Those of you who have been with us for awhile (I am, of course, pretending that somebody actually reads this site) remember that I have a hate-hate relationship going on with the University of Oregon and their “Lightening Yellow” uniforms.

Now, ESPN’s Ivan Maisel has a story about why Oregon hasn’t worn it’s controversial new threads once since their debut at Mississippi State (which apparently chose white that Saturday for some reason). You see… uh… what happened… uh… was that Oregon’s Equipment Manager Pat Conrad apparently washed the uniforms in 122F water instead of the recommended 110F, and all the color bled out.

Uh-huh. Sure.

You just got embarrassed, but you didn’t want to tick off alumnus Phil Knight and Nike. So you just innocently miswashed them, right?

In any case, Maisel’s piece is cute. And our only four nominations for the Oregon Award remain Oregon, Purdue, Illinois, and Wyoming.

Hail to 122F water.