Bill Moos leans forward in his big leather chair as he recalls those gaudy lightning-yellow uniforms.
He loves this stuff. Loves college football to death. He was Oregon's athletic director in 2003 when the Ducks, who already had begun to shift the paradigm on uniform use, turned the concept up a notch.
Oregon unveiled blazing yellow uniforms -- green helmets, the rest of the outfit bright yellow -- for its opener in 2003 at Mississippi State. The uniforms looked like highlighters. They were god-awful. I told Moos that this week, and he just leaned back and laughed that booming laugh.