December 6th, 2008 | Military Times sites: | Posted by Mike Hoffman
The Army team warmed up wearing their traditional gold helmets, but the Army team captains have just run onto the field donning camouflage helmets to match their camouflage pants. “Duty, honor, and country is written on the back of the jerseys where most football jerseys have the player’s name.
The corps of cadets are also sporting camouflage baseball caps to match their team.
Have to say the camouflage pattern looks better on the helmets than I thought, but the “duty, honor, country” on their backs is a bit of the top and makes them look like a walking recruiting billboard. What do you think?
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The Army uniforms look terrible. They are responsible for Shawn White’s early 65-yard touchdown run. I hope for the cadets’ sake they have other uniforms in the locker room so they can look less silly after halftime. Although by then it might not make much of a difference
Not only do the players’ uniforms look bad, the regular cadets’ uniforms are also stupid. What’s up with those little capes? Are they all the marching band, or what?
These uniforms looked hideous. What the heck were they thinking? I would have rather they came out in pink as in supporting Breast Cancer Awareness. And, he Cadets wearing the ACU cap with their parade uniform?!?!? That looked so “Beatle Bailey”. Someone really did not think about image with these two uniforms. After the first Navy touchdown, I turned away.
This was not the Army Black Knight team worth cheering for.
In response to the two comments above. By the way you both seem to want to run the Army team down, you couldn’t be Army fans. Comment #1, what does the uniform have to do with the score??? Your response sounds so petty. Comment #2, that must be the first time you have ever seem the West Point overcoats, they have been around for many years. Some really famous persons have worn the “coats with the little capes”, there’s a lot of pride in those capes. And last, Mr. Hoffman, in case you didn’t knowit “DUTY, HONOR, COUNTRY” is the Cadet motto at West Point, so why would you call it an advertisement. To me it makes a statement of the “PRIDE” they take in serving their country. Personally, I liked the uniforms, this is a very special game, “America’s Game” it is tagged, so why not wear something unique, I think it made a bold statement, and I believe in years to come we will see more of it, and the other military teams are probably thinking “Why didn’t we think of that first”
I think that the uniforms looked good. Definitely better than the score! (chuckle) Honestly, I liked the uniforms for a couple of reasons: after watching so many games that oftentimes you find yourself trying to find something that sets this team apart from the next, this was definitely different. Bold, even. Shoot…look how many folks are talking about it! The Academy IS unique. It is the first military academy; it is the first and one of the most respected world wide to provide such significant leaders in all aspects of life. Why not have unique uniforms that look remarkably different than others that are good colleges (not unlike many others), with good teams (not unlike many others), but have their students go off and do remarkably diverse things (not unlike many others). The Academy is epitomized by those silly little words that others thought looked tacky: Duty, Honor, Country.
As deep as those words are emblazoned on the Cadets’ hearts, they remain unique. Just like their uniforms…both those on the field and off. The caped uniform pay homage to years past, as does such as those little sentiments of selfless service to something greater than the NFL draft, the $100k salary, and the standard football uniforms…
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