re: For how long has the LSU helmet had the gold/yellow hue currently being used?

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can anyone answer how long the current yellow/gold hue has been used?

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Seems, just from recollection, to have occurred around 2000 or so. The 90s were a lot less 'yellowey' than today's unis.

doesn't answer the color question, but shows dates when changes where made:

The white helment worn against Tulane a few years back looked good.

I say leave it how it is.

Though the color of the pants have certainly been brightened in the past several years. The pants color used to be a duller yellow.

I love the 72-76 logo

One thing I believe Chicken is asking is if there were some changes from, say, the 1980's because the helmets appeared to be less bright yellow and a little more "golden" though certainly not the metallic gold worn by Notre Dame and many others. In other words, something a bit closer to the gold color worn by the band.

I suspect, but do not know, that the yellow/gold color is the same but that it looked a lot different in old photos/TV broadcasts. I would like to know the answer to this, too.

Don't know this for sure, but I suspect that the actual material has likely changed some and therefore the color being reproduced shows up brighter (stronger).

I like the LSU letters and current gold color.

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If it ain't broke, don't fix it!!!

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I Kige this.

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It seems like it was more gold in the 70's but that might have been how it translated on TV back in

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All of the display helmets I have seen, and who knows how authentic or how the color has faded, appear to be reasonably consistent with the color of today's helmets, although today's helmets look a little brighter than more vintage helmets.

An example can be found here (not endorsing the products, just a side-by-side comparision of a Cannon helmet and a so-called "Jones" helmet):

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While the 70s helmet looks a little brighter, neither helment looks more metallic or "more gold". I believe it was a consequence of the television cameras and film pictures from the era - and I do know what you mean Chicken.

To answer your question, I am in favor of keeping things the way they are. I do like the current helmet logo over the pre-72 "Numeral" era.

Uh, you've picked a completely misrepresentative picture of the current uniforms, in my estimation. There is a lot glare in that photo.

Here is a better shot from the Cotton Bowl last year taken:



Seems virtuallly indistinguishable from the 1999 photo:



Perhaps a tad lighter and glossier, but certainly not this: