The Season for Giving College Football Style

[cactuswatcher]

Our state's two major universities were playing for the "Territorial Cup" yesterday. I don't mind ASU, but I've always been a minor fan of UofA. Arizona clearly looked like the better team, yesterday. But Arizona St. was coming on strong at the end. ASU looked like they had a tie game in the bag, and a solid chance in overtime, when UofA had to punt late in the game. ASU's star dropped the punt and UofA had an easy field goal on the last play to win the game.

When that game ended we were switched over by the network to "The Nike Let's-Dress-Up-Like-Clowns Bowl" better known as the Border War between my Missouri Tigers and the Kansas Dumb Jayhawks Jayhawks. {Actually the uniforms weren't so bad compared to last year's Oregon-style ugly. With a support-our-troops theme, KU was in somewhat eye-popping red-white-and-blue, MU in tasteful, if bland, black-and-white. But somehow Nike thought MU would look great in 'camo' helmets - black-on-charcoal as if they were ashamed someone might figure out where they were from. Considering the razzing Nike's "designers" get every year, you'd think they'd fire those people and just sell uniforms teams want and stop paying teams big bucks to look like morons.} Anyway the game turned out much like the game before it. KU, the underdog, looked like it had the game in the bag with the lead and MU having to punt with about three minutes left. Sure enough after two incomplete passes, MU's defensive coordinator correctly guessed KU would run a quarterback draw out of the end zone. The quarterback never made it to the goal line and MU was down by one with KU having to kick the ball away. MU wasn't exactly having a bad day on offense. So they roared down the field, took a knee a couple times and coolly kicked a short field goal with no time left.

Sorry, KU. The tigers' awful defense couldn't save Mark Mangino this time.

Comments

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

Arizona clearly looked like the better team, yesterday.

Football-wise, yes. Sartorially, I think these Arizona uniforms are terrible. I don't like the blue helmets or all of the piping.

When that game ended we were switched over by the network to "The Nike Let's-Dress-Up-Like-Clowns Bowl" better known as the Border War between my Missouri Tigers and the Kansas Dumb Jayhawks Jayhawks.

Kansas' uniforms were fine in pieces, but garish in combination. A white jersey or white pants would have helped.

OTOH, I really like Missouri's uniforms as uniforms with one minor caveat - they didn't look like Mizzou. Where did all the yellow/gold go? And yeah, the absence of contrast on the helmet was bad, but I liked the glossy charcoal finish.

Considering the razzing Nike's "designers" get every year, you'd think they'd fire those people and just sell uniforms teams want

Actually, these are the uniforms players want. As hideous as the ever-changing Oregon Uniforms are (the "feathers" of this years set are less-bad than recent UO unis), the players seem to like them very much.

[cactuswatcher.livejournal.com]

Both KU and Arizona wear red and blue. It's a tough combo unless you dull down or de-emphasize one of the two. Arizona looked better in the days when they wore white helmets.

Clearly most of the Oregon uni fiasco of the recent past was the players' fault. The duck wings have been improved since last year.

In these one-off, wear-something-else games the players get a range of choices and we mostly don't see what they turn down. I saw Mizzou's uniform a day early and it looked fine except that the helmet looked almost solid black, and I thought it was just a pre-striping mock up. With the normal helmet it wouldn't have been bad at all. From flash pictures taken at the game, I now know the pants were also charcoal not black. But that didn't matter much.