Marshall: This is a Marshall concept I started a few years ago. For anybody that’s been around the Marshall football program (Marshall campus is about an hour drive from my house) the 1970 plane crash plays a big part. Every fall they turn off the memorial fountain on the anniversary of the plane crash they killed 75 members of the football program. In the past few years Marshall has started wearing uni-centric memorials around the weekend of the anniversary. Including wearing a 75 decal on the side of helmets to putting the crash victims names on the center stripe to wearing black jerseys for some reason.
I wanted to take idea and have a visualizing appealing aspect of that. I came up with the idea to have a memorial patch on the collar of the jerseys of the regular green and white jerseys. The patch has a silhouette of the fountain in the background and a 75 in the foreground. The spot is usually reserved for a teams logo on Nike jersey’s which Marshall currently employs. The rest of the uniform is modified version of the Randy Moss / early 2000’s version of Marshall’s uniform. With the addition of the new M on the helmets and “the herd” word mark. In recent years more and more black elements have creeped into the uniform.
I also included a a 1971 throwback uniform that I had the idea to wear the weekend of the anniversary. As not only to honor the fallen but as a tribute to the “young” herd that continued the program.
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