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Same reason everybody else wears white socks with white pants. Kids and morons love the icy white yoga pants look. Also, they kinda deserve to look like trash as long as Snyder owns the team.

Goddammit, Pepsi. Stop it with the rebranding, and just accept your place as the #3 lemon-lime soda. Sierra Mist was, is, and (after they revert again) will be a perfectly serviceable name for when waiters ask "Is Sierra Mist okay?" The last time they changed the name everyone still called it Sierra Mist, and by the time any fountain labels were changed to "Mist TWST", they were already bringing back the Sierra Mist name. That said, the logo and label are pretty decent designs. Better than the crap they usually rolled out for Sierra Mist. I actually prefer Sierra Mist too. It has a cleaner taste, if that makes sense. 7-Up, and to a lesser extent Sprite, leave a distinctive aftertaste in my mouth.

Seems very similar to when Notre Dame started their "Irish Wear Green" campaign, and then didn't wear green. Speaking of which... The white names show just how terrible those blue numbers are. Blue on green works fine for merchandise, but is absolutely abysmal for on-field visibility. Everybody told them the first time they wore these, and again when they announced green was returning. Yet ND and UA continue to be stubborn and stick with their flawed brand consistency. I wonder if they'll wear blue socks like they did last time, which made it even more of a mess.

The references to "the sails of Viking longships" in an otherwise classic-inspired uniform is very 2010s. Make the white sleeve stripes straight across and remove the weird number serifs, and that's a timeless look.

This team is a bottomless pit of stupid.

Lipstick on a pig. There's no saving that uniform design with just a color change.

I'm fully expecting a Homelander knockoff as the new mascot. His cape will be the D.C. Flag.

The Magic Underwear uniforms. The shoulder stripe design is a bit much for me, but otherwise not bad.

These stripes are definitely painted:

Is the silver painted in the same finish as Notre Dame's gold? I like it. The thin white outline around the logo is unnecessary, but otherwise, that's a great look for them.

What the hell are "Parthers"?

That whole thing is a crypto scam, so it's no surprise their logo looked like a ripoff. The image of their "console" was also taken from someone else's concept. They've since changed the logo to a stick of butter being shoved into a hexagon:

It continues to baffle me why they insist on using the burgundy W on a burgundy background everywhere except the helmet. It looks pretty good on the Helmet, which is the only good part of the rebrand, and is a primary piece of branding... yet nothing else matches it. This franchise is such a dumpster fire. Can Dan Snyder be kicked to the curb already? What are the other owners waiting for?

How the hell does Notre Dame wearing green against Cal mean they've "fallen"? They don't wear green for only "big" games. They've worn them against Army, Boston College, and a mediocre Florida State that was not the team it used to be. Green was originally used as a clash against teams like Iowa and Navy before away jerseys were used. USC is obviously the most famous and frequent opponent for ND to wear the green against, but there's really no rules they've followed for when they break out the green.

Yeah, they've been very strict about brand consistency since UA took over. It makes sense to want consistency, after years of wavering between Kelly and Forest green, athletic gold and metallic gold, and even sometimes royal blue instead of navy. Unfortunately, for some reason they decided navy outlined in gold looked good on green, and have stubbornly stuck with it. For apparel it works fine, and the script on baseball and basketball jerseys kinda works, but the numbers are just awful. Gold numbers would look a bit better, but I'm not sure their current shades of gold and green have enough contrast between them. It's probably a nightmare for colorblind people. I've always thought the best green jerseys were when they just swapped out blue for green, leaving white numbers. The Dan Devine era jerseys really weren't that great, with a brighter, more yellow athletic gold that did not match the helmets at all. The Weis era green jerseys always felt too dark and muddy for my liking. The Willingham jerseys got it right, but they got embarrassed in them, so we never saw them again.

It pretty much is just dark teal. The Eagles' Midnight Green is Pantone 316 C, right by the Jaguars' original teal at 315 C. Jacksonville has since updated to 3155 C, which is used by other "teal" teams. The LA Galaxy used 3165 C, and called it teal. And of course there's the Hornets, who use 3145 C. Then there's the Sharks, who have used all of those as their teal.

A few more pictures: Similar to UA's current philosophy, Gerry Faust decided that a green jersey MUST include blue, giving us these... unique stripes. Faust even said they were one of the ugliest uniforms he'd ever seen. The blue stripe was the "Madonna Blue" they wore at the time that was basically royal blue. Faust's use of Madonna Blue was an attempt to go back to ND's traditional blue and gold after years of wearing green under coach Devine, but he wanted to go back to the school's original shade of blue instead of navy. Of course, like much of his tenure at ND, he came up short at that too. If they used the original blue, they'd look like UCLA:

I love when Notre Dame wears green. I've probably embraced the kelly green more than most, as I've worn almost exclusively green ND gear since at least 2004. I'd have the football team wear green 3 times a season if I had my way. But not in those current jerseys. The blue numbers on green are illegible garbage. People (and announcers) have been saying so since they first debuted, yet UA and ND have refused to go back to what worked. I really want to be excited about green jerseys coming back, but those blue numbers really put a damper on it.

Blue jersey with white pants and blue socks seems like the best combo with a blue helmet. No thanks on the mono-blue.

Are you certain that it didn't become a stock font after being designed for Toledo, like the Maryland and Texas Tech fonts? The earliest catalog I can find is from 2013, which shows this exact group of fonts. https://issuu.com/kollegetown/docs/kollege_town_under_armour_2013_football/78

Definitely inspired by NASA's worm logo font (appropriate for a team named Rockets), but not the same. FUN FACT: Gene Kranz, the Chief Flight Director of NASA's Gemini and Apollo missions, is from Toledo.