Notre Dame goes TechFit October 6th
Adidas and ND announce new TechFit alternate uniforms for the October 6th game at Soldier Field against Miami:
August 16th, 2012 at 4:25 PM ^
Deleware's helmet looks like our helmets, our helmets does not look like theirs.
August 16th, 2012 at 6:07 PM ^
August 16th, 2012 at 6:14 PM ^
Delaware is a much brighter blue than ours. Ugly!
August 17th, 2012 at 9:00 AM ^
don't feed the troll
August 16th, 2012 at 4:33 PM ^
...pretend I never saw that.
August 16th, 2012 at 6:16 PM ^
would like to see a very slight tweak to our helmets... Make the Blue Matte, with gloss Maize stripes! Now that would be very sweet! We got wings, and they'd pop if there were a Matte finish to the Blue!
August 16th, 2012 at 6:34 PM ^
You shouldn't be giving those assholes at Adidas any new ideas like this....
August 16th, 2012 at 6:47 PM ^
August 17th, 2012 at 11:37 AM ^
badass! For just one game, I can dig it. For sure Maize uniforms would be badass for a game!
August 16th, 2012 at 4:16 PM ^
August 16th, 2012 at 4:18 PM ^
Wow, GA Tech like unis with TCU like helmets (1/2 anyway). And to top it off, leprechaun gloves! This is too good to be true. Is this another one in the BHGP series?
August 16th, 2012 at 4:22 PM ^
Adidas got into college football at the end of the 90s. By 2003, the schools they sponsored all had one thing in common: Shocking collapses of form from their glory days.
These are some of the teams that endured the Adidas curse in the first decade of the 21st century:
UCLA
Tennessee
Notre Dame
Nebraska
Texas A&M
Northwestern
Michigan
Arizona State
There are others. When Michigan signed with Adidas, this is what I was afraid of... and it's exactly what happened.
Now, Adidas is trying to get "creative" with its uniform designs. This Notre Dame abomination is about the worst new uniform I have ever seen, given Notre Dame's "tradition."
August 16th, 2012 at 4:38 PM ^
It is a weird trend, but in fairness, a lot of those schools (like ND and Texas A&M) had started their decline before they signed with Adidas. Maybe their decline made them more affordable for Adidas to sign.
Conversely, Wisconsin has emerged as an annual Big Ten power under Adidas, so not everyone gets jinxed. (Is Northwestern really "cursed", also? If anything, they seem more consistent now than ever before.)
August 16th, 2012 at 4:37 PM ^
Pro Combat uniforms.
August 16th, 2012 at 4:57 PM ^
August 16th, 2012 at 5:51 PM ^
August 16th, 2012 at 6:05 PM ^
August 16th, 2012 at 4:24 PM ^
embrassing is the perfect way to summarize these costumes
August 16th, 2012 at 4:25 PM ^
Can't we just take a break from these alternate uniforms for a little bit. Please make it stop!
August 16th, 2012 at 4:27 PM ^
Dammit. Somebody post that video. Fast. Dammit.
Is there such a thing as "team-uniform malpractice"? Somebody called this debacle "scary." That was how I felt. This looks like a trip to the Casual Sportswear corner at TJ Maxx. On acid.
August 16th, 2012 at 4:47 PM ^
Is it just me or do other people pronounce the bass in Freakbass like the fish? It makes the whole thing even funnier to me.
August 16th, 2012 at 4:50 PM ^
I just assumed it was pronounced that way. I didn't even think of the other way until you mentioned it.
August 16th, 2012 at 4:28 PM ^
August 16th, 2012 at 4:41 PM ^
the designers at Nike
August 16th, 2012 at 5:19 PM ^
Christopher Polyblend
August 16th, 2012 at 4:28 PM ^
Who comes up with these uniforms? I want that guys job.
August 16th, 2012 at 5:39 PM ^
... is a German guy named Dieter:
August 16th, 2012 at 4:28 PM ^
well, the jersey itself isn't bad. the pants are fairly bad and the helmet ruins any chance of this uni being decent.
August 16th, 2012 at 4:28 PM ^
If there was one thing Notre Dame had that was superior to most every other team in the country, it was their helmet.
Now that's gone, too. Seriously, what does Notre Dame have left?
August 16th, 2012 at 9:25 PM ^
NBC and those days maybe numbered.
August 16th, 2012 at 4:30 PM ^
The St. Louis Rams were so generous to offer up their practice unis for ND. Sloppy seconds is almost always a bad idea
August 16th, 2012 at 4:31 PM ^
Where are the three holes in the helmet to put your fingers? As comical as the game is likely to be between two has-been powers, this uniform will be even more hilarious.
August 16th, 2012 at 4:31 PM ^
I don't look at those uniforms and think "Notre Dame." I thought at first that was Georgia Tech, or Navy.
August 16th, 2012 at 4:40 PM ^
"Iowa Barnstormers" or "Denver Gold."
Notre Dame could have the coolest uniforms in the Arena Football League.
August 16th, 2012 at 4:32 PM ^
I swear I've seen some shit in my life, but sweet baby Jesus those are awful.
August 16th, 2012 at 5:43 PM ^
sweet Touchdown Jesus, they are awful.
August 16th, 2012 at 4:35 PM ^
Someone needs to stop the madness with these alternate uniforms already. Some look cool, I guess but it seems an overwhelming majority of them just look sad.
August 16th, 2012 at 4:36 PM ^
If you take the helmet away, they resemble Pitt's jerseys.
August 16th, 2012 at 5:18 PM ^
August 16th, 2012 at 4:37 PM ^
The not-even-half-and-half helmet with that godawful leprechaun... Just as "We are ND" outlclasses all other attempts at horrible hype videos, this dreadful costume somehow makes the new Nebraska and UW looks seem classy and unoffensive.
August 16th, 2012 at 4:43 PM ^
Somebody got paid to design that jersey.
August 16th, 2012 at 4:44 PM ^
August 16th, 2012 at 4:45 PM ^
Want some good reading? Grab some popcorn:
http://www.ndnation.com/boards/showpost.php?b=football;pid=341002;d=all
August 16th, 2012 at 4:55 PM ^
Classic. Hard to pick a favorite comment, but this is in the top 5:
"If you are going to go out in public dressed like that you had better win, and win big. So big that no one would dare make fun of you.
It is the uniform sartorial equivalent of naming your son Sue.
But I am at the point of not caring."
August 16th, 2012 at 4:58 PM ^
"Maybe they will mistake us for Pitt."
August 16th, 2012 at 9:28 PM ^
Pitt had their logo changed a few years ago. The fan base took up an effort to buy nothing with the new logo. Sales tanked and the old logo came back.
August 16th, 2012 at 4:49 PM ^
I think they stole those socks out of my 10 yr old daughter's underwear drawer.
August 16th, 2012 at 5:25 PM ^
we are wearing almost those exact same socks vs Alabama this year.
August 16th, 2012 at 5:33 PM ^
I was just going to say, even after having put our Alabama jerseys out of mind, that I can almost guarantee we'll wear those same socks at least once this year. Nebraska and Wisconsin are also wearing them, I believe.
August 16th, 2012 at 6:01 PM ^
Well, on the plus side, maybe my daughter will be more interested in watching if they are wearing tween knee socks this year.