re: Is the orange face mask finally happening?

It is just too much. The facemasks look good for a changeup. If we want to go that route, just go orange overload on the accessories.


This is a great look. Put orange on the facemask. Hell, even some orange socks. Jersey is just too much orange. Way too busy looking.

If they add more orange I'd like to bring back the orange facemask and the orange drop shadow on the numbers. I'm not a big fan of all orange jerseys.

Clint Richardson did a pretty good rendering for how the drop shadow numbers and orange facemask would look.

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I’m not a fan. I might like orange jerseys

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Drop shadows are an abomination. I think the last time we played in orange jerseys we got our face ripped off by Tennessee 44-0, but we may have played UGA in orange afterward the same year. Also a loss IIRC. I went to that UT game with my Dad and was crying at halftime. He was pissed I was crying.

Changing up the facemasks is fine IMO, but I don't want Auburn to morph in to Oregon, Florida or Utah.

I noticed he missed a couple of my veins that I have on my left arm but it's a pretty fair rendering of myself.

Impressive work Clint.

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If we want to go that route, just go orange overload on the accessories.

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2013-2015 Auburn had the best sleeve/arm band game in the business.

Fact.

The guy at AuburnUniforms.com has a good article on this.

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Orange facemasks were first introduced in 1979 as head coach Doug Barfield worked in as much orange into the Tigers’ uniforms as possible.

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After taking over the reign from the legendary Shug Jordan, Barfield almost immediately began to make his mark on the uniforms. Barfield’s first season as head coach in 1976 saw the addition of reward decals in the shape of an eagle. The next season, the white belts were replaced with orange belts. 1978 saw the infamous orange jerseys make their first appearance against Georgia. And in 1979, the orange facemasks completed the orange-ification of Auburn’s uniforms.

Auburn stuck to the orange-heavy uniforms through 1980, the end of Barfield’s tenure. When Pat Dye took over the job in 1981, he immediately mothballed the orange jerseys. The orange belts stuck around for that first season but were replaced with navy belts the following year. In 1983, Dye replaced the orange masks with navy, ultimately removing all traces of the Barfield era from the Tigers’ uniforms.

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Dana Marquez, the head equipment manager at Auburn, told Auburn Undercover following the Penn State game that the University’s administration had to sign off on the alternate colored masks.

“We’re a tradition-based school; we don’t want to change our uniform and upset the fan base,” Dana stated. “We wanted to make sure we’re following the protocol and the university feels good about it. Once we got the approval, it was pretty straightforward.”

Dana went on to speak on the possibility of the orange facemasks returning, even saying, “I tried to change the helmet to blue one year,” indicating the navy shells that leaked prior to the 2010 Clemson game were ultimately real.

Will Auburn continue to play with the football team’s uniforms? It looks like that’s the case.

Will the Tigers jump onto the crazy alternate uniform train that has encapsulated the landscape of athletic uniforms over the last decade? It’s doubtful.

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Orange Face Masks Return

The auburn uniform site says otherwise. Says the program had a picture of us in the orange uniforms, but that was from the Miss state game the prior year.

I don't know either way, I wasn't alive for it.

Looks good

Video department has stepped their game up