The Purdue Boilermakers football team will honour the legacy of astronaut and galaxy explorer Neil Armstrong with a special helmet decal this Saturday. Armstrong, who died in late August, was the first man to walk on the moon back in 1969; before he accomplished that astonishing feat he graduated from
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Monday Night Mare. Georgia Tech Alumn Despises New Uniforms, Begs For Their Ouster
Being a Yellow Jackets fan and alumnus isn’t easy. The team teases with success, loses games they shouldn’t right after winning games in which they stood no chance. It’s a difficult battle to defend a team that has middling, yet often top 25 performance. There are unique academic standards at
2012 NCAA Football New Uniforms Preview
Hey, this is Steven Little of The Sports Design Blog doing a guest post for SportsLogos.Net News. This week kicks off the most exciting time of the year, college football season, which means it’s time for my favorite post of the year – who’s getting new football uniforms in the
UPDATE – Georgia Tech Joins the Ranks of Those Abandoning Tradition – Has a White Honeycomb Alt Helmet
Tech Quarterback Synjyn Days tweeted today with a photo of a new alt helmet for Georgia Tech. His message: “New helmets … Lets Get It 9/3.” The tweet has since been deleted, surely the results of a hand-slap from the administration. “We do have a second helmet that we have to wear
SportsLogos.Net News Week in Review: August 19-25, 2012
A couple of leaks, some hints of what’s to come, and throwback jerseys… it was an interesting week in the world of sports logos and uniforms these last seven days. NBA The biggest news of the week was the leaking of the New York Knicks new uniforms for the upcoming
Oregon Does What Oregon Does Best and Announces New Jerseys… Except, They Aren’t New
With bated breath, the sports uniform world expands to perhaps its largest on the eve of an Oregon Duck uniform release. People otherwise not interested will tune in to see what wild and wacky stuff the playground of Nike will sport in their next year’s matches. Today was such a
College Uniforms and Logos Reach a Frenzied Pace. Welcome to the Grab Bag, College Edition.
Maryland Maryland, often referred to as the Oregon of the East for their wild uniform combinations, has done it again with another new edition for 2012. They went back to something (shock) traditional for the school, with a red jersey and white pants. But of course they went and Maryland-ed
Minnesota Golden Gophers 1960s Prototype Logos
Courtesy the Twitter feed of the Minnesota Golden Gophers Creative Services department comes this little gem of logo history, prototype sketches featuring university mascot “Goldy” in a wide assortment of different sports poses. You can click the image above to see a full-sized version of the graphic. The Tweet didn’t
Central Michigan Goes With Mix-N-Match Colors in their New Uniforms
Central Michigan announced yellow, maroon, black, and white sets of jerseys and pants, along with a new black matte helmet. The pieces are meant to be mix-and-match, with the exception of the black helemt, which is said to go with the all-black look only. The black uniform features a maroon
Notre Dame Abondons all Tradition, Shows a Gimmicky Shamrock Series Uniform for 2012
Notre Dame has partially scrapped the golden domes on their helmets. Or exactly 1/3rd which is now navy blue. The Irish announced their Shamrock Series uniforms for their game in Chicago against Navy. The good news is, its for one game only. The bad news is, its almost 100%
UMass Welcomes Itself to FBS With New Black Helmet, Tweaked Unis
The campus at UMass was abuzz today at football practice. It was media day, and the first uniforms the team will wear as a new member of the Mid-American Conference and a newly FBS team were modeled. The uniform changes are more like tweaks, and refine the Adidas uniform
Duke’s New Helmets, One Reversed, the Other Blacked Out.
The Duke Blue Devils showed off their multiple helmet selections, adding a blue and a black to their previous white. The blue is a shiny metallic shell with white logo and stripe, the black is flat, or matte, with glossy logo and stripe. In the display helmets, the black appears