Grey shirts

[ChuckElias]

Originally Posted by Texas Aggie

Why is it that in football, white is for the visitors, but for basketball, its for home?

In the NFL, anyway, I believe that the home team actually has its choice of white or dark. So in hot weather, the home team may choose white, to reflect the heat; and in cold weather, choose dark to retain heat.

I'm pretty sure this is true, b/c I remember at the beginning of last season (I think), the Broncos "accidentally" forgot their dark jerseys on a road trip to San Diego, forcing the home Chargers to wear the dark jerseys in the hot weather.

[jkjenning]

Originally posted by ChuckElias:
In the NFL, anyway, I believe that the home team actually has its choice of white or dark.

Yep. The Cowboys have always chosen to wear white at home so that the fans see a wider variety of colors on gameday. The Cardinals, like most other teams, wear their colored jerseys [Red] at home... unless they are hosting the Cowboys - in that case, the Cardinals wear white at home and force the Cowboys to wear their dark blue jerseys. You will rarely see the Cowboys play in anything other than white - in fact, only on the road when the home team chooses to wear white themselves.

[Texas Aggie]

I don't know what the original reason was for the Cowboys to wear white at home, but by the late 60s and early 70s, it was generally agreed that the blue jerseys were bad luck. The Cardinals, Eagles, and often the Redskins wore white at home for their games against the Cowboys for that specific reason, even though (except for the Redskins then, and the Cardinals now) they usually wore dark shirts at home.

LSU football has also had a tradition of wearing white at home.