Originally Posted by rockyroad (Post 885566)

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.

Originally Posted by Bad Zebra (Post 885531)

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

Originally Posted by BEAREF (Post 885611)

I had an observer tell me last week to use DARK and LIGHT...so from now on that's what I'm going to get in the habit of saying.

Originally Posted by #olderthanilook (Post 885498)

The Texas burnt orange.

Originally Posted by BillyMac (Post 885626)

As ugly as the back of a bus.

Originally Posted by Welpe (Post 885629)

May the ghost of William Barret Travis haunt you.

Originally Posted by Welpe (Post 885629)

May the ghost of William Barret Travis haunt you.

Originally Posted by BillyMac (Post 885626)

We got a high school with that color here in my little corner of Connecticut. As ugly as the back of a bus.

Originally Posted by bainsey (Post 885450)

A few years ago, there was an instruction from above that it has become increasingly acceptable to say two syllables when announcing colors. The older officials in the room cringed.

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). If I have a partner than insists on one syllable, I'll conform for the sake of the team, but otherwise, I'd rather be accurate.

Last year, I had a partner in my age bracket who insisted on "blue" instead of "purple." Strangely enough, it was the HOME (white) team that asked me why we were saying "blue." I'd had to resist the urge of replying, "ask my partner." :D

Originally Posted by BEAREF (Post 885611)

I had an observer tell me last week to use DARK and LIGHT...so from now on that's what I'm going to get in the habit of saying.

Originally Posted by OKREF (Post 885535)

Purple is a shade of Blue however:D

Originally Posted by adam (Post 885441)

just like her dad. Talking out of her a$$ and getting it right at the same time.

Originally Posted by 26 Year Gap (Post 885651)

Was it my alma mater? Purple & Gold are the school colors.:D