A Chip Off The Old Block

[Raymond]

Because of my color-blindness I will often confirm with my partner(s) what colors we are calling the teams. Never once in my 12 seasons of officiating has a single person ever called a team by a 2-syllable color.

[Rich]

The only change I've made in 26 years is that I do not call "orange" red anymore.

[#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.

[Rich]

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.

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.

[Raymond]

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.

Pink is not on my color palette.

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

I don't do Brown either.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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?