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(Chicago Tribune) PSA Our long national nightmare is over: Notre Dame has found the right shade of gold for their football helmets   (chicagotribune.com) divider line 23
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2011-10-19 10:24:57 PM
Wow, this news has totally made me forget the damned heart monitor I am wearing tonight. Who cares about a bum ticker when the Irish guys are stylin'?
 
2011-10-19 11:48:11 PM
Not an ND fan, but I love the attention to detail.
 
2011-10-20 12:07:57 AM
It's gold, Jerry, gold!

www.theessentialsoftrading.com
 
2011-10-20 12:17:14 AM
So they'll still lose, but they'll lose in style at least.
 
2011-10-20 12:20:47 AM
So, what was wrong with the old color of gold?
 
2011-10-20 12:23:20 AM
Kurmudgeon: So, what was wrong with the old color of gold?

According to TFA, they wanted a helmet that looked better in HD. I don't understand it either.
 
2011-10-20 12:30:21 AM
sand_in_my_vagoo: Kurmudgeon: So, what was wrong with the old color of gold?

According to TFA, they wanted a helmet that looked better in HD. I don't understand it either.


They wanted to match the color/texture of the golden dome, and not the football pants that they had tried to match in the past. Interesting story and video at their official site.

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2011-10-20 12:44:42 AM
Notre Dame wears BCS gold helmets, NBC peacock blue Jerseys, and conference yellow pants. All of it custom manufactured by the Former Glory Athletic Marketing Group.
 
2011-10-20 12:51:22 AM
Im glad they finally got the helmets to look like the golden dome. They had started to look like Pitt helmets.

I wonder if they are going to put the same amount of time and care into making new gold hockey helmets. I doubt they will, but I think this new gold would look pretty awesome on the hockey helmet. They should also put that gold around the boards in their hockey arena. I have no idea how they get away with using dark blue in there, the puck practically disappears.
 
2011-10-20 01:35:56 AM
we're they painted buy Holy Cross alumni?
 
2011-10-20 01:47:38 AM
I can distinctly remember reading somewhere that it was a Notre Dame tradition for players to gold leaf their own helmets by hand. That the gold color was real gold leaf. Now, I'm kinda bummed. Fark Notre Dame.
 
2011-10-20 04:22:49 AM
Swoop1809: Im glad they finally got the helmets to look like the golden dome. They had started to look like Pitt helmets.

Only because Steve Pederson is a farking asshole.
 
2011-10-20 05:13:55 AM
Oh look! A polished turd!
 
2011-10-20 06:58:02 AM
If Notre Dame was ablaze, I wouldn't piss on fire to put it out.

/fark them
 
2011-10-20 08:15:48 AM
UNAUTHORIZED FINGER: I can distinctly remember reading somewhere that it was a Notre Dame tradition for players to gold leaf their own helmets by hand. That the gold color was real gold leaf. Now, I'm kinda bummed. Fark Notre Dame.

Student managers painted the helmets every week, didn't you see Rudy? That paint had gold flake in them, so do these new ones even though they won't need to be repainted.
 
2011-10-20 10:03:19 AM
Cool!
 
2011-10-20 10:13:40 AM
ChrisDe: Not an ND fan, but I love the attention to detail.

Yeah this is so much better than not fumbling or missing blocking assignments on kickoffs. Thank God the head coach and AD spent hours pouring over tape to see how the helmets looked in HD, and not looking at tape of high school recruits.

/Only half trolling
 
2011-10-20 10:37:06 AM
Good thing they're going back to GOLD instead of that crappy yellowish thing they were doing that looked like the color of poop-streaked undies after the first wash.

That said, keeping the color consistent will always be very difficult because non-standard colors tend to fluctuate a bit, so keeping all the helmets looking the same may be problematic.
 
2011-10-20 11:45:52 AM
I didn't realize "irrelevant" was a shade of gold.
 
2011-10-20 12:20:48 PM
Now if we could get Michigan's helmet numbers to match the color of the rest of the yellow on the helmet.
 
2011-10-20 02:25:26 PM
ChrisDe: sand_in_my_vagoo: Kurmudgeon: So, what was wrong with the old color of gold?

According to TFA, they wanted a helmet that looked better in HD. I don't understand it either.

They wanted to match the color/texture of the golden dome, and not the football pants that they had tried to match in the past. Interesting story and video at their official site.

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Reminds me of those gaudy sparkling Bell motorcycle helmets from the 70's
 
2011-10-20 03:50:24 PM
ChrisDe: Student managers painted the helmets every week, didn't you see Rudy? That paint had gold flake in them, so do these new ones even though they won't need to be repainted.

Nope, gotta confess. Never saw "Rudy". Seriously, I thought it was gold leaf. Farking brain, stop lying to me!
 
2011-10-20 08:20:41 PM
Gene Masseth Jr.: If Notre Dame was ablaze, I wouldn't piss on fire to put it out.

/fark them


GO NAVY Fark ND.
 
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