MSU & ND to wear throwback uni's during this years game?

[TonyTiger]

Ive heard some rumors flying around that Michigan State and Notre Dame are going to wear "altered" throwbacks during this years game. Throwbacks, from the 1966 season.

The reason is because this is the 40th anniversery of the "Game of the Century" between the #1 Irish and #2 Spartans. The game ended in a 10-10 tie, and many call it one of the greatest games ever.

You can checkout the uni's here: http://www.cqql.net/msu-1966.htm

How do all you Irish fans feel about this?

 

[scooper]

Ours wouldn't be too awfully different.

 

[scooper]

I'm looking at the lineups from your link. Wow, that was two talented defenses on the field that day. The 10-10 tie should not have been surprising.

 

[jiggafini19]

I find it amusing the "Game of the Century" was a sister kissing fest.

 

[scooper]

I find it amusing the "Game of the Century" was a sister kissing fest.

I find it amusing that there is a "Game of the Century" once about every 3-4 years. I also find it amusing that ND happens to be involved in quite a few of them.

 

[irishindydawg]

Does MSU's kicker have to go shoeless as well?????? Since theirs did back in '66 according to the picture.

 

[KMac151993]

The true "Game of The Century" was ND-FSU '93.

 

[scooper]

The true "Game of The Century" was ND-FSU '93.

They also called the 1935 the game of the century. As well as the 66 MSU game.

 

[Óglaigh_na_hÉireann]

Throwback unis in football...well, it just doesn't work. They look too shitty. No football player wants to wear them and few fans want to see it. I wouldn't care too much if they only wore the jerseys, so long as they didn't wear the pants/socks from the era.

In baseball, it's acceptable, because things havn't changed too much from a fashion perspective...and some are kind of cool.

 

[tommy]

yea that fsu game was one hell of a game but every game nd plays is thegame of the century to me

 

[BGIF]

The true "Game of The Century" was ND-FSU '93.

It may be the Game of Your Lifetime but it wasn't close to ND/OSU '35, ND/Army '46 (Four Heisman's on the field Blanchard, Davis, Lujack, and Hart), or '66 in East Lansing.

The ND/Bama bowl games '73 Sugar and '75 Orange Parshegian versus Bryant were more exciting than ND/FSU '93.

 

[rontdtarchala]

The bama games were very special, late 60's sc games were good too.

 

[nshope]

Oh yeah!!

Oh yeah!!

The true "Game of The Century" was ND-FSU '93.

I consider this one and the '92 game against Penn State the top two games in Notre Dame's regular season history. Both games were amazingly punctuated with emotion. Most of which is finally coming back into ND's play on the field. Go Irish!!

P.S. That's the great thing about ND...throwbacks? We've had the same uni's forever with only some change in color and a couple years of wearing the green tops. That's why I love ND and the Green Bay Packers...they don't change their look or appearance for what's hot. They stay true to their roots as a team and enjoy celebrating their history of the teams that've come before them.

 

[Vince Young]

That's actually a common mis-conception about Notre Dame. Look back through old photos, and you'll be amazed at some of the changes that have been made to ND's jerseys over the years. The helmets too, although they've pretty much left those alone for several decades now.

But the jerseys... different shades of blue, wearing green for an entire season or two at a time, striping on the sleeves, numbers on the helmets, numbers on the sleeves, numberless sleeves, giant green shamrocks on the helmets, even (for a VERY brief time) helmet stickers! Pretty much the only constant is that ND jerseys have never featured player's names, at least to the best of my knowledge.

It all pretty much stopped with Lou Holtz. He darkened up the blue, got rid of Jerry Faust's weird striping experiments, and left it alone after that. Since then, the only major change has been the gold underarm stripes on the away jerseys (Thanks, Ty!), and I could swear that Charlie darkened up the home blues a little more last year, but I'm not certain of that. But after 20 years with no major jersey changes, we now have an entire generation of ND fans who thinks that "they've always been that way." Not so.

There was a thread somewhere on here a while ago about this very topic. Rep points to whoever can dig it up, but it was interesting to see the old photos and realize that today's "classic" look to the jerseys is actually relatively modern. Think 1986, not 1936.

 

[BGIF]

BGS has the best pictorial of ND uniforms I could find tonight.

Move the scroll bar down to about midpage, May 17th

http://bluegraysky.blogspot.com/2005_05_01_bluegraysky_archive.html

 

[BGIF]

There are helmets in the BGS link above and at The Helmet Project

http://www.nationalchamps.net/Helmet_Project/

 

[ralphwaldoemerson]

It may be the Game of Your Lifetime but it wasn't close to ND/OSU '35, ND/Army '46 (Four Heisman's on the field Blanchard, Davis, Lujack, and Hart), or '66 in East Lansing.

The ND/Bama bowl games '73 Sugar and '75 Orange Parshegian versus Bryant were more exciting than ND/FSU '93.

Have you seen those games? The Heismans are fine, the legends are fine, but it's a different sport, and the talent level is completely different. I think some of Holtz's games vs Miami, the '93 game against FSU, and last year's game against USC all top those other games, simply because of the talent involved. I'll take Quinn, Bush, Leinart, White, Samardzija and Co against all four of the Heisman players you named, none of whom would have done much in the sport as it was 30 years later, let alone 60.

It's like saying baseball's game of the century was in the dead ball, segregated, pitchers pitching 500 innings a year era.

 

[Vince Young]

Thanks, BGIF! Rep for you.

Interestingly, I was wrong on names on the jerseys. Ara did it for a few big games, and the jerseys under both Dan Devine and Jerry Faust had the players' names on them.

And I was wrong on Lou not making any changes to the jerseys. There's another thread on here with a Ron Powlus SI cover, and he's in a blue jersey with gold trim around the neck. Not a huge change, but a change nonetheless.

Kinda proves my point, though. The idea that today's ND jerseys are "oldskool" and haven't changed in 60 years simply doesn't hold up.

 

[Vince Young]

Of course, as a final irony... the 1966 ND-MSU "Game Of The Century" was played under Ara... who that year used simple navy-blue home jerseys and white away jerseys with no player names, no striping and no frills, and plain solid gold helmets. In other words, pretty much identical to what ND wears today.

I think I'll just shut up about the jerseys now.

Is it game-time yet? No? Another 15 hours and 55 minutes to go? Dammit...

 

[ralphwaldoemerson]

The home jersey on that Powlus cover looks fantastic. That should be the standard, just as the green jersey from last year should be the future green jersey standard.

 

[onenybrother]

I hate when teams wear throwbacks. Just a ploy for them to make money.

 

[punishment]

I like the idea of throwbacks. Although ND would really only need to change the pants, as the pants back then were some type of yellow. I guess they couldn't find any material to make gold pants with back then.

The only team that should never use throwbacks is the Canes. Man, they have the ugliest throwbacks ever (for anybody who saw their game last year with the throwbacks.)

 

[tommy]

yea lol the had a damn hurricane evacuation symbol exactly what you would see on a road sign