Cal Football White Helmets Rumored To Debut Vs. Oregon

I saw one photo with mockups of both…is it definitely the script?

That having been said, it likely works best with either the white/white or the blue/white combos…

Still wish there was more “gold” in the helmet, but, then again, I’m one of those that think that colleges ought to wear a school’s actual school colors…

On a national TV Thursday game no less! I assume the jerseys are going to be blue and the pants white? Or gold jerseys and white pants? Anybody know? Jersey change seems fitting for many reasons — not just because Nike wants Cal to sport a new get up against another Nike school in its backyard on prime time Thursday TV…..Marketing seems so simple, don’t know why is it an academic discipline….

That looks much better than that early mock up that didn’t have the stripe. Time to truly rock the Stormtrooper look.

I like that Cal will try out the stormtrooper look against Oregon, considering Oregon is the trendsetter for the all-white look.

I presume that by this you actually mean that oregun has just popularized the all-white look. Because I think the texaholes have been all-whiting their away unis for a while. Hell, even furd did the all-white as far back as 1982.

Personally, I loathe the idea that we are doing something both furd and texahole have already done.

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I like the one with the solid blue block C

I’m not crazy about it, but maybe my feelings will change once I see the polar bears hit the field. Right now, I think it would look better without the golden outline.

I haven’t seen a picture yet of the whole uniform, so it is hard for me to speculate. But I really like white and blue, and am not a big fan of the all gold. That said, I will personally buy and wear whatever jersey color they use if we can pull off the upset in Eugene on national television.

What we call gold uniforms, everyone else just sees em as banana yellow uniforms. I don’t like the gold unis. I think the gold looks better just as an accent to the Yale blue (what most people would call navy blue).

Next up? Mat black pro combat jerseys for the U$C game!

From a marketing standpoint, I like that Cal will try out the stormtrooper look against Oregon, considering Oregon is the trendsetter for the all-white look

I don’t get why anyone, recruit, player or otherwise would get excited about this. It’s a plain white helmet with decals. I think kids get excited for the Pro Combat stuff in general and Oregon’s whole wardrobe in particular stuff because of the exclusivity, period. I think this just highlights the fact that Cal doesn’t get carbon fiber helmets, crazy expensive pearlescent paint jobs or one off faux retro jerseys.

Can’t say whether I’ll like the white helmet, white jersey, white pants combo yet until I see it all put together. It might look wonderful, but it might not. One thing it won’t do is make anyone look slimmer.

I think our uniforms will go nuts when we get back to Memorial. All new stadium, all new uniforms. As for the white helmets, fantastic. Just as long as we don’t have one replicating the California state flag, ala Maryland, I’m fine.

is why there is an Oregon “O” on our white helmet.

As a Duck fan, I was hoping for Oregon in all black, and Cal in all white. Unfortunately, we’re doing some silly thing with the Duck logo that may or may not look good. Opportunity for awesomeness wasted…

Cal Football White Helmets Rumored To Debut Vs. Oregon

Yeah, I totally started that rumor in the Oregon Ducks Retro-Uniforms Revealed vs. Cal thread

Did you all see that Jorge Gutierrez and Crabbe are the pre season Wooden award list!

Mostly because I think a football team’s helmet is its best identification point, the one thing that really says to the world who we are. Mess with it at your peril, and only if you are actually making what is intended to be a permanent change.

The gold script Cal on a dark blue helmet was a great signifier — no doubt which team that is. White helmets are common and not do not easily identify us as “Cal.” When combined with white jerseys and pants, we’ll look particularly generic.

However, at least it will be superior to some of the god-awful home uniforms we’ve trotted out over the last few years, like the all-yellows and yellow-over-white. As a uniform in and of itself (divorced from the question of how well it represents Cal), it will probably look fine. So my final answer is “meh.”

The fashion show that college football has become is really beginning to annoy me. Let’s just go back to these, and be done with it.