And, sure, the helmets look “good”. Anything with an LSU logo on it is going to look “good” in my eyes. And Washington’s uniforms, Ga. Tech’s uniforms, Notre Dame’s uniforms, etc. are also quite handsome. But they are not LSU’s colors, at least as currently defined.

I never knew there was such distain for LSU’s 50+ year image – the “yellow” gold, specifically.

I suppose I am in the minority in preferring our non-special-event look (both for the tradition and also the distinctive look LSU has compared to other “gold” programs). So be it.

Anyway, I just got a good look at them in person, and they looked great.

Moving on. Others have already set you straight on the “L”.
The old gold is reminiscent of unies pre-yellow gold, shoulder
stripes & helmet logos. Where they missed a MAJOR element of the throwbacks was the pants. They should be old gold as well, and the stripes are inverted. If you check out the classic promo shot of Jimmy Taylor you’ll see what I mean. In my opinion, they should have gone with the gold pants, or with the 1958 uni with a dull yellow gold & the old school #’s on the hats & jerseys.

What LSU needs to do for the uni in the future, is get the stripes going around the shoulder again (it’s all about cost, cheap bastards), & redesign the butt ugly Purple jerseys.
Remember this, the promotion is about uniform technology & Nike is using their “partners” to promote it.

Screw all this talk & Geaux Tigers!

Now, you do say something in the last comment that I take issue with – not just with LSU’s participation in the Nike thing but generally with “special” uniforms (Richt’s “blackouts”, the UT Halloween jersey, etc.). You talk about the players liking it, and that’s something that’s thrown around a lot.

Here’s my view on that: Especially when you’re talking about a program with “tradition” (i.e. not Oregon), the wants and likes of the players are very secondary to the standards of the program. Players are in a program for five years. LSU’s uniform is a 50+ year tradition that is “owned” by the collective supporters of LSU football. I don’t believe any LSU coach or administrator should bend those traditions to make current players happy.

If you’re not a traditionalist, I imagine you wouldn’t agree with that. And that’s fine. But I believe that LSU football should have the interests of somebody like me* in mind above the interests of players who will be a part of the program for five years or even a coach who may be here somewhat longer than that. The coach, the A.D. and the university administration should be stewards of our traditions, not servers of players wants and desires.

I remain grateful to Gerry DiNardo because he won back LSU’s right to wear white jerseys at home. That was a great thing. And I don’t like that Saban put in the policy of wearing purple jerseys for patsy games that aren’t home openers. Miles had deviated from that a couple of times and worn white. I’d like to think he’s being a good steward of the program, but frankly I figure he just doesn’t remember when we’re supposed to wear purple.

So I don’t want to see LSU make changes to our traditions to please the current style desires of players. And that’s not really what’s happening here – we’re trying to please Nike for money (presumably). But it’s a notion that bothers me. If a player doesn’t like the LSU image and want to be a part of our traditions, let them go someplace else.

* I grew up in Baton Rouge, went to my first game in 1977, dressed as an LSU player for Halloween, attended LSU, was at the Earthquake game, suffered through two Sugar Bowl losses in the late ’80s, have been to LSU games at most of the other SEC stadiums, was at the Sugar Bowl in 2003 when we won the National Championship, once got off a four-hour flight in Atlanta at 5:30 a.m. and drive directly to Baton Rouge for a game against TROY, have driven down from Atlanta to be on campus for the last two home games against Florida knowing I wouldn’t have a ticket and this season traveled to Seattle for the opener against Washington. And I’m really not special. There are lots of people like me who have invested a large chunk of their lives in LSU football.

As for the uniforms you might not know this but the players love them and had a say so.

And as I said in one of the follow-ups, I should have been clearer about believing the “L” to be misplaced. I referenced its use in a general sense, but was intending it to be related to being on the actual football uniform. My mistake. Like Les, I own the mistake and have a tremendous want to not make mistakes.

Before the interlocking LSU logo or LSU written in the geaux font there was just “L” ………..

Buddy you must be real young or don’t know jack about LSU I’m in my mid twenties and know all of this plus a lot more. I suggest before you go on bashing what you really don’t know you might want to do just a little research.

I really just wanted to get in that dig about not letting Everybody’s All American call us “LSU”.

And I guess I wasn’t clear about the L. I’m talking about its use on the football uniform. Was there ever just an L on the uniform?

the letterman jackets had an L.. not LSU…

baseball team had L on caps up until the late 70s

@geauxstrider – which gold are you referring to? That’s the confusing thing about this getup: are they going with the gold (in the helmet) that’s shown in their original uniform pic, the gold helmet they are showing now or what? Like I said, I would get it (but not like it) if they were using the gold of the 40s in the uniform they say is a nod to the 40s, but if they back out of that to go with the current yellowish gold, that’s just strange (but preferable to me).