New LSU Uni's Will Make You Squeal like a Pig

our offensive play calling totally offensive and wrong. Nike needs their ARSE kicked for messing with teams traditions because they give us free shoes.

I have no words. Just hideous.

Not that it’s going to matter, but it will make me feel better. If our athletic department has anything resembling cajones at all, they would send this crap back to Nike and wear our normal uniforms. Something tells me that there is too much money tied up for that to happen. Between yesterday’s disaster and this, I can only hope the adversity causes our team to focus.

I managed to dig out some of the ridiculous concepts behind Nike’s abomination (here), but good job digging up those images on Football Fanatics. I’ve been waiting for them to show up in the secret Nike spot, but no luck yet.

I think I’m more offended that they are leaving the LSU logo on those helmets. If they make them blank, they can carry this stupid “tribute to the legendary teams of the 1940s” thing on to a logical conclusion (though it’s not logical that the 1940s would be what we want to pay tribute to). But clearly Nike just likes Washington’s shades of purple and gold better than ours.

Changing those colors, dropping the stripes down to the bottom of the sleeves and inverting the purple/gold orientation is a rape of our identity and tradition. I really hope somebody in the Baton Rouge media presses LSU on why they agreed to this and what if anything Nike is paying to turn our season finale into their infomercial.

I’ll be in Baton Rouge and had planned to go to the Arkansas game. But I changed my plans when I heard about this Nike stunt. I won’t be a part of it.

Who cares.

Why don’t we have a “Black Out”? LOL

All of these uniform companies are RUINING tradition. I would hate to see LSU go the way of so many other teams that have ridiculous looking unis.

I’ve got the detailed images up in advance of the unveiling this afternoon. Interestingly, the helmet they show in the detail isn’t the Washington gold shown in the full uniform or on the t-shirt here.

they have scrapped the dome.

here’s the listing of the other schools if interested.

Maybe if the Tigers called their official colors ‘Purple and Yellow’, then Nike wouldn’t have offered the true gold coloring. Don’t know why, but yellow is a color no one wants to claim. Every team that wears yellow calls it gold. Maybe the idea was to simulate gold back when metallic paints weren’t invented. If that was the case, then metallic gold should have been used once those kinds of paint became available. The Steelers aren’t black and gold, they’re black and yellow. The Saints are black and gold, but the Steelers still call their colors black and gold. Personally, I like yellow, but everyone else in the football world seems to have an aversion to the word.

Purple and yellow, hurt a fellow. See how well that works? We might make up something catchy using ‘yellow and purple’, if we could only find a word that rhymes with purple.

The new unis aren’t all that bad, though they do look a lot like U-Dubs. Good thing is, U-Dub is way up north and west, so we’d really have the only unis like this in the south. I think gold pants like the Saints would look better and I’ve long thought, since LSU is now nationally recognized, that is time to drop the LSU letters from the helmet and just put our badass tiger face logo on it.

“drop the LSU letters from the helmet and just put our badass tiger face logo on it.”

I like that.

Don’t change the colors, though. I don’t know why people call that silverish brown color ‘gold’. I love the real gold and the purple!

Geaux us!