Not an ND fan, but I love the attention to detail.

It's gold, Jerry, gold!

So they'll still lose, but they'll lose in style at least.

So, what was wrong with the old color of gold?

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.

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.

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.

we're they painted buy Holy Cross alumni?

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.

Oh look! A polished turd!

If Notre Dame was ablaze, I wouldn't piss on fire to put it out.

/fark them

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.

Cool!

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

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.

I didn't realize "irrelevant" was a shade of gold.

Now if we could get Michigan's helmet numbers to match the color of the rest of the yellow on the helmet.

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

Gene Masseth Jr.: If Notre Dame was ablaze, I wouldn't piss on fire to put it out.

/fark them

GO NAVY Fark ND.