IN DEFENSE OF FRUITY CURSIVE

I’ve never been so proud to be a Gator fan. Thank you Orson.

Someone tell the Trojans that their helmet has a SPARTAN and not a Trojan.

It would be like the Cal Bears having a Panda as a mascot!

Harvey, perhaps it’s a Trojan with a brain cloud.

Not only that Harvey, but they play in the Collesium, which is Roman.

That does bring up the point as to why you would name your team after a people whose most famous action was getting suckered and then getting their asses kicked…

Let the haters hate away. There is nothing more lovely than our beloved fruity cursive. I defy you to find a design that more appropriately goes with tank tops and jorts. I know – for most of us jorts go with everything. I have progressed through the seven stages of gator fandom and am now warmly ensconced in acceptance and hope.

your fruity cursive is fine compared to the moon-man uniforms of Oregon. If those are the uniforms of the future, I have to say, the future sucks, change it.

I kind of like how none of our logos really die. They’re replaced, but nothing is discontinued. In the mid-90s when they ditched Albert-in-a-sweater for the grimacing Gator head, I thought I’d be sad, but it never really went anywhere except for off of official gear. My car sports super old-school.

The cursive IS irony. Other than than the Gator head, none of them even come close to intimidating. Kind of like our pre-Spurrier reputation. In summation, leave the cursive. It has stayed so constant, which is kind of cool, and really has no effect on laying people the fuck out.

fruity cursive looks great with jean shorts.

Don’t give U[sic]GA too much credit for taking the greenbay G, changing the colors, and sticking it on there helmet. I’m sure it took their dairy majors years to do it, but, unlike the Gators helmet, its not original.

The cursive, on its face, is not the problem, but rather a company-you-keep kind of situation — according to the Helmet Project, the only other schools using cursive type on their helmets are Maryland, Ole Miss, Cal, UCLA, Idaho, and New Mexico. In other words, two major-conference stiffs, two decent Pac-10 teams who nevertheless treat defense the way most AFL teams do, and two sub-sub-sub-BCS-conference teams who’d probably need OT to put away Hoover High. Not exactly a murderer’s row, in other words. I’m not saying that the cursive is at fault for their various deficiencies, but it probably isn’t helping.

don’t you think the real message behind the Gator is to buy more Gatorade? I find the font to be more juvenille than femine – still works in your senario.

The Spartans were the greatest of homosexual warriors – better to fight next to your lover than your friend.

We PSUers like the plain helmet – less distracting. Personally, I am not a fan of the “new” PSU lion logo – looks like a pitt panther to me. bleh. I much prefer the “chipmunk lion”.

Nebraska, where the ‘N’ is for knowledge.

We, too, prefer our old, less fierce mascot. The sweater-wearing Albert is a much better prop than the ferocious, sneering Gator of the 90s.

If the obvious UGA inferiority complex didn’t do it, the manifest spelling, capitalization, and punctuation errors in his comment should make it quite apparent that “The Greenbay [sic] G” is a Tech fan.

bitterhorn, the N is for nowledge.

To modify Doug’s note, it’s New Mexico State that uses cursive (“Aggies”) on its helmets, not New Mexico. UNM has a snarling wolf’s head (the Lobos), which is a pretty cool combination of nickname and logo.

You’re right, I left off the “State.” True dat. Double true. I doubt UNM would want anything associated with their football team confused with that of NMSU’s.

Fruity cursive? I wanna dip my balls in it.

A Spartan on the USC helmet? Maybe if your example is from the discount costume store…

Besides, trying to find any group of warriors in your various epic-poetry-era Mediterranean nation-states that wasn’t profoundly into buggery is a wasted effort, but since there’s no hint of homoeroticism around college football (not that there’s anything wrong with that) then no-one needs to worry their little helmets about it.

Wait, Dorsey was running through the women’s soccer team? This whole time I just sort of figured they were talking about the guys.

(And I bet Ken was, too.)

It’s become a classic, fruity or not. I saw a study where UF ranked right behind Michigan and Notre Dame when it came to recognizable CFB helmets. It represents our state pretty well. I guess if I were a Michigan fan this off-season I wouldn’t have much to do but talk about other teams’ helmets either.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/stewart_mandel/04/24/spring.top.25/index.html

It’s become a classic, fruity or not. I saw a study where UF ranked right behind Michigan and Notre Dame when it came to recognizable CFB helmets.

