Green and Yellow, Finally!

It seems like the Ducks have been pretty coy with their uniform reveals this year (at least compared to the past, or other teams this year who tweet it out on Monday) Only twice have they made a big deal and announced a uniform multiple days before the game. The other time this year was kind of a mixed bag visually a major mixed bag score-wise! (WSU game loss)

I've been hoping that the Ducks would put green and yellow together all season, and the Civil War is usually when they do it. They've worn a fair amount of green/white and yellow/black (you'd think that they were an NFL team from Pennsylvania. But this week is the first true school color combo of the year.

And this week's helmet is another "new" one with a flying duck coming over the top. They have hinted at this helmet look and military look with their Spring games of late. Click here for Spring game pics.

Here are some artsy pics from GoDuck.com, which look like they were photographed during a forest fire (they did the same thing with the Pioneer uniform photoshoot)

Apparently this is supposed to honor the fact that Oregon was the 33rd state, but the Pioneer one was doing that already I thought? While most uses of camo in football uniforms look tacky, at least this seems somewhat tasteful and using a school color! Looks more like a Minecraft glitch than real camo, but that's ok, I guess.

According to GoDucks.com:

"The Oregon 33 uniform takes a futuristic spin on a traditional camouflage with a unique pattern on the jersey, expressing Oregon’s forward-thinking approach and innovative style of play. The pattern contains different geometric shapes than a classic camo, using multiple shades of green."

 I'd have loved to see a "normal" yellow helmet with green O, but otherwise I think this uniform is pretty strong and leaves out a bunch of extra fluff so the camp pattern can be the "star"  In person these will probably look better than the hazy photos presented.