Why not?
As such, the university announced Tuesday that for a second straight year, the slow and steady commercialization of The Game will evidently proceed accordingly. This season, Ohio State is widely expected to take the field in a scarlet variety of the same faux-throwback-to-the-future-OMGboomstyle-backs the team rocked in conquering the rebel occupied forest moon of Endor Ann-Arbor last November.
Last year's look was said to be inspired by and meant to honor the 1954 national championship team. Would it be asking too much to request they honor the 2002 national champs and wear something remotely resembling discerning taste?
Whether the uniforms pay homage to a forgotten era of Ohio State football (perhaps the 1899 squad that went unbeaten; brown leather helmets for some, miniature American flags for others!) or one that never even happened, I'd say the vast majority of us will be pretty dissatisfied, regardless of how tastefully the actual look is executed. Another large majority of us will probably scowl initially disapprovingly, spend roughly 2/3 of our work day when the uniforms are revealed September 1st staring judgmentally at the clusterfudge, then slowly but surely come around when we finally see them on actual flesh-and-blood football players the Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend dashing past hapless cornerback Tate Forcier for 6 (though we will never admit this to anyone, even under penalty of death).
To reiterate the agenda: The Game moved from third Saturday to Thanksgiving Saturday? Check. Uniforms switched from traditional home/away's to some sort of perverse Nike-Adidas proxy turf war? Double check. Teams to be split into rival divisions so that The Game can be superficially staged in consecutive weekends in years to come to ensure Woody and Bo alike barrel roll their ways to the center of the Earth? TBD. But I guess it was completely out of bounds for the two schools to even possibly consider selling the naming rights to such a hallowed sporting rivalry, eh?
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Losing To UConn
Make no mistake about it, Brian Cook is an absolute (inter)national treasure. To loosely paraphrase a scholar far more eloquent than I'll ever dream of professing to be, in ordinary circumstances, MGoBlog is arguably the best single team college football blog on the internet; when Michigan faces Jobian adversity, it's one of the best sites on the internet period.
The loss of (only competent defensive back on their painstakingly thin roster) Troy Woolfolk Tuesday put the site into a rarified air that essentially means even if you're the most staunchly partisan Buckeye who rejects all the advantages of learning the in's and out's of your biggest rival (and reaping the benefits of reading an absurdly good blog), you can enjoy endless schaudengiggles while the getting is good. I could probably spend another two or three paragraphs link dumping essentially the entire site, but if you're not already reading/rss aggregating/sleeping-with-iPads-on-your-head-to-absorb-via-osmosis MGoBlog, what's wrong with you? Enough slobbering though; we'll let New York Jets special teams coach Mike Westhoff return things back to their natural order:
MWC/WAC Engage In Record Earliest Game of Yankee Swap Ever
It started out with a kiss (perhaps now a Judas one?) but how did it end up like this? Make no mistake about it, Mountain West commissioner Craig Thompson was rocking out in full Brandon Flowers regalia and makeup last night in Las Vegas after the Mountain West turned BYU's potential departure into the net gain of Nevada and Fresno State. While both are persistent low interest bowl game participants and hardly of the stature of departing Utah, the two in association with the addition of Boise State add value to the league. The potential for UNLV-Nevada and Fresno State-San Diego State rivalry games will certainly help a league hovering around 20K per game improve their regional branding, while the additions also help preserve the recent history of Boise State-Nevada (you laugh; they're occasionally great games).
Most of Ohio's sentiments summed up in a thousand words.Perhaps more than anything, the move forces BYU to consider sticking around and possibly help lift the league to the desired Automatic Qualifier status they so sorely covet. Others feel it may be possible for a more private/religious low key non-money sport league like the WCC to make in-roads if BYU go ahead with football independence as planned. Obviously questions remain, like is the MWC done? And perhaps more importantly, what's BYU really up to? If anyone knows, Commissioner Thompson would like to hear about it. No, seriously.
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I really want brownies now, Captain Clusterfudge.
I don't give a flip what they wear - just play the game. Two weeks and counting - can't wait - hope they take everyone seriously - no Purdue Harbor trap games - have a running game with two 1,000 yard rushers. Life would be good. Oh and #2 throws maybe 20-25 times a game.
I agree 100% Does it really matter what they wear? My goodness, it's football. Could we not talk about this anymore?
Rumor: Tate Forcier to transfer?
http://www.collegefantasyfootb...
NOPE
Independence may be on certain minds at other schools.
11 Warriors is much better when it sticks to X's and O's and analysis..
Uniform Fashionista Police is a whack direction to steer.
Ask the players what they think about those uniforms and watch how they play in them.
Yavin IV was the rebel moon; Endor was a forest moon utilized by the Empire. Ah, but that makes it more appropriate for scUM. Never mind.
Lest anyone pine for the good old days of non-commercialization, just remember that Rod Serling had to do cigarette commercials to keep "The Twilight Zone" on the air. And who could forget Groucho Marx's DeSoto commercials during "You Bet Your Life"?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
That always confused me. They always referred to it as 'the forest moon of Endor.' I was never sure if the moon's name was Endor, or that Endor was a planet and they were on the unnamed forest moon of the planet.
