A Chip Off The Old Block
 

Worked a middle school boys game today at my daughter's school. She normally doesn't go to my games (about one per season), but since this was in her school, she stuck around for most of it before disappearing to the band room. Some of her friends asked her why my partner and I kept saying "blue" instead of "purple."

She told them it was because blue was easier to say, and that it was one syllable. I just asked her if she had heard me say that before.

"Is that really the reason?"

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

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

I said "burgandy" once this year. If two, why not three??

A young official just did too.

:eek: And again, although cringe might be an understatement...

We had a team in an independent league many years ago which wore this color. One official said burgundy, while another said maroon. I still said "red."

Take A Right ...
 

Well the first part is right. Not sure about the second part.

What Vintage ???
 

We're discussing basketball, not what you order at the bar.

I don't see referees being asked to confirm school colors to make sure that we are correctly identifying each team.

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

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.

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

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.

:D

This. If their feelings get hurt when I say "blue" instead of "purple," they have problems beyond my pay grade.

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.

Did you nickname her "That Girl"?

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.

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

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.

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.

Purple is a shade of Blue however:D

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.

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.

Same except we say Buttercup instead of Gold for Yellow!

Hunter Safety gone to another level
 

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

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.

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

What's Billy Ocean got to do with this? :rolleyes:

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.

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 :D

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.

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

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

The Stars At Night, Are Big And Bright ...
 

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

May the ghost of William Barret Travis haunt you.

You need some thicker skin, Blue.

Who?

Son, consider yourself lucky! ;)

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

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

Not if Roy G. Biv is your partner.

lol!

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