Going Green: The History of Notre Dame's Special Jerseys, from Rockne to Today

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🗓️ 21 September 2023

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Tradition is one of the most polarizing aspects of college football. One on hand, there are teams like Oregon, who seem to roll out a new uniform combo every week. And then there are schools like Notre Dame who seem to only stick with the iconic gold helmets and navy blue jerseys. It’s been their look for what feels like a century, and it seems like they never deviate from it. However, every few years Notre Dame will don green jerseys, and their reception is just as mixed as you might think. Some of the Irish’s signature victories have come in green…but so have some of their most humiliating defeats. So are the green jerseys a blessing, a curse, or just a piece of fabric? Our good friend, Ryan McGee, helps us find that out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Right, Maggie. We are not even talking about practice. We're talking about jerseys and
0:07.2	college football. Yeah. And that's, that's a sensitive subject because, you know, people
0:12.7	like what they like. And in college football, they really like what they like. And a lot
0:16.2	of times they've liked it for a hundred years, particularly in South Bend, Indiana. But
0:20.8	yeah, the jerseys will be the talk of the stadium this Saturday night. Yeah. Number nine,
0:26.6	under name, taking out number six Ohio state and South Bend. And the Irish are not going to
0:32.0	be wearing their usual blue jerseys. They've got an alternate jersey all geared up. What is it?
0:39.7	It's green, green jerseys. And everyone automatically thinks, all right, this is just another
0:45.9	school doing another alternative jersey. This happens all the time. But at Notre Dame, not only
0:52.8	it does not happen all the time when they do it's a really big deal. But there's a history behind
0:58.0	the green. This is not just some Oregon, Hey, let's change it up this weekend. This is a big deal.
1:08.0	Schools have white outs. Schools have black outs. Schools have all these outs when it comes to
1:14.7	colors. And now what Notre Dame is hoping for, at least Marcus Freeman had coached Notre Dame
1:20.1	was hoping for a green out. We want to see a lot of green in here. That's the cool thing about
1:26.9	Saturday is we've got green jerseys. And I don't know if they're calling it a green out. But we want
1:32.0	to see a lot of green. Yeah. Yeah. Well, green seems like a natural fit. They are the fighting Irish
1:38.0	after all. You just wrote a full deep dive into the history of these green jerseys for Notre Dame.
1:44.5	And of course, anytime you talk about Notre Dame, there's that long history filled with so many
1:50.9	legends. But there are also some haters out there. What did you find out about these green jerseys?
1:57.6	I found out, as it typically is with Notre Dame, is that it's a really, really big deal in South
2:04.4	Bend. It's a really, really big deal with the millions of Notre Dame fans around the country.
2:09.3	But I can already feel the rest of college football going. You people are so important with your
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