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Road Uniforms Will Have 1974 Flavor Comment Count

Brian

Rivals had posted some shots of what purported to be Michigan's road uniforms this season. They controversially(!) featured white pants, and they are a real thing:

Michigan had a brief period in the mid-70s in which they wore uniforms very similar to those. You can see what they looked like (and get your RDA recommended dosage of Keith Jackson) in the introductions to the 1974 OSU game. A wider shot of the pants comes at 1:15:

A better look at the uniforms is available to people willing to watch the infamous Mike Lantry "miss" in 1974:

These are legit throwbacks, so they've got that going for them. I'm not sure how I feel about them yet; it'll be hard to tell until I see the modernized version actually on a person. I think I'll like the jerseys but wish we were going with maize pants.

It is interesting that the instant Harbaugh comes in Michigan wears a clean, actual throwback. One of the many revelations in Endzone—sorry, BRANDON'S LASTING LESSONS—is that a large number of the uniformz folly can be traced directly to the AD, down to the goofy numbers against South Carolina.

Adidas remains responsible for delivering jerseys that tore as soon as the opponents looked at 'em, though.

Comments

jmblue

August 16th, 2015 at 5:30 PM ^

I think they're OK. I prefer maize pants but I respect that it's a genuine throwback and not "throwback-inspired" or whatever we billed the UTL jerseys as. (I always thought the UTL jerseys would have been amazing - not to mention more historically accurate - if they just had the block M. But no, we had to have a bunch of stripes.)

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Mo Better Blues

August 17th, 2015 at 8:02 AM ^

Anyone who doesn't like these is mistaken and I'll happily accept your apologies. There's certainly nothing wrong with our 'traditional' road unis, but the maize and white do tend to wash out or are at least a little redundant, and don't get me started on blue numbers outlined in maize on a white background. That's a straight-up design fail for anyone who knows anything about how the human eye generally perceives color and what the point of a uniform is in the first place.

These are awesome. And that's a fact and anyone who says otherwise should move to Russia. ;-)

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snowcrash

August 17th, 2015 at 11:09 AM ^

White's a Sparty color. We should wear it only as the background color on the road jerseys. The pants should always be maize or even blue, with no white.

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harbus

August 17th, 2015 at 9:48 PM ^

This is an upgrade from all that embarrassing, inconsistent piping on the old road jersey. Now we just need Harbaugh to make the team play physical style of football, like Bo's teams in the 70s.

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