Listen, Mean Green: I know they're just supposed to be for Week 1, and that you're planning to auction them off after the game. But if you wanted to wear these bad boys all season, I'm pretty sure -- I would hope -- no one will stop you.
And in case you were wondering if that helmet logo is as awesome as it looks at first glance, the answer is yes:
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(08-12-2013 06:02 PM)Fear The Frog Wrote:
(08-12-2013 04:29 PM)fussbudget Wrote:
(08-12-2013 02:10 PM)olliebaba Wrote: That is one ugly logo. It can still be improved though.
They did. Years ago.
Add this one and it they would look great
I agree, Fear the Frog.
The 2 words "North Texas" is on our present helmet, but the darn end of the chin strap covers one of the last 2 letters on Texas and for the life of me, no one up in Denton seems to care enough to correct it.
That retro flying worm worked for the Hayden Fry era at North Texas albeit looked better on the entire uniform of that day. Many of us who were students back then like it because it represented a winning Mean Green football program. It looks plain today but 40 years ago it was somewhat (arguably) ahead of its time for a college football helmet logo design.
A long time friend of mine designed that UNT flying worm on a dinner napkin for Coach Fry while they were fishing out on Lake Rockwall in Fry's cabin cruiser. Some called it a futuristic eagle even back then and it would inspire Fry to have much say on the Iowa Hawkeye helmet icon when he took that Big 10 job. Fry coaching tree product Bill Snyder also got into the helmet design business when he had much to say about Kansas State's helmet logo design, too, so in a sense....all of this logo creativity by these college coaches actually started at UNT and on a dinner napkin of all things. (Snyder was one of Fry's assistants at North Texas, too, before they all left for Iowa).
(This post was last modified: 08-12-2013 07:44 PM by MeanGreenGem.)
Listen, Mean Green: I know they're just supposed to be for Week 1, and that you're planning to auction them off after the game. But if you wanted to wear these bad boys all season, I'm pretty sure -- I would hope -- no one will stop you.
And in case you were wondering if that helmet logo is as awesome as it looks at first glance, the answer is yes:
You and I are about the same age and in my opinion, those uniforms are exactly what all football teams should wear......simple in design without a lot of add-on nonsense, yet bold in color and easy distinguishable between universities. There are times when I'm cruising the channels that I have to look at the TV schedule to determine who is actually playing in some of those costumes that programs call uniforms.
Listen, Mean Green: I know they're just supposed to be for Week 1, and that you're planning to auction them off after the game. But if you wanted to wear these bad boys all season, I'm pretty sure -- I would hope -- no one will stop you.
And in case you were wondering if that helmet logo is as awesome as it looks at first glance, the answer is yes:
You and I are about the same age and in my opinion, those uniforms are exactly what all football teams should wear......simple in design without a lot of add-on nonsense, yet bold in color and easy distinguishable between universities. There are times when I'm cruising the channels that I have to look at the TV schedule to determine who is actually playing in some of those costumes that programs call uniforms.
Hey Memphis! One of my friends is one of your alums whose gospel quartet back in the day backed Elvis Presley when he first went to Las Vegas to perform. His last name is Blackwood and his group was the Imperials. Their entire quartet and spouses spent an entire week at the Honolulu church I was a member of back in the day. I got to know each of them well and even showed them around the island. They also sang backup on Elvis Grammy winner and then they had a Grammy of their own a few years later.
Trivia Question: Who was the last school Coach Hayden Fry's Mean Green team would play and beat in his last game as North Texas HFC? (I'll leave that one to your imagination).
Good luck in the AAC!
(This post was last modified: 08-12-2013 07:43 PM by MeanGreenGem.)
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(08-12-2013 02:25 PM)El Dirtybird Wrote:
(08-12-2013 02:13 PM)meangreener Wrote: It's so bad it's great. Love it. It's affectionately/mockingly called the "Flying Worm"
Worm, is one description for that bird. I was thinking more like it could be a flying phallic. Either way, that is one cool green. I like the number font too.
