NU Alternate/Throwback Unis for Illinois

Here are Colgate's alternate uniforms this year...

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Moiraine said:
I'm ok with the jerseys. The look of the helmet isn't fugly or anything - it just doesn't have anything to do with Nebraska other than Nebraska has played football a long time. Maybe it will look cool from a distance though.

This helmet is from a different era than they spoke of (could've been used as a WWII era replica). Although I'm not sure if it would've looked good.

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Here is the actual 1918 football team and I can't really tell what the helmets look like (or even which team is Nebraska and which is Notre Dame):

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I guess I should be happy they didn't go with brown pants. This is late 1920s. What I haven't found a photo of is a Nebraska team ever wearing a helmet like the alternate helmet. Maybe they just thought all white would look boring so they added some gray to it.

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The helmet isn't grey. It's texturing/shadow effects in the paint to simulate leather grain.

 
ZRod said:
The helmet isn't grey. It's texturing/shadow effects in the paint to simulate leather grain.
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O.o I’m aware of what they’re trying to do wih it, which should be obvious seeing as I posted a photo of a leather helmet. The stitched parts are clearly gray on the alt. helmet even though they’re all white on the leather helmet above. Maybe from a distance or in the sun it won’t look gray, or maybe there was a version of Nebraska’s helmet that looked like that instead of all white. 

 
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Moiraine said:
O.o I’m aware of what they’re trying to do wih it. The stitched parts are clearly gray on the alt. helmet even though they’re all white on the leather helmet above. 
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Are you though?  :P

You won't even notice on TV, it'll look like a regular seam. No point in spending extra money on insignificant details.

 
I think they would look infinitely better if they didn't have the faux straps, and were just plain white with the leather look. 

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Like the ones the Redskins wore a while back

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Old, old, old school look. 

The first thing I thought of when I saw these, was Riley’s team motivational clip.  :unsure:  Hip, Hip Hooray!  :o

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Moiraine said:
Not sure why white would be more ‘spensive than gray. 
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Titanium dioxide? Who knows? How would you see a painted white stitch on a painted white helmet? Why waiste the time designing an outline, and why not just put a solid color print like they did? Why are we still discussing this?

 
ZRod said:
Titanium dioxide? Who knows? How would you see a painted white stitch on a painted white helmet? Why waiste the time designing an outline, and why not just put a solid color print like they did? Why are we still discussing this?
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The stitch isn’t white. The strip would be white - that’s what I’ve been talking about. The strip on that helmet is gray which I’ve never seen for a Nebraska helmet. The strips would still have the stitch and dark line as an outline. It wouldn’t be anymore expensive. It might not look good from a distance though. But I don’t think the gray will either.

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We’re talking about it because you argued that gray isn’t gray and we’re both in a topic about alt. uniforms. (I like you ‘n’ all but this is a pet peeve of mine. “I know we’ve both been talking to each other for awhile but now I’ve decided I’m above it all and I can’t believe I’ve lowered myself to talking about this stupid thing with you. And it’s all your fault.” So, neener neener neener.)

 
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