New Uniforms Revealed
- Thread starter CyTwins
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What are we even arguing about? Teams go through trends with their styles, currently we are using black in our uniforms, I'm sure it won't be like that forever. I think they realized after last year that they used black too much. It seems to me that a lot of the promotional pics on Twitter that most of the time the players are wearing the cardinals home jerseys. And if they wear black just the same it will be okay.
IMO the Earl Bruce unis should be returned - at least for a game/year. The dark gold pants almost look like Carharts or vintage Levis. The red seems brighter also to make a good contrast.
Technically Buffaloes is also a misuse of the term that caught on during the same time. By that logic, Colorado should be the Bison because their nickname is more appropriate for African water buffaloes.
I asked Jamie about that a while back. A couple of years ago, iirc. He replied that we wouldn’t want to schedule another “tough” non conference game in addition to Iowa, and risk getting Matt Campbell upset so that he leaves.
It was a nice, long, thoughtful e-mail. And I stared at it entirely baffled.
Can you imagine being the Minnesota AD receiving that phone call...
"Hey, we'd like to schedule a game with you to commemorate the anniversary of your football program being so racist that you murdered our first African American player. What do you say?"
KidSilverhair
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So … a cardinal was chosen as ISU’s mascot because of the school colors of cardinal and gold? Does Cy still make sense as the mascot if the default unis are now black? 
Maybe Cy should be a crow, or a raven?
Maybe Cy should be a crow, or a raven?
Oregon, who i think everyone would agree really pioneered the "alt uni," would wear a different uniform combo for every game. And they often included colors like silver/chrome and orange which aren't school colors and aren't the same as a neutral or "classic" all black.
I love our school colors, but let the players have fun.
Well what you said is "Cyclones are formed over the South Pacific and Indian Ocean." And I said not in the context of how we got our name/identity. Our name came from using cyclones as a synonymous term for tornados.
Our mascot is a completely different story.
But do I think we should change our colors to what the OP said, no that is dumb.
I do think we could use our original colors of silver, gold and black, as throwbacks or special alts on occasion though as Kagavi has designed. But man would the TOEs heads explode!!! LOL
I don't believe I"ve seen either of the pissing match combatants in the cave. Plenty of arseholes outside the cave.
Hahaha this is a good application to be Matt Campbell's "spin doctor".
"Now you see, it's not that HCMC does not like the traditional ISU colors, but in his wisdom and perceptive insight, he sees that with black and white uniforms we can be even more forever truly Cyclones..."
Including the gigantic shoulder pads from that era.
I don’t get how people come up with this. I’ve seen it before.
It would be a simple, “How would you like to schedule a game, so that we can all show how far we’ve come since then?”
Matter of fact, the Minnesota AD couldn’t say no to that.
True. And like most of the rest of us, you would be one of them at times.