Will Virginia Tech Wear Orange Helmets in the Orange Bowl?
by furrer4heisman on Dec 16, 2010 12:03 PM EST
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PrintI really hope not, but Joe from The Key Play has a photo of the orange helmets he says we're going to wear against Stanford.
Here's hoping the helmets, which I'm told were posted on Beamerball.com, aren't going to see the field. I understand that players like the variety, but we've really taken it too far this year. If we wear these orange helmets it will be the fifth different helmet the team has worn. Then we'll really be Oregon East have another reason to associate ourselves with the Ducks during the BCSCG.
But the main reason I don't want us to wear these orange helmets is a simple one -- they're ugly. They're really, really ugly. They look like Syracuse's helmets with square-root-of-one logos slapped on them. They look like they should be worn by a nameless high school playing against Ampipe in All the Right Moves.
Please, powers that be, please don't actually put these atrocities on our players on Monday Night Football. I get the joke. They're orange. It's the orange bowl. It's cute, it really is. But at some point we really just need to stop. I love our maroon helmets, I liked the black ones and the white ones with the striping grew on me. But these are horrendous.
Burn them.
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i dont think
we even have maroon pants anymore
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by furrer4heisman on Dec 16, 2010 1:39 PM EST up reply actions
Nooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Enough said.
by Leonard Thompson on Dec 16, 2010 3:14 PM EST reply actions
These look awesome
I don’t get it, every time they come out with something cool and new there is always the same group of people that gripe and complain, the same was said about the black uniforms, which were the best looking uniforms we’ve ever worn, same was said about the white helmets, which actually look great with the maroon stripes added to them, the orange helemts look really cool and will look great on the players as long as they have a jersey that matches, i’ll admit it will look bad with the maroon jerseys, but seriously people give it a chance, like most of the other combos it’ll grow on you, and it’s not wether any fans think it looks good, as long as the players like the combo and play well in it thats all that matters, but i like it
by Gobbler on Dec 16, 2010 3:27 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
i liked the black unis
and i liked the version of the white helmets that had stripes. these look like crap. if you look closely at the maroon helmets, there’s little gold-like flakes in them that make them shiny. these won’t look shiny. they’ll look too flat, without the cool matte look the black ones had.
plus, maroon outlined in white doesn’t look good on an orange background and is tougher to read. orange with maroon works as an outline color because it makes both the white and maroon logos pop on their respective backgrounds. this is why the orange jerseys looked so bad and why the numbers were so hard to read on them.
what would help is if there wasn’t orange space between the maroon logo and the white outline. look at our orange basketball unis. the white outline works on the numbers because there’s no orange between the two colors. in that case, it helps the numbers stick out and become easier to read.
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by furrer4heisman on Dec 16, 2010 4:12 PM EST up reply actions
I kinda like them
But really – I don’t care if they play naked as long as they win.
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wtf?
does anyone know who makes these uniform decisions? I really think someone in Nike hates VT and wants to make us look like clowns. They’re doing a pretty good job.
I don't think they're that bad
But I’m generally one of those who grumbles, pisses and moans when teams mess with tradition. So I get the forehead-slapping, head-hanging “damnit”-muttering reaction from a lot of people.
I agree that adding a metallic element would make the orange stand out better, but I don’t think that expanding the white boarder would be so great. I think it would come across as cheap.
Something else to consider is that when playing against a team that wears cardinal red, as Stanford does, the maroon often looks purple in comparison.
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