Equipment: Block M removed from home jersey and pants

Submitted by Wolverine Devotee on

We know there will be a new road jersey this season in the final year with adidas, but there has also been an expected tweak to the home jersey.

The criticized block M above the nameplate has been removed. Hopefully the M on the front bumper of the helmet follows it out the door.

New authentic jerseys at MDen. Methinks they'll have a tough time selling adidas gear this year.

 

At media day for team photo, the players wore their 2014 home jerseys with the nameplate Block M covered up on the back. Presumably since the 2015 game jerseys aren't ready yet or haven't been made.

edit: brought to my attention in the thread.

The new actual Maize colored pants no longer have the Blue Block M on them. Those have been on the pants since 1993.

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Rupertus

August 11th, 2015 at 8:50 PM ^

That's too bad for the pants. I feel like the M should be on the uniform somewhere. Maybe embed it into the shoulders like the Biakabatuka jersey I had back in the day.

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drjaws

August 11th, 2015 at 8:51 PM ^

I was just hoping you might give me some insight into the evolution of the market economy in the southern colonies. My contention is that prior to the Revolutionary War, the economic modalities, especially in the southern colonies, could be most aptly described as agrarian pre-capitalist.



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Blue-Chip

August 11th, 2015 at 9:20 PM ^

Of course that's your contention. You're a first-year grad student; you just got finished reading some Marxian historian, Pete Garrison probably. You're gonna be convinced of that 'till next month when you get to James Lemon. Then you're going to be talking about how the economies of Virginia and Pennsylvania were entrepreneurial and capitalist way back in 1740. That's gonna last until next year; you're gonna be in here regurgitating Gordon Wood, talkin' about, you know, the pre-revolutionary utopia and the capital-forming effects of military mobilization.

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MgoBlueprint

August 11th, 2015 at 8:58 PM ^

I'm gonna miss the block M on the pants. I think "michigan" should be on the helmet bumper. I'm pretty sure the white Jersey is either a prototype or a practice jersey. It's missing the TV numbers.



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cheesheadwolverine

August 11th, 2015 at 9:02 PM ^

Ugh. This is horrible.  When was the last time we had uniforms (other than the helmets) with no identifying characteristics?  We've had pants M's the whole time I've been aware, and had shoulder M's before that.

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snarling wolverine

August 11th, 2015 at 10:36 PM ^

Huh?  The M above the nameplate was only there for a year or two.  The shoulder Ms were only there for a couple of years in the '90s.  In between we were M-less.

The M on the pants is from the '90s.  In Harbaugh's time we had no M anywhere on the uniforms.  That's what we seem to be going back to, and I like it.  I get the sense that he's not going to put up with much uniformz nonsense either.

 

 

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Padog

August 11th, 2015 at 9:07 PM ^

I think they kind of shorted Garrett Moores here. He's 6-3 on the roster. So is Shane Morris. That is like a two inch difference here.

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tdcarl

August 11th, 2015 at 9:07 PM ^

If they didn't have the correct jerseys ready then maybe they didn't have the correct pants either and just threw them in a generic pair that were the right color maize?

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Moe

August 11th, 2015 at 9:10 PM ^

Lots of speculation with little actual facts. How do we know there will be new road jerseys? How do we know they won't just sew on the "M" to the pants?

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Wolverine Devotee

August 11th, 2015 at 9:27 PM ^

And again, it was talked about awhile ago that Michigan will be going with a cleaner looking road jersey. 

I guarantee there will be a different road jersey this year, one way or another. 

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winterblue75

August 11th, 2015 at 9:38 PM ^

You've become a uniform snob bordering on prickish. Nothing has been officially announced or displayed, so excuse people if they take rumors with a grain of salt. And as for sewing on a block M, what the hell would be so outlandish about that at this point?

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Wolverine Devotee

August 11th, 2015 at 9:45 PM ^

Moe always does this with any post I make. 

Sewing on a Block M onto 105 or more pairs of pants would be a nightmare task for the equipment staff.  For one, they'd be coming undone during games after players hit the deck on turf or grass.

Two, it doesn't make it any sense whatsoever. They've been embroidered since 1993. Why in the world would you start going through extra trouble to sew on a Block M when you can have the company that deals the pants do it since that's what their job is? I could see doing that in the old days when there weren't big dealers like there are now.

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SpikeFan2016

August 12th, 2015 at 10:18 AM ^

Greater textile feats have been accomplished in the past and undoubtebly will be in the future. If you don't like them because you don't like them, that's your opinion, and that's okay.

 

But don't make up some outlandish excuse as to how it would be a massive burden on a seamstress. 

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tdcarl

August 11th, 2015 at 9:50 PM ^

Its just vintage WD. Taking an educated guess and running with it like its 100% stone cold fact. Sometimes he's right, sometimes he's not, but he'll never back down. 

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