More White Helmet Options

[GreenBlooded1]

I like a green helmet better but here are some additional white helmet options that I've been playing with just for fun.

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[NT91]

Just say no to white helmets!!!!

[ntsumgspe]

Just say no to white helmets!!!!

I'll just say HELL NO to white helmets ...

WE ARE THE MEAN GREEN !!!

[ntsumck]

Boys and Girls, get ready we will wear white helmets next year. Do not be surprised if they look alot like SLC.

[The Jason]

Don't beat me up too bad,

But I am I the only one here that is a Fan of the white helment???

Edited April 4, 2007 by The Jason

[emmitt01]

Don't beat me up too bad,

But I am I the only one here that is a Fan of the white helment???

Yes.

[drex]

Take it from an old timer, when the phrase Mean Green first made its appearance, the football team was wearing white helmets with a green stripe down the middle and the letters NT on the side of the helmet. If white was good enough for the original Mean Green, maybe we can muddle through using white again.

[meangreenfreak]

I like the white helmet. It brings good color balance to the uniforms. I hated the all green uni's of years past. Green helmet, green jersey and green pants was a bad look. However, I did like the all green better than the all black.

Done right, a white helmet will be a good look, and it is a sign of a new era in NT football. It a reminder that there is a new sheriff in town, and his name is Dodge.

[GMoney]

It really doesn't bother me that much. As long as the uniform as a whole is sharp then I don't care. Being the Mean Green doesn't mean that every article of clothing on your uniform needs to be green. I prefer the green helmet, but if the white helmet is done nicely, like a few I've seen drafted up on this board, then the uniform has a chance of looking pretty good. But, white helmet/green helmet, it's all about how it is done.

Edited April 4, 2007 by GMoney

[EastTexasMG]

Just say no to white helmets!!!!

White helmets always make me think of Utah State.

[THOR]

the first one looks good...i could handle that one.

[trud1966]

Don't beat me up too bad,

But I am I the only one here that is a Fan of the white helment???

Im a fan. I think some people think white is cheap, because it's the default color of the helmet from the factory. That Green SOW on a white helmet looks very sharp, very collegiate, very UNIQUE. People need to picture 60-70 players with those helmets, running out of the tunnel onto the field.

[PerryG2480]

Tell you what I DON'T want: white helmets with green jerseys and green pants.

I could handle white helmets with green jerseys and white pants OR white helmets with white jerseys and green pants OR EVEN the Texas or Penn State look of white helmets with white jerseys AND white pants. Please don't pull a Louisville on us.

Yuck.

[NT80]

Take it from an old timer, when the phrase Mean Green first made its appearance, the football team was wearing white helmets with a green stripe down the middle and the letters NT on the side of the helmet. If white was good enough for the original Mean Green, maybe we can muddle through using white again.

It doesn't appear NT used white helmets very long after the phrase "Mean Green" came into being. Joe Greene played from 1966-68. This is from the Helmet Project : "A switch to green helmets was apparently made sometime in 1968, possibly sometime after the first game."

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From the North Texan:

Whatever the origins of our Mean Green moniker, according to "Mean" Joe Greene ('69) — whose real name, by the way, is Charles — it wasn't his idea.

"I'm proud of the tie and my link to North Texas, but I was too busy playing when the chanting started," he adds. Greene, who played for North Texas from 1966 to 1968, inadvertently gave the nickname national prominence during his career with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

There are at least two explanations for the origin of our "Mean Green" name.

One features North Texas basketball players Willie "Sleepy" Davis ('68) and Ira "Hotrod" Daniels ('69), a small bottle of alcohol and a football game in the '60s. Sleepy was recently anointed by some early Mean Green players to share his version.

He says one Saturday night, after indulging in a little wine at halftime of a North Texas football game, he and Daniels came back into Fouts Field.

"Of course North Texas was beating someone in football, and we were very avid supporters of the other athletics programs there — everybody supported everybody," he says. "Ira Daniels wasn't satisfied with the cheers, so he got up and started saying to the rest of us, the students sitting in this section, 'Mean Green, you look so good to me,' and we'd say, 'Mean Green.'"

The crowd repeated this over and over, and soon the cheerleaders on the field had stopped to listen, he says. Once they understood what was being said, they joined in.

"After that we did it every game," Davis says. "A lot of people later on started associating it with Joe because his last name was Greene, but it actually started with that simple chant that Saturday night at Fouts Field. And that's the truth."

A different Mean Green story also originates at a North Texas football game in the '60s, one that featured a "spectacular tackle" by Joe Greene.

"That's the way, Mean Greene!" were the words of Sidney Sue Graham ('57), wife of Fred Graham ('57), then the university's sports information director.

"It was merely a spontaneous cheer for an impressive play, but moments later the light bulb went off," she recalls. "I'd been thinking we needed a nickname. All the other really strong defensive units in the country had one."

So she mentally removed the "e" to make "Mean Green" apply to the entire defense.

"Fred said it was too corny," she says.

But he did refer to the "Mean Green Defensive Unit" in one of his press releases about the team, and the name caught on with sports writers.

"The following spring I was at the university bookstore and discovered Mean Green drinking glasses, T-shirts, candle-

holders, etc.," Fred Graham says. "I called an attorney friend and asked if it was too late to get a copyright on the Mean Green nickname on merchandise. His answer, unfortunately, was, 'Yes, too late.'"

When the newspapers first ran the story of how the Grahams arrived at the name, their son's second-grade teacher read it to his class. The boy yelled to his friends, "My mama named the Mean Green!"

However the nickname came to be, the fact remains that it stuck, and "Mean Green" is associated with North Texas teams today.

We're glad someone thought of it.

[Got5onIt]

Yep, I see it now. North Texas vs Someone St. in the Whoever Bowl. Announcer has the two team's helmet in front of him. He says North Texas Mean Green and looks curiously at the white helmet.

[MeanMag]

Don't beat me up too bad,

But I am I the only one here that is a Fan of the white helment???

No, I love it and green helmets too, if it were up to me they would be interchangeable and alternate uniforms

[eagle60]

I like the white helmets. NT used to wear them back during my school days with green jerseys and sometimes with green pants. No one else looked like our guys. If you look at the SLC uniforms they're sharp looking. The all green ones look bulky and not sharp.

[gksmith]

White...the new black.

[NT80]

Will we be Marshall look-a-likes?.......

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=htt...l%3Den%26sa%3DG

[trud1966]

Will we be Marshall look-a-likes?.......

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=htt...l%3Den%26sa%3DG

alot of people get up in arms about the white helmets. I think that Marshall Uni is sharp looking (in the link above, then scroll down to about mid page for a better photo). And for people who say there's just no way we can "mean green" with a white helmet, I cant help but chuckle. If you look at that photo, use your imagination and just consider that team's nickname is the Mean-green. Are you SERIOUSLY gonna argue, that people will just be THAT lost and dumbfounded, and confused because the Helmet is WHITE?????????? That argument doesnt hold water. Guys, focus on the team, and us improving. If we are lucky enough to get a uniform package that looks that nice, that's icing on the cake.

I still have money in my back pocket that Dodge (when asked about the helmets) may have mis-spoke, may have been jacking with someone, and the team comes out of the OU tunnel, first game, with the same helmets as last year.

This rumor is probably true, but all we have to go by is something to the tune of basically "i know this guy, who's brother, who plays golf with TD's shoe shiner, and he said he heard the helments this year are White. Again, probably true, but we're banking on Validity based on heresay.