As has been noted previously on this site, we will bestow an award (non-monetary, of course) on the Division I-A college football team with what we feel are the worst uniforms this season. This award will be named “The Oregon Award.”

Why Oregon? Because of the University of Oregon’s long standing tradition of having absolutely butt-ugly uniforms, a tradition made even more inexcusable given that Oregon is practically Nike’s home team. For instance, take a look at Oregon’s home uniforms from last season.

Nice work, guys. Somebody should have sued Phil Knight. Fortunately for Oregon — which is a solid football program underneath it all — they decided to redesign their uniforms for this season. Furthermore, they decided to get rid of the two-tones-of-green-at-once look. Unfortunately, this is what they came up with.

As if the contrast between the dark green (called “thunder green,” by the way… and anytime you have to start making up names for colors, you know you’re in trouble… see “Vegas gold”) and bright yellow (called “lightning”) wasn’t shocking enough, Oregon had to go one step further. Like all too many major league baseball teams, they had to make a “alternative home jersey.” Brace yourself…

Yeeouch!!! That’s the most painful thing that I’ve had to look at since Willis McGahee’s injury in the Fiesta Bowl. Once again, nice work guys. Now go sue Phil Knight. NOW!

(Incidentally, I love how enthusiastic the involved model looks about his threads.)

Thus, given their brand new alternative home uniforms, I would like to humbly submit for consideration… for the 2003 Oregon Award… the University of Oregon. Way to dig yourselves out of a hole, fellas.

So why does a Pitt fan care so much about the University of Oregon and bad uniforms in general? Only because Pitt used to have the best uniforms in college football. Then, we threw them away so that we could look more like Notre Dame, apparently (and a cheesy, corporate version of the Irish at that). I feel Oregon’s pain.

Bring back Pitt’s old unis now. At least for one game.

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