Send Out The Smoke Patrol...LSU's New Helmets Change Colors Under The Stadium Lights

I know what you’re thinking.  You’re so sick of all these fancy newfangled uniforms.  Back in your day football players just played football.  They cared more about X’s and O’s than fit checks and colorways.

Well I’ve got bad news for you…

That’s right folks, disrespect these uniforms…you disrespect the troops.  And not just any troops – World War 1 troops.

The helmets turn to gold underneath the stadium lights, paying homage to “The Silent Season”of 1918, where the Tigers didn’t play because of WW1.   Also – the jerseys have an oak pattern on them, a reference to the 30 oak trees that were planted on campus in honor of soldiers from the LSU community who were lost in the war (including one MIA).

People forget LSU has a VERY STRONG military heritage – it was started by General William Tecumseh Sherman in 1860, who gave it the nickname “Ole War Skule.”  It was even used as an actual military post.

The LSU ROTC program fosters perhaps the University’s first and oldest student organization and its oldest tradition – the military heritage that has been part of the institution since its beginning under General William Tecumseh Sherman, who is believed to have given LSU the nickname “Ole War Skule.” For a number of years, the campus was a former military post, located adjacent to the Mississippi River near what is now downtown Baton Rouge.

Today, the same Pentagon Barracks provide space for state offices and other elected officials, and one can look out from them onto the official gardens of the state capitol and view the grounds on which LSU cadets once drilled and practiced military training. Since 1926, the LSU Corps of Cadets has been at home on the present campus of more than 2,000 acres.  [LSU]

ROTC commitments were actually required for 2 years, until the 60s, when a little thing called the Vietnam War turned the pressure up a little bit and they were forced to make it voluntary.  Today there is the “LSU Corps of Cadets” who serve as part of the legacy of “the Long Purple Line.”  So now you’ve learned a little bit, you treated not just your eyes to some ejaculation worthy jerseys, but your mind to some knowledge.  Barstool Sports, come for the jersey smoke patrols, leave with a deeper understanding of school history and its ties to war.

LSU football: 6-1 on the scoreboard, undefeated in World War 1 honoring jerseys.