UPDATE: Putting this at the top to be clear to all who come to view. This is not the actual Nike Uniform. Reader JSS tracked down the actual source of the photo. They date back to at least December 2009. Ah, well.
At the risk of jumping the gun or simply posting a photo from someone’s photoshop wet dream or an EA Sports NCAA Football mock-up, I received this image a short while ago .
I think I could be quite happy to see that be the Pitt Pro Combat Uniform, “Heritage” series.
That said, it does look awesome, anyone flipping the channels would instantly know Pitt was on with those.
So is this a legitimate Nike photoshop test or a just a hopeful fan rendering?
link to boards.sportslogos.net
Sure, Nike could use this fellas template, but I’ve heard Pitt will be all blue for this uniform/game. (I’d much rather they bring back some form of this classic.) Also, I bet the Pitt slogan is “Hail to Pitt,” as it should be.
Speaking of that, Hail to PITT!
Thanks for the actual source. I’m not surprised, but it would have been nice.
1) Keep the current logos the same, change the color scheme to the mustard and blue.
2) Keep the color scheme the same, change to script logo.
I vote option 1
I was on campus when the logo change took place in ’97 and TRUST ME – no one liked the change and there WAS a student backlash. But we all knew SOMETHING needed to change with the athletic department as the football and basketball programs were both at rock bottom. Ask ANY Pitt Alum where they went to school and 100% would reply, “Pitt”. We should no longer be referred to by the national media as “Pittsburgh”. By going back to the logo when we last won a National Championship would give us much more national recognition and would lose the “Pittsburgh” tag. And furthermore, I can’t believe the University paid a design firm nearly $2 million to come up with the block letter logo. A seven year-old on Microsoft Word could’ve come up with the same logo by using Arial font, outline form, and arching it. Pathetic.
I like the gold now, and the way it’s itched into the side of the uniforms on the jersey. I also like when they went all gold ala Georgia Tech for a game or two when Palko was QB. I much prefer the all gold look to the all white look of last year’s road games. And I went to PITT during the last ‘Glory Years’, 1976-1981, so of course I like the mustard yellow & old blue of that era.
Perhaps they can bring back the script Pitt for the helmets and keep the current gold & navy blue.
Or just use the ‘glory year’s’ uni for special occasion games. You would think Coach would eventually bring back the uniform he played in and the ones PITT last won the national championship in. Perhaps he’s waiting for a team ‘worthy’ of wearing them.