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Yes, Auburn Football Actually Wore Green Jerseys
/0 Comments/by Clint RichardsonRoses are red, violets are blue, my alma mater wore green, and so should you.
Nearly eighty years ago, that’s exactly what happened with the Auburn Football program.
Jack Meagher (pronounced “Mahr,” not “Meeg-er”) grew up in Chicago, Illinois, and attended the University of Notre Dame. Meagher would play football under the tutelage of assistant coach Knute Rockne, the man that would rise to legend status and bring home three national titles for the Irish.
Meagher began coaching himself after his playing days. He was hired as the head football coach by Auburn in 1934. Meagher would take the Auburn Football program to their first bowl game in the 1937 Bacardi Bowl in Havanna, Cuba. The following season, Meagher’s Tigers would grab their first bowl victory over Michigan State in the Orange Bowl.
Jack made an impact on Auburn and Auburn Football. His most unique mark came in 1938 when the Tigers kicked off the season against Birmingham-Southern in Montgomery.
Auburn took to the field wearing green jerseys.
Yes, green.
Remember that Meagher was a Notre Dame graduate?
Notre Dame was at the top of college football. Anyone associated with Notre Dame, especially those coming from Rockne’s coaching tree, was highly sought after by other schools to lead their program. The brotherhood of Irish-alum coaches would often schedule each other at their new schools.
Auburn was often seen as a lesser program and, despite having a solid on-campus stadium, struggled to bring name-brand schools to town. The Tigers often played home games in Birmingham, Montgomery, and even Columbus, Georgia. In fact, Auburn only played eight games in Auburn during Meagher’s nine seasons as head coach. Those games included Florida and Clemson (three games), who were bad teams then, and Louisiana Tech, Loyola (Louisiana), and Oglethorpe (twice).
Meagher’s Tigers traveled across the country to play teams: Boston, Detroit, Houston, Dallas, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and even a multi-day train trip to San Francisco.
Always fighting an uphill battle to earn respect for his team, Meagher decided to do something completely different. To one-up his fellow alumni in showing how much he loved Notre Dame, Meagher purchased green jerseys for the orange-and-blue-clad Tigers.
The 1938 green jerseys matched the design worn since 1934, featuring orange numerals and three orange stripes on the sleeves. The Tigers would wear these green tops in at least seven games this season, with the orange jerseys being worn just twice (maybe three times, can’t decipher jersey color in one game). Auburn would win the season opener against Birmingham-Southern en route to a 4-4 overall record in the green jerseys.
For 1939, Auburn made a tweak to the green threads. While the orange numerals remained, the triple sleeve stripes were removed. The new green tops were used in at least five games (no photographs have been discovered for the season opener against Birmingham-Southern) to a 2-3 record.
Auburn defeated Mississippi State and Georgia twice in the green era while falling to rivals Tennessee and Georgia Tech twice.
Meagher would coach three more seasons at Auburn without the green jerseys making another appearance. Did Meagher get his fill of them? Nope. His team despised them.
Legendary receiver Babe McGehee spoke to The Plainsman in 1986 about his playing days in the 1930s. The key passage stated: “At one time, Meagher brought out green uniforms with orange stripes and numbers. ‘We didn’t wear those too much,’ McGehee said, ‘The team objected.’”
It’s unclear what McGehee meant by “didn’t wear those too much,” as we know that they were worn for 12 games in two years, easily becoming the primary during the time.
And then there’s Boots Stratford, possibly the first to ever track Auburn uniforms in some fashion. The Plainsman writer published multiple articles about the team’s aesthetics, even calling the orange jerseys cursed at one point. Boots declared the Irish green tops “lucky” in 1939.
Note the last line of that last clipping. Boots, the precursor to the Auburn Uniform Database, stated he wasn’t a fan of the green uniforms. And not just once, but twice! Clearly, the players weren’t the only ones to reject the alternate uniforms.
