Nike mutilates and/or improves Oregon State uniforms
Maybe Adidas aint so bad?
Woof
edited for more woof worthy picture
double edited because some people like the brightness and bad logos
Also:
Terrible new logo
Reminds me of the Atlanta Thrashers logo.
Sorry, but as a HUGE Thrashers fan, I don't see it at all. I WANT MY TEAM TO COME BACK TO ATLANTA! I still haven't found a suitable replacement... I guess it wasnt meant to be...
But this is the NHL we are talking about so the Montreal Canadiens will be moving to Atlanta any time now.
The Flames weren't that quickly replaced. It took like 20 years.
The big mistake is that they played at a location downtown that was harder to access for most of the demographic that they were trying to reach. An arena in the north of the city would have worked fine.
I'm skeptical of the idea that the Thrashers' problems came down to a poorly-located arena. If you're a diehard, you'll find a way to go to the games. I'd bet that the average Red Wing fan has a drive of at least 30 minutes to get to the Joe (it's an overwhelmingly suburban fanbase), but they deal.
I think Atlanta is just like a lot of Sun Belt cities - it's hard to sell a cold-weather sport to an area that doesn't get that cold.
I sort of agree but would like to point out that Atlanta has entirely different traffic dynamic than Detroit does. People in Atlanta try to avoid dealing with it if at all possible. Once they've gone downtown for their workday, they don't want to go back. And I would very much doubt the "at least 30 minutes" figure for Detroit. It definitely doesn't take half an hour to get downtown from Downriver or Macomb County. The average fan probably has a 20-minute drive.
Diehard fans I agree with; clearly the Thrashers never had many. But it's a little unfair when they'd been in town for 12 years and the Wings have been around for four or five generations. Atlanta's not a real great sports town due to all the imports, but a team needs a little time to take root. As in, kids have to grow up with the team, which means you need a lot longer than what the Thrashers had.
You hit the nail right on the head. The traffic flow is crazy. That is why the minor league hockey team (Gwinnett gladiators) has found reletavily good attendence because the arena is well north of the city. The diehards will do anything to attend the games- the thing that the Thrashers always lacked was that steady stream of parents taking their kids to the game that you see at other games. It just wasn't ever there for the thrashers. It makes we wonder how teams could be successful in Nashville and Tampa, but never in Atlanta, which kills those two population wise.
In Atlanta you are starting to see that new generation of fans take root with regards to the Falcons and Braves, which are insanely popular right now. The city has that "buzz" around those teams if you know what I mean.
were unfortunately the entire fan base in Atlanta.
Outside of hockey, it seems like the Hawks, Falcons and Braves have also had tough times selling out consistently for 30 years. There have been some good teams playing during that timespan as well. Maybe it's been longer than that but I didn't have TBS until the mid 80s. Excuse me, WTBS.
I kind of like it, actually.
It looks like a bird with teeth
Or a beaver that ran really fast into a tree and had its face smashed in.
Well ya know, there are lots of trees out here in Oregon. There's at least the possibility that was the inspiration
Gills and all.
Nothing impresses me more than a streamlined beaver.
That looks like it ran hard into a wall and its face was flattened cartoon-style.
Like the unis for flash for a program with little history and wants to stand out ala Boise State. I know we have a traditional uniform but countless kids have said "that helmet" drew them to Michigan at first. The helmet is "flashy" (for its time) so we could have been accused of the same thing decades ago ;)
A shade or two lighter and the orange would be quite awful, very "highlighter" coloring but just evades that. (and yes I realize we have some uniforms that are walking highliters as well) A bit brighter than the Begnals unis but the obvious different being the same colored pants versus black.
Did Nike really do the logo? Or was that an internal thing - it looks silly, like a beaver pug :)
I would imagine the school designed the logo on its own. I don't think Nike would actually change a school's logo (except possibly in the case of Oregon).
I don't think Nike can change the school's logo without permission, but remember the MSU logo debacle a couple years back? I think that designers from Nike collaborate with the schools on issues like the logo.
It's squeeze and it makes the logo look even worse. If you shrink the picture and allow it to stretch like it should it looks a LITTLE better. Still sucks, but it doesn't look taller than it does wide.
I talked to several OSU alums last night, and they like the new logo. They thought the old was was atrocious. And franly I agree.
I think that's a "Motion Beaver" (a la Wisconsin's "Motion W").
I get the whole brighter, flashier color thing. These are the times we live.
But the facemask color thing is terrible.
I'm going to reserve judgement until I see them on the field. I thought Missouris new unis looked okay when they did the highly edited press release photos, then I saw them on the field and thought they looked ridiculous.
I was never big on their original uniforms.
Then I saw the first one and I was like, Ok, no mutilation yet. It's teetering on that line.
Then the 2nd and 3rd picture came up and I vomited everywhere.
mutilate
in fact, they are just orange. the logo is pretty tiny.
what is so bad?
Those aren't even that bad...people pretty much just freak out any time jerseys are changed these days..be objective!
To me they look like a prison jump suit version of those MSU jerseys with the bronze helmets. Except with a terrible facemask paint job. And a logo of a mammal that looks like a bird.
Perhaps you need to learn your history. They started playing football only 14 years after Michigan in 1893. They have the 7th oldest college rivarly in football against Oregon in "The Civil War". To say they have no history or tradition... you sir need to get off your high horse.
Most D-1 teams started playing football in the early 1900s. When someone says a school has "no tradition," that is usually taken to mean that they have never been consistently competitive and relevant, rather than to mean that they literally have not been around for very long.
Oregon State had a grand total of three top-10 seasons prior to 2000 and has only won one Rose Bowl (in 1941). Saying they have a football tradition is like saying Temple has a football tradition.
angery ginea pig. Jesey is not bad but the facemask stripe design just killed it for me.
They're generically terrible, but nothing appreciably worse than what Nike-das churns out on average. At least Oregon State is not wearing Zanga jams, and as we all well know they will never ever be the ugliest or most odious OSU in the country no matter what they wear.