love ‘em both and would be fine if we switched between solely those two helmets.
Illinois Football Uniforms
love ‘em both and would be fine if we switched between solely those two helmets.
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
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!
Okay question for those who know NFL and NFL history (and I guess Pro-Sports) more than I do:
Are we the only school that has an NFL team who based their color scheme after them? Is any Pro-Sports team based on the color scheme of a university?
I thought about this a couple years ago, as I couldn’t readily of one, but it’s a bit of a cool thing if that is the case.
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
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"!
TentakilRex
- Land O Insects between Quincy-Macomb-Jacksonville
Nope, the Vikings got their color scheme from the university of Washington, their first GM was an alum
The Rams originally had red color scheme copying Fordham of all schools
Yeah, and I read a bit after making the post that the Arizona Cardinals started out in Chicago with ties to University of Chicago and their Cardinal color scheme :/
My support for the new uniforms is pretty heavily due to JUST how much better they are than the Lovie Era set ... but I would agree that I am not a huge fan of the shoulder stripes. I think a design like the Bears (who use the exact same pants design / color scheme as us, with the obviously huge exception of no orange pants) with some really understated but cool sleeve stripes would have been a lot better. This is Chat GPT's take, and I would have definitely preferred this (forgive the first-try AI art and imagine the stripes perfectly spaced, lol)...
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Switch to a slightly less annoying font, and it's even better!
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With that said, however, it's pretty easy for me to just judge our current uniforms based on what they replaced ... and in that regard, they're a home run and a half.
The stripes on the sleeves and either font is money.
I like the current uniforms but those are even better. I was a big proponent of bringing in the Rose Bowl jerseys/uniforms as either the new uniform (At the time) and also was hoping they'd wear the throwbacks when they decided to wear all the different helmets. That would be cool if they do that also.
But IMO can't go wrong with the current uniforms. The font could be better, but it's splitting hairs for me.