First off, as soon as ANYBODY gets ANY official word on what, exactly, the new football uniforms look like, please post it here immediately. Chas, you have my cell phone number. As the self-appointed fashion critic of PSB, I’m deeply concerned. As fans of a team that USED to have the coolest uniforms in college football, but somehow game them up for a corporatized copy of Notre Dame with a rabid doberman pinscher on the helmet, we ALL should be concerned (not to digress, but anybody who hasn’t surfed through the Helmet Project yet really should).

Of course, as an old-school Pitt fan, I’m rooting for a return to the classic Pitt uniforms, but we all know that this won’t happen. Anybody who’s walked around campus lately knows that the University has already invested too much in that navy blue and “Vegas Gold” crap (and once again, if you actually have to dream up a name for one of your colors, you’re already in trouble… see Oregon’s “Thunder Green” and “Lightening”). So I suspect that Jaime’s proposed helmet will be pretty close to what we’ll actually see today. And it will be an improvement for sure.

But I’ll still be dreaming of the old unis. And I’m not alone. When my wife and I stopped by the Pitt Shop on the way to the Cathedral of Learning two weeks ago (my little Nittany Lion thinks it’s the coolest building ever, and hey, she’s right), they seemed to have as many of the classic pre-1996 Pitt helmets for sale as they had the new ones.

But in any case, hail to the new unis not sucking… please…