Rate That Uni: Northern Arizona

Today finishes up our Rate That Uni series, both for the Big Sky and for all the teams out West. First up today is the Northern Arizona Lumberjacks.


HELMET



UNIFORMS

NORTHERN ARIZONA	Brett	John	Zach	AVG
Helmet	B-	F	A-	C+
Home uni	C	D-	C	C-
Road uni – blue pants	B+	D-	C	C
Road uni – white pants	C+	D-	C	C-
OVERALL	C+	D-	B-	C-

Brett: The helmet is just ‘meh.’ It would be sweet if the Lumberjacks could capitalize on the axe part in some way. The home uniforms are just short of awful. The monochrome look is bad, as usual. The numbers are oddly fat on the home sets—like what happens when you choose a typeface that is already really strong, then apply bold on top of it. The road sets with blue pants look sharp, but the side-stripes on the jersey top extend too far to the front, almost making them not “side stripes” anymore. The white pants on the road have a very ugly, fat stripe that doesn’t match the top. Not a total travesty, but lots of room for improvement.

John: I couldn't give Northern Arizona straight Fs because that would put it in the same category as Cal, but there's so much wrong with these uniforms.  The fat pant stripes that morph into pointy stripes under the armpits is one of the worst uniform flourishes in football.  That alone merits a low grade.  Add the super skinny pointy stripe on the helmet, and you have a uniform disaster.  Seeing the axe on the helmet makes me think that Northern Arizona should drop the "NAU" on the helmet and just go with the axe, like Florida State or Arizona State's new helmets.

Zach: Again, the Big Sky comes through with yet another solid helmet. Northern Arizona makes great use of a unique nickname and has a great color scheme to match. I just don't understand the necessity of side piping and GIGANTIC pant stripes. So much potential with the helmet logo and color scheme, wasted by terrible execution.

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