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Notre Dame men’s basketball to wear green jerseys for four home games

Dress appropriately for these games.

A big deal always is made whenever the Notre Dame football team wears green jerseys. Typically, it’s reserved for a special occasion once a year. But the men’s basketball team has decided one game of green jerseys isn’t enough.

In a video released Monday, the Irish announced that they will wear green jerseys four times at Purcell Pavilion during the 2024-25 season. The video showcases [autotag]Micah Shrewsberry[/autotag] being asked which one of the four games his team should sport the jerseys in.

After a moment, Shrewsberry decides that Syracuse, North Carolina, Virginia Tech and Pittsburgh all need to see the jerseys when they visit South Bend.

The Irish wore green jerseys once last season, and that was a 73-61 loss to Miami. This year, they’ll stick with them of sporting them against ACC competition.

Also of note is that all of the games will be broadcast on network TV. Three of them will be on The CW, and CBS has the game against the Tar Heels. Clearly, the Irish want to look their best while playing for national audiences.

We’ll find out soon enough whether the green jerseys are lucky for the Irish.

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Notre Dame confirmed to wear green jerseys vs. Louisville

Dress appropriately if you’re going to the game.

For a while, there was doubt about whether Notre Dame would match its fans for the annual “Irish Wear Green” game against Louisville. Part of that has to do with the fact that the university never officially released images of the uniform combination for such a game. Those doubts can be put to rest now.

[autotag]Marcus Freeman[/autotag] has announced that the Irish will indeed wear green jerseys against the Cardinals, a decision he indicated earlier in the week that he would leave up to the captains. There’s no telling exactly how long that decision-making process was, but it’s been completed.

Although we don’t for certain right now what the uniform will look like, Blue and Gold Illustrated has learned that the green jerseys will be worn with white pants along with the usual gold helmets.

The Irish have an all-time record of 41-13-1 when wearing green jerseys, splitting their first two such games under Freeman.

The hope is the Irish won’t repeat what happened when they wore the jerseys last season. They came agonizingly close to upsetting Ohio State, only to hamper themselves by having only 10 defensive players on the field when the Buckeyes scored the winning touchdown with one second left.

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Will Notre Dame football be wearing green jersey’s this week vs. Louisville

There could be a change in uni’s this weekend

While many of us expected that the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team would be wearing its green jersey’s against Louisville this weekend, head coach [autotag]Marcus Freeman[/autotag] put some doubts on that idea during his Monday press conference.

The Irish coach mentioned that they will wear them in his opening comments, but when asked again later, he wasn’t quite sure. Freeman is going to meet with the captains on Monday afternoon to get their input into the situation, and they will make the final decision what is going to be worn on Saturday.

It makes plenty of sense for Freeman to give the option to his players, as they will be the ones having to wear them. It’s also great to see that the head coach is giving an opportunity for the team leaders to make the choice, something you don’t see too much across the nation.

Freeman is showing once again, that he is a players-coach, and just wants the best for the young men in his program.

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Notre Dame announces what game they’ll wear green with the help of Sheamus

Sheamus had to be involved in this announcement

One of my personal favorite Notre Dame football uniform combinations is when the Irish wear full green, and on Thursday the Irish announced when that will happen during the 2024 season

With the help of WWE star [autotag]Sheamus[/autotag] in a social media video, head coach [autotag]Marcus Freeman[/autotag] let Irish Nation know that the green jerseys will return on September 28th, as the Irish will host Louisville.

In a conjoined announcement, that game is now officially sold out, so expect a packed house full of green in Notre Dame Stadium. So far the Irish have also announced their jersey’s for the Shamrock Series as well.

Notre Dame has one of the most instantly recognizable helmets in all of college football, and they have produced some epic alternate jersey’s to go along with them. This is just another example of that, and we can’t wait to see the Irish in green this fall.

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Notre Dame swaps jerseys at halftime of 1985 blowout win over USC

Remember this game?

One of the most famous games in the Notre Dame-USC rivalry came in 1977. The Irish warmed up on the field in their regular blues, but they returned for the game wearing green, and they won that game.

Fast forward to the teams’ 1985 meeting. [autotag]Gerry Faust[/autotag] decided to do what predecessor [autotag]Dan Devine[/autotag] did, but he didn’t do it in the same way. Rather, the Irish played the first half in their blues before sporting green for the second half of a 37-3 blowout win. Faust explained his decision-making afterwards:

The victory came in the middle of a four-game winning streak, but all it ultimately did was make the Irish’s 5-6 season look better. Faust resigned at the end of the year and was replaced by [autotag]Lou Holtz[/autotag], who would lead the Irish to their most recent national championship in 1988. It was a reminder that even though a jersey swap might seem cool, people won’t care as much if you’re a so-so team.

