Irish To Wear New Gold Helmets
by SEE
From the ND Athletics Facebook page:
We have created a new “Gold Standard” for football helmets with the Notre Dame reflective gold particle helmet
– This new shade of gold makes these helmets closer in color to the Golden Dome than any helmets we have worn at Notre Dame
– Tradition of having 23.9 karat gold flake in the paint on the helmet continues
– Gives us a more consistent look from helmet to helmet and week to week
– After exhausting many options we ultimately were forced to decide between continuing the tradition of managers painting helmets and have a subpar helmet or alter the painting process and get a superior helmet. We felt it was more important to get the color right.
– The new paint process is not in the skill set/capabilities of student managers.
LOVE IT!
As an interhall player in the late 60′s, as a freshman, I got a yellow gold leater helmet, that Paul Horning, might have worn. By senior year, my buddies were in charge of the interhall equipment, and I got a helmet that still had “Nick Eddy” taped on it.
Regarding the standing vs. sitting issue, change the student section. Trade a part of the current student section, and give them the last few rows of the lower bowl all across the home field side. The band and Freshmen, will need to stay in place. Next, designate some sections as for real, loud fans! I won’t be there Saturday night, but I’ll probably be on my feet, talking to the TV at some point. No one is going to tell me to sit down.
this is a joke, right?
PLEASE tell me that this is a joke.
A few questions;
Whose idea is this?
Who gave the go-ahead?
Why?
Outstanding … Can’t wait to see them under the lights. Tired of NAVY helmets looking like ours. Very unique , just like ND . Way to go Kelly ..
Love to have one of those jerseys they wore against Michigan , does anyone no where I can find one??
Badassss…. these look like gold bricks. Btw… why do we want our student managers breathing paint fumes every week anyways?
Go Zahm … Go IRISH!
Outsider opinion: Those look AWESOME.
Y’all have to work through the tradition thing, which I understand….but the detail is super-cool.
Did I say they looked AWESOME?
I think they look good and close to the dome. This kind of change is OK. Just hope the Irish go out and whup the Trojans. And I hope it’s a start of a long domination.
They can wear miners’ helmets as long as they beat effing USC.
Go Irish!!
Stand up and shout and sing and yell and if anyone says ‘sit down’, tell them to go to the lounge.
Saw the new Helmet in person last night at the Kelly radio show. I understand that from moving to a concussion resistant helmet a few years ago that they have had issues getting the paint to hold and look right however, this option is a very poor best effort. When viewing it up close and in person it looks like a cheap disco ball…hideous!
New helmets look great! Now if we could only get the cheerleaders to drop that pathetic, boring, Weeeeeeeeee ARRRRRRRR Ennnnnnnnn Deeeeeeee cheer at the start of the 4th quarter and go back to the way it used to be done: We Are (clap clap) N.D.(clap clap).
When exactly was that? That is the way it has been done since I started going to games in ’81.
The “WE ARE ND” cheer is something that I have witnessed since attending games in ’81. It is a part of the ND tradition and game experience just as is the 1812 Overture to the Coach, Sheriff McCarthy’s timeless jokes at the beginning of the 4th quarter, and players joining the students to raise their helmets and join in singing the singing of “Notre Dame Our Mother”, win or lose, at the end of each game. The cheer you refer to is just one of many cheers used throughout, before, and after the game. I have been living overseas and have not been to a game recently. Please don’t tell me things are changing with all this talk of telling people to sit down and be quiet, new uniforms, etc.
-Concerned fan and alum
Looks ok in photo’s.
As for your chant “We are (clap – clap) ND, I would agree. Thatis what I recall when I was young!
As for people standing up in the stands cheering and blocking others view, well the older population are dying off all over the country, soon all you young studs can donate to the University and do drivebys across the field from each other, “oh wait”, you have to make money to be a donor. Oh well, maybe your parents will leave you enough money so you can continue the tradition of donorship as well. LOL
What is “visitor says:
October 21, 2011 at 11:31 am
Looks ok in photo’s.”
talking about?
The students always stand during the game. If you don’t want to have your vision blocked, go to Purdue Games, usually their stadium is empty or everyone is sitting down when there is a big game. I suggest you understand that if you get a seat near the student section you will be standing. This has gone on for years and years and is part of the ND tradition. If you think ND students commit drive-by-shootings you sir are an idiot. The youth are still the same youth as when you were a kid. They act no different at all. Obviously you are just an old grumpy man who wants to blame young kids for all your problems. Try to lighten up and enjoy the last years of your life. You only get one life to live. I guess you feel that being a donor is more important the student body? There wouldn’t be a university without the students. And if you are an alumnus, I suppose you realize the student donate more in tuition fees in one year than you probably did you whole student life at ND and all the money you have given ND. Donate elsewhere, because you have no clue at all what it is to be the Fighting Irish. If you think you can convince ND to make the students sit down, you are delusional. Go listen to your gangster rock and tell the greaser’s and soc’s, I am looking for them both [sic]. Man, you are an idiot. You might want to consider that maybe it is you that is creating your impression of the youth. If you treat them like a jerk, they have every right to reciprocate. Stop being such an ingrate. They are the reason there is ND football. Not anything you have done or will do. But you are probably living off of my tax dollars and complaining about those younger than you. So, I suggest you go back to your cave and stay there until you no longer exist. I am not even close to being young, I am bald, wrinkled, and ugly, but I am not bitter and I am especially not jealous of the student body. Again, please never comment on ndnation again. And learn to spell, it is photos not photo’s, the pictures do not possess anything in your statement. Kind of like how your brain doesn’t possess any intelligence.
We went to Nebraska the last time the Irish played there. Every Nebraska fan in the stadium wore red and stood. Apparently their fans stay home out of respect for their team when they are no longer physically able to cheer with sufficient vigor. The only one to tell me to sit down was an older ND fan who complained that he could not see over me. It won’t shock you when I say our team got crushed in that environment. The number of ND “fans” who attend our games and sit on their hands the entire time and wait to be amused is depressing. If this is what adding seats got us, we were robbed.
i hope this is NOT a joke. i think this is great.. so many copycat gold helmets out there… copy this one, losers…
Are we starting to get “pretty” like BC and other wanna-be’s? No. Times change. Uniforms change. If the technology’s there, (making gold helmets golden) we should use it. Heck, brain injured myself, can we agree that the safer (more protective) helmets being used are a good idea? They are a new idea. Why hold-on to a regressive “tradition” (game-day painting of helmets) when progress (quality coloring) offers a better result?
Don’t.
Like the “new (old) gold helmets”. The gleam reminds me of the gold worn during the Holtz era. I wonder why they went away from that color scheme?
The new helmet paint is hideous. It looks like eyeshadow that a junior-high girl would wear.
Maybe ND should have worried more about coaching and playing football than pretty gold helmets. Kelly spent too much time in the paint booth. I love it when ND pulls some new stunt and it blows up. Whats next glitter green?
nice choice on the helmets kelly…now do your real job: COACHING!!! USC?!?! REALLY!? maybe you should do take some tips from minnesota, a awful football team, who kept with USC better than we did. c’mon kelley you’re a coach, not a designer