James Franklin let the crowd attending and listening to his weekly radio show in on a little secret Thursday night.
Penn State might just have a throwback uniform in the works.
“I love it. For other people,” Franklin said about the ever changing uniforms across college football. “I really do. I think it’s cool, unique, a way for them to differentiate themselves. We don’t need to do that because we have an iconic uniform.”
“One of the things I am looking at possibly doing is a throwback uniform. Although our uniform has pretty much stayed the same, there has been variations over the years. Maybe one game a year you do a throwback of the elements we’ve had over the years. It’s a great way to pay respect to the past, but give the players and recruits a way to see we’re doing something a little bit different. That’s something Spider shared with me that was already in the process. There were things he’d talked about with Joe but they’d never gotten out of the lockers.”
(As fans recall, Spider Caldwell was one of the football team’s equipment managers for decades.)
What those throwback uniforms might look like is still very much in the dark. When (or if) they would ever used is also a mystery. Penn State’s original colors were pink and black, but there have been variations along the way to the iconic blue and white uniforms that could serve as throwbacks.
The football squad wouldn’t be the Penn State team first to revisit the past — the men’s basketball has worn throwback jerseys on several occasions over the past few seasons.
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