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Notre Dame to wear green for big home game vs. Virginia Tech

Will these work?

With Notre Dame three games back of Virginia Tech in the ACC, the hopes for repeating as ACC regular-season champions have been dashed. But an Irish victory over the red-hot Hokies would do wonders for their NCAA Tournament seeding, and they seem to recognize that. One day before their biggest game of the season, they announced they’ll be wearing green jerseys for the occasion at Purcell Pavilion:

The Hokies have won 10 straight and would clinch the outright ACC title by beating the Irish. So a lot will be on the line for both teams Thursday in South Bend.

We know the football team has brought out green jerseys on several occasions when a game has had high stakes, but it typically hasn’t ended well in those cases. The women’s basketball team wore green when it lost to top-ranked South Carolina during its season opener in Paris. Here’s hoping that’s not a sign that what’s true in football carries over to women’s basketball.

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Notre Dame football’s all-time best throwback uniforms

The jerseys were great. The game was not.

Much has been made this week about a couple of NFL teams bringing back some of their best uniforms.  The Seattle Seahawks are bringing back what we call “The Mirer’s” in these parts while the Minnesota Vikings are bringing out their own “classic” look.

That news got me thinking about my favorite Notre Dame football throwback uniforms of all-time.  Listen, the Irish don’t change things up with their uniforms often, and when they do it’s rather minimal.  However, their throwbacks worn against USC in 2007 to recognize the 1977 green jersey game were classic.

Take a look back below of how great the Irish looked that day and try to forget the fact that the worst Notre Dame team most of us have ever seen lost 38-0 to their biggest rival that afternoon.

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Watch: Notre Dame unveils green jerseys ‘Jerry McGuire’ style

Show me the greeeeeeeeeen jerseys!!!!!

So far in the [autotag]Marcus Freeman[/autotag] era of [autotag]Notre Dame football[/autotag], they have created big productions mimicking movies as a fun way to unveil alternate jerseys for the season.

Last year it was a spoof on “The Hangover” and this year after yesterday’s tease, the hints were there it was going to be a “Jerry McGuire” riff this time. You can tell that there was a lot of thought that goes into these videos.

This year the stars of the video are running back [autotag]Audric Estime[/autotag], quarterback [autotag]Sam Hartman[/autotag] and of course, Freeman. “Show me the greeeeeeeeen jerseys,” well if you watch the video the video below, you can see this year’s version.

Also, if you wait until the very end, you can see a blooper of Freeman doing the real line from “Jerry McGuire.”

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Notre Dame-USC: Should Irish wear green each year for rivalry game?

Should this be an annual color game like USC-UCLA? And if so — which color for ND?

Let’s not get this confused:  as a lifelong Notre Dame fan, I have been programmed to despise nearly everything about USC.  Everything from the sunshine surfer-bro culture to the glitz and glamor of L.A. drives me at least a little bit crazy.  Oh, and the fact that Colin Cowherd can’t stop tooting their horn after ignoring them for the last decade.

However, there are a couple of saving graces with USC.  One is the work that Matt Zemek does at Trojans Wire.  Each year I look forward to collaborating with him and his team in preparation for Notre Dame-USC.  The other is their uniforms which are one of college football’s very best.

Combine those two and you get the gist of our latest piece done in conjunction with Trojans Wire which looks at the history of both programs and the rivalry.  And then asks an interesting question about the uniforms for both teams.

I hope you enjoy it.

Notre Dame football adds names to back of jerseys (for this week at least)

“I don’t care if they play in purple and have someone else’s name on their back, just win baby” – Me if this game is close in the 3rd quarter

We’ve known for a couple of months now that Notre Dame was going to wear green during the “Irish Wear Green” game for 2022, a first, as ridiculous as that sounds.  What we didn’t know was that there would be a slight twist to the green jerseys for this game as they’ll feature last names on the back.

The Notre Dame football Twitter account showed off what the Irish uniforms will look like on Saturday and they have that feature that is usually only reserved for bowl games.  Take a look at the set of photos that Notre Dame’s social media team provided below.

I know some people really like these but the white letters now have me wondering if white numerals wouldn’t look (significantly) better.

Whatever the case or your thoughts on the green jerseys, just get a stinking win on Saturday.

Please.

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Related – Notre Dame’s alternate uniforms in recent years

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