It is.
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lol, real or otherwise. Just hideous.
Remember when Black Heart Gold Pants did the fake alternates, oh, about 10 years ago?
Oh wow. Knight throwing the chair on the helmet just made me spit all over my screen.
Neither has been totally immune from the goofiness of recent years.
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There's truth in that, though I do think decision makers still have the sense that it's what they need to do to be "cool".
This x Zero.
Love these uniforms. I was at this game, and at every home game that season with season tickets. I almost got divorced because my mother-in-law didn't like my idea that we switch our family’s traditional Thanksgiving sit down dinner at her house to a family tailgate (with a deep fried turkey) before the final game in Champaign that would determine the B1G Championship. I had a feeling that this was a game that would be significant, and I just thought we should all be there to witness and celebrate since we had stuck it through with season tickets since 1984. I was so upset when she said no way that I left my husband to deal with his mom, and I took our youngest daughter to Champaign to watch this awesome Illini team win the B1G Championship, a memory neither my daughter or I will ever forget.
I was there too! That was my first ever Illini game.
Good choice! My in-laws ALWAYS had to celebrate on the day and I told my wife I was going to the game. She said, "you're not going without me" and I said, "looks like we're all going to Champaign then!" We took our three kids, tailgated with turkey and had a blast.
We all know how the game went, but those unis looked especially cool under the lights at the Superdome.
I liked the '82 iteration but agree that the '89 redesign that carried on for years was solid. It's actually the closest thing to football uni branding we've had.
Hopefully we get to a point where it doesn’t take the stars aligning!
for all but two home games. Then idk, maybe 
️ for most road games? Anyway, sounds like some of us will be getting our wish granted.I dont think its a one off for week 0. I think Brett has made it clear he is not into that kind of stuff and is into more of a classic identity1. On Red Line Radio this past week, Coach seemed to indicate he was in favor of having standard uniform combinations that are our default homes and aways, rather than switching combinations up for each game. He seems to value having a visual identity for the program. I take this to mean we will probably see
2. Also…
Edit: Yeah it’s probably just a one-off helmet for Week 0. I wish it was more, but at least we are making an effort.
Well and as we've been saying for years, everything about our helmet is maddeningly, inexplicably just objectively incorrect, in a way no one would ever choose. No sense in ever going back to that the moment we do something else.
