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Post by unafied on Jul 3, 2021 19:00:28 GMT -6
Resurrecting a thread here that’s been dead for a while, but… we are visiting Florence for the holiday weekend and I was excited to see a small but positive change. The lion paws that are painted on Court Street, which were purple with a white outline for years, have been repainted to have a gold outline! I have no idea why they weren’t done this way from the beginning, but I’m glad it’s been done now.
And for the record, I’m not sure it would’ve been possible to have better weather on a July 3rd in north Alabama, than what we had today.
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Post by brandon on Jul 4, 2021 14:37:28 GMT -6
Resurrecting a thread here that’s been dead for a while, but… we are visiting Florence for the holiday weekend and I was excited to see a small but positive change. The lion paws that are painted on Court Street, which were purple with a white outline for years, have been repainted to have a gold outline! I have no idea why they weren’t done this way from the beginning, but I’m glad it’s been done now. And for the record, I’m not sure it would’ve been possible to have better weather on a July 3rd in north Alabama, than what we had today. Great weather... I was told that some donors have kinda started holding feet to fire on the Gold issue... So I would expect to start seeing more. It also doesn't hurt that Central Arkansas is coming in and you don't need to have silver or grey(gray) in our color schemes especially since theirs is silver. And the fact that Lipscomb uses yellow....
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Post by unafied on Jul 4, 2021 19:36:31 GMT -6
Resurrecting a thread here that’s been dead for a while, but… we are visiting Florence for the holiday weekend and I was excited to see a small but positive change. The lion paws that are painted on Court Street, which were purple with a white outline for years, have been repainted to have a gold outline! I have no idea why they weren’t done this way from the beginning, but I’m glad it’s been done now. And for the record, I’m not sure it would’ve been possible to have better weather on a July 3rd in north Alabama, than what we had today. Great weather... I was told that some donors have kinda started holding feet to fire on the Gold issue... So I would expect to start seeing more. It also doesn't hurt that Central Arkansas is coming in and you don't need to have silver or grey(gray) in our color schemes especially since theirs is silver. And the fact that Lipscomb uses yellow.... That’s a great point on Central Arky. It shouldn’t have taken that for us to use more gold… but I’ll take what I can get.
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Post by unafied on Jul 30, 2021 7:33:52 GMT -6
Since this is probably the default "uniforms" post, thought I'd leave this here...
Looks like from these photos this year's football unis have been tweaked. We've removed "Lions" and "North Alabama" from the front of the jerseys and are just using the main logo. Hard to tell, but that awful "tire tread" pattern may be gone from the jerseys, too.
As usual, they need more gold. Hopefully the gold pants and the rumored gold helmet are still planned to be a part of the rotation.
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Post by unafied on Aug 4, 2021 12:19:03 GMT -6
Better look at the "new" uniforms. And hey, thankfully the gold pants are still there...
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Post by unafied on Oct 13, 2021 13:51:45 GMT -6
Well since I started this thread almost four years ago, I think our uniform situation has definitely improved. Football could stand to wear the gold pants more often, and use the white pants and helmet less, but still.
Now, check this out. Looks like new uniforms for men's basketball this year, which needed them most of all. The previous uniforms were the absolute worst. I still get mad at the fact they were basically purple and black, and that Mark Linder essentially told me in an email that adidas "doesn't make gold" in basketball unis (which I always struggled to understand - why sign with a manufacturer that can't make one of your school colors?).
But this year? I guess they figured out how to make gold.
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Post by unalions on Nov 20, 2021 19:36:26 GMT -6
They are wearing these tonight at Disney vs. Iona! They look sharp!
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Post by unafied on Nov 30, 2021 14:43:06 GMT -6
I feel like I've been harping on the basketball uniforms for years now, but it still bothers me. The whole men's set is just a mess. I like the new home jerseys, but WHY did we not add some bolder outlining in purple (instead of gray) to make the gold "pop" a little more? It was a nice effort but the execution just wasn't there. Meanwhile, our old road jerseys are now a completely different style than the home jersey. Different font, terrible black outlining ( ), just... awful. Nothing about them says UNA. Was it a money issue? If you can't afford to make the home and away sets match, then jeez, save the money until you can. Meanwhile they tweeted that they are bringing back "The Shoals" uniform set again for three games this year. Again - I really like the concept of this uniform, but we had a version a couple of years ago that had O'Neal Bridge on it, basically in the design of the Warriors' old "The City" jerseys. While they still look good, they no longer have the bridge logo (I don't think they did last year, either). And of course I have to ask... why are they gray? Gray is not one of our colors. Gray is a decent neutral color, sure. But they could have easily swapped the gray for some sort of "sand"-toned gold that would at least make some sense. I could maybe forgive them if our primary uniforms had matching styles and were mostly purple and gold. Sigh. The women's unis are different home and away, but not terribly noticeable. At least they are mostly purple and gold. I like their home set a good bit.
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Post by unalions on Nov 30, 2021 15:18:32 GMT -6
I could be wrong, but I think is that sand gold color that didn’t hold up well in the editing of this photo. Of maybe I’m recalling the previous versions.
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Post by unafied on Nov 30, 2021 16:32:56 GMT -6
I could be wrong, but I think is that sand gold color that didn’t hold up well in the editing of this photo. Of maybe I’m recalling the previous versions. It DOES look sand-ish in some of the photos, I admit. I haven’t been to one of the games they’ve actually played in them. The press release says they are gray. I know I’m griping about something that really doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things. But then again, this stuff shouldn’t be hard to get right.
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