Nike strikes another school with new unis...

[RazedRite]

Evidently Vandy got a pretty sufficient amount of vasoline to go with their new uni's. Good luck getting a firm grip on #17!:eek2:

:rofl:

 

[Alanbama27]

Alan you need more pics. Bama wore white helmets with crimson stripe and numbers before changing to crimson with white stripe and even used the white helmets a few times after the change. Bama also had stripes and numbers on the sleeves of the jersey. We wore tear away jerseys till they were outlawed and there has been shoe changes from black to white to black again. Same for socks Bama has changed the uniforms fairly often but very subtle changes nothing that would make your head spin. And don't forget the houndstooth collar a couple seasons ago.

Sorry, I wasn't counting our tear aways as a jersey change...they were worn for a specific purpose throughout the 70's and I loved watching Johnny Musso and co. go through 4 or 5 per game!

I don't remember the other changes you mentioned...when did they occur? Was it prior to the 60's, which is when I began watching Bama? (The older pics I have show the same thing we have now and I even have a picture of Namath and Stabler at Bama and both wore exactly what we're wearing today.

Maybe I should have said "IN MODERN TIMES"??? Still don't remember those you are mentioning. I do remember the hounds tooth boarder two years ago but that was for a specific reason and not a long-lasting or even meant to be long-lasting change.

 

[BAMA504]

Ahhh...gotta love the summertime smell of the uniform thread! Must mean the season is just around the corner! 40 DAYS!!

LMAO..............

Nothing has changed it is a tradition every year, we waited a little longer than usual this year but with all the stupid stuff we had going on there was no shortage of stuff to write about~!~ 2 More weeks and we can't start the fun stuff~!~

Still think we should go all black or all crimson against the barners with the crimson helmet~!~

 

[Dixie's Pride]

AlanBama, during the Perkins era, the team would alternate to the white helmet. I have pictures of it and a 1986 Boston College game program with Ricky Moore on the cover. It is a Daniel Moore painting of Moore with Crimson jersey and white helmet. It looks pretty snazzy. The eighties was when I really started paying attention to Bama football and I always loved those white helmets. I guess it's just a part of my childhood memories. ROLL TIDE ROLL!!!!!!!:BigA:

 

[PaulD]

AlanBama, during the Perkins era, the team would alternate to the white helmet. I have pictures of it and a 1986 Boston College game program with Ricky Moore on the cover. It is a Daniel Moore painting of Moore with Crimson jersey and white helmet. It looks pretty snazzy. The eighties was when I really started paying attention to Bama football and I always loved those white helmets. I guess it's just a part of my childhood memories. ROLL TIDE ROLL!!!!!!!:BigA:

"Childhood memories"? Ouch! I was already out of school then.

Perkins had them wear the white helmets when the opposing team had dark helmets. I remember seeing Alabama against Miss State where we had crimson jerseys and white helmets and looked like Nebraska (sort of). After a year or so we wore the white helmets on the road with the white jersey and made you think a bit of Penn State. I rather like how the uniforms looked pretty much the same when I was there in the '70s and my daughter was there in the '00s. (Now the stadium has no comparison...)

 

[bayoutider]

Sorry, I wasn't counting our tear aways as a jersey change...they were worn for a specific purpose throughout the 70's and I loved watching Johnny Musso and co. go through 4 or 5 per game!

I don't remember the other changes you mentioned...when did they occur? Was it prior to the 60's, which is when I began watching Bama? (The older pics I have show the same thing we have now and I even have a picture of Namath and Stabler at Bama and both wore exactly what we're wearing today.

Maybe I should have said "IN MODERN TIMES"??? Still don't remember those you are mentioning. I do remember the hounds tooth boarder two years ago but that was for a specific reason and not a long-lasting or even meant to be long-lasting change.

