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[QUOTE="Scooch, post: 1862100, member: 628"]
Not necessarily true.  We won a lot in the 80s and 90s, and I'll admit that by today's design standards those uniforms are boring.  If we're going by our kids, my 13 year old and 9 year old think our unis aren't good.  And yet they adore Oregon's, and most of the other cool, modern uniforms.

Last point I wanted to make... I find the line of trying to end discussion about uniforms by saying the effect of "it's all about winning, who cares you fashion-loving Nancies" to be obtuse.  Uniforms in sports are a big deal.  Hell, there is a not-so-small subset of fans who developed a favorite team precisely because of the uniforms.  How many times have we heard someone claim that they're a Cowboys fan because they liked the star on the helmet?  Or how important to the Yankees tradition the pinstripes are?

And we avid fans buy a ton of gear that uses our favorite team's color scheme, logo, mark, mascot and uniform aesthetic.  I have jerseys of a couple of my favorite teams to wear to games, but I wouldn't buy an SU football jersey because I find the design so off-putting.  I'm a focus group of one, I get it, but I'd buy just about anything -- my threshold for liking a uniform is remarkably low.  Hell, I bought a Drew Bledsoe Pats jersey circa 1994, and those things were considered butt ugly by much of that fanbase.

So anyway, my opinion's far from the only one, but I really hope the new administration considers heavily tweaking our unis.
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