The real story of the upcoming Superbowl
January 21st, 2013 at 7:26 AM ^
They took er helmets!!
January 21st, 2013 at 7:40 AM ^
January 21st, 2013 at 9:45 AM ^
My brother-in-law is a Princeton Grad, he has reminded me about a million times where UM got its wing helmet idea.
January 21st, 2013 at 9:53 AM ^
We got it from Crisler, who invented it while there... not from Princeton. There's a distinction. That said, their colors are atrocious.
January 21st, 2013 at 12:48 PM ^
It was just a standard Spalding sporting goods design.
January 21st, 2013 at 12:56 PM ^
As I understand it, the "wings" were standard, but the stripes were not. I don't think anyone used the 3 stripes + wings combo before Crisler.
January 21st, 2013 at 1:07 PM ^
From the most unlikely imaginable source -- "SpartanJerseys.com" -- comes the most exhaustive analysis I have ever seen.
http://www.spartanjerseys.com/michigan-state-football-jersey-helmet/winged-helmet/
Turns out that Michigan State College (later MSU) and the Ohio State University both briefly wore "winged" design leather helmets before Crisler came to Michigan, and there is conclusive photo evidence that many schools wore the design, including three-stripe versions, in the early thirties before Crisler at Princeton.
The whole story of Crisler's personal involvement in the helmet design is mostly manufactured as far as I am aware.
January 21st, 2013 at 1:02 PM ^
Even better, I'll be sure to use this next time.
EDIT: NOOOOOOoooo
January 21st, 2013 at 2:19 PM ^
State wearing winged helmets for a throwback jersey against Michigan.
*shudders*
January 21st, 2013 at 10:43 AM ^
Yeah, Princeton thought it was such a great idea that they abandoned it for 50 years, until they saw how iconic it became for Michigan and decided to piggy back on our success.
January 21st, 2013 at 11:29 AM ^
And yet this still wore it before we did. We may have made it iconic by being successful, but we did not come up with anything, princeton wore it first and its better to just accept that and that is associated with us because we win a lot more.
January 21st, 2013 at 11:52 AM ^
If you consider Fritz Crisler a Michigan Man, then yes, "we" came up with it.
January 21st, 2013 at 12:28 PM ^
He was a HB for Michigan from 1939-1941 and then apparently brought the winged helmet with him when he coached UD from 1951-1965
January 21st, 2013 at 7:42 AM ^
Harbaugh looks better. Delaware's version looks like a genericized version of the uniform you'd see in those early-90's video games that couldn't get the official rights to the schools' colors and uniforms.
January 21st, 2013 at 11:03 AM ^
It looks like it needs a pit crew.
Where's the STP sticker?
January 21st, 2013 at 3:39 PM ^
As if it didn't have enough patches, that #11 jersey needs one more patch; the Wistert brothers Legends patch. (Perhaps sensitive to the scolding over patch-filled jerseys coming from places like MGoBlog, the Michigan athletic department substituted bowl patches with "Legends" patches on those jerseys. Watching the game, I wondered if Michigan may have been violating a contract with the bowl by not including bowl-promotion patches on every player's jersey.)
Here's a representative photo. Roh (88) Bolden (35) and Campbell (73) with the standard Outback Bowl patches and Desmond Morgan (G.R. Ford Legends patch) #48:
January 21st, 2013 at 7:54 AM ^
Please don't give Adidas any more ideas...
January 21st, 2013 at 8:03 AM ^
Helmets? I thought you meant both of them were holding brown footballs.
January 21st, 2013 at 8:08 AM ^
holy crap! they are both holding brown footballs!
January 21st, 2013 at 8:04 AM ^
Almost missed that. Instead of SuperBro, I vote for SuperBaugh (not my creation, it's used in another thread)!
January 21st, 2013 at 9:14 AM ^
January 21st, 2013 at 10:03 AM ^
Brace yourself: horrible harbaugh harbowl puns happening
January 21st, 2013 at 10:45 AM ^
I like Har-Bowl myself.
January 21st, 2013 at 8:14 AM ^
January 21st, 2013 at 8:25 AM ^
This!!!! Every time I hear Ira on WTKA gush about Lewis I want to scream. Between the Harbro love and the idolizing of Lewis the run up to this super bowl is going to be unbearable.
January 21st, 2013 at 11:15 AM ^
Two weeks of Ravens talk on WTKA. That alone makes me want to root for SF to win, just for the Monday after.
January 21st, 2013 at 4:41 PM ^
So, by you and the previous posters standards it is more alien to forgive than to hold someone accountable for the rest of their lives. No one's perfect, but from what I know everyone who has been around Ray raves about him as a person. It's not my place to say what happened when those two people were murdered, but I know that I am sick and tired of people who don't know what happen decide to judge Lewis. I don't think he is a saint or that any athlete should be idolized, but just have a balanced perspective other than: EVIL! PERFECT!
In all likelihood Ray is a good guy who has done some bad things.
January 21st, 2013 at 8:12 PM ^
January 21st, 2013 at 8:54 AM ^
What does Craig James have to do with all of this?
January 21st, 2013 at 9:21 AM ^
January 21st, 2013 at 9:23 AM ^
Craig James and Ray Lewis killed some hookers together a while back and got away with it.
January 21st, 2013 at 9:58 AM ^
*allegedly
January 21st, 2013 at 8:56 AM ^
damn button only lets me give you one point for that.
January 21st, 2013 at 9:04 AM ^
January 21st, 2013 at 9:18 AM ^
This isn't a dui or pot charge. Im sorry I don't buy the he only knew who did it story. He was convicted of obstruction of justice in a murder case. That means he had active involvement in covering up the crime at least. I highly doubt if it was your stockbroker, banker or anybody else in your life you would be saying well he was involved in a murder a few years ago but he is a great guy.
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January 21st, 2013 at 11:04 AM ^
"I believe the real story is how the media has made a guy who was implicated in a murder into someone who can do no wrong and has become practically a saint from their view."
Yeah, it's amazing how the media looked the other way while Teo killed off his imaginary girlfriend.
January 21st, 2013 at 8:14 AM ^
Delaware is wearing Nike rabble rabble
January 21st, 2013 at 8:36 AM ^
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_M._Nelson
Nelson brought the winged helmet to Delaware in 1951.
That's not the end of the Michigan connection at Delaware; Nelson was succeeded by Harold "Tubby" Raymond, who, like Nelson, played for Fritz Crisler.
January 21st, 2013 at 8:24 AM ^
I would have thought that Michigan would gotten copyrigh and trademarkt protection on the design of the wing on the helmet.
January 21st, 2013 at 9:10 AM ^
I find it cool that there are teams that want to copy Michigan.
January 21st, 2013 at 12:31 PM ^
I believe that M's wing design is proprietary. Other HS and college teams use the winged helmet, but not M's particular shape and design. Says so here:
January 21st, 2013 at 8:34 AM ^
The helmet started at Princeton by Fritz Crisler.
January 21st, 2013 at 8:50 AM ^
Thanks Princeton....I should have remembered that.