Retro Green Brigade uni's 1977

[Harry]

 

[drex]

Far better than the red ones used in the late 80's....even had red drums, as I recall.

[UNTLifer]

I know I am going to stir the pot, but I also don't remember the band wearing shorts and tee shirts.  They were always in uniform.

[DeepGreen]

33 minutes ago, UNTLifer said:

I know I am going to stir the pot, but I also don't remember the band wearing shorts and tee shirts.  They were always in uniform.

C'mon man!  How else are these new "millenials" going to express themselves?

*stir pot?

[rws69]

1 hour ago, UNTLifer said:

I know I am going to stir the pot, but I also don't remember the band wearing shorts and tee shirts.  They were always in uniform.

Yes, but September and most October games started at 7:00 and we did not have daylight savings - equivalent to 8:00 start now with daylight savings. 

 

 

[Aldo]

...so this is how we get old dudes to talk about uniforms

[untjim1995]

1 hour ago, drex said:

Far better than the red ones used in the late 80's....even had red drums, as I recall.

I'm afraid to ask why, but why did we have red in any part of a band uniform for a school with Green and White as its colors?

[drex]

When I saw the new band in their uniforms in the late 80's I thought it was the visiting band.  There was some green, but a lot of red.

[SilverEagle]

3 hours ago, Harry said:

 

This is around when they dumbed down the fight song, and started increasing the size of the band. It went from around 125 under McAdow, to around 200 in 77. It kept slowly increasing until it stabilized at about 250 for a decade or so.. Now the band is at 400. It's bloated and unwieldy.  

[UNTFan23]

1 hour ago, SilverEagle said:

This is around when they dumbed down the fight song, and started increasing the size of the band. It went from around 125 under McAdow, to around 200 in 77. It kept slowly increasing until it stabilized at about 250 for a decade or so.. Now the band is at 400. It's bloated and unwieldy.  

They could limit the membership to just Music/Music Ed majors and be done with it. You'd likely cut the membership in half. I don't think they College of Music would make many "fans" that way though.

[UNT 90 Grad]

4 hours ago, drex said:

Far better than the red ones used in the late 80's....even had red drums, as I recall.

Geez, I'd forgotten about that. 

[greenminer]

I want to see a color photo of the red unis.  Can anyone help?

[letsgiveacheer]

Those were some strange uniforms. Fry's apple green was on the front and the back was a darker green. Of course Fry left and the school changed to a different shade of green. Given the life span and expense of uniforms, it meant that the band was marching around for about 15 years in two shades of green that did not match the existing official green, adorned with a long abandoned flying worm!

These things only happen at North Texas.

Edited July 14, 2017 by letsgiveacheer

[greenjoe]

I remember red drums.  I don't remember red band uniforms.  I'd like to see a photo as well.

[UNTLifer]

6 hours ago, rws69 said:

Yes, but September and most October games started at 7:00 and we did not have daylight savings - equivalent to 8:00 start now with daylight savings. 

 

 

Ummm, we did have daylight savings back then.

[letsgiveacheer]

6 hours ago, rws69 said:

Yes, but September and most October games started at 7:00 and we did not have daylight savings - equivalent to 8:00 start now with daylight savings. 

 

 

I don't know. When I was at North Texas, I don't remember any night games. Kickoff was always early afternoon. After all, the final scores had to be reported to the Prudential College scoreboard which came on at about 4pm est.

[UNT 90 Grad]

1 hour ago, greenjoe said:

I remember red drums.  I don't remember red band uniforms.  I'd like to see a photo as well.

https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth61055/m1/11/

Closest I've found so far.   Still looking.  

[THOR]

8 hours ago, UNTLifer said:

I know I am going to stir the pot, but I also don't remember the band wearing shorts and tee shirts.  They were always in uniform.

95-97 green brigade member (non music major), we never wore shorts...always full uniform, third quarter we could remove our top

Edited July 14, 2017 by THOR

[greenjoe]

I see the red sashes.  Imagine that same outfit with green sashes.  Same look, just correct.  What were they thinking ?  

[rws69]

On 7/13/2017 at 9:14 PM, UNTLifer said:

Ummm, we did have daylight savings back then.

Not until sometime in the 70's. I was at North Texas in the last half of the 60's.

[Mean Green 93-98]

34 minutes ago, rws69 said:

Not until sometime in the 70's. I was at North Texas in the last half of the 60's.

The photo was taken in 1977, not in the '60's.

[UNTLifer]

I thought it started in 1966 with the signing of the Uniform Time Act by LBJ.

Edited July 17, 2017 by UNTLifer

[TreeFiddy]

There is some evidence that widespread adoption did not occur until the early 70's during the energy crisis. 

[GreenMachine]

On 7/13/2017 at 10:50 PM, THOR said:

95-97 green brigade member (non music major), we never wore shorts...always full uniform, third quarter we could remove our top

So what made them soft over the last 10-12 years? 

Edited July 18, 2017 by GreenMachine

[LongJim]

8 hours ago, GreenMachine said:

So what made them soft over the last 10-12 years? 

Threats of lawsuits, probably.