Why the Boise State Broncos' Nike Pro Combat Uniforms Are Worse than the Georgia Bulldogs'
As noted by TheDeu, Year2 has designed the game plan by which the Bulldogs can beat the Broncos, but you and I both know that your focus is where midgeorgiadawg’s focus is; namely, on Boise State’s Nike Pro Combat uniforms, which are all-white with blue and orange highlights and super-sized horses on the helmets.
There appears to be an emerging consensus that the Broncos’ Nikefied duds are superior to Georgia’s controversial Pro Combat togs. I beg to differ. Consider the following:
White is a perfectly respectable color, but, cinematic conventions concerning readily identifiable good and evil characters aside, there are problems with this uniform. For one thing, any outfit featuring orange accents is butt-ugly, by definition. Likewise, there’s a problem with wearing white pants on a football field, and that problem is this:

Dude, that picture is borderline-NSFW. Admittedly, the overhead lighting isn’t helping matters, but let’s just say that, if tankertoad exhorts a BSU player to "hike the ball into [his] own junk" during the game night comment thread, the Bronco in question will have no difficulty complying. Nike did everything but give Boise State a crotch-swoosh for targeting purposes. Do you remember where Burt Reynolds was able to aim his passes against the white-clad prison guards in "The Longest Yard"? Well, now you know why.
To top it all off (literally), there are these helmets:

Is it just me, or does that helmet ring a bell? It was a long time ago, so I’m fuzzy on the details, but I seem to recall that it was back in the ‘40s, when I was the head of the Woltz International Pictures studio, and I refused to cast Johnny Fontane in a movie, and Tom Hagen paid me a visit at my home in Los Angeles, and I probably wasn’t as courteous to him as I should have been, and I woke up one morning, and, under the covers, I found . . . ahhhh! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! That helmet! That helmet!
I’m not claiming to be a fan of the Bulldogs’ Nike Pro Combat uniforms, but I by no means concede that the Broncos’ are any better. This is going to be an all-out battle for 60 minutes on the gridiron, so I’m not giving any ground on any of the points of contention off the field, either.
Go ‘Dawgs!
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Kyle, I agree that they leave a bit too little to the imagination
I also am struck by the overly liberal use of what appears to be an airbrushing effect on the sleeves. What is this, a cheap Jamaican souvenir shop?
OPPORTUNITY IS NOWHERE
Yeah, they appear to have been inspired by the effect of the grenadine . . .
. . . in a tequila sunrise.
Go 'Dawgs!
by T Kyle King on Aug 25, 2011 10:28 PM EDT up reply actions
seriously, every Nike Pro Combat uniform will have some sort of fade effect
it’s Nike’s only trick
Heel for school, Vol for life!
Bolts, Preds, Canes (childhood team, home state team, hometown team). Canes mini-STH. Southern hockey solidarity!
by Incipient_Senescence on Aug 25, 2011 10:29 PM EDT up reply actions
I'll admit that the front view is not as appealing as the back view...
… but on the silver lining part, at least there’s almost no orange in the uniform at all. So there’s that.
And I think the horse head on top is really awesome. It has a “four horsemen of the apocalypse” feel to it, though like the stupid Pittsburgh Steelers helmets, it’s only applied to one side. At least it doesn’t have a 5" wide orange strip down the middle and continuing onto the facemask.
I mean, really, I dislike Georgia’s Pro Combat’s so much that this thing would have had to have been all Sunkist-orange and had “Boise State” written in the same script Florida uses for “Gators” for me to truly hate it as much as I hate our uni’s.
Besides (and I’m not linking to the moderately-NSFW picture), do you remember the picture of Joe Cox in the traditional Georgia outfit that also left… uh, little to the imagination (if you catch my drift)? The Ginger Ninja never lived that pic down, but once the athletic supporters come into play on the actual game day, that won’t be a problem.
Respectfully, I think that Boise’s uniforms have beaten our uniforms by a score of 38-3. Fortunately, that doesn’t count in the score of the actual game.
no offense (or maybe a little offense)
but that’s like UAB fans starting a thread about how their football team is better than Memphis
Heel for school, Vol for life!
Bolts, Preds, Canes (childhood team, home state team, hometown team). Canes mini-STH. Southern hockey solidarity!
by Incipient_Senescence on Aug 25, 2011 10:30 PM EDT reply actions
True, . . .
. . . but, until the season starts, it’s all we’ve got.
Nine days. . . .
Go 'Dawgs!
by T Kyle King on Aug 25, 2011 10:32 PM EDT up reply actions
Eh, my only problem with it (aside from it being Boise St.'s uniform, that is)...
…is the different colored sleeves. It didn’t look good back in 2005 (or whatever year that was) on UF, and it doesn’t look good now. (Not that anything ever looks good on UF.)
Will
This does...

