This week the University of Oregon Ducks introduced their new football helmet they will wear in the Las Vegas Bowl on Thursday December 21. The game will be broadcast on ESPN nationwide at 5:30 pm PST. The color of the new helmet has been described by some as the color of bird droppings or by Ron Bellamy as the color of "bile" Today Ron Bellamy of the Eugene Register Guard newspaper in his sports column ends by saying "Forget the fashion statements, Oregon. Just go beat somebody." In his column Bellamy points out:
"It's often said that timing is everything, which is why it would show incredibly bad taste for Oregon to break out new helmets for the Las Vegas Bowl, even if the helmets were ordered months ago.
Unless Oregon is operating under the theory that the new headgear will make BYU players convulse in laughter, or simply break into convulsions, and, heck, it might.
Put it this way: Your teen-age kid knows that the day the report card comes home with three Ds isn't the day to show you the new chrome hubcaps, or that latest tattoo.
Has the athletic department forgotten the situation here? The Ducks are in a bowl game that is so far away from being a New Year's Day bowl game that it's not even post-Christmas.
They've lost five of their last seven Pac-10 games, at 7-5 overall and 4-5, just their third losing league record in 12 seasons under coach Mike Bellotti.
They've committed 30 turnovers, most in the Bellotti era and most since the 1993 team had 31 turnovers, that total in 11 games. They've given up 129 points off turnovers, 41 in their last two games."
In Oregon's last three games - the losses to USC, Arizona and Oregon State - out of a possible 180 minutes the Ducks actually had a lead for a total of seven minutes and 22 seconds, period.
I have not been happy with my Ducks this season as they sometimes didn't give 100% effort and basically under performed. So Ducks it's time for redem yourselves and gain some self respect! If not, there is a BYU team that wants to win this game real bad . DUCKS! ....NO MORE SEATTLE BOWLS WIN AGAIN IN VEGAS!
(To read the rest of Bellamy's column click on the title above for a link.)
