Broncos add gray to football uniforms for 2009

Once again, Boise State is tweaking its football uniforms. Boise State unveiled its new football uniforms for 2009 on Monday. The biggest changes: gray has been added and the use of Boise State has been removed from the jerseys.

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It is the fourth time this decade that the Broncos have tweaked the uniforms. The standard combination for the Broncos will be blue jerseys an blue pants at home with white jerseys and white pants on the road, according to the school.

The numbers for the home jerseys are gray with a blue outline. "Boise State" in gray appears on the blue and white pants. The Broncos will also wear gray facemasks.

Among other changes:

• Boise State is absent from the front of the jerseys. The home blues feature a small horse head logo above the number. The road whites include the word "Broncos" above the number.

My initial reaction: I don't like the wording under the number on the back of the blue jerseys, but I think the white uniforms are pretty sharp.

My second reaction: Boise State is really backing off orange. That's coach Chris Petersen's influence.

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White

I like the whites better something about orange stripes that favor the backside doesnt sit well. Kinda like the white with the gray highlights thats kinda kewl!

Nice

I like it.

Stripes

Not real keen on the "racing" stripes across the butt, also the "Boise State" is hard to see.

Look and read again, there is no Boise State. Oh, I SEE : )

Maybe we're starting a rugby club and the league there doesn't want college names on the jerseys.

Ducksfan, did you do this?

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ORANGE

I miss the bright orange it would look sharp in certain games (Beavers?). The white uniforms are really nice! Gray on the pants is not worth the printing, poor choice there. Large block printing on the leg with BRONCOS would have been much better.

IT IS ALL BETTER than the U of I pants mess with their "I" hole as they bent over!!

Go Broncos!

looks to me....

like the BS boys secretly envied the Vandal I-butts so much they thought it would be sweet to add a little gluteus flare of their own....not sure if you would call that a racing stripe or a skid mark...

Once in a great while you U of I's say something really funny

I hate to admit it but this comment made me laugh. That may be worth 3 "Hail Mary's" on my part

thanks JL....

we must keep a sense of humor about these things...which was a little tough for me personally during last year's I-butt fiasco. How's about I throw in a lower case (no exclamation point) "go broncos"...that should even it out and you can save those 'Hail Mary's' for another day...

Just gettin' used to the last ones

It took me until last season to like the last set of uniforms and now I'm gonna have to get used to something else again. Not sure what to say about these ones yet. I'll tell you in a year. I gotta see them on game day.

Uniforms

It's not easy to make clashing colors like orange and blue look good together, but keep trying. And what's with the stripy butts?

Last time I checked

Last time I checked... Illinois, Syracuse, Florida, Auburn, UTEP, Virginia, Caltech, and Cal State Fullerton all have orange and blue colors as well. Looks like a lot of people don't think they clash. I'm a fan of the new unis. Go Broncos!

Actually, if you know anything about the color spectrum...

Orange and Blue are known as complementary colors. I really didn't like them at first, but they are SLOWLY growing on me.

Looks ah right

Just keep winning is all I care about. Was that Wilson modeling? That hair made him look like the predator.

Where's the Orange?!

Not sure about the stripes across the backside, but I was hoping to be shocked by an all orange ensemble. It seems that Gene has given Nike carte blanche to design what they want, ala Oregon and I assumed that we would see something even more out of the box. I mean the U of O similarities are many. The name down the pant leg, the silver numbers etc. It's not too late to add an alternate I hope!

Player Names

It's hard to see with the "model's" long locks ;-) but will the uniforms include the player's name this year? Hope so, it sucked 2 seasons ago without them.

I too wish they had an orange uniform.

Wow

Will new uniforms automatically help them win a bowl game once in a while?

I'm sure ...

they'll help the Broncos spank Idaho by another 35+ point margin this year.

New uniforms

They look a tad busy. The stripes on the butt and shoulders don't relate to anything...kind of a doo-dad stuck on and don't really enhance the look. It's not like they're awful, but like the buildings comprising our downtown skyline, you can put up with it.

