MustangWally
- Mayfield
Have we ever worn o/o/b ?
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skyIdub
Winged Warrior
I agree with both of your points. For a comparison, I found some old photos of our orange jerseys with white pants and with orange pants. Unfortunately, it could not be 100% apples to apples. For example, I don't think we ever went all orange in the Zook Era, and I think we only ever wore a white helmet with the orange jerseys and white pants with the Lovie Era uniforms. Either way, it is interesting:
ALL ORANGE
O/O/O Pre-Zook Era
O/O/O Beckman Era
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W/O/O Lovie Era
O/O/O Lovie Era
ORANGE JERSEY AND WHITE PANTS
O/O/W Zook Era
W/O/W Beckman Era
O/O/W Beckman Era
W/O/W Lovie Era
White pants all day, as I have said.And I think the current uniform set would look especially good with an orange jersey and white pants, but that is JMO. The Lovie Era orange uniforms just pretty much look awful no matter what, haha.
This years O/O/O smokes every one of these examples!
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
I definitely agree with that ... but I also think this year's O/O/W would smoke all of those examples, too! Try not to be too blown away by my MS Paint skills...
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
We have indeed, and I remember some game in 2014 or 2015 where we beat Nebraska at home at night, and Allison had this iconic pose after a late TD:
Not as bad as I remember it and I wouldn't hate at least seeing what it looked like with our current set, but ... not a huge fan myself.
TentakilRex
- Land O Insects between Quincy-Macomb-Jacksonville
Well if you have orange in color scheme, you either....
1. Use almost exclusively as an accent color (see Bears)
2. Embrace it and be "in your face" about it like the Netherlands soccer team
I like this look. (Though with the Flag I, it would look better on a white helmet or even a navy helmet)
Bonus: I am surprised no one dressed like this during games...
1. Use almost exclusively as an accent color (see Bears)
2. Embrace it and be "in your face" about it like the Netherlands soccer team
I like this look. (Though with the Flag I, it would look better on a white helmet or even a navy helmet)
Bonus: I am surprised no one dressed like this during games...
TentakilRex
- Land O Insects between Quincy-Macomb-Jacksonville
Honest truth, the team needs to return to this look with some very minor tweaks (Not into the pants striping). The orange of the jersey and helmet in the bottom picture is almost perfect....We have indeed, and I remember some game in 2014 or 2015 where we beat Nebraska at home at night, and Allison had this iconic pose after a late TD:
Not as bad as I remember it and I wouldn't hate at least seeing what it looked like with our current set, but ... not a huge fan myself.
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
I agree on the jersey, but I didn't like that helmet. It looked too "bronze" or something. I will admit, though, that now I am kind of curious what an O/O/B look would be like under our new uniform scheme, and I can't knock it 'til we try it!
skyIdub
Winged Warrior
Not many examples and the ones I found are meh. It's infinitely better with O pants or W pants.
They look pretty good today
Looked better in person than in those videos. I'm fine with this look once a year. Better than the Greys
Mr. Tibbs
- southeast DuPage
oh, I HATE the all greys
mattcoldagelli
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All-orange is really bad in theory, was slightly less so in practice. Weird helmet stuff for the troops = D-minus
Time to start the train for BPOTR at Iowa.
Time to start the train for BPOTR at Iowa.
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
Obviously I’m team BPOTR til I die, but I’d even be excited to see our orange pants on the road. Please no more O/O/W!
I'd love to see O/O/W at home too, and O/W/O on the road, liked the all Orange, nice to finally have those tops to finish things off.
MustangWally
- Mayfield
Just saw an online add for Illini football tickets. Couldn't figure out how to copy and paste it here. But in the accompanying photo, the Illini player was wearing O/B/B.
altgeld88
- Arlington, Virginia
I was wrong. I liked that all-orange combo yesterday. Never thought I'd say that. The stripes make it work.
Mr. Tibbs
- southeast DuPage
they looked fine
I still prefer non monochrome looks
Since I became a fan during the Bob Blackman era I'm all for the O/O/W look for every home game!!!
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
Thanks for the catch, I definitely meant O/W/W! I love O/O/W.
altgeld88
- Arlington, Virginia
I do, too, but the O/O/O yesterday was surprisingly good.
That's the earliest home color scheme I recall and liked it (esp the helmets.) However. I like O/B/O as the home standard, with O/O/W (or, now that I've seen the current incarnation of it, O/O/O) as an occasional departure.
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
Bret ... it is our final chance for uniform glory this weekend.
(Prepare your eyes for another MS Paint masterpiece...)
#BPOTR
(Prepare your eyes for another MS Paint masterpiece...)
#BPOTR
altgeld88
- Arlington, Virginia
Uniform diversity is our strength.
mattcoldagelli
- The Transfer Portal with Do Not Contact Tag
ALL IN FOR BPOTR TODAY
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