Seriously. It's not like we're Penn St or something. Our uniforms change every 5 to 10 years - even before the Nike days. Just wait to see...maybe they'll be awesome.
Yeah, most moons (to my knowledge) are barren, waterless and the like. Yet here's this lush, life sustaining place that orbits no planet in particular?
Yeah, that was linked in the article. Former BTN talking head Melanie Collins tweeted about it (before ultimately deleting the tweet) last night, but it seems completely baseless. Tate's father has since come out saying it was an absurd rumor and that he wouldn't support it regardless.
The so called throwbacks weren't so bad overall, but I do not like the white helmet. I don't care if they used to wear them or not. I love the silver helmet, it just looks awesome.
http://bleacherreport.com/arti...
Anyone want to help embarrass this guy?
Well at least now I know I am not the only geek in the worlld that is also consumed by College Football. Rarely, a fusion like this in man today.
the forest moon orbits Endor which is a giant gas planet
I like the different looks for the uni's as long as it doesn't become a different jersey for every game. Once a year is fine with me.
That video clip is good stuff.
No, don't dignify that guy with any sort of acknowledgment. He's an idiot. His responses to people pointing out all the Georgia St's and Jacksonville St's on SEC schedules is that they won championships. We'll see how weak the Big 10 is this year.
If Chewbacca lives on Endor you must acquit!
BTW, I'd be all for switching over to Storm Trooper helmets for the guys. Maybe get Tress to grow a beard and wear a robe over his sweater vest to get a whole Obi-wan Kenobi vibe going on.
I almost feel like signing up just so I can reply to this guys post with that quote from the end of Billy Madison.
In regards to the Shizzy article about a Freshman QB from Marshal, don't get too worked up. Wasn't a Freshman QB who beat us at the Shoe last year. Granted Marshal is no USC but USC didn't prove to be much by the end of the year. Freshman or not I hope that overconfidence is not an issue with our guys.
At this point I think we could all agree that when George Lucas wrote a word down, like "moon" for instance, it's unlikely he knew what it meant. He heard the word moon on the news at some point in 1969 in between Flash Gordon episodes and he said, "I don't really know what a moon is, but it'd be really cool if we could put it in a movie. Maybe we'll get lucky and get it marginally right, and the audience's imagination will make up for the rest."
My mind went there too.
I'm just super sadface about the recent rumors that Gary Kurtz put out there about the MEGA compromising of the Return of the Jedi script.
Then again, the Ewoks brought the term "jub jub", so that's probably good enough.
Uhh I take it you have never seen the post game breakdowns on Mgoblog. They extremely in depth, even scoring each player and position for the entire game. They may be smug bastards (not so much lately) but analysis is something they are not short on.
http://www.dispatch.com/live/c...
I love the fantastic disconnect between your second and third sentences.
I say let the boys play in tube tops and clam diggers. Maybe a couture-like collar swooping from the shoulder pads spiralling above the helmet. Just a thought...
LMAO did you see this? http://bleacherreport.com/user...
Written 3 articles, all of which are Ohio State bashing articles.
He writes at Bleacher Report. Hard to get any more embarrassed than that.
I read MGOblog the other day when the news broke about another DB being gone for this year, and was amazed at how many of the fans still think they'll win a bunch of games this year. They keep talking about how good their line is going to be but they lost their best player on the line, they may have plenty of talent and young guys who could be good, but seriously, it's not like they have the depth, experience, and talent that other teams in the conference already enjoy.
Do the really think their offense will be so good that they will just outscore 6 or more teams this year? I just don't see how any of the fans can push this aside as no biggie. I also don't see how they can ALL staunchly support DickRod, but that's another story for another day I guess.
This site and io9.com are the two I frequent the most.
ladies and gentleman of the jury, it dont make no sense!
i actually didnt mind the jerseys last year but i just shelled out 400$ for a ticket this year for THE GAME and it will be my first one so im pretty disappointed about this news
why cant both teams wear their colored jerseys (scarlet vs blue)? i think that would look so badass. enough of these white road jerseys.
This. So much.
LeGarrette Blount Might Actually Have a Punching Problem - Dude is nothing but a thug. I wouldn't want to play on the same team as him. Sure things were getting chippy in practice. His helmet came off and he was citing that other team mates did not stop. He did not stop either. Just because a teammate is jaw jacking a little bit and in your face doesn't give you the right to hit him. It seems like good training for what he will encounter on field. He failed the test in practice so what do you think will happen on the field? He is straight up trash. He ticks me off enough that I would fight him just for who he is. Mutual combatants of course, not under the conditions I was just speaking about. Maybe it would wake him up to get his arse kicked once in a while and help him to control himself.
Fights happen in training camp all the time. the only reason this is getting any coverage is because it's Blount. If he were to do it on the field it would be a very different story. The No Fun League would come down hard on him.
