Recent content by Fighter of the Nightman

A valiant effort, but I think our blue is off. Frickin’ gorgeous, man.

He / she has a point…

I’ve made my peace with all of them, as they all bring their own charm… … except for Block I, which we rigidly wear the most. Go browse iconic football programs, and I think many would be surprised how many are obsessively loyal they are to having their primary logos on the helmet, lol.

Thank you! That is surprising to me about the SEZ. Maybe it's sort of an optical illusion since the track having been there forced it to curve back at an "unnatural" angle unlike the rest of the stadium. However, it always just seemed like at the corners, it began jetting back at a different...

^^ That actually looks great! I thought our shoulder stripe design simply transposed onto the sleeves wouldn't really work, but it looks really great with smaller stripes like that image generated!

Chat GPT gave a much less in-depth answer than it usually trots out for these weird questions that I love ... but that answer was nonetheless an emphatic "yes"!

Can someone who has been to a lot of games comment on how steep the various sections are compared to each other? The NEZ looks pretty steep here (an objectively good thing in a stadium, if you ask me!!), but I have never sat up there or anything. From my trips to Memorial Stadium and just...

FTR, I like the orange way better than the navy ... I just think they tweaked the font proportion a tiny bit for the navy version, and the orange would benefit greatly from doing the same!

One thing at least sort of good about the shoulder stripes is that they have the potential to be fairly easily associated with an "Illinois look" within the Big Ten, especially when you consider just how unique our. Just from a quick Google search, we are the only pre-2012 Big Ten school to use...

Obviously you asked Matt and not me, but I personally felt like it worked better for the Music City Bowl for some reason. FTR, I am not commenting on the colors here ... I think we should mainly stick to orange helmets, haha. However, it just seemed to me like the Script font appeared smaller...

Knock on wood and all, but Bret has been a professional coach and winner for decades now … I’d be shocked if he wouldn’t see the value of a better home field advantage being very much worth the trade off of finding another place for that practice (it’s not like any other serious programs have a...

Not sure why this specific angle made me think of this, but I really have ZERO issue with the North End Zone ... it's just a really silly place to put the students. In isolation, though, it seems like a fairly impressive structure, and just compare how well it encloses that side of the stadium...

I think what’s way more likely is not “admitting defeat” regarding the 1LL1NO1S font being utter trash but rather slowly working more and more Script in, as we’ve seen in the last few years.

Looking back, this uniform looks like the epitome of an "insecure" brand (I know people hate when that word is used in these conversations, but...) just trying to do way too much to try to look trendy, cool, sleek, stylish, etc. And then the Lovie Era uniforms seemed like such a kneejerk self...

Just to follow up on this since I am "in limbo" waiting for a 12:30 pm meeting and sitting by my computer AND because I frickin' love this rather pointless fan base speculative math (so again, this is in no way to be argumentative, I am just having some weird fun!) ... you pretty much rely on...