Every time Northwestern announces a different uniform combination, which it has done in every week this season, we always get the same comment: Back in my day, we always wore purple.
Ignoring the fact that that's not true, this comment leaves out an important nuance: Unless "your day" began in 2012, Northwestern's uniforms also were terrible.
Up until 2012, Northwestern's apparel providers were Russell Athletic, which I really didn't know still existed, and Adidas, which in the words of Rodger Sherman, "keeps making college teams wear hideous garbage." The Adidas uniforms were boring and when they did pay enough attention to NU to make alternate uniforms, they were the worst things ever worn.
