Wouldn't surprise me that Pitt will wear them against Penn State this year, now that we have a bunch of injuries, a new starting QB and playing at Beaver Stadium for a 3 TD loss on national TV.
Is that complaining enough for you?
Why can't Pitt have 2 color combinations?
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Wouldn't surprise me that Pitt will wear them against Penn State this year, now that we have a bunch of injuries, a new starting QB and playing at Beaver Stadium for a 3 TD loss on national TV.
Is that complaining enough for you?
I didn't mean you specifically....Wouldn't surprise me that Pitt will wear them against Penn State this year, now that we have a bunch of injuries, a new starting QB and playing at Beaver Stadium for a 3 TD loss on national TV.
Is that complaining enough for you?
Pitt needs to get a road version of throwback first though.
I think Pitt has a better shot than most are saying... remember... Clemson
You laugh (I did too) ... But this probably was almost exactly the thought process by the marketing committee that produced the Pittsburgh Maulers logo!
Lots of people care.
Maybe we should focus group it here and see what happens if it comes up periwinkle and eggshell.
paulbl99, this doesn't mean much though. if the athletic dept isn't going to match their new unis to the actual official school color, what's the point of even having an official color? Maybe for copyright logos on the academic side and such but not really relevant to what we care about and that's uniforms..
It's cornball but many dig the tradition aspect of college football. Winning is more important, and if they'd focus on that, they can wear the periwinkle for what i'd care ... but since they don't give a dump about winning, can't they give a dump to look semi-decent, at least? So I don't feel like (more of) a fool walking about wearing the gear?
So where those people out in the streets demonstrating against the royal blue & yellow uniforms from the '70s to the '90s, I don't remember that happening?
So you feel like a "fool" wearing what? The Royal & Yellow? I love the royal and yellow gear! I love my Royal & Yellow hoodie that I wear with my baggy cargo sweatpants. Love the big pockets on the sides. Are you one of those mature people that feels odd wearing sports team gear and wish it was the '50s so you could wear white dress shirts, ties and slacks to ball games? ?
No, they really don't. Why do you care if some document says the school colors are "x and y" and jerseys are a different color? It doesn't matter a lick what the "official school colors" are listed as. What matters is Pitt has a marketable logo and color scheme and can make money selling merchandise. There is no reason to even have "official school colors" and less reason they have to be the color scheme of all the jerseys or merchandise.
pitt79, I saw a pic of tim salem today and he had cargo shorts on, I thought of you. They werent' baggy though,
Leave it to Pitt to be about the only f'g university on the country to not be able to put on unis w colors representing what the schools colors are and have been.
Oregon does it differently but even they are going back to standards mostly
The Pitt ATHDept has been a mostly 2 bit screwup since they got rid of Jock Sutherland .
Again focus group it every year that should please the crowd on this board.
Yes. Your description sounds precisely the kind of foolish I'm looking to avoid.
The royal and yellow isn't my cup of tea but I'm talking more the ratty knockoff stuff with flashdance-like graphics, still having dinocat and/or "Pittsburgh" (torch or block or some totally different font) that can STILL be found in stores (even some in the Pitt stores). For the same stores also featuring Penn State or Notre Dame stuff, even their cheapest knockoff stuff looks semi respectable, has the right (current) logo, semblance of correct colors, conservative fonts, etc ... you wouldn't be sheepish to throw on to run to get takeout let alone somewhere social.
USC
Michigan
tOSU
Auburn
Alabama
Georgia
FSU
Miami
Florida
Stanford
Texas
Wisconsin
Iowa
Oklahoma
State College
Have all had pretty much the same unis and certainly mostly the same or very similar color scheme for 50 years
Need more ?
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Why would anyone "need more"? It doesn't matter, at all. It is arbitrary. Plus, many of those schools have "secondary colors" or colors which athletics teams wear, which are slightly different than the "official colors".
