Red versus Blue....you make the call
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2003 10:52 pmIn a post I read earlier this week about the Baylor game, the person was energetically encouraging everyone who is going to make the trip to “wear redâ€. While I applauded the fan’s encouragement of everyone to wear one of the school’s colors I, by the same token, wondered where this “red†thing has come from the last several years.
Our primary color has always been blue rather than red. This has become even more the case this year as our primary home jersey is blue, as is now our helmet. Even on the road we now sport more blue than we do red because of the helmets. Red only provides trimming unless it happens to be a day on which we wear the special red jerseys, which is usually once a year.
In the days of the SWC, many of us took pride in the fact that our attractive blue uniforms distinguished us from roughly ¼ th of the college football world that wears red, and specifically from Arkansas, Houston and Texas Tech who all wore red. We were the only team with predominately blue colors, although Rice had some blue (albeit a different shade) in their uniforms. Most of the attire at the Spirit Shop and in the bookstore then was blue, with a red or white pony on it.
With the call for red in the last couple of years by some supporters (which still puzzles me), what we end up with is a mixture of blue (because that is our predominant color) and red, thus the impact lessened. If our supporters unify behind red, it is probably better than no unification at all, but we will be wearing the color (to be redundant) that about 1/4th of the college football world wears, and bears little resemblance to the uniforms on the field.
With that said, my two cents is we should unify. I think it makes far more sense to unify behind blue than red, but that is my opinion. It would be nice to have one color (like Texas has orange; like K State has purple; like Michigan State has green; etc) to show some solidarity and the largest mass we can possibly present.
How do others feel? If this is not important, I will probably continue to wear blue with a red pony, just like our helmets.
[This message has been edited by Diehard Pony (edited 09-10-2003).]
Our primary color has always been blue rather than red. This has become even more the case this year as our primary home jersey is blue, as is now our helmet. Even on the road we now sport more blue than we do red because of the helmets. Red only provides trimming unless it happens to be a day on which we wear the special red jerseys, which is usually once a year.
In the days of the SWC, many of us took pride in the fact that our attractive blue uniforms distinguished us from roughly ¼ th of the college football world that wears red, and specifically from Arkansas, Houston and Texas Tech who all wore red. We were the only team with predominately blue colors, although Rice had some blue (albeit a different shade) in their uniforms. Most of the attire at the Spirit Shop and in the bookstore then was blue, with a red or white pony on it.
With the call for red in the last couple of years by some supporters (which still puzzles me), what we end up with is a mixture of blue (because that is our predominant color) and red, thus the impact lessened. If our supporters unify behind red, it is probably better than no unification at all, but we will be wearing the color (to be redundant) that about 1/4th of the college football world wears, and bears little resemblance to the uniforms on the field.
With that said, my two cents is we should unify. I think it makes far more sense to unify behind blue than red, but that is my opinion. It would be nice to have one color (like Texas has orange; like K State has purple; like Michigan State has green; etc) to show some solidarity and the largest mass we can possibly present.
How do others feel? If this is not important, I will probably continue to wear blue with a red pony, just like our helmets.
[This message has been edited by Diehard Pony (edited 09-10-2003).]