bleedorange0037
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Black outs are stupid. The only things that look cool are white and yellow outs. Please don't take this as a racial statement, cuz it's not, but blackouts don't work unless all the white folks paint their faces black too. Penn State area is predominantly white, so when ya add the white shirts it all blends in w/ the white skin. When I had Maryland season seats they tried a black out. It looked awful because:
#1-people still has yellow and red on their black shirts and
#2-White skin took away from the effect of the black out.
So a blackout at UT would look awful cuz you'd have all those black shirst up against all the white faces...doesn't flow and make the stadium look like it's surrounded by black. Penn State looks COMPLETELY white when they do.
To me the main reason Tennessee doesn't need to go with the black jersey's and blackout at the game is the fact that we would be roughly the 25,000th team to do that. Everyone has gotten caught up in this silly craze. It was cool the first few times I saw it, but now it's just kind of become cliche. We've more or less had our own distinctive look for the duration of our football program, and in my opinion we should be sticking with the look we pioneered many years ago rather than trying to copy off of other teams.