Orange Jerseys!

[JBiGGiE 2,488]

Orange you glad for another jersey discussion thread!? Just kidding...

AL.com put together a nice mini-documentary on the short lived orange-experiment. 

 

[aucanucktiger 1,809]

I think folks don't realize this orange alternative could have become as regular as Neutered Dame's green but around '82 Dye gave a little speech (on his review show maybe?) about how Auburn's dark jerseys scared the crap out of him at Georgia. End of orange experiment. 

[NoALtiger 3,873]

Cue a4e. 

[fredst 9,064]

Pretty cool. I remember that first orange game against UGA pretty well. We should have won if not for a bad call against us at the end of the first half- believe Andrews scored but was called down.

[Mikey 16,779]

Orange jerseys...NO.

[WarDlowe 39]

You can tell it's pretty much the off-season when...

[WarDamnEagleWDE 12,737]

9 minutes ago, WarDlowe said:

You can tell it's pretty much the off-season when...

[WarDamnEagleWDE 12,737]

[kd4au 1,145]

I prefer the BLUE,always thought Tubbs would be the one to pull out the orange, he always seemed to like the orange better.I wouldn't be totally against them for road games.

[WarDamnEagleWDE 12,737]

4 minutes ago, kd4au said:

I prefer the BLUE,always thought Tubbs would be the one to pull out the orange, he always seemed to like the orange better.I wouldn't be totally against them for road games.

I like Tubs personally but will never forgive him for this......................

[WarDamnEagleWDE 12,737]

Some here would be shocked how close AU came to play in the all blue uni like this one.

[tigeraddikt 1,626]

3 minutes ago, WarDamnEagleWDE said:

I like Tubs personally but will never forgive him for this......................

I was a sophomore at AU in early Fall 2001 when Tubby came out with the "The Jungle" bullcrap. People took to it at the time because of Spurrier's decade of dominance at "The Swamp" in the 90's. Anyway, I was a daily listener to the BigEars show when it was about at its peak of ridiculousness...Shane Corn from Center Point, Jim from Tuscaloosa, Bama Earl, etc. etc. and good ol' Patrick Fain Dye on his weekly CraneWorks/Jim Beam segment. The topic of the day was mercilessly making fun of Tubberville for promoting JHS as "The Jungle." I had already bought my official "Welcome to the Jungle" orange student t-shirt from J&M, so I decided to stand up for my school. I wrote out a long, articulate "take" on the psychology of Tubberville's "The Jungle," and then dialed in to the BigEars show. As soon as the producer heard I was from Auburn, man, he zipped me right to the front of the callers. I immediately went on the air. I was nervous, but resolved. First, Ears got my name wrong, so when I kindly corrected him, he was like, "Joey/Johnny--who cares? What do you want?" He threw me off, so I started reading my "take" in my apartment and it sounded like an echo chamber cuz I have a kinda deep voice. So, he interrupted me and was like, "Why do you sound like a caveman?" (I didn't have the radio on in the background.) So, his rudeness completely threw me off, so then he said, "Hey, Joe...how about taking this up with someone who might care....do we have Phyllis on the line?...Phyllis....go ahead..."

Then, all I heard was Phyllis from Mulga's scratchy menthol voice lambast me over who-knows-what on the line: "JOOOOEY, WHO DEW YEW THEENK YEW ARE?? YORE COACH blahblah"...I was so embarrassed; my head was spinning. I just froze and couldn't get a word out hahahaha. I just hung up, vowing to never listen to BigEars again. I'm sure I listened to some segments of his show at some points in time after that, but the incident soured my soul against that silly program...all because I wanted to teach Mr. Ears' audience about "The Jungle."

[SaltyTiger 8,001]

20 minutes ago, WarDamnEagleWDE said:

I like Tubs personally but will never forgive him for this......................

Someone in the marketing department was fired for this - I hope.

[Tiger 8,833]

IDK I didn't really care either way about the Jungle. It wasn't that bad to me.

 

But I like the all navy unis/helmet actually. Those look clean. I know the players would get a big kick out of it too. 

[TitanTiger 20,572]

I think you alternate jersey junkies should be permabanned.  Imma talk to the ownership about this.

[WarDamnEagleWDE 12,737]

5 minutes ago, TitanTiger said:

I think you alternate jersey junkies should be permabanned.  Imma talk to the ownership about this.

Agree. Why mess with perfection. 

[ArgoEagle 1,864]

1 hour ago, WarDamnEagleWDE said:

Some here would be shocked how close AU came to play in the all blue uni like this one.

Don't want to offend Titan or anybody else with this opinion, but this blue on blue looks pretty sharp to me. This would be a very moderate change, and shouldn't be such a culture shock to everyone. jmo

[AUApostle 7,663]

10 minutes ago, ArgoEagle said:

Don't want to offend Titan or anybody else with this opinion, but this blue on blue looks pretty sharp to me. This would be a very moderate change, and shouldn't be such a culture shock to everyone. jmo

I'd give it a solid "meh".  Interesting to look at for a few minutes but then the newness wears off.  We'd look pretty similar to some Virginia teams.

If we're going to change it up for a few games...then let's do it right...Oregon style.  Get flashy, get it out of our systems, and never do it again.

[ArgoEagle 1,864]

8 minutes ago, AUDevil said:

I'd give it a solid "meh".  Interesting to look at for a few minutes but then the newness wears off.  We'd look pretty similar to some Virginia teams.

If we're going to change it up for a few games...then let's do it right...Oregon style.  Get flashy, get it out of our systems, and never do it again.

I just enjoy a little variety myself, but would not mind flashy every once in a while, like maybe once a year.

[ToomersStreet 795]

I would be happy with the Orange jerseys the QB's wear during spring once every blue moon.

[selias 2,398]

2 hours ago, WarDamnEagleWDE said:

Some here would be shocked how close AU came to play in the all blue uni like this one.

I would be ok with that

[GBAU83 212]

Okay, somebody has to do a photoshop of the orange jersey over the blue pants with the white helmet...

[Tiger 8,833]

7 minutes ago, GBAU83 said:

Okay, somebody has to do a photoshop of the orange jersey over the blue pants with the white helmet...

[AuCivilEng1 11,048]

It's funny how all these teams break out an alternate uniform every once and a while and nobody seems to feel like they lost tradition. LSU, Florida, Notre Dame, Nebraska, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Michigan, etc. I don't think the world would end if we had an orange jersey. 

[doc4aday 1,887]

14 hours ago, aucanucktiger said:

I think folks don't realize this orange alternative could have become as regular as Neutered Dame's green but around '82 Dye gave a little speech (on his review show maybe?) about how Auburn's dark jerseys scared the crap out of him at Georgia. End of orange experiment. 

I remember during the late 70s and Barfield was our coach. We wore orange jerseys against Georgia. UGA was a much higher rated team at the time, but we gave them one heck of a game that I think ended in a tie. I am lazy and usually depend on you guys on this site such as Big bird, Ellitor, Golf,  and all of the knowledgeable good Auburn fans that share great information for folks like the Doc.

 

WDE & WDC

 

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