants (circa 1973) or white jerseys with blue pants.
I think that the home team would need to agree to let you wear something other than white on the road though. Maybe they could just be penalized a time out like in the USC v. UCLA game last year where both teams wore home unis.
October 1st, 2009 at 9:39 PM ^
"the survivability of thermonuclear war". The more you think about it, the more painful it gets.
October 1st, 2009 at 9:43 PM ^
A pretty mild comparison, don't you think? haha
October 1st, 2009 at 9:40 PM ^
Lou Holtz becoming a competent halftime analyst than there is of Michigan EVER changing its uniforms. Plus, if you think the piped in RAWK music riled Brian, can you imagine how steamed he'd be over this? Seriously, he'd spontaneously combust.
The fact that people are seriously advocating for maize jerseys is fine, I guess. The fact that they think it has more than 0 % chance of happening is laughable.
October 1st, 2009 at 9:41 PM ^
keep things the way they are we dont need to change to win or be different look at the irish with there green jerseys that they havent won wearing since the seventies
October 1st, 2009 at 9:51 PM ^
Open it.
October 1st, 2009 at 9:49 PM ^
Here's a question; if WVU changed to a yellow/gold helmet for the game, how does that make the jerseys look then?
October 1st, 2009 at 9:52 PM ^
is still a turd
October 1st, 2009 at 10:02 PM ^
I was just thinking that the dark blue helmet was just way too out of place with all that yellow, they might be able to pull it off a little if they made the switch. Of course then they might just look like bananas.
October 1st, 2009 at 10:08 PM ^
i opened this thread expecting it to be, well, what a thread titled "Maize Jerseys" usually is. So +1 for exceeding my expectations.
October 1st, 2009 at 11:51 PM ^
with blue pants would look better than all maize. I still wouldn't want to see UM do that though.
I am generally opposed to all teams that wear the same color pants as uniforms, unless its all white.
You just look silly.
October 2nd, 2009 at 12:13 AM ^
Even all white doesn't look quite right. I just watched the '04 Michigan MSU game on ESPN Classic and MSU uniforms looked ugly in my opinion and they were wearing all white.
October 2nd, 2009 at 2:41 PM ^
It works for Penn State and Alabama.
October 2nd, 2009 at 12:42 AM ^
Light colors don't bode too well on TV... anyone see the Seahawks game last week?
October 2nd, 2009 at 2:43 PM ^
That color should be banned...poor Seahawks fans.
The bears make me sad with their Orange jerseys and I'm not even a Bears fan.
October 2nd, 2009 at 12:47 AM ^
Oh god, my eyes still hurt from seeing those jerseys.
October 2nd, 2009 at 3:40 AM ^
don't hate me for it.
I mostly agree that we shouldn't wear them just b/c of tradition, but I'm a sucker for that alternate uniform for special games.
October 2nd, 2009 at 7:34 AM ^
I'm not that wild about our away uni's...in fact I think they're boring. The hoops team looks good in the maize, so maybe they could come up with a suitable design for the FB team that isn't as offensive as WV's were last night. The two shades of gold w/Colorado on the field didn't help either.
October 2nd, 2009 at 1:10 PM ^
Thank you for mentioning the maize basketball jerseys, I was thinking the same thing. Those look sick, like intimidating and awesome; I love it when the team comes out in those.
I really think if we were to have maize football jerseys (which we never will) that they would be tasteful and not WVU-esque fail (I mean what's the fashion in West Va anyway? overalls and tobackey?)
Anyway, tradition has to start somewhere and I think maize jerseys wouldn't be as disgustingly horrendous as most people here seem to think.
please, by all means neg away haters!
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:09 AM ^
I love the maize polo. I have the one from last year with the blue stripes on the arms and it gets all kinds of looks at work. The maize color polo adds to the mystique of us Michigan folks being arrogant.
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:24 AM ^
I would dig a maize jersey/white pants combo for a one-time special away game. It would look similar to Georgia Tech, although I anticipate that Michigan's would look MUCH better with Maize.
The home uni however should not be touched, ever.
The home uni however should not be touched, ever.October 2nd, 2009 at 12:04 PM ^
Thanks to Pete Carroll at USC, you can now go "color vs color" in jerseys as along as there's enough contrast between the two teams(ie Michigan blue vs UCLA blue--Yes, but Michigan blue vs Penn State blue--No). The rules don't cover pants or helmets, just jerseys.
So given that, here's MHO about what our future unis should be:
1) Michigan should always wear the home blue jerseys and maize pants at home (duh), AND wear them whenever possible on the road, esp at East Lansing, Columbus, and bowl games!
2) If blue jerseys aren't possible on the road due to dark jerseys on the home team (ie @PSU, @Ill, @NW, @Iowa, @Pur, @ND), then wear a new primary road uniform of maize jerseys and blue pants!
3) If for some reason maize jerseys aren't possible either, then break out the traditional white jerseys and maize pants.
4) Just say no to all-white.
October 2nd, 2009 at 2:45 PM ^
I was watching the Oregon-Cal game and I thought to myself how cool it is that Michigan, Penn State, Alabama and other schools with untouched, classic, traditional uniforms have not caved to commercialism.
I truly feel sorry for fans of:
UGA - Black Jerseys
WVU - Gold Jerseys
Oregon - 1,378 uniform combos
Boise State - WTF is that field?
I think that there is something to be said for sticking with what works.
The maize pants are perfect and both the home blue and the road white jerseys contrast perfectly with them.
I trust that Michigan will never succumb to a cash grab scheme and bring out a maize jersey like UGA did with the black(lame & played out) jerseys last year.