A 7-0 defeat to #2 Tennessee would be the final appearance of the short-lived green uniforms. But what if, for some reason, they had stuck around? Or if Auburn decided to wear throwback uniforms to this lost era? It might look a little something like this:
Yes, Auburn really wore green jerseys. And no, the orange jerseys were not winless under Barfield. Auburn’s uniform history is more interesting than you probably thought.
Special thanks to The War Eagle Reader for laying the foundation and researching this topic years ago.
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Randy Brown – The Auburn Designer You Didn’t Know
/1 Comment/by Clint RichardsonRandy Brown loves the Auburn-Opelika area. It’s all he’s known, in fact.
“I’ve lived in six places and none of them were more than a few miles from where I’m currently sitting,” he said with a hearty chuckle.
After graduating from Opelika High School, Randy carried in his family’s footsteps and attended the local university. His father played in the Auburn University Marching Band during the late 1940s.
“My whole family went to Auburn.”
Randy studied art while at Auburn and also joined the band. With experience from his job working at National Screenprinters at the corner of Dean Road and Opelika Parkway, Randy would often create decals to place on the band’s bass drums. The earliest drum decal featured an eagle carrying a drum placed underneath a large block A.
As a sophomore in 1974, Band Director Billy Walls approached Randy about producing a new logo for the AUMB. Randy and fellow band-mate June Holland tag-teamed the project and came away with the all-familiar Eagle-A design that was used by the program until 2017.
In 2018, the AUMB ordered new uniforms that removed the Eagle-A design from the left chest of the jackets. Word is that the University wanted to create a more comprehensive branding across the board, and thus the band-specific logo was replaced with the traditional AU logo.
When asked about the replacement, Randy confidently stated, “It had to happen. It always should’ve been the AU.”
No hard feelings from Randy’s perspective.
In 1976, Randy was preparing to write the thesis for his art degree. The choice was simple – redesign the Auburn Football uniforms.
The project started with a new primary logo. At this point, the now-traditional AU logo had only donned the helmets for a decade. Randy wanted to implement more “eagle” into the design. He designed a new “double eagle” logo, a rather blocky silhouette of a flying eagle with the tail-end of the design replicating the head of the eagle.
It’s like many of the “hidden images” in designs like the FedEx logo. Once you see it, you’ll never unsee it.
As a student, Randy became good friends with Phil Gargis. Phil played quarterback for Shug Jordan and then Doug Barfield.
When Doug Barfield was hired as Shug’s successor, Phil brought his friend Randy to meet the new head coach. Walking through the door, Randy was carrying his work-in-progress thesis project to show Barfield.
Barfield immediately took to the eagle design. The Auburn coaching staff wanted to implement a decal-reward system for the Tigers similar to what is used at Ohio State. And Randy’s design was the perfect match.
“The staff set up the criteria for earning a decal and it just happened that the eagle Randy designed was perfect for what we were looking for,” Barfield stated in the 1976 season opener program. The eagle design also donned program covers for many years to come.
Randy left the meeting with Coach Barfield and went to his job at National Screenprinter. There, he produced a few hundred decals for Barfield to use for his team.
The original decals were printed on a clear piece of vinyl, as most decals were. But the material didn’t last long. Randy then pivoted to printing the eagle logo on a white background. Even with the Tigers wearing white helmets, it was easy to spot the large white background on the decals and see how they were placed like bricks on the shells.
“You can see the two decals clearly here,” Randy said holding a 1976 football helmet with a large eagle on the sides and the Barfield pride stickers on the back. “This helmet has clearly faded since then,” Randy laughed. (You can learn more about Randy’s eagle design here.)
The helmet was produced to accompany Randy’s thesis. But so were a set of uniforms. With his own two hands, Randy created a blue, orange, and white jersey with his mother’s sewing machine.
Instead of the traditional Northwestern Stripes around the sleeves, Randy wrapped his new eagle design in its place.
“Like the classic Seattle Seahawks jersey?” I asked.
