Illinois Football Uniforms

#382      
Cook
redwingillini11 said:
If we win this game, permanent helmets and I better not hear any complaining from any of you…
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In spite of my well documented hate for it, I would have succumbed. We all want wins above all else! Proud of our team and their fight tonight and wished we'd come out on top, also understand there's those who genuinely like it, yet admittedly I'm not mad the 'stition is broken. Arched Illini forever! Commence the clap back, I'll duck for cover :cool:
 
#384      
Toews
Toews said:
I've said before, but I always thought Nike was on to something with the stripes of the shield. I think the school even realizes that since we use the stripes in a lot of the school's marketing materials for other programs, including basketball. The problem with the shield is they flipped the stripes and have the silly column thing on the top that represents nothing and looks cheesy. Something like this but with the stripes flipped would represent both the Grange stripes and the columns (two by two).

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Nike listened to me.
 
#385      
SixthandWhite
IlliniCaboose said:
There's been a few conversations in different threads about how we can't ever purchase the on field apparel that coaches wear (which are often far cooler than the stuff we see in stores and online) and my question is is this also the case with other schools? Or is this one of those "nike doesn't care about illinois" things? I find it very hard to believe that Ohio state fans don't have 10,000x the apparel options we do and if they couldn't purchase something the coaches were wearing on the sidelines they'd march to Eugene in protest.
Does Nike A) not even think about us or B) assume we don't have enough fan support and thus not enough people buying merch to put out anything more than the most basic of options?
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I'm just pissed I can't buy a white or orange jersey unless it's a nameless 50 or 77.
 
#388      
Fighter of the Nightman
The two uniforms I am holding out hope for at least one appearance this year:

O/B/B at home (we wore this vs. FAU and vs. Nebraska last year). I think this combo might look nice either (A) for any night game we might get besides Michigan or (B) vs. Minnesota when we are wearing the military appreciation helmets. IMO, we missed an opportunity vs. CMU to wear this combo, as it was worn quite a lot during the 1980s when we had the arched ILLINI helmet.

O/W/B on the road (team #BPOTR just keeps on dreamin'....). Thankfully, we seem to have ditched the white pants on the road so far this year (I seriously hate that look, haha), but no navy pants yet. I think the Oregon game is begging to be the game we bust this combo out, harkening back to our stunning upset of Michigan at the Big House in 1999.

Bonus pick is maybe getting to see what O/B/W looks like at home vs. Purdue. We probably will not get that (and I'm okay with that), but the helmets we are wearing for the Purdue game were often paired with that combo, and it's what we wore with those throwbacks in 2008:

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