Notre Dame football to wear green jerseys against California on Sept. 17
Love them or hate them, they’re coming back. Notre Dame football will wear green jerseys against Cal on Sept. 17 according to a video released by the program’s main Twitter account Thursday.
The video portrayed Fighting Irish head coach Marcus Freeman sitting at his desk inside the Guglielmino Athletic Complex on Notre Dame’s campus. He read tweets from fans complaining about how Notre Dame does not wear green jerseys often enough.
The first one read, “My favorite part about #IrishWearGreen is that the Irish don’t wear green.”
Freeman chuckled, nodded his head, smiled and looked at the camera. “Good point,” he said.
Freeman read nine more similar tweets then shouted down the hallway, “Hey Bass! Can we wear green jerseys for the Cal game?”
The video then showed a graphic advertising green jerseys for the 2:30 p.m. ET kickoff for the Irish’s second home game of the season. It’s been settled. The Irish will in fact wear green.
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“For the past four seasons, when we’ve said ‘Irish wear green’ it’s been a celebration of you — the fans,” Freeman said in another social media video. “And you understood the assignment. You showed up in all green, brought the energy and made Notre Dame Stadium the place to be every time we called on you. But you can’t you let all the fun.”
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Notre Dame has a longstanding tradition of wearing green, of course. Of late, though, the football team has only worn them for special games such as the Shamrock Series. Green jerseys were a staple of previous generations. A 2015 UND.com article states former Notre Dame coach Dan Devine‘s team wore them 42-straight times between 1977 and 1980. Ara Parseghian and Lou Holtz preferred the typical blue and white tops most commonly seen during the Brian Kelly era.
If Freeman has shown anything about himself since taking over for Kelly in December, though, it’s that he’s not afraid to push the status quo. Fans have been calling for green jerseys for quite some time, and Freeman is delivering them in what will be his fourth game overall as head coach, third in the regular season and second at home.
It remains to be seen just how often Notre Dame will wear them. But just once is more than last year, or the two years before that. The last time Notre Dame wore green jerseys in a home game was in a 42-13 home victory over Florida State on Nov. 10, 2018. If they’re a hit this fall, they could become a common part of the home uniform rotation.
Irish do wear green after all.
