That’s how Blount got interested.

And as long as that continues, I could care less what we wear.

We could go out there on Saturdays in ragged torn practice uni’s from 30 years ago and someone is going to say…. Look at the balls they have coming out in those uniforms. They obvioulsy don’t resepct their opponent wearing old shit like that.

People who don’t like OU are always going to find something to say no matter what uniform colors or logos we are wearing.

I think from 2003-2004, we had honestly ugly uniforms. But now I think what we strut out with is some very nice and slick looking jerseys. The white, the font, the black outline to the green font, it all looks really futuristic.

All these naysayers are just naggers that would rather see these old boring-ass Penn State uniforms.

Off of Jared’s point, it’s bringing in recruits. Must continue it. Being a ducks blog, I have no fear to say, (though with trace amounts of guilt and being shallowly juvenile), I think nice uniforms, or something that I think I’d look good in, WOULD be a factor in my decision as to where I’d go in college football.

In order to have national significance we need to establish an identity. Ohio State, Michigan, Florida, Oklahoma, they all have established national identities based on tradition and winning. Our program has only been on the map as a legitimate contender for just over a decade and the uniforms (be it good or bad) gets the country talking about us. If it gets us recruits and then gets us wins I will take all I can.

As for personally liking the uniforms, I could do without the 2-tone shoulder/midsection. The whites are my favorites.

. . . Then not at all. Plus whenever they show highlights, people know pretty quick that it’s an Oregon highlight, that can’t be bad.

On a personal stand point, I love the uniforms, and for some reason, the more outlandish the more I like the Unis. The all yellow are my favorite.

I have my own theory that eye catching uniforms (like the yellow ones) unconsciously attract attention forcing opposing quarterbacks to use more of their working memory to focus on their own receivers than usual. This leads to more mistakes by the opposing QB. My theory makes more sense at Witt’s after a bucket of beer.

The players love them…

Announcers love to talk about them…

Fans of Penn State uniforms (Gawd) love to hate them…

I love it!

I’d rather see our grellow helmets get replaced with a brighter, less chartreuse yellow color though.

One of my favorite things about the uniforms is that I can see a picture and know exactly what game they were playing.

I’m excited to see what the rumored black helmet will look like.

My favorites so far are the all-whites, and the Green Helmet, Black Jersey, Yellow Pants (‘07 Arizona St.).

beautiful. I love everything about them. I too loved the set they wore against Arizona St. this past year, and i loved the all white (storm trooper look) white helmet combo they had against washington.

i wish i could have my own oregon jersey set….

I didn’t really care about the new uniforms all that much. But, if they help get more recruits interested in Oregon (which they have, by all accounts), then I am all for them.

I have just never known how everyone in Duck-land feels about them. Where I live in Portland, for some reason all of my good friends are beaver fans. Needless to say I don’t always get to discuss Duck related issues intelligently with others. I was beginning to wonder how I felt about them!
Hell yes I loved the all white, and the ASU get-up too. Great point about how when you see a highlight you know immediately which game it was.
I think a lot of my mixed emotions about them were due to Canzano making the argument that Oregon players aren’t tough because they only love the uni’s. And that beaver players are tougher because they don’t care about shallow superficial stuff like that! Man that is the lamest stretch of a comment I think I’ve heard in a long time.
(this is probably where the beaver trolls will jump in)
Thanks for all the comments.

I hope it is for the Husky Game. I am flying from NY for the weekend w/my girlfriend just to show her a Duck Game. I actually moved away after the 01-02 season so I haven’t even seen a game at the new stadium yet.

As for the Jerseys, I don’t really care. A jersey is a jersey. As long as they are different from whatever team we are playing against, then it’s fine with me. I’m waiting for a Gold Jersey to match those Gold Helmets.

Well after cramming Oregon Football & Basketball down the throats of every single person i have known out here, (and not always providing the best back up, ie. bringing my friends to the UO vs Cinncinnati BBall game in New Jersey (lost 52-77) and then the UO vs Michigan NIT Game the next year at Madison Square Garden (lost 53 – 78) side note, Seeing the Ducks play on a Neutral court on the other side of the country has it’s benefits. Not many fans means leaving my seats and moving courtside behind the ducks bench, watching them play in the garden,which wasn’t all that bad)

So I figured it was about time to bring someone close to me that had experience all the ups and downs we’ve experienced as duck fans the past 5 years to Autzen, and let her see where i’m coming from, and she obviously lucked out and gets a free trip to eugene and a duck game. Plus she’s a Patriots fan, and thats just not right…

PS i need somewhere to tailgate for that husky game? anyone? anyone?

Thanks. I’ll look into it more closer to game day. That would be great to show her the autzen tailgating scene, not to mention throw back a couple beers b4 the game.

They have everyone talking about us. Some of the basketball jerseys (like the black on black lettering) aren’t all that great. But the football jerseysare key to establishing tradition, getting recruits on board, and getting pub.

I’m a Cal fan but I occasionally lurk this blog. Now with that out of the way:

Black out? Are you trying to copy our Gold Out?! :p

In any case why Black Out? I didn’t know Black was your color… I thought it was green and yellow. Where did Black come from? Though I admit it will look bad ass.

As for your unis I like some of them and hate the others, but I do love your tradition of gimmicky uniforms. Seriously it’s cool so please don’t get rid of it.

several years ago before Oregon changed their logo from the UO on the helmets to just the O and they had a more “tradional style jersey” with a bland looking yellow offset by a normal looking green color, the ducks jersey’s were rated the ugliest in college football. Now almost 10 years later, they still get the title. Lets be real here they are just working with what they got. Every other school would do the same thing if Nike was pumping millions of dollars into thier school. The fact is nike was created at U of O and it doesn’t look like the dontations are going to let up. So why not try something differen’t. I bet the first football team that traded in thier leather helmets in exchange for plastic ones looked pretty ridiculus for thier day too.

The fact is I love the jersey’s so does every one else. If some one says they don’t they are just jealous.

One of my friends from Boise, ID thought our jersey’s were gawdy. To which I replied “dude you got a blue field”.

We aren’t the only school trying to get recognized on the national scale. We just found soomething that stands out and everyone knows us for. The jersey are tight. Just ahead of thier time.

Sample of the different options for the black helmet.

man,i love everything about oregon’s uniform enfatuation! i’d be happy if we never saw the same uniform combo twice in the same season. i hope that the rumors about a black out with new black helmets for the husky game are true. you’ve got to think that recruits just love that kind of stuff. my personal favorite combos thus far are the all white storm trooper look and the all yellow jersey/pants/helmet outfit.
if it were up to me, i’d keep coming up with new uniforms and maybe even have a throwback uniform game for homecoming or something. it’s great that the players got to be so involved in designing what they get to wear and obviously other schools took notice, just look how many other schools have redesigned there uni’s or come out with alternates in the last couple years.
so if anybody from nike is reading this i’d first of all just like to say thankyou and second of all make a suggestion… METALLIC CHROME HELMETS WIH GREEN ‘O’s to match the chrome trim on the new jerseys! that would look freakin awesome.