Semi OT: Texas practice unis set new low
By the beard of Phil Knight!
Pants are in the link, tops posted below for your viewing ... something.
Seriously though, this is hideous, even worse than the bumblebees we sported against sparty. All i have to ask the folks in Austin is, other than money, why? Just why? And since these are practice unis, they aren't even going to sell extensively (unless Terrelle Pryor gets his hands on a batch). Why not make something simple, iconic, and dignified, you know, like their normal unis?
They need to give those back to the 2005 Bengals right now!
They are still just practice jerseys.
... that is to say that it starts with practice jerseys, and slowly spreads to everything.
Woah, woah, woah, we don't have to bring the Rhineland into this.
For us it all started with the ND night game (which I liked), then morphed into the mess that we wore during the trash tornado game.
Cue up the Allen Iverson practice clip in 4...3...2...
March 30th, 2012 at 12:16 PM ^
Edit: failure
The black jersey with the burnt-orange shoulders isn't too bad, although I think I puked in my mouth a little bit when I saw the other two.
I don't know, i think they're cool. If you're gonna have fun with a jersey, it might as well be the practice ones.
What bet did they lose?
One with the Philadelphia Flyers, presumably.
I like them something different. and they do look like the Flyers jerseys.
I don't know, i think they're cool. If you're gonna have fun with a jersey, it might as well be the practice ones.
Wow.
It was my penetrating insight.
Is this a first?
I've only seen it once before. I think it was during one of the open threads where multiple people were getting double posts because of the server load.
Definitely not a first, I've seen it a couple times before.
March 29th, 2012 at 11:51 PM ^
Just remember, it matters not who did it first, but who popularized it (e.g., the light bulb and music industry).
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Considering some of the crap Nike has produced, this isn't even close to a low.
....and suddenly they are trying to get people to like the Sprite in Oregon. It could be much worse than Texas' practice jerseys (I actually think these aren't so bad) and this one below was just a concept for a game jersey on the Nike blog once, I believe...
It's a small wonder that a photo of the Ducks' practice jerseys would be hard to find. I would have to guess - 1970s Oakland A's, but in football form.
practice!
Oh look, another thread on uniforms. This should really be new and exciting!
Let's talk about the weather or how the weather used to be....
The only thing worse than those abominations are Maryland's new uniforms.
At least they've stuck to their school's true colors... unlike some big time college football programs I know.
I know when did Sparty become bronze? And Baylor adopt the Neon Yellow and Camo look? And when did the Tennessee Lady Vols adopt pink as a color(yes I know a lot of the womens teams do this for breast cancer)
Is black one of Texas's colors?
I agree with several posters above, I honestly don't think they are that bad at all. I also think, if you click through the link and check out the pants, that the Texas state outline on the orange ones and the state flag on the black ones are nice touches. Plus they are just practice unis.
I feel like any time something new comes up on this blog, many people immediately dismiss it out of hand, especially uniform related item(s), no matter how good/bad it looks. This "Something new? Must be bad" mindset is tiresome. Don't get me wrong, I didn't like our Trash Tornado uniforms, either, but not every new, alternative uniform is automatically bad.
Dismissing new things is common for everything that is new or change. Society is to hard to please anymore. Personally I like new because if we didn't have new, we would be living pathetic dull lives that we would all complain about! Speaking of change BF3 came out with a new patch and the tears started pouring.
Huh, I don't remember people complaining that Michigan's uniforms were pathetically dull for the past 130 years or so. And it's not like UM has had trouble recruiting without following college football trends, if anything, you draw in players because they know and love the old uniforms/helmet. Michigan needs to stick with what helped to make them the winningest football program, Oregon and Nike can try to play Ed Hardy all they want to try to catch up.
March 29th, 2012 at 11:52 PM ^
There seem to be quite a few people here who are on opposite sides of the spectrum of change vs tradition, and not as many people who are in the middle somewhere. I personally don’t think these jerseys are that bad either, but that’s just me. I’m also of the opinion that Michigan shouldn’t mess with their home uniforms, but if they want to play with the away jerseys a little, it doesn’t bother me.
Hard to please around here! :) I don't think they look all that bad. Better than most teams gameday unis provided by Nike.
Somewhere an arena team is looking for missing uni's...
Not worse than the bumble bee. I personally encouraged people to vote the bumble bee the worst alternative jersey last year.
if they ahve slippery slope fears
Nike is Satan.
Props to Penn State and USC. They've managed to completely avoid the uniform hulabaloo and stick with their simple, classic uniforms. Somehow, when those teams play at night, or against a big rival, their regular uniforms are enough.
Huh.
I actually think they're kinda cool. Not bad at all.