You said not even close.
Wrong
Secondary unis or alt unis are not what I'm talking about. Those are great to do but as I said and am spot on.......
All those listed above know their damn school colors and stick with them
Correct. You are not close. You presented 15 schools, of about 120, and still aren't correct on all of those.
I am not talking about secondary uniforms, but actual secondary colors or uniform colors, which don't technically match their "official colors" for a myriad of reasons. This is even more true when it comes to merchandising.
Even with all that said, it still doesn't matter at all what the listed school colors are listed by the University. The "official colors" can be changed whenever they want. They have no actual meaning outside of merchandising and sports uniforms. For most, they are variations of colors picked by random students or president's wives 150 years ago. That is no reason to shape your merchandising and branding.
Navy blue(shade they wear now) is my favorite color anyway.Navy and Mustard or a little lighter is the way to go if a change needs to be made at all.
Yes. Your description sounds precisely the kind of foolish I'm looking to avoid.
The royal and yellow isn't my cup of tea but I'm talking more the ratty knockoff stuff with flashdance-like graphics, still having dinocat and/or "Pittsburgh" (torch or block or some totally different font) that can STILL be found in stores (even some in the Pitt stores). For the same stores also featuring Penn State or Notre Dame stuff, even their cheapest knockoff stuff looks semi respectable, has the right (current) logo, semblance of correct colors, conservative fonts, etc ... you wouldn't be sheepish to throw on to run to get takeout let alone somewhere social.
I still have and wear gear that says PITTSBURGH and has the Dinocat logo, I STILL WEAR IT. I have a nice hoodie with PITTSBURGH written in script, sewn on. Did you get rid of your gear from that era just because they went back to script Pitt?
I don't doubt it you mentioned in another thread that the majority of your wardrobe is PITT sweatshirts/hoodies, etc.
No i got rid of it because it got old. When I buy new to replace, I tend to prefer to buy something current.
I get rid of old stuff, but it has to be really old, and something I really like, like the PITTSBURGH script hoodie, which is about 15 years old, I may never get rid of it. I own T shirts and sweatshirts that I still wear that are over 20 years old.
The look I'm giving now can only be described as the ones David Spade would give Chris Farley in "Tommy Boy" when Tommy squirted mayonnaise in his mouth. But Tommy got the last laugh over the evil Rob Lowe so the laugh is on me.
Not really, I wear business casual to work. Also wear polo shirts, dress shirts, jeans, etc. But casual wear is usually t shirts and sweatshirts/hoodies. Tomorrow, I'm going with a yellow Ben Roethlisberger #7 t shirt on casual Friday, to work in honor of the Steelers pre season opener, I'll be addressing the staff meeting of the 40 or so members of my team, dressed that way. With cargo pants. Discussing a $1.7 million project we are working on. Again, it's casual Friday. I'm dressed up wearing a polo shirt and jeans today.
It sounds like you treat casual Friday as 'Sit Around the House Sunday', and business casual as casual Friday.
Where I work, everybody does that, everybody is 6 figure salary IT people. Many of them wear shorts and t shirts every day. I'm a project manager, so I don't go that route all the time. There are a few Type As in suits and ties, but I just can't do it. We don't sell anything, we don't deal with the public, 90% of the time we just see each other, why does it matter? Sure there are times, we meet with outsiders or do presentations etc. and dress up a bit, otherwise it's OUR WORK that is 99.9% of our value, not our appearance.
Hey, I'm not criticizing anybody. Let people wear whatever they want. But jeans aren't business casual. You might be able to pull off "smart casual" with jeans and a jacket, but not business casual.
Where I work they are. Where I work there is absolutely no dress code. There are computer programmers making $150K/year wearing shorts and t shirts every day. Jeans and a polo shirt is pretty middle of the road business casual here.
Actually, in many cases the most talented are the worst dress. Clearly they feel secure that SKILL will trump surface perception.
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