...and don't get us started about the marching band, ahem, "uniforms." Cheryl was in the band when they had capes and Musketeer-style hats, really good for keeping out the rain they were always marching in. She despised the Nike-era "uniforms" that looked that the unholy union of a Nazi biker gang and a road crew.
But getting back to the anecdote at hand, a few years ago, the University of Oregon, clearly green with jealousy over the back-to-back college baseball championships won by the mighty Beavers of Oregon State, decided to bring back their defunct baseball program (sadly, throwing the storied UO wrestling team under the bus, but that's another story), throw a ton of Nike dollars at them and see if they could buy a national title that way.
When I first heard of this, oh lordy, how I gave Cheryl a hard time about what those uniforms would look like. Will they come out in lemon yellow unitards? Bring back Roboduck? And Cheryl could only shake her head sadly, as she knew she had no defense against the truth.
They finally unveiled the new Duck baseball uniforms today:
Okay, they could be worse. The "O" on the pants looks like a janitor's key ring, and I hope that they never wear that giant yellow "O" in an actual game as it looks like a giant bull's-eye. But, once again, they have managed to make a team that frequently wears radioactive orange uniforms look good.
Man, I was really hoping for the spandex unitard. That truly would have been worth mocking.
1 comment:
Holy cow! I too marvel at the ugliness of the O's football uniforms - and I attended the University of ID, so I know of which I speak. But that baseball jersey with the "O" is simply astounding.
The pants look like they ran out of ideas. Couldn't they have paired it with green and YELLOW striped pants; maybe make the stripes wider. Uh yeah - that's the ticket!
Jennefer
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