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What is the history of LSU's "purple and gold"
Posted on 10/1/24 at 2:50 pm
Posted on 10/1/24 at 2:50 pm
Ive had enough hangovers in my lifetime to recognize slightly dehydrated yellow when I see it, and LSU is definitely slightly dehydrated yellow. I call bullshite on purple and gold On what planet is this gold???
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Posted on 10/1/24 at 2:55 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
Here's a few samples for you to compare.
Posted on 10/1/24 at 3:07 pm to SEC Doctor
Looks yellow to me
Posted on 10/1/24 at 3:09 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
What colors do the New Orleans Saints use?
Posted on 10/1/24 at 3:13 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
What is the history of UGA’s “red and black”
It’s the most boring and overused color combo in all of sports
It’s the most boring and overused color combo in all of sports
Posted on 10/1/24 at 3:16 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
It's really not that difficult.
Posted on 10/1/24 at 3:23 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
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For LSU students and alumni, the colors purple and gold have forever wakened in their hearts a tender glow. But if one of the university's early leaders had his way, Tiger fans today might be cheering on the blue and white.
LSU professor and first football coach Charles Coates gave this account in a letter to the LSU Alumni News in 1937:
When Col. David F. Boyd, who was head of LSU from 1865 to 1880 and again from 1884 to 1886, returned to the university a few years after his last term, he was surprised to find purple and gold as LSU's colors, considering that he distinctly remembered designating blue and white as the colors many years earlier.
In Boyd's absence, Coates and some of his players had gone out in search of ribbon to brighten up their 1893 fall football game against a team of New Orleans players. No one in the group knew of any LSU team colors, so finding a large supply of Mardi Gras ribbons at a local store, they bought out the stock. However, the green ribbons had not yet been delivered to the store, leaving purple and gold to serve as LSU's colors.
While that story is recounted fondly, there might just be more to the story.
Other reports say purple and gold were worn for the first time by an LSU team in the spring of 1893, when the LSU baseball squad beat Tulane in the first intercollegiate contest played in any sport by LSU. Team captain E.B. Young reportedly hand-picked those colors for the LSU squad.
Despite the discrepancy, there's one thing we know for sure: The colors (technically Royal Purple and Old Gold) stuck and have been proudly displayed by the LSU faithful ever since.
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Posted on 10/1/24 at 3:25 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
Oh its certainly yellow and cheap blue.
My guess is that the uniforms must cost less like like that. Clearance rack kinda deal.
My guess is that the uniforms must cost less like like that. Clearance rack kinda deal.
Posted on 10/1/24 at 3:27 pm to Trumansfangs
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My guess is that the uniforms must cost less like like that. Clearance rack kinda deal.
If only we had the money, tradition, and championships of Missouri.
Posted on 10/1/24 at 3:46 pm to Trumansfangs
I don’t even know what fricking Mizzoo’s
colors are and don’t care.
If you told me, I’d forget it 3 minutes later.
I think the mascot is some kind of cat.
colors are and don’t care.
If you told me, I’d forget it 3 minutes later.
I think the mascot is some kind of cat.
Posted on 10/1/24 at 3:46 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
Purple is the color of royalty. Yellow is the color of cowardice.
They absolutely nailed the royal pussy look. More than that, It isn’t just a color scheme but a way of life.
They absolutely nailed the royal pussy look. More than that, It isn’t just a color scheme but a way of life.
Posted on 10/1/24 at 3:49 pm to captdalton
Cause Alabama's color scheme is so amazing.
Posted on 10/1/24 at 3:56 pm to spslayto
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Cause Alabama's color scheme is so amazing
Thank you!
Posted on 10/1/24 at 4:03 pm to Havoc
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If you told me, I’d forget it 3 minutes later.
Posted on 10/1/24 at 4:03 pm to TheDeathValley
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When Col. David F. Boyd, who was head of LSU until 1886, returned to the university a few years after his last term, he was surprised to find purple and gold as LSU's colors, considering that he distinctly remembered designating blue and white as the colors many years earlier.
In Boyd's absence, [LSU professor and first football coach] Coates and some of his players had gone out in search of ribbon to brighten up their 1893 fall football game against a team of New Orleans players. No one in the group knew of any LSU team colors, so finding a large supply of Mardi Gras ribbons at a local store, they bought out the stock. However, the green ribbons had not yet been delivered to the store, leaving purple and gold to serve as LSU's colors.
Man, I love shite like this.
Even if it's simply a fable, those are the things that make the tradition of sports (and especially college football) great.
Posted on 10/1/24 at 4:03 pm to spslayto
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Cause Alabama's color scheme is so amazing.
We love it too
Posted on 10/1/24 at 4:06 pm to spslayto
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Alabama's color scheme is so amazing
You're not implying that you hate two-thirds of the colors on the American flag, are you... comrade?
Posted on 10/1/24 at 4:11 pm to Trumansfangs
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cheap blue
Are you colorblind?
Posted on 10/1/24 at 4:13 pm to captdalton
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It isn’t just a color scheme but a way of life.
From a fan of the team that named itself after a woman's menstrual cycle emission and adopted the color of it.
Posted on 10/1/24 at 4:17 pm to Gnash
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Ok, so we've established from LSU fans that it IS yellow and bleached out purple. Thanks guys.
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Are you colorblind?
Ok, so we've established from LSU fans that it IS yellow and bleached out purple. Thanks guys.
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