Gene Chizik was a bit more Hogan than Savage Wednesday night, gesturing to the cheering crowd (2,000?) for “more” upon taking the stage to seal “a collective family agreement.” What music was playing for Mean Gene’s entrance? Let’s just say everybody’s hands went up. And they stayed there. I swear I thought there was going to be a flyover.
There was plenty of heartfelt hearkening back to the third game of last season and the sermon was straight forward: go buck wild Saturday. All day. Dawn. Dusk. Just like West Virginia — “I witnessed 14,000 students singin’ in the rain” — only add GameDay. Recruits will be here. If you don’t wear blue, the terrorists win.
Speaking of, Team Blue Pants got giddy towards the end when Chizik, somewhat out of the BLUE, said “As you know, we’re an UnderArmour school,” and even us Team White Pantsers were thinking here it comes, we’re the beta test for some sort of Liquid Predator Drone uniforms that require blue pants helmets and glitter in the sun. But “it” was just a “let’s Protect This House.” Still… felt like a wink. (And, yeah, who knows, but it sure seems like it was, despite the efforts to put the cat back in the bag, even if, you know, it means killing the cat with flat-out denials.)
“This is going to be a special Saturday, guys… I need you guys all in.”
Hey… Housel says we wore green for a whole season back in the 30s… so whatever…
War Eagle, Coach.
UPDATE: Jerry dissects the latest intel and is fairly certain that…
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Tradition, tradition, I’m 80 years old and I’m in a wheelchair, blah blah blah. Wahhhhhh I hate change and btw, any song that I don’t like is a horrible intro video.
Enough of it.
The blue helmets looks cool. The pants also probably look cool.
I’m sure everyone related to the program will categorically deny any of this happening and I bet we’ll even take the field in the normal gear, only to run out in the new stuff after the video and the whole crowd and the students will go crazy.
It will be fun.
I’ll be pumped either way. It’s a win-win. Either they bust out in awesome looking alternates (and that helmet sure does look gorgeous) and it’s pandemonium and we’re throwing caution into the wind and Chizik is doing whatever he can to make his mark on this program and everything is awesome, OR, they bust out in awesome looking regulars and it’s still pandemonium and a little sigh of relief and tradition and glory glory to ole Auburn and all that, and everything is awesome.
HOWEVA, I will say this; The box and the wrapping next to it in the picture make it seem like it’s just a one shot prototype sent to athletic department for whatever reason. Like, if they had 85 of them come in, I doubt they’d all be in individual wrapped boxes like that, right? So I really doubt we’ll see it Saturday.
I like the helmet. But I have to say: same color jersey & pants = Conference USA / WAC. No.
I still want to know if Tubs really had orange jerseys in the locker room back in 2000 and was talked out of them at the last minute.
The helmet looks sweet but I think we’re going to look like Virginia if we wear it.
No, the helmets do not look sweet, they look like high school helmets.
“Different” does not equal “good.” Honestly, how many Auburn fans were sitting around this off season (or ANY off-season) thinking, “I sure hope they change our uniforms”? If more than 50 people among the HUNDREDS-OF-THOUSANDS of Auburn fans were thinking that, I’d be shocked.
Let the rest of the football lemmings pull this sort of Lane-Kiffin-look-at-me crap. Auburn doesn’t need it.
I haven’t seen all blue to be able to approve.
I’ve called for all orange before though. I guess that wouldn’t be appropriate considering our opponent.
I still hate the tunnel video lol.
Not a bad idea, but I still hope it’s a one-off type of thing if they go to blue helmets and pants.
I don’t mind the helmet, actually. But I wish the AU was all Orange, rather than white with orange outline. It should be interesting to see what happens. Now I DEFINITELY need to make sure I can stream this game on the net. ESPN3 is somehow blocked over here, but I know people who have downloaded a program to unblock it. I’m kicking myself for not already having my Xbox over here, since ESPN3 is available on the Box this year.
Don’t kick yourself too hard, Walt. ESPN3 isn’t coming to the Xbox until November anyway.
For some reason this looks like one of those mini-helmet replicas to me.
I can live with some occasional playing with the colors – as long as the basic style remains intact – i.e. no ridiculous font for the numbers, no changing placement of stripes or changing logos.
If the players, students and coaches want it then they should do it.
AlexP — Very well might be. Who knows. Came back from the pep-rally already a little more convinced something was up and then got whacked in the face with blue helmet photos. I think the current theory is blue underwear.
Heres my thing with the alternate uniforms. Do it and you better win.
Sometimes it’s ok to monkey with tradition, but other than the Vandy game a few years ago, it hasn’t worked out for us.
I personally think that Auburn will roll past Clemson either way, but as a Georgia fan I’ve got a very bad taste in my mouth about teams changing helmets or uniforms as a gimmick. It didn’t provide any magic against Florida, I can tell you that much…
Here’s my final take: only in EXTREME circumstances would I be comfortable with monkeying with the uniform. For example, if Pat Dye or Bo were to pass away, I’d be OK with a completely colorless/ grayscale version of the uniform to honor them. Otherwise, avoid the gimmicks.
This is a ridiculous conversation, rather than continue, bask in the glory of this: http://i52.tinypic.com/op0374.jpg
Basking.
“Glory to Cam in the highest, and pieces of scorched earth to people who enjoy his disfavor!”
I am much more comfortable adding more color options to the uniform while keeping the same fonts and stripes. The helmet looks sharp to me. Nothing wrong with busting it out for a big non-conference game every now and again in my book. The pants would probably look better on the road (I am not a big mono-chromatic guy) but if the players want to go for it, then that’s good enough for me. I get a kick out of how you can always tell how old someone is by their response to these uniform change/alternate questions. Of course, it’s really for the players and students. I think this is also part of the bigger picture of Chizik moving towards blue, and away from Tubby’s orange flare.