Orange Pants?

NOFALCONWAY · Post by **NOFALCONWAY** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 3:51 pm

The Falcons have shown some stylish renovations to their new look away uniforms in 2007. Are the falcons through with orange game pants?

NOFALCONWAY · Post by **NOFALCONWAY** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 4:09 pm

A solid orange game pant like they sported from 2001-2003 would really command some attention with the new away white jerseys.

svillefalcon · Post by **svillefalcon** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 6:53 pm

To be honest i like the way the new away unis look the way they are. its a very good look. I also like the white pants with the orange or brown top for home games. I DO NOT like orange on orange. just ugly, IMO.

bgsufalcon24 · Post by **bgsufalcon24** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 11:51 pm

I agree with Sville. Orange on orange on orange - helmet, jersey, pants = GAH! TOO MUCH ORANGE MY EYES ARE BLEEDING!!

Bleeding Orange · Post by **Bleeding Orange** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 12:01 am

bgsufalcon24 wrote:I agree with Sville. Orange on orange on orange - helmet, jersey, pants = GAH! TOO MUCH ORANGE MY EYES ARE BLEEDING!!

In my estimation there is, 99.9% of the time, no such thing as "too much orange." Ask my bathroom.

With that said, I agree with you, wholeheartedly.

jeebus · Post by **jeebus** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 4:42 pm

i support the all orange look, its eye catching. nobody else, pro or college looks like that

NOFALCONWAY · Post by **NOFALCONWAY** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:06 pm

I agree, all orange really makes Bowling Green stand out when shown on National TV highlghts. I think that this past week Minnosta's uniforms (all yellow) definatly caught the attention of peole and got students talking even here on campus. Their uniforms can have some negative remarks said about them in regaurds to their close corolation to the color of urine. Unfortunataly so can our brown jerseys. Orange makes a positive, bright statement that is sure to last and tough to spin.

moneymaker02 · Post by **moneymaker02** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:11 pm

i was so happy to see the orange jerseys and not the brown ones on my visit to bg. i hate those poop colored jerseys, to plain, YUCK

jmillerbg · Post by **jmillerbg** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:18 pm

Can anyone think of another team who has three different uniforms that are all completely unique from one another? Most teams (even Oregon, I think) that have multiple jersey colors use the same pattern and move their colors around.

We have...

a brown jersey with a white stripe over the shoulder.
a white jersey with orange and brown stripes over the shoulder
an orange jersey with a different stripe pattern all together

Each jersey also has a different font for the numbers.

I have never seen anything like it.

NOFALCONWAY · Post by **NOFALCONWAY** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:24 pm

good point jmiller, consistency breeds continuity change breeds confusion (from the little national attention we do get we need to have a common scheme so we are recognized), we need to stick with a pattern. I hope we pattern orange and brown jerseys like our new away ones. Two forms of the pants would be nice

thewebboy · Post by **thewebboy** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:58 pm

I think it would be pretty darn easy to take the design of our new away jerseys and apply them to both a brown and possibly orange jersey. I really like the design of the white away unis. I really hope over time we decide to do this.

It does seem really odd to have 3 completely different jerseys, each unique in design and fonts. At first I thought it might have to do with the cost of new jerseys. Then I looked over at the SEBO and down at the field turf and scrapped that idea.

Schadenfreude · Post by **Schadenfreude** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 8:49 pm

jmillerbg wrote:Can anyone think of another team who has three different uniforms that are all completely unique from one another? Most teams (even Oregon, I think) that have multiple jersey colors use the same pattern and move their colors around.

We have...

a brown jersey with a white stripe over the shoulder.
a white jersey with orange and brown stripes over the shoulder
an orange jersey with a different stripe pattern all together

Each jersey also has a different font for the numbers.

I have never seen anything like it.

I was going to make this point Sunday, but I figured I'd wait for the inevitable thread about it.

It's not a good situation at all, and I've got to think it will change, perhaps next season.

I was shocked to see the orange jerseys out there. Those things are fugly and they don't remotely match anything else Bowling Green is doing as part of its branding effort.

The brown jerseys don't match the current branding effort, either, but at least they have a ton of tradition behind them. They match what the team wore in the 70s to a T, and they are very close to what the team wore in the 1980s and into the Gary Blackney era.*

In this thread, someone has suggested orange on orange would pop on TV.

I disagree. This was always a bad idea.

Syracuse wears a ton of orange. Clemson wears a ton of orange. Why allow us to be confused with them?

The beauty of brown is that we practically own the color. If we really want to stand out on TV - if we really and truly don't want to be confused with another college football team -- then we wear brown. If's that simple.

Brown is practically unique to Bowling Green. Why not embrace it? Why not embrace our tradition?

Why not own the color?

I personally think the wise course would be for Bowling Green to come up with a new brown home jersey modeled on the road uniforms, which we all seem to agree are fabulous.

And I have hope that will happen.

As far as moneymaker02's "poop" comment: You sound like a Toledo fan.

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* Blackney was a nice man, but he messed up a lot of things, including our uniforms.

bobio · Post by **bobio** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:58 pm

I agree. The brown is boring and looks like total crap. The orange is exciting and shows a little life. Keep the orange!

Rightupinthere · Post by **Rightupinthere** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 5:15 am

Quite a few metrosexual fashionistas in our midst, eh?

Both brown and orange jersey's look good on a winning team. I prefer brown, but that's because I'm old school and proud of it.

FalconTurf · Post by **FalconTurf** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 7:36 am

jeebus wrote:i support the all orange look, its eye catching. nobody else, pro or college looks like that

Syracuse?