This is a freaking monstrosity. Via NDN via Rakes of Mallow, here's an ad that popped up early on the interwebs with this year's "The Shirt".
For the first time since my freshmen year, I will not be getting The Shirt. It's just so God Awful, that one must take a stand at some point.
What color is that anyway? Flesh-color? Nude? Are we trying to camo the shirt so it looks like the decals are on our skin, like Tattoos? Who the F IS IN CHARGE OF THIS UGLINESS? Was the goal to think up a color, ANY COLOR, that has nothing to do with Notre Dame? The only criteria is that The Shirt has NEVER been that color before, so, ooooooh, lots of people will want it?!?!?!?
Give me a break Shirt People, whoever you are. I'll give $10 directly to charity and forego this 'worthy cause' this year. In fact, if you would go ahead and do what's right and PRODUCE THE SAME COLOR THE SHIRT EVERY YEAR SO THE FANS HAVE SOME SENSE OF UNITY, I would buy the shirt every year AND give an additional chunk of change to whatever charity you want. Sound good? No? Because you're idiots? Okay then, at least you admit it.
The strategy is horrible, the product execution is even worse. And that's every year. This year they've gone way beyond the call of duty in making it te-rri-ble.
Whoever's in charge of this should be fired. And the students working on it should get a D-, and be banned from interviewing if they graduate this year (they'll just embarrass themselves). They only avoid an F bc they actually produced a shirt.
Disgraceful.
Please, no one buy it. No one wear it. Vote with your dollars and wear a Kelly Green shirt from a past year this year. Leave this thing on the shelf.
By san diego irish April 17, 2009 - 6:11 pm
Rise and strike and defend our honor–huh? Is that from like the fourth verse of the fight song?
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By VicPaul April 17, 2009 - 6:45 pm
Awful…absolutely AWFUL. I can’t even imagine the student section wearing this debacle. Please NBC do not show our kids doing push ups this year if they decide to wear this piece of shit.
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By The Biscuit April 17, 2009 - 7:11 pm
My sis, who’s at ND as we speak, said they’ve seen it and it’s “light gold”. What the F is light gold? There’s blue, gold and green. Anything else is unacceptable.
And defending our honor? What is this, the 50s and someone tried to make out with us?
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By Matt '09 April 17, 2009 - 8:55 pm
I think they missed “light gold” and fell right into the lap of “upstairs bathroom beige”.
FWIW, the line’s from the Hike Song:
*a bunch of lines*
Oh it’s hike, hike, hike to victory, the call to rise and strike!
*a bunch more lines*
Somehow, their most obscure school song reference yet…sigh…don’t they spend months on this, too?
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By Paul April 18, 2009 - 9:07 am
In person the color is odd, but definitely more gold and not quite as bizarre as it is online. But I agree that 1) of all the colors they could have chosen, this was pretty bad (why feel compelled to cycle the colors, especially when all prior gold shirts have been horrible?); 2) the front is WAY obscure; and 3) I’m all for having honor, but is this football or pistols at 20 paces?
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By trey April 18, 2009 - 3:18 pm
I think all the “The Shirts” have sucked ever since the organizing committee outsourced the production and design of the thing. Why can’t we go back to the shitty-drawn student designs and actually get something UNIQUE every year??
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By TBoneND April 18, 2009 - 8:14 pm
I was at the Spring Game and watched several versions (some looked like pup tents others resembled a billowing spinnaker) of “The Shirt” all were the least appealing of a long line of foregettable “The Shrit” series.
The color looked a washed out yellow.
This apparel will not see my dresser draw!
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