A Chip Off The Old Block

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

Pink is not on my color palette.

I have to admit, I'm very curious why.

Red/Green/Blue/White/Black/Gold.

I don't do Brown either.

Again why (not that brown comes up that often)... but what do you call them? Red? Gold? An odd choice, imho.

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by MD Longhorn

I have to admit, I'm very curious why.

Again why (not that brown comes up that often)... but what do you call them? Red? Gold? An odd choice, imho.

It's just what I do. Like I said, I'm color-blind. I'm not trying to figure out the exact hue of a jersey.

Red/Green/Blue/White/Black/Gold have always adequately covered the situation for me.

[#olderthanilook]

Originally Posted by Rich

What does being the R have to do with anything?

Pink is pink. It's one syllable. We had one of these this year, it was perfectly easy to say pink.

Everything, man. Everything! What I say goes. It's a dictatorship out there. I'm the boss. Head honcho. My way or the highway.

[Bad Zebra]

Originally Posted by Rich

Pink is pink. It's one syllable. We had one of these this year, it was perfectly easy to say pink.

Interesting. In 15 years, I've never seen pink uni's in HS or wreck ball.

[#olderthanilook]

Originally Posted by Bad Zebra

Interesting. In 15 years, I've never seen pink uni's in HS or wreck ball.

Non traditional jersey colors have become the rage in the last 2 or 3 years. I've had wreck teams and club teams use neon yellow, neon green and pink in multiple tournaments and league games.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by Bad Zebra

Interesting. In 15 years, I've never seen pink uni's in HS or wreck ball.

Specially made for cancer awareness. They wore them at home. You should've seen the look the AD gave me when I asked if the state office had approved those as a home uniform. He quickly realized I was kidding.

[OKREF]

Originally Posted by bainsey

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If I can, I say "purple" instead of "blue." It's not that hard to spit out two syllables, and besides, purple is NOT blue (says the guy whose tax dollars goes to a purple-wearing school).

Purple is a shade of Blue however

[Bad Zebra]

Originally Posted by Rich

Specially made for cancer awareness. They wore them at home. You should've seen the look the AD gave me when I asked if the state office had approved those as a home uniform. He quickly realized I was kidding.

I've seen them in Womens D1 but generally the HS and club teams around these parts don't have the kind of scratch necessary for special uniforms.

[scrounge]

Sometimes, when I remember, if it's not obviously a 'standard' color I'll ask a captain pre-game what their official school colors are. If they say 'scarlet' I have no problem saying scarlet rather than red. Now if they 'chartreuse', well I'm probably saying green (yes, I had to google chartreuse). But if it's maroon or scarlet or something relatively easy to say, no problem to me.

[Scuba_ref]

Originally Posted by #olderthanilook

If I'm the R, pink is white if their opponent is red. If opponent something other than red, then pink is red.

Purple is blue. Schools choosing purple for a color must suffer. They brought it on themselves.

Orange is red. Esp those nuts that wear the Texas burnt orange. Fugly.

Yellow is always Gold.

Same except we say Buttercup instead of Gold for Yellow!

[letemplay]

What (color) was Notre Dame called (clean thoughts here) when wearing those jerseys the other night?

[Adam]

Honestly, I wouldn't care what the prevailing local philosophy was on this is, I'd follow it. It's not something worth standing out.

[ref3808]

Purple I'll say ... I draw the line at fuchsia and mauve.

[bainsey]

Originally Posted by icallfouls

I'm not giving the ball to "caribean green"

What's Billy Ocean got to do with this?

Anyway, I go with "Gold" instead of "Yellow." One syllable is fine, provided there is some accuracy.

Scarlet? Maroon? Nuh-uh, "RED." I don't understand any hang-ups with "brown" or "pink," though no-one around here wears those colors.

The one that throws me off is that deeply dark navy blue. Can't tell whether that's blue or black sometimes.

[rockyroad]

We have two local high schools here in the area who pooled resources and bought pink uniforms for their girls programs. Each year they play a game that is used as a fundraiser for cancer research...get big donations from local companies, pack out the gym, have cancer survivors honored at halftime, etc.

The uniforms they bought are dark pink (?) and really light pink. The home team wears the light color, and visitors wear the dark. They alternate home and away each year.

Have worked that game the last two years, and we call them "light" and "dark". First time a ball got knocked oob, I hit whistle and called "Pink" and both girls headed over to inbound the ball...so light and dark seem to work well.