Illinois Football Uniforms

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Fighter of the Nightman
DirtyBurgIllini said:
That's a bit of an over exaggeration
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Lol, I get what he's saying, though! When I'm just chilling on the couch at night and toying around on my phone, I like to look up the social media page of the team we are about to play to see if they're hyping up our game and/or what their fans are saying. It's actually funny how often a team HYPES up its uniform choice. Just this week, Duke's Instagram page made a huge deal about the helmet they were going to choose to wear.

P.S. While looking at this type of stuff, I stumbled upon a conversation on a Duke message board talking about how it was going to be like 100 degrees on the field, and it would be really stupid if they decided to wear all black (while we got to wear white). It naturally evolved into a conversation about uniforms and wearing white at home, and I learned two interesting things (if I take these posters' at their words!).

1) Apparently the NCAA mandated in the 1980s that the away team has to wear white. If a home team prefers to wear white, they can ask the away team for an exemption, but the away team has to agree. The Duke fans gave an example of Georgia Tech, who asks this of EVERY opponent they play at home, and the away team agrees the vast majority of the time. This also came up recently when Northwestern denied Tulane's request to wear white at home to honor the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. I assume there are two sides to every story and it's entirely possible NU had already packed their uniforms, but ... it was some bad PR for the Wildcats.

2) LSU - the program most fans probably associate with wearing white at home - actually does not have to request anything from the away team, as they were grandfathered in as a team that always wore white at home.

So for those who have advocated for the Illini joining the "White Jerseys at Home Club," it wouldn't be as simple as our choice, apparently. We would have to ask our 7-8 opponents we face at Memorial Stadium each year to abide by our choice and pack up their home uniforms.
 
#153      
mattcoldagelli
Fighter of the Nightman said:
Lol, I get what he's saying, though! When I'm just chilling on the couch at night and toying around on my phone, I like to look up the social media page of the team we are about to play to see if they're hyping up our game and/or what their fans are saying. It's actually funny how often a team HYPES up its uniform choice. Just this week, Duke's Instagram page made a huge deal about the helmet they were going to choose to wear.

P.S. While looking at this type of stuff, I stumbled upon a conversation on a Duke message board talking about how it was going to be like 100 degrees on the field, and it would be really stupid if they decided to wear all black (while we got to wear white). It naturally evolved into a conversation about uniforms and wearing white at home, and I learned two interesting things (if I take these posters' at their words!).

1) Apparently the NCAA mandated in the 1980s that the away team has to wear white. If a home team prefers to wear white, they can ask the away team for an exemption, but the away team has to agree. The Duke fans gave an example of Georgia Tech, who asks this of EVERY opponent they play at home, and the away team agrees the vast majority of the time. This also came up recently when Northwestern denied Tulane's request to wear white at home to honor the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. I assume there are two sides to every story and it's entirely possible NU had already packed their uniforms, but ... it was some bad PR for the Wildcats.

2) LSU - the program most fans probably associate with wearing white at home - actually does not have to request anything from the away team, as they were grandfathered in as a team that always wore white at home.

So for those who have advocated for the Illini joining the "White Jerseys at Home Club," it wouldn't be as simple as our choice, apparently. We would have to ask our 7-8 opponents we face at Memorial Stadium each year to abide by our choice and pack up their home uniforms.
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#155      
Illinigirl
CaptainCrutch said:
Last year it seemed like they gave hints about uniform stuff the day or two before each game. Seems like that’s not happening this year so far.

I’m just gonna take a guess that if we see the block tomorrow, we can assume we’ll probably only have these alternates:

1. Slant/Underline, orange jerseys and pants against Ohio State

2. Probably an orange jersey and the military appreciation helmet on military appreciation day against Maryland.

And I’m gonna guess that’s it.
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The helmet decals will be different today
 
#158      
illinoistradition
Fighter of the Nightman currently…

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#164      
Shief
Fighter of the Nightman said:
^ Assuming we wear orange pants, looks like I’m going to be 2 for 2 on my uniform predictions!
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Are we sure that Fighter doesn't work for the football team or the DIA and has insider uniform knowledge? (I am kidding BTW.)
 
#168      
skyIdub
Toews said:
Let me ask you guys a question here. Do you guys wear Illini jerseys to games? If so, do they have a player's name on the back?
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I've only been motivated to buy football jerseys twice.

One Juice Williams with his name on the back....and I love this current version of the orange jerseys so I nabbed the #77 jersey. No name necessary on that one.
 
#169      
IlliniCaboose
Funny story. I've bought a couple custom Illini jerseys from this guy on Ebay. Both basketball ones were great, but the football one... looks a little funky.
He only does jerseys that are the current style and I got a couple orange flying illini style for basketball and they were very good, stitched, the correct patches. Got a Augustine one for my dad and a Lucas Johnson one for myself.
The football... I ordered a number 6 Brandon Lloyd jersey and it was mostly correct. But the model for the numbers he used was must have been the first google image search he could find because it wasn't a 6, it was an upside down 9 (I'm assuming he googled "illinois football jersey" and got a picture of Luke). I've always hated our number font, especially after Bret did the new jerseys, its a classic look with a modern number font. But it always bothered me that the 6 had a top on it but the 9 didn't have a bottom.
So now I've got an orange Brandon Lloyd jersey with the current style, but it looks like a lower case "b" instead of a 6.
 
#174      
GraingerGremlin
Can anyone tell me what #BPOTR stands for? Obviously, understand it's calling for orange helmet, white top, and blue pants, but what does the acronym exactly stand for?
 
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