A Chip Off The Old Block

[#olderthanilook]

Originally Posted by 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.

Red and white

[BEAREF]

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.

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by Bad Zebra

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

How do you know... you're color blind.

[#olderthanilook]

Originally Posted by BEAREF

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.

I'm sure Padgett would have preferred shirts and skins.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by #olderthanilook

The Texas burnt orange.

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

[Welpe]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

As ugly as the back of a bus.

May the ghost of William Barret Travis haunt you.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Welpe

May the ghost of William Barret Travis haunt you.

You need some thicker skin, Blue.

[rockyroad]

Originally Posted by Welpe

May the ghost of William Barret Travis haunt you.

Who?

[APG]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

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

Son, consider yourself lucky!

[26 Year Gap]

Originally Posted by bainsey

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."

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

[26 Year Gap]

Originally Posted by BEAREF

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.

Going out on a limb here...was that observer color blind?

[26 Year Gap]

Originally Posted by OKREF

Purple is a shade of Blue however

Not if Roy G. Biv is your partner.

[BktBallRef]

Originally Posted by adam

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

lol!

[bainsey]

Originally Posted by 26 Year Gap

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

Not the Dragons. Panthers, no gold. (You'll figure it out.)