Iowa to Show "Blackout Uniforms" For Saturday Night's Game

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On Monday, the Hawkeye football Twitter account said it would reveal the Nike-produced alternative jerseys in the weekly "hit film" on social media at 4:30 p.m. Saturday. That's 2½ hours before the 7 p.m., BTN-televised kickoff between the 9-0 Hawkeyes and 4-5 Golden Gophers.

In the summer preview, a university-produced video showed a black pant leg with a gold tiger-hawk on the upper thigh and black tops with “IOWA” embroidered in gold across the chest. The Hawkeyes' traditional home garb is black tops, gold pants...

“It’s just one of those things that came about,” head coach Kirk Ferentz said in August. “It’s a new era, right? New millennium and all that stuff.”

He added: “It’s amazing to me what interests people.”

Me too.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/st...a-hawkeyes-blackout-uniforms-reveal/75480672/
 

Blackout jersey?

Does it have a picture of Vodka Sam on it?
 

They should roll with these alternate uniforms so they don't have to be Steelers wannabes
 

This means we will be all white with white or gold helmets. Could go french fry and all gold.
 






"Blackout" is also the status of female Iowa fans before, during and after in-bathroom stadium coitus.
 




Oh, And It's Iowa's First Sellout of the Year

The Iowa head football coach may not quite understand why so many people are excited about seeing Saturday’s “Blackout” uniforms the team will wear against Minnesota — but he gets that it's a thing.

“My sense is the fans are excited about it,” Ferentz said, “which, hey, if we can make them more excited without playing a snap on Saturday, that's a good thing.”

The players got the full reveal for the first time this week for their Nike-produced attire for Saturday’s 7 p.m. game at Kinnick Stadium. They were pleased.

“It was really a dramatic moment in my life to have those guys see it,” Ferentz cracked...

It's kind of a sign of the times. The players like it, they think it's great,” Ferentz said. “Again, I said earlier, I'm not a total tyrant. Every now and then we've got to throw them a bone and let them enjoy it.”

Ferentz compared his role as coach to being a governor with veto power. But it seemed as though the uniform movement had plenty of votes to override a buzzkill veto.

“It was a tidal wave; are you kidding me?” Ferentz said.

So, give the 60-year-old coach with 124 career wins — eighth in the Big Ten Conference — credit for listening to the push from the younger members of his coaching staff with, as he put it, “fresh ideas.” It's gotten a lot of people fired up.

Kinnick Stadium is sold out for the first time this season.

“It's a fun thing, so what the heck. I'm not a fun killer, either,” Ferentz said, continuing his comedy routine. “We're all for it. If it makes us play better, then we may be in them next Saturday, too.”
 


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