by crazychester (2018-12-14 14:03:13)
In reply to: I have to think a solution could be found posted by ACross
The old helmets were dull/cheap looking at best and befitting a poorly funded Pop Warner team at worst.
It was a nice story about the managers painting them from week to week but technology passed them by.
I don't like the current helmet. I think the gold looks cheesy. Which is not to say that its immediate predecessor was the gold standard, so to speak.
And the trousers are really bad.
Are you talking about our helmets right before we changed to hydrographics, or are you going farther back?
We will differ if that is your take on these:
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The yellow/mustard looking ones we currently wear don't look good, in person, or on TV.
What is actually somewhat comical about that, is the pant color is "retro" in the sense it's much closer to what we wore in the 60s and 70s than what we wore in the 80s and 90s.
I believe I read somewhere, during the Jimbo Fisher era, they switched to how their helmets are prepared as well, and it's much more in line with how we do it, because they had the same problems.