WVU uniforms!!!

[Dutch]

what the hell are they thinking wearing gunmetal gray in the Champs Sports Bowl?!?!?!? that's not an official school color.

[RGV Pony]

not to mention the eschewing of dark (or "union") blue for grey is ironic for West Virginia, who seceeded from a Confederate state to join the Union.

[Pony ^]

I thought they were legit

[expony18]

what the hell are they thinking wearing gunmetal gray in the Champs Sports Bowl?!?!?!? that's not an official school color.

"The uniforms are great," Huggins said. "Wearing those uniforms brightens up the day of the families of those 29 miners that died in the Upper Branch mine tragedy, and I think it is a wonderful gesture."
The jerseys were designed for WVU are all white in color with black shoulders that are made to simulate the dust a miner would accumulate during a usual workday.
The Mountaineers' helmets also features a coal dust effect that has shades of color ranging from light gray to black.
Along with the coal dust effects on WVU's helmet, it features a canary yellow stripe down the middle of the helmet that is used to signify the canaries miners used to take with them to warn them of toxic gases that could be in the air.

http://www.thedaonline.com/wvu-s-nike-p ... -1.1549572

[lwjr]

I thought WVU colors where blue and yellow?

[b_caesar]

Better all-around explanation for honoring a specific tragic event than what we've gotten in our neck of the woods this week.