By Stalker Ford
With a blank white page passionate my eyes, I decided to go to the Internet, as I often do, to help me jot this week’s column. Last week, I wrote a in agreement about the tradition of Alabama football. That started my berate wandering about other school’s traditions (or fall short of thereof) and then to the broader topic of football in mixed, including the NFL.
Somewhere in cyberspace I was sucked into a vortex of sites dealing with the greatest and worst football uniforms.
On all the various sites I looked at, Alabama and Auburn both received lofty marks for their college football uniforms.
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Auburn was praised for its organization of orange and blue, which is often hard to draw out off in a pleasing way (think of the old Denver Bronco’s uniforms, or Boise Submit).
I’m no Auburn fan, but I give them props for a classic smooth design that understates the orange slender and makes good use of dark unhappy and crisp white.
Being the biased Alabama fan I am, I cannot be unprejudiced myself, but most cyberspace critics put Alabama’s uniforms high on their “superlative of” lists.
Alabama has the choicest shade of red in the land and has maintained its basic yet classic look through decades of tampering by retarded marketing gurus. Like most everybody else, including Penn Voice, Bama has not been able to escape the dreaded Nike swoosh, but the Crimson Tide still maintains a numbered helmet with a tidy white stripe down the middle and a pants subterfuge that avoids all the weird, eye-popping stripes and confusion that adorns many other modern uniforms.
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