🏈 The next time we go Pro Combat uniforms...

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

this would be sweet...

Throwback style... :td:

Not sure who to give the Photoshop credit to, but I like it...

 

[doemasters]

i like the middle one the most

 

[Crimson14Tide]

Needs more white helmet. And I know we actually wore them but needs less Notre Dame pants.

 

[bama_girl12]

The red reminds me of the Buckeye end zone, way too bright. I like the general theory. I just LOVE that we still rock the old school classic look! :td:

 

[JoshB]

Please god no, have mercy on my soul... leave em in the past... I thought Michigan's uniforms were AWFUL.

 

[jdutton24]

red pants ftw.:td:

 

[Bamsambo]

Why can't we just leave things alone? I guess I'm just too old for all this. Let's call Texas A&M and ask them.:lance:

 

[RollTideinGA]

I'd take the one in the middle with the white helmet. Its so funny how people live in the past with Alabama, but deny anything prior to Bryant.

 

[LBS]

Can Color-Blind people tell the difference between Red/White vertical stripes and Black/White stripes?

 

[doemasters]

yes we can

 

[jdpas29]

Iv always liked the vertical stripes.... but the pants need a stripe down the side... and no golden pants please

 

[Rams and Jams]

I think that would be an awesome idea. I wish more teams would do this for a game instead of wearing Power Ranger costumes or uniforms that need to be in arena football only. Maybe throw a few modern elements a la Michigan's throwbacks (which were sick, IMO). And the gold pants would be so cool. Like an ULTRA throwback. Add white helmets to it and I would likely email Nike myself to request this.

 

[4th-and-1]

i love it when beige is incorporated in with the bama colors.. i have bought a few shirts like this and love them.. makes me feel like i am from the 20's or something..

 

[Hoos4Tide]

See, there's a difference between the fad of "Nike Pro Combat" s**t and "throwback" I LOVE throwback stuff, I thought the Michigan-Notre Dame game looked great, there's nothing wrong with honoring the past uniforms by wearing them, but as I said, that is completely different than doing what Georgia or Maryland did and just ruining a perfectly good modern day uniform. Also, I concur with the middle uniform with white helmet, that would be amazing. Imagine that uniform playing a Penn State, Notre Dame, or other school that's been around forever, thad look great

 

[Cleburne]

I like it.

 

[PyroNismo2000]

:sealed_1blue: no comment

 

[TerryP]

The timing of your post is spot on Bran!

TUSCALOOSA, Alabama - Georgia and Maryland opened the season with radically different uniforms.

When will Alabama go that route?

Never, as long as Nick Saban is the Crimson Tide's coach.

The subject of uniforms came up in Saban's news conference following Wednesday's practice. It gave him a chance to reiterate feelings that he expressed last season before Alabama made minimal changes when it wore special Nike Pro Combat uniforms for its home game against Mississippi State.

"I think what we wear is a lot bigger than me, and a lot bigger than anyone," Saban said. "It's what everybody's expectation is of what they want to see when Alabama plays football and what they're used to seeing."

Saban's feelings clearly are strong.

"I don't think the coach should change uniforms," he said. "I don't think the coach should change the color of the helmets. I just don't believe that. Now that doesn't mean that's wrong when somebody does that or they think they should do it or whatever."

A year ago, Saban called himself a traditionalist. He used the same word Wednesday.

"I think there's a brand, there's an expectation of what people expect to see when Alabama plays football," he said. "That's all over the country. That's a brand that has sort of been developed for how many years? You know, definitely since Coach (Paul) Bryant's been here. And all the years past that. So just for some marketing whim? I'm not really into that."
Though Saban acknowledged that making uniform changes ultimately isn't his decision at Alabama, it's hard to imagine someone going against his wishes.

"One thing that you do when you do have a sponsor - like Nike, who does a great job for us and we love them, so I'm not saying that in a bad way - is they will make an additional package of stuff for you if you do that," Saban said. "Like special gloves, and I don't even know what else goes with it. And the players really like that.

"So the reason I agreed to the small changes that we had last year, which people couldn't even hardly notice, was so that we would be able to get the other package of thing to sell and for our players to have and all that other stuff. So it was a compromise on my part even to do that."

Saban was asked if Oregon, which has a tight relationship with Nike, gets an unfair advantage in recruiting because it has so many different uniforms. Would he like to see a rule limiting the number of uniforms per team?

"I don't know," Saban said. "When you line up and play, I'm not sure what your uniform really has anything to do with how you play. I don't think they have any advantage over anybody else. They have their program. They do what they do. I don't have any comment one way or the other."

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2011/...a_nic.html

 

[RollTideinGA]

I could deal with a throwback for Alabama. But honestly it would have to be against a big team or a rival. And also the only reason they do these various uniforms is to sell merchandise (see NASCAR). And Alabama doesn't need more uniforms to sell stuff.

 

[TerryP]

I could deal with a throwback for Alabama. But honestly it would have to be against a big team or a rival. And also the only reason they do these various uniforms is to sell merchandise (see NASCAR). And Alabama doesn't need more uniforms to sell stuff.

While that is true it's also a smart move by Nike to offer things like this to players. Take Ingram's gloves as example...the players loved that addition but we did have to do some minor changes in our uni's just to get the gloves.