New MGoBlog t-shirts?
Any interest in having a t-shirt design contest? Would be nice if we could come up with a couple designs similar to to the front of the 2003/2004 shirts.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v68/modowski/2009%20Clothing%20-%20Tu…
I wouldn't mind paying a bit more ($25-30) if it meant Brian being able to pocket a few bucks along with whoever did the design to help incentivize some creativity.
I thought I'd seen the answer to this, and I was correct. In the comments of the 'Special Meta Mailbag' post Brian responds that a new t-shirt contest is eminent.
http://mgoblog.com/content/special-meta-mailbag#comment-116873
I'm all for new shirts, but what I'd like are bigger sizes. I'm a "plus sized" dude so I need the multi-X t-shirts and the best shirts always only run XL high. If there could be some XXL shirts I'm sure they would sell fast.
X's a plenty please!
I would like to agree with jokenjin. I would like to see bigger sizes and if at all possible (don't laugh) tall sizes. Some of us, I swear, are not freaks, but are label as such and must obtain clothing at special stores and by the luck of a long length cut.
-UMichGA
I am 6'6", 150lb, and would definitely consider myself a freak. All the more reason for me to back this suggestion 100%. If there were tall sizes I might buy two of them.
OMG EAT SOMETHING
I could use some strength and conditioning help from Gittleson.
...and man do I miss Cottage Inn. Wonder if Gittleson would have time to deliver down here.
lulz
I would be up for buying the winning shirt, as long as it's maize.
Maize maize... not neon construction yellow adidas maize
As long as they're plainly visible during our night game. And match our Maize Uniforms.
You do realize that Traditional Maize is supposed to be pretty light yellow.
The Blue of Maize and Blue is also supposed to be lighter than the current Navy-esque blue, but I wouldn't want to start looking like Delaware.
Real men can wear a light maize shirt; 80's German porn starlets (and Oregon) can keep the neon.
I have tons of experience in these matters, and I don't remember any 80's German porn starlets wearing light yellow...
Err...I mean... What?
I would buy a new shirt from mgoblog as long as it's maize, another shirt to wear to the games. Also I feel a slogan like the one on the site, "the ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Forcier" would be cool. Then again, anything is better than "All in for Michigan!"...
I know I'm in the minority here, and that the battle is already long lost, but I never thought going with maize as the fan-wide color was a good idea.
We're "Blue."
We say "Go Blue."
Our home jerseys are Blue too.
Having maize be the official fan-wide color seems more like a cash grab idea, not that I'm diametrically opposed to cash-grabs in principle. Everyone owns navy blue t-shirts, etc., but besides that one with the clown puking magic, how many maize t-shirts did you own before Maize Craze was all the rage?
What sucks about the maize thing is that the Down-In-Front brigade doesn't own maize: at best they own a Wal-Mart home Desmond Howard "21" jersey, but more likely it's a beige golf shirt with an embroidered block "M" that the wearer has brought faithfully to every game since 1981 goddammit.
It might be theoretically possible to get the alumni sections to wear enough blue that the D.I.F.ers would feel enough pressure to join the crowd. But maize, I believe, will be forever relegated to the student section.
Last season, for a number of home games (maybe all) the athletic department handed out maize t-shirts before the game. It was a middling success as far as I could tell. Maize really clashes with beige, yo. It would be nice if everyone joined the maize movement, but it doesn't seem likely to ever happen. Fans SHOULD feel obligated, however, to at least wear one of the two colors. Your comment about beige golf shirts is too often true.
After once being a "Wear maize godammit" fellow, I've now accepted the idea that the student section will be the only part of the stadium that ever fully embraces it. I'm ok with that. As long as the student section is united and creates a great atmosphere I'm happy.
Like you said, it would take alot for the DIFers (great acronym btw) to get behind anything they haven't been used to doing for 27 years.
I'm a fifth yr senior and also a die hard basketball fan, so take this with a grain of salt, but I love the Maize shirts. For me, wearing blue is cool at any random time, but come gameday, it's time to bust out the maize. Probably has alot to do with me being a die hard Maize Rage fan since it's beginning, long before I got to AA.
'05 had a blue shirt.
It doesn't really bother me when the alumni or DIFers wear blue, as long as it's something michigan and blue or maize. But when you're sitting in the student section, wearing maize comes with the seat. If it is too much to wash your game shirt every week, get another maize shirt. You just look lame standing in the student section wearing anything else.
I liked that shirt. But also, I remember the '05 blue-out looking really non-menacing.
The everyone-wear-the-same-color-shirt concept was still gaining traction in '05 (i.e., lots of students still weren't participating). Fast forward 5 years: now the entire student section (and surprisingly large numbers of non-students) participate in Maize-outs, and you might get a Blue-out that works.
