Helmet Question

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Captain Awesome

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First, let me say our boys looked GREAT Saturday, didn't they? My gosh, those uniforms were so slick. I had to miss part of the game (I know, I'm a terrible fan) but I did not hear anyone say when the last time was that we did not wear our traditional helmet. Does anyone know? I'm 30 and I feel like it must be well before I was born. Anyone have any info on this?
 
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In 1965, the University of Tennessee added a black cross to its orange "T" helmet logo.
 

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If I'm not mistaken the last time we wore anything other than a white helmet was a leather one.
 
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I would like to see gray mixed with orange and white jersey/pants. Everyone complained about the all gray but love the storm trooper look that we hardly win in.
 
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I like the new helmet. I am going to start calling them the "Frosty" helmets because I believe they have magic in them just like the real Frosty's hat!
 
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I can't exactly put my finger on it, but there is too much gray. They are so close to looking really good. I don't know what the change needs to be though.
 
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Someone else mentioned it but I think it would look cool is to replace the T on the dark helmet with the orange tri-star.

It's already against tradition so it shouldn't cause anymore of an uproar.
 
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I think that the grey helmets with grey pants and white jerseys would be a nice road alternate.
 
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I like the grey uniforms the way I like checkerboard Neyland: one game a year.

The grey helmets are very cool looking. If the grey jerseys looked that good, could see going with them two games a year; but the two-tone jerseys just don't meet the high standards of that Smoky Mountain helmet.

Wonder what the Smoky helmet would look like with orange/white or white/orange uniform combos. Probably not great, but worth thinking about, maybe.
 
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volsportsfan said:
I can't exactly put my finger on it, but there is too much gray. They are so close to looking really good. I don't know what the change needs to be though.
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Agree exactly. Almost perfect, but the "almost" left me a bit uneasy. I truly feel like the adidas smokey grays were more pleasing to the eye, sans the helmet.

The Smokey Mtn helmet is the nuclear bomb.

Tweek the jersey or something and it's a true thing of beauty.

AV
PS. Replace the T with the tri-stars? NOPE!
 
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I thought that the uniforms looked outstanding. Much better in action than the stills that we saw during the unveil. If I had to make a change, I would do away with the dark gray on the shoulders and put orange numbers on the shoulders instead. No checkerboard.
 
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Aerie Vol said:
Agree exactly. Almost perfect, but the "almost" left me a bit uneasy. I truly feel like the adidas smokey grays were more pleasing to the eye, sans the helmet.

The Smokey Mtn helmet is the nuclear bomb.

Tweek the jersey or something and it's a true thing of beauty.

AV
PS. Replace the T with the tri-stars? NOPE!
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Why not? If you're going to have an alternate uniform go all out!
 
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volsportsfan said:
I can't exactly put my finger on it, but there is too much gray. They are so close to looking really good. I don't know what the change needs to be though.
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I think the imperfection is actually the orange. If they're totally abandoning tradition anyways, I think the helmet should have either the tri star (which I mentioned in another thread), or a black T, and black logos on the uniforms. Or maybe just an orange T on the helmet and do away with all of the other orange on the uniform. Solid black/grey uni with just an orange Power T on the helmet would probably look way better than the orange numbers and stripes and all that.
 
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This is a good picture to use as an example. Imagine the orange #'s the same color as the shoulders, as well as the stripes on the pants. The only orange would be the Power T's, SEC logo, and Nike checks. That would look mean.
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
I like the grey uniforms the way I like checkerboard Neyland: one game a year.

The grey helmets are very cool looking. If the grey jerseys looked that good, could see going with them two games a year; but the two-tone jerseys just don't meet the high standards of that Smoky Mountain helmet.

Wonder what the Smoky helmet would look like with orange/white or white/orange uniform combos. Probably not great, but worth thinking about, maybe.
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You could not see the mountains on the helmet.
 
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VolAllen said:
This is a good picture to use as an example. Imagine the orange #'s the same color as the shoulders, as well as the stripes on the pants. The only orange would be the Power T's, SEC logo, and Nike checks. That would look mean.
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That just might be it, as best as I can imagine it anyway.
 
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onevol74 said:
You could not see the mountains on the helmet.
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I could and after I pointed it out to the rest of my family, who had not heard about them, they could too.

Perhaps that's your point. They were VERY subtle. But I like that about it. Hate the over the top alternate crap (see Maryland disaster a couple of years ago.)

AV
 
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