Tag: Gold Pants

Thomas Morstead shares Saints uniform combo for Week 15 vs. Chiefs

New Orleans Saints punter Thomas Morstead said on Twitter that the team will wear black jerseys and pants for Week 15 against the Chiefs.

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Thomas Morstead is one of the team captains who votes each week on the New Orleans Saints uniform combination, and the Pro Bowl punter took time Friday to announce their upcoming pick: black jerseys with matching black pants. It’s been the most-popular look in the Sean Payton era, worn in 73 games since 2006 (including the playoffs).

This will be the 29th consecutive game the Saints have played without using their gold pants, which were also a fixture (91 games) until quarterback Drew Brees injured his throwing hand while wearing them in a Week 2 game with the Los Angeles Rams last year. Presumably superstitious after the incident, the Saints introduced white pants soon after and haven’t gone back to the gold since.

Brees is one of the team captains who votes each week; the group includes Morstead and linebacker Craig Robertson as special teams captains, with Brees and left tackle Terron Armstead representing the offense while linebacker Demario Davis, defensive end Cameron Jordan, and safety Malcolm Jenkins speak for the defense. As Morstead pointed out on Twitter, the decision to shun the gold pants falls to a group vote, “and we don’t all agree.”

The full rankings, for the superstitious (and those of you, like me, who are just a little stitious):

  1. White jerseys, white pants: 6-2 (.750)
  2. “Color Rush” alternates: 7-3 (.700)
  3. “Black and Gold” throwbacks: 2-1 (.667)
  4. Black jerseys, gold pants: 23-13 (.639)
  5. White jerseys, black pants: 41-25 (.621)
  6. Black jerseys, black pants: 45-28 (.616)
  7. White jerseys, gold pants: 31-24 (.564)

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Look! Ohio State football players receive Big Ten championship rings and gold pants

The Ohio State football players received not only their Big Ten championship rings, but also another pair of gold pants Wednesday. Look …

It slid a little under the radar, but Wednesday was the first day that Ohio State players and coaches could technically be together for workouts under the approved six-week preseason plan the NCAA approved a couple of weeks ago. And so it was apparently at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center, as the coaching staff had some door prizes for the football program by way of some well-earned swag.

According to several posts on social media by Buckeye football players, they received some pretty amazing looking Big Ten championship rings, as well as another pair of gold pants for beating That Team Up North. Again.

We could post any one of several players that shared some pretty nice images of these jewels, but we believe tight end Jeremy Ruckert’s is well worth a look.

Hopefully, we’ll see more of this type of rewarding jewelry this fall and beyond.