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ND Reveals the Best “The Shirt” Design Since….Well…Ever.

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So ND just spammed me about the new “The Shirt” for 2008 and I have to say,  Wow.

WOW.

I mean, I am excited.  Most years we have some horribly ugly and gaudy thing with some lame configuration of 9 different images all jammed into the back with a pithy saying like “shake down the thunder”.  Don’t get me wrong – I like the tradition of The Shirt and that designs are based in long-loved and storied ND traditions.  I love the ND pride inherent in The Shirt and the philanthropic nature of the project. 

But most designs are just plain ugly, and after wearing it to 1-2 games in a season, they all end up in my ‘only wear to sleep’ drawer.  

Not so with 2008!  This thing is beautiful in its simplicity.  And while it does add another color (white) to the ND stable that already contains Blue, Gold, and every shade of Green you can imagine, I am sold. (Side Note:  Can’t we all just settle on a single color for everyone to wear to every single home game ever people?!!???!?!?!?!?!!)

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Biscuit co-founded HerLoyalSons in partnership with his ND roommate (Dillon Hall baby!), MQ, in 2006 and has been ranting about ND Football and everything Notre Dame since. He strongly believes in the mission of ND and its football program. Biscuit expects logic and data in arguments and will absolutely crush you if you come to a debate missing one or the other. He despises everything Michigan, and his favorite pastime is mocking Purdue.

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  1. adam

    ND tried to get a single color for everyone to wear to all the home games once: the Kelly Green shirts of the Willingham regime. Unfortunately, the bookstore got upset because they were afraid people would stop buying the shirt since they already had one in the same color. Hence, different colors every year.

  2. domer.mq

    Adam,

    That, and most of the old-school domers will tell you, and, well, they’re right, that the colors of ND are not “green.” They’re “gold and blue.” But people don’t want to make the shirt blue because then it “wont show up on tv.”

  3. The Biscuit

    Adam,

    Yes, I get that argument. But it only holds water if people believe that the ultimate goal of ND football is to pay out $’s in the short run. In the long run, having a united home crowd (it could be argued) helps the team perform better and helps build the ND ‘brand’. I’d say that that is more important than the short-term sales. I also believe that the Bookstore likely WAY over-stated how much they’d lose. 1) A lot of people are 1-time visitors to games, or rare visitors. They’d buy regardless 2) People collect, regardless of similar color. If not every season, a lot.

    Yes, sales would go down. But remember Nebraska in 2000-2001, whenever that was? All red.

    And it could be done at home with all Blue or all Gold too – which would show up just fine on TV. No problem with it not being green.

  9. trey

    First year im not buying “the shirt.” Uuuuugly and boring. I even bought the atrocious green one from 03. Not this year, though, blah.

  12. thomas

    Yeah, sorry, but this shirt is ugly. They should have used some of their design crew to actually put together a shirt that doesn’t look like a 14 year old girl designed it.

    They can make a unified green color, which would be a great idea for.. oh.. spirit and visibility, but the Hammes Bookstore and the ND committee operate like a cow stuck in the mud.

  14. The Biscuit

    i prefer the one that says “the shirt” though, kermit. don’t you?

    J Money, of course I do. I’m not into lingerie, but that’s totally cool if that’s your thing.