why not. jersey mockups 2.

Peregrinner · Post by **Peregrinner** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 6:26 pm

Personally, I think the brown jerseys are the best thing we have going. I'm a fan of the orange, because it stands out visually (although, granted, it doesn't stand apart from other orange teams), but the brown just looks better to me.

Dayons_Den · Post by **Dayons_Den** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 7:02 pm

The brown looks like black on tv because seal brown is pretty darn close to black. A lot of people prefer a lighter, chocolate brown like on the side of this website, but the true seal brown is more like hte brown at the top of the website.

Zom · Post by **Zom** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 7:06 pm

I thought everyone had agreed on brown jerseys a long time ago....

Schad has a hole in one on this topic. If you have to mess with the classic look, then you have to tear up the form book. Here's a radical one - let's call it the "harlequin". You alternate colours, so that where the front left is brown, the right back is brown, or maybe orange. Or, instead of splitting the front of the jersey into two coloured panels, you would have four, ditto the back. Here's a two panel option I've "gimped" onto a rugby jersey to give you an idea. I guarantee distinction to rival Oregon..

jeebus · Post by **jeebus** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 7:13 pm

i wonder how many avid supporters of the brown jerseys are also browns fans? not that it has anything to do with anything just curiousity

now, as for why we shouldnt use them much....

they're boring
they're bland
they look cheap ... further pushing the idea of the MAC being the lower echilon of ncaa division IA football.

and for the biggest reason:

watching the wisky game at home with some friends - trying to convert more people to bg fans i think almost everyone said "why'd u guys use the browns uniforms" or "is the browns wisky game back on? haha" now...I know they got the colors from us, YOU know they got the colors from us...but nobody else does! and unless we run a disclaimer every game people will still think we're just ripping off the browns. all this talk of tradition doesnt mean anything. anyone can make any nostalgic thing "tradition" we could say ALOT of stuff is tradition. i could say that having a beer after my last friday class is tradition but nobody would know it but me. get the idea? we've changed our uniforms many times, there is no tradition with the uniforms. teams like michigan or ohio state (this has nothing to do with them its an example...lets not get into a bash the big program fit here) that have never made any big changes to their uniforms can claim tradition with more validity then we can. i say we need to update and polish or image, and using what looks like low budget rip offs of a more well known team's uniforms to everyone who doesnt know the history (which is most ppl) isnt the road to take here. the brown jerseys are FINE for what they are...alternates. if they become our main jersey then i will be EXTREMELY disapointed.

luckily besides the nostalgia fans on here i think ive noticed more who are fans of our current uniform set up.

The Niz · Post by **The Niz** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 7:19 pm

The only school in the Mac, maybe even the country, who would use the harlequin is Miami oh. It looks like something straight out of GQ.

I am a pure traditionalist, and a pure Brownsfan. I would love nothing more than for the falcons to use the same exact uniforms as the Browns. The ties between the university and the browns have more than enough history to make that a really awesome change. Completely simplistic, yet the best in all of pro football. The only difference between the two would be the athletic logo on the side of the helmet instead of the plain striped helmet. I wish with all of my herat and spirit that things could work out this way.

Schadenfreude · Post by **Schadenfreude** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 4:27 am

Zom wrote:I thought everyone had agreed on brown jerseys a long time ago....

A poll was done a year ago or so. Brown won, going away.

I like the harliquin.

I'm not really a Browns fan.

jeebus · Post by **jeebus** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 4:37 am

i wasnt here a year ago... well thank god the university doesnt base its choices around these polls then

Schadenfreude · Post by **Schadenfreude** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 5:30 am

jeebus wrote:i wasnt here a year ago... well thank god the university doesnt base its choices around these polls then

I thank goodness Coach Brandon doesn't limit his counsel to freshmen.

Rightupinthere · Post by **Rightupinthere** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 8:17 am

jeebus wrote: they're boring
they're bland
they look cheap ... further pushing the idea of the MAC being the lower echilon of ncaa division IA football.

You must not have been around for the all orange look - a look I personally despise.

jeebus · Post by **jeebus** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 4:43 pm

i mean i wasnt on the board last year...i've been around bgsu for too long hahah

yes i really hate the plain orange of the 2003 jerseys but the brown isnt much better, which is why i'd hate to see us go from a slick all orange look back to bland jerseys of the harris era.

Jacobs4Heisman · Post by **Jacobs4Heisman** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 4:49 pm

I hate the Browns, and I wasn't a big fan of the color before I came to BG.

Having said that, the Brown Jersey look is SWEET.

Flipper · Post by **Flipper** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 5:36 pm

At home, brown jerseys with white pants...maybe an old school orange piping up the side of the legs.

On the road, white jerseys and orange pants...maybe all white if we want to scare the crap out of the other guys by making them think our players are ghosts

Schadenfreude · Post by **Schadenfreude** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 5:44 pm

Flipper wrote:At home, brown jerseys with white pants...maybe an old school orange piping up the side of the legs.

On the road, white jerseys and orange pants...maybe all white if we want to scare the crap out of the other guys by making them think our players are ghosts

You and I are on the same wavelength.

I actually think our brown home jerseys are a bit better than those of the Cleveland Browns. The white shoulder stripe is a bit more contemporary than what the Browns have (we had the same shoulder action in the '80s).

Adding a touch of orange to that white shoulder stripe might answer the bland complaint a bit. But they are good right now.

BGDrew · Post by **BGDrew** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 5:44 pm

I personally think the brown jerseys with the white pants was a good look for home. For away, I have a severe dislike for the orange on white look. I think the all white looks much better.

The Niz · Post by **The Niz** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 6:21 pm

The pants should be the same for all the uniforms. The only thing that should change between home and away is the jerseys.