Black Jerseys

[Welpe]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

First I have ever heard of something like that. I'm color-blind. I like when teams have black uni's. Teams with dark red or burgandy get called "black" by me.

Makes me feel a little better for calling Maroon, Red.

[bob jenkins]

I've had games where the team with predominantly white players wore black jerseys, and the team with predominantly black players wore white jerseys.

Everyone (players, coaches, officials) smiled the first few times fouls / violations were called. Even a few fans chuckled. By the middle of the first quarter, it was a non-issue.

[JRutledge]

I guess I would have a problem every game as many that wear the white are white people. Or if I give a timeout and give it to the coach that is white there would always be a problem. Or the one time I call the coach that happens to be Black, and say "Timeout, white coach" the ceiling is going to fall. I guess some folks have to be upset about something.

Peace

[Treeguy]

I still find it strange that when I do the tip, a black player wearing black and a white player wearing white, and I go black going this way and white going that way.

[just another ref]

I played in an independent tourney many years ago. Both teams showed up in the same color gold jerseys. Our team was all white. Their team was all black.
Officials identified us as "black" and "white." Nobody seemed to have a problem with it.

[bainsey]

Originally Posted by just another ref

I played in an independent tourney many years ago. Both teams showed up in the same color gold jerseys. Our team was all white. Their team was all black.
Officials identified us as "black" and "white." Nobody seemed to have a problem with it.

I love it.

Few things anger me as much as racism, but when we get excessively sensitive to it, it doesn't lend much to the end game of equality.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

I've had games where the team with predominantly white players wore black jerseys, and the team with predominantly black players wore white jerseys. Everyone (players, coaches, officials) smiled the first few times fouls / violations were called. Even a few fans chuckled. By the middle of the first quarter, it was a non-issue.

Originally Posted by just another ref

I played in an independent tourney many years ago. Both teams showed up in the same color gold jerseys. Our team was all white. Their team was all black. Officials identified us as "black" and "white." Nobody seemed to have a problem with it.

Just like God, Dr. Naismith, and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. intended it to be. This would be a pretty boring planet if we were all the same color.

[NoFussRef]

The neighborhood I grew up in was like "Hands-across-America". We had 2 Black kids, 2 White kids, and 1 Japanese-Hawaiian. We went to each other's 3rd Birthday parties and attended school together all the way through 12th grade.

We played ball in our dead-end street, be it football, baseball, basketball we were happy to be outside. (Don't see this activity from kids much anymore).

Anyway to get to the butt-feathers here...

We would often rotate our match-ups while playing basketball, weather permitting, we would play "Shirts-vs-Skins". Often it would be the 2 Black kids on one team -vs- the 2 White kids on the other... yet we would still play shirts and skins! We just didn't think about it, hey if that kids a different color than you don't pass him the ball. Duh.

[Butterfly182310]

I've run into this issue with partners over the years. Initially I'll admit I was unsure how to address it, but now with "political correctness" screwing with the moral foundation of our country, my position is "if the team didn't want to be called black, they wouldn't be wearing black...it's black!"

The two colors I have difficulty with are orange and purple. Those I'll change to a single syllable color, most likely red and blue.

[jdw3018]

Originally Posted by Welpe

Makes me feel a little better for calling Maroon, Red.

Not to take away from the black/white jersey, but I had a team wearing orange jerseys for the first time I can ever remember the other day. Surprising, as I've been doing this for almost a decade, but I couldn't think of another.

Anyway, any of you call orange anything but orange? Every other color I see gets a one-syllable color. Purple is "blue", burgundy is "red", yellow is "gold", chartreuse is, well, whatever it's close to (isn't that greenish?).

So, anyone ever change orange to anything else?

[Adam]

I call it red.

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by snaqwells

i call it red.

+1

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by jdw3018

So, anyone ever change orange to anything else?

I call it "red."

Peace

[Rich]

Originally Posted by jdw3018

Not to take away from the black/white jersey, but I had a team wearing orange jerseys for the first time I can ever remember the other day. Surprising, as I've been doing this for almost a decade, but I couldn't think of another.

Anyway, any of you call orange anything but orange? Every other color I see gets a one-syllable color. Purple is "blue", burgundy is "red", yellow is "gold", chartreuse is, well, whatever it's close to (isn't that greenish?).

So, anyone ever change orange to anything else?

I say "orange" as close to one syllable as possible.

[jdw3018]

Originally Posted by RichMSN

I say "orange" as close to one syllable as possible.

When I called in South Carolina, even "red" was two syllables for most of my partners, so I guess it shouldn't be that much trouble to say "orng"...

I suggested red to my partners as suggested above, but they didn't like it. No biggee, but good to see others thinking my way.