Pitt should wear these sweet throwback uniforms every damn week
These uniforms look great, and they’re pure Pittsburgh.
Pitt’s rocking this throwback look for Saturday’s game at No. 4 Penn State (ABC):
These are amazing. They’re a call back to Pitt’s glory days, when the Panthers were a national power in the late 1970s and early 1980s. They’re fitting for a game against Penn State, because the heights of that rivalry came when Pitt dressed like this:
These jerseys have some new trim on them, and they’re a little louder than Pitt’s old shades of blue and yellow. But they’re pretty similar, and they look great.
For our City.
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For our School.
For our Legends.
For our Fans.
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The Panthers wore the equivalent home uniform last year against Georgia Tech:
Pitt’s uniforms are a passionate topic of local conversation. The font on the helmets here is the “Pitt Script,” which the school egregiously went away from years ago:
For some reason, Pitt decided long ago to shift its primary colors from blue and yellow to more of a “navy and Vegas gold” kind of thing. The local NHL team, the Penguins, also moved away from yellow and started using Vegas gold, and people didn’t like it. Now the Penguins wear yellow, but like at Pitt, the locals call the color “gold.”
Pittsburgh’s unique, in that its three major pro teams all share a black and yellow color scheme. (Again, it’s called gold, but it’s really yellow.) Pitt’s blue is different, but there’s no reason the yellow can’t be the same beautiful color as the rest of the teams’.
However you’d like to name these colors is fine. What’s most important is that Pitt looks absolutely dashing in these uniforms and should wear them more often.