I LOVE the yellow paint in the middle of the facemask so that the players more physically resemble an actual duck. BRILLIANT! Keep 'em comin', boys!
They must have that saying at Oregon: when life gives you lemons, make... er... ...lime... ...helmet ... you can't fool me again.
That should have been the NCAA penalty for Oregon, NO MOAR UNIFORMZ!!!
From your mouth...
I understand updating uniforms but I am waiting for Oregon to petition to change uniform schemes during halftime.
Aren't football helmets pretty expensive? I don't understand the commercial benefits of having extra helmet designs. Where do you recoup your money?
Heh. Are you really unaware of Phil Knight's ties to the school? They could change helmets every play if they cared to.
I know that, but why does Nike want to do this? Alternate jerseys I can understand - it's more merchandise to sell. But they don't sell replica helmets, to my knowledge. So what's the point?
but why does Nike want to do this?
Buzz ... we're talking about Nike ... mission accomplished.
(I'm not being snarky ... I really think that's the primary point of this -- create some buzz around the Oregon uniforms and helmets and get the name "Nike" injected into the discussion. It's marketing / publicity / advertising. Love Nike or hate 'em, they're brilliant at that game.)
1,000 little girls in Thailand just went down from a 3/4 cup of rice to a 1/2 cup.
All the helmets are painted in Oregon. The company Hydro Graphics Inc. in Newberg, Oregon paints all of the Oregon helmets. This company also has done helmets for TCU and numerous other schools.
Oregon and Nike have had a quid-pro-quo relationship for years. Orgegon gets all the trashy uniforms they want, and Nike gets a professional football team.
Is that....is the bear?...is the guy?...seems like more of a game warden thing, to me...
I'm actually not against stuff like this for schools that do not have a long history. It also makes sense that Oregon is a prime example of this trend. The trend of wearing loud clothing in sports started way back when I was in high school, in the early 2000's. Neon shoes were starting to become cool. Which turned to neon socks, neon gloves, then neon whatever the hell you could neon. It looks cool, recruits like it, but just don't mess with the USC, Bama, Michigan, or PSU uniforms...
I love their helmets that they have had. I think the ones though that they had in their last Rose Bowl or even the National Championship game were best. As a player its gotta be pretty awesome to get a chance to wear all of these difference helmets and jerseys. That is if I was an Oregon player.
For us.....would rather keep the jerseys as is except for maybe switching back to Nike and not having all the various alternate jerseys.
So, from what I've heard players usually get to keep their helmets when they graduate. Does this mean each player gets to keep each helmet they wear after the season?
Time was, Oregon had some of the dullest and most boring uniforms in all of sports, not simply the world of hidebound college football which featured brilliant and evocative designs like, uh, Penn State.
I gotta hand it to Oregon; they are doing their own thing nowadays, having fun with it, probably making some money off of it, and making news in the process. Not for everybody, but then again what did Oregon start with? Why not go in an all-new crazy-assed direction?
Oregon versus Okalahoma, 1972:
that there school colors are green, yellow, white, silver, grey, and black. I mean, duh.
you forgot mirror and carbon fiber
How can you downvote Uniformz???
Oh I see...you don't like much of anything:
That qualifies for the coveted "pimp hand" award.
Was noticing a trend for whom downvoted my posts and when this came up again - did some research.
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I like the helmets
I like your signature. Now I wanna go home and watch Team America.
You should always want to watch Team America
Oregon is trying to make as many different uniforms as number of violations
Just my opinion, but I really hope your source is wrong.
I really like those numbers like that.
Probably the first adidas uniformz that aren't completely atrocious. I'm not sure if Nebraska should be wearing black shirts so soon after giving up 70 to Wisky.
but Oregon's latest era of uniforms are outstanding. The white ones from the USC game were sweet, the Chrome winged helmets were awesome this year...
so many great looks...that I would never want at Michigan.
I hate when M messes with the jerseys, but I love schools that have variation, like Oregon, Maryland, Oklahoma State, etc.
Eventually, it seems Oregon will have stockpiled enough helmets and uniforms that they could almost literally have a player go through all of their college career without having worn the same helmet / uniform combination in any one game. That might very well be the logical conclusion here, if Nike has anything to say about it.
As for these helmets, I somehow have this vision of Oregon being inspired by the old Coke with lime commercial, "Put the lime on the helmet and you wear them both together....".
According to SBNation, it was a leak from a promotional video for the season, and they did sneak preview these in the Oregon spring game.
After giving the world Air Force Ones and Air Max shoes Phil Knight can do no wrong. ( Besides the unfair labor conditions.)