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Friday Face-off: Boise State's football team has the ugliest uniform design in college football

Friday, November 6, 2009

Click here to read the other side to the Friday Face-off and why Annelise Russell thinks Oregon has the ugliest uniforms

The typical No. 1 choice for ugliest college football uniforms has traditionally been Oregon, as my counterpart Annelise chose.

However, I’m going to go against the grain and say I like Oregon’s uniforms. I didn’t like the weird metal design from the last couple years, but this year’s silver wings on the shoulder pads are awesome.

Plus, you’ve got something great going on anytime you get free multiple sets of uniforms from an alum who happens to own Nike.

With that said, the ugliest uniforms in college football belong to the team that has the ugliest field in college football: Boise State.

The same person must have designed both field and uniforms for them. I’m wondering what the thought process behind “fluorescent blue” was.

Plus, Boise totally ganked not only Denver’s mascot, the Bronco, but also the matching color scheme. Boise’s uniforms take me back to the great Denver teams of the past when Elway was winning Super Bowls, just ridiculously uglified.

Boise took some of the coolest NFL jerseys in existence, cranked the tint on the TV all the way up to “blinding” and created the monstrosity that is BSU’s uniforms.

If their goal was to make the uniforms a strange type of camouflage with the disgusting Smurf Field, they succeeded. Plus, orange on a uniform almost never ever looks good.

The colors are too bright, too flashy, too blinding and too ridiculous. Seriously, tell me you enjoy watching Boise State games and the inevitable headache that follows.

Do me a favor: Google Boise State’s uniforms. Remind yourself what they look like before discarding my argument. They aren’t as famously hated as Oregon’s, but they are 10 times as bad.

Oregon’s, save the gross yellow jerseys they rarely wear, are dark colors that seem to fit together nicely. The added special designs, like the metal pattern or the silver wings, give them a unique flair only Nike could give to them for free.

Boise State’s are about as aesthetically pleasing as a neon sign. Blue and orange do not look good together, and the white away jerseys don’t do much to improve them.

The Broncos look out of place anytime they’re playing anywhere but home because those jerseys only look natural on that disgustingly unnatural field. If the goal was to look like smurfs, Boise accomplished it. If the goal was to have uniforms that do not make me want puke all over myself, Boise failed miserably.

There’s something both Annelise and I can agree on: The ugliest uniforms in college football are west of the Rockies.

Comments

As a responsible reporter, you MAY want to do a little research before you make blind comments about "ganking" of anything. A little historical investigation would have shown you that Boise State was the blue and orange Broncos long before the blue and orange Denver Broncos came into existence.

As for the uniforms, I am not sure that I completely disagree with you, although, mocking them that way is sure easier to do than beat them on the field.. right, Oklahoma?

Posted by anonymous / DonkeyOtee on November 10, 2009 at 1:19 p.m.

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