The Oregon Ducks Unveil BCS Uniforms: What a Missed Opportunity

Well it looks like the Ducks have unveiled your uniforms for the BCS game and they look pretty mundane to me. I was hoping for something truly crazy since Nike is sponsoring them. The neon green socks are absolutely awful but they are pretty much generic white with an all gray helmet. Yawn, it is boring and has no soul. Plus the number looks like it was burned in or something.

What I really thought they should do was to use throwbacks to honor the Duck teams from the past. For instance this one is from the 1920 Rose Bowl. Instead of the leatherheads they would go with an all brown current helmets. Kind of what the Green Bay Packers did earlier in the season:

It might be too old for some people but it does show the tradition that the Ducks have had throughout the history of college football. However I really thought the 1957 team would have been a pretty cool throwback since it represents one of the best Oregon teams from the past. In 1957 the Ducks went 7-3 and went to the Rose Bowl. Unfortunately they lost 7-10 to the Woody Hayes coached Ohio State Buckeyes team that shared the National Championship that year. However, it would have been such a cool nod to the old Oregon teams of the past.

What was interesting is that Ohio State shared the 1957 Championship with Auburn. What would really be nuts is if Auburn busts out these uniforms that they used for a throwback game in 2007. They could honor that 1957 Championship team and get a little mojo to keep themselves perfect like they did that season.