Uniform for Homecoming

[NT80]

5 hours ago, UNTLifer said:

I believe '73-'82

Best logo ever!!, and really sharp uniforms with the green pants.   

However, I do not think this retro helmet green is the exact green used in the Coach Fry era.  This one is a little too lime green.  Coach Fry's helmet was a little shade darker, more apple green.  How do I know?   I have two Fry helmets, one I had signed by Coach Fry in person.  One is on loan to UNT Athletics....you may have seen it in some of their ads.  It's normally kept in a display case I think up in the stadium suite level hallway (photo below). 

And if any of you have any old Flying Worm memoribilia, helmets, etc that your wife wants you to get rid of...send me a Personal Message!!  Maybe we can do a trade or $wap some stuff or $omething.

 

Edited November 2, 2022 by NT80

[Side.Show.Joe]

Overall, I love the look. It just doesn't get more unique or dynamic than the old school two-tone green with white on white. The grey facemask is the perfect touch. I'm old and miss the days when grey was the only color on a facemask. I wish they'd make this our regular away game uniforms. 

[Wag Tag]

The Worm has turned!! GMG 

[PlummMeanGreen]

The Flying Worm—-In memory of our friend Richard “Rick” Scarborough Spears—the “flying worm” creator. He first created it on a cocktail napkin then showed it to Hayden Fry who liked it back in 1973. 
Rick told his “worm” story to many of us & the official color number of the apple green that he chose (which Fry also approved). That color number escapes me now. ••• By the way, ol’ Rick never liked the name flying worm.  RIP, Rick Spears.  
 

[NT80]

29 minutes ago, PlummMeanGreen said:

The Flying Worm—-In memory of our friend Richard “Rick” Scarborough Spears—the “flying worm” creator. He first created it on a cocktail napkin then showed it to Hayden Fry who liked it back in 1973. 
Rick told his “worm” story to many of us & the official color number of the apple green that he chose (which Fry also approved). That color number escapes me now. ••• By the way, ol’ Rick never liked the name flying worm.  RIP, Rick Spears.  
 

 

https://meangreensports.com/news/2020/9/17/general-visual-history-of-the-flying-worm

[VideoEagle]

Bill Vogle is looking down and smiling.  

[Cr1028]

7 hours ago, Green Otaku said:

Agree, it's weird to wear white at home. 

 

7 hours ago, UNTLifer said:

Cowboys have done it for years.  Love this look.

Longhorns did a white throwback at home a couple years ago.

Edited November 2, 2022 by Cr1028

[Green Otaku]

11 minutes ago, Cr1028 said:

 

Longhorns too.

 

Isn't their burnt orange jersey their home? 

 

*Just saw your edit. I was interested and looked it up and found:

"Saturday's vintage white uniforms, featuring white pants, white jerseys along with burnt orange numbers and trim, will mark the first time that the Longhorns have worn their famously referenced "icy white" uniforms for a home game since Sept. 30, 1950, vs. Purdue. The Longhorns won that game, 34-26. "

 

I think our situation is still a little bit different. We aren't commemorating a specific game where we wore white and I'm assuming (someone who knows correct me if I'm wrong) we usually wore green at home during those years. If what @tmjerm says is true the team would have likely chosen green as the jersey color if they could have. 

All that to say I still think they look really good and glad we are doing something special for homecoming haha. Hopefully they advertise it as a white out. 

Edited November 2, 2022 by Green Otaku

[UNTLifer]

6 hours ago, Rudy said:

Maybe apple bottom jeans...

[UNTLifer]

6 hours ago, Rudy said:

Gagree.  

White out?

[zenhuddy]

The Flying Worm is what we rocked when I was there - Love It ! 

[UNT Family Man]

For nostalgia sake, I’ll put up with it. It is the ugliest color of green ever.

[CMJ]

10 hours ago, UNT Texas Hooligan said:

Fire 🔥🔥🔥 Side note, the general public seems to love our other throwbacks but does not like these ones. lol

The first time I showed my wife that logo she said, and I quote, "WTF is that?!"

 

She's not a fan of the Flying Worm.  I can deal with the logo, but it's never been a favorite of mine.  I absolutely despise that color of green though.  If we were gonna go with the Worm I wish we'd do it with our current green.

[El Paso Eagle]

7 hours ago, CMJ said:

If we were gonna go with the Worm I wish we'd do it with our current green.

Nothing quite says "Retro" like changing the colors😈

[CMJ]

7 minutes ago, El Paso Eagle said:

Nothing quite says "Retro" like changing the colors😈

A large part of the fanbase wants to go back to the worm exclusively.  On the off chance that actually were to happen, I'd pray that we didn't go with the apple green.

[keith]

Yes please!  If nothing else, it creates some buzz, separates us from the crowd and gets people talking.  As the saying goes, there's no such thing as bad publicity.  The decal fits so much better on the helmet than SOW does which is why we end up with an oversized part of SOW (wing feathers) as our helmet logo.  We should somehow incorporate the green apple green (if that's what it's called) into the trim or accent parts of our uniforms.

[VideoEagle]

Back in the 70s, the color was somewhere between apple green and chartreuse, leaning a bit closer to chartreuse. 

 

[UNTLifer]

9 hours ago, CMJ said:

The first time I showed my wife that logo she said, and I quote, "WTF is that?!"

 

She's not a fan of the Flying Worm.  I can deal with the logo, but it's never been a favorite of mine.  I absolutely despise that color of green though.  If we were gonna go with the Worm I wish we'd do it with our current green.

So you and Cousin Oliver are related?

[southsideguy]

For the old guys do you remember when the McDonals had lighting  that match the helmets of the era.  I thing each light had 4 or five mini helmets on it I wish I was around when they taking out they would looked great over our dining room table.  most likely in the garage my wife would not go for it in the dining room.

[CMJ]

55 minutes ago, UNTLifer said:

So you and Cousin Oliver are related?

Even after looking up who that is, I'm still not sure what you're talking about.

[UNTLifer]

31 minutes ago, southsideguy said:

For the old guys do you remember when the McDonals had lighting  that match the helmets of the era.  I thing each light had 4 or five mini helmets on it I wish I was around when they taking out they would looked great over our dining room table.  most likely in the garage my wife would not go for it in the dining room.

Yep.  I thought the light fixtures had four lights with full sized helmets  

2 minutes ago, CMJ said:

Even after looking up who that is, I'm still not sure what you're talking about.

Sorry.  He posted that it upset his girlfriend when Bennett yelled at the players.  My lame attempt at some humor

[golfingomez]

3 hours ago, CMJ said:

A large part of the fanbase wants to go back to the worm exclusively.  On the off chance that actually were to happen, I'd pray that we didn't go with the apple green.

love the worm, but SOW is our logo for sure

[Rudy]

14 hours ago, UNTLifer said:

White out?

Wearing white this late is a fashion faux pas, though. 

[UNTLifer]

1 hour ago, Rudy said:

Wearing white this late is a fashion faux pas, though. 

[NT80]

9 hours ago, UNTLifer said:

Yep.  I thought the light fixtures had four lights with full sized helmets  

I recall them being full size helmet shells with lights in them.  I thought it was so cool McDonalds would support the school like that, and at a prime stopping spot for highway visitors and kids!

Edited November 3, 2022 by NT80