“Yep, just like that but many years prior,” Randy replied. (Seattle wouldn’t wear the wrap-around logo stripes until 1983,)
Randy and Phil Gargis, along with their third roommate Chris Vacarella, went to Jordan-Hare Stadium to show off the new threads. Staff photographer Les King, known for his iconic posing shots of players, joined in to photograph everything.
That was nearly a half-century ago and Randy still has those custom-made jerseys. “They’re in a box somewhere,” he laughed.
But the design portfolio doesn’t stop there. Randy went on to produce the Auburn Letterman’s Club logo and the 100 Years of Auburn Football logo for the program’s anniversary in 1992. Randy’s son George recalls his first memories of walking into Jordan-Hare Stadium were to help his father paint the centennial logo at midfield.
Even as a student, Randy took one job that would leave a decades-long impact on the Auburn community. Hired by George Johnston of the famous J&M Bookstore in downtown Auburn, Randy was tasked with repainting the traditional War Eagle wall that sat next to the bookstore.
The wall had been painted since the 1960s with various designs. But in 1978, Randy was paid $285 to paint a new version. And that same design, the one with the stacked Clarendon font “War Eagle” in blue with an orange drop shadow, is still used today.
Even after someone painted “Cam” between the two words during the 2010 season and construction took out the “Go Tigers” portion of the wall, the recognizable photo spot has remained ultimately the same for decades.
When Terry Bowden came to the Plains in 1993 following Pat Dye’s retirement, the new head coach ushered in a new “AUtitude” mantra into the fanbase.
After the undefeated 11-0 season in which fans wore buttons and placed bumper stickers on the cars with the Auburn-ized spelling of the word, Bowden wanted to expand his newfound brand. Randy was asked to create what was called the Bowden Attitude Collection. The primary logo featured Bowden hunched over in his familiar sideline pose.
Arguably Randy’s most successful venture came shortly after. With a suggestion from a friend, Randy produced a miniature replica of Samford Hall. There was clearly a market for these historic replicas, so The Memory Company (originally Collegiate Collectables) was born. Randy would sketch out and even carve prototype designs before flying to factories in East Asia to bring the products to life.
Clearly proud of his work, Randy continued to showcase item after item. Some were of Santa decked out in Auburn gear or Aubie donning the Prayer in Jordan-Hare angel outfit worn during the 2013 season.
But most of the items were incredibly detailed replications of Auburn landmarks. From Toomer’s Corner to Langdon Hall, the Sani-Freeze ice cream parlor, and even the Chapel that has sat at the corner of College and Thach since 1851, the collection of miniature Auburn architecture was vast and meticulously designed. The Memory Company would also produce landmark replicas for other universities across the country, including Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Georgia Tech, Harvard, and many more.
Today, Randy continues to live in the Auburn-Opelika area with his wife and enjoys spending time with his eight grandchildren. He hasn’t put the art supplies down though, continuing to dream up new developments for the community he has lived in since his birth.
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2022 CFB Uniform Roundup
/0 Comments/by Clint RichardsonFootball season is nearly here and it’s time to catch up on the newest CFB uniforms to be worn throughout 2022!
2022 Auburn Under Armour Apparel Overview
/0 Comments/by Clint RichardsonAs football season quickly approaches, the newest apparel items for the year are being rolled out. Over the last few months, Under Armour has released many new items through their numerous channels. As is tradition here at the Auburn Uniform Database, let’s take a look at much of the 2022 line.
Each of the items listed here was made available through Fanatics, Dick’s Sporting Goods, or Under Armour’s own website. As an affiliate partner with all three companies, purchasing any item through the following links will support the work that goes into this website.
As always, this is never a comprehensive list of every item available this year. Certain items are often only available in-store, so always check out the local bookstores when you visit campus. Different designs and color options vary by website and store. And be sure to keep up with any of the new releases throughout the season by following on Twitter.
Click below to jump directly to the category:
POLOS | T-SHIRTS | LONG SLEEVES | JERSEYS | JACKETS | SHORTS | SHOES
Polos
Color-block sideline polo. Priced at $76.99. Available in orange/navy and navy/orange online.
