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#101
I thought the black unis were a Halloween special? Arent we a month too early?

IMO the black jerseys are 1000x better than any damn "smokey grey" garbage that Butch Jones invented.
 
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#104
Valid points being made on all sides here. And, yes, in one sense they are only uniforms. Yet, on a sociological level, they're part of the social fabric that creates unity among strangers.

But let's be real with each other--uniform variety exists solely for making money off of fans. It's what's left of capitalism in a debt-based economy when the actual manufacturing of products with inherent value has been traded away. All that's left for Americans to sell today are trends and fads and "intellectual" property.

We are now where war-depleted, socialized Britain was in the early 1960s, as skewered by the Beatles' George Harrison in "A Hard Day's Night":

"Of course they're grotty, you wretched nit! That's why they were designed! But that's what you'll want."

When I was young, our "assault on sports tradition" was wearing white cleats instead of black. Drove my dad crazy! Every American young person since the 1870s has gone through a similar phase, and by the time they're 30 or 40, they are embarrassed by their earlier ideas. I'm not yet 70, but every style of clothing I've worn since grade school has now been "in style" thrice! (Sometimes I think obesity is a plot by the fashion industry.)

Speaking now of things much more important than clothing or team uniforms... what I'd like to remind the younger fans who love variety is that what makes tradition (in any realm) valuable is the number of decades it takes to build a tradition, and the short time it takes to destroy it. It's like a successful long-term investment account. Its value accumulates over time--but if you withdraw early, you lose the great benefit you had earned.

We can all agree that when tradition ceases to be functional, then it must be changed.

But if you diminish something that took decades to build merely for the sake of novelty, you can't just "rebrand" tradition again when the novelty of novelty has worn off. You're only left with memories and regret.

Variety for the sake of novelty is not a healthy place for any mind or society to be. Sometimes your elders dig in their heels on something silly like uniforms, because what they're really worried about the more important traditions in life that they see being plowed under by design, not free choice.

For all our crankiness, what we wish more than anything is to pass on to following generations the joys and opportunities we enjoyed, that we see being taken away. But that's all complicated and intellectual and hard to articulate. It becomes much easier to just yell, "Stop screwing with the team colors!"

...and stay off my lawn!" (which is still the traditional green for valid, scientific, and widely beneficial reasons.)
 
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SayUWantAreVOLution said:
Do you now?

Joe Milton's NIL with Beats by Dre provided the entire team with Beats Pro @ $350 each. That's $35,000+/- just on what Joe gave to the team but I'm sure he got more than that from the deal.

Did you pony up that cash? Because that's only part of one deal for one player.

C'mon, Mr High Roller, tell me again that you pay these guys.
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Interesting level of hostility lol.
 
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BearBryant said:
What is this love affair with black? Tennessee is Orange and White, not Black and Orange. These Black and Orange uniforms are hideous.
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You can dislike them on principle, but it’s silly to act like they don’t look good.

Oh, just saw your username. Who cares what you think about our uniforms? Go fret about your quarterback situation.
 
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BearBryant said:
What is this love affair with black? Tennessee is Orange and White, not Black and Orange. These Black and Orange uniforms are hideous.
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Lol, a Bama fan on a Tennessee message board commenting in a thread about Tennessee's uniform selection for a game against South Carolina.

No point, just think it's funny.
 
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"We need to go back to the "original" and get back to wearing Orange"
"Tennessee is Orange."
"Quit with the gimmicks"
"They should wear the exact jersey they used to wear when I was growing up"
"Blah blah blah blah"

The jerseys the players wear are NOT for the fans. Get over it and yourself and cheer for who is wearing them.

I hate that we have to bring out the history lesson EVERY....SINGLE....YEAR!!!!
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Doberman said:
Nah. Haven’t seen the original Smokey Gray yet.

Or the road white with orange pants.

More to come…..
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They said they were doing Smokey gray once per years/ different iterations over a 5 year period & I mentioned the orange pants as an option… again, I like all the options they have! So I’m good whatever the players choose.
 
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UTFranklinVol said:
I thought the black unis were a Halloween special? Arent we a month too early?

IMO the black jerseys are 1000x better than any damn "smokey grey" garbage that Butch Jones invented.
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The home schedule isn't friendly for us to have some Halloween fun this year. At Bama Oct 21st and at Kentucky Oct 28th. SC is at least night game. Not sure what A&M will be.

So it's kinda just pick a game if they want to wear black jerseys. Which I do think look good.
 
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Volbrando said:
For those of us upset over us not wearing orange and white all the time, we have to understand it’s a different time and things this like help attract and retain talent because it’s what the players want and get hyped up about

Personally I don’t care if we wear spider man underoos as long as we win
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Because AL's unaltered uniforms can't attract and retain talent? Or USC can't seem to get any talented kids to play there?
 
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TeacherVol007 said:
I’d rather we Checker Neyland than do black out for a team that literally has black in their main colors. Since it’s not happening this game, I assume they’re saving checkering Neyland for UGA?
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Checkering Neyland was started by fans not the UTAD. I think (but I’m not sure) that it still is that way. The guys that made the checker web site pick which game.
IMHO, it should never by a November game because it’s too cold and many fans don’t own heavy orange or white coats.
 
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Found a couple of my old retro hats in good shape from back in the day that could work for my daughter and me at the game. Think they work ok? IMG_4819.jpeg
 
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Vfl2407 said:
Checkering Neyland was started by fans not the UTAD. I think (but I’m not sure) that it still is that way. The guys that made the checker web site pick which game.
IMHO, it should never by a November game because it’s too cold and many fans don’t own heavy orange or white coats.
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Checkering Neyland may have started with the fans, but once the UTAD saw the engagment and optics, they more or less took ownership of it. They may let the fans run the website, but UT is the one putting out the social media posts drumming up attention, getting fans talking, driving everything, etc. The fans don't own the concept anymore, which makes the whole idea feel feels less authentic now, or at least it does to me. Another tool in the marketing toolkit. Still fun, but much more manufactured.

But, such is the way of anything big business. If something's popular and within reach of a business, they're gonna take it.
 
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