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I think these are intriguing. I agree with Wes that kids love these things. If that's what it takes to put us over the top with some recruits, so be it. Change sometimes gets people fired up, for example the Halloween South Carolina game. I hope we see these this year.

Lol no. Not ever.

My school is not black. No need to aspire to the Oregon State look.

I graduated from Powell High School in 1977. When Powell was founded their first football uniforms where hand me down black and orange uniforms from UT. To this day those are Powell's colors. There is precedent for the black and orange before the current colors were adopted. I love the current uniforms but I have no problem at all with the idea of using the throw back orange and black colors occasianally . The baseball team incorporates the black into at least their caps and I love the look.

It's a historical fact that black uniforms were worn before the current uniform colors were officially adopted. Therefore the black is also part of our tradition. I have no problem with the color being used every once in a while as a change of pace. However, it should be used sparingly just as the orange on orange has been.

They were black before they were orange, and all I'm saying is haveing an ALTERNATE jersey is not the end of the world. Tennessee will always be Tennessee, the players is what makes Tennessee football not the jerseys, when was the last time the jerseys won a football game? I'm not bashing the traditionalist cause I love the orange too, but a black jersey is also ok to me. Go vols!