New Unis

I like them...and I like the slashes on the backside. :) Even better, I can already hear all the whiners complaining about an "unfair advantage" because they can't see the players if they wear blue uniforms on a blue turf! GO BRONCOS!

This is nothing but a shameless money grab

Contrary to popular belief around here, Boise State has about 1% national name recognition and "brand" identification, so the idea to remove or *hide* Boise State or Broncos is completely asinine.

These unis are awful. Orange should be the road pant color. I won't be buying one. I'll wait until next year for next year's design and hope it's better.

Broncos Uniforms

What? University going broke again? Nothing more than a way to scam the public cattle to spend more money on "new and improved" !

Stick to Fly Fishing ...

Since Boise State actually earns revenues from Nike.

BS uniforms

The whites are cool. The blues, not so much. Makes the game hard to watch on the blue turf. Add more orange. That is one of the main colors afterall. A big NO on the stripes on the butt! And why take off Boise State? Aren't we proud of our team and school?

My Thoughts...

... exactly. Except the white part - doesn't look right when they wear all white with a blue helmet.

Gotta fix the blue on blue - for the sake of the tv-watchers.

Copy Cats!

The Broncos font looks like a copy of the Ducks font! But then again the bronco "horse" logo is almost a direct copy of the Denver Broncos "horse" logo and so are the colors blue and orange??

Wrong AGAIN, mikwelch

Boise State has had the colors and the mascot since 1932. The Denver Broncos didn't exist until 1960. Denver blatantly copied the colors and mascot. You might want to check the facts before opening your mouth.

Whatever

Boise State doesn't have anything original you DONK! Even their fight song sounds like it was borrowed from another certain University. And don't worry CherokeeGuy the Bronco horse logo is a copy from the Denver Broncos. An idiot can figure that one out.

you might want to check out the Illinois logo

before you Vandals start commenting on borrowed logo designs. The Denver logo is a horse, our logo is a horse, that's about all they have in common. As mentioned, Boise State has been the blue and orange Broncos since 1932 ... 30 years before Denver.

Weak

This is not going to make the beating from Oregon any less severe. Very original.

The beating was all I heard about while in eugene last summer

until we beat THEM down. I wonder if there is a reason why their quarterbacks are transferring out right now???? Check it out. Ducks Suck, and so does the Pac-1, and I think we all know who the 1 good team is (hint:they play in so cal)

Easy there jerry

First off, the prospect of BS(u) in the Rose Bowl would be like running a donkey in the Kentucky Derby. It's laughable. Second, if memory serves correct, it took a well placed cheap shot to our starting QB (Masoli) at last year's game that allowed BS(u) to steal a cheap and unearned win.

Yeah, our defense sucked but even so, you pretenders would not have been close to winning if Masoli had finished the game. And you know it.

We all saw what happended when your QB got smacked a few times in your "bowl game" last year. Expect more of the same when we come to Boise.

Whose heard that one already?

Lame excuse from a lame Duck. When is the game? Sept. 3 or 5? Until then we rule you. Any bets this year mallards? Loved it watching a Duck eat a Bronco turd,nothing like a nice round digested oat and hay biscuit. Oh, ducks grilling on the BBQ gotta go.

Why?

Why even bother to change again? I was just getting used to the uniforms of the past 2 years. What's the point of changing every 2-3 years? I think the focus should be on the field rather than on the image.

UGHLYYYY!

Pure and simple!

Why do they change so often...

Simple: merchandising. Now, everyone runs out to buy the "new" look when it hits stores. I'm also not a fan of the orange striping, but I like the white uniforms.

So much to say...

First, they're not totally hideous, but not nearly as good as the previous uniforms. Don't like the racing stripe on the butt, or the shoulders, they don't serve any purpose whatsoever are aren't flattering. the silver lettering on the leg is just too much like Oregon's, so it needs to go, after all the colors on every logo I've seen are white, blue and orange so lets stick with those colors shall we? I have to say that I am a fan of the orange more than the blue, granted I think the mostly blue home uniforms will make it tougher for visiting teams to distinguish between the turf and the players. But, I wish they would develop an mostly orange uniform for away games, or make a few combinations and decide what combination can be worn on that particular game day. Basically, I liked the old ones better than these, and agree that since they are raising tutition this year, it is the WORNG time to be spending money on new uniforms that weren't needed, especially when the money could be used for something more important.