Hope they would. You are right about fighting in practice. He has shown a track record for allowing it to happen in game though. We'll see if it stops here or carries over. My main cause for calling him a thug isn't so much the punch he threw against that crap talker for Boise, it was the way he handled himself with the crowd and more importantly his teammates, after the fact.
I personally love all the bashing..... people blast those who they fear or are jealous of. I say, read it, laugh, and flip them the middle finger!
Who cares about Blount..... he should learn to use his hands to hold onto the ball on his way into the end-zone!
He should try out for Kicker!
yeah, the guy does like to run his mouth, but that seems to be fairly prevalent in sports today sadly.
Agree 100%.
they should wear uniforms that throwback to the 2001 thumping of scum and all wear #28 to honor Jonathan Wells' absolute trashing of ttun.
I agree 100%. It is not the acutal uniforms that bug me. Pretty much any combo of white, scarlet and sivler is going to look awesome. However, those helmets have to go. There is nothing better than the sparkling silver helmet with the buckeye leaves on it. Don't mess with something that isn't broken.... especially for the Michigan game.
I actually like our white jerseys better.
UCLA and USC have started to wear their home jerseys for their rivalry game as well. It would just result in a penalty of one lost time out for the "visiting" team and then a subsequent burning of a time out by the home team to even it out.
needless to say, i don't trust dickrod to burn a time out to make it "even".
Didn't the change the rule so that as long as both teams agreed beforehand and the NCAA approved, there would be no loss of any timeouts? Could be mistaken but thought I saw that somewhere.
Yeah, pretty sure they changed it after that, so as long as they both agree it's alright
Jonathan Wells is the only notable Texan/Buckeye (sorry Brandon Mitchell). Naturally I am in favor of all things canonizing him.
and we in here talkin' about practice?!?!? I mean listen, we talkin bout PRACTICE.
national universities rankings just came out....looks like ohio state is 56, and those dummies down in florida managed to still edge you out at 53.... http://colleges.usnews.ranking...
you seem like a professional troll
just seems like there is a lot of bashing of how people from the south are dumb...no trolling...just facts
yes, because everyone who goes to florida is from the south......
lol, true...but, i feel like a university of a state is a slight indication of the state itself
this is why you are an idiot. OSU takes students from all over the world. because it's a state university it doesn't make anything "indicative of the state itself". Tons of in staters go to OU, BGSU, Toledo, etc
but you prob thought, like most people of below average intelligence, at OSU is the only school in the state. well done.
in other words, you just proved your southernness to us.
you make one hell of an agruement...although you do make yourself seem like an asshole, lol...my guess its because youre 4 feet tall..but either way you are completely correct...you win...lol
i don't seem like an asshole, i am one.
4 feet tall or not, i have a grasp of the English language and logic.
ohh and btw im actually an Ohio State Alum...just from the south
and also a vet of the iraq war...2 deployments...soooo...ya
doubtful
do not pass go, do not collect $200
and a cancer survivor? and you invented a cure for aids?
anything else you want to add?
haha no...thats pretty much everything...asshole or not you seem like someone who would be fun to drink with...that is if youre old enough
yeah you caught me, i'm 15 an live in my mom's basement. i'm sure you can relate.
so then...we can be friends?...you know what a friend is right tough guy?
i've heard of those. i'm too busy being built internet tough for friends though. just me, and my mom's basement. all day.
Southbay, don't pay attention to this guy. As a Real iraq Vet with 2 tours and a lifelong Ohio State fan (not an alum) who is from the south, dont lump us all in with this guy.
believe me, i don't lump anyone in with anyone else.
just having a little fun at "so close"'s expense is all.
thank you for your service.
haha thats awesome...i actually used to know this guy from ohio, he certainly wasnt as big as a F***stick as you though...
yeah, you sure got me pegged. can;t fool you, all that Larnin' you've done
well i guess if i had gone to UF i would be more smart lol...
I think the boys ought to wear freakin' leather helmets, to intimidate the opposition!
I think Nike knows what it's doing we've blown more National Title games then any other program USC twice,UCLA , stanford, Mich 4 or 5 times & Mich St. Change mite be good Scarlett & Gray for Life though , Beat Mich & Win Bowl games are a must ..... We could of played in many more@ owl games but rules prohibited it , 1 big ten team a year BOOOOO!!!!! CHANGE IS GOOD GO BUCKS
Some of us also geek out over virtuoso guitar work. For example, Paul Gilbert just came out with a new CD and it is sweet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
+1
Oh no, fans of a (historically good) team are optimistic about their prospects! Unheard of!!!
My brain hurts trying to decipher this gibberish.
jesus lets just say the uniforms sadly are going to be worn why if u are going to do it do it for some crap game filler payout game. the thing that bothers me the most is the talk of different divisions and moving the game off the last game of the regualr season. this idea sucks balls!!!!!!!!!!!
what...the......................pass the bowl bro..
is that boomhauer from king of the hill?