Nebraska’s New Alternate Uniforms Are Here, And They Look Awfully Familiar

Adidas posted a video to YouTube this morning to debut their new alternate uniforms for the Nebraska Cornhuskers, a bright red number with decorative knee-socks, those stupid gloves that make a pattern when you hold your palm out that everyone loves and nobody will wear in five years, and a gigantic black “N” on the front. They look nice, aside from a few places (like College Football Section) making all the appropriate “LOL, you look like the Kool-Aid Man” jokes.As a nerd born in the 1980s, my first thought wasn’t the Kool-Aid Man, and I’m relieved to say I’m not the only one who thought this: Nebraska’s new uniforms make them look exactly like Kevin from ‘Captain N: The Game Master’. See?If you don’t remember ‘Captain N’, it was a Saturday morning cartoon from 1989-1991 that was sponsored and promoted by Nintendo. Unfortunately I guess Nintendo couldn’t also give them image rights, so all the game characters featured on the show had to be changed to look nearly unrecognizable