Blue Turf

Med. I agree with almost everything you say, but it always cracks me up when someone thinks that the Broncos wearing a blue uniform on a blue turf makes them harder to see. If that is the case Green Bay should not be allowed to wear green uniforms. If the opposing team (or even a viewer) cannot tell the difference between a player and the turf, maybe they should get in another sport.

Fanny packs are back

Did anyone else think the blue uniform looks like he's wearing a fanny pack?

?

Guess I was too busy looking at the fanny to notice the pack. ;-)

stupid

predictively stupid looking for a stupid team.

They suck

We're BLUE, ORANGE and WHITE! We're not gray, we're not pink, or any other color. Get it you morons? The least you could do is make the swoosh orange on the white uniforms. The stripe across the behind looks like a takeoff from transformers. Man up, get rid of the flash and focus on winning a bowl game.

Um.....

I don't like them. What was wrong with the other uniforms?

Besides, i can think of other things that could have been done with the money invested than new uniforms.

Just a follow-up to my previous comment...

I looked at the pictures again. I do not like the white uniform. There needs to be more Blue to contrast with the white. I like the blue uniform, but think there needs to be more contrasting orange.

And, I agree with most comments written here: the butt stripe looks stupid.

I still stand by what I originally said, tho. I think the uniforms we've used the past few years were great. There is no reason to change them, except to unnecessarily waste money. I wonder where the funds are coming from to pay for these bad uniforms. More than likely, the university will charge more for ticket prices next season.

Like I said, an unnecessary waste of money.

U of I soccer outfits.

Are you going for the Ducks looks PLUS booty?

Damn it. Athletics designed in Special Ed again.

Isn't Ed special?

We won't see them anyway, not with local TV all gone to Hades.

Thanks Gene! You're a pal.

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I don't like the butt backs

I don't like the butt backs either... They should go triangular on the sides instead. Not square, it looks unfinished stopping at the tailbone.

Like this..

http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/1637/bsuuniform.jpg

dont like them

I do not like these better than the most recent new ones....The last two years were bad azz looking. These look SAFE! AND THE GRAY IS DUMB!

GET OVER IT!!!

Does it even really matter what us Boise Fans or "those" Vandals think about the new uniforms? Did you ever think that maybe the Players might like em? Hey, if the Players are happy with the new designs and the new material they're made out of, than that should be all that matters.. . . . . since they will be the ones wearing them. I kind of think Blue uniforms on Blue turf is a good thing. Now the opposing teams who already despise our blue turf, can now despise our blue uniforms on top of the blue turf. I don't know about any of you, but I go to the games to enjoy Football, not to freak out about what color the uniforms are. So all of you "Fashion Police" out there, GET OVER IT!!

Not to argue but...

the issue isn't whether or not the players like the uniforms. Who cares? It doesnt affect their gameplay, and this isn't a friggin' fashion show. The issue is how much these cost and who is gonna end up paying that bill. If it lowers ticket prices, I'd suggest a pair of gym shorts and an oversized T-shirt.

It does matter if the

It does matter if the players (and future players) like the uniforms. I'm surprised the statesman hasn't done any player interviews to get their opinion. I doubt the new uniforms cost the team any more than purchasing a new set of the old uniform. In fact, I'm sure (as has been mentioned) that NIKE gives BSU a great deal to try a new uni.

Otherwise I agreed with your take on the Unis.

I just wish there was more Orange. Granted, I think an all Orange Uni would be disgusting...but awesome at the same time.

Go Back to Fiesta Bowl Uniform with Orange Pants!

The Fiesta Bowl victory over the Sooners put BSU on the map, and the orange pant road uniform the Broncos wore that night looked great.

The Fiesta Bowl uniform should continue as the standard road uniform.

At home I vote for white pants, which show up much better on the blue turf. All blue at home and all white on the road is on the dull side.

Put more orange in the uniforms!