Simple single-colored polo. Priced at $74.99. Available only in white online.
T-Shirts
Sideline Football t-shirt. Priced at $34.99. Available in navy, orange, and white.
Auburn Football box t-shirt. Priced at $34.99. Available in navy.
Auburn Football silhouette t-shirt. Priced at $34.99. Available in navy.
Tigers side-striped t-shirt. Priced at $40. Available in navy.
Arched Auburn t-shirt. Priced at $40. Available in orange.
Auburn Tigers logo t-shirt. Priced at $35. Available in navy.
Striped tank top. Priced at $34.99. Available in navy.
Sideline “War Eagle” hooded tank top. Priced at $59.99. Available in navy.
Auburn Baseball t-shirt. Priced at $39.99. Available in navy and grey.
Auburn Softball t-shirt. Priced at $39.99. Available in navy and grey.
Auburn Baseball t-shirt. Priced at $34.99. Available in navy, orange, and grey.
Auburn Softball t-shirt. Priced at $34.99. Available in navy, orange, and grey.
Everything School t-shirt. Available in youth ($24.99) or women’s ($29.99) sizes in navy.
Long Sleeves
Auburn Football silhouette long-sleeve t-shirt. Priced at $44.99. Available in navy.
Auburn Football box long-sleeve t-shirt. Priced at $44.99. Available in navy.
Auburn Football sideline long-sleeve t-shirt. Priced at $39.99. Available in navy.
Auburn Baseball long-sleeve t-shirt. Priced at $44.99. Available in orange, navy, and grey.
Auburn Softball long-sleeve t-shirt. Priced at $44.99. Available in orange, navy, and grey.
Auburn baseball tee long sleeve shirt. Priced at $45. Available in grey/navy.
Circle logo long sleeve shirt. Priced at $40. Available in grey.
Auburn wordmark with bar long sleeve shirt. Priced at $40. Available in orange.
Women’s cotton long-sleeve shirt. Priced at $35. Available in navy.
Women’s baseball tee long-sleeve shirt. Priced at $35. Available in white/navy.
Jerseys
Football jersey #1 with WAR EAGLE nameplate (comes with NFLPA logo for some reason). Priced at $94.99. Available in white.
Football jersey #34 with stitched numbers and details. Priced at $114.99. Available in white.
Football jersey #2 with screen-printed numbers. Priced at $115. Available in white.
Jackets
Auburn Football sideline hoodie. Priced at $74.99. Available in navy.
Auburn Football box hoodie. Priced at $74.99. Available in navy.
Sideline Pullover hoodie. Priced at $79.99. Available in navy.
Auburn Football silhouette hoodie. Priced at $74.99. Available in navy.
Auburn sideline hooded sweatshirt. Priced at $64.99. Available in navy.
Auburn Baseball crew-neck sweatshirt. Priced at $69.99. Available in navy and grey.
Auburn Softball crew-neck sweatshirt. Priced at $69.99. Available in navy and grey.
Auburn Baseball hoodie jacket. Priced at $79.99. Available in grey and navy.
Auburn Softball hoodie jacket. Priced at $79.99. Available in grey and navy.
Auburn Baseball hoodie jacket. Priced at $84.99. Available in grey and navy.
Auburn Softball hoodie jacket. Priced at $84.99. Available in grey and navy.
Tri-Blend quarter zip jacket. Priced at $64.99. Available in grey and navy.
Fleece quarter zip jacket. Priced at $74.99. Available in heathered navy.
Women’s collegiate quarter-zip jacket. Priced at $60. Available in white.
Women’s “Breezy” pullover hoodie. Priced at $54.99. Available in heathered grey.
Women’s “Space-Dye” quarter-zip jacket. Priced at $59.99. Available in navy.
Striped sleeves quarter-zip jacket with AU logo. Priced at $54.99. Available in navy.
