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palestra38 Professor Posts 32849 |
01-10-19 03:17 PM - Post#271974
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgrQnd9Im_A&a mp;fe... |
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10Q Professor Posts 23416 |
01-10-19 03:21 PM - Post#271978
Wow. Awesome. Now we just need to play like it's a Final Four year again. |
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penn nation Professor Posts 21225 |
01-10-19 03:26 PM - Post#271981
They had me at Pennsylvania. |
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weinhauers_ghost Postdoc Posts 2140 |
01-10-19 03:32 PM - Post#271983
They had me at Pennsylvania. Ah, sweet. We need to run with that look for the rest of the season. |
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Quakers03 Professor Posts 12533 |
01-10-19 03:40 PM - Post#271986
These are awesome. |
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yoyo Senior Posts 365 |
01-10-19 04:46 PM - Post#271998
This is great. Now if we can just bring back the old Quaker mascot! |
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LyleGold PhD Student Posts 1712 |
01-10-19 04:53 PM - Post#271999
This is great. Now if we can just bring back the old Quaker mascot! You're so right! The Big Head Quaker mascot is embarrassing. I think the normal Quaker in tricorn hat and knee breeches in '79 was Bob Wachter. He used to wear plastic buttocks under his colonial waistcoat and lift up his tails to moon the opposing fans. |
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yoyo Senior Posts 365 |
01-10-19 04:55 PM - Post#272000
beautiful! |
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Streamers Professor Posts 8269 
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01-10-19 05:29 PM - Post#272002
I'd heard there were red unis in the works, but this was a pleasant surprise. The execution is meh, but I love the idea. Now, if they also brought back the warmups with the dribbling Ben Franklin logo, I'd be really impressed! |
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LyleGold PhD Student Posts 1712 |
01-10-19 06:01 PM - Post#272009
Steve, I thought Ben was spinning the ball on his finger, but those were pretty cool. I'd love to see a photo of them. Unfortunately, we rolled out the baby blues at about the same time, which we wore when we beat Georgetown at McDonough Gym around '81. |
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Streamers Professor Posts 8269
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01-10-19 07:30 PM - Post#272020
I can’t find any images of it, but if you freeze frame the documentary video, you can see the spinning version on the back. I also remember a version that featured the logo and a Capital P on the front and my fuzzy memory of that one had Ben dribbling the ball. |
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LyleGold PhD Student Posts 1712 |
01-10-19 07:40 PM - Post#272022
Where in the documentary? Now I do sort of remember the other one. It was kind of a cartoon bespectacled Franklin rampaging with his coattails flying and a big ball in his hand. That Ben was an electric ballhandler! |
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Old Bear Postdoc Posts 4000 |
01-10-19 08:15 PM - Post#272026
Re: the throwback uniforms, the shorts are way too long! |
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LyleGold PhD Student Posts 1712 |
01-10-19 08:19 PM - Post#272027
Yep, there it is. At 4:29 of the Vimeo clip, Angelo Reynolds walks by. Just as he turns, you get a quick glimpse of the Spinning Franklin. Oh, and again at 4:32, there's David Jackson jumping up and down with his back toward the camera. https://vimeo.com/309036001/aef06d07e3 |
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Streamers Professor Posts 8269
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01-10-19 09:35 PM - Post#272035
Re: the throwback uniforms, the shorts are way too long! The over/under on that response was 5 posts.  |
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dperry Postdoc Posts 2214 
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01-10-19 09:56 PM - Post#272038
I'd heard there were red unis in the works, but this was a pleasant surprise. The execution is meh, but I love the idea. Any time one of our teams has three uniforms, they should be white, red, and blue. None of this gray crap.
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Mike Porter Postdoc Posts 3619 
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01-10-19 11:58 PM - Post#272046
It’s a throwback to when I was 1 month old, but I’m a fan. So they are actually wearing those on Sat? Hopefully can funnel some of that magic to get a much needed win. |
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Streamers Professor Posts 8269
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01-11-19 09:10 AM - Post#272057
Any time one of our teams has three uniforms, they should be white, red, and blue. None of this gray crap. The gray thing was a Nike-inspired fad a number of teams fell victim to. It appears to have passed, thankfully. Also, it seems we have gotten away from the bright red / royal blue color scheme that was a plague introduced by the previous administration. It still lingers on some facilities and such, but seems to have been purged from the unis. |
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LyleGold PhD Student Posts 1712 |
01-11-19 09:39 AM - Post#272059
In my mind, our colors have always been navy blue and burgandy, but there had always been some slight variation, esp. in the shade of burgandy (warm-brownish, cool-bluish), from year to year and team to team. The real watershed came about a decade ago when the University hired some marketing firm to brand the overall product to create a unified public image. We officially became "PENN" and our colors were established as matching the red and blue of the American flag. The blues weren't bad, but it resulted in red uniforms that were identical to Cornell's color or that found on firetrucks. I always loved the burgandy that we wore in the late 70s, but the throwbacks appear to be a little too gray in tone, almost like the St. Joe's garnet, and kind of washed out looking. The iron on lettering looks pretty cheap, too. You need solid, sewn on numbers and letters to make a strong impression. Nonetheless, it's a step in the right direction, although I'm not optimistic that we'll see further improvements. This is likely a one shot deal. |
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Streamers Professor Posts 8269
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01-11-19 10:00 AM - Post#272060
I always loved the burgandy that we wore in the late 70s, but the throwbacks appear to be a little too gray in tone, almost like the St. Joe's garnet, and kind of washed out looking. The iron on lettering looks pretty cheap, too. You need solid, sewn on numbers and letters to make a strong impression. Nonetheless, it's a step in the right direction, although I'm not optimistic that we'll see further improvements. This is likely a one shot deal. Hopefully, all the teams will take a cue from the football program that was the first to get the colors right and go back to the sleeve stripes (although they also fell victim to the gray plague.) Your point about the iron-on lettering on the throwbacks was the root about my opinion that the execution was meh. I’m afraid we are stuck with the PENN branding though. It is pervasive across the University and too well set in. |
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LyleGold PhD Student Posts 1712 |
01-11-19 10:07 AM - Post#272061
"I’m afraid we are stuck with the PENN branding though. It is pervasive across the University and too well set in." Yeah, I've pretty much conceded on the PENN front, but we need to dig our heels in on UPenn. That drives me nuts when I hear it or see it in print. We're not some New England state school like UMass or UConn. UGH! By the way, I really like the red and blue horizontal stripes on the sides of the basketball uniforms as a nod to the traditional football sleeves. |
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