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OT: Uniformz! (Row the Boat Edition)
More gold paint for Gary and Winovich to chip off
Well that's nice of you to predict us and them to face off in the Big Ten Championship Game.
It's rainy out, good thing you got your fedora
Gophers ready to “Row The Boat,” will have oars on their helmets for the 2018 season. pic.twitter.com/XtTg8wvu3a
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) February 20, 2018
What's a dung bettle dung to you. That being said...gophers jerseys look like s*#t.
Then teams will have something to use once they've taken the GoGoGophers to the wood shed.
That would be quite the feat, considering our next H2H game is Oct 17, 2020
AS JIM MCELWAIN AS A WR COACH or something
I've seen significantly worse uniforms on other teams including our own beloved Wolverines.
They have a boat oar on the helmet. I don't care if it's made of 24K solid gold. If your coach has a stupid slogan and you end up with an oar on your helmet, you deserve Bolivia.
Yes! Cool!
The chrome helmet is bad because you can barely read the M, and white isn't one of their colors.
They should stick with gold pants at home and gold or maroon pants on the road. That asphalt-gray color is fine for a business suit but looks terrible on a football uniform.
Ugly as hell
This row the boat thing is beyond annoying and stupid.
so I have a feeling they really don't care what opposing teams think
They think it’s stupid too.
Is that what counter-strike guy tells you or is it gopher devotee???
It may be annoying and stupid that it gets blasted so widely by media megaphone, but the same has been said by our rivals about the attention Harbaugh gets for his lifestyle. Being logically consistent means separating the thing itself from the attention it receives.
And, it just so happens, that Row The Boat was born of something serious and reasonable that matters: it's a metaphor built out of the spiritual aftermath of his son dying. Even as an agnostic, I find that kind of grieving mechanism equanimous/wise and I think that sharing it to help make young men become better is courageous -- not to mention that it's probably effective.
come back and see me.
They put an Oar on their helmets! An oar!!! That their coach used in a slogan at a different school! Their coach! Used at a different school!!!
Sorry ..... that's just dumb.
Oh the uniforms are ass ugly. But that is not the conversation we were having, which is whether the motto must be stupid and annoying because the attention it receives is stupid and annoying.
Hey gopher, this is what I will do to your lawn!!!
/jk
onto our uniforms.
Unis and video.
They put an oar on the helmet and their new motto is about a wide category of aggressive sea creatures.
Aren't they the Gophers?
Let's put a big feather on our pants and replace "Go Blue" with "Soar like a Seagull."
WTF.
Fine with me if they want to go with this "Nekton Mentality" thing. They even have a shark illustration for it in their video. A shark.
For obvious reasons, the next time we play them, they're fucked.
Gopher purists cannot like this, either.
There are Gopher purists?
Anthropomorphic gophers rowing boats like Vikings. That's what comes to mind.
Dope.
Absolute gold.
Brian in the future:
"This team is as scary as: (insert triumphant Viking Gophers riding a warship to the tune of Immigrant Song)
of my day, wish I could upvote more than +1 due to the extended length of one of Zeppelin's best tunes, an all time classic. Fucking awesome GIF. Kudos
Look good, feel good.
Feel good, go 7-5.
which might be 8-5 if they get a bowl win. kind of like our record last year, so maybe we shouldn't throw stones.
Yo, we need fucking Migos on the recruiting trail. We recruited them first, now harbaugh gotta get Quavo and the boys out in ATL selling the M. PUT OFFSET AT WR COACH AT LEAST HE CAN 'CRUIT!!!
Butt ugly.....but they’ll look good in three year when he gets canned and moves on the Conference USA.
Talk about a guy full of himself
I was hoping for a highlighter maroon version
If you're a Cylon, this helmet is a nice upgrade actually...
Metallic gold is fine, and yellow is fine, but they look like shit next to each other.
Does Minnesota have a plan...?
Looks like Destro.
Are these units replacing the cartoon gopher helmets, because they shouldn't.
Still, Minnesota will NEVER live down The Tex Avery Experience!. Goddammit Goldy!!!
Minnesota has to do something cool and I think they did a pretty good job. I think they need to stick to their school colors though. Those grey unis just don’t do it for me.
But I actually think they look dope.
about as "dope" as it still is for someone to say "dope".
Sink the boat.
Spot on!
If you ignore the oar (and that rhymes and oh man how do I use that to be understatedly ironic) the maroon and white unis look pretty conventional. The numbering is white now, instead of gold, but overall not a huge deal. The oars, of course, are silly, and while I suppose the chrome-plated helmet will be cool, as others have stated it doesn't match the gold they use on their uniforms.
The "anthracite" look was a bad idea when they debuted it against us in 2015 and it's a bad idea now. It has never stopped striking me as dumb that teams with a perfectly good three-color palette would make black or dark grey a primary uniform color. I can understand it for schools that have one primary color and white (Duke, MSU, Stanford, Texas, Northwestern, etc). I don't always like the uniforms they produce, but an accent color can be good and some of the black options (mid-90s northwestern, mid-00s Duke) are actually really good.
But Minnesota has gold as an available third color and would look much better using it. The same goes for other schools (looking at you, Washington and YTM Miami and Florida and UCLA) that do the same thing. Idiocy.
I suspect 60% of Minnesota's uniform combinations will be fine. Ignore the Oar.
When's Michigan gonna experiment with a chrome helmet?
Never
Rabble rabble rabble tradition rabble rabble rabble Bo would hate it rabble rabble rabble.
Never say never.
I’m generally a big fan of chrome stuff, but not so much for these. I think if they did a Matte finish with the logo chrome and maybe the edges but the entire thing chrome gold look tacky.
100 possible combinations? Who cares? They're not '05 Oregon.
"Minnesota will have more than 100 possible uniform combinations next season, but will stay true to tradition."
Umm...you can either have 100 uniforms OR stay true to tradition. You can't do both.
Go Screaming Eagles!
on the helmet, I think for the most part they look pretty sharp.
What's Minnesota gonna do when Fleck leaves for another program and takes his "Row the boat" campaign with him? Will they have to change the uniforms back?
I don't think he'll ever be good enough to "move up." Their complete failure to adjust to some pretty basic stuff (like, you know, Khaleke Hudson flying into the backfield umolested on every play) told me quite a bit about them. In my limited opinion, anyway.
But it would be hilarious if that happened and they were stuck with these helmets for a year.
but this specific uniform is a crime against humanity.
Nothing about the guy wearing the backwards 'S' 1 jersey looks scary.
Looks like Fleck went back to WMU. Seriously those could be Broncos uniforms.
they found their model at the local Village People Revival.
It's fun to play for the
Golden Gophers
It's fun to play for the
Golden Gophers
You can get yourself clean
You can have a good meal
You can do whatever you feel....
I was really hoping they were going for a gopher-shark hybrid animal for night games.
Where's the teef?
Those are pretty cool.
Nothing says brand cohesiveness like "over 100 possible uniform combinations"
Nobody wears uniforms any more. They all wear multi-forms.
mock Minnesota with a rendition of "Row, row, row your boat" when up comfortably in the 4th quarter.
Too bad we don't host them next year. EDIT: I'm over it.
The gray tops are bad.
Jesus. P.J. Fleck is a shameless douche bag. Row that shit barge right over the falls.
I like fleck he seems like a good guy and decent coach. He should help that program over time
Need to see it out in the sunshine.
who runs a satirical Minnesota Facebook fan page, I think they look absolutely spectacular.