Gators Get A Color Rush From Nike vs Michigan

[KronoGator]

Gators have been wearing orange helmets since 1969, lot of wins and titles since then.

Nah...lets try and look like Kentucky.

 

[GatorStud]

I don't know, something about this combo just says kicking your ass and prime time living

 

[Zambo]

vs. all maize for meat chikin

Sweet Jesus! I'm glad we are not wearing that! In any event it's gonna look like IKEA puked all over the field.

 

[Gatorraid81]

Is this part of the deal for playing this game that we have to wear these jersey combinations? Whatever, I prefer the traditional jersey combo like most people, but we hardly seem like we wear that anymore. I guess this is just how things will be for now on. SMH

 

[rogdochar]

Tell ya, Let the cheer leaders be nude.

Pads and underwear, that's my final offer. Otherwise, they gotta all be fully dressed. Take yer pick.

Pads!! God, it's not that time of the month, is it?

 

[rogdochar]

vs. all maize for meat chikin

We hope to see Grey Poupon spread all over the turf. ..... world travelers, Jerry's World unravellers.

 

[Uncle Rob]

I'd rather they just focus on actually getting the right shade of blue. At this stage, as much as I used to hate the orange, I'm not sure it isn't better than this new blue we insist on wearing.

That blue looks like Auburn

 

[CGgater]

That blue looks like Auburn

Is that a joke?

 

[soflagator]

That blue looks like Auburn

To me it looks like UF throughout the 90's when we were dominating the conference, competing for titles, and players like Green were torching secondaries. And it's actually considerably lighter than Aub.

But the fact is we're always going to resemble someone(or they're going to resemble us). The current Uk/Boise/Kansas look is atrocious.

According to law, it's part of the fabric change, so I guess it's unavoidable to some extent. But I just want to stop the slide. And as '78 points out, we're simply doing it too much recently, rarely with any success.

 

[Frozen Gator]

I used to have that 70s script on my little league jersey. It was VERY cool in 79.

White helmets were the helmets at UF until Charley Pell tried to turned us into Clempson in all ways including probation.

Besides if we are back to celebrating four loss seasons so long as we win one "that we were supposed to lose" (we are supposed to be a five loss team w this staff?) I agree we should wear plain old sixties unis in honor of those similarly shytty teams.

I thought Doug Dickey did the orange helmets first, Pell did the orange jerseys.

 

[chuckmcphail]

I'm just glad its not being broadcasted in 4kUHD. I do believe I would go blind with both those uni combos if so.

 

[CGgater]

I thought Doug Dickey did the orange helmets first, Pell did the orange jerseys.

I was a bit young, but I believe dickey had the orange helmets with the interlaced "UF". Pell changed that to the "Gators" script when he switched to the orange jerseys in 1980.

 

[playzwtrux]

Florida, 1979-current







Previous Florida helmets had an interlocking "UF" symbol on the sides of the helmet.

 

[rogdochar]

That blue looks like Auburn

I think I know my color wheel; how can blue look like auburn??
Seriously, I just hope it doesn't look like we're wearing silk unis all 'aglitter'.

 

[Frozen Gator]

I was a bit young, but I believe dickey had the orange helmets with the interlaced "UF". Pell changed that to the "Gators" script when he switched to the orange jerseys in 1980.

Yes

 

[TN G8tr]

That's got to be the ugliest shyt I've ever seen. They need the Hell beat out of them just for wearing that.

 

[KronoGator]

I thought Doug Dickey did the orange helmets first, Pell did the orange jerseys.

Ray Graves had both before Dickey and Pell, interlocking UF helmet came around in 69, Orange jerseys were worn as early as 1960.

 

[gardnerwebbgator]

1970's

mid 1960's

1966 - Spurrier Heisman year

1968

great website if you haven't seen it.....
http://nationalchamps.net/Helmet_Project/

 

[78]

I was a bit young, but I believe dickey had the orange helmets with the interlaced "UF". Pell changed that to the "Gators" script when he switched to the orange jerseys in 1980.

The conversion, including this new UF logo ...

... occurred before the '79 season. I had a ringside seat. I was in G'ville and working two jobs, one for the advertising firm (Combs, Smith & Manning) that conceived of the new logo, and for the local fish wrap that covered it. Those were heady times for UF football. The program and the stadium got a simultaneous makeover.

 

[gingerlover]

1970's

mid 1960's

1966 - Spurrier Heisman year

1968

great website if you haven't seen it.....
http://nationalchamps.net/Helmet_Project/

Love that site. I say the 66 block F for white and if they ever do a blue go with the 64.