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(08-12-2013 08:30 PM)shere khan Wrote:
(08-12-2013 02:25 PM)El Dirtybird Wrote:
(08-12-2013 02:13 PM)meangreener Wrote: It's so bad it's great. Love it. It's affectionately/mockingly called the "Flying Worm"
Worm, is one description for that bird. I was thinking more like it could be a flying phallic. Either way, that is one cool green. I like the number font too.
Listen, Mean Green: I know they're just supposed to be for Week 1, and that you're planning to auction them off after the game. But if you wanted to wear these bad boys all season, I'm pretty sure -- I would hope -- no one will stop you.
And in case you were wondering if that helmet logo is as awesome as it looks at first glance, the answer is yes:
You and I are about the same age and in my opinion, those uniforms are exactly what all football teams should wear......simple in design without a lot of add-on nonsense, yet bold in color and easy distinguishable between universities. There are times when I'm cruising the channels that I have to look at the TV schedule to determine who is actually playing in some of those costumes that programs call uniforms.
Hey Memphis! One of my friends is one of your alums whose gospel quartet back in the day backed Elvis Presley when he first went to Las Vegas to perform. His last name is Blackwood and his group was the Imperials. Their entire quartet and spouses spent an entire week at the Honolulu church I was a member of back in the day. I got to know each of them well and even showed them around the island. They also sang backup on Elvis Grammy winner and then they had a Grammy of their own a few years later.
Trivia Question: Who was the last school Coach Hayden Fry's Mean Green team would play and beat in his last game as North Texas HFC? (I'll leave that one to your imagination).
Good luck in the AAC!
Yeah, if you're a Blackwood from Memphis, you're probably part of a gospel quartet. Between the Blackwood Brothers, the Imperials, and even the Stamps, the Blackwoods are very well represented. Memory fades, but Terry might have been the Blackwood that was with the Imperials? The Imperials had a ton of well known gospel singers move in and out of the group, Gary McSpadden, JD Sumner, and perhaps Larry Gatlin was with them for awhile. There's a good chance that your friend had a Grammy when he was with the Imperials, and I'm sure he won a Dove award in his time with them. I've sort of moved to contemporary Christian music, but a good gospel quartet is hard to beat.
...and I had to look up 11/18/1978 Memphis (State) VS UNT (NTSU) 41-24, at Tiger loss. I always enjoyed our series with UNT before, during, and after the Missouri Valley, and I go back to the Joe Green days. I never figured out why he called himself Joe since that wasn't his given name, but there's probably an interesting story there.
Good luck in CUSA, you'll enjoy it here. It's a great home for college athletic programs. USM, UTEP, UAB, and Marshall are really good folks to share a conference with.
(This post was last modified: 08-12-2013 11:19 PM by oldtiger.)
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Even the jersey is a mix of successful eras as the styling is from the late 60's (Mean Joe/Cerdic Hardeman era). That jersey was a lighter green, though. The darker green color is a homage to the Darrell Dickey years of a decade ago. The pants go back to the 50's when Abner Haynes broke the color barrier at Div 1 programs in Texas.
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(08-13-2013 06:20 PM)Curtzilla Wrote: Even the jersey is a mix of successful eras as the styling is from the late 60's (Mean Joe/Cedric Hardman era). That jersey was a lighter green, though. The darker green color is a homage to the Darrell Dickey years of a decade ago. The pants go back to the 50's when Abner Haynes broke the color barrier at Div 1 programs in Texas.
Not just Texas for Abner Haynes and (now Dr.) Leon King to integrate traditionally caucasian NCAA D1 schools but...how's bout' the entire Southwest and Deep South, too?
Once UNT integrated in the mid 1950's, numerous present Power 5 schools along with Southwest Conference schools immediately dropped us from their future football schedules. It would really hurt UNT in a time it could have built a program by playing and beating a few significant schools back then, too.
With Abner Haynes and then later the Mean Joe Greene football era which had non-stop NFL draft choices from those teams including 2 #1's, I think it may have been more than just Jim Crow bigot attitudes that caused them to drop us off their schedules.
Most of the SWC schools (except SMU) would only play North Texas years later when we would be in losing cycle. Smart scheduling by some of their AD's, eh? SMU would tee it up with North Texas no matter what and not even look at our team roster so you have to hand it to the Stangs' for that.
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