If not for the front side, this one would be a dud, but it was released ahead of a Big Ten championship-winning season. The front of the shirt features a surprisingly great design of the Nittany Lion Shrine, while the back features an oddly-shaped design with “PSU 2008” and a football helmet overlay. The 2008 White Out shirt featured a…unique design, to say the least. Let’s take a trip down memory lane and check out some of those White Out t-shirt designs. In years past, fan input decided which shirt would be released for sale, but Penn State released its own designs for each of the past two years. Penn State athletics capitalizes on this tradition every year by selling t-shirts specifically designed for the White Out. More than 107,000 fans clad in white pack Beaver Stadium for the Nittany Lions’ biggest home football game of the season, creating one of the most hostile environments in college football.
That's much better than the folks who came up with it.Penn State’s White Out is among the most recognizable traditions in sports. Wearing white is part of the crowd's identity now, and their identity has become part of the Penn State brand. "When they put on their whites, they expect to be intimidating, and they are," D'Elia said. And this November, when Penn State plays Michigan, the student-only White Out will return.
But as an event, the White Out helped bring a stadium and a fan base to life. Penn State's White Out record is 8-8, largely because the event is scheduled for the biggest home game each season. When it comes to the campus, the town, and the community, all these things matter." "You talk about putting us in position for our future in recruiting and showing student-athletes the type of environment that they'll be able to play in, in one of the most beautiful settings in college football. "The impact and the electricity that it provides to our town and for our state and for the hotels and restaurants and bars and local economy, for our students and for our campus and community, I think it's special. Or, as the researchers reported, "loud enough to cause physical pain on the eardrum." Later that season, when Penn State hosted Ohio State, an acoustics team measured a sound pressure level in the stadium of 122 decibels. In a 2007 ESPN the Magazine survey, coaches voted Beaver Stadium as the loudest and most atmospheric they had seen. Penn State beat Notre Dame 31-10, and, in less than three years, Beaver Stadium had become one of the nation's most intimidating venues. That would be the debut.Ī crowd of 110,078, the overwhelming majority in white, attended the game to form what then was the second-highest attendance in school history. The weather would be warm, and Penn State could spend the season-opener against FIU drumming home the White Out message on the stadium scoreboards. In 2007, Penn State would host Notre Dame in the second game of the season. Penn State Athletics wanted to capitalize on this momentum in 2006 and sought a date for the first full-stadium White Out. Penn State beat Ohio State 17-10, the statement game of its rebound season that produced a Big Ten title.
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