Ouch! We're #1!

As an Oregon Duck alum, the last few seasons have been an interesting ride in the college football scheme of things.

The University of Oregon football team has made a few good runs for the conference title, stumbled a few times, but basically been seen as a national contender. Last year, if I'm not mistaken, we got to a #7 ranking.

Now comes the news that the Ducks are finally #1.

According to Sports Illustrated, we are the #1 team in the entire United State of America when it comes to "Ugly Uniforms."

This, of course, hurts. What makes it worse, however, is that Nike is an Oregon company and Nike's leader Phil Knight is an Oregon Duck like me. But, somehow, Nike has created the worst uniform out there for the home team. I'm not entirely sure how something like this happens.

On the other hand, maybe my style sense is lacking because I actually don't hate these uniforms. Maybe the fact that I'm used to yellow and green makes it hard for me to comprehend the "you suck" factor here but I kinda think they're okay. The helmets, for example, are the best I've ever seen at the UO.

I'm sure next year's uniforms will be different.