The UCF football team is scheduled to wear black jerseys and gold pants when the No. 25 Knights face Georgia in the Liberty Bowl Dec. 31. The Bulldogs have the option of either wearing red or white jerseys.
Central Florida is blacking out the Liberty Bowl. (Hat tip: Team Speed Kills.)
I hope we go with the red jerseys instead of the white ones, but, as long as our focus is on playing football rather than on fiddling with the uniforms, I'm good, either way.
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T Kyle King
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Yes.
The archaic NCAA rule requiring one team to wear white jerseys was implemented when games began being televised but many fans were watching on black-and-white TVs. Obviously, that rule outlived its utility, and, amazingly, the overlords in Indianapolis acknowledged that fact by modifying the rule.
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I should add...
I recall USC/UCLA both wearing home colors, but thought it involved one of them taking a 15 yard penalty, which the other in good sportsmanship declined or found a way to reciprocate with their own, neutralizing 15 yd penalty.
http://sportsandgrits.blogspot.com/
Initially, they agreed to do that.
(I think it was a charged time out rather than a 15-yard penalty, but your point is correct: both teams agreed that one would offset voluntarily the punishment meted out to the other.) If memory serves, it was after (and because of) that that the NCAA revisited the rule.
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Black-and-white TVs
“Black-and-white televisions” did not exist until the advent of color televisions. Before there were color televisions, there was no need for a specific term for black-and-white, because everything was black-and-white. Similarly, there were no “silent movies” until the talkies were created; no “standard definition” until HD; no “manual transmissions” before automatics.
This is the kind of game I play during my commute and on road trips.
Pardon me. Carry on.
by NCT on Dec 15, 2010 10:03 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Quite all right.
Other examples: “acoustic guitar,” “analog watch,” and “binge drinking.”
Wait, what?
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by T Kyle King on Dec 15, 2010 10:18 AM EST up reply actions
I have never heard the term...
“analog watch”.
http://sportsandgrits.blogspot.com/
by Mr. Sanchez on Dec 15, 2010 11:33 AM EST up reply actions
The military loves the term "legacy" for out-moded ideas/equipment/personnel/etc.
If you're gonna do it, go ugly early.
Let's see if I can play along...
One-story building. Old Testament. Organic Chicken.
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I don't have time for any of this... and yet... here I am.
by Gen. Stoopnagle on Dec 15, 2010 2:08 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Yes, I had just as soon our players put the fashion sense aside
…for the next 10 years or so. In spite of CMR’s complaints about the taxing nature of the trip to Arizona State a week prior to hosting Alabama in 2008, I have never forgotten his OWN comment that week that the players sat up late on the way back lobbying him about it. Yes, prattling and preening about next Saturday’s unis instead of getting some sleep on the flight which is NOT that hard a thing to do. So ever since then I have winced about comments prefaced with “the players want..” or “the players feel…” I love our team and want to see them succeed but their interest is NOT served by whatever guidance they’ve received on and off the field the past three seasons.
Uniforms
I don’t know why UGA fans makes such a big deal about uniforms in general. I like the black uniforms. I do. Sorry. I am sure some of y’all like the red pants. I don’t. So what?
Why can’t UGA just wear whatever uniform they want without it being a big deal to someone else? I like the black jerseys, but I hate “blackout games.” Just wear the jersey. Don’t announce it before hand like it’s something special. It’s not. The game is special, not the clothing.
Some may retort that our red jerseys are our traditional jerseys blah blah blah…Once again, who cares? UGA should not wear red because they feel the black jerseys are bad luck or nontraditional. They should simply wear the red jerseys. Period. My opinion and your opinion don’t matter too much, other than at the merchandise stand (and I see plenty of black jerseys in the stands).
I wonder if there is another fan base more obsessed in what their team wears than the UGA contingent. I have no empirical proof, but I’m willing to bet that we’re near the top in “fashion debates.”
For what its worth, I hope we wear the red jerseys. Seeing all of that black and red on the field would make me smile ;-)
"You can't print what I said, but they have to catch us." - Chipper Jones
Obsession
I am very confident that if you took any team who had very rareley deviated from one standard set of home and away uniforms for a generation, and then only slightly, and presented that team’s fans with a huge deviation for one particular game followed by nearly annual marked deviations for one game per season for a few years, that team’s fans would appear obsessed about uniforms, especially if every one of those deviations coincided with dramatic on-field results one way or the other.
I think there really are only two ways to solve this issue.
Either we ignore AuburnJunky’s advise below and go full-on Oregon with a different uniform combo every week, to the point that we’re just desensitized to it, or we never, ever deviate from the 1 home uni and the 1 away combo.
Between those two...
Let’s go with AuburnJunky’s advice. But maybe he’s just anti-Oregon right now…
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This is how I feel.
The helmet never changes. Don’t goof with the hats.
Georgia wears red jerseys with silver pants at home; white jerseys with silver pants away.
Every 2-4 years for one game, Georgia may wear the black jersey with silver pants. This is a good look for UGA and has a history from the ‘42 Rose Bowl team. But you can’t do it once a year. It should be something that each class has to earn.
Every 2-4 years for an away game, Georgia may wear white jerseys with black pants. But I’m less excited about it, but I don’t think it’s completely unacceptable. Red tops with black pants? No.
I don't have time for any of this... and yet... here I am.
by Gen. Stoopnagle on Dec 16, 2010 10:29 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Change black pants to red pants in the final paragraph, and I'm right there with you.
The red pants have an historic pedigree, as they were seen regularly in road games from the 1970s through the 1980s. Most notably, the Bulldogs wore their red road britches during the 1978 “Wonderdogs” season, in the 1980 season opener against Tennessee, and in several games against Clemson in Death Valley during the 1980s. While they lack the historic pedigree of the black jerseys from the 1942 season, they have history, and are worth wearing from time to time.
The black britches have no such historical pedigree, and their few appearances (in the bowl game against Wisconsin at the end of the 1997 season and in the 1998 and 2008 Florida games) produced either losses or reminders that the ‘Dawgs messed up in the regular season and robbed themselves of a better bowl bid. I don’t ever want to see the black britches again, but occasional red britches on the road would be a nice touch under the proper circumstances.
If, however, we go red helmets-red jerseys-silver britches at home and red helmets-white jerseys-silver britches on the road from now until the end of time, I’ll be just fine with that, too.
Go 'Dawgs!
by T Kyle King on Dec 16, 2010 11:59 AM EST up reply actions
Red pants...
But only for a true conference road game and/or BCS bowl game.
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-Erk Russell
by DavetheDawg on Dec 15, 2010 12:13 PM EST via mobile reply actions
Hope the Black Jerseys' work out for UCF as well as they did for us last time.
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Jersey CONTRAST is the key
UCF has some VERY light gold jerseys that have white numbers. Not only do they look awful, but you cannot read the player numbers. I saw them play a game within the past year or so when the opposing team wore white and they wore the light gold and you could barely tell the teams apart.
The greatest contrast between the oppsing teams is what should be done. USC with dark jerseys is easier to distinguish against powder blue UCLA than if USC wears white.
I am glad to see they are wearing black instead of gold. Not sure whether I prefer us to wear white or red as an opponent. I hope we can one day break out some silver jerseys (like Ole Miss did with their grey shirts). I think it would look cool, except this year we wore grey pants instead of silver. Some years we DO wear silver britches, but not this year or last.
Wait...
… so the Conference USA team is the home team??
(I’m assuming this, since they got to decide what jersey to wear first.)
Apparently.
Since the Liberty Bowl has tie-ins both to Conference USA and to the SEC, I’m assuming the two leagues alternate years of being the “home” team.
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