MIZZOU GETS BLINGAY

by Orson on Nov 20, 2008 11:33 AM EST

Last night Central Michigan trotted out "Vegas gold" uniforms, an inapt name for any shade of gold in Las Vegas. (Unless you're referring to the gold fingernail fungus that shows up when your immune system collapses in hour 72 of an 84 hour bender there. That's about the same color.) It leaned more toward the urine end of the spectrum, and with yellow you go Oregon "banana attack" or nothing, in our opinion.

So, hope then that the Missouri Tigers, already a tad down over losing two games they thought they could win and thus only being kings of the 493 billion square miles of the Big 12 North, avoid the pissy overtones when they trot out the "golden" unis they're rumored to be using against KU. The early projections are not...um...promising.

That's close to nail fungus yellow there. Of course, go too far and you get into food colors, and Mangino food association quick offramp to fat joke yes let's not go there we just did apologies.

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The glare from the lights in the CMU game made their jerseys look white at times. That gets kind of confusing when the other team is wearing white.

by SpartanDan on Nov 20, 2008 11:42 AM EST reply actions

You know that college football has entered bizarro world when the first coach that comes up when discussing food and bright colors is Mangino. It’s like Coach Fulmer is already gone (sniff).

In related news, the Krispy Kreme by my place just went out of business. I guess they figured that Phil won’t have his usual paycheck to drop at the KK counter.

/fat jokes

by Geaux Irish on Nov 20, 2008 11:43 AM EST reply actions

Someone needs to tell Nike to stop using football players as walking queer advertising signs.

by AParker on Nov 20, 2008 12:00 PM EST reply actions

It will totally match my grill.

by Big Head on Nov 20, 2008 12:29 PM EST reply actions

ASU aparently went “all banana” twice in either 1989 or 1990, losing both games to USC and Arizona. Legend has it the uniforms were a laughing stock on both sides of the stadium and they were scrapped immediately.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2275/2181108214_f10c0de622_b.jpg

So Mizzou, if it’s not too late, Don’t. You might end up losing to Arizona, and that’s a fate no one wants.

by Big Jon on Nov 20, 2008 3:01 PM EST reply actions

I didn’t see CMU last night. But those all yellow Mizzou uniforms remind of Cal’s horrendous Fire Hydrant uniform scheme.

by Mark D on Nov 20, 2008 3:44 PM EST reply actions

Using a uni scheme that you have never used before against a rival that you are supposed to beat.

Yeah, there is NO WAY this will end badly.

by ChasingMizzou on Nov 20, 2008 6:30 PM EST reply actions

Actually, Mizzou wore all ‘gold’ (see: yellow) back in the ’60’s.

Unfortunately, that old saying comes into play: Some things are better left in the past.

In this case, some things are better left in the past. Leave the mustard yellow in the past Mizzou/Nike. I’ll root for you regardless, but is this really going to help uni sales? Let’s keep to the more intimidating color scheme of all-black with gold as the secondary coloring. They don’t really have to look like Tigers (see: LSU, Clemson and Memphis which don’t even use Tiger color color-schemes).

by Jon S. on Nov 21, 2008 2:20 AM EST reply actions