Helmet decals. Honor badges. Or how about “performance stickers”? Call it a gut feeling but I think we’ll see them on the winged helmet following the Utah game but we’ll see. A primer on helmet sticker history can be found here.
Naturally Dr. Sap has been pondering their return and he has mocked up a few potential designs for your review, poll at the bottom:
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1. adidas logo |
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2. 1969 old school maize |
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3. 1969 high maize |
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4. Bo |
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5. Block M (Inside Oval) |
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6. Swoosh |
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7. Pebble grain retro |
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8. The Team x 3 |
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9. HTTV |
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10. Mid-1970s |
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Added: 11. Blockhams Bo (submitted by Scott from The Blockhams) |
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Added 12. Plain Block M (requested on Twitter and mgoblog) |
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Added 13. Via comments, Jumpman (2016?) |
Which one do you like, or do you have your own design? Send it over or hit me on Twitter.
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14 Comments
Nothatso
How about a blue sticker with a maize block M? To me, the old stickers are too big and stick out too much.
Anonymous
Jumpman?
markusr2007
It will be the Mid-70s design this year. That snarling Wolverine is just too damn bad ass for anything else.
John M.
It’s got to be football-shaped. And no commercial brands – this is a Michigan tradition, not a flavor of the week. I love Bo, but the program is more than just him. So the snarling wolverine it is. Either mid-1970s or retro pebble grain works.
JP
I like any of the Wolverine ones. Not to knock Bo, love that man, but as a poster above states, its more than one man (he would too agree). The Pebbled one, is by far the coolest…simply because it represents a pig skin!
~GO BLUE!!
J Sellman
all of the football shapes are as bad as ohios bucknut. Just simple block M white or yellow (maize). Would be classic just like the helmet it would be on.
Section 1
How about none; zero? Helmet stickers are clutter on Michigan’s winged helmet designs. Frankly, Ohio State owns the whole helmet sticker thing. I don’t care who invented it (it wasn’t the Buckeyes, assuredly) but they sure as hell made it iconic. Their plain and unremarkable mid-sixties helmet design benefits from the sticker thing. Let them have it. I don’t wish for Michigan to emulate anything that OSU, MSU and a hundred other schools do.
Anonymous
http://i.imgur.com/k09I63I.jpg
why it got my vote
Anonymous
My vote is for no stickers. Helmet is perfect as-is.
Anonymous
I don’t like any of these. Perhaps there’s a version 10 that can be created with a solid wolverine as opposed to a ‘sketched’ one (think sticker #13’s solid images). The wolverine images don’t look very clean. When I think of a helmet sticker, I think it should be a graphically designed image that appears like a logo. They shouldn’t look like someone drew the image on a piece of paper.
Teddy
I’m not a fan of helmet stickers, but if we have to use them, my vote goes to Mid-1970s.
Andrew
Interesting. You currently have 1,986 votes on your poll. 1986 is also Jim Harbaugh’s senior season at Michigan. Could it be a sign??? Of what, I don’t know, but of something, I’m sure.
98212
Do players get them in practice or just in games and could we see some in the first game?
James E.
I think they’re only rewarded for game performance. In the opener, everyone has a sticker-less helmet.