Striped sleeves quarter-zip jacket with throwback logo. Priced at $55. Available in navy.
Insulated puffer jacket. Priced at $134.99. Available in navy.
Shorts
Sideline shorts (with pockets!). Priced at $47.99. Available in orange and navy online.
Khaki AU-logo shorts. Priced at $81.99.
Throwback Tiger Eyes logo fleece shorts. Priced at $55. Available only in navy online.
Women’s “Fly-By Run” shorts. Priced at $55. Available only in grey online.
Women’s cotton drawstring shorts (with pockets!). Priced at $40. Available only in navy online.
Shoes
2022 HOVR Apex 3 shoes. Priced at $160.
That’s just about everything that was released over the summer! To see every item available, shop through the Fanatics, Under Armour, and Dick’s Sporting Goods websites. Any purchases through the affiliate links provided are greatly appreciated!
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Crazy Auburn Uniform Concepts – Round 8
/0 Comments/by Clint RichardsonWelcome back to the greatest time of the year – crazy concept uniform designs!
If you’re new here, each summer I put out an all-call on Twitter for the craziest, silliest, sometimes possibly realistic concept ideas that Auburn fans would like to see come to life.
Why? Well, the summer is often riddled with talking heads discussing alternate uniforms. The same horrendous designs have been passed around for years and it’s time to add more fuel to that fire!
This series also works to show that Auburn’s uniforms are pretty good as is. The Tigers don’t need to make any changes or bring unnecessary alternates into the rotation just because they can.
A few things before we get started:
- First off, these designs are intentionally silly, obnoxious, and over-the-top. That’s the point. No one expects to see these hit the field or court. We aren’t saying Auburn should wear these whatsoever. If you are truly upset about any of these designs, that’s solely on you.
- I am not a designer or an artist. This is always a fun project that helps push my very limited creativity. These are not the world’s best Photoshop jobs and they were never expected to be so. Again, they’re goofy on purpose.
Did your suggestion make the cut this year? Let’s dive in and take a look at this year’s crazy Auburn concept uniforms!
I’d like to see one based on the throwback Bills uniform (Auburn colors, orange tiger on helmet, etc)
— Tom (@ths0002) May 30, 2022
Who doesn’t love the standing buffalo? Let’s see how it works as a standing tiger.
This one was a rather simple tweak. Facemask goes grey, helmet stripes now touch, jersey stripes match the Bills’ design, and the pants stripe is much thinner. To play closer to an NFL uniform, the SEC patch moves from the right chest to the center, much like the NFL shield placement.
The Bills’ standing buffalo logo is iconic and swapping it with a tiger silhouette works really well here. The different sleeve striping is also a nice fit that doesn’t stray too far from the classic Northwestern Stripes.
Auburn version of those hideous BYU bib unis from like 15 years ago
— Sonny Dichiara Is My S🅿️irit Animal 🦚 (@originalgAUlf) May 25, 2022
BYU’s 1999 uniforms are often considered the ugliest in the history of college football. And for their ugliness, I love them! The Cougars actually forced the NCAA to change the uniform rules which now require the jersey to be entirely a single color.
For the Auburn-ized version, it starts at the helmet. A navy helmet carries a throwback block A placed within an orange-outlined oval, much like the BYU logo. To add to the logo aesthetic, the player’s number is also encircled on the back of the shell.
The old templates allowed the “bib” effect on the jerseys much better than Under Armour’s current design. The white are is restricted within the “file tab” textured area here. BYU also had their cougar head logo within the collar, but we’re going to place Sailor Aubie on the chest.
The numbers get an orange outline, the jersey gets terrible orange piping to connect the collar to the side stripes, and the pants get a single orange stripe to match the helmet.
This but auburn pic.twitter.com/bPaYPcPfYa
— ⚓️ Drew Crowson 🦚🇺🇦 (@SonOfCrow2) May 24, 2022
This now makes the third straight year we’ve had an Auburn x NBA crossover design!