1892 - White with crimson stockings. Crimson "U of A" on their sweaters. Also, crimson sweaters with white "A"
1894 - Collar with string tie, thick pants
1895 - Striped stockings
1899 - Striped jerseys, solid crimson stockings
1900 - Crimson jersey with stripes on arms, crimson stockings, noseguards, helmets
1902 - Combination of past years
1903 - Crimson jersey, crimson stockings with white stripe, shoulder pads
1905 - Mixture of past uniforms, vest-shoulder pads
1919 - Crimson with with stripes on arms, white jerseys for away games
1920 - Thicker white stripes on arms, white stockings, numbers on back of jerseys
1922 - Thinner white stripes on jersey
1923 - Up and down stripes on jerseys and patches on arms
1924 - Long stripe down arm
1926 - Some players wear helmets
1928 - Use of white jerseys
1930 - Addition of Crimson and white jerseys with numbers on front, white helmets with crimson markings
1931 - Crimson and white jerseys but still use front stripe jersey, dark or black helmets
1942 - Some players have face masks
1945 - White pants worn midway through season
1946 - White pants with two crimson strips down side of leg
1947 - Two tone (tan?) pants at home games
1948 - Two tone pants all year
1949 - White helmets with crimson stripe, Crimson jerseys
1950 - New white jerseys with crimson shoulders and 3 crimson stripes on arms
1953 - Jan 1, one crimson stripe down pants leg, Nov 14, two crimson stripes down pants leg
1954 - New white jersey without crimson shoulders, stripes on arms
1955 - White helmets, no stripes on pants, shirts, or helmets, plastic face guard
1956 - Facemasks, Crimson stripes on helmets
1957 - Numbers on side of helmets
1958 - White helmets with crimson stripe, three stripes on arms, numbers on arms and helmets, white pants with two crimson stripes down leg
1959 - Last year with stripes on arms
1960 - Crimson helmet used in bowl game, white numbers on helmets, white stripe down middle of helmet
1961 - Red and white helmets used
1962 - During the 1960's, sometimes used white helmets on eligible receivers at night games or when helmets resembled opponents
1984 - Crimson helmets for home games, white helmets for road games
1985 - Crimson helmets only
1988 - Wear only black shoes
1992 - Wore Centennial patch on left shoulder
2006 - Houndstooth collar on jersey vs Old Miss to honor the 25th anniversary of "Bear" Bryant's 315th win.

I believe it was around 1972-3 that low cut white shoes were used by running backs and some other skill players but linemen still wore the black hightops.

Not sure how modern you wanted but 1984 color TV was popular in most homes outside West Virginia and Arkansas, The Microwave oven had been invented and widely used and both the Studebaker and Nash Hudson motor companies were bankrupt.

 

[Boclive]

White shoes... Didn't Namath show the white shoes first? Maybe black shoes completely covered with white tape or something?

I know I remember Joe inventing white shoes. Unitas was still wearing black high tops.

 

[bayoutider]

White shoes... Didn't Namath show the white shoes first? Maybe black shoes completely covered with white tape or something?

I know I remember Joe inventing white shoes. Unitas was still wearing black high tops.

I seem to remember the players asking Coach Bryant if they could do things like grow their hair longer, wear white shoes and have names on jerseys. I probably need help with the exact year but narrowing it down Billy "White Shoes" Johnson was one of the first to wear the white shoes. Players were already taping up to make their shoes look as white as possible so it was probably after 1973.

 

[tru2thaduce]

The Miami black is terrible.Any team that wears a black when its not one of their colors just makes no sense to me.A lot of MLB teams did this for a while and I hated it.

 

[BEATtutorsee]

I'm pretty sure that Oregon's uni's are designed by some tutti-fruitti, limp wristed Frenchie named Maurice. :biggrin:

Either that or a chimp on crack!

 

[PaulD]

I seem to remember the players asking Coach Bryant if they could do things like grow their hair longer, wear white shoes and have names on jerseys. I probably need help with the exact year but narrowing it down Billy "White Shoes" Johnson was one of the first to wear the white shoes. Players were already taping up to make their shoes look as white as possible so it was probably after 1973.

I think we added the names on the jerseys for the 1981 Cotton Bowl with Baylor. Perkins took them off and Curry put them back on.

I seem to remember that Coach Bryant began to ease up on hair after he saw former President Johnson on TV with longer hair.

