With the first game only a few weeks away, it was now settled that in September of 1989, wearing Huygens Tech silver, midnight blue, and light blue uniforms, the Huygens football team would take the field as the IC chips. Representing their team mascot, on their silver helmets would be the image of an historic integrated circuit.

Created in 1960, Fairchild Semiconductor's first integrated circuit chip featured four transistors on a single silicon wafer. The plan was that a new microchip would adorn Huygens helmets every year, and each year, more transistors, resistors, and diodes would be added as the team grew in power.

Although there was a certain amount of combined engineering elegance and assertive Silicon Valley power in this helmet, new head couch Griff McGuire would have preferred a pirate or a speedy, scary wild animal. Nevertheless, there was something that augured well for the future in this Integrated circuit adorned shining silver helmet.