There’s something to be said for coming in third when your team nickname is spelled out on the side of the helmet.

and there’s something to be said for coming in second when you have absolutely nothing but gold paint on your helmet.

I’m starting to worry about my son. He’s five. Every time he chooses his own clothes, he comes downstairs in jean shorts. Is that any way for the son of a Michigan alum to dress? Should I just start paying UF tuition on layaway? Is there any hope?

Gloriously, no—he’s already in the club. We recommend pursuing prepay options immediately.

cursive Gators = Ramma Jamma.
Keep it!

The best hit I have ever watched live of a college football game. Awesome!

Dorsey = Greatest U QB of all time

If Dorsey actually did break the women’s soccer team down, I bet he used Berman’s line. “You’re with me, leather.” I gotta try that.

When were SEC games on ABC?

Harvey, how do you know what a trojan helmet looked like? Maybe the Spartan’s adopted the style later.

I’ve thought the choice of a name was odd since I was a kid though. Still it seems less odd to me than naming your team the Buckeyes or the Beavers or many other names out there.

I never thought the Gator’s script was fruity. Just kind of casual and 70’s, but there is nothing wrong with that.

Cursive grooviness alert: During summer of my freshman year, while standing in the Disney-like line at UF’s financial aid department, I spotted a football poster on the wall behind the curly head of financial-aid-bot-2000. The poster featured nothing but the Sunkist-helmet glowing like a meteor and the words: “Here Comes The Sun.”

At that moment, my Michael Shea’s-fogged mind (damn you, 1995 Salty Dog special, damn you) decided that when my school’s football poster purposefully recalls a chipper Beatles song:

a) Some unabashed Alachua County sports information hippie free-associates “Paul McCartney” with “deep out”;
b) The glow of Florida’s helmet can cause some plant species to photosynthesize;
c) Art Garfunkel could sing “feelin’ groovy” at halftime it wouldn’t matter… as long as Gators put 50 on the board.

Boring helmet with a gay color scheme.

SEC Champs

Actually Doug, I’m a Notre Dame alum at U[sic]GA who is a prof at your school. I’m too damn lazy to proofread.

Well, although the Trojans were obliterated far from Rome legend has it that the decendents of Troy were the original Romans. They supposedly began Rome after fleeing their ransacked city-state in search of new settlement. The empire of Rome was thought to have been started by the sword of Troy. So, the Coliseum is a fitting name in a round-about way. That being said, their helmets DO make me think of condoms. Sad that several years of marketing will supercede centuries of history, yes?
Survey says… all that money and not a decent graphic design company in sight.
And that isn’t a Spartan. Spartan helmets were MUCH more covering on the face. They are wearing Trojan helmets.

…and the Spartans weren’t homosexual. The Athenians (as well as many other city-states) were associated with homosexuality. If you are going to bring that in as an insult at least know your history. Spartan culture was based on a lack of excess: very military, also very loyal to their wives.
But I’m from Texas so screw the Trojans.
Go Tech.

We did check our history, Danny. While not as prevalent as in Athens, homosexual relationships were built into Spartan society.

Billy, do you like movies about gladiators?

This may have been already posted above, but this post was linked to on SI on Campus. Here’s a small piece of the screenshot of the place on the left side of the page: http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b328/z83col/worsthelmets.jpg

“Someone tell the Trojans that their helmet has a SPARTAN and not a Trojan.

It would be like the Cal Bears having a Panda as a mascot!

Comment by Harvey Wireman — April 25, 2006 @ 9:16 am "

Or it would be like putting a crocodile on the cover of your media guide when your mascot is an alligator. WOOF!

Everything was a world of suck under Coach [NAME REDACTED].

The Greenbay G is obviously still upset about the last we played and feels even more resentment that he depends on UGA for employment. Here’s a little history for you. "…Since the Georgia “G”- though different in design and color- was similar to Green Bay’s “G”, Coach Dooley thought it best to clear the use of Georgia’s new emblem with the NFL team. Athletic Director Joel Eaves called for permission which was granted. However, since its inception in 1961, the Green Bay “G” has been redesigned several times and now looks like Georgia’s original 1964 “G.” Georgia is proud that the Packers apparently liked the special nuances of the Bulldogs’ forward-looking “G.”

