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Unis and Tradition
Tailgater
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The gold chrome helmet with heliotrope stripe and "W" logo has made it's appearance at least in online photo form and the sight of it makes an oldtimer like myself want to chew on a radiator. It's not that I must insist on retaining traditional football unis for during my long Husky lifetime, our colors and gameday apparel on and off the field have changed a few times in the past. What matters to me is winning and the feeling that the appearance of winning has always delivered at least to me and my crew. Thus, the unis fashions I will always prefer are those that the players wore in the late 1980 to early 1990's period........ the look of victory and dominance which the Huskies then wore when exiting the tunnel to pummel another opponent.
But these are different times now as some of us anticipate another football season with attitudes stuck somewhere between deprived hope and resolved despair for accepting another 5 to 7 win achievement. Gone is the winning traditions of the past as our team's management apparently considers one more step to duckafying Husky Football in 2013 with glitzy schemes and Nike inspired glam fashion. I'm not convinced that we traditionalists will actually be exposed to such insult and embarrassment, but perhaps it does fit Husky Stadium's new ambiance of club and luxury suites, fabulous concessions, open sound attenuating concourses, surround light show, a mammoth new HuskyTron to hate even more than the previous scoreboard abomination,....... and of course, a subway station where my tailgating parking lot used to be.
So, I suppose the golden dome chrome helmet with heliotrope trim (I've always known that Nike would find a way to someday adorn Hated Huskies with heliotrope), if it bounces and rolls out of the Tunnel on August 31, must along with the stadium renovation fit the new tradition........ which of course is the oxymoron that perhaps defines all that we have become on the gridiron and in the grandstands. If the Seattle Sounders and Seahawks can get away with wearing that hideous pansy-assed florescent green, we must accept the vomit that might be induced by chrome gold trimmed in heliotrope.
But these are different times now as some of us anticipate another football season with attitudes stuck somewhere between deprived hope and resolved despair for accepting another 5 to 7 win achievement. Gone is the winning traditions of the past as our team's management apparently considers one more step to duckafying Husky Football in 2013 with glitzy schemes and Nike inspired glam fashion. I'm not convinced that we traditionalists will actually be exposed to such insult and embarrassment, but perhaps it does fit Husky Stadium's new ambiance of club and luxury suites, fabulous concessions, open sound attenuating concourses, surround light show, a mammoth new HuskyTron to hate even more than the previous scoreboard abomination,....... and of course, a subway station where my tailgating parking lot used to be.
So, I suppose the golden dome chrome helmet with heliotrope trim (I've always known that Nike would find a way to someday adorn Hated Huskies with heliotrope), if it bounces and rolls out of the Tunnel on August 31, must along with the stadium renovation fit the new tradition........ which of course is the oxymoron that perhaps defines all that we have become on the gridiron and in the grandstands. If the Seattle Sounders and Seahawks can get away with wearing that hideous pansy-assed florescent green, we must accept the vomit that might be induced by chrome gold trimmed in heliotrope.
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I care about the average product on the field more.
I also support the troops and don't support war. I'm on the record as being against animal AND elder abuse.
Yeah, I had forgotten about how badly Tailgater's posts sucked.