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Before we talked, McGarity checked in with John Meshad, the athletic association’s director of equipment operations, about the uniform pants. The gist of what Meshad told him, McGarity said, was “It all gets down to Nike being able to provide the material. They have this shiny material called Cordura. Unfortunately, it’s a heavier material and, when it gets wet with rain or sweat, it adds a pound or a pound and a half to the overall weight of the uniform,” which UGA finds unacceptable.
“It is not as good a performance model as the current Nike material,” McGarity said, and “they haven’t been able to make a better performing shiny material. They’re hoping to lessen the weight, but they have not been able to solve that problem.”
I speculated that perhaps not enough teams request such a material in order for it to become a priority for Nike. “I guess not,” McGarity said.
Still, he said, “It doesn’t mean we have stopped advocating for it or asking for it.”
That's a good take on the matter. I was reading the other day that even the anti-defamation league doesn't consider the Betsy Ross flag to be a hateful image and now is the time to reaffirm that the vast majority of Americans rather view it as a symbol of liberty, freedom, bravery, and sacrifice before it reaches some undetermined tipping point.
You can't control what a bunch of yokels are going to do or say, you can just disavow that their perspective speaks for you.
What would we do if tomorrow we discovered that a bunch of yahoos had been appropriating the Georgia G logo to use at some rally? Would we just shrug and say "we certainly don't want to be associated with that image anymore" or would we fight like h-e-l-l to restore its dignity?
I’m not buying it. All the left has to do now is just claim everything is a racist symbol and people believe them. No versions of the American flag are racist. What if some small lunatic group of people started using the UGA flag as their symbol? Where does this end? Nike consistently sides with the people who are perpetually outraged and offended by American values.
I read every bit. We can’t keep cowtowing to people who find offense with everything, especially when it coms to our heritage. There is nothing racist about any American flag. I don’t care if the KKK HQ has a Betsy Ross flag flying...that does not make it a racist symbol. We need to be careful about concessions simply because someone is offended. Nike caved once again.
How many people would have been offended by that shoe? Probably a statistical 0%. Instead now the Original American flag has been turned into a racist symbol. It’s a gradual chipping away of Values.
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I read that. It doesn't say that UGA staff tested it. Your initial comment was not a fair representation of the McGarity article.
As to Cordura, it weighs 8 oz per sq. yard in 60" width, 500 denier (fiber thickness). The 300 denier weighs 4 oz (only in Black from this re-seller). I can find nothing that suggests that the material holds water. In fact I found descriptions as breathable, and below, "water resistant". I do not doubt that UGA was told what the article reports. But, I have dealt with enough vendors to know that they can be creative when their backs are to the wall.
FYI. The 1000 denier which is available in silver, is 11 oz per yard, but is likely not suitable for game pants - just a guess.
And I provided earlier a manufacturer that has silver colored game pants. They were polyester-spandex. (Which might be what the standard Nike game pants are -?) Probably are several manus.
Again, it is very likely that Nike, for market reasons, has no interest in providing silver colored pants. As to "performance", the deal is that these would be worn perhaps once per year. They do not need to be Cordura nylon, although several manus offer game pants in nylon. Rawlings has a Silver Grey that is 88% nylon:
Is that an American plane?
Would bet you watch CNN.
I had to post this because the irony of people upset over losing our heritage and history while Trump says things like this was too good to pass up.