2014 Alternate Unis?

StPaulHusker said:
wiuhusker said:
hskrfan4life said:
If you want a list of what brands every team wore last year go here.
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Looking at the list Adidas has some big time names signed to apparel deals. The Big 10 alone has Michigan, Wisconsin and Nebraska. Throw in Notre Dame, Tennessee and Texas A&M and thats a pretty solid group for what some people think is a secondary apparel company.

And I really don't care what the university decides to do with their alternate jersey for this year but I like where you guys are headed with the Bugeaters jersey and leather helmet look.
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Not to nitpick but Notre Dame just signed a $90 million deal with Under Armour
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Guess I wasn't up to date on the new apparel deals. I was just going by what the link above had listed.

 
HeyBurke said:
saunders45 said:
BrayWyatt said:
Michigan was considering leaving Adidas over child labor or something.
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To go to who, Nike? That would be hilarious.
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Actually, it would make sense, cause then they could actually switch back to the maize and blue that they're known for. Nike has a trademark on their maize color, so they haven't been able to use it since they joined team adidas.
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Uhh ..... I'm a bit skeptical of this.

They've been going to more of a neon yellow color because it's popular with the current college generation. But they still have the same maize color.

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You can't copyright an actual color - sounds like they just copyrighted the name or a technical RGB number or something. Especially since their football unis look exactly the same.

 
Landlord, while you're correct that you can't trademark a specific color for general use, you can trademark it for a specific use, such as on a sports uniform. That's covered here:

http://freakonomics....demark-a-color/

From what I understand, Nike has a trademark on the color "maize" for use in athletic uniforms, so Michigan had to switch to the color "sun" when they switched to adidas. From what any of us can tell, the two colors look basically the same, but Michigan fans insist they're different and they are technically different colors.

If Michigan or adidas really wanted to, they could probably take Nike to court for use of the maize color, but it's not really worth the time or money for something as trivial as that.

 
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HeyBurke said:
Landlord, while you're correct that you can't trademark a specific color for general use, you can trademark it for a specific use, such as on a sports uniform. That's covered here:

http://freakonomics....demark-a-color/

From what I understand, Nike has a trademark on the color "maize" for use in athletic uniforms, so Michigan had to switch to the color "sun" when they switched to adidas. From what any of us can tell, the two colors look basically the same, but Michigan fans insist they're different and they are technically different colors.

If Michigan or adidas really wanted to, they could probably take Nike to court for use of the maize color, but it's not really worth the time or money for something as trivial as that.
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Eh.

When you're dealing with clothes, it doesn't really matter. Clothes fade in the sun and the wash and get stained and etc. It's the same color or at least it is equally as close to the same color as a pair of mudded up and faded pants that were the same color.

Anyways, my point was that the highlighter yellow that their basketball team uses wasn't because they weren't allowed to use the more traditional color - they did it on purpose because it's popular.

 
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