Adidas posted a video to YouTube this morning to debut their new alternate uniforms for the Nebraska Cornhuskers, a bright red number with decorative knee-socks, those stupid gloves that make a pattern when you hold your palms out that everyone loves and nobody will wear in five years, and a gigantic black “N” on the front. They look nice, aside from a few places (like College Football Section) making all the appropriate “LOL, you look like the Kool-Aid Man” jokes.
As a nerd born in the 1980s, my first thought wasn’t the Kool-Aid Man, and I’m relieved to say I’m not the only one who thought this: Nebraska’s new uniforms make them look exactly like Kevin from ‘Captain N: The Game Master’. See?
If you don’t remember ‘Captain N’, it was a Saturday morning cartoon from 1989-1991 that was sponsored and promoted by Nintendo. Unfortunately I guess Nintendo couldn’t also give them image rights, so all the game characters featured on the show had to be changed to look nearly unrecognizable … android hero Mega Man becomes a raspy midget in a green jumpsuit, literal brain in a jar Mother Brain from the Metroid series becomes a Little Richard impersonator with a giant lady face and vampire hunter Simon Belmont becomes a gay pilot (?). Anyway, Kevin had a bright red jacket with a big red N on the front for “Nintendo”, and maybe Adidas had those Nintendo image rights all along.
Here are a few more pics of the uniforms, if you skipped the part about cartoons and just like college football.
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Guess they couldn’t spring for the Power Glove design for full effect.
I love the power glove. It’s sooo bad.
Those uniforms are too bad. The giant N is an odd choice to me.
Pretty much any time Nebraska football is brought up, my mind instantly thinks “We need to time-machine Tommy Frazier to now and let him be awesome again”
Also, Corn Huskers was probably the worst game for the original Nintendo, right?
Pretty sure the “N” stands for Nowledge.
Or if you’re going back to the Frazier era, it stands for Not Guilty.
As a Nebraska native (and therefore Husker fan by default), I feel qualified to say that Nebraska’s uniforms have always been as boring as our offense used to be. So I kind of like the alternate uniforms. Although they remind me of Texas Tech. …Don’t they have solid red uniforms, or are they solid black? Anyway, I like red/black better than our usual red/white.
used to be???? have you seen Taylor Martinez try to play QB?
This is true. But at least there’s an attempt at a passing game once in a while.
wow the Norteños are gonna love this
Not too shabby. The N on the chest is weird but I do like the black helmets.
I’m sure the “purists” with most of the season tickets here in Nebraska are all furiously rocking back and forth in the chairs, gumming their hard candies with extra fervor, waiting for the Wisconsin game to come so they can not cheer even less than they do now because of the unis but fuck them. Grouchy old blue haired douchebags.
If you don’t like people standing in front of you at a football game, die already.
You guys! That dudes last name is Huskers!!!!!
seems to be fate
Does their alternative pre-game ritual also involve stomping a Domino’s pizza?