Here's the deal: We can rebrand the Notre Dame look and still maintain tradition. I don't understand why those two ideas can't coexist or why it is so hard for some people to understand that.
It's like anytime we bring up anything new that the Irish can build or create, there has to be a certain amount of people who fear the absolute worst. In this case, the news of ONE THROWBACK UNIFORM has caused some to already think we're turning into Oregon and we'll be wearing 40 different uniform combinations in the future.
Do you know why I support changes to the uniform? Because we've been doing it for decades!! Seriously, we are not Penn State. We haven't been wearing the same "tradition bound" uniform for years and years.
From about the 1930's (when the uniforms started resembling modern ones) to the Holtz era, we wore roughly SIX different uniforms. And since the mid 80's, if you take into account all of the big and small changes, we've worn almost a DOZEN different uniforms.
When you take all of these changes into account, we're nowhere near the Penn State's and Alabama's of the world in terms of tradition. Sure our gold helmets and pants push us close to that group, but from a uniform stand point we're not even close.
So again, I'm all for us changing things up once in a while, wearing a throwback here and there, making some changes to the regular uniforms, because we've been doing it for decades!
That doesn't mean I'm going to like any and all changes, I'll sure as heck critique something and want it gone if I think it's ugly, but I'd be pretty disappointed if we ran out of the tunnel every single week for the next 50 years in plain blue jerseys with white numbers, like some people think we've been doing forever.
I'm excited to see what the throwback uniform looks like.
