notre dame first wore green jerseys in 1959.
when did notre dame first wear green jerseys?
1959
over the years, notre dame has occasionally worn green instead of blue as its home jersey, sometimes adopting the jersey for an entire season – or more – at a time. currently, notre dame reserves its green jerseys for "special" occasions. often on such occasions, the irish will take the field for warmups dressed in blue, only to switch to green when they go back to the locker room before kickoff. this tradition was started by dan devine in 1977 before the usc game. notre dame has also been known to switch jerseys at halftime, as during the 1985 usc game, and in the loss to nile kinnick-led iowa in 1939, although this was to help avoid confusion between their navy uniforms and iowa's black ones. the current design of the jersey is kelly green with gold numbers and white outlining. for the 2006 army game, coach charlie weis broke out the green jerseys as a reward to his senior players, as well finally ending the string of losses by the irish when wearing green. notre dame wore throwback green jerseys in 2007 against usc in honor of the 30th anniversary of the 1977 national championship team. on at least one occasion (1992 sugar bowl) notre dame has worn an away variant of the jersey: a white jersey with green numbers. champion supplied football jerseys for the university of notre dame for over 50 years until they switched to adidas in 2001. on july 1, 2014, the university of notre dame athletic department will begin wearing uniforms and footwear supplied by under armour.
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on september 27, 2009, the seahawks wore lime green jerseys for the first time, paired with new dark navy blue pants in a game against the chicago bears. the jerseys matched their new sister team, the expansion seattle sounders fc of major league soccer who wear green jerseys with blue pants. on december 6, 2009, the seahawks wore their seahawks blue jersey with the new dark navy blue pants for the first time, in a game against the san francisco 49ers. the seahawks broke out the same combo two weeks later against the tampa bay buccaneers, and two weeks after that in the 2009 regular season finale against the tennessee titans. in december 2009, then-coach jim mora announced that the new lime green jerseys were being retired because the team did not win in them, because he liked the standard blue home jerseys better, and added that the home jersey is a better match for the navy pants. in the same press conference, he stated that the new navy pants "felt better" on players as opposed to the seahawks blue pants. for the 2010 season, seattle returned to the traditional all "seahawks blue" at home and all white on the road.
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