Texas Tech football: Counting down the worst uniforms in Red Raider history

No. 5: All gray vs. TCU in 2013

I may have mentioned this before but I don’t like it when Texas Tech wears gray football uniforms.  In first-ever Big 12 game for Kliff Kingsbury as head coach, the Red Raiders went with gray from head to toe.  It was a bad look.

There are already to teams in the Big 12, Kansas State and TCU, that feature gray/silver as one of their primary colors.  Tech shouldn’t try to hone in on that parade because it isn’t a great sports color.

Gray is a color that inspires no one.  We aren’t motivated to accomplish great feats when we wake up to a dreary gray morning.  No one grows up with gray as their favorite color.

From a philosophical perspective, gray represents ambiguity, compromise, and mystery.  Those are not qualities we want from our football team.

To many of us, when we think of gray, we think of depression, loneliness, decay, and boredom.  Thus, it is a color that simply shouldn’t be part of any Texas Tech football uniform.  After all, the Red Raiders have already supplied plenty of depression over the last decade when wearing scarlet and black.

But on the other hand, Tech won that game 20-10 in what was one of the rare Kingsbury wins over a ranked team.  If we could be assured of more of those, we would be willing to see Tech wear gray, pink, or yellow polka dots.