Uniforms vs Idaho

[Downwiththefoe1]

I'm seeing that Bohannon is in this week's 2 deep.
Based on what happened when they left Wortham off for North Dakota, are we buying that he is starting?
Anyone heard anything on his status?

Haucks 2 deeps unfortunately are meaningless. My guess would be he isnt playing.

 

[LowellVandal]

I don't mind talk about uniforms, because I have many complaints about our current ones. What's the deal with all the colors? We debate the maroon/silver versus the original colors versus alternate colors ad infinitum. I'm here to say we don't need all these soft-nosed, weak-necked colors. If you look at photographs of any uniforms from the hardest-nosed teams in football history, you'll see that they all wore a combination of black, white, and different shades of sepia. No microfiber, no dri-fit, and the only wicking going on was down at Penhaligon's Candle Shop.

As we all know, around the late 1960s, more and more teams started getting spray fart soft. This coincided with the addition of colors to jerseys, helmets, and even socks. We can debate correlation versus causation, but you can see evidence of the color shift in period photographs. I don't think it's a coincidence.

Many of you may ask questions like, "How do you know players were tougher pre-1960-ish, when colors became more common on uniforms?" or "Do fundamental particles, including the graviton that carries the gravitational force, truly act like one-dimensional vibrating strings?" I know those players were tougher because if you look at historical data, a player from that era could play offensive line at a mere 185 lbs. Nowadays, those same players tip the scales at some 100 lbs.+ heavier. Clearly, a 185-lb player who can effectively block is much tougher than one who needs to weigh 100 pounds more to effectively block. Basic science.

In closing, all tough teams in history wore a nice black/white/sepia color scheme. So, by flawless logic, if we wear a nice black/white/sepia color scheme, we will be tough.

The Idaho board has this convo all the time, because Idaho cannot decide what colors to wear.

The official school colors are silver and gold, like Colorado. Apparently, in the ‘40s-‘50s they wore black and garnet. Late ‘50s to late ‘60s black and yellow gold, think Iowa. Then, it was silver and gold until the ‘78 until they went back to Iowa colors until leaving for the Big West when they copied Colorado. A couple of years ago they went back to “Pride Gold” aka Iowa.

For Saturday, they wearing the throwback jersey of 50 years of the Kibbie Dome. Although, they got the gold too dark.

 

[GriznMN]

Anybody see Oregon is going to wear "Glow-in-the-Dark" unis in their game against Penn State.

MSN

 

[Griz Addict]

Anybody see Oregon is going to wear "Glow-in-the-Dark" unis in their game against Penn State.

MSN

Idc what anyone says, thats badass. Also uniforms can hype people up. It's nice to see new things. Same old same old, gets old.

 

[Griz in Texas]

Anybody see Oregon is going to wear "Glow-in-the-Dark" unis in their game against Penn State.

MSN

I heard on ESPN earlier that they are going to highjack the whiteout by wearing all white.

 

[HelenaHandBasket]

Idc what anyone says, thats badass. Also uniforms can hype people up. It's nice to see new things. Same old same old, gets old.

Not a fan of tradition?

 

[Ursa Major]

If I’m understanding this correctly, it’s brilliant

 

[CDAGRIZ]

The Idaho board has this convo all the time, because Idaho cannot decide what colors to wear.

The official school colors are silver and gold, like Colorado. Apparently, in the ‘40s-‘50s they wore black and garnet. Late ‘50s to late ‘60s black and yellow gold, think Iowa. Then, it was silver and gold until the ‘78 until they went back to Iowa colors until leaving for the Big West when they copied Colorado. A couple of years ago they went back to “Pride Gold” aka Iowa.

For Saturday, they wearing the throwback jersey of 50 years of the Kibbie Dome. Although, they got the gold too dark.

Yep. We’re in the same boat. Some people love maroon/silver, others prefer the originals. I say lose em both.

 

[Griz in Texas]

Yep. We’re in the same boat. Some people love maroon/silver, others prefer the originals. I say lose em both.

Before we have Kem on here again, the "originals" even though school colors were copper, the color to the eye on the field is maroon and silver, originally.

If you don't want either one, what prey tell, would you have the team take the field in? Please don't say black, that's not any part of tradition. The only time I remember anything black on any Griz uniform was a mourning band on the basketball uniforms for Herb Jones.

 

[Grizzlies1982]

Yep. We’re in the same boat. Some people love maroon/silver, others prefer the originals. I say lose em both.

Sorry CDA,
I don't want our guys playing naked.

 

[CDAGRIZ]

Before we have Kem on here again, the "originals" even though school colors were copper, the color to the eye on the field is maroon and silver, originally.

If you don't want either one, what prey tell, would you have the team take the field in? Please don't say black, that's not any part of tradition. The only time I remember anything black on any Griz uniform was a mourning band on the basketball uniforms for Herb Jones.

Read my previous post. It lays out my stance on the issue very clearly.

 

[Griz in Texas]

Read my previous post. It lays out my stance on the issue very clearly.

Oh, that.

Like I said, black is not one of our colors, and wtf is sepia? Reminds me of fuchsia.

 

[jacobj6]

What is the ROI on spending well into the six figures for jerseys? Let me know the numbers, and how you calculated it.

It’s not 6 figures for 1 set of shirts and shirts. And they can be used in the rotation multiple times.

The ROI is plentiful:
1- million eyes on primetime
2 - 17 year old recruits; lean just 1 four star our way (or more) and it’s worth the $14k x 1,000. Changes trajectory FOREVER.
3 - marketing is magic
4 - mental swagger in young guys goes a long, long, long way
5 - branding matters
7 - big picture, forward thinking, planning & direction is priceless
8 - cohesion in a group of young men matters
9 - branding matters
10 - branding matters
11 - branding matters, especially in youth
12 - Verizon spends $12,000,000,000 per year on branding. They’re not stupid.
13 - likely sell a few more tickets (10, 100, 400+). Then a few more in succeeding games
14 - a few more eyeballs on TV just to see the buzz
15 - winning is the ONLY thing that matters, but winning is EXPENSIVE (and takes all hands on deck on all facets), especially in the NIL era
16 - NIL is costly. This could be one very cheap way to maybe, possibly try and capture/keep a young player that is weighing possibly moving on elsewhere
17 - marketing matters

 

[GriznMN]

Oh, that.

Like I said, black is not one of our colors, and wtf is sepia? Reminds me of fuchsia.

CDA was tongue-in-cheek referring to the really "old" school unis of the 1920s, 30s, 40s that look "sepia" in the pictures because there were no color pictures during that time period. Like how can we really know what the colors were in the days of black and white, i.e. before color, if all of the pictures made the colors look like a different shade of brown.