I've only seen the throwback grey ghost 77 sweatshirt.
http://store.fightingillini.com/product.aspx?id=4188&l=Default&cat=142
Very cool sweatshirt. Thanks for sharing.
I've only seen the throwback grey ghost 77 sweatshirt.
http://store.fightingillini.com/product.aspx?id=4188&l=Default&cat=142
None of the local vendors ordered anything but the Orange 15 jerseys. Nike offered all vendors the 1, 15, 50, 77 in Orange, Blue, White and Grey and the only jersey combo that came back meeting the minimums required by Nike was the Orange 15. The Orange 6 and Grey 77 jerseys are leftovers from last year and are limited. Jerseys do not make up much of the gameday sales. Good article on the subject found here http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2015-09-04/lawsuits-effect-fans-left-only-generic-jersey-numbers.html
None of the local vendors ordered anything but the Orange 15 jerseys. Nike offered all vendors the 1, 15, 50, 77 in Orange, Blue, White and Grey and the only jersey combo that came back meeting the minimums required by Nike was the Orange 15. The Orange 6 and Grey 77 jerseys are leftovers from last year and are limited. Jerseys do not make up much of the gameday sales. Good article on the subject found here http://www.news-gazette.com/news/lo...ct-fans-left-only-generic-jersey-numbers.html
False. I work for a local vendor and the first my boss (who does the sportswear ordering) heard about the different numbers and colors was when I told him about it when it was posted on twitter a month or so back. He immediately called our Nike rep and he had NO CLUE what we were talking about.
Orders for stuff like this are typically done MONTHS in advance and Nike usually doesn't even have mock ups to show us, just product names and numbers and we have to guess how many to order sight unseen for most products. We didn't eve order the 15 football jersey because that's all that was offered to us back in winter/spring since we didn't think it would sell.
We wanted this stuff badly, we were just going to order the 50 and 77 in a couple colors, because we knew they would sell really well, but we never got the chance.
Really liked this Illinois uniform combo. Thought it looked very sharp, especially the orange accents on the jerseys. Also thought the white on the thigh pads was an awesome touch. Nothing like it on any other team that I saw.
Even online is very limited--I can't find blue, just orange and white. The other thing I never really noticed is that other than the shield, you can't determine it's an Illinois jersey. Fine for when you're with other Illini, but if you're just wearing the orange (esp out of state) it just gets a lot of questions. Auburn? Clemson? Texas? Tennessee?
A few teams have been popping up with the thigh pad logos, I think I remember seeing Kentucky and Michigan State having them.
see, after the spring game I think I decided that White/Blue/White was possibly the best of our uniform combinations... love it (obviously the actual game blues are going to be a bit more dressed up)
I really do think for the Soldier Field game we need to play up the tie-in to the Bears.
I am really eager to see a traditional Orange/Blue/Orange soon though.
I would like to see W/O/G.
White Helmets with the chrome "I"
Orange Tops
Gray Bottoms
Sharpie.
Here's an old school Orange Illini helmet with an orange facemask.
From the helmet stripe, to the shoulder stripe tothe shoulder logos. these are some of my favorite jerseys of all time.
Rocked my new illini 15 orange jersey this weekend- every asked me if it was a tebow broncos jersey. I live in TX
I think that has always been a problem for the Illini. I have an old Kendrick Jones #84 Orange jersey everyone thinks is the Bronco's as well.
Has anyone seen a blue 77 jersey for sale anywhere? Or just a 77 jersey in general? I can't find anything but 1 and 15 jerseys.
Where can you even find a 1. Or white? haven't seen this.