Those who bitch about DIF'ers not wearing the right shirts might benefit from some perspective. Watch some game footage from, say, 2003 (first year of the student t-shirt), and check out the crowd shots. Now check out a crowd shot from this past season. Far, far more non-student-section fans participate now than they once did. The culture is changing. Perhaps too slowly for some, but it is changing.
I don't think there were maize-outs in 2003, just a student shirt.
The difference from the early blue-outs to the early maize-outs was drastic, I really think blue just doesn't stick out. Then again, I'm colorblind so take my opinion with a grain of salt.
Produce two different shirts. Maize for student season ticket holders and a blue for regular season ticket holder. The sight of a sea of navy blue contrasting with a student section of maize would be very impressive. Penn State has white outs, Georgia; black outs, why can't we achieve a maize (student) AND blue (alumni) out?
They tried the whole blue block M in the student section last year (I forget what game), which worked out pretty well. I hope they do that again this year, I remember it looking really cool.
That was the Wisconsin game and see how that turned out. Hmmmmm.
The whole stadium is dressed in navy blue except for the student section, which is in maize, with a big navy block M in the middle. THAT would be cool.
We'll never get a true Maize-Out because too many of the down-in-fronters will never embrace the concept.
Right, I just remember the shirts they had for the block M being all like XXLs.
The very fact that PSU has a "White Out" should tell us that we should not have any sort of "--insert coulour here-- out"
After all...we are not the "Followers and the Best" ... we are the "Leaders and the Best"
And by the way...my polos are a tasteful grey blue with Maize stitching...Cutter and Buck...so there is no excuse not to "Go Blue" at the game...
You know what would be awesome?
If everyone wore the color of their seat.
It would be this:
Except with people in it.
Sounds pretty hard to pull off, but it might just be possible if the University and student groups and such are involved. Like if a letter was mailed to wear X color with your season tickets, and if there were free shirts for those who were in the wrong color. Would have to be a game with very few away fans, early enough in the season for it to be t-shirt (or t-shirt over a long-sleeve) weather, but important enough that only a small margin of season ticket holders gave up their tix. Like a Big Ten opener with Indiana maybe.
Another option is to simply do a big, blue block M in the middle of the student section.
White-outs are easy -- to pull this off in the biggest football stadium in the world would be an astounding feat.
Except with people in it.
Sounds pretty hard to pull off, but it might just be possible if the University and student groups and such are involved. Like if a letter was mailed to wear X color with your season tickets, and if there were free shirts for those who were in the wrong color. Would have to be a game with very few away fans, early enough in the season for it to be t-shirt (or t-shirt over a long-sleeve) weather, but important enough that only a small margin of season ticket holders gave up their tix. Like a Big Ten opener with Indiana maybe.
Another option is to simply do a big, blue block M in the middle of the student section.
White-outs are easy -- to pull this off in the biggest football stadium in the world would be an astounding feat.When you give people free shirts to wear you can get anything that you want out of this.
I would definitely buy a "Maybe Jozy can play quarterback" t-shirt
I don't know if Brian has obtained the exclusive copyright on the phrase "SPACE, BITCHES!" but I'd be in on that shirt.
"Fuck Space UP, Bitches"
I lol'd at work.
(Try explaining "fuck space up bitches" to a co-worker....)
This x1000
I would like to see a picture of the evolution of man on the front, evolving to the point where the last picture is a big nasty o-lineman in a three point stance wearing a winged helmet (trademark issue, I know), and one of the more popular mgoblog-isms on the back.
Just my $.02.
I'm all over this... name the date Brian.
(with maybe the schedule on the back)?
I'm strapped in, for Michigan!
laughed out loud and showed co-workers this pic. That's the funniest pic I've seen in a while. Hats off to you.
Ohio State already used that as their unofficial slogan.
See: Clarett, Maurice
I thought it was "I'm locked and loaded for Ohio State."
was great.
But wouldn't this have really been better for last year's season! I think we were all that little girl.
I want to buy this shirt NOW already.
chock full of awesome.
+1,000,000,000
Blue is a color that people wear regularly .... it doesn't standout or make a statement like wearing maize. Frankly, "Blue Outs" really don't look all that different from a normal game.
Here's the 2002 "Blue Out" vs. MSU...
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2g_sq65J9fw/RsSAbmQjE1I/AAAAAAAABWs/4ZVIMSQUy…
Blah.
yeah that looks like any other game.
does anyone have a picture of this years maize out or block M during the Wisconsin game?
Pic of Block M during Wisconsin game
http://mvictors.com/?p=1264
If we can get games like that one (specifically the 2nd half). I suggest we just spell out michigan wolverines throughout the stadium.
Either that or fuck shit up!!