Something needs to be done about the helmet stickers (pic)

I bet the players like them, so what else matters?

Taking up guitar? Jogging? My contacts in the seedy underworld of stamp collecting tell me the industry is about to skyrocket.

I'm with OP here. Love the sticker design themselves, but they're either too big or too easy to accumulate. Make it tougher to receive them or change it to something small in the back of the helmet a la Georgia.

Agreed. Peppers needs to get more of them.

I think that once your helmet gets full there should be a sticker the normal size with 5 mini stickers inside of hit. But invert the colors so you can put blue stickers on the wings.

Look at it this way, we could still be under the leadership of Dave Brandon and Brady Hoke sporting NO helmet stickers. I'm going to go ahead and not give a shit about their size or presence.

Quit drinking and go to bed.

Have a wonderful life.

Yea....no.  Nothing NEEDS to be done.

 

It's quite obvious that players with more stickers play better, therefore we should be giving players MORE stickers.

/logic

When I first heard about Harbaugh bringing back helmet stickers, which I think are awesome, I had emailed an idea to the email address associated with Harbaugh's twitter account.  In it, I mentioned how my brother and I thought it'd be cool if they used the paw print of a wolverine something like the image below.  My reasoning was that the actual wolverine is not really visibile within the university and the block M has become the defacto "mascot" of the school.  The wolverine is a fierce animal and having a sticker that symbolized that would be cool.  I thought it was a decent enough idea, so I sent the email thinking that would be that.  WIthin the email, I also made it abundantly clear that I expected some lonely intern to be reading it.

 

A few weeks went by when I recieved this email:

Nick, thank you for the interest your brother and you have in Michigan Football and also your supporting the  decision to reinstate the helmet stickers. Appreciate very much your thoughts on the design,we are in process of gathering thoughts and again appreciate your input. Jim Harbaugh (I promise)
 

Anyway, thought it was a cool story and thought I'd share.

Hey OP - Go read the post about Chad Carr. Then reflect on whether the aesthetic quality of helmet stickers really f*ing matters. 

Sounds like one of them good problems.

Whether they invite you to consult remains to be seen.

I'll admit I wasn't a fan of the sticker idea when it was first announced. I also grew up watching Michigan when they didn't wear helmet stickers. But now that the season is rolling I've warmed up to them. Hell, I like them a lot. I actually like them better than the small block Ms which I was a big fan of when someone first posted them here.

I'm not going to lose sleep over this, but you definitely have a point.  I'd prefer no stickers, but it's not my call.  I like the current stickers if they reduce the size.  I also don't like them going between the stripes. 

Harbaugh is known to promote competition at all times and there's no doubt that the stickers are one of his many motivational tools.  But you can keep a running tab in the locker room without actually applying every damn sticker a player earns.  We'll be wrapping 'em around the facemask bars by OSU.

And while we're talking uniform-related aesthetics, I enjoyed the nostalgia of white pants on the road, but I'm all set.  You can bring back the maize now.

 

I think they look great.

I like them.

AWESOME! You people crack me up and are never happy. Everyone cried for the stickers to come back and bitched and complained until we get them, now that we have them people bitch about the amount and size as if you really have a say so in the matter. I'm sick of everyone complaining to complain. Fucking grow up already

Just increase the size of the helmet. You're welcome.

Threads like these remind me that while we have our Michigan fandom in common, there's a lot of people out there who should keep their opinion to themselves. Coach wanted them, shut your mouth and support the team.

The wolverine football stickers look badass; yes they're too big, but I like that there are more competitive outlets to earn them. While the photoshopped skinny M's look clean AF, we could always just shrink the current ones. I'll trust Harbaugh's judgement going forward.

If Harbaugh approves I approve! Who gives a shit I just want to win man

I wonder if people complained this much on this blog during Bos time :/

One thing that has grown on me, though, is all-white uniform. I thought I'd hate it, but it's neat looking.