Blue Helmets and Orange Helmets: It Happened in 1950
Back in January, I gave you a visual history of most of Auburn's uniforms. In that blogle, we learned that Auburn had worn blue helmets in their storied history, much to the surprise of most fans. During the great blue helmet debate of 2010, no one ever imagined that a helmet change for Auburn was actually old news.
But now, thanks to the 1951 Glomerata, we know that the 1950 Auburn Tigers wore a blue helmet with an orange stripe and an orange helmet with a blue stripe as part of their uniform. And it doesn't stop there. They wore them at the same time. No, one person did not have two helmets on his head. Some players wore the blue helmet and some players wore the orange helmet, all together, all on the field at once, all year long.
Take a look at this team picture from the 1950 season. You will see the alternating helmets placed below the bottom row.
An Unconventional Look at the 2012 Signees
The signees have been talked about and studied for almost two weeks now. Now it's time to take a look at what really matters when it comes to Auburn's 2012 signing class. I waited to see what Stefon Diggs was going to do to post this, and now I'm mad that I did since he chose (was paid by) Maryland. Auburn is still waiting to see what Alex Kozan does, and I'm sure he'll announce he's signing with the Tigers right after post this, but I'm not waiting anymore. You DESERVE to see these now...
Best Hair: Jovon Robinson. Pickin's were slim this year, but a Kid 'n Play box top usually wins it for me.
Best Name: Cassanova McKinzy - You can't get much better than Cassanova. The guy is set for life in the lady department. Honorable Mention: Gimel President
Name likely to become an adjective: JaQuay Williams. Dude, that catch was quay quay.
A Few Very Eccentric Auburn Helmet Concepts
Let me just go ahead and get this out of the way. These are not connected to Auburn in any way. This is not an attempt to get Auburn to wear these. These are just some concepts from a guy who does this sort thing for fun for almost every Division I team. Now that we have that out of the way...
I was told about Charles Sollars's work a few weeks ago, and after seeing a few of his concepts from other schools' helmets pop up on a few other sites, I figured you may want to see the fifteen different designs he has for Auburn's helmets. Some would never, ever fly. Some might. What do you think? He has told me that if you have any ideas, he will mock them up for us, so leave those in the comments section.
Carolina Panthers Fans Ask “Got Newton?”
Why didn't we think of this? It would have put all of that 28-27 swag right over the top.
Pic via @RiaVarnell.
New Auburn-themed Smartphone Wallpapers Available
I've had a few Auburn-themed iPhone wallpapers on the Multimedia page for quite a while, but now thanks to @bordete I have added 21 new ones for your downloading and wallpapering pleasure. A few examples are posted below. There may even be a few with your favorite blogler's logo on them. That's just what I've heard...
So head on over there and get these on your iPhone immediately. If you would like to have something similar on your Android or any other type of smartphone, I suggest you throw it out the window, quit being anti-mainstream, and get an iPhone. But seriously, I think they may still work on other phones. They might just be a little stretched. Or someone out there who has a non-iPhone smartphone, mock up some wallpapers that fit your screen and send them in. I'll be sure to add them to the page.
Instructions on how to set these as your wallpaper are on the Multimedia page. Have fun.
A Visual History of the Auburn Football Uniform
As you saw in my Top 10 Posts of 2011, five of the ten most read posts of the past year were related to Auburn's uniforms. Needless to say, uniforms have been a hot topic over the past few years with Auburn fans. There seems to be an endless debate over whether Auburn should make major uniform changes for one game a year or stick with what some call the "traditional" uniform always and forever.
A few days ago, @GeorgeRBrown pointed me to a Flickr account that he ran across in a random Google search that contained fifteen water color paintings of Auburn's uniforms from 1892 to 2008. After doing a little digging, I was taken back to a site, Heritage Sports Art, that specializes in uniform history for various pro and college teams of all sports. Being the uniform freak that I am, I was floored that I had not seen or even heard anything about most of Auburn's previous uniform designs.
Below you will find prints of fifteen uniforms from the first year of Auburn football up until modern day. Each picture has a brief description from Heritage Sports Art (in italics), with my thoughts on the uniform below. Orange jerseys, blue helmets, and tiger heads, oh my...
Top 10 WarBlogle.com Posts of 2011
I know 2011 still has a few more days until its end, but I don't see any Earth-shattering posts coming out of me in the coming days. Therefore, I'm going to go ahead and give you my top ten most read posts of the year. This also happens to be my 1000th post on the 'Blogle so that's the main reason I'm doing this now. I wanted it to be special.
Let me give you a quick update (brag) on the past year. This year, WarBlogle.com had over 1.5 million hits, up from just over 400,000 last year. That's probably due to the fact that I never missed more than two days without posting a blogle this year, but still. 1.5 million? I love y'all.
Twitter followership went from around 4,000 to over 16,000. This is my pride and joy. I wish all of those 16,000 were reading the 'Blogle every day, but I'll take it. In this "gimme quick news now" world, I guess it should be expected. I know some people just don't like to read. But seriously, couldn't all of you just give me a dollar a month? How hard would that be?
Anyway, this was a big and exciting year for me as the WarBlogler, and I will try recap it in a post before the end of the year, though that may happen after New Year's. For now, here are the top 10 posts. Notice that five of them are uniform related. I know what you guys like.
10. A Few of the Rumored Uniform Changes Confirmed (8/15/11, Views: 6,733)
Let's see, last week it was the 'War Eagle' and the two stars that were spotted on the replica jerseys in Auburn's bookstores. A few months ago it was the 'War Eagle' on the belt line of the back of the pants that was spotted in the EA Sports NCAA 12 preview. I come to tell you today that all are real, and all are on Auburn's uniforms this year.
Merry Christmas to All….
Here's wishing you and yourn a very merry Christmas. Did Santa bring you something AU-some? Send pics to stuff@warblogle.com or tell me about it in the comments section.
Pic via @MrsAUBassBone.
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