Wednesday, July 04, 2007

UUOTD-Turn Back The Clock (A Little)


Today's installment of Ugly Uniform of the Day goes back to 1999. Therefore, we are turning the clock back just a little.

BYU, for years, had a classic look. They wore royal blue jerseys, with white pants and white helmets with a "Y" inside a blue circle. Someone at Nike grabbed the BYU people and told them that they had a really "cool" design for them to wear.

So, the Y changed the shade of blue from royal blue to navy blue, and rolled out this awful monstrosity of a uniform. It has been referred to as the "bib" uniform, because the home edition is navy, with a big white circle on the front containing the number, resembling a bib. It was so bad that the NCAA later passed a regulation requiring the numbers on the front of the jersey to match the numbers on the back.

This was a bad, bad look. Why didn't they just put "I Love My Daddy", or Mickey Mouse, or a similar bib design on the front?

BYU threw out the bib uniform, but kept the rest of the uniform until two years ago, when new coach Bronco Mendenhall brought back the old uniform, only with navy blue as the color. It was not a moment too soon.

4 comments:

Zee said...

BYU sucks anyway, so let them wear bibs if they want. :Þ

Yes, very ugly, but they deserve that!

John said...

If I remember the road version of this uniform correctly, they had a blue bib on a white jersey. I don't remember if that was the case. It's pretty bad when the NCAA has to change a rule on account of your jersey.

I prefer royal blue to navy blue myself.

Aren't you glad TCU is in a conference with them now?

Zee said...

I guess I'm glad. I'm still bitter about how they used to beat UH and all the Samoans from BYU Hawaii would show up and cheer for their big brothers from the real BYU.

I hope we beat them like drums this year!

RIFF RAM!

John said...

Me, too.

The Frogs have a two-game season this year. One game is in Austin, and the other is in Provo.

Hopefully, the Frogs will be in some place like Glendale or New Orleans, in a BCS bowl.