OT: The future of uniforms is a dark dark place

I would love to see Oregon with a fluffy duck tail on the rear of their neon pants.

Marshmallows.

Romans never played in a Midwest winter.

And by Romans you mean Greeks,

History of Roman Sports class FTW

Kaleidoscopic inertia simile studs.

That's our band name.

I wouldn't say the helmet looks great, but I think it's at the very least an interesting idea. The rest of the jersey is just ridiculous.

I try not to be a prig about stuff like this, but I find it a little offensive.  An eagle-feather headdress has a lot of symbolism.  It's one thing to portray a warrior wearing it; I'm okay with that (although let it be said that wearing that portrait splashed across the crotch of your football pants is an interesting choice).  Donning the headdress yourself (or painting the helmet so it looks like you are) is another matter.

This may sound ridiculous to the average person, I don't know.   

And isn't it actually a ripoff of the great Charles Sellars helmet concept for the Illini?

To wit:

Those high school pants, etc., in the OP are horrible.  The perfect example of too much of a good thing.  If they aren't already illegal, they should be.

But the Charles Sellars concept for Illinois is way better than anything the Illini have ever come up with on their own.  The nice thing about the Sellars concept is that it is merely a takeoff on what the Illini already utilize as an alternative logo:

So it isn't as though the Illini would be stretching themselves to come up with some wild abuse of Native American imagery just for uniform decoration.  Then of course there is Chief Illiniwek...

Don't be an idiot; Dave Brandon is too loyal to his brand to do that...Domino's that is.

I'm not sure why this comment was made grey.  Brandon has already showed his true colors by placing a logo on the hockey jerseys, of the esteemed and respected brand of "Arby's" no less.  Michigan can now wear the favorite brand of overweight truckers and depressed housewives everywhere.  Some of you will say, "But the football team is different, it could never happen.  Oh?  What about the Big Ten logos now adorned on every damned corner of the stadium.  Or that massive Vegas-style highway billboard located just outside of the stadium? 

The times are changing and you're all fools if you are keeping your heads in the ground like a bunch of sissy ostriches saying, "It won't happen to us!  Dave Brandon wouldn't do it!  We would protest THEN!"  By THEN it will be too late and you'll have sat by complacently watching the fall of this great program to the dregs of college football.

~Herm

I think these uni's are a natural extrapolation of how thns are moving. Just look at MSU last week. You couldn't even see their logo on their "chromalized" helmet.

There's a lot of experimentation going on and some of it works (see Northwestern) but a lot of it is just plain awful and has no staying power.

Great googily moogily...

I don't think anyone here is feeling that way.  These things are just horrible.  And when just about every traditional thing has been done and every color has been used, this is what happens.

there is not.  Simplicity and practicality are long gone, MOAR-BIGGER-AWESOMER-NOW!!! have taken their place.  The trend is now, if you can do it, DO IT, regardless of whether what is being done is an improvement over anything.  The Ameican model is next thing = great thing, in all facets of life, and there need be no further discussion.

Hey now it's a genuine "throwback" not a "fauxback." Unfortunately, we wore that in the 30s, so I have no problem reviving it to pay homage to the club's 80th season. It's ugly, but it's our history dammit!

Escape!