The Miami Vice uniforms have been incredibly successful for the Heat. Naturally, we had to make the light blue and pink gradient orange and navy to start off. I stuck with the normal Heat font and added the matching gradient-drop shadow.
Miami uses black wordmarks and numbers, but to stick with Auburn colors and make it pop more, I went with white. And instead of mimicking the Miami Vice font as closely as possible, I went with the beautiful Auburn baseball script.
I debated adding the old 1990s Women’s Basketball flaming AU logo to mimic the Heat logo, but decided against it. Keeping it simple worked well here.
Orange jersey and pants with navy pinstripes and a navy hat or vice versa
— autiger24 (@Aubfather) May 31, 2022
There have been many different pinstripe uniforms over the history of baseball. But I don’t believe I’ve seen an orange uniform with pinstripes. Let’s see how it works!
Uh, yea, that’s a bit much!
This one could have gone a number of ways. Of course, we start with an orange base, add navy pinstripes, and go from there. The script Auburn has been a staple lately for the Tigers, and it differs from the AU-logo pinstripe sets Auburn has worn over the years. I went back and forth on having a white outline on the script and numbers or not, but trust me, it worked better with the stroke.
For consistency’s sake, the numbers and script are basically the only usages of white on the entire design. The cap also copies this, with the vintage orange-AU logo cap returning for the first time since 2010.
Anaheim Mighty Ducks uniforms with an Aubie shaped goalie mask on the logo. pic.twitter.com/yjUymIRt5s
— Matt (@MRickG_) May 25, 2022
Well, this is a first for this series. It’s about time we add hockey here!
The original Mighty Ducks uniforms had a great look, especially with their colors. To Auburn-ize the design, I simply swapped all purple to navy and all teal to orange. The silver sticks around from the original design.
When I tell you that I’m not a designer, I hope this proves it. The Aubie mask is, well, nightmare fuel, personally! Love the idea, but the execution isn’t amazing haha.
Gimme a Toomer’s Lemonade based basketball uniform 🍋🏀
— Avℇry 🎨 (@Neji11x) May 30, 2022
Avery has a thing for Auburn food-related concepts 🤔.
Avery went above and beyond and used his actual artistic abilities to provide some design direction. He even provided the beautiful Toomer’s script logo for the chestmark!
This one feels a lot like an NBA City Connect design. The base design goes all yellow to match the lemonade. At Avery’s request, the SEC patch is replaced with a lemon (I genuinely tried to make an SEC-Lemon patch but it wasn’t working) and ice cubes are added at the bottom of the jerseys. The sillier the better, right?
The waistband on the shorts is white with perforation marks to match the script’s toilet paper tail. The numbers and player names are rendered in a font that matches the script.
The shorts feature the Toomer’s Drugs logo on both sides, housed within a white field that mimics some designs of Auburn Basketball’s past.
and/or vice versa. A football uniform based off of baseball’s pinstripes or 80s cream/off-white scheme
— Adam Sparks 📸 (@adamsparksphoto) May 24, 2022
Auburn’s fauxback cream uniforms are among the best in college baseball. It’s a shame that we haven’t gotten to see them since 2018.
This one’s mostly a simple crossover design. The jersey and pants go cream-colored with navy collars, arm cuffs, and a single stripe on the pants. The script gets placed on the chest but is naturally smaller than the baseball design. The front numerals go orange and get offset.
The best thing here is the helmet. The navy helmet gets to feature both Auburn’s beautiful script currently worn and the throwback block A logo that was previously worn on the hats. Now that’s a helmet I want on my shelves!
Yes, of course, I had to use a photo of John Samuel Shenker, the latest two-sport athlete at Auburn!
What would a City Connect Auburn baseball uniform look like?
— Plainsman Parking Lot (@AUPPL) May 31, 2022
Now, this is the perfect crazy concept idea! I love this one. If you aren’t aware, MLB and Nike began introducing City Connect uniforms last year, similar to the NBA’s designs. The uniforms were drastically different than the team’s usual threads and often had a direct link to something in the city. Kansas City features fountains, Boston went with the Marathon design, Miami threw back to a Negro League team, and so on.
