OAA Red Football Uniforms Outlook

Written Friday September 2nd, at 10:12 AM

Hello everyone, now I am not a fashion geek and what does football uniforms have to do with football, especially Dragon football, well everything. They describe passion and determination when your team comes out onto the football field. Russel Athletic, Nike and others have done a great job with uniforms during the years, don't get me wrong. There are some football teams in the Red that have great uniforms and some that people don't like, some of them I am even critical of, so don't be offended. Just recently this season Troy Athens, West Bloomfield, and Royal Oak changed uniforms for the upcoming season.

LAKE ORION: The Dragons have always kept the traditional uniform look, last name is on the back and the font "DRAGONS" for home games and "LAKE ORION" for road games on the front. The game pants will vary but mostly it is a green-green, or white-white combination at football games, however there have been times that the Dragons have worn white top-green pants combination, (at Clarkston in 2009, at Royal Oak in 2010.) The football helmet is traditional as well, Orion has a green helmet with a green face mask, LO on both sides with two stripes on top. Lake Orion does at times wear the Nike jersey for home games along with either green pants or white pants designed by Nike but the Nike jersey does not have the names on the back.

CLARKSTON: The Wolves are a more of a mystery when it comes to their jersey. Gone are the days of last names on the back, the yellow pants, and the name CLARKSTON on the front in cursive. Enter the Wolves new look, a blue jersey, blue pants combination for home games, which they have had since 2005. The blue top has the word "WOLVES" in small lettering in cursive. The Wolves helmets are very similar to Michigan with the maize and blue look but the uniform is not like Michigan at all, it's different. In 2009 Clarkston got rid of the yellow pants and picked up a white-white combination with "CLARKSTON" in small letters for road games, it is a combination the Wolves have wore ever since.

TROY: The Colts changed jerseys in 2005, after adding more red to their jerseys. In 2007 the Colts got rid of the TC and the gray stripes on their helmets and added a colt's head to their helmets along with a red stripe with the black helmet. Troy's home jersey is black with the players last names on the back with the Colts logo on the shoulder with the "COLTS" small lettering on the front. The road jersey does not have the names on the back and has a small "TROY" lettering on the front along with the Colts logo on the shoulder. The Colts do wear black pants no matter where they play either at home or on the road and have a red stripe on the side.

ROYAL OAK: The Ravens got rid of the black shoulder yoke uniforms and lettering in exchange for a more traditional uniform with the name "RAVENS" for the home black jerseys and "ROYAL OAK" for the road. Royal Oak's new coach Jeff Hill took the name of the players off the back as he tries to change the culture around Royal Oak. The home pants are also new with black and have the blue stripe on them. Royal Oak's black helmets and face mask have not changed with the Baltimore Ravens head for their logo. Royal Oak wears a white-white with blue stripes on the side on the road this season.

ROCHESTER: The Falcons have gone through a lot but the jersey and tradition has not changed their helmets are like the Pittsburgh Steelers of the NFL and their jerseys are like the Wisconsin Badgers of College Football. A few seasons back the Falcons wore blue pants but have since went back to a blue-white combination for home games and white-white for road games. Both jerseys were designed by Nike. Both of them say "FALCONS" with no last names on the back and have the Nike logo on the right side. Rochester's helmet is blue with a white face mask. It has a "R" on the left side with a huge white stripe on top and are awarded helmet stickers on the right side to fill the void without the R.

WEST BLOOMFIELD: The Lakers have been a traditional team when it comes to jerseys but this season the team got a new look courtesy of Nike. The Lakers added a white stripe to their new helmet with the W.B. anchor logo on the side along with a white face mask. West Bloomfield's new jerseys does not have the player's last name on the back but does have the Nike logo on the right side and have the "LAKERS" name on the front on both jerseys. The Lakers game pants does have a line on the side of their game pants. West Bloomfield wears a green jersey with white pants at home and a white jersey with white pants on the road.

PONTIAC: The Phoenix jersey's have not changed since Pontiac Northern and Pontiac Central merged in 2009. The home jersey is a purple-purple combination with gray trim. The Phoenix wear a gray football helmet with the Phoenix logo on the side a purple face mask. The road jersey is a white jersey, white pants combination with purple trim but Pontiac at times will wear purple pants on the road. Both jerseys do not have last names on the back.

TROY ATHENS: The Red Hawks have been jersey change galore in the last five seasons. So far Troy Athens have wore basically everything, from jersey schemes, to changing the game pants, to even changing the helmet. Five seasons ago the Red Hawks wore red jerseys with gold pants and gold helmets. Two seasons ago Troy Athens wore red jerseys, red pants, and red helmets. Last season the Red Hawks wore red jerseys, red pants, and gold helmets. It doesn't help that Athens changed their logo a few times, they wore the Iowa Hawkeyes logo as their main logo last season. This season the Red Hawks bring in a new color scheme and a new logo, the all white look very similar to Nebraska with the Red Hawk logo on the side and the red stripe on the front. The jersey say "RED HAWKS" on the front with red trim down the side on the road jersey with white pants with a red big stripe on the side. The home jersey the Red Hawks wear is red with the same white pants and the white helmets.

Now jerseys doesn't tell how teams perform on the field but it gives an very interesting point when teams play each other during the season, enjoy and god bless.