Notre Dame Football: Ranking all the Shamrock Series uniforms

2012 vs. Miami

Going off jerseys alone, this year could have topped the list. Using the motif of the fighting leprechaun while making slight tweaks to the team’s basic blue-on-gold look, adidas produced a look that was clean and new without going overboard.

There was a blue stripe down the side of the pants with the full leprechaun logo, and the jersey itself used a new font with gold numbers and “Irish” written across the front. Simple, but effective.

But then there was the helmet. And boy did that thing ruin the whole ensemble.

First of all, adidas repeated that same foil gold look on one side that just looks silly. Secondly, the leprechaun on the blue side is way oversized and kind of looks like he’s about to punch the player wearing him in the face.

But strangest of all, what’s with that divide in color? Half and half would be weird enough, but instead the gold extends about 3/5ths of the way across. Why? What was the rationale here?

The overall theme of the adidas jerseys compared to the Under Armour ones is a lack of detail and cohesive theme or reasoning. Rather than let Notre Dame’s history and tradition dictate what this jersey could have been, adidas seemingly imposed its own ideas.

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