Terps' Under Armour Unis a Fumble?

. . . or brilliant marketing?

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Like something Edgar Allan Poe (a Baltimore resident at the time of his death) might have hallucinated in the midst of a laudanum bender, the new University of Maryland Terrapins uniforms are, to traditionalists, profoundly hideous. A deconstruction of the state flag’s clashing heraldry, the team’s new garb certainly got people talking about Maryland football, something that hasn’t happened outside College Park since Boomer Esiason was there in the early ’80s.

When the uniforms debuted last Monday, Maryland became a worldwide trending topic even before the opening kickoff, and head coach Randy Edsall saw his Twitter following soar to more than 4,500 by week’s end, an 80 percent hike from 2,500 on the night before the game.

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