This week, Fighting Irish Media’s team filmed the Notre Dame football players receiving a special box of gear from Under Armour for the playoffs. Overall, the Irish players received a good outfit from the people at Under Armour, but the shoes they provided are incredible, and if they were ever put up for sale, I would pay unimaginable sums of money for them.
The players’ sweatshirt is fine, but to be honest, I hope it becomes outdated in a month or so because the list of titles on it will be erroneous. All 11 of Notre Dame’s national titles are included, but ideally those will need to be edited by the end of January now that the Irish are in the playoffs and have a good chance of winning the championship.
However, the shoes are very fantastic. Although Under Armour has sold several sneakers with Notre Dame themes over the years—in fact, we listed a few of them in our footwear holiday gift guide today—none have ever been as all-gold as these. The colors offered to fans have been blue, green, and white. I have two pairs of green Under Armour sneakers with a Notre Dame theme, and I think they’re quite awesome. Outside of game day, I’m not sure when I’ll be able to wear all-gold shoes, but I’ll find an excuse.
The players also got an oversized plain white t-shirt, which felt like an odd throw-in – maybe Under Armour had a surplus? One item the players received that fans can buy today is a navy blue Notre Dame graphic t-shirt. Lastly, the players got some pretty fun gold-tinted Under Armour sunglasses in their boxes – another item that would be a fun thing to buy to wear on gamedays if they were made available.
Outside of the generic plain white t-shirt, a pretty good assortment of goodies from Under Armour for the players. Hopefully, if the Irish progress into the playoffs, Under Armour will treat them to more swag.
I won’t hold my breath that the gold shoes will ever be made available for purchase, though. Under Armour is notorious for creating some amazing gear for the players and coaches – for Marcus Freeman specifically – that is never made available for sale to the public. There have been 4 or 4 hoodies alone that Freeman has donned over the years that were never produced for the masses.
I’d like to say that, hopefully, that will change in the future, but it’s been almost three years now, and we still see Freeman in some exclusive gear that fans would be lining up to buy. Ironically, it never seemed to happen when Brian Kelly was head coach. Either Under Armour upped their game when Notre Dame renewed with them, or Freeman just has a way of making all the gear he gets look cooler than Kelly did.
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