I knew it, just throw the “Y” in there and it makes perfect sense. . . GAYTORS

Sigh. Georgia loses to Florida so often and with such mind-numbing repetitiveness that they identify themselves first as “Gator Haters” and “Dawgs” a distant second. I ’spose if I had to play Florida every year, my only vent would be running my yap and talking trash after a respectable length of time had elapsed since the last UGA beatdown.

How do you keep a Bulldog from masturbating?

Paint his unit orange and blue and he can only beat it twice every fifteen years.

All I can say to you Gator fans is 2 SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS IN 4 YEARS and 3 SEC CHAMPIONSHIP APPEARANCES IN 4 YEARS. Florida has 0 SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS IN 5 YEARS and 0 SEC CHAMPIONSHIP APPEARANCES IN 5 YEARS (not to mention that UGA was much more talented than Tennessee in ’04). I would much rather be winning SEC Championships than winning one game each season. Admit it, Georgia is now becoming an SEC Championship regular.

It should be time for the annual move the game out of Jax line by uga(no problem playing in good ole Sanford Stadium again..the last time was a BLAST!).

Congrats on your SEC title, but I’ll take our NCAA Hoops title any day….btw nice bowl game.

I love the “paint your unit orange and blue” comment. Classic!!!

Does anyone think it’s odd that the Miami helmet only has a “U”? Reminds me of the t-shirt in “Animal House”: College. Maybe it’s to remind people that it is supposed to be a university and not just a football factory.

I’m still rolling in the floor over the masturbating Bulldawg. Rumor has it that the “orginal” UGA logo — a pair of bib overalls with tobacco and barbeque stains — was rejected when Junior Samples from Hee Haw held out for $20 instead of the plate of collared greens Ol’ Vince offered back in the ’60s.

  Afterall what’s more macho than “Uga” wearing a red sweater lying on a sack of ice? Stay there long enough and his unit will turn. . orange and blue. Pass the chitlins.

   This is why I love the college game. Screw the pros. This is hilarious.

As an FSU fan, my first reaction was that it was hilarious that Miami and FU both made the list, but in retrospect. How in the #$!! did the Michigan helmet not make it. That is the ugliest design I have ever seen, and what is the signicance supposed to be anyway?

If UF only wins 3 games a year, and those games are Tennesse, Georgia and FSU, I am a happy guy. 3 SEC championship appearances in 4 years….I am impressed. Can’t get to the NC until you can get out of Jacksonville with a “W”!

Do you know why the St. John’s river flows south to north? ’Cause Georgia sucks!

heck yea Daren, G does suck, go Jackets!

Hey all of you little redneck puppy fans just remember 15-2 in the last 17 years. If FLORIDA had your schedule we would repeat as national champions year in and year out. Also, I think we averaged a 27 point margin of victory when Spurrier was there. By the way, I love your basketball program.

Ya the Gatoers helmets look like something my liitle sister would wear, GO IRISH!!!!!

The Irish can’t win a National Championship when they only go 1-2 in the Big Ten every year. Pretty soon they will start ducking Michigan State.

Hey Chris, say it, just say it! We’re Florida’s BITCH!

What font are you using for the “EDSBS” in the EDBS header?

florada might win the battle,but uga wins the war. for those who dont know what i am talking about florda might win the game but uga wins the sec.

What?! I hear a tiger roaring in the background, I see the lights ignite in the sky, and what does that sign say? Death Valley?!

This is wear both Florida and Georgia run out of the stadium.

GO TIGERS!!

31-3 Wear what you want if you think it will help ROLL TIDE

The Michigan helmet design supposedly came from an old leather helmet years ago, that was painted in contrasting colors to help their color-blind quarterback distinguish his receivers from the defense. The stripes are in the shape of the leather pads that wrapped from the front to the back of the helmet, the same applies to the shape on the front, a leather layer for added protection on the forehead. True story, according to the Michigan media guide.

Jealousy gets you no where, Can’t pick on the CANES! From 1983-2003 The was NO better college team. That’s 20 years of greatness.. National Champs 1983,87,89,91 and 2001 and played in championship 1986 (Vinny choked) 1992 (lost to Bama) 200 got screwed by the BCS and FSU got in, and the Referee rip off against Ohio St in 2002… I laugh when other schools aren’t mentioned like Penn Stt or Notre Dame, they have just as many problems, but they never get mentioned because they are the NCAA’S gloried programs

why do all the trees in Georgia lean south? Because Florida SUCKS!!!

