Helmet stickers to return?

Submitted by Davymac97. on
I "occasionally" check to see if Harbaugh favorites anything interesting on Twitter and it just so happens that he did earlier today. A fan posed the question about whether Harbaugh would be bringing back the helmet stickers and that he hopes that he would. https://mobile.twitter.com/CoachJim4UM/favorites I apologize for not knowing how to embed this. Just another thing to get excited about as we await the Harbaugh era to officially begin. Happy drinking on this Saturday night!
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Danwillhor

March 21st, 2015 at 9:57 PM ^

the only alternates I liked under the Brandon regime were the first ones - UTL1. Beautiful on the players one those lights hit them. I think that was the pinnacle for both UM & nd in the Adidas alt jersey thing. Both were great that game. If I could change one thing it'd be the stripes, maybe remove some or all. I dunno? Yet, that big, beautiful stitched Block M with the original & best Adidas logo? So good, IMO. I don't know why they don't use the leaves logo more? It's sui much better than the 3 lines thing that looks beyond generic.

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bjk

March 22nd, 2015 at 1:38 AM ^

the 1969-74 ones. MVictors has suggested this one as well (MVictors 12-2-11), although maybe in jest: BTW, in answer to those who say Bo derived the stickers from Woody, the same article has the following:
It’s a tradition many believe started with Woody Hayes and the Buckeyes in the late 1960s but thanks to the piece in Hail to the Victors 2010 by John Kryk (with Steve Sapardanis), we know that the tradition was actually started by Bo. Kryk described the scene in 1969 when Schembechler announced that the Wolverines would be placed stickers on their helmets after games: “Oh, like Woody?” a reporter asked. “Uh-uh.” Schembechler grinned triumphantly. “Woody got the idea from me.” Kryk goes on to trace the start back of the “big-play” stickers to 1965, Bo’s third season at Miami, OH (then still nicknamed the Redskins). They used little red tomahawks.

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wahooverine

March 21st, 2015 at 9:07 PM ^

The point of the stickers is not how they look.  Yes we have a great helmet design but it's not a beauty pagent out there.  I'm for them - if stickers are part of how Harbaugh instills competition and offers recognition and merit, who can argue with the results?

 

 

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B1GFAN

March 21st, 2015 at 9:21 PM ^

I'm for the stickers, though under the same strict terms of Bo's time. In those days it took a heck of a lot more to earn one than it does at an OSU or a Georgia of an FSU. It's evident the Buckeyes (and others) give them out for the most modest of accomplishments. Not so Michigan. Give them out, but make them special and legitimate signs of accomplishment.

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denardogasm

March 21st, 2015 at 10:22 PM ^

I wouldn't be surprised at all if we have stickers this year.  Harbaugh had them when he played at Michigan, and he had them when he coached at Stanford.

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Richard75

March 21st, 2015 at 10:33 PM ^

Bring 'em back!
If it's any consolation for the anti-sticker crowd, the helmets start the season sticker-free. So you get what you want early on, and we get what we want later.

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Tagg

March 21st, 2015 at 11:10 PM ^

I'm out on the football things from the 80's but I would fine with maize block M's for football acheviments on the blue part of the helmet and blue block M's for acedemic acheivments. It's a rip off of Georgia and their bones but I don't like the big helmet stickers on the Michigan helmet.  If you have a helmet like Ohio State, FSU or even MSU it's one thing but the Michigan helmet already is more complex than most. 

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