Guest Post from the Uniform Police

I've lacked inspiration this week so instead of me babbling about nothing, how about a guest post by the most terrific husband in the world a.k.a. the uniform police:

On OSU Uniforms

My wife loves Oklahoma State athletics.  Therefore, I love Oklahoma State athletics.  Even if the Pistol Pete mascot wears a giant painted head that makes him look like he's been drinking heavily and scaring children.  But recently, the Cowboy athletic department made a questionable decision to abandon their traditional football uniform ensemble and go with a modern new look.  And I am outraged.

Forever, the traditional football uniform color scheme has been this: wear colors at home, and white on the road.  However, in recent years Nike has completely corrupted collegiate sports with corporate sponsorships emphasized product placement by putting hideous swoosh-filled unis on an alarming amount of teams.  They don't look good.  A college football game is not an episode of Project Runway where points are given for changing your design from week to week.  Instead, a college linebacker should be proud to wear the same outfit in public several Saturdays in a row.  For some reason, the powers-that-be in Stillwater decided the Cowboys need a closet full of separates to mix and match depending on the occasion.

Gray?!?!  Really?  When did gray become an Oklahoma State color?  It's despicable.  Pointless, unless the team thinks that Pistol Pete's bloodshot eye on the pants will scare the ball out of an OU receiver's hands.  And where do you wear the black unis - at home or on the road?  There's no way to keep with tradition when you and two other teams in your conference have a gray-on-gray option AND NO SCHOOL HAS GRAY AS A TEAM COLOR.  So we will all kiss history goodbye this year as we watch the OklaNike State Cowboys with gray helmets, white jerseys, and gray pants play Missouri and we have to keep asking each other which team has the ball.

But it would be pretty cool to see what they wear in a national championship game.