# Oregon Duck Uniforms. WTF?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-duck-uniforms-wtf/558964
**Category:** The Game Room
**Created:** [October 31, 2010, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-duck-uniforms-wtf/558964 "2010-10-31T12:19:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@Captain\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Midnight)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2010, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-duck-uniforms-wtf/558964/1 "2010-10-31T12:19:49Z")
This is a point that has been made quite a bit, but what is up with the University of Oregon football uniforms? Their uniforms are either green, yellow, black or white. With USC it was all white, white pants and jerseys. The helmets are also green, yellow, white or black.
This team seems to be changing their look seemingly every season. Seems that the one designing the uniforms is always looking to make them better, or just butt uglier as the case may be.
All other major Uni. teams basically have a home color, and where white in away games. Not four or five different colors with different number patches and wings and crap.
If they get to the National Championship game, they will probably wear purple and beige or a keliedescope of colors.
Donald Duck is a University of Oregon alumni. But he wasn’t very good with the ladies, so he got most of his beaver at Oregon State. (drum roll…)
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### Author:  [@Jman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jman)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2010, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-duck-uniforms-wtf/558964/2 "2010-10-31T13:10:11Z")
They don’t change every season, they change every game. The uniforms were redesigned a few years ago and there are four sets of pants, four sets of shirts, four sets of helmets. The idea is that a four year player could go his entire career and never wear the same exact uniform twice. It’s their ‘unique’ thing.
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### Author:  [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2010, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-duck-uniforms-wtf/558964/3 "2010-10-31T14:43:54Z")
The president of Nike is a big donor and alum of Oregon so that’s one reason they get all the latest Nike stuff first.
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### Author:  [@moejoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moejoe)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2010, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-duck-uniforms-wtf/558964/4 "2010-10-31T16:34:37Z")
Ducks fly together.
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### Author:  [@Pashnish\_Ewing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pashnish_Ewing)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2010, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-duck-uniforms-wtf/558964/5 "2010-10-31T20:48:41Z")
Check out the [Duck Tracker](http://michaelprincip.com/oregon_uniset_2010.html) for details.
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### Author:  [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2010, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-duck-uniforms-wtf/558964/6 "2010-10-31T20:52:26Z")
They are a Nike showroom, like a concept car, a little over the top but also a way to test ideas.
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### Author:  [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2010, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-duck-uniforms-wtf/558964/7 "2010-11-02T22:26:19Z")
Their face masks should be in the shape of a duck bill and should be orange.
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### Author:  [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2010, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-duck-uniforms-wtf/558964/8 "2010-11-02T23:25:32Z")
They’re wearing dog masks.
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### Author:  [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2010, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-duck-uniforms-wtf/558964/9 "2010-11-02T23:39:45Z")
They also wear throwback uniforms a couple times a year.
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### Author:  [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-duck-uniforms-wtf/558964/10 "2010-11-03T20:13:35Z")
Lot’s of other schools use multi color packages for unis (trying to stay central to the schools colors with the option of adding white and sometimes black to the mix). It’s the athletes themselves that like the options.
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### Author:  [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2010, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-duck-uniforms-wtf/558964/11 "2010-11-05T02:42:01Z")
> [@gonzomax](#):
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> Their face masks should be in the shape of a duck bill and should be orange.
Love this idea.
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### Author:  [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2010, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-duck-uniforms-wtf/558964/12 "2010-11-05T03:00:46Z")
> [@gonzomax](#):
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> Their face masks should be in the shape of a duck bill and should be orange.
Given the team’s [official mascot](http://copyfight.corante.com/archives/Oregon_Ducks_2.gif), that’d be perfect.
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### Author:  [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2010, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-duck-uniforms-wtf/558964/13 "2010-11-05T05:17:28Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#):
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> Given the team’s [official mascot](http://copyfight.corante.com/archives/Oregon_Ducks_2.gif), that’d be perfect.
I just can’t believe that Disney hasn’t wiped the floor with them yet.
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### Author:  [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2010, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-duck-uniforms-wtf/558964/14 "2010-11-05T05:27:35Z")
> [@BigT](#):
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> I just can’t believe that Disney hasn’t wiped the floor with them yet.
That’s because it’s not a lookalike for Donald Duck; it is Donald. You’ll note that image is copyrighted by Disney. U of Oregon got permission to use Donald from Walt Disney himself before 1950.
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### Author:  [@Chipacabra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chipacabra)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2010, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-duck-uniforms-wtf/558964/15 "2010-11-05T05:28:41Z")
> [@BigT](#):
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> I just can’t believe that Disney hasn’t wiped the floor with them yet.
There’s a long history involved. Basically, U of O had a handshake agreement with Disney that they could use a Donald lookalike as the graphic art, so long as the Duck stayed related to sports only. So the university wasn’t allowed to use the Duck mascot (which doesn’t look nearly as much like Donald) on, say, the debate team.
In 2010, Disney gave full permission to the university to use the mascot however it wants, keeping only the trademark on Donald’s appearance.