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by Inteljumper on Aug 25, 2011 11:08 PM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
BSU fan here
I love the unis. The all whites look sleek but at the same time intimidating. I DO NOT LIKE the faded sleeves under the unis. However, players are not required to wear them and I doubt many will be come game day.
Dang it!
I misquoted tankertoad; it was “snap,” not “hike.” I predict he will give me a hard time about that. (Oh, snap!)
Go 'Dawgs!
Nah, I wont give contributing writers a hard time for leaving the readers with a nice little breakfast read. lol
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
The less blue
and orange I have to look at, the better. White is good.
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
I can't decide
Because when I looked at Georgia’s unis, I gouged out my right eye to stop the torture.
When I looked at Boise’s unis, I gouged out my left eye to stop the torture….
My hatred for Purdue is so great that no mortal human can detect its existence.
by HawksNation on Aug 25, 2011 10:54 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
The Boise State Khartoums
I’m not going to race him though, I’m going to put him out to stud.
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by jbernat17 on Aug 25, 2011 10:56 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs
You're kidding yourself
if you think these are in any way worse than UGA’s. These things are freaking sharp. As hundreds (maybe thousands) of people already said, ours look like a Power Ranger, arena football uni, ketchup packet, etc. CMR had it right saying as long as the kids like them, that’s all that matters. While that is true, it doesn’t mean I have to change my opinion. They can come out in orange and pink for all I care. Just win.
Kyle, your writing and intensity/passion leading up to kick off is outstanding!
Apparently your off-season S&C training is paying off! (S&C as in Syntax and Concision.)
Success is never final. --Winston Churchill
by Inteljumper on Aug 25, 2011 11:11 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
I am sure I read that BSU was going to be in blue jerseys.
But, overall, I like their uniforms better than ours.
I think that Nike mailed it in with both designs. I do not get the amount of white in their uniforms. Very little blue and thankfully almost no orange at all.
I went over to the helmet project website and found NO historic helmet belonging to BSU that was white (all the way back to 1969).
Anyway, I have a question and I am serious. Would the Dogs start practicing in the new helmets to get used to them? (Murray has always looked for receivers in red helmets, but in the game the receivers will be wearing silver and red).
Damn...good point!
Would the Dogs start practicing in the new helmets to get used to them? (Murray has always looked for receivers in red helmets, but in the game the receivers will be wearing silver and red).
Success is never final. --Winston Churchill
by Inteljumper on Aug 26, 2011 12:15 AM EDT up reply actions
I would hope that AM would be looking for red...
…so as to hit his guys in the numbers. Or for the Buck Rogers-esque gloves the Dawgs will be wearing.
by Just Some Dawg on Aug 26, 2011 8:06 AM EDT up reply actions
These are much better than UGa's
I understand why Georgia fans are angry over what Nike did to your uniforms, but this Boise State version is palatable.
"Lattimore, as the kids can say, can ball, and sometimes does it to the extent one might say [he] is out of control in his balling." - Spencer Hall
by GwinnettGamecock on Aug 26, 2011 12:07 AM EDT reply actions
Rough timing....
All I know, if they want to dress up as equine Furries on Dragon*Con weekend, they better be ready for a lot of unwanted attention from Tech students…..
WHY are BSu Nike Pro Combats Worse
than UGA’s? Cause they have (even as minimal as it is) the all hated color…Orange. By the way I will be starting a petition to remove that color from halloween….
I HATE ORANGE
by Dawg2011 on Aug 26, 2011 12:58 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
I actually almost like UGA's uni's more than Boise's
But those Helments are Samuel L. Jackson level Badass.
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Pat Summitt is already a legend, and will always be a Hero.
As cool as I think the Boise St. helmets are...
…(and I even liked last year’s version), I still like UGA’s better. I know that puts me in the minority, even among our own fans, but I think they’re going to look pretty sweet in the Dome.
Will
birthday cake anyone???
That fade reminds me of the cheap grocery store birthday cakes you got in the early 90’s with the icing that made you sick after half a piece… I kept trying to figure out why that damn uniform made me hungry….
by TheDeu on Aug 26, 2011 8:03 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Face it
You Bulldog fans are just jealous. Our uniforms are far superior than yours…….same goes for our team. The Boise State Broncos and Bronco Nation are coming. See you in 8 days.
White Uniform? Hivemind? DragonCon weekend?
I think the Boise players are going to get mistaken for storm troopers. Hopefully they’ll stay up all night with imitation princesses in metal bathing suits and then display the accuracy of storm troopers in the Dome.
by first and thom on Aug 26, 2011 10:10 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Does Boise State have a Fairy Godmother?
Can’t wait until “Snow White” (Boise QB) spends time with the “Grumpy 11” Georgia “D”
GO DAWGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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by vineyarddawg on Aug 26, 2011 7:07 PM EDT up reply actions
I, for one, think UGA's unis are awesome!
And I’m a BSU fan. I still like the look of BSU’s better, but I think your unis are like a sanguinary storm. Pretty vivid and intimidating. (And yes, that includes the speed stripe down the facemask.)
Good luck in a week!
Thanks, freshbreff.
We’re looking forward to a great game next Saturday night. Will you be making the trip to Atlanta for the festivities?
Go 'Dawgs!
I wish!
My sister lives in Augusta, and I would love nothing more than to be there opening night. Unfortunately, I start teaching next week, and I think it would look bad if I took vacation this early.

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