Say you're in an art class, and everyone is painting pictures. Everyone comes up with different designs using different colors, some are of course a little nicer looking than others.
And then there is this one kid that doesn't even put brush to canvas, leaves everything blank, and says, "It's tradition."
Then everyone falls all over themselves going, "Oooh yeah, tradition! We love tradition! Your painting is the best!"
It's a farce, people! The emperor has no clothes! Penn State actually has the WORST uniforms in football! They are boring and ugly and uninspired.
If some other school started a new program today and decided not to use any color, any logos, any stripes or patterns or anything, we would all think it was a bad idea. The only reason PSU gets a pass is because "tradition." Well that's not good enough for me, and it's also a terrible excuse coming from someone that likes tradition so much that he puts Northwestern and their silly belly stripe ahead of a school with glorious uniforms AND the tradition to go with them.
See, its perfect for them.
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Yet it's consistently top 5 in the nation. That makes alot of sense.
You can thank the likes of Oregon and Maryland for making Penn State unis "cool".
I grew up in PA and people were embarrased by the Penn State away uni back in the day. They wanted it changed. But Paterno wanted it the way it was, so it stayed that way.
It's only as a counter-reaction to the over-the-top clown uniformz of teams like Oregon that the old-school plain boring unis like Penn State's and Alabama's have become "cool".
Like nerds with thick glasses, if you hang in there long enough, your day will come.
I always wonder if the Alabama equipment manager sends a grad assistant out to Home Depot every August with a blank check and directions to buy a box lot of the number decals by the mailboxes.
"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them." David Hume (1711-1776)
Because we tend to view such matters as football uniforms through a maize and blue filter, we tend to think Michigan's is the iconic uniform in all of college football, which is fine, and who cares what anyone else thinks?
So this is one guy creating an entire column about his opinion of uniforms...please stop
It is interesting to see hat Indiana's experiments with alternate helmets cost them so much in this otherwise weird poll (as we aren't #1 - that's why), but then again, when I see your team run onto the field and start singing "The Candyman Can" from "Willie Wonka", that helmet probably should cost you some serious style points.
Tom Fornelli ranking anything to do with style is like Earl Scheib ranking the Dutch Masters...
...But I like the honey-flavor the best. Then the berry-fusion. Tasty!
This is so dumb I'm not even going to comment.
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Wheeeeeeeee offseason!
I actually like NW's uniforms, so I don't mind them being near the top. And his take on Michigan laid into Adidas' job with them, so maybe he'd rank them higher once Nike gets it done.
But #1 PSU and #2 Iowa? You've got to be kidding me? Two of the worst uniforms in the conference. Boring and bland. Not classic (like I'd call UM's), just not good.
But I don't care to get worked up over it because the guy has a job to do and they probably told him to write a fluff piece during the most down time of the year for college football.
Maybe when they put this logo on the helmet
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Indiana looks good Imo.
Used to like Penn St back in the day.
Bama looks good Imo.
Sometimes even those heathen buckeyes uni's look good.
Mich home are the best. A change of the away's uni's this year to make them a bit more styling, would be good Imo.
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Fornelli goes on to pick the team who will under perform...and the winner is...Michigan. I know this is used too often, but can you say idiot.
1.Michigan
2.Ohio St.
3.Michigan St.
4.Iowa
5.-13. Every other team but...
14. ...Penn St.
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Every July we get these "best of" threads. Look, Michigan is the best of everything, so let's just leave it at that.
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The article has some problems, dude
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Illinois?
They look like they realized Indiana wasn't using the block I any longer & just had to have it. Because who doesn't want to be mistaken for Indiana?
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I'll take the wing tipped helmets any day.
This article is cick bait...and maybe is a way to give the little schools love. Iowas unis are cool but they are a direct rip off of the Pittsburgh Steelers by Hayden Frey in the 70s when he wanted to instill a new cuture on a bad Iowa program.
NW over Michigan? As Jean-Paul would say "Pleeeasss mon....pleeesasss."
The best Unis in the Big Ten are
1) Michigan
2) Ohio State
3) Nebraska
4) Penn State
5) Wisconsin
6) Iowa
7) Indiana
8) Purdue
9) Northwestern
10) Illinois
11) Minnesota
12) Michigan State
13) Maryland
14) Rutgers
Peace out.
Last year's road were good - but maize pants look better imo. I would be interested to see what the players think...
I knew not to go any further. I mean it's only been recognized, and I'll admit a lot of it has to do with strength of helmet - as the best uni in cfb for years. I recall reading (love how some of the old sportswrtiters played with the language) of a recap of a WVU vs. UM game that would have had to been written after Crisler arrived. He wrote somehthing like, "Every player on the Michigan team was above 7 foot tall and it was recognized their tremendous strength was derived from their magnificent helmets." It was a Morganstown sportwriter so I'm not sure if they practiced satire back then or if that was a real thing.