After going back and forth on what local attraction to connect to for Auburn’s design, I finally settled on Chewacla State Park.
Yea, it’s a lot. Let me explain.
Let’s start with the colors. The green is meant to represent the tree canopy and plant life throughout the park. The light blue is for the water, specifically the park’s beautiful waterful. I went with a vest jersey rather than a traditional jersey because one, it’s different than any other City Connect uniform so far, two, it’s traditional for Auburn Baseball, and three, sometimes you need to layer up when on an early morning hike! (Ugh, the Nike speak leaked in again.)
Chewacla has long been mined for a specific type of marble unique to the area. So any white areas on the uniform get treated with a marble texture. The hat and chest get the AUO airport code to further connect to the twin-city area of Auburn and Opelika. And those abbreviation hats have been all the rage in recent years.
The left sleeve receives a special patch that resembles an interstate exit sign. Hoping off Interstate 85 and Exit 51 is the best way to reach Chewacla State Park. But heading north off the exit will take you home to campus.
Last but not least, there’s a hidden raccoon patch on each jersey. For this mockup, it’s placed on the bottom half of the jersey. Why a raccoon? Well, the name Chewacla derives from an indigenous language that translates to Raccoon City. Yes, I did learn that while making this design.
An Auburn football uniform inspired by #TheRefs and #barncheatin with the pirate Aubie logo on the helmet. (special request that the photoshop be of Cam Newton) pic.twitter.com/ksSsLVCD4L
— Carter Michaels (@TheRealCMike) May 24, 2022
Carter never fails to bring a great concept to the table! Let’s see what we can do with this design.
For the crowd that wants black uniforms, here ya go!
The entire premise of the uniform is based on the Jolly Aubie flag that @AUPPL designed years ago. And I must say, it fits well here on the helmet. The front bumper on the black shell reads “Jolly” referencing the logo and the rear bumper features #BarnCheatin, a popular Auburn Twitter inside joke when anything goes Auburn’s way.
The jersey shoulders feature the crossed toilet paper rolls in lieu of numbers or stripes. “Barn Cheatin” replaces the school name on the chest. A single toilet paper stripe is placed on the pants stripe to tie it all together.
The only splash of color comes from the “money bag” patch on the jersey above the nameplate and the award decals on the helmet. I can just see someone like Cam Newton, surrounded by “improper benefit” controversies, wearing a helmet covered in money bag decals!
And, to satisfy Carter’s request, here’s an image of the Chosen One wearing the #BarnCheatin uniform!
guess who’s back, back again! an auburn version of this AFL Melbourne Demons/Hawthorn Hawks jersey from their proposed 1996 merger. I’m thinking basketball with the eagle and geometric motifs on the jersey and shorts. pic.twitter.com/aIuSdVqGRL
— jillian (@macnchillian) May 26, 2022
As is tradition, we wrap up another year of crazy concept uniforms with my sister-in-law’s designs. Can’t say we’ve ventured into the world of shoulda-coulda-woulda Australian Football League before! 😂
Wild design input equals wild design output.
I tried to match the AFL jersey as close as possible, but give it more of an Auburn – and eagle – flair. Red, blue, and yellow make for a colorful palette, but we’re going to stick to reality a little more here. The yellow gets swapped out for brown to match a golden eagle’s feathers.
Since the AFL design only featured a jersey and no shorts, I had to make it up in this case. I decided to simply mirror the jersey design and have the eagle head coming from the other side. You can’t have too many eagles!
There was only one choice for the player to model the new uniform – the psychopath himself, KD Johnson:
That will wrap up another year of crazy concept designs! Did your suggestion make the cut? If not, don’t worry. We do this each summer., Keep an eye out for the request each summer and we’ll do it again next year!
Which of these designs was your favorite?
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