Oregon Football Jersey Week: Part IV - U-G-L-Y

I feel like it is safe to say that so far our week long tribute to ugliness has been successful. I mean we have managed to piss of a large chunk of the Oregon fan base, so well done boys! However, we cannot stop there. We must keep going and make this a truly memorable week. After reading the three posts this week I have found a good candidate of a jersey for the title of extreme ugliness. Before I go on though, I want to personally thank Phil Knight and the gracious people at Nike. I honestly don't know what we would have done without you all this week on RJS, seriously. Alright, without further ado time to find out which jersey is today's lucky winner.

The problem is that it is hard to find a lucky winner. Thus, as the week is closing, I will have to present two uniforms so ugly they make children cry. In fact, I sent the pictures to family friends with younger children, and they cried. First, I wanted to go with this:

I mean, what is there not to love here? The GIANT helmet that could fit Barry Bonds's head three times, the lack of the color Oregon fans wear when they watch games on the shirt (that'd be yellow), or maybe it is the goofy triangle under the armpit. Those are too many questions to answer. However, when looking at this uniform, let us not forget the gray on white decision for the shoulders and the Ducks on the front. We all know that light-gray on white is excellent, especially for those with eye problems to read. Well done Phil!!!
We cannot stop with the 2007 uniforms though, trust me. I was about to stop, but as I was flipping through the Sports Illustrated list of "Quacky" Duck Uniforms, I stumbled upon this next one from 2005:

I would first like to point out the Y-shape that the green creates. This is very similar in style to the uniforms Mike wrote about on Monday, except those were a yellow majority. Another terrible part of thise uniform is the numbers. Sure, they are pretty bland and innocent, yet for whatever reason they seem too plain. Maybe that is why they were changed the following year. The most horrific part of this is the mesh on the shoulders. Perhaps the heads of Oregon's AD wanted to resort back to the 80's style worn in the Castro in San Francisco. If so, they did a good job. Unfortunatly, we are not talking about Gay Disco, we are talking about Football. Nothing against Gay Disco, but the two have fairly different objectives. Before we leave, lets give some fun facts about the Univeristy of Oregon:

1. 85.3% acceptance rate (US News)

2. ~75% white (stateuniversity.com)

3. National Rank: 115 (US News)

4. National Championships: 16 (Wikipedia)

wow Ducks, maybe those uniforms are not the ugliest thing about your school...