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[JayJ79]

white isn't a school color either, is it?

[Matt Trump]

Agreed...why does Nebraska refer to their defense as the "Blackshirts?"

Their first team defense wears black for their practice uniforms. You get the honor of being a first team defensive player for Nebraska, you get a black shirt.

[B.True]

lots of hating on the black pants here. i really like to the black pants. i understand that it is not one of the school colors, but the licensing group, athletic department and the university probably made a decision as a whole to allow black as a secondary color, thus using them for another option on uniforms....not sure on this, couldn't find any color info on the Trademark Licensing page on unipanthers.com ... that's just my best guess

if no one likes the black pants.....then no one probably likes the black uni's that Duke bball wears, eh? just wondering....i've seen were other colleges want to get another uniform option and have added black eventhough it isn't one of the school colors....baseball, softball and soccer teams the most....i remember UNI softball having a uniform with black tops and black pants, so the football team isn't the first to use black as a uniform option. i don't think anyone said that it was, but i'm just saying that this wasn't the first time we've seen UNI on a black uni....

[TH1974]

if no one likes the black pants.....then no one probably likes the black uni's that Duke bball wears, eh? just wondering....

Those are terrible.

[FMPanther]

Yes, agreed

Those are terrible.

Yes, those are hideous.

Black pants = suck

http://www.uni.edu/webtools/unicolors.html

http://www.trademarxonline.com/licensors/index.cfm?fuseaction=licensordetail&lid=18

[B.True]

i've seen this site - http://www.trademarxonline.com/licen...rdetail&lid=18 - before but couldn't find earlier this morning.....thanks....good stuff......

[UNI MadCat]

Wow, I'm kind encouraged that i'm not the only ones in the "black pants suck" circle. I have a lot of friends that think they are awesome and I've grown tired of pleading my case so I, wrongfully, assumed everyone on here loved them too.

I guess I wouldn't be totally against them if the purple helmet/jersey thing was solved. Put it all together and, to me, it just looks like we dont know what we are doing with three different darks coming at you.

I assume a lot of you have seen this site. I check it every once in awhile hoping someone has helped him fill in the missing pieces on the UNI helmets. In the 80s didnt we have Yellow/Gold helmets with UNI in purple cursive on them??? And then wasn't there a purple helmet with a Panther walking thru the words UNI in gold??? I think that was right before the Purple/Gold one from '90-96 that you couldn't tell what it was until you got within 10 feet of it.

http://www.nationalchamps.net/Helmet_Project/

[SMK4UNI]

Cool web page, thanks for letting us know about it

[Jonsoup]

Yes, We had UNI in purple cursive on them on the color of OLD GOLD. Matter of fact the book store has ball caps like this for sale. As I bought one and hear comments on my hat all the time when I wear it to ball games. Also Coach Farley makes comments that he likes the hat. It reminds me of the days I started going to UNI games for football with my father.

[Cat80]

Black is in.

Many schools have used black as a third color. I wasn't able to watch the Drake game last Saturday, but I presume Drake wore black road unis? Black is not a school color for Drake, Duke, or UNI and should not be worn. For that matter, tomato red and navy blue have little to do with the historic cardinal and gold in Ames, but that's life in these times. White has always gone with black and gold, so there's little change or debate in Iowa City.

IMO-the black pants make the players look smaller. It doesn't matter locked in the trenches, but that's how it looks from a distance.

Home-purple helmets, jerseys, and pants. AND THEY MATCH.
Road-white jerseys with the purple pants and helmets. Gold trim wherever.
Again IMO-the gold jerseys worn vs SIU in 95 were/are ugly, and am not a fan of gold helmets.
Lots of good points and opinion on this one, but probably no change in the near future. Look how much agreement there is here.

[Jonsoup]

What's wrong with the GOLD helmets? I loved them. So did Coach Farley as he has made reference to them when we talk in person.

[Cat80]

What goes with gold helmets?

Purple jersesys and white pants? black pants?
Maybe one of our artisitic friends with a LOT of time on his/her hands could do some mock-ups and post them? Who needs design teams when PN is on the task?

[Born-a-Panther]

We can all start this debate again after the first game this coming fall -- new uniforms have been designed.

[CanuckPanther]

New uniforms designed? But...but...they have not even posted the schedule for next year...and they have designed new uniforms? Seems a strange priority to me LOL

[Born-a-Panther]

New uniforms designed? But...but...they have not even posted the schedule for next year...and they have designed new uniforms? Seems a strange priority to me LOL

A new contract was signed with Nike so they are getting the new uniforms through them. Some of the players played a large part in what the uniforms are going to look like. From what one of them said to me -- it's going to be a big change. I want to wait a little while though to make sure that stands true before I mention the details.