After yesterday's soul-crushing loss to Air Force in the NCAA Hockey Tournament, I think there is only one thing left to do to break this string of embarrasment. GET RID OF THE YELLOW JERSEYS !!!!!I am not just talking about the hockey team. I am suggesting we drop the yellow jersey from all sports. Baseball, yes. Softball, yes. Basketball, yes. Volleyball, yes. Our jersey colors should be Blue and White. Period. I know many of you will argue with me, but I have thought this through. I am right:
1) Yellow is a great trim color. You only need to look as far as the Pittsburgh Pirates to see what can happen to a team that thinks that yellow is OK as a primary color. Pretty soon you are wearing all kinds of combinations and everyone is making fun of you -- and you don't win anything for 30 years.2) Yellow was a "bitchin" touch in 1992. The 1990's are a thing of the past. Next thing you know we are going to start seeing people with big hair and colorful lycra.
3) The yellow jersey is a bike race thing. It works for Lance Armstrong in France. It does not work for Michigan in Ann Arbor.
4) Although I think the Hockey team had them first, most people associate the yellow jersey with the FabFive and the Michigan Basketballl team. Next time you are walking into Crisler Arena, take a look up in the rafters and tell me how well that turned out.
5) Someone needs to put a stop to this before Adidas gives Rich Rodriguez any new ideas for the football team. Yes, that is Pat White. Yes, I photoshopped a winged helmet onto him. Yes, I would love to have someone like him playing QB for us. Just not the yellow jersey.
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Maybe a little scarlet and gray piping would do the trick.
I like the yellow jersey in basketball a lot. It is maybe the best uni in college b-ball. It is gorgeous and you can just ask the Lakers how well yellow basketball jerseys can work out. I don't mind cutting them out out in Baseball or whatever. But I think in hockey and especially basketball, they work. We don't suck because of the color of our unis. We suck because we fail to succeed and we suck.
except for the 1996 & 1998 national championships won wearing the maize jerseys, this makes sense...
The '96 and '98 titles were just illusions to make you believe that this fashion error was OK.
It has now been 10+ years and no more championships.
Maize is our color.
Yellow is the enemy.
There is a God.
Puck Bucks lose 8-3.
eh, I'm not to worried about losing to the #1 overall seed...even if their name is the Boston Terriers
Besides, our synchronized swimming team won another national title today...and a week ago our women's pistol team also won a national championship. So at least we're doing well in the really obscure sports...
oh, and props to the Findlay Oilers for winning the Division II National title today on a crazy buzzer beater
Face it boys, ya'll just yella.
wv = hypertim.
Tim? There's a message for you at the white page phone. I think it has something to do with switching to decaf.
If they ever have Maize football jerseys I think the Big House will be ceremonially burnt down.
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