Actually, Michigan stole their helmet from the University of Delaware. They just changed the colors. That’s the true story! Check it out, U of D still has the same helmets all these years later and they had them first. Don’t believe a damn thing the University of Michigan tells you. By the way, the pass interference call in the BCS Title game between OSU and Miami was crap, but the refs blew some serious holding calls against Miami early in the game. They just weren’t that good in general.

P.S. How do you get to Ann Arbor? (Go North ’til you smell it and east ’til you step in it.)

As a Bama fan, I’ve got to say…love the Gators logo.

Hey Mark, your “Death Valley” tigers haven’t been scarin’ anyone out of the stadium recently. In there last 2 games against Georgia, they lost 45-16 in 2004 (we put our back-ups in the game in the 2nd quarter) and 34-14 in the SEC Championship last year. I don’t know what the hell you’re talking about.

First of all, the trojan helmet should not be up there at all. Because I would ask, why are all these helmets from teams that are successful year in and year out? Because that’s all you haters can make fun of when your team is sitting at home watching the national championship game, and our team is playing in it. When you actually think your team is better because their helmet is more RECOGNIZABLE, that’s when you have truly lost it. It’s not USC’s fault that someone named a condom after the trojan. 11 national championships speak for themselves.

I heard the Florida Crocs were getting rainbow helmets

http://www.ufpride.org/Info.html

Listen, orange with dainty blue script is a perfectly acceptable complement to excessive gold jewelry and fake tans. The UF ladies just wish they’d have something to match their style.

Hey Doug, you do remember those “major conference stiffs” at Ole Miss beat Florida two years in a row, don’t you? Not to mention three national championships.

I am a fan of the traditional helmets, Bama, Michigan, Notre Dame, and more. News flash: Changing your uniform every year will not make people forget how much you suck. Oh, Nebraska also, love the helemts.

 Roll Tide

1. While Georgia’s logo was similar to, but not the same as, Green Bay’s when a Georgia student designed it, the Packers actually redesigned their logo later to make it look nearly identical to Georgia’s

2. Fielding Yost first used the “Winged” helmet at Princeton, and then brought it to Michigan, so Princeton’s black and orange “winged” helmets are really the first.

I don’t understand the whole Miami helmet thing. Okay, I like the design. But to say it stands for Irvin’s coke habbits, Sean Taylor’s “class” and those clowns on the 7th? Where does that come from. Does something happen to a person once the “U” covers the scull? Does it all of a sudden root into their brain or something? If they start wearing those nightmares they had for the North Carolina game, does that mean that discipline will all of a sudden appear in the program? I don’t think it really matters what they wear. They just need to get better people to fill their uniforms, or at least stand up and cut the nonsense. You’re a program in contention every year. Keep the unis, get some class.

and Moose Bigalow…nice “The State” reference, but what the hell are you talking about?

Uh, Patrick (May 31, 7:40pm), if you’re driving to Ann Arbor from Columbus that last direction would be west, not east. Yep, must be on OSU grad…

Being an FSU student, I cant help but admire the irony of the UF FSU matchup. U have the ugly pumpkin orange and blue versus the awe-inspiring garnet and gold. U have the girly cursive against the masculine spears and tomahawks on a shiny gold helmet. I still dont understand why FSU’s helmet isnt in the top 10 list of recognizable CFB helmets. Anyway, we may have lost twice in a row to UF, but that upset at home two years ago hasnt occured since 83 and it wont happen again for another decade. GO ’NOLES!!!

On a similar note, here’s a link to some new college football helmet designs I came up with:
http://crumleydotorg.chattablogs.com/archives/036525.html

Gotta agree with #68. Some of us have more to look forward to than “helmet bowl”…:) That being said, you gotta love the classic beauty of our scarlet “N”…

There might be some very dissapointed USC fans out there early this fall, when those pretty helmets get covered in red paint. Gotta love Miami fans too…everyone knows that the Huskers are the greatest team of the past 30 years….Go Big Red!

FSU and Miami both seem to be on the decline, though we’ll know for sure after next season, while UCF is getting better…and now that Meyer has replaced Zook, UF looks to be almost back to Spurrier-years standards. I dream of a time when UCF replaces FSU in the “Big Three,” but that probably won’t happen until Bowden kicks the bucket. What will FSU do without that old geezer behind the wheel?

I don’t see how anyone can claim FSU is “manly” is any way, shape or form – they were an all-girls school until the ’50s, if memory serves.

What’s a UCF?