 

[37bamagrl]

LOVED the Houndstooth collar jerseys! That would be the only change to our jersey i would be ok with ...and would only want them worn occasionally. and it might of been a squeaker - but we are undefeated in them

NO change to the helmets ....ever!! (ever again i guess i should say - i would not want to bring back the white helmets)

 

[Let's Roll Tide]

I'm pretty sure that Oregon's uni's are designed by some tutti-fruitti, limp wristed Frenchie named Maurice. :biggrin:

I read somewhere that the Oregon players have some type of committee that "chooses" every week what uniform that they will be wearing. Sounds like a bunch of women to me (by the way, I can make the comment since I am a woman!!).

If they spent as much time on football as they do worrying about their unis, they might win a NC and raise the reputation of the Pac-10 outside of USC...:biggrin:

 

[Let's Roll Tide]

The Miami black is terrible.Any team that wears a black when its not one of their colors just makes no sense to me.A lot of MLB teams did this for a while and I hated it.

I would hate to think that Alabama would follow another team's (Miami or Georgia) fashion sense. Just a little too trendy where in 10 years we would look back and say, "what were we thinking??" Stick with TRADITION (remember that?).

I guess I am somewhat surprised that no one has mentioned "the crimson pants" yet... Is that another trendy ideas that has since died??

 

[Kevin4Bama]

still think we should go all black or all crimson against the barners with the crimson helmet~!~

no! No! No!

 

[BayouTiger]

Although I am a LSU fan, I would not in favor of Alabama making any changes to its uniforms. The look of the Bama and Penn State uniforms are simply awesome. I believe the simple look is a positive statement regarding these two programs.

 

[TommyMac]

Back when Coach Bryant first took over, the team wore plain white socks which the players marked with big A's on the outside at about calf level. Only problem was that some of them probably failed penmanship and some didn't allow allow for stretchage (is that a word) which resulted in some weird looking socks, that weren't anywhere close to being uniform. Then there were always a few who put their socks on with an occasional A on the inside of the calf. :eek2:

 

[TiderinMiss]

Speaking of Nike...

I just finished watching "Without Limits", starring Billy Cruddup, who played distance running star Steve Prefontaine.

Late in the movie, his coach at the University of Oregon, Bill Bowerman, gets Prefontaine to try on a pair of shoes he(Bowerman) invents in 1975. He coined it the "Nike" after the Greek goddess of victory.

Hence, that's why the Oregon Ducks have always used Nike from it's inception.

I just thought that was some neat trivia.

 

[Cox036]

Speaking of Nike...

I just finished watching "Without Limits", starring Billy Cruddup, who played distance running star Steve Prefontaine.

Late in the movie, his coach at the University of Oregon, Bill Bowerman, gets Prefontaine to try on a pair of shoes he(Bowerman) invents in 1975. He coined it the "Nike" after the Greek goddess of victory.

Hence, that's why the Oregon Ducks have always used Nike from it's inception.

I just thought that was some neat trivia.

True. But there is more concrete info out there.
Look up PHil KNight. Oregon alumnus. ex-eqipment manager for Bowerman. Phil Knight is the real reason Oregon is all Nike.

Phil KNight carries a simialr relationship to what T.Boone Pickens has with OkieState.

 

[Cox036]

Speaking of Nike...

I just finished watching "Without Limits", starring Billy Cruddup, who played distance running star Steve Prefontaine.

Late in the movie, his coach at the University of Oregon, Bill Bowerman, gets Prefontaine to try on a pair of shoes he(Bowerman) invents in 1975. He coined it the "Nike" after the Greek goddess of victory.

Hence, that's why the Oregon Ducks have always used Nike from it's inception.

I just thought that was some neat trivia.

True. But there is more concrete info out there.
Look up PHil KNight. Oregon alumnus. ex-eqipment manager for Bowerman. Phil Knight is the real reason Oregon is all Nike. Phil Knight is the ceo of NIKE...


Phil KNight carries a simialr relationship to what T.Boone Pickens has with OkieState.