Nebraska Huskers
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Wtf?

(03-02-2019 02:12 PM)Tomball Owl Wrote:  Wtf?

I'm not sure what is worse, the U OF N in graffiti font or the absurdly large US flag on the front. The flag on the sleeve looks great.. this is the size of a postcard.

Also does anyone refer to them as the 'University of Nebraska' especially pertaining to sports? I've always heard them as 'Nebraska' and nothing else.

I think the dude's mullet adds a great deal to the overall effect.

Actually I believe he is Mexico City traffic cop.

(03-02-2019 02:25 PM)Antarius Wrote:  

(03-02-2019 02:12 PM)Tomball Owl Wrote:  Wtf?

I'm not sure what is worse, the U OF N in graffiti font or the absurdly large US flag on the front. The flag on the sleeve looks great.. this is the size of a postcard.

Also does anyone refer to them as the 'University of Nebraska' especially pertaining to sports? I've always heard them as 'Nebraska' and nothing else.

Their fight song refers to it as “good ol’ Nebraska U.” Kinda like the University of Oklahoma is OU. I guess it was a Big 8 thing.

(03-02-2019 05:54 PM)georgewebb Wrote:  Their fight song refers to it as “good ol’ Nebraska U.” Kinda like the University of Oklahoma is OU. I guess it was a Big 8 thing.

OU, KU, NU... Long ago, Nebraska's helmets had "NU" on them instead of the now-iconic (but frankly weak) tiny "N".

There are a lot of attempts at subtle rebranding going on in the public university realm (as there have been for a long time now), and I think much of it can be traced back to the success of the University of California in cutivating a system of branch schools with relatively high academic standing. A lot of schools now want to rebrand nationally with "University of... (X)" followed by a city designation so that it can seem like they each have a whole network of campuses with academic quality similar to their respective mothership schools. It's really pretty silly. (And of course it is the University of Nebraska. But no one actually calls it that. Nor will the moniker "The University of Nebraska-Lincoln" ever take.)

And I also think any efforts to mimic the UC are pretty futile anyway. The UC only became quality as a whole system because of the great westward migration of the 20th century and the myth making that has taken place around the idea of California. Sure, some very visionary people underpinned the creation of the UC, but no other public university system has had the advantage of being able to attract throngs of top researchers and students to multiple schools without really trying.

(03-02-2019 06:16 PM)Wiessman Wrote:  And I also think any efforts to mimic the UC are pretty futile anyway. The UC only became quality as a whole system because of the great westward migration of the 20th century and the myth making that has taken place around the idea of California. Sure, some very visionary people underpinned the creation of the UC, but no other public university system has had the advantage of being able to attract throngs of top researchers and students to multiple schools without really trying.

In the early days, the static, stratified structure of East Coast academia also played a role. I remember reading in a biography of E.O. Lawrence (when I started work at Lawrence Livermore National Lab and before my security clearance came through) that when he was young assistant professor (and dissed by many of his superiors for his rural Dakotas background) that Lawrence was told he could expect to wait 20 years or so before he could expect to become a full professor. UC gave him more freedom, and (soon) much more research money. The Elis ate quite a bit of crow when Lawrence was awarded the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention of the cyclotron.

(03-02-2019 02:25 PM)Antarius Wrote:  

(03-02-2019 02:12 PM)Tomball Owl Wrote:  Wtf?

I'm not sure what is worse, the U OF N in graffiti font or the absurdly large US flag on the front. The flag on the sleeve looks great.. this is the size of a postcard.

Also does anyone refer to them as the 'University of Nebraska' especially pertaining to sports? I've always heard them as 'Nebraska' and nothing else.

Well, some of our recent recruits were blessed to receive an offer from the University of Rice?

The Huskers also refer to themselves as the “Big Red” which Dr Tiki has reminded me for 42 years is really the nickname for Cornell.

(03-02-2019 09:50 PM)Tiki Owl Wrote:  The Huskers also refer to themselves as the “Big Red” which Dr Tiki has reminded me for 42 years is really the nickname for Cornell.

Or a radioactive looking soda.

(03-02-2019 09:59 PM)Antarius Wrote:  

(03-02-2019 09:50 PM)Tiki Owl Wrote:  The Huskers also refer to themselves as the “Big Red” which Dr Tiki has reminded me for 42 years is really the nickname for Cornell.

Or a radioactive looking soda.

That tastes like liquid bubble gum.

(03-03-2019 02:24 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(03-02-2019 09:59 PM)Antarius Wrote:  

(03-02-2019 09:50 PM)Tiki Owl Wrote:  The Huskers also refer to themselves as the “Big Red” which Dr Tiki has reminded me for 42 years is really the nickname for Cornell.

Or a radioactive looking soda.

That tastes like liquid bubble gum.

The jerseys that Rice wore in the Sunday game against TCU were, by Rice standards, spectacularly awful. Other than the hopelessly misguided "camouflage" jerseys which sometimes get trotted out, these were the worst I've seen in any Rice sport in a long time.

Ugh.

(03-04-2019 11:41 AM)georgewebb Wrote:  The jerseys that Rice wore in the Sunday game against TCU were, by Rice standards, spectacularly awful. Other than the hopelessly misguided "camouflage" jerseys which sometimes get trotted out, these were the worst I've seen in any Rice sport in a long time.

Ugh.

100 times better than the cardinals-bat-ripoff jerseys. They weren't my favorite or a shining example of design excellence, but I thought they looked good.

Spunky without looking too trashy. And if the players like it, even better.

The Big Red’s ‘78 unis were certainly different...especially the helmets.

https://twitter.com/griffintsmith/status...71392?s=21

(03-04-2019 12:04 PM)Antarius Wrote:  

(03-04-2019 11:41 AM)georgewebb Wrote:  The jerseys that Rice wore in the Sunday game against TCU were, by Rice standards, spectacularly awful. Other than the hopelessly misguided "camouflage" jerseys which sometimes get trotted out, these were the worst I've seen in any Rice sport in a long time.
Ugh.

100 times better than the cardinals-bat-ripoff jerseys. They weren't my favorite or a shining example of design excellence, but I thought they looked good.
Spunky without looking too trashy. And if the players like it, even better.

Hey, I liked the bat jerseys.

Then again, I'm a Cardinals fan from way back. I guess one good thing about the Astros. move to the AL is that the Cards can again become my favorite NL team.

Speaking of bad kits - Manchester United today. The washed out pink looks like someone accidentally bleached their normal red kits.

(03-06-2019 05:56 PM)Antarius Wrote:  Speaking of bad kits - Manchester United today. The washed out pink looks like someone accidentally bleached their normal red kits.

Ironically, I think that's how many view the Jose Mourinho era.

At least our uniforms don't look like this